Chapter 553: Fu Zhi, The Know-It-All – 1
Fu Zhi received a video call from Lu Yusheng when she was dressing up.
It was 6:00 pm in Myanmar, and there was a time difference between the two places.
“Zhizhi.”
It was daytime in Yu City, and Lu Yusheng was sitting on a couch. Fu Zhi surmised that he must have taken a bath since there were water droplets dangling on the tip of his hair.
His eyes were beautifully dark and deep-set. His face was wet with water and pink in color. Right now, there was a frown sitting on top of his eyes as he fixed his gaze on Fu Zhi.
It was rare for him to express his displeasure openly. He tapped the screen several times in an attempt to touch the girl’s face on the other side of the line.
After a short while, he said, his voice low, “My sister looks skinnier. I can even see your bones.”
When he was talking, there was an apparent hint of annoyance and frustration. “When will my sister come home? I want my sister to come home.”
Considering Lu Yushen’s personality and status, he rarely took anything to heart. Honestly, he could follow his family to Myanmar as well, it was just that Ye Jiu was there.
Ye Jiu was not likable, as he was very possessive over Fu Zhi. Therefore, Lu Yushen would avoid interacting with Ye Jiu at all costs, for he did not want to get Fu Zhi into a difficult position.
He looked at Fu Zhi.
She was clad in a black dress with a white cashmere scarf draped over her shoulder.
Mama Zhang heard Lu Yushen say “my sister looks skinnier” when she had finished handling the duck meat. She was a little bit worried, so she came out of the kitchen.
In Mama Zhang’s impression, Fu Zhi had been a binge-eater, so she wondered how bad the food in Myanmar was to make Fu Zhi lose her appet.i.te and become as thin as a rake.
Mama Zhang took a glance at Fu Zhi through the corner of her eyes. The girl on the phone was now sipping on a cup of milk. Her cheeks were distended as she complained. “The milk tea here is not nice, causing me to lose my appet.i.te.”
Lu Yushen was heartbroken. He chose to ignore the rosiness on her cheeks and comforted her as his eyes turned red around the rims, “Just hold on a little longer, okay? You can come home once you’ve done your job there.”
Mama Zhang, who was standing not far away, did not know what to say.
She looked at Fu Zhi, and while she was surprised to see that Fu Zhi had become even prettier after she had not been seeing her for a few days, she also wanted to tell Lu Yushen that he should not lie through his teeth no matter how much he liked Fu Zhi. Did he not see that she was drinking milk in front of him? Not only that, but she also seemed to have put on some weight after she went to Myanmar.
Of course, Lu Yushen was not the only person who could lie through his teeth. While Lu Yumo was helping Fu Zhi do her homework, he lifted his head to take a look at her and lamented, “How can you lose so much weight after you went there? Did you not have enough money to buy food? Didn’t I already give you money? You should buy whatever you want to eat. Don’t be so mean to yourself. What’s your weight now? Do you weigh more than 10 kg?”
Mama Zhang was stunned.
“Yes! Yes!”
Fu Zhi nodded. It went without saying that she weighed more than 10 kg, it was just that the food here was not as good as the food in her house.
Fu Zhi had been having a good life since she was a kid. The only time that the quality of her life dropped was when she was adopted by the Zhao Family and when she was at Country F. She took a look at her watch. Then, she worriedly took a piece of cake from her drawer and stuffed it into her mouth before saying to her brothers. “Brothers, you two also look skinnier than the last time I saw you. Did you guys listen to Mama Zhang and take your meal properly?”
Lu Yushen pressed his lips thin and said, “I miss you, Zhizhi.”
While Lu Yumo wiped the invisible tears off his face and sobbed, “You’re the soul, the heart, the very crucial being of the Lu Family. Without you, the Lu Family is nothing! Ever since you left, Mama Zhang kept forcing me to eat, but I refused to! How could I, her brother, still have the mood and heart to eat, while my sister is fighting to improve our quality of life outside?!”
