"Whаt? Не асtuаlly addеd уоu оn WеChat?!"
Thе nеxt daу, at ten о'сlосk in thе еvening in the bаr, Bian Xuan shook thе сoсktail shаkеr, hеr еyеs сrinkling intо сrеscеnt moons as shе lаughed.
Ruаn Sixian raisеd an eуebrow. "Yеаh, I didn't ассерt it. I even саlled him оut оn mу Mоments."
Si Хiаozhen huggеd а tablе number lamp tо her chest, lооking аt Ruan Siхian in a dazе. "Sо, hе reаllу dоеsn't rеmеmber уоu?"
Ruan Siхian lеt out a sоft hum, grabbing а hаndful оf pорсоrn and stuffing it into her mоuth one by one.
"It's nоrmal that he dоesn't remеmber, right? Аll thе flight attеndants wear the same uniform, the same hairstyle, even their smiles are standardized to show eight teeth. Who can tell them apart? And with so many flight attendants passing by him every day, where would he find the time?" Bian Xuan finished mixing a drink and placed it in front of Ruan Sixian. Propping her chin on her hand, she asked, "But now that you know he also lives in Mingchen Apartments, aren't you going to look for another place?"
Ruan Sixian widened her eyes as if she had heard something absurd. "Why should I move? I already work at World Airlines. Isn't that being overly dramatic? Besides, he probably doesn't live there often. It's just close to the airport, a place to rest when he's busy. Why should I be afraid of him?"
"Alright, alright." Bian Xuan pointed at the glass in front of her and instructed Ruan Sixian, "Take this to table three."
Ruan Sixian clapped her hands clean, picked up the glass on a tray, and walked toward the table at the far edge of the bar hall.
At the beginning of the year, Bian Xuan had quit her job, returned to Jiangcheng with her savings from the past few years, and fulfilled her dream of opening a small bar, living the life of hosting parties whenever she felt like it.
However, the bar business wasn't doing too well, barely breaking even without turning a profit. She hadn't even hired any waitstaff yet. When business was good, she would rope her friends into helping out. Ruan Sixian had already been dragged over several times since returning.
The busiest hours were concentrated between ten and eleven o'clock. Once the other helpers Bian Xuan had recruited arrived, Ruan Sixian and Si Xiaozhen could step back.
But it wasn't exactly early anymore. Si Xiaozhen, thinking about her late shift the next day, decided to spend the night at Ruan Sixian's new place to see what a 30,000-yuan-per-month apartment looked like.
Si Xiaozhen excitedly pulled Ruan Sixian out, eager to show off her driving skills.
Seeing the four "trainee" stickers on Si Xiaozhen's car, Ruan Sixian suddenly felt the urge to back out.
"Should we just take a taxi instead?"
Si Xiaozhen dragged Ruan Sixian into the car, shooting her a "don't even start" look. "Even though I can't fly a plane, I can definitely drive a car. Don't worry, I passed both the second and third driving tests on my first try."
That's what she said, but Ruan Sixian still gripped the seatbelt tightly the whole way, sitting ramrod straight, eyes and ears alert to everything around them. They finally arrived safely at the underground parking lot.
"Over there, turn left." Parking spaces were tight in this complex, most of them privately owned. The two circled around twice before Ruan Sixian spotted an empty spot. "Take it slow. The space isn't big, and there are a lot of luxury cars here. Don't scrape or bump into anything."
Just as she said this, a black car drove straight toward them. Si Xiaozhen's hair practically stood on end. "Another one trying to snatch the spot! So annoying!"
She fixed her eyes on the parking space, stepped on the gas, and before Ruan Sixian could react, she jerked the steering wheel hard, turning the car headfirst into the spot. She moved so fast that Ruan Sixian didn't even get a clear look at the space before she felt an odd scraping sensation against the car body."Did you just scrape the car next to us?"
Now that the parking spot was secured, Si Xiaozhen hit the brakes, only then realizing what she had done.
"N-no, did I?"
Ruan Sixian immediately rolled down the window and leaned out to look. Si Xiaozhen's car had squeezed right past the front of the neighboring vehicle, leaving her car tilted diagonally across the rear.
"You really did scrape it!"
"Ah! What do we do now!"
As she spoke, Si Xiaozhen stepped on the gas again, forcing the car to squeeze through.
"Why are you still moving?!"
