“What? He still tried to add you on WeChat?!”

The next day, at ten o’clock at night in the bar, Bian Xuan shook the cocktail mixer, smiling until her eyes curved into two crescent moons.

Ruan Si Xian raised her eyebrows, “Yes, I didn’t accept it, and I even criticized him in my Moments.”

Si Xiao Zhen hugged a table number light to her chest, looking at Ruan Si Xian with confusion, “So, he doesn’t remember you?”

Ruan Si Xian let out a soft hum, grabbed a handful of popcorn, and stuffed it into her mouth one by one.

“Not remembering is normal, isn’t it? Flight attendants all wear the same uniform with the same hairstyle, and even their smiles follow a standardized guideline of showing exactly eight teeth. Who can tell them apart? And with so many flight attendants passing by him every day, where would he find the time to pay attention?” Bian Xuan finished mixing a drink, placed it in front of Ruan Si Xian, and asked with her chin propped on her hand, “But since you know he also lives in the Mingchen Apartments, aren’t you going to find a new place?”

Ruan Si Xian looked at her as if she’d heard the most ridiculous thing, opening her eyes wide, “Why should I move? I’ve already started working at World Airlines. Wouldn’t that be overly dramatic? Besides, he probably doesn’t stay there often. It’s just close to the airport, a place to rest his feet when he’s busy. Why should I be afraid of him?”

“Fine, fine, fine.” Bian Xuan pointed at the drink in front of her, directing Ruan Si Xian, “Take this to table three.”

Ruan Si Xian clapped her hands, placed the drink on a tray, and walked toward the table at the far edge of the bar.

At the beginning of the year, Bian Xuan quit her job, took her savings from the past few years, and returned to Jiang City to realize her dream of opening a small bar and living the dream life of hosting her parties whenever she wanted.

However, business at the bar wasn’t great. It barely broke even and hadn’t made any profit yet, so she couldn’t afford to hire waitstaff. When business was good, she would rope in her friends to help. Ruan Si Xian had been drafted to help several times since she came back.

The busiest period was concentrated between ten and eleven o’clock. Once the other helpers Bian Xuan had roped in arrived, Ruan Si Xian and Si Xiao Zhen could retreat, mission accomplished.

But now it wasn’t early anymore. Si Xiao Zhen, thinking about her late shift tomorrow, decided to stay at Ruan Si Xian’s new place for the night to see what her thirty-thousand-yuan-a-month apartment looked like.

Si Xiao Zhen excitedly pulled Ruan Si Xian outside, eager to show off her driving skills.

Seeing the four “Student Driver” stickers on Si Xiao Zhen’s car, Ruan Si Xian suddenly had second thoughts.

“Why don’t we just take a taxi?”

Si Xiao Zhen dragged Ruan Si Xian into the car, giving her a “don’t argue with me” look. “I may not be able to fly a plane, but I can drive a car. Relax, I passed the driving test stages two and three on my first try.”

Despite these reassurances, Ruan Si Xian still gripped the safety belt tightly, sat with a straight back, and remained vigilant throughout the journey, finally arriving safely at the underground parking lot.

“Over there, turn left.” Parking spaces were tight in this neighborhood, most were private spots, and the two had to circle twice before Ruan Si Xian spotted a space. “Slow down, the space isn’t big, and there are many luxury cars here. Don’t scratch or bump any of them.”

Just as she spoke, a black sedan approached from the opposite direction. Si Xiao Zhen’s hair practically stood on end, “Another one coming to steal our spot! So annoying!”

She kept her eyes fixed on the parking space, stepped on the gas, and before Ruan Si Xian could react, she sharply turned the steering wheel, heading for the space. Ruan Si Xian hadn’t even registered their position when she felt a strange scraping sensation against the car’s body.

“Did you just scrape the car next to us?”

At least she had secured the parking spot. Si Xiao Zhen stepped on the brake, only now realizing what she had done.

“N-no way, right?”

Ruan Si Xian immediately rolled down the window and poked her head out to look. Si Xiao Zhen’s car tail had squeezed right past the front of the other car, with the entire car now sitting diagonally across the rear.

“You did scrape it!”

“Ah! What do we do now?!”

As she spoke, Si Xiao Zhen stepped on the gas again, forcibly squeezing the car through.

“Why are you still moving?!”

Ruan Si Xian was exasperated. No wonder Si Xiao Zhen had failed the first round of flight simulator assessment. With emergency response skills like these, if she were to fly a plane, she’d cause a chain collision and immediately make international news.

