And most importantly, she studied very diligently.
In this respect, Chen Xu felt that she and Wu Yuan were very similar, because although Wu Yuan was a bit reserved, he was also very serious and hardworking when he did things. No wonder the two of them got together.
Chen Xu was greeting a group of livestock. Suddenly, Pipi, that lecherous dog, lunged forward, and Chen Xu, caught off guard, almost fell over... because the leash was in his hand!
The lecherous man, leading Chen Xu (why does this sound so strange?), rushed through the crowd to the counter. Wow! So many beautiful girls!
This damn dog is really lecherous. As soon as he saw a beautiful woman, he tried to break free from Chen Xu's grasp. How could Chen Xu dare to let him go? As far as he knew, many girls were afraid of dogs. If he scared her half to death, wouldn't a bunch of bastards around them use the banner of hero saving the beauty to pin him down and beat him up?
Chen Xu pulled hard, but Pipi wouldn't have it. It turned around and bared its teeth at Chen Xu, but Chen Xu wasn't going to be polite... "I have a rabies vaccine, who am I afraid of?" ...He kicked it!
This wretched dog is a bully who preys on the weak. After being kicked by Chen Xu, it immediately became much more obedient, whimpering pitifully, almost with tears streaming down its face.
Just then, a girl's voice rang out: "Oh my! What an adorable puppy!"
Then a little girl ran out of the store and bent down to stare at the lecherous dog. The dog was wagging its tail excitedly, so the little girl reached out and petted it. Seeing the dog's enjoyable expression, she giggled and hugged it tightly.
Oh dear, another little girl has fallen for it! Watching that lecherous dog's head rubbing comfortably against the little girl's barely developed chest, Chen Xu felt an urge to kick its butt hard.
So Chen Xu bent down and said, "Little sister, stop playing, or it might bite you!"
"No way!" The little girl raised her head and looked at Chen Xu with her big, watery eyes. "This dog is very obedient. You see, it wags its tail, which means it likes me. It won't bite me!" After saying that, she scratched the lecherous dog's chin with her hand, making the lecherous dog feel so good that it simply lay down on the ground with its belly exposed.
If an animal like a cat or dog exposes its belly to a person, it means it completely trusts that person. Chen Xu understood this principle, so he immediately felt a little dizzy. He thought to himself, "That lecherous dog really is a lecherous dog! I've known it for at least a month. Every time I pet it, it acts like a big shot, never treating me like that. But today, seeing a little girl for the first time, it's so well-behaved. Damn it! In its past life, it must have been either Ximen Qing or Wei Yangsheng!"
At this moment, Guan Yi's silvery laughter rang out: "Hey, Chen Xu, what's wrong? Did Pipi bully you again? Judging from your expression, if I had come any later, would you have wanted to eat dog meat hot pot tonight?"
Upon hearing this, the little girl immediately hugged the lecherous dog and glared at Chen Xu: "Ah, you're a bad person! Don't eat it! Sister Guan Yi. He's a bad person. Help me beat him up!" Then the lecherous dog became smug. It went behind Guan Yi and affectionately rubbed against her calves, then bared its teeth at Chen Xu.
Chen Xu rolled his eyes, thinking to himself, "One day I'll definitely put you in a hot pot! I don't care if you're a Samoyed or a Tibetan Mastiff!" He pointed at the little girl and said, "Hey beautiful, do you know her?"
Guan Yi chuckled and took the dog leash from Chen Xu's hand, saying with a smile, "Let me introduce you. This little girl is Wang Mingmei, she's only fifteen years old this year, she's a girl I know from an arts school. Um, these beauties are all from arts school too, I specially invited them here today to support our cake shop."