Ruan Sixian was exasperated. No wonder Si Xiaozhen had failed the first round of the simulated aircraft assessment. With this kind of emergency response mindset, if she were to fly a plane, she’d probably cause a chain collision and make international headlines in no time.
Ignoring everything else, Ruan Sixian unbuckled her seatbelt to get out and assess the situation. But Si Xiaozhen shifted into reverse, trying to back out.
She forced her way out again.
"Are you insane?!" Ruan Sixian felt like grabbing Si Xiaozhen by the neck. "Why are you still moving? If you keep this up, even the insurance company won’t cover the full cost!"
It was truly a blessing for passengers nationwide that this person hadn’t passed the flight exam.
Si Xiaozhen immediately raised her hands, her heart pounding wildly. "Quick, go see what kind of car I hit."
Ruan Sixian shot her a glare and leaned out again to look.
This time, what she saw nearly made her faint.
Although she didn’t recognize the emblem on the tires, she had basic common sense. Just by looking at the car’s shape—the enclosed body, streamlined rear, two doors, two seats, and that annoyingly sleek matte dark blue—it was over.
She turned to Si Xiaozhen with a grim expression. "Are you mentally prepared?"
"For what?"
"I think it’s a sports car that could buy your house ten times over."
Si Xiaozhen’s eyes rolled back, her scalp tingling. She immediately got out of the car, squeezed to the back, and saw the large scrape on the sports car’s body and the dent in her own car. She nearly collapsed on the spot.
"C-can I just flee the scene?"
"Why don’t you ask if you can just end it all instead?"
Ruan Sixian rolled her eyes, placed her hands on her hips, and looked around.
Just then, the black sedan that had been competing with Si Xiaozhen for the parking spot drove past leisurely, its driver rolling down the window and chuckling with schadenfreude.
Ruan Sixian glared at him, but the driver wasn’t bothered. He tapped the brakes and said, "Hey, miss, do you know what kind of car that is? A Bugatti Chiron 110th Anniversary Limited Edition. There’s only one in all of Jiangcheng."
This time, Si Xiaozhen truly felt like fainting. She leaned against the car door, her legs trembling. "It’s over. I’m done for."
"Don’t panic yet. Call your insurance company."
Ruan Sixian furrowed her brows and paced a few steps. "How do we contact the owner…"
She glanced at Si Xiaozhen, whose hands were shaking as she dialed the phone, and decided not to rely on her.
A luxury sports car, the only one in all of Jiangcheng…
Suddenly, Ruan Sixian remembered someone who might actually know.
She walked aside, took a photo of the car body along with the license plate, and sent it to Yan An.
「Mr. Yan, my friend’s car had a minor incident in my apartment’s parking lot. Do you happen to know who owns this car?」
As she sent the message, Ruan Sixian thought hopefully that maybe the car belonged to Yan An.
Based on their interactions so far, he seemed like a reasonable person. Maybe this could be resolved easily.
Within minutes, Yan An called her directly, and even his tone carried a hint of schadenfreude."Did you hit this car?"
Hearing those words, Ruan Sixian knew she had overthought—this wasn't Yan An's car.
"Yeah, my friend had a little accident while fighting for a parking spot."
Ruan Sixian heard Yan An chuckle, his tone sounding strange no matter how she interpreted it.
"I actually know whose car this is. I tried to snatch it back then but didn't manage to."
After a pause, he added, "Your friend is really lucky."
A sense of foreboding suddenly washed over Ruan Sixian, sending chills down her spine.
"Mr. Yan, could you help contact the owner?"
Yan An chuckled again before slowly replying, "Sure, he probably isn't asleep yet. I'll give him a call; he should come downstairs soon."
"Thank you."
After hanging up, Ruan Sixian turned to look at Si Xiaozhen, feeling like the person before her was already half-dead.
"What did the insurance company say?"
Si Xiaozhen hung up the phone trembling, her voice hoarse, "They said they'll come right away, b-but since I moved the car, they can't cover it fully. They might only cover seventy percent."
Great, this person was completely done for.
"What about your side?"
What was the use of panicking now? Ruan Sixian glanced at the scratch on the Bugatti again and sighed, "The owner is coming down soon."
Si Xiaozhen's eyes reddened with anxiety as she grabbed Ruan Sixian's hand, "What do we do?"
Ruan Sixian patted her shoulder, "It's fine, it's just a paint scratch. It shouldn't bankrupt you. Let's wait for the owner to come down first."
