After Becoming Financially Free, They Offered Their Loyalty - Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Are You Free Tomorrow Night?

TL: YYang

On the other side, in the private room of Jinfeng Restaurant.

The gathering for the Class of ’20, International Trade, Section 2 was also coming to an end.

Just as they were about to disperse, Li Zhanpeng, who had been drinking happily all night, couldn’t hold back and stood up again, wanting to give a perfect conclusion to the gathering.

“Everyone, I can’t believe it’s already been three years since we started school in 2020. I’m very honored to have spent these three happy years with all of you. I hope we’ll have the opportunity to meet again in the future, as the chances for us to gather like this will become fewer and fewer…”

“How can this son of a bitch talk so much?”

Huang Haibao was already preparing to get up and leave, but Li Zhanpeng started rambling on again.

“He hasn’t even graduated yet, but he’s talking like he has. Isn’t there still half a year until the internship? And we have to come back to get our graduation certificates. It’s not like we won’t have another gathering!”

Cao Shunjin was also resentful from the side.

“I’m very happy today because, thanks to my parents, I’ve ordered a BMW. The car isn’t expensive, but for me, it’s a very meaningful day, so I’ve been a bit talkative tonight. Please bear with me…”

Li Zhanpeng proudly held up his wine glass, saliva flying, his gaze occasionally drifting towards Fang Minhui.

They weren’t freshmen anymore; they were third-year students about to start their internships and face society.

Once they started working, they wouldn’t have their parents giving them living expenses anymore. The pressures of reality would come one after another.

For example, basic expenses like rent, transportation, and food and clothing would be a problem for most of them.

And the class beauty, Fang Minhui, was just a university student from an ordinary family, about to start her internship.

She couldn’t possibly not consider her future life and marriage.

And now, right in front of Fang Minhui, was him. A man from a wealthy family with a limitless future.

So, Li Zhanpeng was very confident, believing that Fang Minhui would inevitably choose him.

After all, he had even ordered a BMW today. Wasn’t that enough to prove his strength?

However, Fang Minhui couldn’t have imagined Li Zhanpeng’s rich inner world. Her expression remained indifferent, and she didn’t even bother to look up at him.

Right now, she just wanted this guy to finish talking so she could leave.

And Chen Ling was rolling her eyes so hard she could see her brain. She really didn’t know what Li Zhanpeng had to show off.

This show-off had already posted the purchase contract for a BMW 3 Series in the class group chat today, and now at the dinner, he was talking about it over and over again.

‘Seriously, is there a need for this?’

‘Do you also need to post it on the school’s Weibo or Douyin account so that all the teachers and students know that you, Li Zhanpeng, have ordered a BMW?’

Shen Yuan didn’t even make a sound when he ordered an 880,000 yuan Land Rover, but you, Li Zhanpeng, can’t stop showing off your 280,000 yuan BMW.

Chen Ling really thought Li Zhanpeng was quite low-class, and a low-level kind of low-class at that!

Finally, ten minutes later, Li Zhanpeng finished his long speech. Everyone’s ears were calloused from listening, and they all got up to go back to their dorms.

While Li Zhanpeng was speaking, he noticed that Fang Minhui’s spirits were low today, and she didn’t seem to be listening to him carefully.

Especially when he was giving his concluding remarks, Fang Minhui had kept her head down and hadn’t met his gaze.

So, after the party dispersed, Li Zhanpeng wanted to ask what was going on and called out to her outside the restaurant: “Minhui, you don’t seem very happy today. Are you not feeling well?”

Fang Minhui turned her head and glanced at him coolly, then continued walking forward with Chen Ling. “No.”

Li Zhanpeng quickly caught up and walked alongside them. “If you’ve run into any trouble, you can tell me. I’ll do my best to help you solve it.”

“There’s really nothing. Stop following us. We’re going back to our dorm now.”

Fang Minhui found Li Zhanpeng really annoying. Before today, she had thought he was just a bit stingy and liked to show off a little, but there was nothing else wrong with him.

