Chapter 449: Before A Face Slap, Thank You For Flattery
The fact was, Qin Li really did look down on Yun Jian.
It was not a stretch to say that he looked down on Zhang ihua and family. His father and Zhang ihua were siblings, among many others in their generation.
Coming to Yun Jian’s generation now, they were not as close-knitted as their elders were. Distant relatives, who knew if they could maintain the rapport in the future generation to co?
Working in the bureaucracy, Qin Li was a habitual personification of bluster and pomposity—even more now during a reunion dinner of Lunar New Year, when friends and family gathered like today. It was the ti for him to brag about his status.
It was one thing to sit around and have dinner. What was more important was talking about what they had done in the year or how much they had earned. Comparison was inevitable, more so evident among those who raked in a lot and preened while those who earned lesser were relatively eker as they did not hold such a strong status in the society.
Qin Li was the type to show off his extravagant status and high annual inco to feel on top of everyone else. As for the reason he looked down on Zhang ihua and family, it had been his impression that the children of Zhang ihua, his father’s younger sister, had never been anything exceptional!
No one was like anyone on his side—excelling academically, enrolling in elite high schools and universities, then finally working a decent job.
The reality, however, was that Zhang ihua and others did not seem to notice how Qin Li disdained them, saved for Yun Jian, and continued sucking up to him.
Yun Jian could care less about what Zhang ihua said, even though the latter was obvious with what she ant, implying that Yun Jian fawn over Qin Li like her.
This way, it was like Zhang ihua had pulled the string for Yun Jian to get to know soone authoritative like Qin Li. The woman figured that Yun Jian would owe her a favor like that.
Zhang ihua had never thought that Yun Jian was not buying it.
“Jianjian, your uncle’s complinting you. Aren’t you going to say sothing?” Zhang ihua urged when she saw Yun Jian staying aloof.
As she spoke, she had even made eyes at Qin Yirou, as if asking her to make Yun Jian listen.—It was not like Qin Yirou noticed what she ant. She only thought that her mother’s eyes hurt and asked in both confusion and worry, “Mom, what’s wrong? Are your eyes hurting?”
“I’m fine!” Zhang ihua huffed, heaving when she heard what her daughter said.
She could not say too much in this situation anyway. Just when she thought that Yun Jian was not going to say anything, the girl smiled and t Qin Li’s eyes with a gaze that did not speak about inferiority.
“Thank you for flattery,” Yun Jian said with barely parted lips.
If Qin Li’s complint earlier was incredibly hypocritical, Yun Jian’s reply was equally impassive in return.
Qin Li could not help the double take at Yun Jian upon catching the four words but he had just thought that she was nothing but a stroke of luck.
She was good for founding a small company at this age but there was no way she could be any more spectacular.
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