Chapter 163

"Ah, what's so great about being pretty? Take that, claws!"

Just as Tan Zhizhi finished speaking, Tian Jiayi pretended to be jealous and tickled her.

Tan Zhizhi was very ticklish, so she immediately curled up and begged for mercy.

Tian Jiayi kept a straight face and refused to let up, so "Little Cicada" scrambled onto the bed to hide. For a moment, the entire dormitory was filled with silver, bell-like laughter. Finally, both girls lay exhausted on the soft mattress.

"Little Cicada."

Tian Jiayi suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "How far have things developed between you and Yang Tianxing?"

"How far?"

Tan Zhizhi didn't understand at first.

Tian Jiayi asked more clearly: "Have you two held hands?"

Tan Zhizhi nodded.

"Have you kissed?"

Tian Jiayi asked.

Tan Zhizhi pursed her lips and stayed silent, rolling over to lie on the bed. Her slender legs swayed gently, her chin resting on the back of her hands, her eyes sparkling like stars.

"I get it, that expression of yours already says it all."

Tian Jiayi shook her head and sighed: "If those boys knew that our Little Cicada's first kiss was already gone, I'd bet you a month's worth of lunches that someone would jump into Dongshan Lake."

Dongshan Lake is the on-campus lake at the Chang'an campus. In the past, students who failed their postgraduate entrance exams often came here to test the water depth, and some students from other schools even "came for its reputation," eventually forcing the university to put up a sign.

"Water depth 0.5 meters, no danger to life."

After this sign was put up, no more students came here to resolve their life's troubles.

"Then have you two ever..."

Before Tian Jiayi could finish, she was interrupted by Tan Zhizhi's laughter: "What are you thinking about, you silly girl? No!"

She reached out to pull at Tian Jiayi's face, and the two started wrestling on the bed again. Tian Jiayi inadvertently asked, "Little Cicada, will you still be with Yang Tianxing in the future?"

Tan Zhizhi suddenly went quiet.

Just then, other girls returned to the dorm, so Tian Jiayi didn't continue to press her; the answer to that question was something only Tan Zhizhi knew.

The next day, Tan Zhizhi took the materials to a law professor for final revisions before handing them over to Tian Jiayi.

"Wow, such a thick stack."

Tian Jiayi flipped through the contents: "You've even drafted sample contracts for student part-timers. Little Cicada, you really thought of everything."

"I didn't really want to do this either."

Little Cicada rubbed her head; she didn't lie in front of her best friend: "It's just that whenever I think about how these things might lead to negative consequences, I feel an urge to perfect them."

Tian Jiayi smiled and said: "My mom and I are the same. We often argue and give each other the silent treatment, but when something happens, we still can't help but show concern. I guess that's what family is."

"Maybe so."

Tan Zhizhi closed her laptop with a "snap": "I don't want to touch a computer for at least half a month. When you give this to him, remember not to say I was the one who did it."

……………

While Little Cicada was perfecting the legal materials, Yang Tianxing wasn't idle either.

He finally found time to go buy a car. At the Xiali dealership, the sales reps saw that Yang Tianxing didn't look like someone who could afford a car, so they had no desire to greet him and assigned an intern to serve him.

Yang Tianxing didn't mind; he only intended to buy a car, pay, and leave. What kind of service quality do you expect for a 100,000-yuan car?

"How much is this car?"

Yang Tianxing turned his head to ask the intern, only to discover it was Le Mingrong.

"Hello, Brother Yang, we meet again."

Le Mingrong also recognized Yang Tianxing. A few months ago, Yang Tianxing had filled out an information form for her, so she remembered his name.

"Didn't you work at Volkswagen before?" Yang Tianxing asked, feeling curious.

Le Mingrong, wearing the dealership's small suit, gave a forced smile: "That company fired me."

Yang Tianxing said "Oh." He wasn't a gossipy person and couldn't be bothered to ask for the reason.

However, seeing Yang Tianxing seemed to remind Le Mingrong of the four words he had left her back then—"Cherish simplicity"—and she felt a strong urge to vent.

"The deputy manager of my last company asked me out for dinner after work, and then he suggested he wanted to be with me..."

Yang Tianxing listened expressionlessly, sitting in the car to feel the space and gripping the steering wheel to get a feel for it.

"Actually, he was already married. I didn't want to be a mistress, so I didn't agree."

Le Mingrong stood by, guiding him through the car's button functions while recounting her ordeal: "Then, he found an excuse to kick me out."

"Didn't you have a young boyfriend at the time?"

Yang Tianxing asked: "Where did he go?"

"He wasn't a boyfriend; we were just classmates then."

Le Mingrong said: "He tried it for a while, felt the pressure was too great, and decided to go back to his hometown to learn to be a chef. He asked me to leave with him, but I didn't agree."

Yang Tianxing glanced at her: "Why?"

"Because I didn't want to go back to my hometown."

Le Mingrong said with determination: "Chang'an is beautiful. I like Chang'an, and I want to stay in Chang'an."

Yang Tianxing nodded, thinking to himself that a person's character is formed very early on. It turned out that even when she was young, Le Mingrong was very ambitious, and perhaps she had paid too high a price for that ambition.

If she had been on a different platform, perhaps her life would have been different.

Just then, a male sales rep walked over from a distance: "Xiao Le, there's a customer over there who wants to look at a car. Go follow up with them."

Le Mingrong gave a helpless smile, her young face suddenly showing a trace of world-weary maturity: "He realized that Brother Yang really wants to buy a car, so he's chasing me away to another spot so the commission will be his."

"Does this happen often?" Yang Tianxing asked.

Le Mingrong nodded: "I've already had several deals snatched away. Now I can barely afford my rent. If things don't improve, I'll have no choice but to go back to my old company."

Returning to the previous company would mean, in all likelihood, becoming the mistress of the deputy general manager.

"To stay in Chang'an, you are willing to pay a high price."

Yang Tianxing took a glance at Le Mingrong's badge number.

"Mm, in any case, I will definitely succeed!"

After Le Mingrong finished speaking, she left and put on a smiling face to begin attending to other customers.

After that male sales representative took over, he began to talk incessantly about the advantages of the vehicle.

His professional knowledge was more proficient than Le Mingrong's, but he was too slick; he almost boasted a 100,000-yuan Xiali car into a 10-million-yuan sports car.

Yang Tianxing did not want to listen any longer, waved his hand, and said, "I'll buy it."

"Big brother is truly straightforward!"

This male sales representative said happily, "Although big brother is not very old, this kind of aura is not something an ordinary person can compare to..."

He had not expected Yang Tianxing to agree so quickly; he had originally thought he would need to spend more breath, but it seemed Le Mingrong's preliminary work had been done well, and the commission for one car was in his hands again.

When signing the contract, the male sales representative conscientiously guided Yang Tianxing to fill in the information; finally, Yang Tianxing pointed to the "Service Personnel" column and said, "Do I need to write this?"

"No need, no need."

The male sales representative said with a smile, "I fill that out."

"Forget it, I'll just help write it," Yang Tianxing said, picking up the pen.

"Oh my, big brother is truly too polite..."

He was halfway through his flattery when he suddenly saw Yang Tianxing neatly writing "Le Mingrong" and her number in the "Service Personnel" column; he was stunned for a moment: "Big brother, are you playing me?"

Yang Tianxing smiled: "Big brother has no time to play you; big brother is saving a young soul."