Chen Xu knew that Guan Yi used to take on odd jobs in his spare time, like walking the runway, working as a model, or even shooting commercials. He seemed to be doing quite well, so it wasn't surprising that he knew the beauties from the art school... The provincial art school, that's a dream paradise for men! It's located right across the street from the main gate of Hexie University, so the guys at Hexie University talk about the art school girls the most. The small restaurants near the art school are always packed... basically all the seats are taken by the guys from Hexie University.
However, the two security guards at the art school were very strict, requiring student IDs for entry and exit, and even checking fingerprints for the smallest creature. The art school was small, with few students, and only a handful of familiar faces, so for years, no one from He Xie University had ever successfully sneaked into the art school to pick up girls… Thus, the slogan "Infiltrate the art school to find happiness" became an integral part of He Xie University's motto, spurring on generations of He Xie University students.
But no one expected Guan Yi to bring so many this time. At first glance, it was indeed a sight to behold, with beautiful women everywhere, no wonder it attracted so many livestock.
However, isn't Wang Mingmei a bit too young? She's only 15 years old, which is basically the age of a junior high school student or a high school freshman.
"Wrong." Guan Yi leaned closer and said, "Art schools also have vocational high schools. This little girl just arrived. She filmed an advertisement with me, hoho, she played my daughter, you know?"
Chen Xu rolled her eyes and said, "You guys aren't filming an ad for Sanlu milk powder, are you? You're a mother now?"
Guan Yi's response was to give Chen Xu two alluring eye rolls, then pull out a packaged braised chicken leg from her bag. After tearing open the packaging, she shoved it into the hand of the lecherous man below her.
Chen Xu thought to himself, "How extravagant! That chicken leg costs five yuan and eighty cents! Sister, you just casually feed it to the dog like that? That's too extravagant!"
Only then did Chen Xu notice the little girl, Wang Mingmei, and realize that she had a truly bright and sunny smile. The girl was only 15 years old, a year younger than Tang Bixuan. However, the two looked quite different.
Although Tang Bixuan was only 16, she had been away for three years and appeared much more mature and composed, though this maturity often evoked a sense of pity. This little girl, on the other hand, was 15, a typical lively and playful young girl. Her eyes were dark and bright, like pearls reflected in their sockets. She was clearly a very intelligent girl.
However, Chen Xu found her appearance rather familiar. Thinking of the name, Wang Mingmei, Wang Mingmei… Chen Xu then asked, “Little sister, is your mother’s surname Li?”
Wang Mingmei blinked in surprise and asked, "How did you know?"
Chen Xu rolled his eyes and said bluntly, "Is your mother's name Li Jia? Is your family in Xi'an?"
"Yes!" Guan Yi was also stunned. He asked, "What, you two know each other?"
Chen Xu scratched his head with a wry smile, took out his phone, and dialed a number. He said, "Auntie, um, it's me, Xiao Xu! Hehe, good, good. I'm doing very well. Happy New Year, Auntie! Hehe. I changed my phone number! Didn't Mom tell you? Um, let's not talk about my heartless parents. By the way, where is Er Ya now? Ah? Haha, I know, um, I saw Er Ya, oh. Her name is Mingmei now. Hehe, I only know her nickname. Yes. Her school is right across from ours, um, I'll have Er Ya talk to you."
Then Chen Xu looked at the little girl Wang Mingmei with a teasing expression and said with a smile, "Er Ya, do you still remember me?"
At this moment, Wang Mingmei's mouth was agape, wide enough to fit a duck egg. Somewhat bewildered, she took the phone, said "Hello?", and exclaimed, "Mom?!"
Guan Yi looked surprised and said, "You really know each other? It seems that the six degrees of separation theory makes a lot of sense; the distance between two people can't exceed six people. By the way, is Mingmei's nickname Er Ya?"
Chen Xu lowered his head and chuckled mischievously, making the little girl glare at him angrily, her face turning red.
Because many people nearby heard the commotion, especially the girls from the art school, many of them looked over and covered their mouths to chuckle, probably because they heard the name Er Ya.
Yes, it's true that you can meet someone anywhere in life.
