Volume 4: Counterattack: Bright Star Road Chapter 229 Let Four Girls Compete
“So beautiful!”
"How much does such a luxurious yacht cost?"
"Laurel Goddess, what a nice name. Is there a story behind it?"
Arriving at the destination, Yuan Xudong led Su Cheng, Ye Qiao, Zhao Ruoxi, and Liu Mengtian towards the Laurel Goddess which was anchored not far away. Looking at the brightly lit luxury yacht, the four girls immediately started chattering and surrounded Yuan Xudong asking questions.
"Okay, we can discuss any issues during dinner. Now let's get on the boat, okay?"
"Okay~~"
The four girls cheered and jumped towards the nearby Laurel Goddess to board the ship. Seeing Yuan Xudong lagging behind, Su Cheng ran back from the front and pulled him towards the yacht, whispering in an embarrassed tone:
"Stingy guy, can you lend me some money?"
Fearing that Yuan Xudong might have some bad misunderstandings about him, Su Cheng quickly explained:
"I don't have much money on me. I'm afraid I don't have enough money to treat you tonight, and I have to pay my rent. Can you lend me some first? I'll pay you back when the bonus from Xingyu is paid out?"
Stopping in his tracks, Yuan Xudong took Su Cheng's hands and said calmly:
"The stock market has been in a slump recently, and I'm losing nine figures every day. I'm running out of money to eat. When your prize money comes in, can you...can you lend me some first?"
"ah?"
Hearing that Yuan Xudong had lost so much money, with the daily book losses amounting to hundreds of millions, and even the money for food was almost gone, Su Cheng couldn't help but worry:
"My bonus is only 50,000 yuan. Is it enough?"
“That’s enough!”
Yuan Xudong took the initiative to hug Su Cheng's waist and said with a smile:
"The stock market crash is only temporary. It will be fine in a couple of days. When I make money, I will return the 50,000 yuan I borrowed from you, okay?"
"No!"
Holding Yuan Xudong's chest and stroking his back with both hands, Su Cheng closed his eyes slightly and whispered:
"I heard that stock speculation is very dangerous. If you are not careful, you may lose everything. Please don't speculate in stocks in the future, okay?"
"fool!"
Yuan Xudong leaned close to Su Cheng's ear and smiled softly:
"If I really go bankrupt, will you still follow me?"
"Of course I do!"
Su Cheng squinted his eyes and smiled:
"I'm not your girlfriend for your money. If you really go bankrupt, I'll support you. I'll be a big star and you'll be my makeup artist. We can be together every day, okay?"
"Then I'm not your gigolo, am I?"
"What happened to the pretty boy?"
After hitting Yuan Xudong from behind, Su Cheng blushed and said:
"Don't you want to be my gigolo?"
"Of course I do!"
Holding Su Cheng's waist with his left hand and lifting her chin with his right hand, Yuan Xudong looked into her eyes and smiled:
"Then how much pocket money do you give me every month?"
Su Cheng rolled his eyes at Yuan Xudong and whispered to him close to his chest:
"I'm giving you my money. Just don't sell me out. I'll take care of everything else!"
"So good?"
Yuan Xudong leaned close to Su Cheng's ear and said with a wicked smile:
"Since you listen to me in everything, can I have what I want from you tonight?"
After a short silence, Su Cheng looked up at Yuan Xudong and blushed:
"If you really want, I...I..."
Before Su Cheng could finish, Yuan Xudong quickly covered her mouth and said with a smile:
"I'm kidding. I'm worth tens of billions. It's normal for me to make or lose hundreds of millions every day. Besides, even if the company really goes bankrupt and the stocks become worthless, I still have a house, a car, savings, and all kinds of valuable jewelry in the bank safe that can be liquidated. This yacht is also mine. I spent more than 20 million US dollars on it. So the bankruptcy of rich people is all fake. Who among the truly smart rich people doesn't leave a few more ways out for themselves and their descendants just in case?"
"Yes, you are a truly smart and rich man, and I am a truly stupid and foolish fool!"
