Chapter 31: Sheng Yu, You’re Shameless

“I… I didn’t.”

Even Qiao Shuyi could feel the nervousness in her voice.

“Really?”

“Of course it’s true.”

A brief silence followed.

Sheng Yu suddenly spoke, “It’s because of you.”

Qiao Shuyi was taken aback, “What?”

“The reason I took over the medical equipment from the Qiao family is mainly because of you.”

“You…”

“I know you want to ask this.”

Qiao Shuyi was speechless for a moment.

If there was a mirror in front of her at this moment, she would definitely see that her face had turned completely red.

Did Sheng Yu have mind-reading abilities?

“If nothing unexpected happens, Mr. Qiao will become my father-in-law in the future. When my future father-in-law encounters difficulties, how can I, as his son-in-law, stand by and watch?”

Father-in-law?

Qiao Shuyi’s mind went blank for a moment, and she blurted out, “Sheng Yu, what are you talking about?”

The man chuckled, “I’m not talking nonsense. Isn’t what I said a fact?”

“Shameless!”

After scolding him, Qiao Shuyi hung up the phone and slowly fell onto the sofa beside her.

Did she just call Sheng Yu by his first name?

Forget it, she didn’t care!

Who told him to be so shameless.

They weren’t even engaged yet, how could he so brazenly call him “father-in-law”?

Ah!

…

Qiao Shuyi lay on the sofa for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, she got up and went upstairs to put on makeup.

The temperature had started to drop recently, and the entire city of Beijing was showing signs of entering autumn.

Qiao Shuyi chose a light green dress from her closet and paired it with a white shawl, which was both beautiful and warm.

However, when she went downstairs to drive, she discovered that the BMW had been taken by Chen’s mother to buy groceries.

She thought she wouldn’t need the car today since she wasn’t working, so she took it out to buy groceries without telling her.

With no other choice, Qiao Shuyi had to go to the garage and drive out her dusty Panamera.

The Panamera was quite eye-catching, and on the way to the Wanxiang Center, it attracted the attention of many drivers and pedestrians.

While waiting at a red light, Qiao Shuyi rolled down the window to get some fresh air, but was approached by a man driving a Mercedes Benz next to her.

The man looked to be in his thirties, and his eyes lit up when he saw her face, but the next second, as if he thought of something, his eyes became strange.

Then, he shouted at Qiao Shuyi in a playful and suggestive tone, “Beauty, you’re so young and driving such a nice car?”

“Add me on WeChat, beauty, we can hang out sometime.”

Qiao Shuyi ignored him and sped away as soon as the red light turned green.

There were all sorts of birds in the forest.

Arriving at the Wanxiang Center, Qiao Shuyi parked her car in the underground parking lot and got out to find Zhao Jiajia and the others.

They had agreed to meet at the entrance of a milk tea shop.

When Qiao Shuyi arrived, two of them were already there, Chen Yue and Wang Ning.

They were chatting, and when they saw her coming, they immediately waved to her, “Qiao Qiao, over here.”

Qiao Shuyi quickly joined their conversation, and soon the remaining three arrived as well.

The group decided to have lunch first, and Zhao Jiajia had chosen a restaurant in advance, a self-service barbecue restaurant.

She walked ahead to lead the way, “I’ve been to this barbecue restaurant several times, it has a wide variety of dishes, it’s affordable, and the taste is pretty good!”

When they arrived at the restaurant, they took their seats and quickly got busy, grilling meat, getting food, and so on.

They chatted and gossiped while eating barbecue, a lively scene.

During the conversation, they also talked about Sheng Xing.

“I heard that He Zhou has been sued and might be spending the next ten years in jail.”

“Really? What did he do?”

“I’m not sure, but I heard he embezzled a lot of money from the company, probably a small fortune. Not only him, but also those executives, the least amount embezzled was over a million…”

Zhao Jiajia was instantly furious when she heard this, “Damn it! I’ve been working my ass off for my whole life and haven’t even earned that much! How dare they?”

“I always thought our company wasn’t making much money, no performance bonuses, no year-end bonuses, even holiday benefits were cancelled! I was worried every day that it was going to go bankrupt, but it turns out all the money was going into the pockets of those bastards!”

“Speaking of which, Song Jie seemed so honest and gentle, I can’t believe she would do something like this…”

“Who knows? Money can make the devil dance, if it were us, we might have done the same.”

“Yeah, haha.”

…

Seeing that lunch was almost over, Qiao Shuyi got up and went to the front desk to pay the bill while using the restroom.

When it was time to check out, the group was told that the bill had already been paid.

“Paid? Who paid?”

“I did.” Qiao Shuyi smiled awkwardly, “I’ll treat you all to this meal, it’s nice to meet you.”

“How can that be? We agreed to split the bill, how much is it, we’ll transfer it to you.”

“No need, it’s not expensive.”

Qiao Shuyi declined, she genuinely wanted to treat them to a meal.

However, they insisted on splitting the bill, asked the waiter for the price, calculated the amount, and each transferred the money to her in the group chat, urging her to accept it.

Qiao Shuyi smiled helplessly and reluctantly opened her phone to accept all the transfers.

After lunch, the group started to stroll around the mall, going into every beauty store, clothing store, and boutique, regardless of what it was.

They didn’t buy anything, just played a guessing game about prices.

“Hey, guess how much this hair clip is?”

“50 yuan, no more.”

“Wrong answer, 299.”

“Damn! It’s just a tiny clip for 299? Is it made of gold?!”

“Let’s go, let’s go, we can’t afford it!”

…

Qiao Shuyi continued to wander with them until around 4 pm.

Although they didn’t buy anything, she found it quite interesting, especially listening to them complain about the prices in a humorous way.

She remembered when she used to go shopping with Sheng Tang, the young lady would never look at the price when buying things, if she liked something, she would just have the clerk wrap it up and deliver it to her house.

Although they had different lives, they each had their own kind of fun.

Unknowingly, Qiao Shuyi followed them into a clothing store.

Zhao Jiajia had her eye on two outfits and went into the fitting room to try them on, while the others either looked at clothes or sat in the waiting area.

Qiao Shuyi sat on the sofa and looked at her phone.

Just then, a familiar, saccharine voice suddenly reached her ears—

“Mr. Xu, do you think this dress looks good on me?”