Chapter Thirty-One: The Price of Gratitude

  Thank you for Yang Xiusheng's reward, there is still one more chapter tonight

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  Pushing open the door of the bar, Wu Yuan let out a long sigh.

  Outside the door, cars whizzed by like arrows, and in the distance, the faint sound of karaoke singing floated over. All this was so wonderful, but who would have thought that just now, inside the Red Tree Bar, a sinister plot was unfolding step by step.

  "Thank you."

  Wu Yuan turned around and sincerely said to Yu Xianrong.

  Just now, if Yu Xian Rong hadn't appeared, things might have had many twists and turns, and even slid in an unpredictable direction.

  "Hmm, you're welcome, it's what I should do, but as far as I know, how did you become so polite today? Weren't you incredibly arrogant just the day before yesterday?"

  "Hey, hey, little girl, don't think you can just give me a hint of flirtation and then open up your dye shop. The day before yesterday, there was an idiot who got scared to the point of losing all color in his face right in front of me. If I had lost my temper... Ah, don't step on my foot!"

  Wu Yuan lifted his painful foot which had been trampled on and hastily retreated several steps.

  "You damn idiot, I wasn't planning on helping you anyway."

  Yu Xian looked at Wu Yuan with a resentful expression, saying, "If it weren't for the fact that you came to rescue Yang Jinyi tonight without caring about anything else, I wouldn't be helping you like this."

  It is because we hate someone that we want to understand him.

  Yu Xianrong had gone through Wu Yuan's information and also understood Yang Jinyi. Wu Yuan and Yang Jinyi were not familiar with each other, their relationship was just friends, but today, what Yu Xianrong saw made her have a different evaluation of Wu Yuan.

  At that moment, Wu Yuan was telling the truth, he really wanted to let himself go.

  "If I hadn't come, would you really have injected drugs into Cui Yunfei's body?"

  At that time, I had no other thoughts, just wanted to rescue Yang Jinyi and then severely revenge this bastard. My amulet is in the public eye, and Yang Jinyi also needs media attention.

  I'm ready to surrender and turn myself in next, then...

  The following words were not spoken by Wu Yuan, but it was undoubtedly pulling the Cui family down - of course, this is Yu Xianrong's view. In fact, as a minor, Wu Yuan was not afraid of trouble at all.

  What did Choi tell him? Illegal possession of a firearm, harm to others, or tracing back to the front, endangering public safety?

  Whatever, let's wait and see who'll be unlucky when the truth comes out. A minor under 15 years old doesn't have to take legal responsibility anyway.

  "You're really an idiot, going in like this, you'll never come out for the rest of your life."

  The girl said with a scowl, but her gaze at Wu Yuan softened considerably.

  Some things, due to the lack of crucial information, often lead to cognitive bias. Yu Xianrong is undoubtedly being misled now, she takes Wu Yuan as that kind of hot-blooded young man.

  The darkness of the law, Yu Xianrong knew a lot. Even if today's events were Wu Yuan being forced, once he surrendered himself, he would be finished too.

  "Miss Yu is right, I am a second-hand goods."

  Nodding his head, Wu Yuan's face wore a faint bitter smile.

  "From the moment we met, I was a fool, a big fool. Later events also proved that I am a brainless person."

  "I'm really sorry about what happened that day. I was also impulsive and suddenly lost control, which hurt your mother. Let me apologize again, I'm really sorry."

  "It's nothing, Mother thinks highly of you, she thinks you're much better than me. Remember to get rid of the gun, I'll pretend I didn't see this happen."

  "Miss Yu, it's late at night, would you like me to send you home? It's so cold outside, staying out for too long isn't good."

  Wu Yuan's diligent expression made Yu Xianrong feel a little stifled. As an ultra-popular singer, she had seen countless people being diligent, but those diligence were to get close to her, while Wu Yuan wanted to send her away.

  This bastard, for some reason, suddenly remembered the scene of seeing Wu Yuan in the room at that time!

  That guy, he didn't even have any interest in himself, and treated her as someone else.

  "If this lady wants to get sent off, the whole street can be filled with people, does it still need your help, you bastard?"

  "Alright, Wu Yuan, tell me, are you or aren't you wronging me?"

  "Yes."

  For some reason, Wu Yuan felt a thread of ominous foreboding in his heart.

  "That's great, I'm out tonight and just want to have some fun, but I don't have any money on me. I heard there's a big entertainment venue by the riverbank, can you take me there?"

  "It's so late, the amusement park is about to close, how can we go in and play?"

  "I don't care, I just want you to take me out and have some fun, it's been a long time since I've had a good time outside..."

  She reached out and grabbed Wu Yuan's sleeve, Yu Xian Rong looked a bit excited at this moment.

  Then she suddenly came to herself, her face turned red, and she hastily let go.

  "Never mind, anyway you can't do it, I was just testing your sincerity earlier."

  "......Alright, come with me."

  For some reason, Wu Yuan felt that refusing her at this time would be a very foolish thing to do.

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  In front of the brightly lit merry-go-round, Wu Yuan looked at Yu Xianrong with a smile as bright as a flower.

