Chapter 62: High as a Mountain, Deep as an Ocean: The Battle of Wits (Part 1)

Life requires experience, experience needs to be settled, and only after settling can one achieve great enlightenment.

Even with three thousand troubles, it is better to pick a flower and smile.

Jiang Bufan does not remember where she saw this passage.

She has always disdained such chicken soup for the soul!

But today, for some reason, this sentence suddenly flashed into her mind.

Life requires experience...

She could not help but mock herself; is an experience like a one-night stand also a compulsory course in life!

She really wanted to sit down and have a good chat with the person who said this, to discuss life.

She went out early this morning not because she was unable to let go and was going to do something extreme, as Zhou Xiaoru's inner monologue suspected.

Life is so short, she hasn't lived enough yet, so how could she think of seeking death.

It's just that after lying down for these few days, she felt that not only did she need to pull herself together, but she also needed fresh air!

There are some things that she also needs to face herself.

Her phone has been full of calls and messages from Su Poyang these past few days; the one who tied the bell must untie it, so she needs to sit down and have a good talk with him.

She is already an adult; a one-night stand is not playing house, and she must be responsible for herself.

So she replied to Su Poyang and arranged to meet at a commercial plaza nearby.

This also cheered up Su Poyang, who hadn't slept well for days and had almost taken a megaphone to broadcast at Jiang Bufan's school.

He had always been the one to dump people and ignore them; now that such a thing had happened, he had actually been played by the other party.

This was a huge blow to his male ego!

Originally, he had kindly suggested coming to the school to pick up Jiang Bufan, but who would have expected that Miss Jiang would give him a very carefree reply.

"I have legs of my own!"

These words choked him, leaving him speechless.

Early in the morning, the two of them were like martial arts practitioners meeting for a duel.

After receiving the message, Su Poyang had quickly arrived at the meeting place.

Standing in the deserted plaza, he paced back and forth, waiting for Jiang Bufan, who had not yet arrived.

When he saw the person slowly approaching, he deeply felt that every step Jiang Bufan took toward him carried a powerful murderous aura and a massive internal force coming his way!

This was the first time Jiang Bufan had seriously sized up this legendary playboy!

He was indeed a natural-born seducer, possessing a face that attracted bees and butterflies, and he was even the president of a large enterprise!

Xiao Lan always said that for ordinary people like them, when encountering such a seducer, one could play with him but must never watch from afar!

So this time, she had played with him, but she had also paid the price herself.

Su Poyang felt the same; previously, he had only seen Jiang Bufan while dealing with Zhou Xiaoru, and he hadn't paid much attention to this student girl wearing black-rimmed glasses.

Today was also his first time looking at her carefully.

She wasn't very tall, her looks were average, and her figure... was passable.

For the beauty-seasoned Su, with Jiang Bufan's looks, she could at most get a fifty out of a hundred!

This was his final verdict!

The way the two of them looked right now, it was as if they were meeting for the first time for a blind date.

After staring at each other for dozens of seconds, Jiang Bufan was the first to withdraw her gaze, cleared her throat, and said.

"Let's find a place to sit."

What was the point of standing here staring at each other; wasn't it awkward?

Su Poyang also withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, rubbed the back of his head uncomfortably, and replied.

"Then let's find a shop and have some breakfast."

Running out so early in the morning with an empty stomach gave him a sense of panic for the first time.

Jiang Bufan didn't speak again, just started walking toward the plaza.

Across the plaza was a row of restaurants, and she happened to be hungry herself at this moment.

These past few days in the dormitory, she had been thinking about life so much that she had lost weight.

While the two of them were preparing to eat breakfast at a restaurant, on the other side, Zhou Xiaoru, who had been searching around the school for half the day, had already cried from anxiety several times.

Gu Liyan drove the car, taking her along the way and helping her search.

After searching for an hour or so, Gu Liyan finally remembered that he should make a call and summon his eldest cousin.

It wasn't until they spoke to Su Poyang on the phone that they learned Jiang Bufan was with him.

Zhou Xiaoru, who had been frantic all morning, finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this news.

She had almost fainted on the spot!

That woman was really something; did she want to scare her to death!

However, she didn't find Jiang Bufan's actions all that surprising.

In her perception, Jiang Bufan had always been a fighter who met challenges head-on and was extremely independent!

Unlike her, who always shrank into her shell whenever she encountered something.

But thinking about Jiang Bufan going to negotiate with Su Poyang, she felt uneasy again; if that playboy did something insane again, wouldn't Jiang Bufan be at an even greater disadvantage?

Having exhausted her "old mother" heart, the certain Xiaoru decided that she wanted to go find Jiang Bufan.

Even if she just watched from afar, she would feel at ease.

At this moment, Gu Liyan's car was parked on the side of the road, and he had just finished his call with Su Poyang.

And Zhou Xiaoru, after a bout of inner struggle, thought for a moment and said to the man in the driver's seat.

"Um, thank you so much for today. I'm going to go find Xiaofan in a bit, and it's not early anymore, you still have to go to work, so I'll get out of the car now."

As soon as she finished speaking, she couldn't help but shiver!

Because she clearly felt the temperature inside the car drop by several degrees all at once.

