Walking into the Hilton Hotel and taking a look at the magnificent hotel decoration, Su Cheng looked at Ye Qiao and smiled:
“Why are you eating at the hotel?”
"I live here. The steak here is delicious. Let's go and have a feast!"
As Ye Qiao spoke, she pulled Su Cheng and Liu Mengtian towards the restaurant and sat down at a seat by the window.
After taking a look at the menu, which was all expensive Western food, Su Cheng and Liu Mengtian were embarrassed to order, so they handed the menu to Ye Qiao and let her decide . After asking Su Cheng and Liu Mengtian if they had any dietary restrictions, they both said they would eat anything, so Ye Qiao ordered three steaks, two cheese desserts, an Australian lobster, and several other side dishes, filling up the table.
After the waiter finished serving the dishes, Ye Qiao picked up her knife and fork, clinked them together and said with a smile:
"Let's get started!"
"good!"
"Wait a minute!"
Seeing Ye Qiao and Su Cheng picking up their knives and forks and preparing to start eating the exquisite Western food on the table, Liu Mengtian quickly spoke out to stop them, took out her phone and took a few photos and said with a smile:
"Come, let's take a photo together!"
"good!"
"eggplant!"
Click, the sound of a cell phone taking a photo was heard.
"alright!"
After taking the photo and sharing it on WeChat Moments, Liu Mengtian looked at Ye Qiao and smiled:
"We haven't added each other on WeChat yet, let's add each other on WeChat!"
"OK!"
Ye Qiao smiled, took out her phone and opened WeChat, then looked at Su Cheng and said with a smile:
"Orange, let's add each other on WeChat!"
"OK!"
After adding each other as friends, Liu Mengtian glanced at Ye Qiao's WeChat profile and asked curiously:
"You came back from England?"
"Yes, I'm studying in England!"
"Then why are you back? Is it vacation?"
"Come back and join the competition!"
While looking at Liu Mengtian and Su Cheng's WeChat Moments, Ye Qiao casually asked:
"By the way, do you want to drink something?"
After that, without waiting for Su Cheng and Liu Mengtian to speak, she directly called the waiter not far away and said:
"Waiter, please give me a menu, thank you!"
Taking the menu from the waiter, Ye Qiao began to choose the right red wine. Liu Mengtian beside her took the opportunity to inquire about the news:
"Ye Qiao, who will pay for your tuition?"
Without waiting for Ye Qiao to answer, she made another guess:
"I see, it's your boyfriend, right?"
"Come on, let's gossip a little. Is your boyfriend super tall, super handsome, and super rich?"
“Ahem~~”
After coughing twice, Su Cheng saw Liu Mengtian looking at him, so he gestured to his phone with his eyes and sent her a WeChat message:
"What are you doing, checking someone's household registration?"
After taking a look at Ye Qiao who was looking down at the menu, Liu Mengtian replied to Su Cheng:
"You are so stupid! How can you not ask clearly when you just met someone? You don't even know that you have been sold!"
"No, she even treated us to a meal!"
"Since she didn't answer my question, she must be a college student being kept by someone!"
"Tiantian, stop talking nonsense!"
"A bottle of Mouton, thank you!"
After returning the menu to the waiter, Ye Qiao saw Liu Mengtian and Su Cheng looking down at their phones, so she couldn't help but greet them:
"You two stop playing with your phones. There's a huge table of food. If you don't eat it now, it will get cold. Come on and eat!"
Hearing Ye Qiao's greeting, Su Cheng and Liu Mengtian quickly put down their phones and said with a smile:
“Eat, eat!”
“Only love and food cannot be wasted!”
After the waiter brought the red wine, Ye Qiao, Liu Mengtian and Su Cheng drank the red wine while eating Australian lobster and steak.
Inadvertently, seeing Yuan Xudong and Luo Qian sitting not far away and having dinner together, behaving intimately, Liu Mengtian quickly lowered her head and looked at Su Cheng who was sitting opposite her and said mysteriously:
"Orange, guess who I saw?"
