Chapter 43: You May Like Me, But Don’t Let It Affect Me

Ye Wuqi paid no heed to Yan Baba’s howling, but suddenly grew solemn, leaning over Ye Luo’s desk with an earnest expression. “As a person, you must keep your word. You said you’d transfer a million to me on the first of every month, so you must do it— not a cent less.”

Ye Luo replied, “Mm.”

Ye Wuqi nodded, then continued in the same weighty tone, “You’re giving this to me of your own accord, not because I asked for it. So you can’t expect me to do anything for you just because you gave me money.”

This was her way of showing filial respect to him, so how could she demand anything? Ye Luo answered again, “Mm.”

Ye Wuqi nodded, even more satisfied. His mood was so good that he could hardly keep the corners of his mouth from curling upward. “Also, as for you liking me— I can’t respond. I already have a girlfriend, and I like her very much.”

Ye Luo was speechless. Had her ancestor met him already? Or would he have several relationships before meeting her ancestor?

Yan Baba couldn’t help but interject, “Don’t listen to his nonsense! That’s just his excuse for gently rejecting girls. Every time a girl says she likes him, he says this! But none of us have ever seen his girlfriend! Look how well we know him— if he had a girlfriend, wouldn’t we know?”

The gorilla and the little monkey both nodded vigorously, echoing Yan Baba, insisting that Ye Wuqi really didn’t have a girlfriend, and that he was currently a super scoundrel— a real heartbreaker!

Ye Wuqi laughed in exasperation. “I’m telling you the truth and you don’t believe me?”

He ignored them then, turning to Ye Luo. “I don’t care if you believe it or not, but I do have a girlfriend. You can like me, but don’t let it affect me.”

Ye Luo, who felt only respect for her ancestor, nodded. “Mm.”

Yan Baba complained even more, “Wuqi, I suddenly feel you’re really awful— you’ve taken so much money and haven’t given anything back, and you’re hurting her like this. Look at her: you’ve wounded her so much that she can only say ‘mm,’ too dispirited to say anything else.”

Ye Luo was baffled.

Ye Wuqi didn’t care, appearing indifferent. “It’s not as if I forced her to give it to me; she did so of her own volition. If she’s hurt, it’s only because she insists on liking me. What’s that got to do with me? I never asked her to like me.”

“Scoundrel!” Yan Baba, Lei Xingxing, and Qian Xiaoxing all looked at him with scorn.

Ye Wuqi took out the bank card, pinching it between his fingers and waving it before them, grinning triumphantly. “Let’s go to a restaurant for lunch and order a heaping platter of braised pork. How about it?”

“Yes, yes!” Yan Baba and Lei Xingxing nodded enthusiastically.

Ye Luo was speechless.

Qian Xiaoxing laughed and shook his head, then gave her a shy look, as if saying she’d have to get used to their antics. They’d always been this ridiculous.

…

At noon, Ye Wuqi and his group went out to eat, bringing Ye Luo along.

They’d invited Qian Xiaoxing too, but he hadn’t been feeling well and was picked up by his family before the third period ended.

Besides the enormous platter of braised pork, they ordered several other dishes.

As soon as Ye Luo finished eating with them, she left— obviously planning to skip afternoon classes.

But she didn’t return to the villa immediately. Instead, she went to the shopping mall, intending to buy a laptop and various parts to modify a computer.

The computer in her room was already top of the line for this era, but compared to computers three hundred years in the future, it simply couldn’t measure up.