Gu Shengyin pulled out a tissue to wipe her tears, drank all the water in her cup, and started shouting to the waiter for iced water.

She heard a man's deep voice next to her: “It's not good for the stomach to drink something cold right now.”

Then, a gla.s.s of water was handed over.

Gu Shengyin looked at the man and whispered a ‘thank you'.

After another cup of water went down, Gu Shengyin felt that fiery burn from the spice ease a bit.

She sized up that man sitting nearby wearing a spotless white s.h.i.+rt and a silver watch on his hand. Gu Shengyin looked at it subconsciously; the brand was .

Gu Shengyin had never seen a man who could look so handsome wearing a white s.h.i.+rt. His refined eyebrows were just perfect. The combination of his five facial features was elegant and beautiful, just like how it was written in historical fiction, a youthful beauty like jade, like a warm scholar.

In terms of age, he should be in his early twenties and could be guessed to be a wealthy young master big brother.

But this person is also quite strange to be wearing a white s.h.i.+rt to eat hot pot. Gu Shengyin secretly thought, before brus.h.i.+ng it off.

After eating dinner, Gu Shengyin glanced at the time and walked slowly towards the school.

It was still early, so she just went for a walk to help digest the food.

Lu Zhangting did not know why he was following this girl. Perhaps he was attracted to the difference in her appearance with the rumors?

He came to this hot pot restaurant merely because he had an appointment with a bad friend. That guy insisted on meeting here. As a result, that guy made a phone call a moment ago telling him that something came up and told him to eat causally. (他來這家火鍋店只是因爲和一個損友有約，那傢伙堅持將地方定在這裡，結果剛剛偏偏一個電話打過來，說臨時有事來不了，讓他自己隨便吃點)

Lu Zhangting practically hung up the phone sneering. Very good. You can let me wait here hanging for an hour and finally let me go so frankly like a pigeon. (陸長霆幾乎是帶着冷笑掛斷了電話，很好，你可以的，讓我在裡面空等了快一個小時，最後這麼爽快的放我鴿子)

When he paid the bill, he saw Gu Shengyin walking in front of him. He also had cla.s.s in the afternoon, so Lu Zhangting followed behind her slowly.

When Gu Shengyin was crossing an underpa.s.s, her dress was nearly grabbed by a person.

She retreated two steps backwards and looked towards the hand.

The palm was rough and dusty. There was also a thick layer of black dirt in the fingernails.

He was a beggar.

“Kind person, have pity on me, this homeless wanderer…” That beggar saw Gu Shengyin looking at him and put more effort begging. (好心人，可憐一下我這個無家可歸的流浪者吧……"那乞丐見到顧盛因看着自己，更加賣力的開口呻.吟)

Gu Shengyin set her eyes on him. This beggar was indeed a beggar, but stopping her, Gu Shengyin, was not at all an accident. (顧盛因定定的看着他，這個乞丐，確實是一個真乞丐，然而今天攔住她顧盛因，卻並不是一個偶然)

Presumably, at this moment, Yuan Chen was not far from this place.

In the original plot, Sheng Lu's dress was directly caught by the beggar. She was startled and did everything she could to throw him off. Who would have imagined that the beggar unexpectedly took advantage of her and extort tens of thousand of cash. (原劇情裡面，就是盛露直接被乞丐抓住了裙角，她受驚之下奮力的掙脫出去，哪知那乞丐居然順勢就摔倒訛詐她幾萬塊錢)

It was certainly impossible for Sheng Lu to eat this loss. At that time, she directly and coldly refused. She disdained arguing with this kind of small person and called for her bodyguard to come settle this matter. (盛露當然不可能吃這個虧，當時就氣憤不已，直接就冷聲拒絕，她不屑和這樣的小人爭論，直接打電話叫了自家的保鏢出來擺平此事)

Although she didn't suffer from any losses, this kind of Sheng Lu was revealed to the public's eyes. Moreover, she was seen as arrogant and domineering in Yuan Chen's eyes.

Honestly, Gu Shengyin didn't think that the girl was doing something wrong. However, she was going to change the method.

She looked at the beggar condescendingly: “You have healthy hands and legs, no diseases, nor disaster. Why do you have to be a useless person whose dignity is trampled on the soles of people's feet? Clean yourself up. You can go out to find a job and support yourself. Is it that hard?” (她居高臨下的看着乞丐："你四肢健全，無病無災，何必做一個整日將尊嚴踩在腳底下的廢人，將自己收拾的乾淨體面一點，隨便出去找個賣力氣的工作，靠自己養活自己，很難麼)

JMin's Corner:

So I searched up the prices of that brand for watches and boy are they pricy XD

Since Ari is gonna be busy with work and school, would anyone who can read Chinese like to help edit/translate this novel (Join our little crew)? If anyone is interested and would like to help, you can send me a message on discord (@JMin) or on the contact page.

Currently, I am also pretty busy but I can still translate a bit. I still have a couple chapters in my stash, which will be used to update once a week until they are all gone. After that, I'll probably be able to do 2-3 chapters/month. Honestly, I do feel a bit tired translating this during my free time, but since I started this, I don't want to drop it and leave people hanging (though you guys can also MTL it lol).

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