"Who is it?"
Seeing Liu Mengtian's mysterious look, Su Cheng turned around and took a look. The handsome Yuan Xudong and the fair-skinned and beautiful Luo Qian stood out from the crowd like a golden boy and a jade girl. Seeing Yuan Xudong feeding Luo Qian and the close relationship between the two, Su Cheng couldn't help but turn around and smiled reluctantly:
"It's Mr. Yuan, and Miss Luo Xi. Tiantian, what are you doing sneaking around like that?"
"Who's sneaking around?"
Rolling her eyes at Su Cheng, Liu Mengtian looked at Yuan Xudong and Luo Xi who were not far away. Seeing him feeding Luo Xi small pieces of steak and wiping the corners of her mouth from time to time, she pretended to tremble, rubbed her arms with her hands and smiled:
"I have goosebumps. This is so loving!"
After that, she looked at Su Cheng, who was pouting and looking unhappy, and teased:
"Your Mr. Yuan had dinner with another woman, and she was a super cute girl. Why don't you go and ask her clearly?"
"What does it have to do with me who he eats with?"
After glaring at Liu Mengtian, Su Cheng fiercely cut the steak on the plate with a knife and fork and said:
"Hurry up and eat, you're not going to do a live broadcast tonight?"
"Live streaming is important, but my bestie's happiness is more important!"
Seeing Su Cheng glaring at her fiercely and the steak on the plate being cut into smaller and smaller pieces, Liu Mengtian quickly raised her hands in surrender:
"Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore, okay?"
"What's going on?"
After taking a look at Liu Mengtian and Su Cheng, Ye Qiao asked curiously:
"Orange's boyfriend?"
"No, no, I don't have a boyfriend!"
Seeing that Ye Qiao misunderstood, Su Cheng quickly waved his hand and explained:
"Don't listen to Tiantian's nonsense. Mr. Yuan and I have just met not long ago. We are just ordinary friends!"
“I see!”
Ye Qiao smiled and said:
"Since he's your friend, just ask him to come over and eat together. It will be more lively with more people!"
"No, no, he's having dinner with Miss Luo, we can just eat our own food!"
"Well, I'll invite him to dinner next time I have the chance!"
Ye Qiao picked up her wine glass and clinked it with Liu Mengtian and Su Cheng, and said with a smile:
"Cheers, I wish us to continue to advance, successfully join Star Entertainment Media, and become big stars soon!"
"cheers!"
…
After dinner, Ye Qiao went to the front desk to pay the bill. Liu Mengtian and Su Cheng followed her. The front desk returned the two bank cards to her and said:
"Miss, this card of yours cannot be used at all. The other card can be used to pay for last night's room fee. In other words, if you want to continue staying here, you have to pay another deposit. If you don't want to stay, you have to pay for tonight's meal!"
Hearing that Ye Qiao's two bank cards were empty, Liu Mengtian said worriedly:
"Ye Qiao, do you have any other bank cards?"
"No!"
Shaking his head slightly, Ye Qiao didn't know what to do.
"My brother used to give me living expenses every month, and I never calculated how much money was in the card, but it was enough for me to spend. I didn't expect that I spent a little more this time when I returned to China, and the money was used up so quickly!"
After listening to Ye Qiao, Liu Mengtian said directly:
"Call your brother!"
"What?"
"Call your brother. Didn't you say that all your money was given to you by your brother? Call him and ask him to pay you!"
"You can't fight!"
"Why?"
"You can't fight, you can't fight!"
"No, do you have a brother?"
"Liu Mengtian, what do you mean by this?"
"You are so poor now. If you don't call your brother now, when will you call him?"
Liu Mengtian looked Ye Qiao up and down and said with some suspicion:
"You're not a liar, are you?"
"I?"
After looking at herself twice, Ye Qiao said angrily:
"Do I look like a liar?"
“Like, very similar!”
"Tiantian, Yeqiao, stop arguing, let's find a solution together!"
