I, a Scumbag, Only Flirt but Never Marry [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 5
“Miss Chen?” Xu Tinglan was slightly taken aback. “Which Miss Chen?”
The lobby manager maintained a professional smile. “I’m not sure, she didn’t give her name.”
Zhizhi tugged at Xu Tinglan and scoffed coldly, “Who cares who she is? You can tell she’s nothing good. Let’s not take it. What if she stuffed a whole bunch of HIV viruses inside?”
Zhizhi was just saying that out of anger. The HIV virus absolutely cannot survive outside a living body unless a professional laboratory simulates a human-like environment.
Although they didn’t say which Miss Chen it was, even a guess based on a hair could tell it was something Chen Xiyao left behind.
Xu Tinglan nodded slightly, thanked the lobby manager, and took the paper package.
The paper package was very light and rustled slightly with movement, a bit like the small paper bags from small clinics containing white pills.
The thin transparent tape outside was wrapped layer upon layer, without a single paper seam showing. It was impossible to tear open. Xu Tinglan felt around and vaguely found the end of the tape, but because of her painting, she never kept her nails long, and after trying for a long time, she couldn’t open it.
Zhizhi took her out through the revolving door. Seeing that she couldn’t open it, Zhizhi felt like her heart was being scratched by a cat. She simply snatched it away.
“Let me do it. By the time you open it, the cucumbers will be cold.”
Zhizhi had small, slender fingers and beautifully manicured nails. She pried at it a couple of times and tore open the end of the tape.
She pulled it down, one circle to the left and one to the right, finally revealing a bit of the paper underneath. Xu Tinglan also hailed a taxi, opened the back door, and sat inside. Looking back, Zhizhi was still standing dumbly outside the car door, head down, eagerly tearing at the last two layers of thin paper.
“Zhizhi, get in the car first.”
“Oh, oh! Coming!”
Zhizhi didn’t even raise her head, bent down to get in, and with a sudden force on her hand!
Clatter!
A flash of silver light fell into the crack of the car seat.
Bang!
The car door closed.
The driver skillfully eased the clutch and steered onto the road. Xu Tinglan bent down, picked up the object, held it between her fingertips, and looked closely at it by the car window.
It was a silver-white stud earring, in a winding branch design, inlaid with a circle of small diamonds and a Sri Lankan sapphire. The sapphire’s color was clear, the cut perfect, and it had a considerable weight. A pair would cost at least fifty to sixty thousand.
Zhizhi clicked her tongue beside her. “Wow, this earring isn’t cheap! I saw that b1tch wearing it just now. Why did she take it off to give to you?”
After a pause, Zhizhi suddenly realized. “What did that lobby manager say just now? ‘Return it to its original owner’? Could this be something Wang Jianfei gave her? Logically speaking, if so much money was spent at once, you should have been a little more vigilant, right? How come you didn’t know anything?”
Xu Tinglan, of course, didn’t know.
Before marriage, her money was managed by her parents, but they were very lenient and allowed her to use it freely.
But after marriage, her parents gave her all the savings they had accumulated for her over the years. Before she could even get used to having it, Wang Jianfei took it away.
Not only that, but the money she earned from her art gallery in the past two years was directly deposited into his account by the buyers. She hadn’t even touched it.
Wang Jianfei said it was for her own good. She had never lacked money since childhood and had no concept of its value, spending it very wastefully. Marriage was about a long and steady life, and they couldn’t be so wasteful. It was most appropriate for him to manage it.
Now, Wang Jianfei transferred a fixed amount to her on the fifth of every month for household expenses, like a boss paying salary. If it occasionally wasn’t enough and she asked him for more, he would even grumble a bit.
She didn’t even know the total amount of savings they currently had, let alone how much money Wang Jianfei had spent.
Xu Tinglan looked at the earring, her heart filled with mixed emotions. She had only slightly suspected that the mistress was a victim, but now it seemed there was no doubt. Chen Xiyao was also a pitiful person deceived by Wang Jianfei.
The cultural upbringing she had received since childhood didn’t allow her to hate a victim, but as a woman, she couldn’t help but hate the mistress who had ruined her family.
She really wished Chen Xiyao wasn’t innocent; at least then she could hate her more freely.
She knew this thought was stupid, irrational, and wrong. The person she should truly hate was the culprit, Wang Jianfei, not this innocent woman.
She knew all of this, but she just couldn’t control herself!
The sapphire’s dazzling starlight suddenly made her feel a strong sense of self-loathing. She turned her hand and stuffed it into Zhizhi’s hand.
“It’s yours.”
“Really?!” Zhizhi was first delighted, but then her face fell. “How can I accept something so expensive? Besides, this was given to you by that mistress. It’s not appropriate for me to take it. Sigh, forget it, you should keep it yourself. Later, during the divorce, it can be used as evidence of his affair, so he can get lost with nothing!”
Divorce?