Looking at the proud and boastful Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng thought about how he had boasted that he would support him and give him all the 50,000 yuan he had worked so hard to get, just like a beggar on the street giving the five yuan in his bowl to a millionaire to buy food. Su Cheng struggled with shame and anger and said:
"Let me go quickly. I am a really stupid fool. Do you think I am particularly ridiculous?"
"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I'm the stupid one!"
Seeing Su Cheng's emotional breakdown, tears rolled down like pearls from a broken string. Yuan Xudong hugged her and explained with both heartache and self-blame:
"I don't have any other intentions. I just want to show off to you, just like a child showing off his toys to others. I asked you to borrow money because I want you to understand that you love me and are willing to give me all the hard-earned 50,000 yuan bonus.
In the same way, I love you, just like you love me, and I am willing to share everything I have with you. In a sense, your fifty thousand dollars is more than my five million or fifty million. Do you understand what I mean? "
"Understand, fifty thousand dollars is all I have, five million, fifty million is just a small part of you, a tiny, insignificant small part!"
Seeing Su Cheng return to normal, Yuan Xudong retorted in a low voice:
"It can't be said to be insignificant. I only make 5 million a year working at Jingyan Group, so I still care a little bit!"
After glaring at Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng wiped away her tears and said with a smile:
"How about it?"
"What?"
"How was my performance?"
Looking at the confused Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng covered his mouth and chuckled:
"Really smart rich man, you don't really think I'm a really stupid fool, do you? You started by saying that the stock market crashed and the daily loss of several hundred million is barely justifiable, but you asked me to borrow money, which is exaggerated. The watch you gave me is only worth 88,000 yuan. Do you really need to borrow 50,000 yuan from me?"
"Not bad, the acting is OK!"
Nodding slightly, Yuan Xudong hugged Su Cheng and said with a smile:
"What do you think of my performance? A business elite who was captured by a scheming beautiful woman, causing his IQ to drop, just like a three-year-old child. Do I have a talent for being an actor?"
"You are the one who is full of scheming!"
After rolling his eyes at Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng hooked his neck and said mockingly:
"You are so stubborn. I don't think you have the talent to be an actor. You are just acting yourself. You are a business elite with the IQ of a three-year-old. How about I call you Yuan San Sui from now on?"
"No, if you dare to call me Yuan San Sui, I will eat you!"
After glaring at the cute and playful Su Cheng, Yuan Xudong took out his wallet, took out a bank card from it, handed it to the slightly stunned Su Cheng, and said with a smile:
"Here you go, this is my salary card, the password is..."
Taking the bank card and looking at Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng held the bank card and whispered:
"I'll withdraw 10,000 yuan and return it to you when the bonus from Xingyu arrives. I'll return this card to you next time we meet, okay?"
"No need to pay it back. I don't usually use bank cards. I pay with my mobile phone now. Please keep this card for me. If I need money and you can't contact me, you can use it directly!"
"But I..."
"Okay, it's settled. I'm your boyfriend, can't I make the decision on such a small matter?"
"All right!"
After putting away the bank card, Su Cheng looked at Yuan Xudong, pecked him gently on the cheek, and said with a happy and sweet face:
"Thank you, stingy guy. Apart from dad and mom, you are the best person in the world to me!"
"fool!"
After gently scratching the tip of Su Cheng's nose, Yuan Xudong pulled her towards the yacht and said:
"Let's go, Ye Qiao and the others are still waiting for us. The entertainment industry is quite complicated, like a big melting pot, with all kinds of people in it. You and Ye Qiao don't know anything, so just follow my arrangements, okay?"
"Okay, I'll do as you say!"
Seeing that Su Cheng began to become obedient, Yuan Xudong touched her hair and smiled with satisfaction:
"Well, Orange is so good!"
"Don't call me Cheng Cheng, and don't touch my head!"
Giving Yuan Xudong a blank look, Su Cheng slapped his right hand away, pouted and muttered softly:
" Are you treating me like a child?"
"Don't you like children?"
