Really showdown

Lin Yuan sent Xia Ye the location of the nearest KFC for Song Xiaoxiao.

About half an hour later, Song Xiaoxiao arrived in a trench coat, rushing in like a whirlwind.

“Lin Yuan, you’re looking for death! How dare you bully my sister.”

“Xiao Xiao, Lin Yuan didn’t bully me.”

Lin Yuan looked at the scene before him with a helpless expression, “You damn well sit down quietly, shut up, and listen to me.”

Song Xiaoxiao, who was originally full of anger, was subdued by the aura emanating from Lin Yuan. “You, you, don’t try to fool me…”

Lin Yuan couldn’t be bothered to waste words with her. He directly opened his hidden financial account on his phone and then slapped the phone onto the table.

As December began, Lin Yuan had already received three months of salary, which included non-compete compensation, from Good Group, and he had also received a 100,000 yuan scholarship from Good Group.

With a pre-tax monthly salary of 67K, after deducting 10K for personal income tax and various living expenses, his financial account currently held over 240,000 yuan.

“Is that enough to buy your broken car outside?” Lin Yuan’s words were clear and impactful.

240,000 was clearly not enough for most Benz cars, but it was certainly enough for a ‘leek car’ like a Benz A-Class.

Song Xiaoxiao finally shut up, “You… you saved this from delivering food?”

“Does anyone delivering food at your house save 240,000 a year?

I, Lin Yuan, am a postgraduate student in the Computer Science Department at Zijin Aeronautics and Astronautics University. My advisor is a senior professor at this university. My current annual salary is 800,000 pre-tax. A Porsche, for me, is just a matter of time before I can afford it.

Now, can you please sit down and listen to me quietly?”

At this moment, Lin Yuan finally laid his cards on the table.

Xia Ye looked at him in disbelief.

Song Xiaoxiao looked at Xia Ye, “Is he possessed?”

‘Damn it.’ Lin Yuan felt helpless, only blaming himself for not having worked long enough, 240,000 wasn’t impactful enough. If it were 2.4 million, that would make the other person kneel and sing praises.

Unfortunately, Lin Yuan’s revelation did not achieve the effect of a satisfying story.

In the end, he had no choice but to pull out his student ID from his pocket and hand it over. This item was more convincing than 240,000 at this moment.

Only then were Song Xiaoxiao and Xia Ye completely stunned, “You… you’re really a postgraduate student from our university?” Song Xiaoxiao flipped the student ID over and over, apparently finding nothing unusual.

Xia Ye, who was usually simple-minded, looked at Lin Yuan with a somewhat unfamiliar expression, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Lin Yuan pulled Xia Ye to his side. Xia Ye was now in a wooden state, letting him do as he pleased.

“So, Song Xiaoxiao,” Lin Yuan stared at the other party very seriously, “I can support Xia Ye, I can support two Xia Yes.”

After a brief shock, Song Xiaoxiao quickly recovered, “Hmph, I knew it.” She instinctively reached into her bag for a cigarette again, but quickly realized she couldn’t smoke here and put it back.

“I knew you were putting on an act. The Computer Science Department at our university? That’s much more impressive than my and Xia Ye’s 'burden' dance major. And a postgraduate student? And a postgraduate student of a senior professor? Just opening a financial app on your phone shows 240,000.

Heh~~, hahaha~~~. A student still in school, 240,000. And an annual salary of 800,000. It took me two years, and then after I started working as a hostess, I finally earned my first 200,000…”

Song Xiaoxiao laughed at herself for a while, then stared straight at Lin Yuan, “So, why are you pulling this stunt? A rich young master got tired of the good life, dressed up as a delivery person, and specifically looked for innocent girls like Xia Ye to play a love game?”

After hearing Song Xiaoxiao’s words, Xia Ye looked at Lin Yuan with a somewhat wavering gaze, seemingly also eager for an answer.

Lin Yuan immediately squeezed the hand he was holding, “Xia Ye and I are serious. I’m not some rich young master. I really was a delivery person. I only got into Zijin Aviation School as a postgraduate student this year, the enrollment date on my student ID is not fake.

As for the 240,000 in savings and the 800,000 annual salary, I received all of that in the last few months.”

“Are you treating Xia Ye and me like fools? No, you can just treat Xia Ye like a fool. I’ve seen many men in my line of work. It’s only been a little over three months from September until now, and you’ve managed to study and get a job with an 800,000 annual salary in just over three months?”

