How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 109

Slapped!

Zhang Lulu was clearly trying to provoke Yu Shishi on purpose.

An MIT MBA doing odd jobs for a monthly salary of 3,500 yuan [roughly $500 USD]? Wasn’t that deliberately humiliating?

Although Yu Shishi was sweet and honest, it didn’t mean she had no backbone.

“Zhang Lulu, enough! I don’t want to argue with you in front of Mr. Yang. Please leave immediately!” Yu Shishi said, her voice rising in anger.

Seeing Yu Shishi almost lose her composure, Zhang Lulu felt a twisted sense of satisfaction.

“Shishi, what are you doing? I’m kindly suggesting a job. If you want it, take it. If not, just say so. Why are you getting angry with me? What? You think you’re going to land this handsome guy on your blind date and get him to support you, so you don’t have to work?” Zhang Lulu mocked.

Yu Shishi didn’t want to get into a drawn-out argument with Zhang Lulu, so she called out, “Waiter, we’re being disturbed. Could you please handle this!”

The waiter hurried over. After quickly assessing the situation, she said to Zhang Lulu, “Madam, do you have a reservation?”

Zhang Lulu rolled her eyes. “Of course, I have a reservation! Table 34!”

The waiter bowed slightly. “Then, could you please return to your table? Thank you for your cooperation.”

Zhang Lulu sneered at Yu Shishi, then turned to Yang Chen. “Handsome, whatever your relationship with her is, I advise you to stay away. She’s not a true friend. When things get tough, she’ll throw you under the bus to save herself, with no regard for your well-being. I’m living proof. Don’t make the same mistake I did.”

Yu Shishi, now truly furious, retorted, “Do you want me to expose all the awful things you did back then? Where’s your vice president boyfriend now? I’m going to tell him what you were really like in college!”

Just then, Lin Nan walked to table 34, jingling his car keys.

“Lulu, what’s going on over here?” Lin Nan asked.

Seeing him, Zhang Lulu immediately feigned tears and ran to hug Lin Nan.

“Waaah… President Lin, I’m being bullied! You have to defend me! Waaah…” Zhang Lulu wailed.

Since Yang Chen’s advice in University Town [a district known for its concentration of universities and colleges] last time, Lin Nan had matured somewhat.

Still, he couldn’t let his little secretary get bullied.

“Don’t cry. I’ll definitely get revenge for you. Let’s go!” Lin Nan said confidently.

Zhang Lulu pretended to sob a few more times, nodded, and looped her arm through Lin Nan’s as she walked toward Yu Shishi.

Pointing at Yu Shishi, Zhang Lulu declared, “President Lin, she’s the one who’s bullying me.”

Lin Nan took a step forward. At that moment, Yang Chen turned to look at him.

Lin Nan was visibly shocked. “Yang Chen? What are you doing here?”

“I think I’m here to eat. What do *you* think?” Yang Chen replied, a hint of amusement in his voice.

Lin Nan chuckled nervously. “Right, right, silly question. New girlfriend? Not bad, your taste is improving.”

“My newly hired housekeeper. Is *that* your girlfriend?” Yang Chen countered.

“Haha… technically, she’s an assistant, but yeah, we’re dating,” Lin Nan admitted with a forced smile.

“Looks like she wasn’t lying. She’s been harassing my housekeeper and ruining our meal. I was waiting for you to come over and sort it out.

So, how are you going to handle this?” Yang Chen asked, his expression serious.

Lin Nan quickly adopted a placating tone. “Brother Chen, give me some face here. I’ll make her apologize, and we’ll call it even, okay?”

“Stop joking around. Last time, you said to let you know if I needed anything. Now you’re asking me to give you face. Do you even *have* any face with me? I’m giving you a chance to decide how to handle it yourself. Don’t push it,” Yang Chen said bluntly.

Zhang Lulu’s face paled. She’d assumed Yang Chen was too timid to speak up, an ordinary loser afraid of causing trouble for Yu Shishi.

She never imagined that Yang Chen was simply waiting for Lin Nan to arrive and deal with her.

It was beneath him to argue with a woman; settling things with the man behind her was far more effective.

