‘Why is the news suddenly being inserted? It was clearly my MV that was showing just a moment ago.’
‘It was clearly a great opportunity.’
‘I just want to tell him how grateful I am to him for helping me out that night.’
‘Such that I am able to do what I like right now.’
‘It was all messed up because of this inserted piece of news!’
Biting her lip, she thought in mild fury, ‘When I go back, I must tell Sister Yan and Director Feng about this.’
However, that was not what Fang Ran was thinking!
Right now, his entire body was quivering!
At this moment, Fang Ran finally remembered the fear of being a wanted criminal in the country, as well as the bloody f*cking snake’s head that had somehow ended up in his hands.
Thousands of words were all reduced to one word in his heart in this moment,
‘F*ck!’
‘No freaking way, is the country’s investigative force that impressive?’
‘They can still find a clue about it?’
‘It’s over… When I turn the next corner, will five or six policemen jump out and arrest me?!’
‘No!’
‘Calm down!’
‘Fang Ran!’
‘You must calm down!’
‘The more it is a time like this, the more you must display your manly composure!’
‘Calm down and analyse the problem! Think about the current situation!’
‘First of all, this girl in front of me is definitely not simple. She might be someone who has taken the lead in finding traces of me!’
‘Then, she tracked me down, and waited until the moment I hit the streets to approach me.’
‘After that was set up, before I thoroughly understood who she is, she pointed to the two pieces of news that I was the culprit of! She is trying to imply that, ‘I know it was you who did all that!”
‘So, the truth is…’
‘She already knows that I’m a wanted criminal, and has specially come to threaten me with this!’
‘Haha! Fang Ran, you truly are capable! Sure enough, as long as you are calm, you can deduce the truth!’
‘So, the next step, I should immediately retaliate… My a*s!’
Fang Ran thought with a sour expression in his mind. “F*ck, she already has a hold over me, how can I retaliate!”
‘If she sends the information to the authorities now…’
‘It’s immediately GG for me.’
‘Which means that right now, my only option is to listen to her obediently?’
Fang Ran sighed as if he had accepted his fate. ‘What can I do when she has a hold of my weakness over me…’
On Shui Lianxin’s end, she struggled internally for a while, before accepting the fact that she, who practically everyone knew, was a complete stranger in Fang Ran’s eyes.
‘Not a problem. Even if he doesn’t know, very soon I will be able to…’
She clenched her small fist again to cheer herself on.
Her little boots under the black silk skirt hopped a little, and she stood in front of Fang Ran once again. Like a friend who was meeting for the first time, she smiled politely and doing what a beautiful woman would do, inviting him in a demure and refined manner,
“Care to join me for a meal?”
‘I will definitely be able to get him to remember me. Then, I’ll properly thank him.’
‘Have a meal with me, or I will report you.’
Fang Ran, whose mind had automatically translated what was said, once again, replied in his simple yet powerful three-word sutra.
“Oh, ah, okay.”
‘Is she trying to find another location to talk so that she can threaten me?’
‘I dare not refuse, dare not refuse,’ Fang Ran bitterly recited in his heart.
The conversation between two people who were thinking about different matters went on without a flaw.
…
…
Along the way, Shui Lianxin did not know where to start talking as they walked, while Fang Ran trailed behind her in fear and anxiety. As such, both of them were quiet the entire way.
After being led by Shui Lianxin to weave here and there on a short walk, both of them finally stopped at the door of a restaurant.
Then just when Shui Lianxin was about to open the door to enter, she realized that Fang Ran had halted in his tracks in front of the restaurant.
“Wh-what’s wrong?”
Shui Lianxin immediately panicked. ‘Oh no, I was so nervous the entire way that I forgot to ask him what he likes. Could it be that he doesn’t like Western food?’
Fang Ran stood in front of this restaurant, twitching his mouth while looking at the series of Western restaurants that he didn’t know very well but had seen on TV with numerous famous ads.
‘F*ck!’
‘Young lady, I thought you didn’t bring any money on you.’
‘So why did you come to eat at such a high-end restaurant, are you planning to put me up as collateral?’
Fang Ran felt that even his liver was twitching right now, and he said while trembling,
“Are you sure about eating here?”
Shui Lianxin cautiously glanced at Fang Ran, before lowering her head and saying, “Yep, the steak here is delicious…”
‘I think the steak here is delicious, do you have a problem with that?’
Shui Lianxin’s soft and gentle words automatically translated into the above sentence in Fang Ran’s mind. In the end, Fang Ran reluctantly smiled and said,
“In that case, let’s head in…”
Seeing that Fang Ran had agreed to it, Shui Lianxin heaved a small sigh of relief and the two of them walked in.
“Welcome sir and ma’am, do you have a reservation?”
As soon as they entered the door, the waitresses standing on both sides of the door bowed and asked with a smile.
Fang Ran, who had never seen the world, was immediately stunned.
Luxurious carpeting, large bright chandeliers hanging from the high ceilings, with an overall Western-style decor. Pure white fabrics, without a speck of dust, were draped over the unique dining tables.
In the spacious hall, there were many waiters dressed in white uniforms walking up and down carrying plates in a dignified and refined manner.
Then, Fang Ran’s mouth twitched as he watched Shui Lianxin taking him directly to the best table by the window.
‘Hey, young lady, I thought you didn’t bring any cash oh you?’
‘Yet you still sit here so confidently?’
“Oh, that’s right, excuse me for a moment. Wait here for me.”
After sitting down with Fang Ran, Shui Lianxin looked at him and blinked, as if she suddenly recalled something. She then walked out again, leaving Fang Ran alone here fidgeting like a fish out of water.
