“How is it?” Qu Tianyao looked doubtfully at the car Qu Tianci had mentioned. The red body had smooth, rounded lines, a very elegant convertible sports car. “It’s very pretty.”
Qu Tianci looked delighted at this and pulled a set of keys from his pocket. “As long as you like it. It’s yours.”
Qu Tianyao was still puzzling over why Qu Tianci had suddenly asked about the car when the next second his words knocked him flat. “What? What did you say?”
Qu Tianci pressed the car keys into Qu Tianyao’s hand, smiling. “I said, the car is yours. It’s a new model that just came out recently. I figured you’d like it.”
He did genuinely like it, but this move from Qu Tianci?
“I heard about it.” Seeing Qu Tianyao’s dumbfounded expression, Qu Tianci explained, “I heard Hao Feng scolded you?”
Qu Tianyao instantly understood. This was cheering up his little sister. No wonder the original owner had turned out the way she did! The person standing right in front of him was the culprit!
“No need,” Qu Tianyao said with a smile. “I wasn’t that upset.”
Qu Tianci sighed at that. “Always so stubborn about putting on a brave face. Just think of it as a little gift from your big brother.”
A little gift, right.
Qu Tianyao looked at Qu Tianci, caught in a dilemma. If possible, he wanted to keep some distance from the people around the original owner, it would make things easier later, but now it seemed that might be a bit difficult?
“Then, how about I pay you for it?”
“Talking money between brother and sister hurts the relationship,” Qu Tianci said with a laugh. “Besides, isn’t your money from me in the first place? Don’t overthink it.”
Qu Tianyao: “?”
He suddenly felt he might need to re-examine his current situation, especially the financial side. If it was really as Qu Tianci said, he’d have quite the headache coming.
In the end, Qu Tianyao accepted Qu Tianci’s gift, carefully making a mental note of it. The first thing he did after returning to his room was look into his own situation, including his work.
Then he wanted to die.
He’d known the original owner was in the entertainment industry, but he never imagined she’d fared this badly. A stunning face, her own family’s company, a gold-medal agent on her side, with all the ingredients to summon the dragon, she’d somehow managed to scrape her way down to the bottom-tier eighteenth rank!
Come to think of it, he hadn’t contacted the agent yet. Staring at the three characters “Chen Danman” on his phone, Qu Tianyao sank into deep thought. He had no idea how the original owner’s relationship with her agent was. If it was bad, fine; but if it was actually good, then he was done for! How would he explain it? That he’d gotten a sex change for the sake of a bright future?!
She’d be beaten to death for that except, no, with the original owner’s temper, no one would have dared hit her anyway.
Qu Tianyao genuinely felt like he was going insane.
Just as he was still struggling internally, the phone in his hand suddenly rang, startling him so badly he nearly threw it. Then he saw the caller ID: “Chen Danman”and this time he really did throw it.
Talk about your fears coming true.
After steeling himself thoroughly, Qu Tianyao picked up as the phone rang for the second time. “Hello?”
“Tianyao?” A gentle female voice came from the other end. Only after hearing him grunt an “mm” did she continue, “Do you remember that drama you took on a while back?”
“Huh?” Qu Tianyao was a bit lost and asked instinctively, “Which one?”
The other side sounded a little awkward at that, and reminded him: “The one called Linglong Heart.”