Chapter 37
Soon, Chen Xingnuo returned to the private room.
Before she even reached Rong Shu and looked at the cards, she could guess a few things just by looking at the “gentle” smile on Gu Manyin’s lips.
During the time she had been out, Rong Shu had probably lost a lot of money.
Chen Xingnuo went to sit beside Rong Shu and scanned Rong Shu’s cards, which were still miserable. She lowered her voice, “Mr. Rong, the opposite side is not someone else, it’s your ex-husband’s white moonlight, are you really sending it up here for someone to beat your face?”
“There’s no rush, five games and three wins.” Rong Shu smiled, from the booth sat down to play cards until now, face as calm as ever.
As she returned Chen Xingnuo’s words, Rong Shu threw another card out.
“Hu.” Gu Mangyin pushed down the card in front of her, the smile on her lips becoming more and more obvious.
Chen Xingnuo, “……”
“Rongshu, you’ve already lost Mangyin by two hands, I don’t see the need to play.” The little sister sitting next to Gu Mangyin grunted, her temper flared, “Our Mangyin is not a petty person, apologize to her and we’ll hire the best tattoo artist to wash that tattoo off for you”
Gu Manyin’s head lifted slightly and she looked at Rong Shu, seemingly waiting for her to bow her head and admit defeat, her voice gentle and calm.
“Miss Rong, are you still fighting?”
“Playing.” Rong Shu pushed the mahjong into the inlet machine, her face unchanged, “It was agreed that five games would be won in three.”
Gu Mangyin’s little sister rolled her eyes at her and said, “You didn’t want to admit defeat when you were given the chance, but you had to run into the gun! Our Mangyin is so good at poker, you can’t beat her in a lifetime!”
“That’s enough.” Gu Mangyin stopped her voice and looked at Rong Shu with a bit of smugness in her gaze, “Since Miss Rong wants to play, of course I’ll play along.”
A new game soon began.
As the room was full of women, everyone’s mouths weren’t idle while playing cards, eating and chattering.
Gu Mangyin’s little sister was called Meng Ke, on her left was Rong Shu, and on her right was Gao Meiling.
Meng Ke didn’t just watch the cards, she peeled an orange and handed it to Gao Meiling ingratiatingly, “Sister Meiling, how long will you stay in Haicheng this time, will you spend the New Year here?”
“Back to Nanjiang after the New Year.” Gao Meiling threw her cards particularly loudly and frowned, “Li Zhennan wants to divorce me, he came back to Haicheng long ago to look for a lawyer.”
Meng Ke was also shocked by her and became cautious in her words, “Wasn’t it the Li family that begged your grandfather to have Li Zhennan marry you? How dare he divorce you after using your Gao family to accomplish a lot of things?”
“It’s not ……”, Gao Meiling remembered something in the middle of her sentence and didn’t continue, only smiling coldly. I’d like to see which lawyer in the city would dare to take on this divorce case!”
Rongshu listened quietly, her eyes drooping slightly.
She didn’t know much about the Li family in Hai City, as such families acted in a low profile, and only knew that the Li family was very influential in Hai City, similar to the Gao family in Nanjiang.
Gao Meiling dared to be so arrogant because she had a strong family background and her grandfather, the head of the family, backing her up. Even if she married into the Li family, which was on the same level as the Gao family, it was still the Li family that had climbed high.
If the Rong family hadn’t been in trouble when she married Fu Jingting, her mother-in-law would have had to respect her.
She wouldn’t have lost so badly in this marriage.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market. Since you’re also in Shanghai for New Year’s Eve, let’s go there together to celebrate for her.”
“Huh?” Gao Meiling was a little surprised, “I heard some time ago that she and Mr. Fu were already engaged, so how come she’s still having an engagement?”
“It was supposed to be an engagement, but then that engagement necklace was snatched away by someone, someone who is really disgusting!” Meng Ke yin and yang said, after glancing at Rong Shu, raising the volume, “But this time it won’t be, Mr. Fu said he would only invite a few good friends from both sides to the Fu family for the New Year’s Eve dinner, Mr. Fu also said that he would hold a wedding with Mangyin on Valentine’s Day next year!”
“A Valentine’s Day wedding?” Gao Meiling went to ask Gu Manyin, “Really?”
Gu Manyin gave a hint, her smile was gentle as water, “I’ve been asleep for six years, Jing Ting thinks it’s been delayed for a long time and wants to hold the wedding sooner, the wedding dress is being designed by someone, it’s just that the wedding ring hasn’t been picked yet.”
“And specifically asked someone to design the wedding dress? Mangyin, Mr. Fu is also too painful for you!” Meng Ke exaggerated, patting Gu Manyin on the back.
The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
“……”
“How can you wear a dress when you get married, how unlucky, did Mr. Fu not give you a wedding dress?”
“……”
Seeing that Rong Shu kept silent, Meng Ke’s voice became sharper and sharper, and even pushed Rong Shu with her hand, “Miss Rong, why don’t you say anything?”