This little girl is the daughter of Chen Xu's mother's younger sister. Chen Xu's mother's family has many branches and leaves, which means Chen Xu has three uncles and one aunt. Chen Xu remembers that when she was little, her aunt once lived in her house. Chen Xu had a very good relationship with her aunt, but after she married and moved to Xi'an to live with her uncle, they lost contact.
Not long after she got married, she gave birth to a lovely daughter, nicknamed Er Ya. Chen Xu knew that her uncle's surname was Wang. Chen Xu's only memory of Wang Er Ya was that he had seen her a few times when they were children, the last time being when she was in her third year of junior high school, when Er Ya was only 12 years old. As the saying goes, girls change a lot as they grow up, and this chance encounter in a different place almost made Chen Xu not recognize her. If it weren't for the similarity in their faces, he might not have recognized her at all.
Seeing Wang Erya hand the phone back with a pout, Chen Xu took it and said, "Oh, hehe, I know, Auntie. Okay, I'll take good care of Erya. Good! If she misbehaves, I'll spank her! Hehe, I got it, I'll hang up now!"
Chen Xu hung up the phone, looked at the little girl Wang Mingmei with ill intent, and chuckled lewdly, "Er Ya, it's been years since I've seen you. You've grown into a young lady. Come on, call me cousin."
"No!" Wang Mingmei bared her teeth at Chen Xu like a little wildcat. "I don't want to call you brother! Sister Guan Yi, he bullied me, help me beat him up!"
Guan Yi chuckled. Chen Xu wiped the sweat from his brow. This little girl has been going against him since she was little. Now she doesn't call him her cousin but calls him her sister. You could call her sister-in-law! ...Uh, never mind that last sentence.
So Chen Xu pointed at Guan Yi's nose and said, "Look at you! What have you done to my sister? She's always threatening to hit people. This little girl has been violent since she was little, like a wild cat with rabies. If you don't discipline her, she'll never be able to get married!"
Guan Yi playfully slapped him and scolded, "How can you talk about your own sister like that?"
Chen Xu chuckled and reached out to pinch Wang Mingmei's little face... When she was little, he often kneaded this little girl's face like dough, and now that her face was so chubby, he couldn't help but want to pinch it. Then Xiao Er Ya looked at Guan Yi with a sad face and said, "Sister, look, he's bullying me!"
Guan Yi patted Chen Xu again and said, "It's good that she's your sister. Well, you should thank me then."
"Thank u?"
"Heh, thanking me for fighting for her?"
Chen Xu broke out in a cold sweat and said, "No way, sister, you actually helped her fight!"
Chen Xu had a lot of faith in Guan Yi's fighting abilities. Before he had any training, this woman could probably beat him up like it was nothing. The time she was hypnotized, the way she wielded that little dagger was almost as impressive as Gongsun Da Niang's sword dance!
So Chen Xu asked, "Why are you helping her fight? What if you make this girl violent? Even though she's already quite violent!"
Wang Mingmei flashed her little tiger teeth and glared at Chen Xu with a threatening look... However, Chen Xu chose to ignore her; this little girl hadn't yet dared to ride on his head.
Guan Yi shook his head and said, "So you should thank me. Um, Xiaomingmei, go over there and play with Sister Bixuan. I have something to tell your brother."
Wang Mingmei was unusually obedient to Guan Yi. She said "oh" and gave Chen Xu a threatening look before walking away triumphantly with Pipi in her hand.
Chen Xu keenly sensed that Guan Yi definitely didn't want Er Ya to know what he wanted to say. After watching the girl lead Pi Pi to the side, he whispered, "What exactly happened?"
Guan Yi looked into his eyes and said, "You know this industry is pretty chaotic, right?"
