After Becoming Financially Free, They Offered Their Loyalty - Chapter 118

Chapter 118: He Really Plays the Field

TL: YYang

“Let’s go!”

Li Xiao sniffled and turned around resolutely. A breeze stirred, lifting her smooth, dark hair with a hint of loneliness.

“You damn scumbag!”

“Don’t ever come looking for my sister again!”

Li Meng’s expression was filled with disgust as she left in a huff.

‘What kind of person is he!’

‘He’s just like her ex-boyfriend!’

‘They’re all animals who only think with their lower bodies!’

As that graceful figure walked away, the Favorability rating above her head gradually dropped: 69… 68… 67… 66…

Shen Yuan sighed heavily in his heart.

‘What the hell is this?!’

Things were just starting to look up, and now this huge misunderstanding had happened.

“Xiao Yuan, is that your new girlfriend?”

Li Yuhang finally understood. That girl must be Shen Yuan’s girlfriend, and they had just seen Shen Yuan at Shuiyun Jian and thought he was getting a massage there too.

This was a huge misunderstanding!

Xiao Yuan hadn’t even gone to the second floor.

After figuring it out, Li Yuhang felt a bit ashamed, because this whole incident was entirely his fault.

“Should I go and explain?”

Shen Yuan shook his head in frustration. “Forget it. She’s angry right now, so explaining probably won’t help. Besides, your explanation isn’t very credible.”

“Sigh… it’s my fault too. If I had known you had a girlfriend, I wouldn’t have asked you to come to a place like this.”

Li Yuhang felt a little uneasy. He had thought that Shen Yuan hadn’t found a new girlfriend after breaking up with Zhou Wanting, so he had invited him over to relax. He never expected something like this to happen.

After getting in the car, Shen Yuan was still sullen. Among his current NPCs, his feelings for Counselor Li Xiao were the most special.

Li Xiao was gentle and kind, with a good temper. In his three years of college, he had never seen her get angry.

When his family went bankrupt and fell into debt, she had worried that he might do something drastic and repeatedly came to counsel him, even trying to help him apply for a student grant.

And his first bit of startup capital had come from helping her buy a bag.

After getting to know her better during this time, Shen Yuan felt even more strongly that she was beautiful and kind-hearted, and she always thought of him. For example, when he offered to help her move last time, she had declined, worried that it would dirty his new car.

“Sigh, it seems I’ve really broken the counselor’s heart this time,” Shen Yuan thought guiltily.

“Xiao Yuan, I’m sorry. I really didn’t expect this to happen,” Li Yuhang said, also feeling very ashamed at this point.

“Forget it. She should be fine after I coax her for a couple of days,” Shen Yuan said with a wave of his hand.

“I haven’t seen that girl before. Who is she?” Li Yuhang was curious about her identity.

“My counselor, and also my Business English teacher.”

“A teacher?!”

Li Yuhang was stunned for a moment, then looked at him in disbelief. “You even managed to hook up with a teacher?”

Shen Yuan glanced at him faintly. “What’s wrong with a teacher? Freedom of love is advocated now.”

“Holy shit, what else don’t I know? Just spill it all at once and put me out of my misery!”

The G-Wagen had already been a huge shock to Li Yuhang, and now his best friend had even gotten involved with a teacher.

‘This son of a bitch really plays the field!’

Back in middle school, Li Yuhang had also had a crush on the young and beautiful English teacher in his class, but back then, he had only dared to think about it. He never had such guts.

He never expected his best friend to turn that dream into a reality.

“What else could there be? It’s just this,” Shen Yuan was really not in the mood to joke right now. He then asked, “Let’s find a place to sit and talk. Where do you want to go?”

Li Yuhang thought for a moment and said, “Let’s find a coffee shop.”

“Alright.”

Shen Yuan hadn’t been to Chen Na’s place for two days either, so it was a good opportunity to drop by.

