Song Qianqian was so furious her eyes nearly popped out of her head. “Don’t push me too far!”
Lin Xingyao blew on nonexistent dust from her fingernails. “If I decide to bully you, what can you do about it?”
This world has always been about the survival of the fittest. Some people, if you don’t crush them completely in one go, will just come back for more.
“You bitch!” Song Qianqian, consumed by rage, raised her hand to slap Lin Xingyao.
But before her palm could land, Lin Xingyao caught it, gripping her hand and slapping her own face with it—”smack, smack, smack”—several times in quick succession.
Song Qianqian had failed to hit her opponent and ended up getting beaten instead. The most humiliating part was being forced to slap herself with her own hand.
At that moment, her hand hurt, but her face hurt even more.
Seeing this, Lin Xingwei was terrified and stammered out a plea, “Lin Xingyao, stop! She’s a young lady of the Song family. Even the Jun Family wouldn’t want to offend the Song family.”
Lin Xingyao replied, “What? Do you want to take her punishment? I suggest you first consider whether you can handle it.”
Lin Xingwei immediately fell silent, not daring to utter another word.
Lin Xingyao then turned to Song Qianqian with a smile. “Actually, I also think going out without a bra isn’t very appropriate.”
Song Qianqian, already beaten into despair, felt a momentary relief upon hearing this.
But then Lin Xingyao continued, “It’s mainly because your figure is so terrible—it would ruin the city’s image. How about this: if you crawl out of here like a dog, I’ll let it go.”
Song Qianqian was completely broken by her torment and began to cry. “I can’t afford to provoke you anymore. Please, for the sake of me being a member of the Song family, let it go.”
Lin Xingyao retorted, “If I had lost today, would you have let me go for the sake of me being a member of the Jun Family? No, you wouldn’t. You’d just think my husband is a madman, useless, with no one to back him up. Similarly, who do you have backing you? Song Baixu?”
This remark struck right at Song Qianqian’s sore spot.
If she were Song Baixu’s biological sister, it would be a different story. But she was only a cousin, and not a particularly valued one at that.
As a young lady of the Song family, she could only act arrogantly and intimidate others outside, always bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Who would have thought she’d end up provoking a wolf in sheep’s clothing today?
It was all Lin Xingwei’s fault for misleading her!
Thinking this, Song Qianqian quickly said, “No matter what, I am still a daughter of the Song family, and this concerns the family’s reputation. How about…”
She turned to Lin Xingwei. “Let her crawl out in my place.”
Lin Xingwei might be a sycophant, but that didn’t mean she was willing to act like a dog. She immediately panicked. “Qianqian, it was you who insisted on making the bet. How can you make me take your punishment?”
“Hah, the legendary plastic friendship?” Lin Xingyao shook her head regretfully. “You know Lin Xingwei is my cousin. No matter what, I can’t let my own family be humiliated, right?”
Hearing this, Lin Xingwei felt a flicker of gratitude. But seeing the cunning glint in Lin Xingyao’s eyes, she suddenly realized, “Lin Xingyao, you did this on purpose? You deliberately made Song Qianqian blame me?”
Lin Xingyao ignored her completely and tossed Song Qianqian to the ground. “Crawl or not? I don’t have much patience. If you don’t move, I won’t be polite.”
In the end, Song Qianqian crawled out of the LL boutique in tears. Although she ran away as soon as she was out of Lin Xingyao’s reach, she had already been witnessed and even recorded by many onlookers, utterly humiliating herself.
“You… you’re too ruthless! Lin Xingyao, just you wait!” Lin Xingwei spat out a fierce threat before fleeing in panic.
But her feud with Song Qianqian was now set in stone. Just when she thought she had broken into the Didu Mingyuan Quan, all her efforts had gone to waste, and she might even have brought a lot of trouble to her family.
Lin Xingyao shook out her clothes and turned to the stunned sales clerk beside her. “What are you standing there for? Hurry up and wrap these clothes for me. Don’t you want your commission, new store manager?”
The sales clerk snapped back to reality. “Oh my goodness, that was so badass!” she exclaimed, even slipping into her hometown dialect.
As for the former store manager who had been ousted, she was already terrified out of her wits.
She had expected to face some punishment herself, but to her surprise, Lin Xingyao didn’t even glance at her as she left the store.
Hmph, such a small fry wasn’t worth her effort.
Putting aside these minor incidents, the shopping experience today had been quite enjoyable. Lin Xingyao used the unlimited Heijin Ka to buy a pile of things at Tianfu Cheng and returned to the Jun Family with bags in both hands.
She saw Jun Xuanye leisurely sitting in a rocking chair, admiring the sunset, fully embracing the role of a patient.
Satisfied, she smiled, casually tossed the shopping bags onto the footstool at the end of the bed, and went to remove her makeup and wash her face.
In reality, however, Jun Xuanye had spent the entire day in video conferences.
It wasn’t until the gatekeeper reported that Er Shao Furen had returned that he hurriedly put