"Orange, let's go and leave her here alone to figure out a solution!"
"Wait a moment!"
Holding Liu Mengtian who wanted to leave the hotel, Su Cheng looked at Ye Qiao and hesitated for a moment before saying:
"Ye Qiao, this is a serious matter, just call your brother!"
"No way!"
Unlike Liu Mengtian, Ye Qiao looked at Su Cheng with some grievance and said:
"I came back secretly without telling my brother this time. If he knew, he would definitely scold me to death!"
Liu Mengtian on the side glanced at her suspiciously:
"What's wrong with scolding you? Are you lying?"
"Tiantian, stop talking!"
"Okay, I won't say any more. This matter is actually very simple!"
After that, without waiting for Su Cheng and Ye Qiao to speak, Liu Mengtian looked at the hotel front desk and said directly:
"Beautiful lady, call the police. There's a scammer here who's eating and drinking for free. She probably knew she had no money in her card and was just waiting for us two to be taken advantage of. She even said she was studying in the UK and used this identity to deceive us. Please help us testify. We two are victims too!"
"Shut up, what did I lie to you about?"
"Who are you scolding?"
"Stop arguing, and stop talking!"
Standing between Ye Qiao and Liu Mengtian, Su Cheng looked at Liu Mengtian and advised:
"Tiantian, let me tell you, if she calls the police now, it won't be good for the three of us. It will leave a criminal record. How about we two think of a solution first?"
"What can the two of us come up with?"
Liu Mengtian looked at Su Cheng and said angrily:
"Su Cheng, you're not going to be a saint again, are you? More than three thousand. Don't you know what more than three thousand means to you and me now? I can't be a saint with you. Either you call the police, or you continue to be a white lotus for her. Think about your rent. I have something else to do and I'm leaving first!"
“Sweet, sweet!”
Seeing Liu Mengtian leaving the hotel without looking back, Su Cheng couldn't help stamping his feet, then looked at Ye Qiao and confirmed again:
"Ye Qiao, can't you really give your brother a call?"
Shaking his head slightly, Ye Qiao looked at the hotel front desk and said directly:
"Miss, call the police. I've never been to jail before, so just treat it as an experience. It should be quite interesting anyway!"
"Oh, forget it, God, why am I so unlucky!"
Stamping his feet, Su Cheng took out a bank card from his shoulder bag and handed it to the hotel front desk:
"Beauty, please swipe this card. If it's not enough, I'll pay in cash!"
"Okay, wait a moment!"
…
Su Cheng, who only had a little over 100 yuan left on her, walked out of the Hilton Hotel holding her bank card with a few cents left. Ye Qiao followed her with a suitcase and promised:
"Chengzi, don't worry, I will find a way to return the money to you!"
“Hmm~~”
Seeing Su Cheng looking so listless, Ye Qiao felt a little sorry and said:
“I’m sorry!”
“Don’t say sorry anymore, if you say it again I will really regret it, I was just impulsive, Tiantian is right, I am a white lotus in the world!”
"What does the term 'white lotus' mean?"
"You wouldn't know even if I told you!"
Walking out of the Hilton Hotel, a six-meter-long Maybach Pullman was parked in front of the hotel. Knowing it was Yuan Xudong's car, Su Cheng couldn't help but take a closer look. Ye Qiao smiled and said:
"Do you like this car?"
"No, no, I'm just taking a look, let's go!"
"OK!"
Ye Qiao dragged her suitcase and prepared to go home with Su Cheng.
"Orange, I have no place to live. Thank you for taking me in. You will be my best friend from now on!"
"What can I do?"
Su Cheng rolled his eyes at Ye Qiao and said helplessly:
"You're about to sleep on the street, I can't just abandon you, can I?"
"Su Cheng!"
Yuan Xudong's voice sounded behind them. Su Cheng and Ye Qiao turned around and saw Yuan Xudong walking over with Luo Qian. When he came up to the two of them, Yuan Xudong looked at Su Cheng and smiled:
"What a coincidence, this is..."