Yuan Xudong pulled Su Cheng and said with a smile:
"I've decided. When we have a daughter in the future, her nickname will be Cheng Cheng and her full name will be Yuan Cheng Cheng. What do you think?"
"Who wants to have a daughter with you?"
"Forget about it if you don't want to give birth. I'll ask Ye Qiao to give birth. In this way, my nickname will be Qiaoqiao and my full name will be Yuan Qiaoqiao. Isn't that easy to remember?"
"Get lost, you bastard!"
…
Boarding the yacht, Ye Qiao, Zhao Ruoxi, and Liu Mengtian were on the deck enjoying the sea breeze and chatting about the future.
Seeing Yuan Xudong pulling Su Cheng over, Ye Qiao smiled and said:
"Chengzi, Mr. Yuan, you two are so slow to come. Are you busy being affectionate?"
"Ye Qiao, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Hearing Ye Qiao teasing him and Yuan Xudong, Su Cheng hurried over and wanted to tickle her:
"I let you talk nonsense, I let you talk nonsense..."
"I'm not talking nonsense. We all saw it. You were just flirting with Mr. Yuan. Come on, chase me. If you can't catch me, I'll be so mad at you, haha~~"
"Okay, you two, stop messing around!"
Pulling back Su Cheng and Ye Qiao who were chasing each other, Liu Mengtian looked at Yuan Xudong and said with a smile:
"Mr. Yuan, there's nothing here, not a single person in sight. What are we going to eat?"
"I asked them to leave and come back tomorrow morning. Everything is ready in the kitchen. Come with me!"
Taking Su Cheng, Ye Qiao, Zhao Ruoxi, and Liu Mengtian into the kitchen, Yuan Xudong opened the refrigerator, pointed at the various fresh ingredients inside and said with a smile:
"Everything is here. Make whatever you want to eat. Everyone can cook a few of their specialties. Whoever cooks the best dish tonight, I have a small gift for her. Come on, I'll be waiting for you in the restaurant. Bye!"
"ah?"
"Mr. Yuan, how could you do this?"
"Mr. Yuan, what little gift is it? Can you tell me in advance?"
"What if I can't cook?"
…
Seeing Yuan Xudong waving his hand and leaving the kitchen, the four chattering girls quieted down, looked at each other, and glanced at the refrigerator full of fresh ingredients and fruits. Ye Qiao, who couldn't cook, rolled her eyes and smiled:
"I'm going to make fruit salad, fruit platter, and fruit slices, you guys do the rest!"
"Ah, Ye Qiao, you are so cunning!"
Su Cheng rolled his eyes at Ye Qiao, then thought for a while and said:
"The stingy guy likes to eat beef. I'll make a serving of beef noodles, a serving of stir-fried beef, and a serving of scrambled eggs with tomatoes!"
After taking a look at Su Cheng and Ye Qiao, and thinking of the little gift Yuan Xudong mentioned, Liu Mengtian smiled and said:
"I'll make you a steak!"
After that, she looked at Zhao Ruoxi, who seldom spoke, and said with a smile:
"Ruoxi, what are you going to do?"
After taking a look at Liu Mengtian, Su Cheng and Ye Qiao beside her, Zhao Ruoxi smiled and said:
"My hometown is Huaiyang, and I learned how to cook Huaiyang dishes from my mom, so I'll make a few Huaiyang dishes that I'm good at!"
After a brief exchange , the four girls started to cook. Liu Mengtian glanced at the clumsy Ye Qiao and the skilled Zhao Ruoxi, then looked at Su Cheng who was cutting beef and asked tentatively:
"Chengzi, this yacht is so luxurious, it must cost a lot of money. Mr. Yuan doesn't really intend to let you pay, right?"
"What happened to me paying?"
Su Cheng glanced at Liu Mengtian and smiled slightly:
"It's my treat, so don't worry, Tiantian. This yacht belongs to a cheapskate, and we cooked the food ourselves. The most I can pay for is the food. It won't be much!"
"Yeah?"
