SM Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Acting on Impulse “If she wants it, I’ll give it to her.”……

Li Chennan personally brought the wine over.

“Yo, you two are here.” He placed it on the table, took two glasses, “Try it, the owner’s special mix.”

He handed the light blue glass to Tan Zhi Xu, and pushed the red one in front of Zhu Shihao.

Tan Zhi Xu glanced at the wine she picked up, took a sip of the wine in his glass, and his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Li Chennan, who was watching his reaction, smiled: “Doesn’t look like it, right? I’m thinking of calling it ‘Deceptive’. Ladies, I don’t recommend trying it.”

Because he singled it out, the two ladies became interested instead.

Ran Cai, who was already in a bad mood, leaned over to take it: “I want to see what’s so deceptive about it.”

Zhu Shihao glanced at her, turned to Tan Zhi Xu and asked, “How is it?”

Tan Zhi Xu was too familiar with that expression of hers. She doesn’t usually show it, but she’s actually quite curious. Many years ago, when she was curious about what a silkworm pupa tasted like, she looked at him like that too.

She obviously felt a little disgusted and scared, but she was curious, so in the end, she bit into it, suppressing her discomfort. She wanted to spit it out, but couldn’t spit it on the ground or the table, so she could only pitifully look at him, and finally spit it into his palm.

“Spicy, but the taste is good, very smooth.” Knowing she was interested, he said directly, “Try it if you want, I’m here.”

Her eyes lit up even more, and she nodded gently, as if reporting to make a guarantee: “I’ll just try a little bit.”

Before she could finish speaking, she had already reached out.

Whether it’s believable or not doesn’t matter, it’s no big deal if she likes to drink a couple more sips, anyway, he’s here so nothing can happen. Tan Zhi Xu ignored her and took another sip himself.

After sitting for a while, Ran Cai began to get to the point, telling Zhu Shihao about her unfortunate experience.

“Wasn’t it his mother’s birthday on Friday? I specially switched classes and took a day off to go back with him. Good heavens, he was back on his own turf and got carried away. He kept saying that his mother liked gentle girls, and wanted me to slowly change in the future.”

“His mother too, said she wanted him to go home and take the civil service exam, and implied that I should go over to his place. Why should I? Has he even passed the civil service exam? I’m a properly employed teacher in Sangzi, I’m better than him in every way!”

Taking a big gulp, the wine glass hit the table with a thud. Ran Cai concluded, “What a big face, it’s really a waste of my round-trip airfare and time.”

Seeing her panting with anger, Zhu Shihao quickly patted her back, comforting her: “Don’t be angry, don’t be angry, no one will take your place if you get sick.”

Hearing her comforting words that had been the same for ten years, Tan Zhi Xu chuckled lightly.

After she calmed down, Zhu Shihao asked, “Did you really break up?”

Ran Cai picked up the wine glass again and drank the rest of the wine in one gulp, slammed it on the table with a “Duang”, and said boldly: “If I didn’t break up, would I keep him for the New Year? I’ve already rushed to the hotel, changed the password, deleted the fingerprints, and completed the entire set of blacklisting, deleting, and exclamation points.”

Zhu Shihao gave her a thumbs up: “Decisive.”

“His mother was talking next to him and he didn’t even fart, acting like a fake momma’s boy. I was blind, I wish him an empty future and vow never to pass the exam.”

The two worked together to denounce the scum man.

After a while, Ran Cai suddenly became interested: “Shihao, two choices, which is more unacceptable?”

Ran Cai: “Smoking or drinking?”

Zhu Shihao didn’t hesitate: “Smoking.”

Ran Cai: “Smoking or being stingy?”

At this point, Zhu Shihao still didn’t think much, even though she didn’t like the smell of smoke: “Stingy.”

Ran Cai asked with great interest: “Stingy or overly confident?”

This time she began to hesitate. Zhu Shihao: “…Overly confident.”

Ran Cai nodded: “Overly confident or giving the silent treatment?”

Zhu Shihao was silent for a while: “…Giving the silent treatment.”

Ran Cai: “Giving the silent treatment or being a momma’s boy?”

Zhu Shihao already didn’t want to answer: “…Momma’s boy.”

“Momma’s boy or a ‘central air conditioner’?”

Zhu Shihao: “…”

Seriously, having gotten to this point, did she really have to pick through the shit?

Coincidentally, Tan Zhi Xu, who was sitting next to her, obviously had the same view, and sneered, “What, does she have to pick the worst one from the trash?”

He stared at her darkly: “Zhu Shihao, if you pick this kind of trash, I’ll send you back home and have your legs broken.”

The word “backhand” was very good.

