Chapter 287: Chapter 287: Just a Passerby without Fate_1
"Quite the temper you’ve got there, friend!" Su Xuan said with a smile. He was experienced with such situations and didn’t want to waste any more time. Casually placing the Koenigsegg key on the table, he said to Zheng Jian indifferently, "I don’t know if I’m her boyfriend, but she really wants to be my girlfriend. What do you think we should do?"
"What?" Zheng Jian was completely dumbfounded.
Su Xuan is nothing like the guys He Yao used to bring around! The men she brought before couldn’t wait to prove they were her boyfriend. Why isn’t Su Xuan following the script? Is this some kind of upgraded act?
He looked at Su Xuan’s key again. It seemed unfamiliar; he’d never seen a car key like that before.
Zheng Jian quietly took out his phone, snapped a photo of Su Xuan’s car key, and sent it to a group chat with his buddies, asking, "Does anyone know what this is?"
The group chat immediately exploded.
"Holy cow, dude, that’s a Koenigsegg car key!"
"Don’t tell me you bought a Koenigsegg!"
"What a big spender! That’s worth over a hundred million!"
"Brother Jian is as bold as ever! Did you finally inherit your father’s business?"
"Take me for a spin!"
"I’ll warm your bed for you~"
"I’m great in bed and not clingy~"
As he read the replies pouring in, Zheng Jian’s hand started to tremble. He couldn’t resist picking up Su Xuan’s car key to examine it. It was a real key, not some model, toy, or lighter!
He looked at He Yao again. She was behaving like a demure maiden, her chin lowered as she blushed and held Su Xuan’s hand. She was clearly agreeing with what Su Xuan had said; she wanted to be his girlfriend!
Good heavens! The goddess I’ve pursued for two years is actually chasing after a man? I think I’m going to snap!
At that moment, the waiter brought over three cups of coffee. Zheng Jian took a sip from his cup to steady his nerves and asked Su Xuan, "What do you do for a living that lets you drive such an incredible car?"
Su Xuan replied truthfully, "I drive for Didi."
PFFT!
Zheng Jian sprayed the coffee right out of his mouth.
What the hell! Is he serious? He drives a car worth over a hundred million, and instead of traveling the world and picking up girls, he drives for Didi? Who would believe that?!
"Zheng Jian, Mr. Su isn’t lying to you. He really is a Didi driver," He Yao said, suddenly lifting her eyes to gaze at Su Xuan with affection. "I met him when he was my Didi driver. He wasn’t even driving the Koenigsegg at first, just a very ordinary electric car. But then it ran out of battery, so we rode a shared bike to his place to switch cars. That’s when we took the Koenigsegg. It wasn’t to deliberately spite you..."
He Yao revealed the truth without hiding anything. In her heart, this story was unbelievably romantic—even more so than a deliberately staged drama! She also suddenly realized that if she was the one chasing Su Xuan, it might finally be enough to make Zheng Jian give up!
"Spite me?" Zheng Jian took another sip of coffee and tilted his chin up. "Do you take me, Zheng Jian, for some poor guy? You think a single car can shake me?"
Zheng Jian glanced at Su Xuan and laid his cards on the table. "My family is in the rare metals business! My father is one of the top twenty on the Forbes China Rich List! And while I haven’t inherited my father’s fortune yet, my own net worth is already around six or seven billion yuan! Buying a Koenigsegg would be easy for me. Want to bet I can go out and pick one up right now?"
"So I’m asking you," Zheng Jian stared at Su Xuan and demanded, "what are you worth?"
"He Yao." Ignoring Zheng Jian’s grandstanding, Su Xuan turned to He Yao. "Is what he’s saying true?"
"Of course, it’s true!" Zheng Jian interjected before she could answer. "Her dad is the head of the Amazon China Region and the third-largest shareholder. His ranking on the rich list is close to my dad’s. She knows it all perfectly well!"
"Oh?"
Su Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly. Of course, he knew Amazon. It was a vast multinational corporation whose boss, Bezos, was worth two hundred billion US dollars and often ranked as the richest man in the world. Even though Amazon’s business in the China Region was lukewarm, for He Yao’s father to be its third-largest shareholder made him an incredibly powerful figure. He Yao was a genuine heiress, through and through.
Su Xuan smiled and said to He Yao, "In that case, it sounds like you two are well-matched. So why don’t you like him?"
He Yao shook her head. "A relationship isn’t just about being well-matched. The most important thing is fate, and it seems I don’t share any fate with him."
"How can you say there’s no fate?" Zheng Jian glared. "If we weren’t fated, how could we have ever met?"
He Yao said, "Everyone meets lots of people every day. That’s not fate. That’s just... a passerby."
"A passerby!" Zheng Jian said, annoyed. He threw back his coffee as if it were liquor and gulped it down.
"Zheng Jian, please stop," He Yao pleaded, biting her lip in frustration. "Even if we are fated to meet, I just don’t have feelings for you! Can you please stop pressuring me to be your girlfriend? Besides... you’re dating several other women at the same time. I know all about it."
"I can dump them!" Zheng Jian waved his hand dismissively. "That was just... uh... fooling around. A man of my status has a few female companions, right? But don’t worry, I’ll delete them and cut off all contact right now!"
With that, he promptly picked up his phone and, with a few quick swipes, deleted dozens of women from his contacts.
He Yao let out a soft sigh.
Zheng Jian immediately added, "As for your feelings, don’t worry. I guarantee you’ll have them in no time!"
As he spoke, Zheng Jian picked up his phone and started a video call.
"Hey, Brother Jian, is it on?" A handsome face appeared on the screen.
"Yeah, it’s on. It’s all you now!" Zheng Jian turned the phone toward He Yao, carefully angling it so Su Xuan couldn’t see.
Su Xuan couldn’t be bothered to look, casually sipping his coffee instead.
"Ah?" He Yao gasped, her eyes widening in surprise at the face on the screen. It was a huge celebrity—a superstar she absolutely adored!
"Hello, beautiful Miss He Yao. I’m a friend of Brother Jian’s. I’m sure you recognize me," the superstar said with a beaming smile. "Did you know that Brother Jian is deeply in love with you? He thinks about you so much he can’t sleep, and when he does, he dreams of your name. He wrote a song for you out of his profound longing, and I’m going to sing it for you now!"
Then, the superstar began to sing through the phone:
"Perhaps you’ve never known, my thoughts of you have become an obsession."
"I want to become a giant monster, and sneak you away into my bed."
"But don’t you worry, I wouldn’t do a thing."
"I just want..."
At this point, the video call suddenly disconnected, but the voice didn’t stop, instead continuing from right behind her!
He Yao spun around, stunned. The superstar was standing right there in the flesh!
"...to ask you..."
"...just want to ask you..."
"Will you marry me?"
"Are you willing to marry me?"
The superstar finished the song with a grin, then offered a bouquet of flowers to He Yao. "So? Do you have feelings for Brother Jian now?"
"Um..." Su Xuan suddenly turned his head to the celebrity. "Can I be honest? Your singing isn’t nearly as good as your acting."
CLATTER!
The moment he saw Su Xuan’s face, the superstar’s jaw dropped. Looking as if he’d seen a ghost, the flowers in his hand slipped and clattered to the ground.