Ignoring the other person, Ruan Si Xian unbuckled her seat belt, preparing to get out and assess the situation, but Si Xiao Zhen had already shifted into reverse, attempting to back out.

She forced her way out.

“Are you crazy?!” Ruan Si Xian almost wanted to grab Si Xiao Zhen by the neck, “Why are you still moving?! At this rate, the insurance company won’t fully compensate you when they arrive!”

It was fortunate for all passengers nationwide that this person hadn’t passed the flight test.

Si Xiao Zhen immediately raised both hands, her heart pounding, “Quick, see what kind of car I hit.”

Ruan Si Xian gave her a white-eyed look, then leaned out again to check.

One look and Ruan Si Xian nearly fainted.

Though she didn’t recognize the emblem on the tire, she had basic common sense. Just looking at the car’s shape—enclosed body, streamlined rear, two doors, two seats, and flashy matte deep blue—they were in trouble.

She looked at Si Xiao Zhen with a haunted expression, “Are you mentally prepared?”

“For what?”

“I think it’s a sports car that could buy your house ten times over.”

Si Xiao Zhen’s eyes rolled back, her scalp tingling. She immediately got out of the car, squeezed to the back, saw the large scrape marks on the sports car and the dent in her own car body, and nearly fainted on the spot.

“C-can I flee the scene?”

“Why don’t you just ask if you can commit suicide right away?”

Ruan Si Xian gave her a withering look, hands on her hips, and looked around.

At that moment, the black sedan that had been competing with Si Xiao Zhen for the parking spot cruised by, rolling down its window to laugh gleefully at their predicament.

Ruan Si Xian glared at him, but the driver wasn’t offended. He stepped on the brake and said, “Ladies, do you know what car this is? A Bugatti Chiron 110 Anniversary Edition—the only one in all of Jiang City.”

This time, Si Xiao Zhen was about to faint. She leaned against the car door, her legs trembling, “I’m done for. I’m finished.”

“Don’t panic yet. Call the insurance company first.”

Ruan Si Xian frowned deeply, pacing back and forth, “How do we contact the car owner?”

She glanced at Si Xiao Zhen, saw that her hands were shaking too much to make the call, and gave up on her.

The only Bugatti supercar in all of Jiang City…

Ruan Si Xian suddenly thought of someone who might know about it.

She stepped aside, took a photo of the car body along with the license plate, and sent it to Yan An.

“Mr. Yan, my friend’s car had a little incident in my apartment parking lot. Do you happen to know who owns this car?”

The moment she sent it, Ruan Si Xian optimistically thought, maybe this car belongs to Yan An.

Based on their interactions so far, he seemed like a reasonable person. Perhaps the situation would be easier to resolve.

Within minutes, Yan An called her directly, and there was a hint of schadenfreude in his voice too.

“You hit this car?”

Hearing this, Ruan Si Xian knew she had been overthinking—this wasn’t Yan An’s car.

“Yes, my friend had a little problem while trying to park.”

Ruan Si Xian heard Yan An laugh, his tone sounding peculiar.

“I do know whose car this is. I tried to get one myself but couldn’t.”

After a pause, he added, “Your friend has quite the luck.”

Ruan Si Xian suddenly had an ominous feeling, a chill running down her spine.

“Then, Mr. Yan, could you help contact the owner?”

Yan An laughed again before slowly saying, “Sure, he’s probably still awake. I’ll give him a call. He should be down soon.”

“Thank you.”

After hanging up, Ruan Si Xian turned to look at Si Xiao Zhen, feeling as if the person before her was already half-dead.

“What did the insurance company say?”

Si Xiao Zhen shakily hung up the phone, her voice hoarse, “They said they’ll come right away, b-but, they said since I moved the car, they can’t fully compensate, maybe just seventy percent.”

Great, the person before her was completely dead.

“Wh-what about on your end?”

What was the point of being anxious now? Ruan Si Xian looked again at the scratch marks on the Bugatti and sighed, “The owner will be down soon.”

Si Xiao Zhen’s eyes reddened with anxiety as she grabbed Ruan Si Xian’s hand, “What should we do?”

Ruan Si Xian patted her shoulder, “It’s okay, it’s just a scratch. It shouldn’t make you bankrupt. Let’s wait for the owner and see.”