Chen Xu nodded. He knew about the sex scandal. Did he still believe that the entertainment industry was as pure as innocent flowers? Guan Yi continued, "Mingmei is still young and doesn't understand many things. That time, she and I filmed an advertisement together. After the advertisement ended, several representatives from the company and the director treated us to dinner and deliberately made us drink. At first, they were quite well-behaved, but I sensed something was wrong, so I secretly sneaked into the men's restroom to listen to their conversation."
Chen Xu broke out in a cold sweat. Sneaking into the men's restroom? This vixen really dared to do that!
Guan Yi patted her to stop changing the subject and continued, "Then I overheard those bosses and directors discussing how to take advantage of me and Mingmei." At this point, the woman blushed, "Those bastards even said they were going to drug us, and then how the men would divide the drugs..."
Chapter 140: The Shift in Mindset
Chen Xu's face instantly darkened.
In fact, Chen Xu has always been a pretty easy-going person. He wouldn't get angry if friends made some good-natured jokes, even if they were a little excessive. However, this kind of thing really crossed his bottom line.
He spat out a few words through gritted teeth: "Who are they? Which advertising company? Which factory?"
Guan Yi frowned and said, "What do you want to do? Never mind, since I already know about this, how can they possibly succeed? I beat them all up, broke a few bones, and then threw them into the hospital."
Normally, Chen Xu would have exaggeratedly yelled, "My God, you woman are too violent!" But now, Chen Xu just twitched his lips and asked, "How many bones? Too few. Tell me the names and identities of those people, and I'll make sure they spend the rest of their lives in the hospital!"
Guan Yi noticed that Chen Xu was acting strangely. Her beautiful eyebrows furrowed into a knot, and she said, "Forget it. If they really knew who I was, they wouldn't dare to touch me. This kind of thing is very common in this circle, but it's mostly consensual. There aren't many people who would do something like drugging someone. It's just that we happened to run into them. And it's fortunate that I ran into them."
Chen Xu's expression softened somewhat as he said thank you, but what was truly troubling was that a fire was still burning inside him. He felt an urge to chop those bastards who had almost taken advantage of Guan Yi and Er Ya into a dozen or twenty pieces! This thought startled even Chen Xu himself. In the past, he would have been just as angry and wanted to beat those guys up in the same way... But that's the problem. Beating them up and chopping them into a dozen or twenty pieces are two completely different things!
The former was just trying to teach them a lesson, but the latter... actually wanted to kill them!
Of course, if such a thing really happened, Chen Xu would probably want to kill those beasts just like he did. But Chen Xu felt that his personality had always been like what Ge You said in "If You Are the One": Even if killing wasn't illegal, I wouldn't have the guts.
But now, he vaguely felt that killing those people was as easy as stepping on a few ants; it was truly a matter of killing whenever he wanted…
This shift in mindset made Chen Xu feel a little flustered, because he had never considered himself a violent person. How could he suddenly have such thoughts?
Guan Yi noticed that his expression was a little off and assumed he was still bothered by this matter. So she pulled his hand and said, "Alright, stop thinking about it. Do you think Mingmei will be bullied if she's with me? I'll remind her to be careful if something like this happens in the future."
Chen Xu looked at her, wanting to say that since this circle is so chaotic, you shouldn't go there anymore. Anyway, you're not short of money. But when he thought of the word "money," Chen Xu suddenly paused… Did Guan Yi need money?
After meeting Guan Yi's father, Chen Xu would occasionally wonder what Guan Yi was up to.
Although I consider Guan Yi's father to be a businessman who wants to collaborate with my father through me, it's safe to say he's quite wealthy. Having known Guan Yi for quite some time, I've come to realize that this woman is actually quite contradictory. On one hand, she earns a comfortable living by various means, while on the other hand, she doesn't mind spending lavishly in certain situations.
She often spends money extravagantly, sometimes earning in a single transaction what she might not be able to earn in several years of working.
Chen Xu asked Guan Yi this question, and the devil's answer was three very nonsensical words: "It's fun!"