After taking a look at the luxuriously decorated yacht, Liu Mengtian's eyes flashed with envy, but she sighed calmly:
"Rich people are just different. Ordinary people work hard all their lives just to buy a house and a car. A house worth millions and a car worth hundreds of thousands are considered very good. But compared with this yacht, we ordinary people are so pitiful. They were born in Rome, but we were born to work like slaves for the rich."
"That's you, that's not what I thought!"
Before Su Cheng could speak, Ye Qiao glanced at Liu Mengtian and retorted:
"You should eat according to your ability. Pursuing these unrealistic things is just vanity and asking for trouble. Others have money because they earned it, or their parents, grandparents earned it. Don't your parents earn money for you to spend?
When you have your own children in the future, won’t you spend the money you earn on them? It’s better to work hard on your own than to envy others for being rich. You can’t be a second-generation rich man, but you can be the mother of a second-generation rich man! "
After that, before Liu Mengtian could speak, Ye Qiao added:
"What I mean is that you can work hard to make money and become a first-generation rich yourself, and let your children become second-generation rich. I don't mean that you should marry a rich man and become the mother of a second-generation rich. "
“How can making money be so easy?”
Liu Mengtian rolled her eyes at Ye Qiao and sighed:
"I didn't graduate from a prestigious university, and I don't have any special skills. How can I make a lot of money?"
Seeing Liu Mengtian sighing, Ye Qiao couldn't help but burst out laughing and said:
"Have a good sleep at night, and you will have everything in your dreams!"
"you……"
Seeing that Liu Mengtian and Ye Qiao were about to quarrel again, Su Cheng quickly tried to smooth things over:
"Okay, you two stop arguing, just focus on cooking, and don't talk, do you hear me?"
"I heard it, Mrs. Yuan!"
"Ye Qiao, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Hearing Ye Qiao calling her Mrs. Yuan, Su Cheng couldn't help blushing and said:
"What is Mrs. Yuan? It sounds so ugly, okay?"
"If you marry Mr. Yuan, won't you be Mrs. Yuan?"
…
Seeing Su Cheng and Ye Qiao getting along well, a trace of sadness and jealousy flashed in Liu Mengtian's eyes. Before meeting Ye Qiao, she and Su Cheng also played and played together and talked about everything. After meeting Ye Qiao, she and Su Cheng gradually became estranged. They were no longer together every day and were no longer as close as before. Ye Qiao replaced her position beside Su Cheng.
Time passed, and after about half an hour, everyone's specialties were almost ready. Su Cheng tasted the beef noodles he made and frowned slightly:
"It's a bit salty. Too much salt."
"Too much salt?"
With his eyes rolling, Ye Qiao shook Su Cheng's arm and gave him some advice:
"Let's put a little more in. How about we give Yuan Xudong a lesson?"
"Isn't this bad?"
"What's wrong?"
Thinking of the fact that Yuan Xudong had taken her first kiss, Ye Qiao, who still had a grudge in her heart, hugged Su Cheng's arm and begged:
"Chengzi, please, teach him a lesson and let him know that we are not easy to bully. He is just sitting there doing nothing. Why should we prepare the food and serve it to him?"
After saying that, she glanced at Liu Mengtian's steak. Knowing what she was up to, Liu Mengtian quickly protected her steak and said cautiously:
"I still want to eat. Sorry I can't keep you company!"
Ye Qiao glanced at Liu Mengtian and then looked at Zhao Ruoxi's squirrel fish. Before she could speak, Zhao Ruoxi directly refused:
"I don't think this is a good idea. Mr. Yuan provided the venue and ingredients, so shouldn't we cook a few dishes?"
After turning around, Ye Qiao could only look at Su Cheng pitifully and cried:
"Chengzi, please have mercy on me. In my next life, I will repay you with my life!"
"Okay, don't go too far!"
Seeing Ye Qiao begging him so pitifully, Su Cheng softened his heart and said:
"It's already very salty, just add a little more salt."
"I know, don't worry!"
With Su Cheng's consent, Ye Qiao added another tablespoon of fine salt into the noodle soup, thinking how she would laugh at Yuan Xudong when he made a fool of himself, making him regret what he had done.
