Misunderstanding: Pregnant? What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?
Yang Chen and Li Yingying arrived at the coffee shop and ordered coffee.
After a couple of sips, Yang Chen asked, “Miss Li, what kind of business do you want to discuss?”
Li Yingying: “To be precise, I’m here to ask President Yang for a favor. If it works out, there will be a reward.”
Yang Chen: “Oh? What favor? If it benefits us, I’ll definitely help if I can.”
Li Yingying: “We want the land next to Xuanwu Lake, and we hope you can use your connections to help us get it.”
There was indeed a vacant lot next to Xuanwu Lake, with some vegetation planted for landscaping. Getting it for development wouldn’t be easy.
Every city has greening initiatives, and one of Xuanwu Lake’s selling points is its good environment. If the green area next to it suddenly became a high-rise building, it would inevitably affect the quality of life for the residents around Xuanwu Lake, as well as the overall appeal of the area.
“I can’t help you with this. Giving you that green area to develop real estate would immediately cheapen Xuanwu Lake,” Yang Chen said bluntly.
Li Yingying: “Oh, cheapening Xuanwu Lake has nothing to do with you. As long as you can get that piece of land, you can name any conditions you want.”
Yang Chen considered it, but still felt he couldn’t touch that green area.
Before he could speak, Li Yingying continued, “How about this: from now on, I’m your girlfriend, okay? As a boyfriend, helping your girlfriend is very reasonable, appropriate, and necessary, right?”
Yang Chen: “Huh? Are you always this casual? We’ve only met for less than half an hour, and you want to be my girlfriend? I don’t think we have anything to talk about. I can’t help with this. Waiter, the check, please!”
Yang Chen finished his coffee in one gulp and took out his phone to pay.
Li Yingying: “Yang Shuo, you’re going too far!”
Yang Chen: “Where am I going too far? Beauty, you be the judge. I’ve met her for less than half an hour, and she wants to be my girlfriend. Are there girls this casual? If a guy said he wanted to be your boyfriend after knowing you for less than half an hour, would you agree?”
The waiter smiled and shook her head.
Yang Chen: “Miss Li, you see, it’s not me who’s going too far, right? It’s really you who are too casual.”
Li Yingying was so angry she clenched her fists, speechless.
She’d wanted to tease Yang Chen, but didn’t expect him to reject her so directly, not giving her a chance to play her cards.
Waiter: “Sir, the total is 136 yuan [approximately $20 USD].”
Yang Chen: “Are you kidding me? A cup of coffee here is so expensive!”
Waiter: “Oh, no, it’s 136 yuan for both of you.”
Yang Chen: “She pays for hers, and I’ll pay for mine.”
Waiter: “Then your share is 68 yuan [approximately $10 USD].”
Yang Chen nodded and scanned the code to pay.
Li Yingying slammed her fist on the table and said, “Yang Shuo, you’re going too far! You’re making me go Dutch [split the bill]?”
Yang Chen: “The way you put it, we’re not even friends, and there’s no business relationship. Why should I pay for you? You said you had business to discuss, but you just made up an excuse. I think you just came to freeload a coffee.”
After speaking, Yang Chen got up and left.
Li Yingying was furious.
She lightly picked up her bag and was about to chase after him.
The waiter quickly stopped her and said, “Hey, you haven’t paid yet.”
Li Yingying quickly took out a hundred yuan [approximately $15 USD] and threw it to the waiter, saying, “Keep the change!”
Li Yingying chased after him and blocked Yang Chen’s path.
“Yang Shuo, you’re really going too far!” Li Yingying said angrily.
Yang Chen: “Huh? How am I going too far? The request you made is outrageous. Can’t I refuse to help? Can’t I think you’re too ugly and not like you? Why is it that I’m going too far when I reject your unreasonable request? Then isn’t it going too far for you to force me to help you with such an impossible thing and ask me to accept you as my girlfriend?”
Li Yingying: “I’m ugly? With one word from me, I don’t know how many men in Jinling City [a major city in eastern China] would go crazy for me. You say I’m ugly?”
Yang Chen: “Then the men in Jinling City have terrible taste.”
Li Yingying: “…”
Li Yingying felt a stuffy feeling in her chest, unable to spit it out or swallow it down, which was very uncomfortable.
Yang Chen: “Anything else? If not, I need to go back to the company. It’s working hours now; not everyone is as bored as you.”
Li Yingying: “I’m especially angry right now, and I feel like I can’t get a breath. You can’t go anywhere today. You have to take me to the hospital right now.”
Yang Chen: “Are you trying to scam me? In broad daylight, you’re trying to pull a scam like this?”
Li Yingying’s face did look a little strange, so Yang Chen quickly said, “Come, come, get in my car… Oh, the acupuncture kit is in my other car, not in this one. But, it doesn’t matter, we can use other methods. Come, come, get in my car. Why is this young lady so hot-tempered? Look, her face is turning pale.”
Li Yingying followed Yang Chen into the back seat of the Maybach.
Yang Chen reached out to take off her clothes.
