152: Falling out

Sleeping until past eight, Ye Su felt refreshed, but the problem was still unresolved.

After seeing Chen Xinyi off to work, Ye Su still hoped that a burst of inspiration would strike while sitting on the toilet, allowing him to come up with a foolproof plan.

As it turned out, he had overestimated the effectiveness of the toilet.

Ye Su's legs were almost numb from squatting, yet he still couldn't come up with anything.

He stood up too quickly, his vision went black, and he nearly collapsed right there in the bathroom.

"Forget it. If I really can't think of a way, I'll just use the same method I used to buy the painting with the hidden layer from Lin Hongyuan. I'll get Jia Zhiqiang's contact information and tell him I heard from a jade shop that he had the jade pendant for sale, which is how I found him."

Last time, it was because he had dirt on Lin Hongyuan that the painting purchase went so smoothly.

Ye Su worried that using the same method on Jia Zhiqiang might make him suspicious and lead to an unexpected outcome.

But with the 250,000-value the jade pendant and the four points of [Physique] attribute within reach, Ye Su couldn't just give up.

"I'll give it a shot. What if it works?"

Having made up his mind, Ye Su returned to the school cafeteria. After eating breakfast, he went to prepare for the third and fourth period classes starting at 9:50.

...

Some were happy, while others were miserable.

Just as Ye Su was carefree and putting the matter of the jade pendant aside, carrying his textbooks to the computer lab for class.

Jia Zhiqiang and Qin Manyun, who had caused such a huge disaster and found themselves with 160,000 in debt overnight, hadn't been able to sleep much at all after returning to their dormitory, worried sick.

They didn't go to class today either. After gathering together, they just stared at each other, both fretting over the compensation for the car rental agency.

Compared to Jia Zhiqiang, who was completely distraught over where to raise the money, Qin Manyun seemed a bit more relaxed.

In her view, Jia Zhiqiang was the one who rented the car, Jia Zhiqiang was the one driving, and Jia Zhiqiang was the one who crashed it; the whole ordeal had absolutely nothing to do with her.

Even if he couldn't raise the 160,000 in repair fees, it would be Jia Zhiqiang who had to ask his family for money; it wasn't her place to worry about it.

"Didn't you say yesterday that you had the jade pendant from your family that was worth a lot of money and could be used to pay for the car repairs?"

"Sigh..." Jia Zhiqiang sighed deeply. "I already went to several jade shops yesterday, but the highest price they offered was only 110,000. That's still 50,000 short of the repair fee..."

"110,000!"

Upon hearing this price, Qin Manyun's first reaction was actually that Jia Zhiqiang still had something so valuable.

If she had known, she would have flattered him more and gotten him to take the jade pendant out to sell sooner; maybe she could have even bought herself a designer bag.

"Yeah." Jia Zhiqiang didn't notice Qin Manyun's strange reaction and was still focused on how to scrape together the 160,000:

"I thought since the jade pendant was given to me by my grandmother, it would definitely be worth a lot. I didn't expect it to only be worth 110,000."

"Could it be that the jade shops are trying to rip you off and are quoting you a low price?"

"That's exactly what I thought, which is why I went to compare prices at several more places. The highest anyone would offer was still only 110,000."

"Oh..." Qin Manyun sighed along with him. "Then it seems it really is only worth 110,000."

If it could have sold for several hundred thousand, there would have been money left over after paying for the repairs to take her on a trip during summer break:

"So you don't have any savings to cover the final 50,000?"

"No." Jia Zhiqiang shook his head. "We've been spending a bit too much lately. My savings are basically all gone; I only have a little bit of living expenses left now."

Jia Zhiqiang suddenly remembered to wonder why he was the only one worrying about the repair fees:

"What about you? Do you have any money? Help me chip in a little."

Since they got together, expenses had basically all been covered by him.

Jia Zhiqiang felt that if Qin Manyun just saved up, she should have been able to save quite a bit of living expenses.

"I don't have any money either." Qin Manyun pouted pitifully. "After I got together with you, my living expenses went toward buying cosmetics and clothes."

It wasn't that Qin Manyun didn't have money.

But she could share in prosperity, not in adversity.

Jia Zhiqiang was the one who crashed the car; there was no reason for her to pay.

In the car, she had even reminded Jia Zhiqiang several times to be careful while driving and not to scratch the rental car.

If he had been willing to listen to her and be careful while driving, he wouldn't have caused such a huge disaster.

"Fine..."

"Then do you have any friends who can lend you 50,000?"

"No." Jia Zhiqiang retorted. "What about you?"

"I don't either..."

As Qin Manyun spoke, she suddenly thought of Ye Su.

He could afford an Audi now and could go out with a beautiful woman who drove a Ferrari; perhaps he would have money.

Jia Zhiqiang thought of another solution: "How about I sell the jade pendant, and for the remaining 50,000, we both borrow it from an app? Once we've paid off the rental agency, we can pay it back slowly."

"No way!"

As soon as Qin Manyun heard that Jia Zhiqiang actually wanted her to borrow money too, she instantly rejected his proposal.

"What do you mean!"

Jia Zhiqiang wasn't actually stupid; he could see now that he had been the only one worrying the whole time, and Qin Manyun had absolutely no intention of helping pay it back:

"It was your idea at the beginning that I should buy a car, which eventually led to me renting a car to take you out! Now that I'm selling the jade pendant my family gave me, you won't even help me borrow a little money from an app?"

Seeing Jia Zhiqiang lose his temper like this for the first time, Qin Manyun instinctively shrank her neck back.

But thinking that after paying for the car repairs this time, Jia Zhiqiang would definitely become penniless and wouldn't be able to cover her expenses for a long time, she felt it wouldn't be a pity to kick him to the curb, so she hardened her resolve again.

"What do you mean! You're a grown man, and now you're trying to shift the responsibility onto a girl like me! I told you to be careful while driving and not to scratch the car! If you had listened to me, you wouldn't have caused such a huge disaster!"

Seeing that Qin Manyun really wanted to wash her hands of it, Jia Zhiqiang's anger instantly flared up: "Do you dare say you have no responsibility in this!"

Qin Manyun didn't back down either: "I wasn't the one driving the car, so of course it's not my responsibility!"

A full 160,000 in repair fees could tear a small family apart, let alone a couple of college students.

And so, the two, who had originally been deeply in love and discussing how to overcome their difficulties together, turned into people shifting blame onto each other in the blink of an eye.

Their argument grew more and more intense; where was the sweet, lovey-dovey appearance from two days ago?

"Pushing your own responsibility onto a woman the moment something goes wrong—are you even a man!"

"I'm not a man!" Jia Zhiqiang's eyes blazed with fury. "When I was spending money on you, why didn't you say I wasn't a man then!"

"What do you mean! Are you saying I'm with you because I'm greedy for your money!"

"Isn't it! If not, then pay me back the money I spent on you!"

"You don't love me anymore."

"But the money is mine!"

"That was also given to me voluntarily by you."

"I spent at least five figures on you!"

"Yeah, but that was also spent on me voluntarily by you."

Qin Manyun's cold reaction at this moment made Jia Zhiqiang feel chilled to the bone.

How did he not see before that Qin Manyun was this kind of woman.

"I don't care. Now that the jade pendant is sold, we're still 50,000 short. You have to come up with at least 20,000, or I'll let the whole school know what kind of person you are!"