Without waiting for Su Cheng to speak, Ye Qiao took the initiative to introduce herself:
"Hello, my name is Ye Qiao, and I'm Su Cheng's good friend. Nice to meet you. You are Mr. Yuan, right?"
"right!"
Yuan Xudong nodded slightly and smiled:
"My name is Yuan Xudong, and I'm also Su Cheng's good friend. Nice to meet you!"
Ignoring Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng looked at Luo Qian, who was holding his hand, and said with a smile:
"Hello, Miss Luo Xi, I'm Su Cheng, do you remember me?"
"Remember!"
Nodding slightly, Luo Qian looked at Su Cheng and smiled:
"I remember your voice, I didn't expect you to be a good friend of Brother Xudong!"
"Brother Xudong?"
After taking a look at Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng looked at Luo Qian and asked:
"The stingy guy is the brother you mentioned, and the sister who likes singing he mentioned is you?"
"Stingy?"
"It's Yuan Xudong. That's the nickname I gave him. Sorry!"
"It doesn't matter. This is the first time I've heard someone say my brother is stingy!"
"No, I was just joking with him. I didn't mean to say he was really stingy!"
The four of them stood in front of the Hilton Hotel and chatted for a while. Yuan Xudong arranged for the driver to take Su Cheng and Ye Qiao back. After he sent Luo Xi back to Dongli Community, he drove to Su Cheng's rental place. He also bought a bouquet of red roses and a ladies' watch worth 88,000 yuan on the way, preparing to give them to Su Cheng as a gift to celebrate her successful joining Star Entertainment Media in advance.
When he arrived at the destination and saw that the window of Su Cheng's house was still lit, Yuan Xudong did not go upstairs and knock on the door rashly. Instead, he waited downstairs with a red rose in his hand and called Su Cheng.
After a while, the call was connected, and Su Cheng's voice came from the other end:
"Mr. Yuan, it's so late, what can I do for you?"
"I'm downstairs in your house, can you come down?"
"What?"
"I'm downstairs in your house, can you come down?"
"Okay, wait a minute!"
Pulling aside the curtains and opening the window, Su Cheng leaned out of the room and looked downstairs. Seeing Yuan Xudong standing under the street light holding a red rose and talking to her on the phone, she couldn't help but blush and said:
"Wait a minute, I'll be down right away!"
"Okay, don't worry, I'll wait for you!"
"Well, I'm hanging up first!"
"good!"
After hanging up the phone, Yuan Xudong stood under the street light and waited for more than ten minutes. Su Cheng, who had re-put on light makeup, came out of the stairs and smiled at Yuan Xudong:
"Mr. Yuan, why are you here?"
"When it's just the two of us, I prefer you to call me a stingy person rather than Mr. Yuan!"
Looking at Su Cheng who was asking knowingly, Yuan Xudong walked up to her, handed her the red rose in his hand and smiled:
“For you, I wish your dream comes true!”
"Thanks!"
Seeing Su Cheng taking the red rose, Yuan Xudong stepped forward and said with a smile:
"A man will die for his confidant, and a woman will dress up for the man she pleases. Do you know what this sentence means?"
"I don't know, what does it mean?"
Looking at Su Cheng, whose face was slightly red and whose big watery eyes were blinking, Yuan Xudong smiled and said:
"I only know the meaning of the first half of the sentence, but not the second half. Don't you know the meaning of the second half either?"
“Hmm~~”
Nodding slightly, Su Cheng held the red rose, a blush on her face and said:
"I'll go back and check. I'll tell you when I know. Do you have anything else to do? If not, I'll go back first!"
"Wait a moment!"
Seeing that Su Cheng wanted to turn around and leave, Yuan Xudong suddenly grabbed her right wrist and whispered:
"I came all the way here and didn't even have a sip of water. Won't you invite me up to sit with you?"