However, it's true that this woman isn't short of money. She participates in various activities to earn some extra income, but it really doesn't have much to do with money.
Chen Xu was glad he hadn't said those words aloud, otherwise it might have really caused some unpleasantness between them.
Seeing the uncertain look on his face, Guan Yi assumed he was still upset about the matter, so she said softly, "Actually, although this circle is a bit chaotic, there are still rules. Generally, people rarely use such underhanded tricks as drugging; it's mostly consensual. Don't worry, with me here, this kind of thing won't happen again."
Indeed, as Guan Yi said, the reason these unspoken rules are called unspoken rules is because they have their own logic and framework. There are many women in this circle who want to climb the social ladder through their bodies. So, it's basically a matter of mutual consent. There are very few instances of forced drugging, because if it gets out, it won't benefit anyone.
Chen Xu was a bit flustered, so he could only force a smile and say, "Then you'd better be more careful in the future, so you don't get taken advantage of."
Guan Yi raised his eyebrows smugly and said, "How could that be? You can put your mind at ease."
Just then, Gao Xiaojie's voice called out from the doorway: "Guan Yi! Beautiful lady! Come over here quickly!" So Guan Yi walked over with a smile and asked, "What's wrong?"
Gao Xiaojie was about to speak, but when she saw Chen Xu behind her, she immediately raised an eyebrow and said, "Oh, the busy man has finally shown up? I thought you had disappeared!" Then she pulled Guan Yi and said, "Sister, why did you bring so many beauties at once? It's lively enough, but it's so congested that we can't do business."
Guan Yi laughed and said, "Don't worry, I didn't invite them here just to make a brief appearance. Hehe, you'll see in a bit."
Chen Xu sneaked into the back and saw Zhan Jing and Tang Bixuan laughing as they poured cream and jam on the cake. Er Ya was holding Pi Pi's hand, her lips covered in jam, clearly having eaten quite a bit earlier.
Chen Xu took a napkin, walked behind Er Ya, and then pressed the little girl down, wiping her lips for her, saying, "Look at you, you've got your face all covered in grease like a little kitten. You two shouldn't spoil her like that!"
Zhan Jing smiled, and Tang Bixuan smiled a little shyly. But Er Ya broke free from Chen Xu's clutches and shouted, "Hmph, Sister Zhan Jing and Sister Bixuan are so good to each other, unlike you! Hmph, I've been here for half a year, and you, as my cousin, haven't even shown your face. It's so hard for me to find anyone to pay for my snacks!"
Chen Xu was sweating and couldn't help but tap her, saying, "Shouldn't your brother buy you snacks?"
Er Ya said smugly, "If you don't buy it for me, I'll go tell Auntie you're bullying me! Humph, Auntie loves me the most!"
Chen Xu rolled his eyes, scratching his head. To be honest, given his mother's personality, she might actually side with this little girl. His mother always felt he was too mischievous. Over the past ten years, she'd said countless times how much better it would have been to have a girl. If this little girl really went to complain, who knew what his wicked mother might do.
Seeing Chen Xu roll his eyes, Er Ya proudly made a victory sign and said, "Hey, and one more thing. My sisters just told me that you're really good at computers, right? Hmm. You have to teach me sometime!"
"Teach you?" Chen Xu tapped her on the head and said, "Little girl, aren't you studying acting? Why did you suddenly want to learn computers?"
Er Ya wrinkled her cute little nose proudly. She said, "Of course I have to learn! I'm a huge fan of SMMH now! The girls in my class even formed an SMMH fan club, and I'm the leader! How could I face anyone if I wasn't good enough as the leader?!"
Chen Xu broke out in a cold sweat. He really wanted to say, "If you admire SMMH, then be more polite to your older brother in the future." However, he was also very curious; someone like Er Ya was probably a complete novice in computer science... It wasn't that Chen Xu looked down on women, but rather that nine out of ten women he'd met were completely clueless about computers!