The two stood anxiously in the parking lot for five minutes before finally hearing footsteps in the distance.
Si Xiaozhen, who had barely calmed down, panicked again, "He's coming, he's coming!"
As the person approached quickly, Si Xiaozhen tightened her grip on Ruan Sixian's hand, nearly crushing her fingers.
"Calm down. If he sees you like this..." Ruan Sixian looked up and caught a clear glimpse of the person's appearance, her words abruptly cutting off.
"What the hell..."
Confused, Si Xiaozhen rubbed her eyes and saw the person wearing a white shirt and suit pants, with a great figure. Even from afar, she could feel his intimidating aura. Before he even spoke, she felt like she could be buried on the spot.
"Ruan Ruan, what do we do?"
"Shut up."
As soon as she finished speaking, Fu Mingyu happened to look over, his gaze landing on Ruan Sixian's face. His footsteps paused for a moment.
Then, he walked over even faster.
Don't come over, don't come over...
Ruan Sixian wondered what kind of terrible luck she had—the only sports car in the entire Jiangcheng was hit by them, and the one and only Fu Mingyu in the world was provoked by her again.
"Did you hit the car?"
Even in this situation, Si Xiaozhen, the looks-obsessed one, was momentarily stunned by the person's appearance, "Handsome, I... I didn't mean to... I..."
Fu Mingyu turned to inspect the car's condition, giving it a casual glance before his gaze settled back on Ruan Sixian.
The earlier impatience had long vanished. Instead, it seemed as if it wasn't his car that had been hit, as a faint smile played on his lips, "What a coincidence."
Here we go again, here we go again, he's starting again!
Coincidence? What coincidence? What the hell kind of coincidence is this...
"It's not a coincidence," Ruan Sixian muttered, "Who picks a car to hit? Even if they did, they wouldn't pick yours."
Fu Mingyu took two steps back and looked at Si Xiaozhen's car again, "And you even put four 'new driver' stickers on it."Si Xiaozhen was both embarrassed and terrified, her entire face burning as if on fire. "I... I'll pay for it... I..."
"It's fine," Fu Mingyu said. "No need for you to pay." ???
Not only Si Xiaozhen, but even Ruan Sixian couldn't believe these words came from Fu Mingyu.
Hello? Are you really Fu Mingyu?
Has he been possessed or something?
"Have you called the insurance company?"
Fu Mingyu asked again.
Si Xiaozhen shook her head frantically, paused for a moment, then nodded vigorously. "Y-yes, I called. R-really, I don't need to pay?"
Fu Mingyu reached out to touch the scratch on his car, glanced at his finger, and said, "It's not serious. Even if I asked you to pay, you couldn't afford it."
Si Xiaozhen's face flushed even redder. Hearing Fu Mingyu say this only deepened her sense of guilt.
Meanwhile, Ruan Sixian, who had been rolling her eyes furiously, was suddenly called out. "Miss Ruan has a high annual salary, so she might actually be able to afford it." ???
What does this have to do with me?
It wasn't me who hit the car!
Utterly confused, Si Xiaozhen glanced at Fu Mingyu, then at Ruan Sixian. "Do you two know each other?"
Ruan Sixian didn't speak. Fu Mingyu seemed to be pondering something, his gaze sweeping over Ruan Sixian briefly before he said, "If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave."
He's just leaving like that???
Ruan Sixian and Si Xiaozhen stared in shock as Fu Mingyu turned and walked away, unable to regain their composure for a long while.
"Are rich people always this easygoing?" Si Xiaozhen murmured dazedly. "So what's written in novels really exists."
Ruan Sixian still felt something was off, watching Fu Mingyu's retreating figure until he entered the elevator lobby.
"Ruan Ruan, do you know him?"
Ruan Sixian shot her a cool glance. "Yes, I even helped you deliver a letter to him."
"………………"
After that, during the hour they waited for the insurance company personnel to arrive, Si Xiaozhen remained in a state of split personality.
One moment she said, "I think he's actually quite nice, so polite and calm. Even after I scratched his car like this, he didn't get angry."
The next moment she said, "No, that's not right. How could someone like him let me off so easily? Shouldn't he think I deliberately scratched his car to get his attention?"
As she switched back and forth between these two views, Ruan Sixian finally grew utterly exasperated. "Shut up!"
