La forgeronne d'un autre monde

Chapitre 391

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Chapter 278 Please Pick Me Again [2 Updates]

Wearing an elegant blue dress, Xiang Wanqing slowly stepped off a small yacht, her steps light and graceful, her smile as radiant as a newly blooming rose.

"I'm sorry I'm late!" Liu Mei curved her eyebrows into a crescent moon and said apologetically to Wan Qing. Then her eyes searched the crowd intentionally. When she did not see that figure, a sense of disappointment rose in her heart.

"Holy crap... I'm in love again..."

"Pah, are you tired of living? You dare to dream about the woman Brother Long likes?"

"The class beauty is truly the class beauty; her figure and demeanor are perfect!"

"Yes, so many people are chasing after her, but it's said that Xiang Wanqing has never had a boyfriend!" As Xiang Wanqing walked towards them, everyone praised her. The girls whose limelight had been stolen turned their heads away, unwilling to look at her, because they couldn't help but feel inferior if they looked at her for too long.

"Wanqing, you're here! Come on in the restaurant, I have a surprise for you today!" Li Long's eyes immediately lit up with a bright light as he stared intently at Xiang Wanqing.

He was surrounded by beautiful women, but none could compare to Xiang Wanqing's beauty. Xiang Wanqing's beauty was not only in her appearance; every smile and gesture of hers captivated Li Long. Her youthful and pure charm even made people feel reluctant to defile her.

"Thanks."

Xiang Wanqing smiled gently, then looked away from him. "Um... can I ask you something? Didn't Ma Yunteng say he was coming? Why haven't I seen him?"

Upon hearing Xiang Wanqing directly ask Ma Yunteng, Li Long's expression immediately turned serious. He was clearly the main character at today's gathering, yet Xiang Wanqing seemed to care so much about Ma Yunteng.

After Xiang Wanqing arrived, instead of praising him for being rich, she actually asked him about Ma Yunteng directly.

This made him look very embarrassed.

We were classmates for two years, what's there to miss?

In Li Long's eyes, Ma Yunteng was just a poor boy, a nobody used to highlight his own status, but now his goddess was actually so concerned about Ma Yunteng's existence.

"Wanqing, why are you bringing up that poor bastard? Which of our classmates isn't doing better than him? Look at our Brother Long, he's even bought his own island now. Ma Yunteng, that little guy, can come and go as he pleases, and nobody will even care if he doesn't come. Besides, maybe he feels too embarrassed to come because he's doing so poorly. Look at the time!" The vice class monitor quickly tried to smooth things over.

"Yes, I heard he lost fifty or sixty thousand yuan opening an internet cafe."

"That kind of person is obsessed with money. They started a business before even graduating. They deserve to go bankrupt!"

"That kind of person is narrow-minded. It's just a loss of fifty or sixty thousand yuan. What's there to be ashamed of? We're classmates. If he just says the word, we can each give him several thousand yuan without any problem," one of the boys said.

"Hehe, you're overthinking it. As long as he bows his head slightly in front of Brother Long, Brother Long can easily give him some pocket money to pay off his debts. We don't need to pay anything at all."

"Yeah, the socks Brother Long is wearing cost over ten thousand yuan! He doesn't care about fifty or sixty thousand yuan at all!"

"He's just obsessed with saving face! A hypocrite!"

"narrow!"

Hearing these voices around him, Li Long nodded in satisfaction. These people all knew that he and Ma Yunteng had a conflict during their university years, so they were deliberately putting Ma Yunteng down and speaking up for Li Long.

"My deskmate isn't the kind of person you're describing!" Xiang Wanqing frowned and defended Ma Yunteng when she heard these accusations.

"Heh, if they weren't ashamed, why haven't they come yet? They're just hypocrites," one of the glamorous girls said.

"Hmph!" Xiang Wanqing turned her head away, not wanting to talk to her.

"Alright, alright! Today is our first gathering since graduating from university, so having fun is the most important thing! As for me, I had a little conflict with Ma Yunteng before, but that's all in the past! I forgive his ignorance! As long as he's willing to come today, he's my guest!"

Li Long said quite generously, "Um, class monitor, could you arrange the seats? I'm going to the restroom!"

"Okay!" The deputy squad leader nodded repeatedly and then led everyone toward the restaurant.

Buzz!

Just as everyone was about to enter the restaurant, they heard the sound of a motor roaring from the sea.

"Wow, what kind of yacht is this? It looks so high-class!"

"It's five times bigger than Brother Long's yacht!"

"Oh my god, did you guys see the writing on that yacht?"

"Royal One! It's actually the Royal One yacht! How come there's a Royal One yacht here? I've seen this kind of yacht on the Royal One cruise ship before. It cost a whopping fifty million US dollars!"

"Holy crap..."

The appearance of the Royal One yacht greatly stimulated these people. Compared to this yacht, Li Long's several small yachts, which were said to be worth hundreds of thousands, looked extremely ugly. As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. At this moment, Li Long's yachts looked like ladybugs floating on the water in front of the Royal One yacht.

"Look, who's here!" One of them exclaimed in surprise when he saw the figure walking off the yacht. Everyone stared wide-eyed as they saw Ma Yunteng walking steadily toward them, a cigarette between his fingers.

"It's Ma Yunteng! I remember he said he was going to fly over, where's the plane?" one of the boys sneered.

"I think you're an idiot. This yacht definitely cost no less than a helicopter," one person said seriously.

"Heh, so what? Maybe he rented it. Renting a yacht only costs ten or twenty thousand yuan. This guy is just trying to show off in front of us. He'll probably be eating instant noodles for at least six months after this gathering," the man continued to mock.

It has to be said that Ma Yunteng's arrival in the Royal One shocked many people. To be honest, even if Ma Yunteng rented it, being able to rent such an expensive yacht is something that ordinary classmates like them can't compare to.

For a time, many people looked at Ma Yunteng with newfound respect.

Yunlai swallowed back the words he was about to use to mock Ma Yunteng, while only Li Long's men continued to sneer.

"Hey Ma Yunteng, why are you dressed so casually? You're really not taking this gathering seriously!" The vice class monitor looked at Ma Yunteng, who had walked up to the group, with disdain. "And what kind of cigarettes are you smoking? Double Happiness? The eight-yuan one or the eight-and-a-half-yuan one?"

As soon as Ma Yunteng arrived, he was ridiculed by the deputy class monitor. The few-cent cigarettes in Ma Yunteng's hand directly lowered his status.

"Eight yuan and fifty cents, I think it went up by fifty cents last month." Ma Yunteng smiled calmly instead of getting angry.