“VFB to account, 25,000 yuan.”
Upon hearing the pleasant voice from her phone, Chi Qingyao’s expression didn’t change much.
She just looked coldly at Caixiangxiang.
“Clothes.”
“It hurts.”
“Do you want me to help you tear them off?”
Hearing Chi Qingyao’s words, even though her body was in pain, Caixiangxiang still struggled to take off her clothes.
But even standing up was difficult for her.
“In your current state, probably no one would recognize you even if the photos were posted.”
Chi Qingyao said disdainfully. She still kept the evidence.
She knew she was repeatedly teetering on the edge of breaking the law. But to protect herself, she could only rely on her own strength.
Like Chi Qingya, who hoped someone would protect her.
Hoping for justice to show up, but in the end, didn’t she still have to get through it alone?
“Sister, let’s go.”
Seeing Chi Qingya absentmindedly, Chi Qingyao said.
Chi Qingya still sat blankly in her seat, staring at the mess in the room.
“Chi Qingya, let’s go!”
Hearing Chi Qingyao call her name, Chi Qingya slowly stood up and followed behind her.
She didn’t plead for mercy for them anymore. She wasn’t worthy of asking her sister for anything.
“Go pay for my meal. As for theirs, let your ‘friend’ figure it out herself.”
Chi Qingyao said, looking at Caixiangxiang who was frantically putting on her clothes on the floor.
She just remembered she hadn’t paid for the meal yet. But what did it have to do with her?
After all, she had just come along with her sister to eat. And the restaurant was their own choice.
If they had treated her sister a little better, she wouldn’t have done these things.
It was all their own fault. They had no money yet still tried to show off.
Pretending to be rich to eat at such an expensive restaurant.
She was just teaching them a lesson.
Not charging them tuition was already merciful enough.
Chi Qingya, as if her soul had left her body, followed her younger sister and paid.
She didn’t know how her sister had negotiated with the restaurant to only pay for her own portion.
Maybe it was because her sister smiled so sweetly when paying.
Her sister was quite good at using her advantages.
Chi Qingya didn’t think there was anything wrong with that.
At least her sister was more suited to living in this world than she was.
“Sister, I helped you vent. You don’t want to ask for that money back, do you?”
Chi Qingyao felt extremely pleased.
As expected, good things happen when she’s with her favorite sister.
This time coming to visit her older sister, she not only ate food she’d never eaten before, but also gained over 70,000 yuan all at once.
In all her life, she had never seen so much money.
“No.”
Chi Qingya shook her head. Money already spent, she naturally had no reason to take it back.
Thinking this way, she suddenly thought of Su Li.
Actually, back then she had only wanted to threaten Su Li, but she never expected Su Li would actually make money for her.
Sitting in the back of the taxi, looking at her own reflection on the taxi window, Chi Qingya was somewhat dazed.
She… seemed to have returned to how she was before.
That lonely, helpless self. No friends. Not a single good friend.
Even if she could deceive herself, telling herself that Caixiangxiang and the others were her good friends, now she couldn’t keep pretending to be asleep anymore.
Her sister had forcibly woken her up.
“Sister, you really are my good sister.”
Chi Qingyao was very happy. She directly pounced into Chi Qingya’s arms, nuzzling against her.
Seventy-five thousand yuan. If she put it all into the game, how satisfying that would be.
She looked at Chi Qingya and suddenly realized something.
Although their parents seemed to work hard, their family was wealthier than she had imagined. And much, much wealthier!
She suddenly began to look forward to it.
What other unexpected gains would this trip to S City bring?
……
Time goes back a few hours.
S City’s skyline lit up in the twilight.
The office building’s glass curtain wall reflected the last orange-red of the sunset.
Neon signs flickered on one by one.
The warm light from the convenience store spilled onto the crosswalk through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Traffic on the elevated bridge dragged red tail light streaks, like a string of glowing beads rolling into the tunnel.
The evening wind carried white smoke from the barbecue stalls over the trash cans.
Plastic packaging bags rustled on the sycamore branches.
The steam from the convenience store’s oden fogged up half the window.
When Su Li passed by the convenience store, as usual she glanced inside.
There was no sign of Cat in the store. Instead, there was another employee.
Of course, there wouldn’t be Cat. Cat already had a better job now.
She entered the store and picked through the cat food on the shelves.
Remembering the scene of Cat secretly taking out cat food from her pocket and stuffing it into her mouth to sneak a bite, Su Li paused in her movements.
She didn’t know if Cat had finished the cat food.
But preparing snacks that employees liked seemed like a nice benefit.
At least in other companies, they stocked cat food for employees.
So Su Li selected the brand of cat food that Cat had been reluctant to eat, paid calmly, and left.
Su Li stood at the base of her apartment building, looking up at the scattered lights.
The night wind carried the aroma of oden from the convenience store in the distance.
She tightened her coat and counted the floors along the concrete wall.
When she reached her own easternmost window, a warm yellow light shone through, and the corner of the curtain swayed gently in the night breeze.
In the past, she wouldn’t have looked up toward home.
But at this moment, she subconsciously raised her head.
When she inserted the key into the lock, it made a slight metallic scraping sound.
The light spilling from the door crack spread a narrow golden line on the floor.
She paused in pushing the door open.
The entrance hall sensor lamp lit up, illuminating the fuzzy slippers messily arranged on the floor.
“Su Li, Su Li, welcome home!”
Hearing the door open, Cat immediately ran out of the kitchen, a faint smile on her face as she looked at Su Li.
The warming pad in the kitchen showed a small red light.
The rice cooker displayed a countdown of five minutes, and the bubbling steam gently rattled the glass lid.
Even though they had eaten together just at noon, seeing Cat still gave Su Li a feeling of having not seen her for a long time.
“Well, this first time I didn’t know when you’d be home, so I kept the food warm.”
“But this time I’ve learned your schedule, so next time I can prepare properly and have a hot meal ready when you get back.”
Cat felt a bit embarrassed. She had come back by car at noon, after all.
But she had still reheated the dishes, unable to preserve the fresh-out-of-the-wok flavor.