Chapter 151: Chapter 122 Take Me Away (Please Subscribe) Chapter 151: Chapter 122 Take Me Away (Please Subscribe) “Hmm, Mr. Zhou, do you think it looks good?”
Xu Wenqian scratched her head and then said regretfully, “Oh, I forgot to let it down, so it might not have the desired effect…”
At this point, Zhou Wang noticed that she seemed sober, but her eyes were clearly a bit dazed. The way she was speaking so casually with him was something Zhou Wang had never seen before.
“How many glasses have you had?”
Zhou Wang realized the issue and asked.
Xu Wenqian shook her head, “The third glass, or maybe the fourth… I don’t remember.”
Zhou Wang was startled by her words. Even if the alcohol content of these cocktails was low, the glasses used were those large ones, and one cocktail would be at least four to five hundred milliliters. Xu Wenqian was quite bold.
“Do you really have that high of a tolerance?”
“I don’t even know how much I can drink, before, he wouldn’t let me drink…”
Xu Wenqian smiled and said, “So, Mr. Zhou, this is my first time drinking like this, actually, it’s also my first time in a bar like this… Hmm, this Dazzling feeling, it’s pretty nice!”
Your definition of “Dazzling” seems a bit naive…
Although he criticized inwardly, Zhou Wang knew that for a girl like Xu Wenqian, who always lived a well-behaved and orderly life, this was probably the extent of her imagination.
“This drink is called ‘Long Island Iced Tea,’ I’ve only heard of it in movies, but surprisingly, it’s not hard to drink.”
Xu Wenqian said, then leaned over the table, reaching for a cigarette.
Zhou Wang did not stop her, he just picked up the Long Island Iced Tea the bartender had just brought over and silently took a sip.
Hmm, sweet and sour, but the vodka and tequila flavors were also very obvious.
Xu Wenqian lit a slender cigarette, which amused Zhou Wang because, probably because no one had taught her, she was smoking in the obvious style of a “fake smoker.”
Presumably, when she took the first puff, she was wondering why she wasn’t choking…
But in a way, this was good too, it’s something better not learned.
Zhou Wang did not correct her, he simply gazed at her face shrouded in smoke and asked, “So, have you not been going to work lately?”
It had been a long time since Xu Wenqian sent him the regular financial updates, and it was Manager Old Wang who personally checked in with him.
Also because Zhou Wang didn’t express any opinion on it; otherwise, under normal circumstances, he could have already replaced Xu Wenqian.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Zhou, I’ve been trying really hard to adjust, but it’s so hard, really hard…”
Xu Wenqian leaned against the table, frowning, with the grievance of a little girl.
“You and your fiancé…”
“Broke up.”
Mentioning this, Xu Wenqian calmed down; it was as if she was recounting the story of a stranger.
“I don’t know if you can call it an amicable breakup, but I explained everything to my parents, and also to his parents, made him give back the money I gave him for the house.”
“You both contributed money for the house?”
This was something Zhou Wang didn’t know; he was a bit surprised.
It’s well known how hard it is these days to find a girl willing to work hard with you.
He was sinking in the river, yet she was still making excuses.
Especially for someone of Xu Wenqian’s looks, if she just said, ‘I don’t want to work hard anymore,’ things would probably be much easier for her…
But then again, what Zhou Wang initially admired about Xu Wenqian was her diligent and earnest attitude; a girl like that wouldn’t solely focus on materialism.
“Mr. Zhou, do you want to hear my story?”
Xu Wenqian was stunned for a moment and suddenly asked.
Zhou Wang nodded, lighting a cigarette for himself.
He knew Xu Wenqian had a lot pent up inside her; if she were really devoid of any emotions, how would such an untimely call come about?
“I always thought I didn’t have a story.”
Xu Wenqian laughed at herself, “I’m just the average girl who got into an average college, found an average job, had a stable relationship, and had goals to strive for. Someone like me, in the vast sea of people, is so inconspicuous.”
“But I also never thought there was anything wrong with it; on the contrary, from school uniform to wedding dress, it counts as a kind of special romance, right?”
“Cheng Zhe and I both came from a small town, but neither of us wanted to go back; so I put great effort into managing every expense, using a ton of those family asset allocation theories from college, just hoping to spend every penny on what needed it, to save enough for the down payment on a house…”
“Hey, this bag, I put it in the shopping cart two years ago, but it’s two thousand bucks, I couldn’t bear to spend it, the few hundred for a commuting bag is good quality too. But yesterday, I bought it, and it was at the store, so it was three hundred more than online…”
Xu Wenqian said, as if boasting, lifting the Coach bag at her back for Zhou Wang to see, but her expression was mingled with some bitterness.
“I’ve been so frugal, I’ve done everything I was supposed to do, so why did he have to lie to me?”
Xu Wenqian finally broke down, her expressionless face suddenly turned into tears.
Zhou Wang didn’t know what to say, he just gently patted her back.
“When we first started, he always told me he only earned thirty-eight hundred… It was only that night he told me it was actually fifty-eight hundred.”
“And his salary adjusted every six months; by this year, it had become eleven thousand, and that’s not counting the year-end bonus.”
“But most of his money, it turned out, was being spent at that club called the Golden Palace.”