Song Xiaoxiao’s social experience clearly made her unable to believe what Lin Yuan said.

“That’s because your clients don’t include a top student like me,” Lin Yuan replied bluntly.

“Are you saying I’m low-class? Not qualified to serve a young master like you?”

“Forget it, I don’t want to keep arguing with you. Believe it or not, it’s up to you…” Lin Yuan paused, because at this moment the waiter brought some food.

The three of them chatting here, it would naturally be awkward to just sit without ordering anything.

However, none of the three seemed to have much appetite for the fried chicken and cola that were served.

After the waiter left, Lin Yuan continued, “I called you here not to make you believe me. I want you to be mindful of your boundaries from now on. I don’t object to you and Xia Ye continuing to be good friends and best friends. But,” Lin Yuan spoke almost syllable by syllable,

“If you really, as you portray yourself, truly care about Xia Ye, then you should also know that going to maid cafes is not good. Selling courses and scamming people is also not good.”

“So, I hope you won’t have any more ideas of giving Xia Ye bad advice in the future.

The things you do are your own business; don’t let them have any connection with Xia Ye.

When you interact with Xia Ye, just be ordinary best friends. Don’t talk about anything related to your work.

Understood?”

Song Xiaoxiao looked at Lin Yuan with a chilling smile, “You just look down on me, don’t you? In your eyes, people like me are just rats in a gutter.”

Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze from Song Xiaoxiao and looked elsewhere beside him, “I don’t mean to look down on you. Really,” Lin Yuan uncontrollably recalled his time delivering food again, “Because this society, damn it, laughs at poverty but not prostitution.”

“When I was delivering food, I was looked down upon countless times. But I don’t care about those who looked down on me, because I know this is the rule.

As long as you live in this world for one day, you will be suppressed by this rule. Even if you’re suffocated and have to swallow your teeth.”

Lin Yuan looked at Song Xiaoxiao again, “I, Lin Yuan, do not look down on you, Song Xiaoxiao, in the slightest.”

Lin Yuan’s words made Song Xiaoxiao somewhat choked up. She sniffled, then turned her head to look to her side.

“I, Lin Yuan, am not qualified, nor do I want to be anyone’s teacher. On the contrary, this simpleton Xia Ye still thinks your swindling and deceiving is wrong.”

Xia Ye mumbled softly beside him, “We just came from Lin Yuan’s friend’s house, they don’t earn money easily… Xiao Xiao, you really shouldn’t earn money from people like them…”

Xia Ye spoke very subtly, using “earn” instead of “deceive.”

Lin Yuan then ruffled Xia Ye’s head and continued to Song Xiaoxiao, “This is a kind child. I genuinely feel that you shouldn’t do that. But then I thought about it again, there are so many things in this world that shouldn’t be done. If you don’t earn this money, there are plenty of people who will.

Unless I can eliminate all people like you, what’s the point of trying to persuade just one person?

Trying to persuade one person at a time is all nonsense.

Scammers are like salespeople; as long as there’s a market, scammers will spring up like mushrooms after rain.”

Lin Yuan thought of Da Zhang again, “Don’t talk about persuading you, I can’t even persuade my friend. Just his good-for-nothing son—oh, by the way, he himself is also a good-for-nothing father. If I told him the truth today, he’d get angry with me.

When Xia Ye and I left, I had a knot in my stomach. Not only because you even scam those people, but also because those idiots are so willing to be scammed by you.

Later, after a long drive with the cool breeze, my mind cleared.

I remembered I still have parents who don’t even know to buy pension and medical insurance. Although they don’t have much money, it’s not to the point where they can’t afford it; they just feel more secure seeing the numbers in their savings passbook.

But the one-time buyout policy for medical and pension insurance that the country offered earlier was so good. They were given so many opportunities, but they just refused to buy it, even fantasizing about living off bank deposit interest in their old age.

My own parents are like that.

Even before I graduated, I myself was a clueless idiot.”

“So,” Lin Yuan concluded, “I can’t manage that much. I just want to manage myself and my small family.”

“Song Xiaoxiao, rest assured, I will provide for Xia Ye. If she’s willing, I’ll go and get our marriage certificate tomorrow. See if I dare. It doesn’t matter if her name is on the property deeds of my few tiled houses back home.

And you, you can make a graceful exit!”

Lin Yuan elegantly stated his true intention—Song Xiaoxiao was a low-class person who would only drag Xia Ye down to her level.