Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce made a passionate bet of ten Hermès exotic leather bags.
Exotic leathers mainly referred to crocodile leather and lizard leather. Crocodile leather was further divided into saltwater crocodile, American alligator, and Nile crocodile. Lizard leather included monitor lizard and Nile monitor lizard. In addition, there were ostrich leather and so on… Calculated at a market price of 200,000-300,000 yuan each, ten rare leathers would cost at least two to three million.
TN: This Hermès Himalayan crocodile Birkin was over $450,000 USD.
Li Jing smiled through her tears: So cool ^_^
However, Jiang Ziming was truly devastated.
He never imagined that Li Jing could actually make these two big shots fight!
But—Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce could afford ten Hermès exotic leather bags! He couldn’t afford it! Moreover, even if he won the bet and got Li Jing, would he dare to ask for ten bags from Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce? If he lost the bet, could he afford to pay?
Jiang Ziming’s mouth twitched twice, and his mind was filled with only one big sentence: I won’t chase her, I won’t chase her anymore, okay!!
The air in the private room became stagnant, the gaze of the Fu family’s head and the Feng family’s heir both converged on Li Jing, no one paid attention to Jiang Ziming.
After a few seconds, Jiang Ziming finally mustered up the courage: “I won’t chase…”
Li Jing interrupted him firmly: “Good! Let’s do it your way.”
Jiang Ziming almost choked to death: “Wait, wait?—”
Li Jing looked at Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce, her voice trembling but firm: “You think I’m just a bet, but I am myself.”
Fu Lingchu’s eyes were pitch black.
Feng Ce’s expression was complex.carpreads.pages.dev
They actually knew from the beginning. Li Jing, this person, didn’t care about money at all.
Only Jiang Ziming tried to struggle: “No, Li Jing, you calm down…”
Li Jing walked directly in front of him: “Don’t you want to win me over within a week?”
Hearing her tone, the other two men in the private room immediately looked stern.
Jiang Ziming: “!!!”
System: “Wow, stimulating the male leads, as expected of you.”
Li Jing: “Little White Flower’s desperate counterattack √”
Looking at Jiang Ziming, whose face was filled with “Please spare me,” she said: “I agree to you today.”
Du Ziming’s heart was roaring: No!!!
Fu Lingchu was the first to sneer: “Li Jing, do you know what you’re saying?”
“I know,” Li Jing turned her head and smiled faintly, “So, you lost.”
The girl’s shoulders trembled slightly, and when she turned her head to look over, the tears on her face were still wet. Her fair skin was thin and bloodless, her thick eyelashes slightly drooping, covering her beautiful pupils, making her look extremely pitiful.
It was as if she was deliberately retaliating against them, making them lose money, but—
What could she gain?
Even if they lost the bet, a few million meant nothing to Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce. But the winner of the bet was Jiang Ziming, Li Jing was just a forced bet.
From beginning to end, Li Jing couldn’t get anything, no one was more foolish than her.
Li Jing: Hmm hmm, right, right.
Fu Lingchu looked at her coldly, but there was something different in the coldness of his eyes.
President Fu made a phone call, and his subordinates began to search the entire city for rare leather bags. This night, all the special assistants were destined to be sleepless.
In Li Jing’s ears, the sound of counting money began to ring out.
The detailed account clearly marked the xxx store’s xxx product number. Because they used “Li Jing” as the bet, all the transaction amounts went directly into her account.
Li Jing: I love this employee benefit!
Before Li Jing’s teary eyes could turn to someone else, Fu Lingchu’s mocking gaze had already swept towards Feng Ce, with a sharp edge—
“Young master Feng, are you willing to admit defeat?”
A primal instinct of male competitiveness surged up.
Feng Ce sneered: “Am I afraid of you?”
The money counter continued to make its beautiful sound.
So, that night, the whole city knew that Fu Lingchu, the head of the Fu family, and Feng Ce, the heir of the Feng family, were fighting like gods, scouring for Hermès exotic leather bags, just to give these bags—
To Jiang Ziming, the young master of the Jiang family???
That night, Jiang Ziming, who had intended to show off and pick up girl, was almost beaten to death by his own father: “What did you do to provoke Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce?!”
Jiang Ziming cried and wailed: “I didn’t, I didn’t!”
President Fu, young master Feng, I really messed up!!
-—–
Li Jing fell asleep soundly to the sound of money being counted.
The next day, she woke up to the morning sun and checked her balance.
Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce truly lived up to their reputation as the two richest and most powerful men in the entire story. Such men would never allow themselves to lose. They both had ten exotic leather bags, not a single one missing, all accounted for, including some super rare bags that were no longer available on the market.
The backend displayed: Income: 4,056,702 yuan.
At this moment, the system could only shout: “Amazing!!”
Li Jing was in a good mood: “Being a millionaire is not a dream.”
A beautiful retirement life awaits her~
-—–
When it was time for class, Li Jing deliberately searched for Jiang Ziming.
Under the influence of the two male leads, he had already ascended to the status of a golden leek, very precious.