Remembering this person’s past record of tattling, Zhu Shihao couldn’t help but glare at him.

Tan Zhi Xu didn’t know that she was thinking about old scores, and his gaze turned even colder when she glared at him.

He was just about to say something when Wei Wang interrupted.

“Zhang Zi Ang and Hao Hao are here.” He called out the names of the two people.

Hao Hao stepped forward quickly and punched him in the chest: “Get lost, I told you, don’t call me Hao Er.”

After he walked over, Qiu Ying behind the two revealed herself.

Ran Cai tugged at Zhu Shihao, winking at her: “Behind you.”

The others obviously saw it too. Zhang Zi Ang’s face was not very good. He scratched his head awkwardly and tentatively, looking around at everyone: “She insisted on coming, and cried, so I had no choice.”

Although he didn’t make it clear, they all knew who he was explaining to.

For a moment, everyone’s eyes fell on Tan Zhi Xu.

He didn’t care about these gazes at all, and even leaned back casually, his posture relaxed, as if the scene in front of him was nothing to him.

This cold and indifferent appearance made Qiu Ying even more eager. She spoke with a sweet, cloying voice: “Zhi Xu Ge.”

Zhu Shihao only felt goosebumps all over her body, and shuddered almost imperceptibly, but on the surface, she remained steady.

Feeling that this young master was starting to exude a chill, Wei Wang quickly greeted: “Sit down first, sit down first.”

Who knew that this girl had no sense at all: “Wei Wang Ge, can you give up your seat?”

Everyone was silent. After two seconds, Tan Zhi Xu’s sneer was particularly prominent.

Zhang Zi Ang had just walked to Li Chennan’s side and hadn’t had time to sit down yet. He also froze at this moment, and his face could be described as ugly.

Feeling that Zhang Zi Ang was indeed being inconsiderate, but it wasn’t good to make too much of a scene on this occasion, Wei Wang was suffering inwardly but couldn’t say it.

“Good sister, good sister, how was that glass of wine you just had? Let our Xu Ge try it too.” He winked frantically at Zhu Shihao.

Zhu Shihao was silent for a moment: “It’s okay…”

Tan Zhi Xu, leaning on the sofa, sneered, his tone slow, but his eyes were faintly warning as he stared at Wei Wang: “What, are you using her as a fire extinguisher again?”

Having been brothers with him for so many years, what didn’t he understand.

This young master’s title “Xu Ge” might have something to do with his money, but it was undeniable that the bigger reason was because he was not easy to mess with. This happened even before they knew he was a bona fide tycoon.

But close friends all knew that the one who was really not easy to mess with was Zhu Shihao. Otherwise, why would they call her “Good Sister”? Was it just because she was pretty and had a good temper?

Everyone knew that Zhu Shihao had a childhood sweetheart who was cool, rich, and controlled her a lot.

But those who knew the above point also knew that Tan Zhi Xu had a childhood friend who was beautiful, gentle, and had a good personality. She could chat with anyone. She didn’t seem to control Tan Zhi Xu much, but as long as she said something, Tan Zhi Xu would listen.

Understanding that the repeated use of Zhu Shihao as a fire extinguisher was already implicitly stepping on his toes, Wei Wang, facing Tan Zhi Xu’s three-point warning, touched his nose and dared not say anything more.

In this situation, Zhu Shihao certainly wouldn’t be a good person again, and besides, she didn’t like Zhang Zi Ang’s cousin to begin with, let alone her inflated and unreasonable greed.

Seeing that Wei Wang didn’t move, Qiu Ying pouted and turned to stare at Tan Zhi Xu: “Zhi Xu Ge, I want…”

Tan Zhi Xu didn’t even raise his eyes, leaned over to pick up his wine glass, and said in a cold voice: “If you don’t want to stay, then get out.”

These words were already very impolite in other people’s ears, especially to the person involved and the cousin who brought her. But even if they were indignant, they knew that they couldn’t provoke him, and Qiu Ying sat down next to her cousin.

After two minutes of silence, Li Chennan used the excuse of planning to open a branch to start a new topic.

Zhu Shihao glanced imperceptibly at Qiu Ying, who was still staring at them.

Just then, a very lively DJ dance track was playing, and the atmosphere in the bar became noisy, with various sounds mixed together even louder. This made her need to get closer to him to hear each other’s voices.

“Zhi Xu.”

Hearing her voice, he glanced at her sideways, leaning slightly towards her, and the two got even closer. Her lips were no more than two or three centimeters away from his ear.

“I seem to be responsible for putting out fires after all.” Her voice was soft.

