Chapter 420 - 199: Frolicking in the Hot Spring
’What a great best friend!’
"Alright."
At her best friend’s urging, Yan Yi finally made up her mind.
She walked up to Xu Yun, closed her eyes, and said with a pitiful look, "Go ahead. Hit me."
SLAP!
Seeing her adorable expression, Xu Yun didn’t strike her hard like he had the other two. He just gave her a light tap.
"There. I’m done."
"You’re done?"
Yan Yi turned around and opened her eyes, looking at Xu Yun in confusion. She hadn’t felt any pain at all.
"Alright, you all keep soaking for a while. I’m getting out so you don’t feel so restricted."
Xu Yun gave Wang Yang a meaningful look, then stood up. "I’m going to see what Old Lin is up to."
"Oh."
Not long after Xu Yun left, Wang Yang also stood up. "I’ve soaked long enough, too. I’m heading out. You two best friends can have some fun and share some secrets."
With Xu Yun and Wang Yang gone, only Cheng Yiran and Yan Yi were left in the hot spring pool.
Cheng Yiran looked at Yan Yi, unable to hold it in any longer. "Quick, take a look for me. How’s my butt?"
"Okay."
Yan Yi took a look and said awkwardly, "It’s a big red patch!"
"That Xu Yun!"
Cheng Yiran said, fuming with embarrassment, "I’m a girl, for goodness’ sake! How could he hit so hard?"
After complaining, she suddenly thought of her best friend and looked at her suspiciously.
Yan Yi asked, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Why does President Xu treat you differently from us?"
Cheng Yiran asked tentatively, "Don’t tell me he’s taken a liking to you?"
"No way."
Yan Yi quickly denied it. "He probably just knows I’m afraid of pain, so he went easy on me."
"Hmph. I’m afraid of pain too. Why didn’t he go easy on me?"
Yan Yi was speechless.
"Men all like innocent girls. Maybe he just likes your type."
Yan Yi was speechless.
She had no confidence that Xu Yun could like her.
’He’s handsome, good-looking, and rich—a real-life Prince Charming. How could he possibly be interested in me? If he were to like someone, it should be my best friend.’
After getting out, Xu Yun didn’t go far. He seemed to be waiting for someone.
Sure enough, a moment later, Wang Yang came out. When she saw him, the two exchanged a look of tacit understanding. Everything was left unsaid.
At the staff’s arrangement, they went to another hot spring pool in the adjacent courtyard.
It turned out that while they were in the hot spring earlier, they had appeared to have no intimate contact on the surface, looking quite normal. In reality, the two had already been secretly flirting under the water, constantly making suggestive little moves.
But with the other two present, their only choice was to open up a new battlefield and settle the score!
As for the reason?
One was after money, the other was after sex.
You could say it was a match made in heaven.
Xu Yun had actually known what Wang Yang was up to the moment she suddenly arranged for him to go to the hot springs today.
Because the weather in Guilin was forecasted to be poor for the next few days—overcast and rainy, not at all suitable for tourism—it was possible that he, Xu Yun, would leave early.
He had, in fact, been planning to leave anyway, heading straight for Xiangjiang!
When that happened, who would she be a guide for?
For just one or two days as a private guide, she would only make a little over 2,000 yuan!
So, before he left, the far-sighted Wang Yang wanted to make a big score off of Xu Yun!
She had finally run into a rich guy who was both handsome and wealthy; she couldn’t let this opportunity slip by.
How would she do it?
Her own body was her capital!
Xu Yun, deciding to satisfy her before he left, had taken the initiative to say something about grapes being 200 yuan each.
Did you think he was really talking about grapes?
He was setting a price!
Wang Yang coming over to peel grapes and feed them to Xu Yun signified her agreement.
While soaking earlier, Xu Yun had been counting internally. She had peeled exactly 75 grapes for him in total, which meant 15,000 yuan!
Only the other two girls had no idea what had just transpired, still thinking there was really such an easy way to make money.
However, they had pretty much gotten lucky by tagging along with Wang Yang, earning tens of thousands for free.
In this regard, Wang Yang was a little envious of them.
Because she knew that this was Xu Yun’s roundabout way of deliberately giving them money for free.
Although she felt a bit resentful, the money was his to give to whomever he pleased. It was none of her business; she just needed to earn her own cut.
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「A short while later.」
In the hot spring pool, Cheng Yiran suddenly said to Yan Yi, "Did you just hear a strange noise coming from the courtyard next door?"
"No."
"Maybe I misheard."
Cheng Yiran said, "I thought I heard Sister Yang’s voice."
"No way. She left a long time ago."
"That’s true."
Cheng Yiran said with a smile, "We finally made it out here. Let’s soak a little longer before getting out."
"Mm-hmm."
Cheng Yiran looked at the other girl, whose figure was on par with her own, and felt a wave of complicated emotions.
’Why didn’t I ever notice before!’
’Could the reason Xu Yun takes care of her and is interested in her be that he saw this all along?’
’She already couldn’t compete with her in terms of looks, and now, great, she didn’t even have an advantage with her figure anymore!’
Suddenly, Cheng Yiran felt a bit depressed.