Thinking of that Nana who wanted to have his baby, Shen Yuan’s mood inexplicably improved a little. He started the car…

It was only two streets from Shuiyun Jian to “MS,” and soon Shen Yuan arrived.

Chen Na was making coffee at that moment. She looked up and saw two customers, one of whom was Shen Yuan.

Her beautiful eyes lit up, and she took two steps forward. “Shen Yuan, you’re here~”

“Yeah, I brought a friend over for a cup of coffee.”

Shen Yuan pointed to Li Yuhang next to him and said, “Get us an iced Americano and a vanilla latte.”

“Okay.”

Chen Na nodded in agreement, then glanced at the boy next to Shen Yuan. She had a good memory and remembered that this was Li Yuhang, whom she had met once at Nanjing Restaurant. Shen Yuan had even invested 700,000 yuan in his pub.

“Hello,” Chen Na said with a smile and a wave.

“Yeah, hello.”

Li Yuhang couldn’t quite remember who she was, but she looked familiar. As he sat down, he couldn’t help but ask in a low voice, “I feel like I’ve seen this woman somewhere before, but I can’t place her. And I noticed the way she looks at you seems a bit off?”

“You forgot?”

Shen Yuan wasn’t surprised. Li Yuhang frequented nightclubs and had seen many beautiful women, so it was inevitable that he was a bit face-blind. Besides, it had been almost a month.

“Who is she?”

“At Nanjing Restaurant that day, the girlfriend Lin Guangyao’s cousin brought.”

With that, Li Yuhang immediately remembered. That day at dinner at Nanjing Restaurant, the girlfriend Lin Guangyao’s cousin had brought was the most beautiful girl there.

‘Wait, isn’t she a saleswoman at a 4S dealership?’

‘Why is she working here?’

‘And she seems to be very familiar with Xiao Yuan?’

“Xiao Yuan, what’s going on here?” Li Yuhang couldn’t help but ask.

“What could be going on? It’s just as you see it,” Shen Yuan said with a shrug.

Li Yuhang would find out about these things sooner or later.

His best friend wasn’t an outsider, so Shen Yuan had no intention of hiding it from him.

“No way?”

Li Yuhang immediately connected the dots. That night, it wasn’t just Lin Guangyao who had been smitten; Xiao Yuan had also made a move.

The result was obvious.

After figuring it out, the way Li Yuhang looked at him changed. He lowered his voice and said, “You damn well hooked up with someone else’s girlfriend?”

Shen Yuan rolled his eyes. “What do you mean, hooked up? This is called mutual attraction.”

“Nice!”

Li Yuhang couldn’t help but give him a thumbs-up.

He had thought he was already enough of a player, but he wasn’t even a fraction of his best friend.

‘He’s so damn slick!’

“You’ve got a teacher, and you’re stealing other people’s girlfriends, and they’re all stunningly beautiful. Have you ever considered my feelings?”

For the first time, Li Yuhang felt this kind of imbalance. In the past, others had always been envious of him, but now he was actually starting to envy Shen Yuan.

Thinking about the internet celebrities and bar girls he had played around with, they were simply incomparable to Shen Yuan’s women.

Without makeup, their looks were better than those women’s, not to mention their figures. Whether it was the long-legged beauty in front of him or the female teacher he had just met at the entrance of Shuiyun Jian, they were both top-tier.

Shen Yuan smiled. “You can do it too.”

“I’m not as slick as you.”

Shen Yuan couldn’t help but look at him. “And you going for foot massages isn’t slick?”

“How can that be the same? Besides, in today’s society, how many guys haven’t had a foot massage?”

“Alright, let’s get down to business.”

Shen Yuan didn’t want to continue this topic. He paused and said, “I’m going to be completely hands-off with the pub from now on. I’ll leave it all to you to handle.”

Li Yuhang was slightly taken aback. “So suddenly?”

“Yeah, you can go all out from now on.”