However, Jiang Ziming dared not appear in front of Li Jing with the same confidence as yesterday. If he stayed at home, his parents would beat him up and force him to go to school to apologize to Feng Ce, which was why he came to school today.
All the Hermès bags at home were personally returned by his parents with gifts. Jiang Ziming went through all that trouble and got nothing in return, only a beating.
Jiang Ziming’s face was bitter. As he was walking, he was suddenly stopped.
Li Jing smiled: “Good morning.”
Jiang Ziming: “!!”
In just one day, the scene had reversed. Yesterday, he confidently and radiantly stopped Li Jing on the street, but now he wanted to run away.
Li Jing felt a great deal of affection for her own leek and, with a lack of morals, teased him: “You’ve already won the bet, so now we…”
Jiang Ziming: “!!!”
Even if he was stupid, he knew that with Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce around, he couldn’t touch Li Jing!
Jiang Ziming: “That, uh, I, I, I suddenly remembered I have something to do, I’m leaving, I won’t be attending class today!!!”
Li Jing watched him flee the school with a smile.
This scene happened to be witnessed by Qi Yue and others who were passing by. She immediately interpreted it as Jiang Ziming getting tired of Li Jing after only chasing her for a day, and that Li Jing was rejected when she tried to talk to him.
“Why did Jiang Ziming run away?”
“Hahaha, he doesn’t even want to talk to her anymore.”
The current School Belle felt very happy. She looked at Li Jing and mocked her: “Oh, you didn’t manage to hug the big thigh, are you still going to get anything good?”
The system silently replied: “Thank you, this person has already made a fortune.”
Li Jing’s attitude towards these random A, B, and C passers-by was very calm.
Unfortunately, her expressionless face was so beautiful that it was hard to look away. The School Belle looked at her for a few seconds and her own confidence unconsciously dwindled. Then, she unconsciously tried to say something harsh to suppress her:
“I advise you to stay away from crooked paths and don’t dream of things you can’t reach, like…”
Someone tugged on Li Jing’s backpack strap.
The system had already given her a prompt, so Li Jing knew without turning around that it was the second male lead.
Feng Ce didn’t even look at Qi Yue and the others. He was still sleepy and pulled Li Jing’s bag with a cold and irritable expression: “Come to class with me.”
Qi Yue was stunned: “What?!”
Her group of fangirls were also shocked.
Feng Ce actually asked Li Jing to go to class with him?！！
Li Jing was very calm. She was dragged to the classroom by Feng Ce like a little chicken.
With a 30% of his favorability rating, the second male lead’s substitute plot was about to officially begin.
In the following plot, after both male leads became somewhat obsessed, they started carrying the substitute around. On the one hand, they gradually couldn’t live without her, but on the other hand, they wanted to hurt her to remind themselves that they didn’t care about her.
Li Jing: You hurt my character, I hurt your bank balance.
Anyway, she wouldn’t get hurt, that’s for sure √
In a large classroom.
Today was also an elective course.
Li Jing felt a little cramped sitting next to Feng Ce.
“I, maybe I should still sit…”
“Stay put,” Feng Ce said impatiently, “You can sit with Jiang Ziming in class, why not with me?
Li Jing stopped moving.
Okay. Leek, let’s stick together.
The students around them were secretly watching her and Feng Ce.
“Damn, Feng Ce is sitting with the destitute student.”
“Wasn’t Jiang Ziming still chasing after her yesterday?”
“Damn, being beautiful really lets you do whatever you want… I’m envious.”
And further away from them, many people were discussing today’s teacher.
“Will it be teacher Lu today? I’ve never run into him in school!”
“He’s here, he’s here, it’s him! Ahhh, so handsome—”
The entire classroom, except for Li Jing and Feng Ce, looked up—
Li Jing was because she didn’t want to face the Transmigration Bureau’s inspection.
Feng Ce was because he was constantly looking at his phone, waiting for Ye Yan’s message.
While waiting for the message, he was bored and said to Li Jing, “Give me your phone number.”
Li Jing took out her small flip phone.
Feng Ce: “…”
Feng Ce: “You’re so fucking poor? Is Fu Lingchu a cheapskate?”
Li Jing: “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this phone.” After all, President Fu was the one who paid for it.
Feng Ce stared at her face for a few seconds, then suddenly sneered, “Do you know how many phones those bags from last night could buy you?”
Li Jing said innocently, “Maybe enough to buy a lot of phones, but I don’t care.”
—She cared about the big villa, you see ^_^
Looking at her naive and foolish expression, Feng Ce suddenly felt a sense of relief, allowing certain thoughts to surface.
His sister was too far away, too easily hurt, and Feng Ce wanted to protect her.
As for Li Jing… she did have a different character, she treated money like dirt, and she wasn’t vain. Having someone like her as a substitute to accompany him for a while, he could accept it.
Feng Ce simply threw his phone to her, “Enter your number…”
Before he finished speaking, a new message dinged on his phone.
