114: Chapter 115 Teaching a Lesson to a Love Rival
"Qianqian, that's enough. An Xin and I don't have any improper relationship. Just because you're dirty, don't assume everyone is like you, a woman who relies on her body to make a living."
Zhang Xiaohua raised her hand and slapped Qianqian hard across the face.
"You're not much better, are you? Why do you have to do that kind of thing to make money? Isn't it better to rely on honest work? Have you lost your mind from being used to getting things without effort for so long? You and I both came from the same small town. What good would it do for me to maliciously spread rumors about you? Have those roommates changed their attitude toward me?"
Zhang Xiaohua's few slaps left Qianqian's brain stunned.
She covered her face, stopped talking, and calmed down to think about what Zhang Xiaohua had said.
Half an hour later.
She finally understood the logic behind it.
"Those rumors weren't spread by you; it was someone else."
"Correct. If you want to know who it is, use your brain. Who would benefit from spreading rumors about you?"
Zhang Xiaohua's words woke Qianqian up.
She really started to think.
She thought through everyone she knew at school and realized that none of the students had a motive to slander her.
After ruling out the school, the only remaining suspects had to be people connected to Liu Xiahui.
Liu Xiahui was a total playboy; he had a wife but still kept other women on the side.
After some thought, Qianqian thought of Tao Hongyu.
This woman was very possessive and had ambitions to climb the social ladder, but she had failed many times.
Liu Xiahui had ignored her for a while, and during that time, Qianqian had been keeping Liu Xiahui company.
Once Tao Hongyu found out about this, she didn't dare to take revenge on Liu Xiahui.
So, wanting to vent her anger, she could only take her resentment out on Qianqian.
"I know who it is now. That shameless woman, I definitely won't let her get away with it. Zhang Xiaohua, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things. Your words woke me up. I want to be a woman of the new era and stop being a backup for Liu Xiahui."
Zhang Xiaohua accepted Qianqian's apology.
She also knew who was behind the schemes against Qianqian.
The place where Zhang Xiaohua used to live had quite simple folk customs.
Such a big event happening around her, and witnessing such a big piece of gossip,
caused Zhang Xiaohua, who wasn't very accustomed to such things, to lose sleep.
She sent a WeChat message telling An Xin about this.
An Xin read the text message Zhang Xiaohua sent.
His sleepiness faded a bit.
He didn't expect that Qianqian would have this kind of connection with Tao Hongyu.
An Xin decided to be a good person for once.
He typed this sentence into the WeChat chat box: "I have a blind date with Tao Hongyu tomorrow, we're meeting at Starbucks. It's just a formality. If your friend is angry, she can go there to find her and take revenge."
Zhang Xiaohua relayed the news that Tao Hongyu was going on a blind date with An Xin to Qianqian.
"Thank you, Zhang Xiaohua. I will definitely teach Tao Hongyu a lesson tomorrow."
Zhang Xiaohua, who had been struggling with insomnia, found her biological clock returning to normal after chatting with An Xin. Her eyelids grew heavy, and she slept until dawn.
To meet Tao Hongyu, An Xin specifically wore clothes he bought from a street stall that day.
He didn't drive his luxury car; instead, he scanned a shared bike on the side of the road and rode it to Starbucks.
An Xin hadn't ridden a bike for a long time.
Riding this familiar bike, An Xin couldn't help but recall the humiliation from his past life.
He had remembered this humiliation for a lifetime, and it was time to pay it back.
A scumbag woman didn't have the qualifications to humiliate him.
An Xin's eyes turned cold.
He deliberately slowed down his cycling speed, suspiciously arriving ten minutes late.
In his past life, he had been forced to be ten minutes late because of overtime.
In this life, An Xin was deliberately riding his bike to be ten minutes late.
He just wanted to let Tao Hongyu wait for a while.
He wanted to make her recreate her shrew-like behavior from his past life.
Anyway, the one who would lose face at Starbucks later wouldn't be An Xin.
[Host detected experiencing commoner life, rewarded with a porsche Cayenne.]
The system was really generous today.
He just exercised his body by riding a bike, and it rewarded him with a luxury car.
There was an extra 50 grams of weight in An Xin's hoodie pocket.
It was the car key for the porsche Cayenne.
A truck was parked outside the coffee shop, and in the truck's cargo bed sat an unopened porsche Cayenne.
A twenty-million luxury car appearing at the entrance of Starbucks attracted the gazes of many passersby.
An Xin glanced at the porsche Cayenne from outside the crowd but was in no rush to claim the car.
He withdrew his gaze from the car indifferently.
An Xin walked into Starbucks with cold steps and approached Tao Hongyu.
Tao Hongyu looked up and glanced at An Xin's clothes.
She frowned in displeasure, her disdain clearly written all over her face.
"It's one thing that you have no sense of time, but you also came to see me wearing rags? An Xin, do you even respect me as your blind date? Look at the people around us. Is there anyone else wearing street-stall junk like you?"
Tao Hongyu lifted her head proudly.
"I'm a little late, you're not dead yet, are you? What's the rush? In a rush to attend a funeral banquet? You're not marrying me, so what's there to be anxious about? Anxious to see how you cheat on others?"
An Xin retorted directly, not giving Tao Hongyu any face at all.
He already saw very clearly in his past life what kind of person she was.
There was no need to save face for such a person.
An Xin's words made Tao Hongyu fly into a rage from shame.
"How are you talking? Do you have any upbringing? Didn't your parents teach you to respect women? Slandering me because you can't have me? Are you people from small towns all this disgusting? I'm a local from Jinghai, and the fact that I came to see you and even put on makeup is already giving you a lot of respect."
Tao Hongyu spoke in a condescending tone.
This made many Jinghai locals change their view of An Xin.
"A country bumpkin dares to go on a blind date with a Jinghai girl? He really doesn't know his place."
"Miss, my family is urging me to get married. You can consider me. I'm also a Jinghai local."
An uncle sitting at the next table stood up and handed Tao Hongyu a business card.
Tao Hongyu originally didn't want to take the business card. After seeing the word "President," she took it.
This man who came to hit on her could be her father.
This scene was just happened to be seen by Liu Xiahui, who had come in to discuss a real estate contract with An Xin.
Liu Xiahui's gaze fell on Tao Hongyu.
The man's fists were clenched tightly.
He could accept himself cheating, but he couldn't accept his woman cheating on him.
He couldn't accept a woman using him as a stepping stone in life.
If An Xin weren't here, Liu Xiahui would want to rush up right now, drag Tao Hongyu away, and take her to a hotel to beat her up.
Force her to pay back the money she spent.
Tao Hongyu put away the business card and, looking up, saw Liu Xiahui holding a folder.
Her heart skipped a beat.
She secretly cursed her bad luck.
"Going on a blind date with someone like you is really a waste of time."
Tao Hongyu pretended to be angry, stood up, grabbed her bag, and walked out.
Tao Hongyu's body brushed past Liu Xiahui.
Tao Hongyu caught Liu Xiahui's venomous gaze, and a bone-chilling cold spread down her spine.
Tao Hongyu tried hard to maintain her composure as she walked out of Starbucks.
Liu Xiahui suppressed his anger, ordered a cup of coffee at the counter, and drank it quickly.
Only then did he take out his phone to call An Xin.
The phone rang from the spot where Tao Hongyu had just left.
Liu Xiahui's heart skipped a beat!
No way? Is it such a coincidence?
Was Tao Hongyu on a date with his client?
"Mr. Liu, are you here? I'm at the innermost window seat in Starbucks, wearing sportswear."