Si Xiaozhen obediently shrank to the side.
Ruan Sixian's mood had just started to improve a little when the insurance company personnel arrived and said they needed the other car owner to come confirm.
"Why does he need to come? He already said we don't need to pay."
The insurance company personnel, called out in the middle of the night, weren't in the best mood either. "It's the rule. Without the other party's signature, we can't close the case."
Si Xiaozhen looked at Ruan Sixian with pitiful eyes.
Okay, fine. I guess I'm stuck with this.
Ruan Sixian turned and sent a message to Yan An. After waiting ten minutes with no reply, he was probably asleep.
She then tried Bai Yang, sending a message, but after a few minutes with no response, she checked her friend circle and found he had shared a song an hour ago with the caption "Goodnight."
Alright then.
Ruan Sixian turned back and saw Si Xiaozhen's desperate look again. Taking a deep breath, she opened her friend request page and accepted that pending request.
「Mr. Fu the insurance people still need you to confirm if youre not asleep could you please come down」
Ruan Sixian didn't even want to bother with punctuation, and Fu Mingyu replied almost instantly.
「So you did know it was me.」
Wow, this guy really.Ruan Sixian copied the sentence above twice with an expressionless face.
"Mr. Fu, the insurance personnel here still need your confirmation. If you're not asleep, please come down."
"Mr. Fu, the insurance personnel here still need your confirmation. If you're not asleep, please come down."
"Okay, I'll be right there. Don't worry." ???
Who's worried?!
Five minutes later, Fu Mingyu reappeared in the parking lot, while Ruan Sixian had already taken the passenger seat in Si Xiaozhen's car, firmly closing the door.
Seeing the owner of the Bugatti, the insurance personnel's attitude noticeably improved. Meanwhile, the personality-split Si Xiaozhen hesitantly signed the documents nearby, nodding meekly and occasionally stealing glances at Fu Mingyu.
Ruan Sixian couldn't be bothered with them and took out her phone to practice questions.
Soon after, the car door suddenly opened, and a faint scent of fir wafted into Ruan Sixian's nostrils as the air stirred.
She looked up at Fu Mingyu in surprise. "What are you doing getting in?"
Fu Mingyu closed the door, pressed the ignition button, and glanced sideways at Ruan Sixian. "The insurance company needs to take the car away. I'm helping her back it out."
"Don't they have hands?"
"Because the cars are parked too close, they don't dare."
"..."
Fine, you own a Bugatti, you're awesome.
Ruan Sixian immediately reached to open the door. "Then let me get out first."
As soon as she spoke, there was a "click" inside the car.
He had locked all four doors.
"What are you doing?"
Fu Mingyu rested his left hand on the steering wheel and his right hand on the seat, leaning forward in a posture that seemed to envelop Ruan Sixian, leaving her nowhere to hide.
His gaze, filled with undisguised curiosity, lingered on Ruan Sixian's face. "Miss Ruan, do you have some issue with me?"
The cramped space was almost entirely filled with his presence, and in the dim underground parking lot, even his voice sounded deeper and huskier.
Ruan Sixian shrank toward the door. "No, how would I dare to have any issue with Mr. Fu?"
"Is that so? Were you insulting me in your WeChat Moments post last night?"
Well, at least you're self-aware.
"Which post?"
Fu Mingyu didn't speak, merely lifting his eyelids as if to say, "Don't play dumb with me."
"Oh, that one. It's just that many men add me every day, and I find it annoying too."
Anyway, I'm not denying it.
Ruan Sixian didn't know whether Fu Mingyu believed her or not, but he remained silent, only giving her a deep, unreadable look.
Their eyes met, neither backing down.
As a strange atmosphere began to spread inside the car, Fu Mingyu suddenly turned the steering wheel with his left hand, backing the car out without even looking at the road, his gaze still fixed on Ruan Sixian.
Holy crap.
Ruan Sixian froze for a moment.
What's wrong with you, suddenly showing off like that?-
Back at home, Si Xiaozhen went to take a shower, while Ruan Sixian changed clothes and lay on the sofa, still feeling that something was off.
It was Si Xiaozhen who crashed the car, but in the end, it was Ruan Sixian who added WeChat, and it was also her who argued for half the day.
Why does it feel like I was set up?
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She picked up her phone and posted on WeChat Moments.
"There are stray dogs in this crappy neighborhood. Scared 【crying】【crying】【crying】"
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