Feng Ce instantly sat up straight, picked up his phone and opened the chat box, not even looking at Li Jing.
Li Jing calmly retracted her hand, knowing that Ye Yan had sent him a message.
Feng Ce read each word carefully, feeling Ye Yan’s gentleness from between the lines.
[A’ce, don’t waste money for me]
[I’m getting better now, you also need to take care of yourself and don’t stay up late]
[Heart][Heart]
Li Jing glanced at it and smiled silently.
Last night, Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce’s commotion was so loud, Ye Yan must have already known.
As someone who had read the entire book’s plot and was well-versed in various tropes, Li Jing was very good at understanding Ye Yan’s psychology. The three big fish* were originally swimming steadily in her pond, she didn’t need to put in much effort, she only needed to rely on her White Moonlight halo and sickly character to get all their care and love.
TN: all these fish and sea king and pond references are all related to being a player and keeping multiple partners on tap
Now that she felt their care shifting, Ye Yan needed to test and maintain it—telling Feng Ce not to spend money was actually subtly reminding them about their crazy bets on Li Jing.
Tsk.
Feng Ce spent half the class figuring out how to reply to Ye Yan’s message.
Li Jing listened attentively to teacher Lu Mian’s class—which meant talking to the system.
“Hey hey, can you hear me, teacher.”
“Hello~~”
On the podium, the man’s hand holding the teaching stick paused slightly, then he continued teaching without changing his expression, but his gaze went past all the students in the classroom, accurately landing on Li Jing.
Li Jing could even feel the girls around her holding their breath.
Li Jing smiled and continued to disrupt him, “Teacher, how much do you earn? Is it a lot?”
Lu Mian’s voice didn’t stop, he switched to the next slide of his ppt while using his magnetic, low voice to say, “Class, pay attention.”
—Oh, let me focus on work and brush up on the plot, alright.
At this time, Feng Ce finally finished replying to Ye Yan’s message, he was lost in thought for a moment, then turned his head to look at Li Jing.
At that moment, he truly felt that he needed this face by his side.
Feng Ce: “Phone number.”
Li Jing cooperated and picked up her flip phone, but a text message just came in. Feng Ce saw it at a glance.
[Tomorrow. Company. Come.]
Time, place, tone.
Fu Lingchu.
Feng Ce scoffed: “How much did he spend? I can do it too.”
Li Jing, in front of teacher Lu, began to demonstrate what it meant to be focused.
Her fingers holding the flip phone were white, her long eyelashes trembled, and her lips, bitten by her teeth, were burning red.
“Feng Ce,” Li Jing’s voice was low, “Are you going to humiliate me like this too?
Feng Ce’s gaze involuntarily fixed on her face. Ye Yan would never show such an expression. She was a fragile treasure held in everyone’s hands. Li Jing was not.
But this kind of Li Jing was impossible to look away from.
Feng Ce felt a strange mix of frustration and satisfaction in his heart, but he still looked arrogant and asked, “Can’t I?”
Li Jing: Yes, very good.
Both male leads had entered the substitute love line. She needed to quickly raise Fu Lingchu’s favorability to over 25% so they could fight, fight, fight.
This also meant that her confrontation with the White Moonlight had secretly begun. The original owner was unilaterally abused, but with Li Jing, it was a battle fought from afar.
The plot could now move in a more exciting direction.
“Yes.” Li Jing finally answered.
The girl’s hair fell smoothly on either side of her face. Feng Ce could only hear her trembling voice, but he couldn’t see her face.
Only the silver-haired man standing on the podium saw Li Jing’s flashing eyes.
With a hint of defiance, her beauty was fully revealed in that instant.
Li Jing curled her lips and said to the system, “Of course, Male Lead Number Two finally remembering to pay, huh.”
Professor Lu’s voice paused, then he chuckled.
The girls sitting in the front row collectively felt dizzy.
Li Jing kept her head down, as if preserving her shattered pride, and said to Feng Ce, “Fu Lingchu can let my grandmother live in the best nursing home, receive the best treatment, what can you do?”
Feng Ce was stunned.
So she was by Fu Lingchu’s side because of this…
Feng Ce favorability +2%
It’s really easy to pull up the favorability points with kids √
Feng Ce was unconsciously drawn into her rhythm: “You… need me to do what?”
Li Jing seemed to hesitate for a long time before finally raising her head, her bright eyes were red: “Someone has been following me all this time. It’s not Fu Lingchu’s bodyguard, I don’t know who it is…”
Of course, it was Ye Yan’s private investigator. The first step in the battle was to subtly guide the male leads to see if they could discover the White Moonlight’s multifaceted nature.
The most crucial point was that Ye Yan was still using the same private investigator she hired for 100,000 yuan all this time.
She was very dissatisfied.
“I don’t need money, and I don’t need your bags.” Li Jing rubbed her eyes.
Feng Ce: “… I’ll find that person.”
“Thank you.”
Let’s translate her meaning -
Ye Yan, it’s time for Ye Yan to pay her.
Author Note:
All the leeks, stand up!