  Wu Yuan spent 300,000 yuan and successfully got the boss of the amusement park to agree to book a private room for the night. He then gave each of the three remaining employees a red envelope with 10,000 yuan, making them happy to serve the two of them.

  The price was five times higher, and Wu Yuan was slaughtered. The cost of his slaughter was that the boss personally presided over it, guaranteeing that neither he nor the employees would leak the secret, inviting reporters, and ensuring that after the matter was settled, no one would mention it again.

  "Mr. Wu, you won't get angry, will you?"

  The chubby boss handed a bottle of beer over to Wu Yuan.

  "Don't be angry, you have to see it this way. Not long ago, the news media reported that a woman named Wang Zuer, her meal was one million, she is far inferior to Yu Xianrong, eating a meal costs so much, many people want to invite Miss Yu to play, I guess they can't find a way."

  "Hmm, you're right, you really don't drink?"

  "I don't drink, I still have to drive later, if I get caught again this time, it'll be troublesome."

  The fat boss saw that Wu Yuan didn't want to chat and didn't bother him either.

  In his eyes, Wu Yuanneng and Yu Xianrong are a perfect match, it's their own little world, he wouldn't fit in even if he joined them.

  "Wish you success."

  The fat boss said something and then left.

  In front of the merry-go-round, a girl was happily singing a song not far from Wu Yuan, she was so happy in the light.

  Wu Yuan did not go up, he stood aside and watched all this.

  "Thank you."

  After sitting for three times, the girl came down and walked to Wu Yuan's side, picked up a bucket of popcorn and a bottle of soda.

  "Do you also eat this kind of food?"

  Wu Yuan was somewhat curious, didn't those female stars in TV shows often only drink juice?

  "Yeah, I rarely eat it, so I really like eating it."

  Yu Xianrong held the popcorn and stuck out her tongue, "Whatever, it's not like we indulge more than a few times a year. At worst, we can just exercise to burn it off later. By the way, when you were paying earlier, your face turned green - are you in pain from spending money?"

  "Of course it hurts, Miss Yu, 300,000 yuan, can you reimburse me?"

  "No, of course not, this is your punishment."

  Yu Xian's eyes gleamed with delight, her expression inscrutable yet triumphant.

  "Hmm, or I'll call the media and tell them that we're both here. When they arrive, we can slip away in the chaos and keep half of the money for ourselves without having to give it to the boss."

  "How dare you!"

  Yu Xian kicked Wu Yuan's calf, and she found that as she spent more time with this guy, she was becoming less and less ladylike.

  "Alas... you're spending my wife's money."

  Wu Yuan let out a long sigh, "Alas, I've worked hard for twenty years to save up this private money."

  "I don't believe you. If you had so much money, you would have given it to Yang Jin-yi the other day. Tell me, where did you swindle this money from?"

  "... Wu Yuan didn't say anything good about her, this girl is very nice, but also very clever."

  This money was kept by the guard for him, saying that everyone shared Gao Huan's money together. The account name is not Wu Yuan's, and outsiders can't find any problems.

  "Okay, let's go ride the Ferris wheel, you and I will go together."

  I'm afraid of heights.

  "I'm scared too, so let's sit together!"

  The girl laughed and ran ahead, Wu Yuan also smiled and boarded the Ferris wheel with her.

  The breeze blew by, and the fragrance of sandalwood and musk emanating from the girl's body made Wu Yuan feel very comfortable.

  Unconsciously, it was already midnight, a brilliant Milky Way hung in the sky.

  "Do you know what my childhood wish was?"

  Yu Xianrong looked up at the starry sky and asked.

  "Of course, it's when one becomes an emperor superstar."

  "No, when I was young, I wanted to cultivate immortality and become an immortal."

  Yu Xian's eyes gazed up at the stars in the sky, her voice filled with a hint of longing.

  "People back then were so happy, they could reach for the moon in the ninth heaven and catch turtles in the ninth ocean, ride on clouds and drive through fog, what a pity..."

  Although it is a myth, the numerous records of that era cannot be erased. In the market, countless cultivation secrets are still circulating, forming an industry, just like health products, earning a lot of money every year.

  Everyone thinks they are unique and fantasizes that they might be able to cultivate the abilities of an immortal.

  "My mother is also a bad egg. At that time, she deceived me into saying that cultivating immortality is difficult and needs to start with physical training. So I started learning yoga from Tianzhu and Daoist qigong techniques, and step by step fell for my mother's trick... The immortal technique was not learned well, but the dance moves were quite good."

  Yu Xian slowly told his own story, and at this moment, he opened up his heart.

  "By the way, I've always wanted to ask, why did you become a singer when being a duchess of the empire would be better?"

  "Royalty? Sounds interesting, but in today's world, who still puts royalty on a pedestal? On the contrary, all sorts of media are keeping an eye on royalty. Are my father's scandals not enough?"

  "It's too suffocating inside the palace, everything you do, etiquette can't be lacking. I'm very grateful to my mother, she showed me a good way."