“Yifan, your cousin is only saying that for your own good. Don’t take it personally!”
“Sister-in-law, I won’t hold it against him for your sake. But I think you should take a good look at what kind of person he really is.”
With that, Wang Yifan turned around and walked away without another word.
Wang Baoshan glared at him furiously.
He had even been tempted to rush over and beat Wang Yifan up.
However, they were relatives from the same village.
If he actually beat Wang Yifan, he would never be able to show his face in the village again.
“Hmph, all he knows how to do is brag. Let’s see how he explains himself tomorrow. He even says he’s bringing his girlfriend home. Does he think he’s me? How could he possibly find someone that good?”
“Enough. Stop talking. He’s your younger cousin, after all. How can you, as a grown man, be so petty?”
Li Jiali thought Wang Baoshan was being far too petty.
If it weren’t for the fact that he handed his entire salary over to her every month, she would have broken up with him long ago.
There was no way she would have come home with him.
“Jiali, what do you mean? I’m your boyfriend. Why are you taking the side of an outsider?”
“If you say one more word, believe me, I’ll slap you!”
The moment Li Jiali said this, Wang Baoshan immediately shut his mouth.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t beat Li Jiali.
It was that he didn’t dare.
If he actually hit Li Jiali, he would become single the very next second.
There was nothing he could do but swallow his anger.
Wang Baoshan had already made up his mind.
Tomorrow, when he met Wang Yifan’s girlfriend, he was going to mock him properly.
He simply didn’t believe that Wang Yifan could find a girlfriend prettier than Li Jiali.
After leaving Wang Baoshan’s house, Wang Yifan continued walking through the village.
Less than two minutes later, he arrived at his third uncle’s house.
His third aunt was sitting outside, tending a fire and cooking something.
When she saw him, she greeted him.
“Yifan, your third aunt wants to ask you something!”
“Go ahead, Third Aunt.”
“Your mother said your girlfriend is coming tomorrow?”
“Yes, Third Aunt. She’ll arrive tomorrow evening.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
“Do you have a photo? Let your third aunt have a look.”
“Third Aunt, she’ll be here tomorrow anyway.”
“You little rascal. You won’t even let your third aunt have a look?”
“Hehe.”
After chatting with his third aunt for a while, Wang Yifan left.
But as he continued walking through the village, he realized that something was seriously wrong.
Almost everyone he encountered asked him about his girlfriend.
Was she really coming tomorrow?
He was speechless.
He hadn’t expected the news to spread so quickly.
It seemed that practically the entire village already knew.
Whenever someone asked him about it, he deliberately gave vague answers.
He didn’t want to make too much of a fuss.
If he told them that his girlfriend was the famous celebrity Zhao Lusi, they probably wouldn’t believe him anyway.
Rather than making them suspicious, he figured it was better to let them see for themselves when Zhao Lusi arrived tomorrow.
Besides, his parents had already invited everyone over for dinner tomorrow evening.
They would find out sooner or later.
After walking around the village once, Wang Yifan had no idea what else to do, so he returned home.
Once he got back, he went straight upstairs to the third floor, sat down on the sofa beside the electric heater, and started playing with his phone.
Half an hour later, his phone rang.
“Hello?”
“Mr. Wang, it’s me, Song Qingshu.”
“I know. What’s the matter?”
“The revenue share has already been deposited into your account. Have you received it?”
“Yes, I have.”
“Alright, Mr. Wang. Happy New Year!”
“Happy New Year.”
After saying that, Wang Yifan hung up.
Sitting beside the heater, he felt a little surreal.
In the past, he didn’t even know someone as important as Song Qingshu.
Heck, he didn’t even know the owner of a small supermarket.
But now, even the president of a major corporation like Song Qingshu had to carefully consider his attitude toward him.
The feeling was truly incredible.
And exhilarating.
No wonder people became so addicted to power.
It really was intoxicating.
You didn’t have to do anything, yet people would still go out of their way to please you instead of pointing fingers at you and telling you that you weren’t good enough or that you were doing everything wrong.
Now Wang Yifan finally understood something.
If someone constantly criticized you, it could only mean one thing: your strength wasn’t enough to make them fear you.
Wang Yifan had always loved scrolling through Douyin short videos.
Even now, whenever he had nothing to do, he would sit down and scroll through videos.
Once he started, he could spend the entire day doing it and find it almost impossible to stop.
Sure enough, he was back to scrolling through short videos in front of the electric heater.
Nine out of every ten videos were exactly the kind of content he enjoyed watching.
One pair of long legs after another, fair skin, JK uniforms, lingerie advertisements, black stockings, black side-cut shoes with red soles…
The “nutritional value” of the videos he was watching was ridiculously high.
“Damn. If this keeps up, won’t next week’s random video reward end up giving me another identity like someone’s boyfriend?”
Although Wang Yifan didn’t mind getting a few more rewards like that, he really wanted something else now.
For example, Sha Niu.
Or the transformation belt for the Emperor Armor.
Or the Divine Light Stick that could transform him into Ultraman Tiga.
Even though he lived in a peaceful modern era, he still wanted to try them.
After all, what guy could possibly resist the temptation of transforming into an Armor Hero or Ultraman?
No one.
Absolutely no one.
As he continued scrolling, he suddenly came across a video posted by Zhao Lusi.
It was her latest update.
In the video, she was wearing pajamas while packing her luggage.
The video had been posted only an hour ago, yet it had already received more than 300,000 likes.
The comment section was even crazier, with countless fans asking where Zhao Lusi was going.
Wang Yifan smiled, liked the video, and then left a comment.
“Baby, are you coming to my house?”
He thought Zhao Lusi’s fans would probably attack him for saying something like that.
But apparently, he had overestimated his own importance.
There were plenty of people making similar comments, so his was just one among thousands.
What he didn’t know was that everything was about to change because of one reply.
After posting his comment, he clicked into Zhao Lusi’s Douyin profile and browsed through her older posts, admiring her sweet face and alluring figure.
She really was incredibly attractive.
As he looked through her photos, he suddenly opened his phone gallery and searched through the pictures of Zhao Lusi he had saved.
When he found a photo of her wearing jeans and a white shirt with her hair tied up in a bun, he immediately set it as his phone wallpaper.
Afterward, he returned to Douyin.
But the moment he came back, he was stunned.
His notifications had originally been practically empty.
Yet after being away for only a few minutes, the notification icon had suddenly turned into 99+.
He was completely dumbfounded.
When he tapped on it, he finally realized what had happened.
Zhao Lusi had replied to his comment!
The moment Zhao Lusi responded to him, her fans seemed to go crazy.
Countless people clicked into his profile.
Some even started bombarding him with private messages, desperately asking the same question:
What exactly was his relationship with Zhao Lusi?