59: What kind of fantasy is this?

"Picking up a bargain!" Chen Xinyi's eyes lit up, and she sat up with a whoosh: "Is it like last Monday, are we going to buy rocks?"

Ye Su's eyes also lit up, signaling that he liked what he saw and wanted to keep looking.

"The stone gambling business is too murky; there aren't that many bargains to be found."

"Then what kind of bargain are you trying to pick up?"

"Your manager just took a 'hundred butterflies through flowers painting' to an antique shop today to ask for a price. Coincidentally, a friend of mine was there, and he sent me the 'hundred butterflies through flowers painting' to look at. I have a feeling there's a hidden mystery in the painting, so I want to buy it and take a gamble.

However, the shop owner offered your manager 150,000, and I only have 30,000-plus on hand, which is why I thought of borrowing 120,000 from you to secure the painting first."

"You only have 30,000-plus left?" Chen Xinyi immediately put her hands on her hips and questioned him:

"Not to mention anything else, just the money you earned at the jade market last week should have left you with at least 70,000 or 80,000 in your pocket. How did it suddenly drop to 30,000-plus? Speak, did you use it to keep another woman!"

Ye Su didn't speak, just kept staring at the things he loved to look at.

Noticing Ye Su's gaze, Chen Xinyi immediately pulled the blanket over and wrapped herself up again:

"Don't think you can just muddle through this. Honestly confess, did you take your money to keep a female college student!"

Too much!

To spend money keeping a female college student without even thinking about keeping her instead!

Chen Xinyi scoffed at the idea of being kept by a man like Lin Hongyuan.

But if it were Ye Su keeping her, then the more the better!

"I told you not to always have your mind in the gutter. What female college student would I be keeping? Dealing with you is already enough of a handful. Didn't I say last time that gold prices would rise? I've invested all my money in that, so I can't take it out these few days.

Your manager is probably in urgent need of money again, and I'm afraid he'll sell the painting tomorrow, which is why I urgently need 120,000 to secure it."

"Really?" Chen Xinyi looked suspicious.

Ye Su rolled his eyes: "Obviously."

"Fine, I'll believe you this once."

"So, are you lending it or not?"

"Hmm..." Chen Xinyi hesitated for a moment before nodding: "I'll gather the money and transfer it to you in a bit."

Unlike Ye Su, for whom money came as easily as eating after binding with the system.

As a wage earner, the money Chen Xinyi had was saved up from her 9-to-6, 5-day-a-week job, occasional overtime, and making short videos.

It would be no exaggeration to say that every penny was soaked in the sweat of a wage earner.

Although the two often met in the buff and constantly exchanged pointers, all things considered, they had only known each other for a little over a month.

Ye Su was deeply moved that she was willing to lend him all her savings from the past few years.

Having decided to lend it, Chen Xinyi didn't dither and transferred the money to Ye Su within a few minutes.

"You aren't one of those scumbags they talk about online who use their looks to swindle money from women, are you? Saying you need to borrow money to pick up a bargain, but actually planning to run off?"

"Can you not have such a wild imagination..." Ye Su was speechless.

"That's good then." Chen Xinyi breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's get this straight, swindling me for sex is one thing, but you can't swindle me for money too. This money was all saved up for my dowry."

"Huh!" Ye Su's eyes widened, as if he had heard some kind of fairy tale.

In the 21st century, he actually managed to hear the word "dowry."

"Don't they always say online that whenever girls mention bride price, it's about an attitude, and whenever they mention dowry, they call it a feudal bad practice that shouldn't be encouraged? You actually prepare a dowry for yourself!"

"What's so strange about that?" Chen Xinyi said matter-of-factly: "Eating someone's food makes you soft-mouthed, and taking someone's money makes you short-handed. This girl doesn't want to be looked down upon by the man's family after marrying over just because of some bride price money. I can't stand that kind of humiliation."

Mwah—

Ye Su planted a fierce kiss on Chen Xinyi's face: "Woman, you've got spirit. dude is liking you more and more."

Hearing this, Chen Xinyi was inwardly delighted, but on the surface, she was nonchalant: "There are plenty of people who like this girl; even if you like me, you'll have to get in line."

Afterward, she worriedly cautioned him: "Are you sure that bas... Lin Hongyuan is actually selling a painting that's a bargain? Don't get swindled by him."

Chen Xinyi would give Lin Hongyuan a score of negative one hundred for his character; even a dog on the side of the road would be better than him.

She was worried that what Lin Hongyuan had was a fake, and that Ye Su would misjudge it, causing the 150,000 to go down the drain.

"Rest assured, your manager is just purely bald; you really think he's brilliant? Can he swindle me?"

"Pfft—" Ye Su's roasting made Chen Xinyi laugh until she was trembling like a flower.

"But you still need to look carefully. It wasn't easy for this girl to save up this much money, don't blow it all."

Ye Su didn't mind Chen Xinyi's nagging.

Over a hundred thousand, for an ordinary person, is definitely not a small sum; being cautious is the normal reaction.

"It won't be blown. If I lose this time, it's on me; if I make a profit, I'll give you ten percent. How about that?"

Looking at Chen Xinyi's reaction, she didn't expect a return on the 120,000 she lent him, so it wouldn't be a problem not to share the money with her, at most just a little unkind.

However, Ye Su was at an age where he was thin-skinned, and the less Chen Xinyi mentioned it, the more embarrassed he felt.

If nothing goes wrong, after pulling off this job, the family's debts will be completely cleared, and the future will just be about making money and slowly moving toward a luxurious life.

With the need for money no longer so urgent, Ye Su hesitated for a moment and decided to find an excuse to transfer some money to Chen Xinyi.

As a grown man, having slept with her for so long, what's wrong with giving her some living expenses!

Ye Su was best at making peace with himself. Thinking this, he immediately accepted the fact that he was spineless for spending money on a woman again.

Chen Xinyi was instantly invigorated when she heard he would share ten percent: "This is what you said, no going back!"

"dude's word is bond, okay? When have I ever lied to you?"

"Pinky swear!" Chen Xinyi excitedly rubbed against Ye Su and held out her little finger to him.

"Fine, pinky swear..."

Ye Su was helpless and could only follow Chen Xinyi, who was four years older than him, in playing this childish game.

After splitting the spoils, Ye Su didn't proceed to the second half.

It was somewhat his own car, after all; he couldn't treat it like a rental and floor the gas pedal every time.

...

Early the next morning, holding the contact information Chen Xinyi gave him, Ye Su called Lin Hongyuan.

"Hello?"

"Lin Hongyuan, right?"

"Yes, who is this?"

"I am Chen Xinyi's boyfriend. We met once downstairs at your company last time; you should remember me."

On the other end of the line, hearing Ye Su state his identity, Lin Hongyuan's heart suddenly constricted.

According to what Chen Xinyi said in the office on Monday, when she witnessed him entering the hotel that night, her boyfriend was also present.

To have his phone number, it must have been given to him by Chen Xinyi.

Calling without warning today, could it be that Chen Xinyi had changed her mind and wanted to use the video to blackmail him!

The 200,000 he was extorted for by the female college student had already left him at a loss.

If Chen Xinyi and her boyfriend were to stab him again at this moment, he would really go crazy!

At this moment, Lin Hongyuan finally began to regret why he hadn't controlled his lower half and caused such big trouble for that bit of nonsense!