Chapter 34: Di Mingjue has fallen for you
"Ah, ah, ah, young master, let, let go, my hand, my hand, it’s broken, ah!"
𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
The fat man let out a squeal akin to a pig being slaughtered.
Gu Qibao, who had run into the hall, heard this and out of curiousity, peeked around the corner.
She saw Di Mingjue gripping the fat man’s hand with a cold and fierce look on his face, "If you dare touch her again, you can say goodbye to your other hand too."
The fat man crumbled onto the ground, screaming incessantly.
Was the ’her’ he was referring to her? She had bumped into this fat man earlier, and he had grabbed her hand.
For some reason, witnessing this side of Di Mingjue made Gu Qibao’s heart beat faster. Was he protecting her, or did he merely consider her as his possession? A thing that others could not touch?
"Xiaoqi, what are you looking at!" Nangong Ran suddenly appeared. Gu Qibao quickly covered Nangong Ran’s mouth and dragged her away.
"That miserly old man is bad news. You’ve gotten yourself into trouble," Nangong Ran remarked as she sat in Gu Qibao’s car, "Di Mingjue has taken a liking to you."
"Nonsense."
Gu Qibao pondered on it. She knew Di Mingjue well enough to know his strong sense of personal sovereignty.
He merely saw her as one of his possessions. Fondness? That was out of the question. If it were so, he would not have treated her so dreadfully.
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"Mom, why did you freeze my card?" Gu Qibao went to find Qin Qian as soon as she got home.
"You overspent last month," Qin Qian told her, "It’s time for you to experience this. You’ll have to tighten your purse strings from now on."
Last month, she had taken a liking to a ring and had impulsively bought it, spending over a million. Qin Qian had been furious.
But hadn’t that incident been resolved? Moreover, she had been scolded by both Qin Qian and Gu Ruhai, and had even been made to wash dishes for a month. Wasn’t that punishment enough?
"Mom, didn’t you already punish me for it? Why bring it up all of a sudden?" Gu Qibao found it hard to believe that the freezing of her card was related to this matter.
"Hmm." Qin Qian blinked, "I think the punishment was not severe enough. The financial crisis is here, you’ve to spend more wisely. Or better still, if you could hook a rich guy, it would be perfect," Qin Qian contemplated.
"Even if I spend more wisely, there’s no need to freeze my card, right?" Gu Qibao was not happy.
Qin Qian shared a warm laugh, "From now on, you’ll have 2000 yuan as your monthly allowance. So, you don’t need a card. Here, this is 2000 yuan in cash, you can count it."
Looking at the money in Qin Qian’s hand, Gu Qibao felt as if she was about to faint. What could she do with just 2000 yuan?
Gu Qibao argued with Qin Qian for a long time, cajoling, begging and acting cute, until Qin Qian finally remarked, "Isn’t 2000 yuan too much?"
Startled, Gu Qibao quickly grabbed the 2000 yuan and rushed away.
Feeling aggravated, Gu Qibao returned to her room, opened the chat software and messaged Nangong Ran. One Mushroom.
It was a newly launched software that functioned almost identically to WhatsApp, except that it had no limit on monetary transactions, and its popularity was rapidly growing, almost surpassing WhatsApp.
Princess Gu Qibao: Your highness, I’m screwed, starting from now on my monthly allowance is only 2000 yuan. Isn’t that cool?
One Mushroom: Huh, what’s the purpose of 2000 yuan?
Princess Gu Qibao: I want to know too!
One Mushroom: So, is your mom planning for you to sell yourself to the Duke?
Princess Gu Qibao: Dream on! It doesn’t matter, you are covering for tonight’s dinner as promised!
One Mushroom: That’s doable, but this can’t go on forever. Why not ask Di Mingjue for a card? I am sure he would give it to you!