Chapter 17: Chen Xiaoyi’s Gratitude
No matter what, this woman’s abilities are worth Lu Li’s effort to win over.
“Ow, ow, my leg hurts so much. This young lady knocked down and won’t even compensate . Everyone, judge for yourselves, is this how things should be?” A sharp-toned old lady sat on the ground, sighing and lanting as if she had suffered a great wrong.
“You’re talking nonsense. I didn’t even touch you. You were already lying there; I rely helped you up,” Chen Xiaoyi knew she had encountered a scamr and tried her best to defend herself.
Panic and worry were written all over her delicate face.
“This young lady, looking so pretty, I didn’t expect her to do such a thing!”
“Exactly, exactly, looks good but with a bad heart, society these days!”
“Young lady, if you didn’t knock her down, why did you help her up? Don’t deny what you did!”
The surrounding crowd’s comnts made Chen Xiaoyi’s eyes redden, almost on the verge of tears.
After all, she was just a young girl who had just graduated from college, not yet hardened by society’s harshness, unable to grasp the maliciousness of the world.
It was clear this was a professional scamming gang, one person pretending to fall, the others stirring up trouble, using insults to break the victim’s psychological defense, making a scene to extort money from the victim.
Already burdened with a huge debt, Chen Xiaoyi was extrely sensitive to any turmoil, harboring an inferiority complex within her. Suddenly encountering such a situation, despite trying to do a good deed, she was misunderstood.
The psychological pressure she bore was unimaginable.
“Three thousand, without three thousand, I can’t get up,” the spiteful old lady on the ground demanded.
Chen Xiaoyi beca utterly flustered; three thousand was equivalent to her monthly salary!
“Everyone back off, or I’m calling the police.”
“Calling the police is good, let the police co and see, co and judge, hitting soone and not compensating, what kind of person does that!” The old lady beca even more spirited, her expression almost saying, go ahead and call!
It seed quite a scene.
But they dared not really call the police.
Chen Xiaoyi, unaware of the truth, was actually intimidated.
“Alright, stop making a fuss. I’ve already called the police. They said they will co soon,” Lu Li suddenly spoke up, holding his phone, surveying these people, his gaze lingering on Chen Xiaoyi’s face.
Slightly thin, with a pallor possibly due to malnutrition or recovering from a long illness, wearing a washed-out cheap jacket, her beauty couldn’t be concealed.
This woman, he decided, was his to claim in this lifeti.
What, called the police?
The faces of the people surrounding Chen Xiaoyi instantly filled with panic, especially the one lying on the ground who suddenly forgot to scream.
But they quickly regained their composure: “Good, let the police co and judge, let’s see what this young lady has to say.”
Threatening Chen Xiaoyi maliciously.
“If you don’t give three thousand now, I definitely won’t forgive you when the police co,” the old lady on the ground also snapped back to reality, threatening Chen Xiaoyi viciously.
As for the good Samaritan Lu Li who intervened, she showed no pleasant face.
Chen Xiaoyi also snapped back to reality, though taken aback by their combined onslaught, after all, she was a woman who would eventually take control of a large company, how could she not understand by now?
Gratefully glancing at Lu Li, she turned back to the old lady on the ground and coldly said, “I won’t give you any money. Since the police are coming, let them thoroughly investigate whether you’re all in this together. There are plenty of surveillance caras here; you can slowly explain to them.”
The scamrs, seemingly unprepared for Chen Xiaoyi, who had always seed soft and weak, to suddenly beco so resolute, knew this scam had failed. They cursed a few tis and dispersed; the old lady’s agility as she ran was even better than so young people’s.
Tsk tsk!
Not upset, but Lu Li gave them a few more looks of admiration. Well, these people were just scamrs, not desperados.
“Sir, thank you. Cough cough.” Chen Xiaoyi approached and thanked Lu Li.
Had it not been for this gentleman, she might still be bewildered.
“It’s nothing, just happened to pass by.” Lu Li smiled warmly, his gaze on the young girl in front of him, slender, with at least a developing chest, naturally beautiful without makeup. Perhaps due to recovering from illness or malnutrition, the girl had a fragile, willowy temperant.
A truly elegant beauty.
Chen Xiaoyi gave Lu Li a faint smile: “Anyhow, thank you. I work nearby. Let treat you to milk tea!”
“Milk tea? Sure.” Lu Li nodded, not refusing. After all, his goal was the girl before him.
The two headed to a nearby milk tea shop.
“What would you like, sir?”
“Just milk tea, with double sugar for . And stop calling sir; my na is Lu Li.” Lu Li smiled faintly, finding a seat. Double sugar was a habit from his previous life; like him, a man filled with misfortune in his past life, liked to eat more sweets.
Chen Xiaoyi was the only employee in the milk tea shop, the business seed quite slow.
Chen Xiaoyi gave Lu Li a curious glance but didn’t say anything, starting to prepare the milk tea attentively. Soon after,
“Lu Li, isn’t that the na of the young master of the Lu family? Heard he’s quite the wastrel; must be a coincidence!” Chen Xiaoyi thought to herself, soon serving up a milk tea.
“Mr. Lu Li, your double sugar milk tea.”
“Thank you, I don’t know your na yet?” Lu Li casually asked.
“My na is Chen Xiaoyi. Thank you for your help earlier, Mr. Lu Li. Cough cough!” Smiling, Chen Xiaoyi couldn’t help but cover her mouth, turning aside to cough twice.
Lu Li couldn’t help but frown, pulling over Chen Xiaoyi’s hand.
“Mr. Lu Li, what are you doing? Let go of .” Chen Xiaoyi’s expression changed, struggling. She hadn’t expected this very handso man to suddenly act so rudely; her goodwill towards him instantly plumted.
“Stop moving.” Lu Li suddenly scolded sternly, his face serious as he looked at the ashad Chen Xiaoyi: “You’ve been sick before, right? And it’s that complex heart disease.”
“How did you know!” Chen Xiaoyi couldn’t help but exclaim.
So, he had noticed, no wonder…
“I know so traditional Chinese dicine.”
That wasn’t a problem. In his previous life, that damn system gave him a bunch of skills but never a chance to use them. He had the best business talent but nowhere to apply it, a wealth of dical knowledge but only letting it go to waste.
Fully trained in combat arts, but couldn’t even resist.
It shows how frustrated Lu Li was in his previous life.
Looking at Chen Xiaoyi with a serious face, Lu Li reproached: “What’s wrong with you, going out to work when you’re still not fully recovered? Do you know such disregard for your health makes it easiest to relapse?”
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