At this moment, the gentleman's profile looked somewhat stern, and his slender fingers gripping the steering wheel tightened and relaxed with force a few times.

It wasn't that Zhou Xiaoru was particularly observant; it was just that after spending so much time in contact with this person, her sensitive nerves had become many times sharper than before!

Seeing that he didn't make a sound, she tentatively said another sentence.

"Then... I'll get out of the car first..."

As she spoke, her eyes kept glancing at the person beside her, and her hands were already reaching to unbuckle her seatbelt.

Just as she was sweating on her back while struggling to unbuckle the seatbelt that wouldn't come undone no matter what, the person beside her finally spoke.

"When are you returning to the company to work?"

Hearing this question, the movement of Zhou Xiaoru's hands paused; she had forgotten all about it if this guy hadn't mentioned it!

She was no longer in a hurry to unbuckle the seatbelt and turned her body directly to ask.

"I had forgotten until you mentioned it. What kind of nonsense did you tell our Supervisor, saying my grandmother passed away? Could you talk any more rubbish than that!"

Hearing this, the man's face couldn't help but darken further, and he slowly turned his head.

"From now on, you are not allowed to use foul language." He was truly afraid it would influence their next generation.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru immediately bristled, and her eyes widened at once.

"Mind your own business! My mouth is on my face; I'll say whatever I want!" Can you even control that!

Before she had finished being agitated, a huge pulling force dragged her directly over.

Next, she only felt a black shadow flash across her face, followed by a numbing sensation on her lips!

By the time she reacted, the man beside her had already let her go.

She blinked her large eyes, staring at the man who now had a hint of a smile on his lips...

What had she just experienced?

Had she been forcibly kissed by this shameless man again?!

Everything happened so fast that she thought she had just been bitten by a passing bug.

At this moment, the handsome Gu said in a very good mood.

"If you use foul language again in the future, every time you say it, I will kiss you once. If you want me to keep kissing you, feel free to say whatever you like."

"...................."

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoru was already panting with rage! What a disaster!

Facing the fuming person beside him, Gu Liyan felt very pleased in his heart, and after thinking for a moment, he said again.

"At most, I will let you finish this week's leave. Next week, you must come to work on time, otherwise, you will have to pay a huge penalty for breach of contract!"

At the mention of that contract she had signed in a daze, completely unaware of what it was!

The fire in a certain Xiaoru's heart shot up high again with a 'whoosh'.

"That contract is invalid! I didn't do it voluntarily!"

The man smiled, "It's in black and white; even if it goes to a judge, it has legal effect! You can't deny it if you want to."

"You!!" She stared at the person who was smiling with such cunning! "Despicable! Shameless! Vulgar!"

Listening to these words evaluating him, for some reason, a certain gentleman was as happy as if these words were praising him.

Then he kindly reminded her, "Forgot to tell you, your parents already know you have officially started working at Tengyuan. They are all very happy that you could find such a good job so quickly."

Hearing this, the eyes of the young lady Zhou almost hung directly onto the man's face beside her!

"You called my parents?!"

My God! This guy is too insidious!

"No, I just told Aunt Xiaofang, let Aunt Xiaofang pass the message on your behalf, and sent my regards to your parents."

"You!!" She pointed a trembling finger at the person who was acting as if nothing had happened.

This shameless person actually told her parents!

She was so angry that she started babbling incoherently, "Why did you tell my parents! What do you want! Do you want to marry me!"

And sending regards to her parents! Why didn't he just go to her house to propose! It's truly ridiculous!

At this time, a certain man tilted his head slightly, turning it at a graceful arc, his eyes shining as he looked gently at the person beside him.

He replied with a sentence that made the young lady Zhou's jaw drop.

"I do want to marry you, it just depends on whether you agree or not."

Gu Liyan said these words without much thought; he rarely made promises to others and rarely made such jokes with others.

He felt that if there were such a lively treasure by his side in the future, his life would not only not be dull, but would also have many surprises.

Perhaps now that he had taken a liking to her, no matter how Zhou Xiaoru acted, in the gentleman's eyes, it was all good, and it was all what he liked.

Zhou Xiaoru really wanted to take off the slipper on her foot and slap it hard on that person's forehead at that moment.

She wanted to slap some sense into this man who had recently gone off the deep end!

She felt that this guy must have taken the wrong medicine, or perhaps he had eaten expired medicine and ruined his brain.

This prince and Cinderella love story did not exist for her.

Moreover, she had long ago set her own persona; she was not a Cinderella wearing crystal shoes, but Cinderella's stepmother with feet that were too big!

Cinderella's stepmother, does he understand that!

It was impossible between them; secular concepts and moral theories did not allow them to be together!

No matter how much of an impact the sentence "I want to marry you, it just depends on whether you agree or not" had on Zhou Xiaoru's heart, she warned herself!

The lessons of the past must not be forgotten!

Thinking of this, she turned her head away, curled her lips, and said a sentence that instantly infuriated the man beside her.

"Sorry, right now, I'm not interested in your type of man; right now, I like someone like Du Feng, a considerate big brother next door."

Hmph! No matter what you want to do, this young lady is going to go against you!

Just as she was thinking this in her heart, the man in the driver's seat had already gradually completed his dark transformation!

The dark Big Boss is currently coming online!