Everything was prepared and the dishes were brought into the restaurant. Yuan Xudong sat at the main seat, Su Cheng and Ye Qiao sat on his right, Liu Mengtian and Zhao Ruoxi sat on his left, and Ye Qiao kicked Su Cheng under the table.
Glancing at Ye Qiao, Su Cheng hesitated for a moment before serving Yuan Xudong a small bowl of noodles and said with a smile:
"Stingy guy, this is the noodles I made, how do you like it?"
"Okay, thanks Orange!"
After taking the noodles and putting them on the table, Yuan Xudong stood up from his chair, pulled the confused Su Cheng to the main seat and said gently:
"Wait a minute, I'll be right back!"
"you……"
Without waiting for Su Cheng to finish, Yuan Xudong turned around and left the restaurant. The four girls looked at each other, not knowing what he was going to do. Zhao Ruoxi said worriedly:
"Did Mr. Yuan discover anything?"
After that, she glanced at Su Cheng and Ye Qiao and said:
"Su Cheng, Ye Qiao, stop playing around and have a good dinner. What if Mr. Yuan gets angry?"
"What are you afraid of?"
Giving Zhao Ruoxi a blank look, Ye Qiao said carelessly:
"He's a grown man, but he has only this much tolerance?"
"But……"
"Stop talking, Mr. Yuan is back!"
After hearing Liu Mengtian's reminder, the scene suddenly quieted down, and a familiar birthday song sounded:
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."
Accompanied by the birthday song, Yuan Xudong came in pushing a three-layer cake and put the birthday hat on Su Cheng's head. Yuan Xudong pinched her cheek and smiled:
"Orange, happy birthday. I will spend this day with you every year from now on. I hope that in every year to come, you will become happier and happier, and always be healthy, full of energy and vigor!"
"Thank you, thank you Xudong!"
Wiping away tears, Su Cheng looked at Yuan Xudong and smiled, her voice choking with sobs as she said:
"This is the first time someone has celebrated my birthday since my parents passed away. How can we finish such a big birthday cake?"
"If you can't finish it, keep it and give it to others!"
After wiping away Su Cheng's tears, Yuan Xudong pulled her up and said with a smile:
"Don't cry, be happy, make a wish, blow out the candles, and share the cake, okay?"
“Hmm~~”
Nodding vigorously, Su Cheng looked at Yuan Xudong and smiled:
"Okay, you come with me!"
"good!"
Seeing Yuan Xudong and Su Cheng showing their affection as if no one was around, Ye Qiao's eyes flashed with envy and sadness. She studied alone in the UK and celebrated her birthday every year with her classmates. There were many people and it was lively, but it lacked a touch of warmth. There was no father, mother, or brother, only classmates and friends. It was lively, but just lively.
Liu Mengtian had a complicated expression. At this moment, she had to admit that she was very envious, even jealous of Su Cheng. Her best friend, who was not as good as her in the past, won the championship of the talent show and met a boyfriend who loved her so much and was rich. Her boyfriend only asked her to borrow money, and he never returned it. He only gave her one rose, not to mention taking the initiative to celebrate her birthday. He didn't even know when her birthday was.
Zhao Ruoxi standing by was also full of envy. She had never celebrated her birthday even once since she was a child. It was not because her parents did not love her or her family was too poor to make ends meet, but because her family had no concept of celebrating birthdays. When she saw other children celebrating their tenth or eighteenth birthdays, her honest father would only say, "What kind of birthdays do rural children have? They don't learn the good things but only the crooked ways." Influenced by her father, she and her younger brothers and sisters had never celebrated their birthdays, nor had they attended other people's birthdays.
Su Cheng clasped his hands together in front of the birthday cake full of candles, closed his eyes and silently made a birthday wish.
After making a good wish and opening his eyes, Su Cheng saw Ye Qiao, Liu Mengtian, and Zhao Ruoxi staring at him in a daze. He blushed and said shyly:
"Why are you looking at me all the time?"