Xu Tinglan leaned wearily against the car wall and closed her eyes, subconsciously pounding her chest twice. Her mind was in chaos, her temples were throbbing painfully, and her internal organs felt like they were stuck in a crowded narrow passage, unable to go up or down, yet also suspended in mid-air, without any support, an indescribable feeling of suffocation and discomfort. Right now, she didn’t want to think about anything anymore, just wanted to go back and get a good night’s sleep.
Zhizhi glanced at the earring in her hand, then at Xu Tinglan. Realizing belatedly that there was still an outsider driver present, she closed her mouth.
The car fell into silence.
Outside the car window, streetlights passed by alternately, the warm orange light dappling Xu Tinglan’s pale face, but it didn’t bring her any warmth. Her bloodless face remained bloodless, like the delicate and frail Daiyu or Xishi, beautiful and weak, making one feel involuntary pity.
Zhizhi’s gaze kept darting towards Xu Tinglan, once, then again, and again.
A sigh.
Why would someone who possessed such a wonderful person still have an affair?
If it were her, she would definitely hold Lanlan in the palm of her hand, treat Lanlan well for a lifetime, and never let Lanlan suffer even the slightest grievance.
Unfortunately, she was a woman.
Why did she have to be a woman?
How wonderful would it be if she were a man?
Zhizhi endured and endured, then reached out her small, thin arm and pulled Xu Tinglan to lean on her shoulder, not forgetting to awkwardly explain, “The car isn’t stable, be careful you don’t hit your head later.”
Xu Tinglan didn’t open her eyes and leaned against her obediently. Her heart still ached with intense pain, yet it seemed to receive a slight comfort in this silent tenderness.
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Ding!
[Female lead’s satisfaction level +5, total satisfaction level 25. Please continue your efforts!]
Gu Shuofeng, wearing a snow-white bathrobe, leaned comfortably against the headboard, legs crossed, ankles touching, her fair small feet swinging back and forth. One hand held the remote control, changing TV channels, while the other casually wiped her half-dry chestnut hair.
Knock, knock, knock.
A waiter’s voice came from outside the hotel room.
“Hello, Miss Chen, your clothes have been delivered. Please receive them.”
Gu Shuofeng glanced at her phone. It had only been half an hour, and they were already here. It was indeed fast. Money could truly make the devil grind the mill. She had just casually tipped a hundred yuan, and the waiter who was initially reluctant to run errands immediately contacted the lobby manager and volunteered to solve the customer’s problems.
Gu Shuofeng opened the door and took the clothes. She flipped through them. Besides underwear, it was just a simple white shirt and jeans, and a pair of skateboard shoes.
The hairdryer she had requested was also inside.
The waiter gave her the remaining money for the clothes, and she waved her hand lazily.
“You’ve worked hard, keep it.”
The smile on the waiter’s face became more pronounced, and she said thank you twice.
“Then please rest well, I won’t disturb you anymore.”
Adding the hundred she had given earlier, that was over two hundred. How wonderful it would be if there were customers this generous every day.
The waiter happily turned to leave, but Gu Shuofeng called out to she, her thumb and index finger slightly pinched together, making a “small” gesture.
“I have one more small, small thing I’d like to ask for your help with.”
Having taken her money, the waiter was naturally embarrassed to refuse at this point.
“Please tell me.”
“Later, the guest in room 212 will send a package of clothes to the service desk. Please help me receive it. Remember not to tell that person that I’m also staying at this hotel. I’m afraid he’ll harass me.”
The waiter nodded understandingly. It was normal for such a beautiful girl to encounter some persistent pursuers.
“Okay, I’ll bring it to you when he sends it.”
“That’s really troublesome for you.”
Gu Shuofeng smiled slightly, a charming allure mixed with a hint of captivating laziness. The waiter inexplicably blushed.
Closing the door and returning to her room, Gu Shuofeng carried the bag of newly bought clothes into the bathroom. She put in the stopper, turned on the tap, and filled half the sink with water. She tore open two packets of disposable shampoo, squeezed them all into the water, and stirred it. Milky white foam rose. She picked out the jeans that might fade, and soaked the rest of the clothes in the water.
How could she wear new clothes without washing them? They were so dirty.
Gu Shuofeng had a slight germaphobia. She not only felt that the new clothes were unclean, but she also found her new body disgusting.
She had already showered once in Wang Jianfei’s hotel room, and just now she had meticulously washed herself again inside and out before finally reluctantly accepting it for temporary use.
Rinsing the foam off her hands and drying them, Gu Shuofeng went out and found her phone, dialing Wang Jianfei’s number.
“You still know how to call me back?!” As soon as the call connected, she heard Wang Jianfei roar into the phone, “I called you so many times just now, why didn’t you answer?!”
Gu Shuofeng held the phone away from her ear. After he finished panting and calmed down, she said unhurriedly, “I was on the road just now and didn’t notice my phone.”
Wang Jianfei didn’t have the mind to dwell on these small matters and went straight to the point.
“What exactly do you mean? What kind of show were you putting on in front of my wife just now?!”