The two stood anxiously in the parking lot for five minutes until they finally heard footsteps in the distance.

Si Xiao Zhen’s briefly calmed nerves shattered again, “He’s coming! He’s coming!”

As the person approached with quick steps, Si Xiao Zhen gripped Ruan Si Xian’s hand so tightly that she nearly broke her fingers.

“Calm down a bit. When he sees you like this…” Ruan Si Xian looked up, saw the person clearly, and her words abruptly stopped.

“Oh my god…”

The confused Si Xiao Zhen rubbed her eyes, seeing a man in a white shirt and suit pants with an attractive figure. Even from a distance, she could feel his intimidating aura. Before he even spoke, she felt like she could be buried on the spot.

“Ruan Ruan, what should we do?”

“Shut up.”

As she spoke, Fu Ming Yu looked over, his gaze falling on Ruan Si Xian’s face, his footsteps pausing.

Then he walked over even faster.

Don’t come over, don’t come over…

Ruan Si Xian thought to herself that she must have the worst luck in the world—the only Bugatti in all of Jiang City had been hit by them, and the only Fu Ming Yu in the entire world was now entangled with her again.

“You hit my car?”

Si Xiao Zhen, a sucker for good looks even in this situation, was stunned by the man’s appearance, “H-handsome sir, I… I didn’t mean to… I…”

Fu Ming Yu turned to look at the condition of the car, casually glanced at it, and ultimately his gaze fell back on Ruan Si Xian.

The earlier inpatient aura had completely disappeared. Now, as if it wasn’t his car that had been hit, there was a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, “Quite a coincidence.”

Here we go again! He’s starting again!

Coincidence indeed, a freaking annoying coincidence…

“Not a coincidence,” Ruan Si Xian said sullenly. “Who chooses which car to hit? Even if we could choose, we wouldn’t pick yours.”

Fu Ming Yu stepped back a couple of paces and looked at Si Xiao Zhen’s car. “Still has four learner stickers on it.”

Si Xiao Zhen was both embarrassed and scared, her entire face burning as if on fire. “I… I’ll pay for it… I…”

“It’s fine,” Fu Ming Yu said. “You don’t need to pay.”

???

Not just Si Xiao Zhen, even Ruan Si Xian couldn’t believe these words came from Fu Ming Yu.

Hello? Are you Fu Ming Yu?

Maybe he’s been possessed?

“Did you call the insurance company?” Fu Ming Yu asked again.

Si Xiao Zhen shook her head frantically, paused, then nodded frantically, “Y-yes, I called. Do you r-really not want me to pay?”

Fu Ming Yu reached out to touch the scratch on his car, looked at his finger, and said, “It’s not serious. Even if I asked you to pay, you couldn’t afford it.”

Si Xiao Zhen’s face reddened even more; Fu Ming Yu’s words only heightened her sense of guilt.

Meanwhile, Ruan Si Xian, who had been rolling her eyes non-stop, was unexpectedly cued in: “Miss Ruan earns a high salary, she might be able to afford it.”

???

What does this have to do with me?

I wasn’t the one who hit the car!

Completely confused, Si Xiao Zhen looked at Fu Ming Yu, then at Ruan Si Xian, “You two know each other?”

Ruan Si Xian didn’t speak. Fu Ming Yu seemed to be thinking about something, his gaze sweeping lightly over Ruan Si Xian before saying, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going now.”

He’s just leaving???

Ruan Si Xian and Si Xiao Zhen watched in shock as Fu Ming Yu turned and left, unable to come to their senses for a long time.

“Are all rich people this easy to talk to?” Si Xiao Zhen said blankly. “So what they write in novels is real.”

Ruan Si Xian still felt something was off, watching Fu Ming Yu’s back until he entered the elevator.

“Ruan Ruan, you know him?”

Ruan Si Xian glanced at her coolly, “Yes, I even delivered a message to him for you.”

“…………”

For the next hour, while waiting for the insurance company, Si Xiao Zhen remained in a state of personality split.

One moment she’d say, “I think he’s quite nice, so calm and composed. He didn’t even get angry when we scratched his car like that.”

The next moment she’d say, “No, this isn’t right. How could someone like him let me off so easily? Shouldn’t he think I deliberately scratched his car to get his attention?”

After switching back and forth between these two arguments, Ruan Si Xian finally couldn’t take it anymore. “Shut up!”

Si Xiao Zhen obediently shrank to one side.