After struggling a bit, Su Cheng pulled his right hand back, hugged the red rose, lowered his head and whispered:
"It's so late, Ye Qiao is still taking a shower at home, it's not appropriate for you to go up!"
"All right!"
Seeing Su Cheng standing there like a quail, Yuan Xudong walked over to her, hugged her gently and said softly:
"Don't move, let me hold you for a while, okay?"
“Hmm~~”
After hesitating for a while, Su Cheng hummed softly, and endured the shyness to let Yuan Xudong hold him in his arms. After a while, Su Cheng blushed and whispered:
"Stingy guy, are you done? I want to go back!"
"Okay, okay, you are the real cheapskate!"
Letting go of Su Cheng, Yuan Xudong held her shoulders and said seriously:
"Orange, will you be my girlfriend?"
"ah?"
Although she knew that Yuan Xudong liked her, and she also liked Yuan Xudong a little, everything developed too fast. She and Yuan Xudong had only met twice, and she really didn't know how to respond to Yuan Xudong's confession. She didn't dare to agree, nor did she want to refuse. Knowing that Su Cheng was in trouble, Yuan Xudong deliberately smiled and said:
"Okay, I was just kidding you, you didn't take it seriously, did you? "
"you……"
Seeing Su Cheng staring at him with eyes slightly wide open, Yuan Xudong raised a wicked smile and said:
"However, I am a man of my words. Even if I am joking, as long as you agree, I will be responsible for you. This opportunity is rare. Why don't you consider it?"
"Pooh~~"
Su Cheng spat lightly, glared at Yuan Xudong and said with disdain:
"Even if you kneel down and beg me, I will not agree to be your girlfriend!"
"Really?"
Holding Su Cheng's waist and pressing her against the lamppost, Yuan Xudong slowly approached her moist and attractive red lips and said in a low voice:
"Am I so bad that you look down on me?"
"Stingy, what do you want to do?"
"What do you think?"
Looking at Su Cheng, whose face was flushed, eyes were dodging, and body was trembling slightly, Yuan Xudong went around her lips and whispered softly in her ear:
"Be good and close your eyes!"
"I won't!"
Seeing that Su Cheng not only did not close her eyes, but stared at him with her eyes wide open, Yuan Xudong let go of her and said with a smile:
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore!"
After that, without waiting for Su Cheng to say anything, Yuan Xudong pulled out her right hand, took out a silver-white ladies' watch from his pocket, put it on, and said with a smile:
"This is a family heirloom passed down from my great-grandmother to my grandmother, who then passed it down to my mother. Now I'm putting it in your hands. Remember to keep it safe for me. If you lose it, you're doomed!"
Su Cheng rolled his eyes at Yuan Xudong and said speechlessly as he looked at the new watch:
"How much did you buy it for? I don't want a gift that's too expensive!"
"Not expensive, only 88,000 after the discount!"
"How much?"
"Eighty-eight thousand!"
"It's too expensive. I can't have it. Take it back!"
Seeing that Su Cheng was about to take off the watch and return it to him, Yuan Xudong quickly stopped her and said:
"Once you buy it, you can't return it, so keep it!"
"Then I can't have it either, give it to someone else!"
Seeing Su Cheng struggling slightly, Yuan Xudong held her in his arms, kissed her lips, and pried open her teeth.
Su Cheng opened his eyes slightly, slapped Yuan Xudong hard with both hands, then slowly calmed down, and responded to him rather awkwardly with his eyes slightly closed.
After a long time, Yuan Xudong looked at Su Cheng, who was blushing, evasive, and slightly out of breath, and said gently:
"Orange, I'm sorry, I..."
Hearing Yuan Xudong apologize to him, Su Cheng's face turned pale and he couldn't help but struggle and said:
"Asshole, don't tell me you're sorry, I don't want to hear it, you... ugh!"
"Hear me out!"
Covering Su Cheng's mouth, Yuan Xudong hugged her body and said gently:
"Orange, I'm sorry, I like you, can I take care of you from now on?"
"don't want!"