Mama Zhang was speechless.
She might actually believe him if she was not here.
Lu Yumo did not think there was anything wrong with his acting and he continued, “Trust me, Zhizhi. I can’t even swallow single tiny rice when you’re…”
Suddenly, when he saw the time on Lu Yushen’s phone, he rushed to the kitchen and shouted, “Mama Zhang, it’s time for lunch! Have you done preparing the braised pork feet and the spicy duck gizzards? By the way, since Zhizhi is not here, give me her bowl. Her bowl is bigger and I can eat more rice!”
Lu Yushen, Fu Zhi, and Mama Zhang became speechless.
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Fu Zhi hung up the call after she talked with Lu Yushen for a while longer.
Just when she was heading out of her room, her phone rang again.
This time, it was not from the Lu Family, but from Li Nanli.
Fu Zhi was curious. She answered the call, and Li Nanli’s voice wafted into her ear, “Zhizhi, after you come downstairs, follow the red arrow.”
Fu Zhi did not understand why Li Nanli had to call her while they were staying inside the same villa. Besides, were they not supposed to meet up first before departing to the Zheng Family’s banquet together?
She frowned, but she figured that since she was Li Nanli’s girlfriend right now, she should just do as she was told.
The Li Mansion was split into two floors. When Fu Zhi arrived on the first floor, the people from the Shadow Corps were already gone. The entire mansion was bereft of people, and there was nothing but yellow lights and furniture in her vision.
“Li Nanli?”
Fu Zhi pushed the door open and followed the red arrow.
The sky was getting darker and darker. The night air was crisp but not cold. The wind had slowed to a breeze after the sun sinking under the horizon.
Just like Iris Time Villa, the Li Mansion was situated at the top of a mountain.
Fu Zhi stopped when the series of red arrows came to an end and she looked around. However, she could not see anyone around.
Just when she was about to pull her phone out, a few loud bangs that sounded as if something had exploded erupted in the air.
It was fireworks. Plumes of purple and gold exploded in the sky, lighting up the entire night and dispersing the cloud.
Fu Zhi lifted her head up slowly. A hand suddenly came out from nowhere and shielded her eyes from the blinding light.
Her eyelashes fluttered and a waft of peppermint tickled her nostrils. Up above the night sky, dazzling fireworks exploded one after another and lit up the city.
“Firework?” She asked.
“Yeah,” Li Nanli replied, still keeping an affectionate gaze on her as he rested his chin on top of her head.
“Do you like it?”
Fu Zhi turned sideways and asked, “Why fireworks all of a sudden?”
“Because,” Li Nanli said as he twirled his finger around Fu Zhi’s hair. “I was in too much of a hurry when I asked you to be my girlfriend that day.”
The night was cold, the heart of the man behind her was pumping at a steady pace, and the fireworks looked like stars in the sky.
Amidst the explosion of fireworks, the man bent forward and Fu Zhi saw that his eyes were even brighter than the fireworks in the sky.
“My Zhizhi must not lose to other girls. I’ll give you everything that all other girls have.”
Then, she sensed a cold sensation on her lips, and she could hear her heart pumping even louder than the fireworks.
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Below the mountain, Gu Yanqi looked at the fireworks and wrapped himself even tighter in his suit.
He felt that something was. .h.i.tting him in the face, but he could not tell what it was.
By the time Fu Zhi and Li Nanli came down from the mountain, it was already 8:00 pm.
Gu Yanqi hung up the call and stubbed out the cigarette.
After they had gone into the car, Li Nanli asked, “Is it the Zheng Family?”
“Yeah. Those b*stards thought you’re not going, so they call me and ask.”
The banquet started at 7:30 pm, but Li Nanli hadn’t shown up yet even though it’s already 8:00 pm.
They were itching to do something before the Zheng Family was acquired by Li Nanli.
“How is the relationship between the Zheng Family and the Huo Family? Fu Zhi asked as she put her phone into his pocket. She did not have a good impression of the Zheng Family after what they did with the Phantom Lord the other days.