“How do you know that Mr. Rong didn’t wear a wedding dress when he got married and you went to Mr. Rong’s wedding?” Chen Xingnuo couldn’t stand watching Rong Shu being bullied like this, “And sister, there’s something wrong with your words.”
Meng Ke sneered, “She didn’t wear a wedding dress for her wedding, and she’s still not letting people talk about it? Plus what’s wrong with my words?”
“Everyone knows that Mr. Rong and Mr. Fu used to be husband and wife, sister, when you say that, you are sarcastically disguising that Miss Gu can only pick up someone else’s second-hand husband.” Chen Xingnuo’s tone was warm and soft, and her expression was even more innocent.
After saying that, she even looked at Gu Manyin, “Miss Gu, don’t you think so?”
Meng Ke did not expect Chen Xingnuo to be so eloquent, and then look at Gu Manyin’s face smile faded, the whole person a little panic, “Mangyin, I do not mean that, I do not think Fu is your second-hand husband ……”
Chen Xingnuo puffed out a laugh and covered her red lips, “You said you didn’t mean that, and also recited that Fu is always a second-hand husband, what exactly does that mean?”
“……” Meng Ke’s face turned blue with anger.
Rongshu had been in a low mood and didn’t want to pay attention to Meng Ke, but she didn’t expect Chen Xingnuo to speak for herself.
Her red lips lifted and she was just about to speak when she looked up just in time to see the door of the private room being pushed open and a long figure stepping in.
Chapter 38
The man was wearing a black tweed coat, making him even more handsome, but because of his cool temperament, even his gaze was cold and sullen, making it impossible for people to get close.
When her eyes fixed on the man’s face, Rong Shu’s heart skipped a beat uncontrollably and she quickly lowered her head naturally.
I didn’t expect that after so long a divorce, the effect he had on her was still there.
“Mr. Fu, you’re here?” Meng Ke was being P*ssed off by Chen Xingnuo, the second time she saw Fu Jingting, she immediately greeted him with a smile, “I heard Mangyin say that you have a lot going on at the company, now that you are here, did you come to pick up Mangyin?”
Fu Jingting responded with a polite muffled sound, and when the rest of his light swept over Rong Shu, his eyebrows wrinkled, and he was a little displeased.
Had this woman forgotten the lesson of the Red Plum Villa?
Half an hour ago, Cheng Huai called him and said that Gu Manyin and Rong Shu were playing cards in a private room at the Ming Yue Club, and he didn’t believe him. He knew that Rong Shu was a lousy poker player and would not be so stupid as to dare to play poker with Gu Manyin at the same table.
Cheng Huai knew he didn’t believe him and even took a photo and sent it to him, so he drove to the clubhouse.
When Fu Jingting went to Gu Manyin’s place, he saw her looking delicate and his tone softened a bit, “”Didn’t you say you had a cough this afternoon? Why did you come here to play cards?”
Gu Manyin smiled lightly, “It’s just a small cough, it doesn’t matter, besides Mei Ling is coming to Haicheng, I want to treat her well.”
The Nanjiang Gao family was known to Fu Jingting, and he knew Gao Lao as well.
Fu Jingting took off his scarf and draped it over Gu Mangyin, a small gesture that caused the women next to him to laugh ambiguously.
Meng Ke said, “Mr. Fu, we all know you love Mangyin, but the room is heated, Mangyin can’t freeze, Mr. Fu you are directly grabbing the dog food into our mouths.”
Gu Manyin’s cheeks flushed with amus*ment and she glared at her, “If you keep talking nonsense, you’ll go out.”
“Fine, I won’t say anything.”
Rongshu watched as the man draped Gu Manyin in a scarf, taking good care of her, and even sat down beside her and gave her a warm drink.
The intimate and uncomfortable look stung Rong Shu’s eyes.
She had deliberately gotten into Gu Manyin’s trap before because she wanted to punish her properly, to see her leave Fu Jingting and never be able to return to the city.
But then Fu Jingting appeared.
Seeing that the man had left all his tenderness to Gu Manyin, Rongshu had no more interest in fighting.
Fu Jingting swept his eyes at Gu Manyin’s cards and said indifferently, “Miss Rong’s poker skills are not good, so let’s finish this hand and play with a novice like her.
Gu Manyin’s face froze in a smile, and finally softly mumbled.
There, Meng Ke had been watching Rong Shu’s cards, she found out that Rong Shu had already listened to her cards, her heart was scared, she was just about to send a message to Gu Manyin, when Rong Shu directly removed her own cards and threw one out.
Gu Mangyin’s heart was pleased as she slowly pushed her cards away, “Miss Rong, please accept.”
“Wow, Mangyin you’re too good!” Meng Ke looked at Gu Mangyin’s card and said excitedly, “It’s even the thirteenth youngest!”
“Rong Shu, Mangyin has dealt you three hands, you have to admit when you lose.” Gao Meiling sneered and rang the bell for the waiter to come in, handing over a pile of money, “Call a tattoo artist over as fast as you can.”