But the things he said at the gathering tonight, three sentences couldn’t go by without mentioning his family background and the BMW he had just ordered.

His vanity was really off the charts.

It was one thing to be vain, but the key was that he had no substance in his words; he was purely showing off for the sake of showing off.

Comparing him to the Shen Yuan she had been in contact with these past two days, the gap was immediately apparent.

Being ignored, Li Zhanpeng suddenly became anxious. “Minhui, weren’t we getting along well? Why are you suddenly treating me like this?”

After all, they had gone to the movies together a few days ago. Li Zhanpeng felt that he should have left a good impression on the class beauty last time.

“Who was getting along well with you? Don’t talk nonsense!”

“And stop following us!”

Fang Minhui glared at him and walked forward quickly with Chen Ling.

Li Zhanpeng stood there stunned, watching their backs gradually disappear into the distance, feeling completely bewildered.

He couldn’t understand.

What was wrong with him?

Among all the people in the class, he was the only one who was driving a BMW before graduation. Wasn’t that enough to prove his strength?

Was money not good enough in this society anymore?

But the two receding figures gave him no answer, leaving him alone and bewildered.

At the same time, Shen Yuan was in a Didi on his way back to school. Li Yuhang had wanted him to go clubbing, but Shen Yuan wasn’t interested in nightclubs right now, so he declined.

The dance music inside was deafeningly loud and noisy. Going there was just for drinking and dancing, shaking your head along with the crowd.

Shen Yuan had forgotten why he used to like going to such places, and he didn’t know how he had endured it back then.

Sitting in the back of the Didi, Shen Yuan suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to reply to Fang Minhui’s WeChat. He opened his phone and replied to her, saying that he was out for dinner and drinks with a friend tonight and had just seen his phone.

Then Shen Yuan noticed that he had also just received a WeChat message from “Chen Na.”

Shen Yuan opened it and saw that Chen Na had sent a long text message, which in short was an apology for what had happened tonight, hoping that Shen Yuan wouldn’t mind.

Shen Yuan found it amusing. What did it have to do with her? It was just that her boyfriend had said a few unpleasant things.

Shen Yuan wasn’t that petty. He edited a WeChat message and sent it back to her: “It’s fine, I didn’t take it to heart.”

Actually, before tonight, Shen Yuan had thought that Chen Na didn’t have a boyfriend because when he had looked at her Moments before, there were only some daily life updates and work-related marketing ads. He had never seen anything about a boyfriend.

But he hadn’t expected her to actually have a boyfriend.

Based on Shen Yuan’s experience, either she had just gotten together with this guy, or she was keeping her options open, looking for a bigger fish.

In this day and age, perhaps a small number of girls still truly believed in love, but most of them measured things from a practical perspective.

At this moment, in a delicate little apartment in Hexi Fanghuali.

Chen Na had just finished washing up and was wearing a cool little slip dress. The neckline and back exposed large areas of snow-white skin.

She rented a small apartment by herself, with no roommates, so she could wear whatever was comfortable at home.

When she received Shen Yuan’s message, she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

This handsome young Mr. Shen was quite nice; he didn’t hold it against her.

“Mhm.”

“Mr. Shen, the logistics side has informed me that the car you ordered can be shipped next Wednesday and will arrive at the dealership on Thursday. If things go quickly, you can come over to pay the final balance and pick up the car on Friday.”

Chen Na held her phone with both hands and replied.

Land Rover cars were already hard to sell. Showroom visits only accounted for half of the sales volume; the other half came from referrals from old customers. So, maintaining relationships with old customers was very important to them.

Especially for a customer like Shen Yuan, who was both decisive and wealthy, it was even more important to maintain and cultivate the relationship.

So, Chen Na didn’t want this major client to have a bad impression of her.

Chen Na was thinking this, but in the next second, the message Shen Yuan sent back suddenly gave her a headache.

“That’s not urgent. Are you free tomorrow night? I have some specific questions about the car I’d like to ask you in person.”