Ruan Si Xian’s mood had just improved slightly when the insurance company personnel arrived and said they needed the other car owner to come back for confirmation.

“Why does he need to come back? He already said we don’t need to pay.”

The insurance personnel, having been called out in the middle of the night, weren’t in the best mood either. “It’s protocol. Without the other party’s signature, we can’t complete our job.”

Si Xiao Zhen looked at Ruan Si Xian pitifully.

OK, I guess I’m stuck with this.

Ruan Si Xian turned and messaged Yan An again, and waited ten minutes with no reply—he was probably asleep.

She then tried to find Bai Yang, sent a message, and after a few minutes with no response, checked his Moments to find he had shared a song an hour ago with the caption “Good night.”

Fine then.

Ruan Si Xian turned back to see Si Xiao Zhen’s desperate look, took a deep breath, went to her friend request page, and accepted that application.

“Mr. Fu, the insurance personnel need you to confirm. If you’re not asleep, could you please come down?”

Ruan Si Xian couldn’t even be bothered to use punctuation, and Fu Ming Yu replied almost instantly.

“So you knew it was me.”

Wow, this guy.

Ruan Si Xian expressionlessly copied her previous message twice.

“Mr. Fu, the insurance personnel need you to confirm. If you’re not asleep, could you please come down?”

“Mr. Fu, the insurance personnel need you to confirm. If you’re not asleep, could you please come down?”

“Alright, I’m coming right now. Don’t be impatient.”

???

Who’s impatient?!

Five minutes later, Fu Ming Yu appeared in the parking lot again, while Ruan Si Xian had already seated herself in Si Xiao Zhen’s passenger seat, keeping the door tightly closed.

Seeing the Bugatti’s owner, the insurance personnel’s attitude improved noticeably, while the split-personality Si Xiao Zhen timidly signed documents, nodding submissively, occasionally stealing glances at Fu Ming Yu.

Ruan Si Xian couldn’t be bothered with them and took out her phone to study questions.

After a while, the car door suddenly opened, and a faint scent of cold fir wafted into Ruan Si Xian’s nose with the rush of air.

She looked up in surprise at Fu Ming Yu: “Why are you getting in?”

Fu Ming Yu closed the door, pressed the start button, and turned his head to glance at Ruan Si Xian, “The insurance company needs to tow the car away. I’m helping her back it out.”

“Don’t they have hands?”

“Because the cars are too close, they’re afraid to do it.”

“…”

Fine, you have a Bugatti, you’re awesome.

Ruan Si Xian immediately moved to open the door. “Then let me get out first.”

As soon as she spoke, there was a “click” inside the car.

He had locked all four doors.

“What are you doing?”

Fu Ming Yu rested his left hand on the steering wheel, his right hand propped on the car seat, leaning forward on his side, his posture enveloping her, leaving Ruan Si Xian nowhere to escape.

His eyes traveled over Ruan Si Xian’s face with undisguised scrutiny. “Miss Ruan, do you have something against me?”

In the cramped space, his scent was everywhere. In this dimly lit underground parking lot, even his voice seemed deeper.

Ruan Si Xian shrank toward the door, “No, how would I dare have any opinion about Mr. Fu?”

“Is that so? Was that Moments post last night cursing me?”

So you’re quite self-aware.

“Which one?”

Fu Ming Yu didn’t speak, just lifted his eyelids, implying: don’t play dumb with me.

“Oh, that one? Well, many men add me every day, and it’s quite annoying.”

I’m just not going to deny it.

Ruan Si Xian didn’t know if Fu Ming Yu believed her or not, but he remained silent, just giving Ruan Si Xian a deep look, his expression unreadable.

Their gazes locked, neither backing down.

As a strange atmosphere began to spread in the car, Fu Ming Yu suddenly turned the steering wheel with his left hand, backing the car out without even looking at the road, his eyes still fixed on Ruan Si Xian.

Holy crap.

Ruan Si Xian froze for a moment.

Suddenly showing off like that—are you sick?

Back home, Si Xiao Zhen went to take a shower, and Ruan Si Xian changed clothes and lay on the sofa, still feeling that something was off.

Si Xiao Zhen was the one who hit the car, but in the end, it was she who added his WeChat, and she had done all the arguing.

Why did she feel like she’d been played?

The more she thought about it, the more indignant she felt. She picked up her phone and posted on her Moments:

“There’s a wild dog in this lousy neighborhood, I’m scared 😭😭😭”