Looking at her, he knew that she wasn’t talking about the literal meaning, nor about what had just happened.

Tan Zhi Xu raised the corners of his lips, his tone meaningful, and slowed down his tone: “Didn’t I put out fires for you?”

Even though she started it, her ears were still warmed by the heat of his breath when he said these words. Zhu Shihao pulled away the distance between them to cover it up, blinking her eyes, pretending to be innocent.

She thought for a moment, then leaned closer and said: “Then I’ll give you a four-star rating, deducting one star because you need to learn the technique. You have to know that relying on hardware and brute force is the most basic approach.”

These words simply amused him.

Tan Zhi Xu couldn’t help but laugh, looking at her deeply: “I hope you remember what you said.”

For some reason, she felt a little uneasy.

But she couldn’t admit defeat, and after a long while, she said slowly: “Oh.”

Seeing her like this, Tan Zhi Xu smiled suddenly, his tone calm, but the meaning in his words was profound: “I hope you can still be so tough about your obsession tonight.”

Her tottering toughness completely disappeared.

Zhu Shihao: “…”

Their gestures were not overly intimate, but the sense of intimacy was revealed naturally. Even though Tan Zhi Xu’s expression hadn’t changed much from beginning to end, this kind of uninhibited conversation still stung Qiu Ying’s eyes.

Following her cousin into this circle of friends, she had naturally heard a lot about the two of them.

It was inevitable that she disliked Zhu Shihao. Even though everyone said that there would have been something between these two a long time ago, that they were like siblings, but even siblings wouldn’t be so intimate and lacking in boundaries at the age of twenty-six or twenty-seven, right?

She asked aggrievedly: “Zhi Xu Ge, why don’t you answer my calls or reply to my messages?”

Tan Zhi Xu had no intention of showing tenderness at all, or rather, that word didn’t exist in his vocabulary. He didn’t even spare her a glance: “Was it that I didn’t answer or reply? Wasn’t it that I blacklisted and deleted you?”

Suddenly exposed, Qiu Ying’s face stiffened. Blacklisting and deleting, did she not know that!

Zhang Zi Ang felt even more embarrassed. After all, she was his own cousin. For Tan Zhi Xu to say this was no different than slapping him in the face, especially with Wei Wang and the others present.

“Xu Ge, young girls are thin-skinned, there’s no need to say it like that, let it go.”

He wanted Tan Zhi Xu to let it go, to give him and Qiu Ying some face, but he forgot that this young master was not one to wrong himself to give others face.

Tan Zhi Xu finally looked up, looking at him across the table, looking at him until he froze, then chuckled lightly.

Even in this noisy environment, it wasn’t drowned out, but was so directly transmitted into the ears of everyone present, full of disdainful and mocking ridicule.

“Thin-skinned? Asking for a car, a house in Sangzi, and a two million breakup fee. What, do I look like a fool or a sucker? Or have you forgotten how you begged me to give her some face and pretend to agree back then?”

The others were stunned. They had more or less guessed the reason why Tan Zhi Xu agreed. After all, he didn’t seem to want to bother with Qiu Ying, but they didn’t know that there were these things involved.

Ran Cai was greatly shocked: “How dare you, a car, a house in Sangzi, a two million breakup fee! Girl, if you want to make money, that’s not how you do it.”

Moreover, did these two siblings take Tan Zhi Xu for a fool?

He didn’t look like it, right!

There was something she didn’t know whether to say or not, but the people who took Tan Zhi Xu for a fool were the real fools.

She was at least Tan Zhi Xu’s high school classmate, and even his diagonal classmate in the front row. She had known him for so many years, and only dared to mooch food and drinks when he bought things for Zhu Shihao. Her positioning of herself was very clear – Zhu Shihao’s bestie.

Zhang Zi Ang didn’t expect things to develop like this. He wanted to save face, but instead lost it completely.

They naturally knew that it was wrong to do so, but it was given after all, what did it mean to Tan Zhi Xu’s family?

Seeing that Qiu Ying’s face was pale, but still had a look of dissatisfaction.

Ran Cai peeked at Tan Zhi Xu’s expression before continuing incredulously: “Girl, it’s okay to dream of getting rich, but don’t extort people, not every Chinese person has to give you a dollar.”

She continued, speaking as a matter of course: “Our Shihao baby hasn’t even opened her mouth, how did you manage to say it.”

“Why does she –” She shook off Zhang Zi Ang’s hand pulling her, angrily said, “Why does she have the right to speak! She’s just…”

From the moment she arrived here, Tan Zhi Xu gave her a glance for the first time, even if it was only for a brief moment.

“If she wants it, I’ll give it to her.”