Chapter 1380 - 1382
Even if Gong Ruzhi was pissed off, he’d actually had this question for a long time.
It’s just that every time he wanted to ask, something or other would always come up.
Besides, he wasn’t exactly the gossiping type.
There was only that little bit of investment, and if those people brought their families in as shareholders, there wouldn’t be much left for themselves.
If you let Gong Ruzhi choose, of course he wouldn’t want them to see how bright the future of this industry was.
But since his sister was asking now, he naturally paid all kinds of attention.
"Their family has money, and they studied computer science too. You could say the investment isn’t much, but they don’t think much of us."
"They say there are so many people starting businesses every year, how many actually succeed."
Dai Liren really didn’t want to say more, but for some reason he just felt like complaining a bit today.
"If I hadn’t pulled in a decent amount of investment, they might not even have cooperated with me." Dai Liren was genuinely helpless.
What was that supposed to mean? Gong Ruini didn’t really get it. One moment they were worried Liren’s investment was too big and would suppress them, the next moment they felt him pulling in a lot of investment was a good thing.
"Isn’t that self-contradictory?" Zhao Xuran spotted a drink stand by the beach, and most importantly, it had air-con—absolutely perfect for Gong Ruini.
As soon as she stepped into the air-conditioned room, Gong Ruini felt so comfortable she almost wanted to moan out loud.
The moment she thought about how that sound was all kinds of inappropriate, she forced it back down.
"I want an iced Coke." Gong Ruini didn’t sound super fierce, but her tone was firm.
"And I want a banana split." Seeing someone at the next table eating a banana split, Gong Ruini really couldn’t hold back her drool.
Hearing his sister say she wanted to eat, how could Gong Ruzhi object? "Then let’s get two."
Don’t even ask about Dai Liren and Zhao Xuran; they both obviously didn’t like this stuff.
For them, eating ice cream was basically torture—not because they were afraid of getting fat, but because they just really didn’t like sweet things.
As she eyed the banana split, Zhao Xuran glanced at Gong Ruini. This girl was really all kinds of asking for trouble.
"Not allowed." Hmph, did she think he wouldn’t say anything?
Not allowed? Gong Ruzhi nervously looked at his sister, then at Zhao Xuran. What was he supposed to do?
He wasn’t worried about who would pay the bill—this little bit of money he could afford. What he was worried about was whether Zhao Xuran would lose his temper at his sister once they went back.
If he yelled at her, then what? That would be a straight road to going crazy.
"I want to eat it." Hmph.
Why she wanted ice cream, Gong Ruzhi didn’t know, but it wasn’t like he didn’t know what was going on.
Gong Ruini glared viciously at Zhao Xuran.
"I don’t agree." Zhao Xuran was mad too. Being angry was one thing, not talking to him was also fine, but she couldn’t just ignore her own body.
"Your period is about to start. Do you want to be rolling around in bed in pain?"
"If you’re not worried, then I won’t care either."
Since Gong Ruini was making a fuss, Zhao Xuran unceremoniously explained why she couldn’t have cold drinks.
Her period? This guy actually remembered that much? Dai Liren hadn’t expected that even with how busy Zhao Xuran was, he could remember Gong Ruini’s cycle so clearly.
Dai Liren had never bothered to find out that kind of thing about Qianqian. If she mentioned it during a call, he’d ask a question and tell her to rest more.
But other than that, he did nothing. He never remembered the dates, and certainly never called on purpose when she might be in pain to check on her.
Everyone around him was basically like that. Maybe in their wives’ eyes, it wasn’t a big deal either.
But watching how much Zhao Xuran cared about Gong Ruini right now, Dai Liren couldn’t help wondering—if he treated his own fiancée like this, how happy would she be?
Right, this was how he should be doing things. Being a man of action, Dai Liren took out a notepad and pen from his pocket and wrote it down.
What was this guy doing? Zhao Xuran had just said everything so bluntly that Gong Ruini had been all kinds of shy and embarrassed.
Luckily he’d said it in Chinese; otherwise, with all the foreigners around them, Gong Ruini was sure she’d have bolted out of there and never set foot in this place again.
What she hadn’t expected was that Dai Liren, instead of just listening, actually took out a pen and started taking notes.
Even though there was nothing that couldn’t be known by others, this was still kind of her black history.
No way, she had to keep an eye on what Dai Liren was writing.
She leaned over to look and was stunned. "You, you..." No way, he was actually writing this down?
This guy really didn’t care enough about his fiancée. If it weren’t for Dai Limin and his loose mouth mentioning that Liren had been the one to pursue his fiancée, everyone would’ve thought it was some kind of political marriage.
The look in Gong Ruini’s eyes and the words she didn’t finish saying made Dai Liren feel pretty embarrassed.
"This time out, I really realized there are a lot of things I haven’t done well." Dai Liren had always thought there was no one around to compare himself with, so he’d never considered where he was falling short.
Zhao Guangran was actually very attentive to girls, but Dai Liren didn’t think much of his way of doing things. He just felt Zhao was flirting with girls instead of genuinely caring.
To put it bluntly, he thought it was just coaxing girls. Dai Liren really couldn’t imagine having to coax his wife every single day; he just couldn’t picture it at all.
But from watching how Zhao Xuran and Gong Ruini got along, Dai Liren realized there was a lot he could learn.
"So you saw Brother Xu Ran and my sister, and decided to learn from them?" Gong Ruzhi was dumbfounded. Watching his sister and Xuran flaunt their relationship all over New York was one thing.
After all, he was busy with his studies and flying to the West Coast on weekends to meet up with Dai Liren and hustle for money.
He hadn’t expected Brother Dai to also want to learn from Brother Xu Ran and his sister. What was he supposed to do then?
Wouldn’t that mean he’d be getting a double dose of dog food?
"Yeah." Dai Liren knew this would get to Gong Ruzhi. The kid had complained before that Zhao Xuran and his sister showed off their love whenever they had even the tiniest opportunity.
But Dai Liren couldn’t possibly give up on his fiancée for his bro. If he’d known how to sweet-talk his fiancée earlier, and how to sweet-talk his future Yue Family, his path to winning her over wouldn’t have been so twisty.
Sure enough, seeing how he admitted it without even thinking, Gong Ruzhi was practically dying of frustration.
He wanted to kick up a bit of a fuss, but he didn’t dare. After all, he did have a big backer behind him.
All he could do was huffily grab the banana split that had just arrived and start eating. As for the other one, his eyes darted around several times.
Since he couldn’t give it to Gong Ruini, who would be the best person to eat the leftover ice cream?
Fine, he’d just give it to Dai Liren. That seemed most appropriate.
What, seriously? Gong Ruini knew that today it was impossible for her to happily drink cold drinks and eat watermelon, but why did no one else have to worry about this? She just didn’t get it, really didn’t.