At the Grand Dynasty Hotel.
Isaac Bai couldn't help but interrupt as he watched James Lu recklessly drink one glass after another, "Hey, hey, hey, dude, are you sure you can handle that?" Having already heard the entire story, Isaac snorted. "You should let your wife see you, maybe she'll be moved to tears and forgive you then."
James ignored him and continued to drink.
Benjamin Cheng held down his glass and said, "Stop drinking."
Not being able to drink, James turned to light a cigarette.
After taking two deep puffs, he looked at Benjamin and said, "That damn woman did it on purpose, didn't she? How am I supposed to react to that?"
Benjamin swirled the wine in his glass and said, "I'm sure she meant well, but you," he glanced at James and said. "You went a bit too far."
Isaac concurred, "Exactly! She's such a sweet and kind girl. Imagine how upset she is right now after you misunderstood her like that!"
"Don't I know that I went too far? Why would I be here otherwise?" James brushed his hair in frustration and gloomily looked at Benjamin. "Ben, what do you think I should do now?"
"What else can you do? Apologize!" Isaac thought that the question was ridiculous. "Do I look like someone who would apologize to another person?" Actually he thought of
apologizing, but that was so embarrassing!
"Okay, so what?" Isaac snorted. "Do you know how long a woman can hold a grudge for? If you won't apologize, prepare to be ignored forever!"
Benjamin nodded. "She helps you get a piece of property for free. Why can't you apologize in return?"
"Apologize? Can we drop this already? When have you guys ever seen me apologize since I was a kid?"
Isaac relented and suggested, "If you don't want to apologize, you can try giving her what she needs the most! For example, if she wants a band-name bag, you can buy her eight or ten of those ..."
Before Isaac could finish, James irritably interrupted him. "That won't work! She's not greedy." They hadn't known each other for long, but he was certain of this. "What she needs the most is her family's company and mansion."
James became more and more annoyed as he spoke. "But I don't have all the accounts and evidence ready yet! Give me another idea, Ben."
"You're asking Ben? You should be asking ME if you wanna know how to make a girl happy!" Isaac said smugly.
James looked at him with disdain. "You? A thirty-year-old virgin?"
Isaac felt like a thousand arrows were shot into his self-esteem. He exaggeratedly exclaimed, "What the f*ck do you know? I'm exercising self- discipline, okay?" Then he smiled sarcastically and rebutted, "Oh, did you think that you're so amazing and impressive just because you had that one crazy night with your little wife? Ha! Was there ever a second one?"
James immediately felt a little flustered, but couldn't bring himself to admit it. Although he married her for other reasons, they were legally husband and wife. It was pretty embarrassing to admit that they had never done that since getting married.
"It looks like I hit a sore spot!" Isaac was delighted. "I am remaining chaste under the principles of self-discipline. But what about you? Don't you think that it's a bit strange to stay celibate AFTER getting married?"
"You ..." James was pissed, but he couldn't retort at all because Isaac was completely right!
Frustrated, he stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray, picked up his glass and gulped it all down. Then he heavily slammed the glass on the table, stood up, and declared, "I can't be bothered to listen to any more of your sh*t!"
Seeing that James was about to leave, Isaac exclaimed dramatically, "You can come to your big bro for help any time your wife gets you down!"
But she rejected the thought after thinking about it for less than three seconds.
In the past he had even refused to take her to the bus station, so it was impossible for him to be so generous today!
Then another thought occurred to her - you got that piece of property for him, right? Maybe he was so happy about it that he decided to wait for you and take you to school!
But in the next second, she shook her head vigorously to deny this thought as well.
Happy? He looked like he wanted to bite her head off last night. And even when she told him that Sir Wu had promised him that property, he still didn't say anything. So, how could he possibly want to take her to school now?
Even if by some miraculous chance he really did want to drive her to school, she didn't want to take anyway. Not only did he get mad at her and refuse to listen to her explanation yesterday, but he had the audacity to misunderstand her and hadn't even apologized about it yet. She had nothing, except for one thing - pride!
With this in mind, she walked straight past him with her backpack on. The medicine that was applied onto her foot seemed to be quite effective. After a night's rest, she looked cool and carefree as she walked.
James froze when he saw her walk away. Then he forcefully honked the horn.
But that made her walk faster.
James furiously started the car and followed after her. When he was beside her, he ordered, "Get in!"
Elizabeth stopped and said calmly, "No, thank you." After that, she continued to walk forwards.
James slammed the steering wheel out of annoyance and started the car again. This time, the car sped like an arrow in the wind, and quickly drove into the distance...
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