Chapter 40: Unable to Bring the Plan to Fruition

  It's Friday again, time to release next week's recommended list, wish me good luck everyone.

  It's easy to go up a mountain, but difficult to come down.

  Sun Zesheng found that he had underestimated the difficulty of carrying Rong Jingying down the mountain. If they were on flat ground, he could carry her for about a kilometer without any problem. However, carrying her down the slope of the Great Wall was a different story. Every step here might be equivalent to four or five steps on flat ground.

  After walking for a while, Sun Zesheng was a bit out of breath, but he could still hold on.

  Rong Jingying lay on his back, her breath as gentle as orchids, the moist air sprayed onto his ears, ticklish and strangely comfortable. "Sun Zesheng, why don't you put me down and we take a break before continuing?"

  Sun Zesheng shook his head, "It's okay, I can still hold on for a while."

  Rong Jingying didn't dare to struggle on Sun Zesheng's back, the two bodies were so tightly attached together, if she struggled, they would rub against each other, it was easy to make everyone embarrassed.

  She is an extremely intelligent woman, otherwise she would not have been admitted to Yenching University, one of the top universities in the country, and even entered the Guanghua School of Management.

  She thought that if she could help Sun Zesheng take his mind off things, maybe he wouldn't feel so tired and could hold on for a longer time.

  She glanced at Xu Yunjin and Zhang Li who were following behind them, leaned over to Sun Zesheng's ear and said: "Just now, when I was competing with Xiao Jin, you and Zhang Li sat together, what did you say?"

  Sun Zesheng panted heavily and said: "What else can be said. It's still your good sister who let Zhang Li come out to persuade me, and I'll sell the script to her at a lower price."

  "So did you promise?" asked Rong Jingying with a smile.

  "Alright, alright. Since Zhang Li has already spoken up for me, I couldn't just ignore her and not give her any face, so I went ahead and waived 10,000 yuan for Xu Yunjin. But who made her call me a Mongolian doctor earlier? So I added it back on." Sun Zesheng said.

  "Ah, you actually deducted 10,000 yuan? Sun Zesheng, you're really something. Zhang Li is so beautiful, even I feel my heart skip a beat when I see her. If other guys saw her, they'd be all over her, treating her like a precious treasure. But not you, you just deduct 10,000 yuan. I've never met anyone like you before. If this were several decades ago, before liberation, you'd definitely make a qualified underground worker."

  Rong Jingying patted Sun Zesheng's shoulder and teased him.

  "Little devil, born at the wrong time."

  "What are you talking about? How am I born out of time?" Sun Zesheng retorted.

  "Can you resist the temptation of a beauty?" Rong Jingying said.

  Sun Zesheng's face was full of grievance, "Sister, it turns out you knew your good sister set me up with a beautiful trap. Is this considered being an accomplice?"

  Rong Jingying smiled and said: "Of course it doesn't count, anyway you didn't fall for it. I say, Zhang Li is so beautiful, haven't you thought of turning the tables?"

  Sun Zesheng smiled slyly, "I really wish I could take advantage of the situation, follow the momentum, and push him to the limit. But I don't dare."

  "Afraid? Why be afraid?" Rong Jingying asked with great interest.

  Sun Zesheng said: "Didn't Xu Yunjin say so? Zhang Li is the school flower of the Film Academy, I don't have the guts to compete with hundreds and thousands of teachers and students in the Film Academy for their school flower."

  "I didn't think you were so timid," said Rong Jingying.

  "This isn't a matter of being timid or not, it's a question of who's involved. If it were you, I'd dare to go to Yenching University and snatch you away." Sun Zesheng said casually, only realizing afterwards that the joke had gone too far.

  Rong Jingying had never met a boy who dared to say such bold words in front of her before. At first, she was a bit shy, but soon she was shrouded in a mysterious melancholy. "What do I have that's worth fighting for? Just looking at my appearance, no boy would stand up for me."

  Sun Zesheng and Rong Jingying both fell silent.

  Zhang Li was right behind them, and he heard their conversation clearly. When Sun Zesheng mentioned her, his words were ambiguous and hard to discern, leaving Zhang Li unable to describe the taste he felt after hearing it.

  Xu Yunjin's face was flushed with emotion, but the beautiful trap she had set for Sun Zesheng had already been seen through by him. This little guy was really cunning, but it didn't matter, you have Zhang Liang's plan, I have Guo Ziyi's ladder, if the beauty trap doesn't work, we can change to another tactic, there will always be a way to make you surrender.

  It took about an hour for Sun Zesheng to carry Rong Jingying down from the Great Wall, and they happened to meet two empty rickshaws. Sun Zesheng put Rong Jingying on one of them, then asked the rickshaw driver to take them to Badaling Railway Station.

  After arriving at the train station, Sun Zesheng bought a ticket, got on the train, put Rong Jingying in her seat, carefully laid her legs flat, and then sat down with a thud, letting out a long sigh of turbid air.

  Watching Sun Zesheng's selfless actions, Rong Jingying, Xu Yunjin and Zhang Li were all deeply moved. Sun Zesheng had no relation to them, yet he took care of them so thoroughly. In today's world where people's hearts are floating and unsettled, such a person is truly hard to come by.

  "Sun Zesheng, thank you. If it wasn't for you today, we really don't know what the outcome would have been." Rong Jingying's face was filled with gratitude.

  Sun Zesheng waved his hand, "No need to be polite with me, who made me catch up anyway. By the way, Rong Jingying, let me take another look at your foot."

  He grasped Rong Jingying's slender foot and used the Tianji Star 3000 to scan her injured ankle. It wasn't bad, the ointment he had applied was quite effective, and the swelling on Rong Jingying's ankle had decreased significantly.

  Sun Zesheng let out a sigh of relief. The ointment he had configured was being used for the first time today. Although he had tested it with Tianji Star 3000 and confirmed that there would be no problem, he still wasn't quite at ease without seeing it with his own eyes.

  After all, the Chinese herbal medicine now is compared with his past life, even he dare not guarantee 100% that there will be no subtle changes.

  It seems he was overthinking things now.

  "There shouldn't be anything else. So, Xu Yunjin, Zhang Li, please take care of Rong Jingying for me. I'll rest for a while." Sun Zesheng said.

  "Go take a rest," Zhang Li hastily said. "We'll call you again when we arrive at North Station."

  Sun Zesheng was also exhausted, leaning back in his seat, closing his eyes, and soon fell fast asleep.

  Looking at this exhausted young man, Rong Jingying, Xu Yunjin and Zhang Li were all thoughtful, especially Rong Jingying, who had some special scrutiny.

  More than an hour later, the train arrived at Yanjing North Station. Rong Jingying and others woke up Sun Zesheng, and then Sun Zesheng carried Rong Jingying off the train, out of the station, and several girls decided not to take the subway, but instead took a taxi.