When he had invested in his best friend’s pub, he had intended to be a silent partner from the start. Besides, when brothers do business together, if one gets too involved, it’s inevitable that there will be disagreements over management philosophy or other aspects later on.

Although Li Yuhang was happy to listen to him, who could say what the future held? Shen Yuan didn’t want business matters to affect their friendship.

Most importantly, he didn’t need to rely on this pub to make money anymore.

“Without you, my master strategist, pulling the strings behind the scenes, I can’t handle the pressure alone!” Li Yuhang said with a heavy heart.

“Then if you’re ever unsure about anything, just let me know.”

After Shen Yuan finished speaking, he suggested, “You spend a lot of time busy at the shop. You should give yourself a management salary.”

“That’s not necessary. We’ve known each other for so many years, why bother with that?”

Li Yuhang waved his hand dismissively, then thought about it and still felt a bit indignant. “You son of a bitch, now that you’ve made money from trading crypto and foreign exchange, you look down on this small business, don’t you?”

Shen Yuan smiled. “As long as you understand. Anyway, I don’t care if you lose money on it.”

“You bastard, don’t jinx me!” Li Yuhang couldn’t help but curse.

However, seeing his best friend fall from a pampered rich kid to a second-generation debtor, and now witnessing him rise to become a self-made millionaire, Li Yuhang was genuinely happy for him.

In the past, their circle of friends was quite large, but after Xiao Yuan’s family went bankrupt, many people cut ties with him. If they saw Xiao Yuan’s current strength, he wondered what their attitude would be.

“Do you still remember Luo Bingying?” Li Yuhang suddenly asked.

“Why bring her up out of the blue?”

“Are you two still in contact?”

Shen Yuan shook his head. “We lost contact a long time ago. We haven’t been in touch since we started college.”

“Then you…”

“Your coffee is here~”

Chen Na brought over two cups of coffee at that moment, carefully placing them in front of the two men. Li Yuhang timely closed his mouth and then said with a smile, “Thank you, sister-in-law.”

Chen Na responded with a polite smile and then turned to leave. The fact that Shen Yuan could bring his good friend to the coffee shop was a form of recognition for her.

What’s more, his good friend even called her sister-in-law, which meant that Shen Yuan had already been open with his friend about their relationship. This had completely exceeded her expectations.

Thinking of this, Chen Na felt very content.

That evening, Li Yuhang had dinner with them. To his surprise, he was forced to watch their public display of affection. It was one thing for Chen Na and Shen Yuan to put food on each other’s plates, but they were also constantly exchanging flirtatious glances during the meal. He and Xiao Qiu could only stare at each other.

So, after finishing his meal, he left “MS.”

He hadn’t felt it much before, but now, seeing his best friend, he could actually feel the disparity in life.

‘Damn it, I should hang out with this son of a bitch less in the future!’

Shen Yuan had nothing to do that evening and stayed at “MS” until closing. After Chen Na finished cleaning up the shop, she sat down next to Shen Yuan.

“Xinyu finishes her college entrance exams next week and wants to get some work experience during the summer break. I was thinking of letting her help out at the coffee shop. What do you think?”

Shen Yuan thought of that well-endowed sister-in-law and agreed without hesitation. “That’s a good thing. I think it’s a great idea.”

“Mhm.”

Chen Na leaned gently on Shen Yuan’s arm and said with the shyness of a young woman, “Shen Yuan, does your promise to me last time still count?”

“What promise?”

“You didn’t forget, did you?”

Chen Na puffed up her cute cheeks, a faint blush appearing on them, and said softly, “About having your baby.”

The corners of Shen Yuan’s mouth couldn’t help but lift. It seemed he would have to spend a huge amount again tonight. He put his arm around Chen Na’s soft shoulders and said, “Of course it counts. We’ll go back and make one tonight.”

A satisfied smile appeared on Chen Na’s face. “Mmm~”

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