“Hah, Your Royal Highness, if I can’t afford the bill later, can you erase everyone’s memories?”
At once, Ling laughed and scoffed in reply in Fang Ran’s mind.
“There is no ‘if’, you definitely can’t afford the bill.”
‘F*ck, that’s not the main point in what I was saying, alright?’
Fang Ran rolled his eyes and nonchalantly lifted up a glass of ice water on the table before drinking it.
In the near distance, the moment Shui Lianxin walked out of Fang Ran’s sight, a waitress hastily rushed over to her and spoke in a slightly urgent tone,
“Ma’am, um, you can’t dine here without a reservation.”
“Is Guo Yuanda, Manager Guo, around?”
When the waitress spoke in a somewhat troubled but still professional tone, Shui Lianxin did not answer her, but instead asked her another question.
Then, the two waitresses were surprised.
‘Manager Guo?’
‘She knows the manager’s name. Is she a child of one of Manager Guo’s acquaintances?’
“Can you let him know that I am looking for him?”
Shui Lianxin looked at her, her beautiful and exquisite face had an inexplicable sense of oppressiveness about it. The waitress promptly asked to be excused and went to find the owner of this Western restaurant.
Not long after, a middle-aged man in a suit hurried over, even wiping off the beads of sweat that dotted his forehead.
When he saw Shui Lianxin, he was also momentarily stunned. After that, he hurriedly greeted her, putting on a forced smile in surprise as he said,
“Young Miss, the chairman heard that you ran out and is extremely anxious right now. What brings you here?”
“Um… Uncle Guo, I want to have a meal with my friend here, can you help me keep this a secret for now?”
Shui Lianxin looked at him and asked him for a favour that rendered him feeling helpless.
“Young Miss, there is nothing wrong with you eating anything you want, but since I have seen you, I have no choice but to report it.”
Manager Guo smiled bitterly. ‘This little devil, does she know that if someone recognises her in public right now, she would be surrounded by a mob of people? Assistant Yan is probably having a headache right now.’
“In that case, at least report it a little later.”
After saying this, Shui Lianxin walked back to where Fang Ran was. Pretending that nothing had happened, she sat back down.
“Shall we… place our orders?”
Shui Lianxin put the gold-rimmed English menu that had a black cover in a standing position and looked at Fang Ran with a smile. Her beautiful smiling eyes were showing above the menu, making Fang Ran a little dazed.
‘A close call, a close call. I was almost bewitched by her again,’
Fang Ran sighed inwardly. Then, he shook his head and said seriously,
“I’m fine with anything, you can just order.”
‘Hah, as a prisoner, I should just obediently listen to her.’
“Alright then, I’ll help you choose.”
Shui Lianxin smiled and put the menu down. After which, she gently shook a bell that was on the table, and a handsome middle-aged man approached the table.
“I want… and…”
Fang Ran watched as she prattled off the English names of dishes that he could not comprehend, and pointed to a few places on the menu. Fang Ran saw the last part where she pointed at, which seemed to be a piece of steak.
However, Fang Ran’s eyes were quick and sharp, and he instantly noticed the main point!
548 Yuan
‘W-w-what the f*ck!’
As there were not many people dining at this hour, a waiter soon brought all the dishes they ordered to the table.
Fang Ran was speechless as he stared at the large plates with only small portions of food on them.
He did not start eating.
“Hmm? What’s wrong? You can suppress your gluttony at a time like this?”
“No, I’m just thinking about which hand I should hold the knife in.”
After casually chatting with Ling in his mind, the witty Fang Ran caught a glimpse of a very well-dressed man at another table. Immediately, he calmly picked up the cutlery and pretended as if he knew how to use it.
“Eh, are you left-handed?”
The beautiful and unbelievably cute girl opposite of him took off her fedora and put it on the table, before asking Fang Ran in curiosity when she noticed his actions.
Fang Ran froze. ‘F*ck! I’m so unlucky. I finally found a good model, but he had to be left-handed.’
After letting out a sigh, Fang Ran switched back to the proper way of holding the cutlery. He was prepared to wipe this steak off his plate first, before the girl could ‘threaten’ him and make him lose his appetite!
However, just when Fang Ran was about to cast his table manners aside and gobbled up the food… Just when Shui Lianxin had just mentally prepared herself about what she was going to say…
The restaurant collapsed.
That’s right, the restaurant collapsed.
It collapsed willfully and freely, collapsing just like that without beating around the bush.
A familiar feeling assaulted his senses.
The violent shaking struck in a frenzy! The ceiling trembled violently! The humongous gorgeous chandelier crashed onto the ground! Many patrons cried out in shock!
Just then!
Boom!
Something was hurled in, and the hall suddenly exploded!
Boom! Crash! Crash!
It was as if an earthquake had struck!
At this moment, in a high-rise building not far away, there were many people hiding in blind spots using binoculars to lock in onto Shui Lianxin’s position by the window. A voice rang out through their wireless communication channel,
“Get going!”
“The target Shui Lianxin has been confirmed!”
“The first step, Blasting Operation, was successful!”
“Execute Plan A!”
Then, in the wireless channel, a number of people replied at the same time,
“Yes!”
However, at this very moment, neither Fang Ran nor the others were aware about all these.
When Fang Ran looked at the table that had been rocked and overturned by the explosion, he had only two thoughts in his mind.
The first one was, ‘What the f*ck. Don’t tell me that buildings really do collapse wherever I go?!’
The second but most important thought he had was,
‘What the f*ck! My steak that costs more than 500 Yuan is on the floor!’