137: Chapter 137 Be careful in your next life

Half an hour later, Lin Xiao accompanied the Rich Second Generation to the downstairs of the girls' dormitory.

Through their idle chatter along the way, Lin Xiao learned that the Rich Second Generation was named Zhang Xiaofu, was in the same grade as him, and was also a freshman at A University.

Zhang Xiaofu's family was not from Beijing. He didn't have good grades himself, and the only reason he could attend school here was because his father, Zhang Dafu, had donated a building to the school.

Generally, someone as wealthy as him would do quite well in school.

However, his family had made their fortune over a decade ago by mining mineral resources, making them nouveau riche, which caused him to feel inferior deep down in his bones.

It was a kind of inferiority that could not be masked, even if he wore designer logos all over his body.

Plus, he wasn't very smart to begin with...

Lin Xiao analyzed that this was the reason why Zhang Xiaofu could be a simp.

Just now, Zhang Xiaofu had asked him to go along to deliver food to his goddess, wanting him to help see whether the goddess actually liked him or not.

Anyway, he was idle, so he thought he might as well come to watch the show.

Moreover, Lin Xiao didn't know that opening the mall was a project belonging to the system upgrade.

Therefore, the upgrade would bring about other changes as well.

The most important of these was that the people involved in the tasks and those he had helped also had a certain chance of having their inner thoughts heard.

After waiting for a while downstairs at the girls' dormitory, he saw a girl with an exquisite outfit and style walk down.

The dress the girl was wearing was one Lin Xiao had seen in the gifts Lin Chuge had given to Lin Wanwan; it must have been the latest model from some luxury brand.

The bag the girl was carrying was also a luxury item, with a huge logo printed on it.

Judging solely by appearance, the girl's figure and face were indeed quite good.

But the look in her eyes when she glanced at Zhang Xiaofu was filled with disgust and disdain.

"Why are you so late? I'm about to starve to death!"

"I almost got into a car accident on the way, I'm sorry."

Zhang Xiaofu's attitude remained humble, but there was a hint of probing in his tone.

Sure enough, the girl didn't have any reaction upon hearing that he almost got into a car accident.

She just took the large bag of food packed from a five-star Hotel and walked casually toward the direction of the school gate, "I'm going to find my best friend to eat with. You go back first."

"Okay."

Zhang Xiaofu nodded, his eyes dimming.

After the girl had walked a bit further away, Lin Xiao nudged Zhang Xiaofu with his elbow, "Didn't you want to know if she likes you? You can follow her and see. You'll know once you hear how she talks about you to her best friend."

"That's true!"

Zhang Xiaofu's eyes lit up, and he immediately followed along with Lin Xiao.

The girl was on the phone chatting with someone the whole way and didn't realize she was being followed.

They followed her smoothly all the way to the downstairs of a residential complex outside the school.

He had originally been worried, as they couldn't possibly follow her into her home.

But just at this moment, a man walked out from a nearby shop and waved at the girl.

The girl happily trotted over and threw herself into the man's arms.

"You must be starving, right? I don't know what happened to that idiot today; he took so long to bring the food over."

"I am a bit hungry, but today, I want to eat you!"

"..."

Watching the way the two of them went upstairs together, being all lovey-dovey, Zhang Xiaofu's heart was completely shattered.

Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still completely devastated.

"Brother, I've been dumped!"

"..."

"I treated her so well, how could she treat me like this?"

"..."

"How could she bully me like this!"

As he spoke, Zhang Xiaofu even started crying.

Lin Xiao gently patted Zhang Xiaofu's shoulder and comforted him, "Sometimes it's just like this; there are bicycles you are reluctant to ride, yet others will stand up to pedal them..."

Halfway through, he felt that saying this now didn't seem right, so he quickly changed his words, "Ahem, anyway, just keep your eyes peeled in the future."

Zhang Xiaofu cried even louder.

In reality, he wasn't that upset about losing this unrequited relationship; what really bothered him was all the money he had transferred out.

At the time, to please his goddess, he had noted every transfer as a voluntary gift, and now he couldn't get it back even if he wanted to.

"I've lost so much money. If my stepmother finds out about this, I'm done for!"

Zhang Xiaofu and Lin Xiao returned to the school.

Sitting on a bench, he couldn't recover his senses for a long time.

Lin Xiao didn't know how to comfort him either.

At this moment, a prompt came from the system in his mind again.

[Mall Task Two: Pet the dog's head.]

Just like the last time, after that short sentence, there was no more movement.

Lin Xiao turned his head to look at the soft grass to the side, where Xiao Huang and Xiao Bai were still bathing in the sunlight.

Just as he was hesitating in his heart whether to go over and pet them, he suddenly saw a sexy young woman wearing black stockings walking toward them.

The young woman's outfit exuded the familiar scent of money.

Lin Xiao seemed to have thought of something and asked curiously, "By the way, Xiao Fu, what does your stepmother look like?"

"Her? She's quite young, not much older than me, and she treats both me and my dad very well... It's just that sometimes she's really too fierce, like a tigress. If I make any mistake, she beats me even harder than my own mother!"

"And she has a great figure and usually dresses very sexily. Every time she goes out with me, others think she's my girlfriend, and my dad has beaten me more than a few times because of this!"

Zhang Xiaofu talked incessantly when mentioning his stepmother.

"Oh, is that so."

Lin Xiao chimed in while watching the young woman in black stockings walk up behind Zhang Xiaofu; she had also heard Zhang Xiaofu's words, and an expression of anger appeared on her face.

After a moment of silence, Lin Xiao raised his hand and gently stroked Zhang Xiaofu's head, "Xiao Fu, be careful in your next life."

Zhang Xiaofu was stunned, "Brother Lin, don't worry, I won't do anything drastic just because I was swindled out of some money."

Lin Xiao shook his head silently, "No, I mean you should be careful in your next life not to badmouth people behind their backs."