Fu Zhi was the kind of person who believed in the phrase “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”. She would certainly fight back when someone tried to harm her or the people that she cared about, not to mention that the Zheng Family nearly killed Li Nanli.
She asked, “Would they complain to the Huo Family if I beat them? Would it affect the Li Corporation?”
Fu Zhi remembered that Li Nanli’s mother was related to the Zheng Family by blood.
Li Nanli handed a piece of chocolate to Fu Zhi and replied, “Nope. No matter what you do, it won’t affect the Li Corporation. The Zheng Family is just a small family that relies on the Li Family. You can do whatever you want to them.”
This perhaps was the reason the Zheng Family decided to overthrow the Li Family.
The relationship between them and the Li Family was like the shark and the remora fish. The Li Family was the shark while the Zheng Family was the remora fish.
The Li Family only reason they could survive until this day. Therefore, they were unable to accept it when the Li Family was taking back their privilege. They thought they could protect their family, or even more, overtake the Li Corporation by pulling Li Nanli down from his throne. However, what they did not think of was that considering their ability, the Li Corporation would only last not more than a year before it was devoured by other families.
As Gu Yanqi listened to their conversation, he wondered inwardly, ‘Sister Zhi, you’re going to a banquet, you’re not going for a fight. Besides, do you think you can defeat those young masters? Each and every one of them is highly accomplished conmen, and you would lose until nothing left if you play with them!’
However, Gu Yanqi soon would realize how wrong he was and how
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It was 8:30 pm by the time Li Nanli arrived.
It was a manor that befitted the word luxury. The decoration was extravagant and the atmosphere was lively.
When Li Nanli and Gu Yanqi arrived, a few men who were drinking wine suddenly shouted, “Yo, Young Master Gu, Uncle Li, what took you two so long? Don’t you think you guys should punish yourself by drinking three gla.s.ses of wine for showing up late?”
“I heard that you’re ambushed some time ago? How do you feel now?”
“By the way, who is this lovely lady over here? Are you not going to introduce her to us, President Li?”
As they were talking, they all zeroed in on Fu Zhi.
“Well, I want to say you have great taste, Uncle Li, but… she seems like a high school girl? She’s so short.”
“She’s pretty, but she’s still out of Young Master Zheng’s plus-on league. Girl, can you entertain our President Li?”
“You don’t know the fun of getting a younger girlfriend.”
“So President Li likes this kind of girl?”
A series of footfalls rang up, and Fu Zhi began to imagine the face of Young Master Zheng.
Li Nanli took the gla.s.s of wine from the waiter, but he did not drink it, whereas Gu Yanqi did as he was told and emptied three gla.s.ses of wine in one sitting.
Then, he asked, “Where’s Zheng Qu? Is he not coming out to welcome us?”
Zheng Qu was the organizer of the banquet. At the same time, he was also the most outstanding junior in the Zheng Family.
“Don’t get so hot and bothered, Young Master Gu,” a man chuckled.
Another person then chimed in, “Young Master Gu lost to our Young Master Zheng, so he wants a rematch to win one’s dignity back.”
“Chill, Young Master Gu, considering your luck, you should just give us your money instead.”
None of them treat Gu Yanqi seriously.
Gu Yanqi’s gaze turned cold. Just when he was about to say something, a voice erupted from his back, “How are you guys so sure he’s going to lose? Since you guys are so good at foretelling, why not put your talent to good use by setting up a stall under the flyover to tell fortunes?”
Everyone fell silent after they heard what the voice had said. After a short while, all of them turned their heads and glared at Fu Zhi.
Every woman in the scene broke into a cold sweat. All of the men here would not bring their girlfriends or wives to an occasion such as this. Instead, they would pick a woman from outside to be their plus-ones. All of them were nothing but toys for the men here, so they all looked at Fu Zhi with twinkling eyes when they heard what she had said.