Chapter 67

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"Your souls are a match?"

Lin Xiyu wore a look of utter disbelief.

"Hahaha, bet you didn't see that coming."

Wang Fan raised an eyebrow smugly, selling out his good buddy without a shred of psychological burden: "Don't let my carefree demeanor fool you, I might look insufferable on the surface, but actually I'm not as good at pretending as Guben......."

"That guy, he seems gentle, nice to everyone, but he's actually deeply black-bellied, a body full of rebellious bones, unruly and untamable — even his maternal grandfather and his paternal grandfather, two great mountains joining forces, couldn't suppress him."

"He's willing to associate with me because he values that I can help him, that he can make money without relying on his family, no need to watch anyone's face for cues."

"Of course, I'm also willing to cooperate because I saw his potential."

"I don't have any other skills, but my eye for people is damn accurate. Others invest in companies; I invest in people — I invest in Guben the person. He contributes the effort, I contribute the capital, the two of us are like twin swords combined, and in the future when we start a company and do business, we'll surely join forces to carve out a world for ourselves in the turbulent commercial seas."

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"You really are a capitalist......."

Lin Xiyu couldn't stand his self-praise, speaking up for Guben: "Exploiting people, making others do the work while you sit back and enjoy the fruits."

"If you insist on calling it exploitation, there's nothing I can do."

Wang Fan wore it as a badge of honor rather than shame: "I've already decided, this life I'll stick to him — wherever he goes, I go."

"Is he willing to let you stick to him?"

Lin Xiyu rolled her eyes at him: "His college application choice is Law — he's going to be a lawyer......"

Wang Fan reacted damn fast: "How do you know he applied for Law?"

"I saw it."

Lin Xiyu's eyes flickered slightly, a bit guilty as she averted her gaze.

She didn't say that she had specifically asked the Class Teacher, learned his first choice was the Law Department of Shanghai Fudan University, and only then changed her own first choice to Shanghai East China Normal University.

She wanted to attend university in the same city as the person she liked.

Although at that time, they still hadn't confessed their feelings — just the pure, naive secret crush of adolescence.

"That makes sense, you are the Study Committee Member after all."

Wang Fan didn't think too much into it, finding his own reason: "Knowing your classmates' application choices is perfectly normal.

"He's going to Shanghai and you're going too?"

Lin Xiyu expressed doubt: "Can you even get in? Don't tell me you can audit university too?"

"What's so hard about that?"

Wang Fan boasted proudly: "My dad has already paved the way for me — study two years at a private university in Shanghai, go abroad for studies, get a foreign degree, gild the lily a bit, then come back."

"Rich people......."

Lin Xiyu muttered softly, with a hint of eat-the-rich sentiment.

"Now that things are clear, can I take it?"

Wang Fan pretended not to hear, and held out the kraft paper bag again: "Guben's money you can spend freely; my half, you don't have to rush to pay back either — we're classmates, being able to lend a hand to a classmate is my honor."

"I'll pay it back......"

Lin Xiyu was too embarrassed to refuse again, and hesitantly reached out to take the kraft paper bag.

"Guben's family background, you know it......"

Seeing her accept it, Wang Fan secretly gloated, then deliberately tried to curry favor: "His family's threshold is too high; you interacting with him, you're bound to be aggrieved."

"We're classmates, I'm definitely on your side — whatever happens in the future, if you're wronged, when you want to cry, my shoulder is always available for you to lean on......"

"Are you that kind-hearted?"

Lin Xiyu keenly sniffed out a hint of green-tea-bitch vibe from his words.