Ignorance is bliss, and Zhang Lulu was about to learn that lesson the hard way.

She blurted out, “President Lin, you’re the vice president of Lin’s Decoration and Home Furnishing Company! Why should you be afraid of him?”

Lin Nan snapped, “Can’t you just shut up? Apologize to Brother Chen and this young lady, now!”

“Why? Didn’t you say you’d stand up for me?” Zhang Lulu asked, feigning hurt.

Lin Nan grabbed her chin, his voice low and menacing. “I told you to apologize. Don’t be ungrateful!”

Zhang Lulu was frightened by Lin Nan’s sudden ferocity. “President Lin, don’t be like this! You’re scaring me! You’re hurting me!”

Lin Nan released her. “Be good, and apologize quickly!”

Zhang Lulu wasn’t stupid. She could see that Lin Nan was genuinely afraid of Yang Chen.

Though she was unwilling, she had no choice but to apologize.

Otherwise, she risked losing her job and her chance to become Lin Nan’s girlfriend.

“Shishi, I’m sorry. It’s my fault. Please forgive my recklessness today, for the sake of our being college roommates,” Zhang Lulu said, the words clearly forced.

Yu Shishi’s cheeks were flushed with anger. “Zhang Lulu, I will never forgive you. I only ask that you pretend you don’t know me in the future and actively avoid me. Do you understand?”

Zhang Lulu was stunned for a moment, then turned to Lin Nan for help.

Lin Nan said sternly, “Why are you looking at me? Whatever this beauty says goes. Can’t you speak?”

Tears welled up in Zhang Lulu’s eyes. “Okay, no problem. I will definitely not go anywhere near you in the future.”

Only then did Yu Shishi unclench her fists, still visibly upset.

Afterward, she looked at Yang Chen with admiration. “Sir, let them go. I don’t want to see her anymore.”

Yang Chen smiled. “I still have a question I want answered. Zhang Lulu, you said that Shishi doesn’t care about friendship and betrayed you. Tell me, how did she betray you?”

Yu Shishi was Yang Chen’s personal housekeeper, after all, and her character mattered.

If she was truly the type to betray her friends, even if the system rewarded him, Yang Chen couldn’t keep her.

Yu Shishi quickly interjected, “Sir, I…”

Yang Chen stopped her. “Shishi, don’t speak. I want to hear her side of the story. Zhang Lulu, I’m warning you now, if you don’t tell the truth, I won’t let you off easily. And don’t think Lin Nan will protect you. Even if I slapped you in public, he wouldn’t dare to say a word. Lin Nan, am I right?”

Lin Nan forced a smile. “Brother Chen, don’t tease me. Zhang Lulu, tell the truth, what happened? I’m warning you, if you dare to lie, I’ll slap you myself.”

Zhang Lulu was regretting her actions more and more. She never should have come looking for trouble with Yu Shishi.

She never expected that the seemingly ordinary Yang Chen could treat Lin Nan like a younger brother.

“It was a misunderstanding. I wasn’t studying hard because I was sick. I couldn’t answer some of the questions during the exam. Shishi wanted to help me, so she offered me her paper to copy. I didn’t actually copy, but the invigilator thought I did and cancelled my grades, which forced me to retake the exam…”

Yu Shishi couldn’t listen anymore and interrupted, “You were sick? You were clearly traveling with your boyfriend. You didn’t even bother to memorize the exam material the teacher gave us. You couldn’t do the exam, so you wanted me to let you copy. Yes, we were roommates, and I should have let you. But you were always awful, staying out until all hours and sneaking your boyfriend into the dorm. Me and the other two roommates were disgusted with you, so I refused to let you cheat. After you failed, you held a grudge and spread rumors that I betrayed you and was being kept by someone, forcing me to move out. And now, after all these years, you still want to cause trouble for me? Do you think you can get away with bullying me just because you’ve latched onto a vice president?”

Zhang Lulu was speechless.

Lin Nan stepped forward and slapped her hard across the face. “What did I just tell you? If you dared to lie, I’d slap you. Are you taking me for a fool? You’ve done such a terrible thing, and you dare come here and cause trouble? Shameful!”