“Okay, you wait a moment.”
Fu Jingting watched all this and frowned slightly, asking Gu Mangyin, “What’s going on?”
“I heard Jing Lin say that Miss Rong has a tattoo with your initials on her waist ……,” Gu Manyin bit her lip and whispered, “And it was Miss Rong who wanted to bet with me, saying that if she lost, she would wash off the tattoo on her waist. ”
Chen Xingnuo held his cheeks to look at her, “Miss Gu, obviously you met Mr. Rong in front of the restaurant and asked her if she had a fjt tattoo around her waist and wanted to play mahjong with her to place a bet, but now it’s Mr. Rong who wants to bet with you? You’re really good at talking.”
“Don’t talk in a weird way!” Meng Ke, relying on the fact that she had someone to back her up, disliked Chen Xingnuo so much, “Mangyin doesn’t want her boyfriend’s name to be tattooed on her body by another woman, what’s wrong with that?”
“Mangyin just asked Rongshu if she wanted to play mahjong, so she had to say yes by putting a gun to her head?”
“That’s right, no one forced Rongshu to say yes, she did it herself.”
“……”
Apart from Chen Xingnuo, the other three women in the room were all Gu Manyin’s friends, so of course they were on Gu Manyin’s side and echoed Meng Ke’s words.
As a few women were arguing, the tattoo artist also came in with his toolbox.
“That’s enough.” Rongshu stopped Chen Xingnuo from arguing with them and calmly said to Gu Manyin, “I lost this bet, I’m willing to accept it.”
She went to the sofa and lay down flat, lifting the hem of her jumper to reveal a white waist and the eye-catching fjt tattoo.
The tattoo artist hurried over and helped Rong Shu wash the tattoo.
The tattoo artist was able to sweep up the tattoo on her waist, and Fu Jingting’s eyebrows knitted together with a sense of irritation.
He remembered corresponding with “Maple Leaf”, Maple Leaf told him that an actor she liked had lost his wife, and the actor had her name, hobbies, all tattooed on his body, so that he could see it every day, as if she was still alive.
Feng Ye said she couldn’t, she was afraid of pain, but she could also bear to have her favourite man’s name tattooed on her body, so that he could be with her all the time.
Fu Jingting suddenly asked Gu Mangyin, “When we corresponded before, what did you say the tattoo was?”
“We corresponded too much and it’s been so long that I don’t remember.” Gu Manyin shook her head, took his arm, tilted her head and asked “Jingting, I asked Miss Rong to wash the tattoo off her body, did I …… do something wrong?”
Her voice was shy, and the corners of her eyes were slightly red, making Fu Jingting unable to blame her, and his big palm stroked her hair.
“You’re right.”
“Mm.” Gu Manyin smiled lightly, her head resting on the man’s arm.
She was glad that after Fu Jingting left that morning, she immediately took all the letterheads out of the drawer and burned them, driving the pen pal “Feng Ye” out of Fu Jingting’s heart.
Looking at Rong Shu’s frown of pain as she washed her tattoo, Gu Manyin was overjoyed.
Rongshu was still losing to her!
Meng Ke stood there with her arms in her arms, watching Rongshu wash her tattoo, and her mouth was full of sarcasm, “Mangyin gave you a chance before, but you didn’t want it, you had to keep playing! Miss Rong, if you don’t know how to play mahjong, go back and learn, there are things you can do that you’re only asking for trouble!”
The other women laughed and gave Rong Shu a gleeful sweep.
Because the tattoo was also painful, Rong Shu had been holding back, her forehead was sweating, and she didn’t bother to pay attention to Meng Ke.
When Rong Shu’s tattoo was almost finished, a clubhouse attendant walked in and politely asked, “Which one is Miss Rong Shu, please?”
“I am.” Rong Shu looked at the waiter, “What can I do for you?”
The waiter handed over the small bag in his hand, “This is what a gentleman named Lai asked me to give you.”
“Thank you.”
To distract herself from the fact that getting her tattoo cleaned felt less painful, Rong Shu unwrapped the bag on the spot, fished out the small box from inside and opened it to find a ring embedded in the blue velvet cloth.
The ring was in the shape of a wheat ear, small and delicate, and dazzled in the light.
“This is the work of that famous designer ‘k’.” The first time he saw the ring, Chen Xingnuo recognised it, “I heard that it was handmade by “k” himself, and it appeared in an auction in Xiangdao a few months ago for over four million.”
“It seems to be the same as the Heart of Blue, it’s the only one of its kind, it’s priceless.”
“It’s so beautiful!”
The women’s eyes were blazing as they looked at the ring in Rong Shu’s hand, eager to take it and wear it, preferably to post it to their friends to show off.
At this time, Rong Shu’s phone also received two new WeChat messages.
When I send him a birthday present, I’ll send you a small gift.
Does Li Chuan like it, sister?