“What are you doing?” Li Yingying was shocked and quickly crossed her arms to protect her chest.
Yang Chen: “I’m treating you! Look at how pale your face is; I’m helping you to smooth your breath.”
Li Yingying: “Oh, I knew it; how could any man think I’m ugly. So, you were just embarrassed because there were too many people in the coffee shop, and now you’re coaxing me into the car to start touching me, right? Scumbag, men are all the same; no matter how they pretend, their only goal is to get a woman’s body.”
Yang Chen opened the car door and kicked Li Yingying out.
“Ouch! What are you doing? Ouch!” Li Yingying shouted angrily.
Yang Chen: “You can question my personal ability, but you can’t question my personal taste.”
Yang Chen closed the door, moved to the driver’s seat, and drove away.
Li Yingying chased after the car and shouted, “Yang Shuo, stop for me! You bastard, you son of a bitch, I won’t let you go!”
Li Yingying got into her car angrily but felt her chest getting more and more stuffy and uncomfortable.
“Bastard, you’re making me angry to death. Ouch, I have to go to the hospital to get checked out,” Li Yingying said to herself, and then drove to the hospital.
At this time, Yang Shuo, who was experiencing being a ride-hailing driver, encountered a big trouble. Two female passengers were berating him.
“I paid for it, and I can take my feet out if I want to. Why do you care so much? Just drive your car properly, okay?”
“That’s right! You’re just a ride-hailing driver; why are you being so arrogant? If you can’t accept this kind of work, you don’t have to do it. No one is forcing you to be a ride-hailing driver. Since you’re out here as a driver, you have to accept all the habits of the passengers.”
Yang Shuo: “But your feet are really too smelly. I’m driving with the windows closed and the heater on. Can you imagine how bad that smell is? I’m about to throw up. I’m not driving a ride-hailing car to accept such disgusting things from you! You’re still ladies; how can you be so disgusting? Aren’t girls supposed to be fragrant? The key is that you don’t even think your feet stink.”
“What are you saying? Who are you calling disgusting?”
“Let you be so talkative, let you be so talkative.”
The two female passengers grabbed Yang Shuo and scratched him, scratching his face all over.
Seeing that more and more people were watching, the two girls took advantage of their gender and immediately fell to the ground, rolling and wailing.
“Ouch, help, someone’s hitting people! The driver is hitting people!”
“Everyone, please be the judge. The ride-hailing driver cursed at us, and we just retorted a few words, and he hit us.”
The two girls were guilty and took the opportunity to spray perfume on their feet.
Yang Shuo covered his scratched face and said, “Shrews! You’re simply shrews!”
“Did you hear that, did you hear that? Everyone heard it, right?”
“He’s just a ride-hailing driver; why is he cursing at us! There’s no justice; the driver is cursing and hitting people in the street.”
The surrounding “righteous” people criticized Yang Shuo.
“It’s not right for you to do this as a driver. How can you hit people?”
“That’s right, you’re a big man hitting young girls; how can you do it?”
“Some drivers just have low quality. Last time I took a taxi, I met a driver with very low quality, cursing all the time, talking on the phone and chatting all the way. I reminded him to pay attention to safety, and he spoke to me in a sarcastic way.”
…
Faced with everyone’s criticism, Yang Shuo felt very wronged and quickly explained, “It’s not my fault. It’s cold, so I closed the windows and turned on the heater. As soon as they got in the car, they took off their boots. Smell how smelly it is. I reminded them to put their boots on, and they started attacking me. They were the ones who started hitting me first, and I’ve been dodging and defending myself, without making any aggressive movements towards them. They saw you coming, so they lay on the ground and started acting like spoiled children.”
The two female passengers immediately stretched out their feet for everyone to judge.
“Everyone, smell it, do our feet stink?”
“Does he think we’re like him? We pay attention to personal hygiene. We spray perfume every time we go out; how could he smell the stink?”
There is never a shortage of simps [men who excessively praise and support women]. Several men immediately launched another attack on Yang Shuo.
“It smells very good! You’re just nitpicking, driver.”
“It’s obviously very fragrant; do you have a problem with your nose?”
“Isn’t this easy to understand? He’s clearly bullying these two petite girls, and now that we’ve caught him, he’s just making up an excuse to deceive everyone. Ladies, I advise you to call the police and let him pay the price.”
“Yes! Call the police; we can all testify for you; don’t be afraid of him.”
…
It’s because there are too many simps that many little fairies [a sarcastic term for entitled women] can do whatever they want.
Yang Shuo had been pampered since he was a child, and he had never suffered such grievances.
“Okay! Call the police; I’ll call the police right now!” Yang Shuo said angrily.
The two girls were unwilling to call the police. They knew very well what the truth was, and they didn’t dare to go to the police station.
“We have urgent business to attend to; we don’t have time to waste with him.”
“We’ll go take care of our business first, but we’ve remembered your license plate number, and we’ll come back to pursue your responsibility after we finish our business.”
After speaking, the two girls put on their boots and wanted to run.
Yang Shuo immediately stepped forward to stop them and said, “You can’t leave; you have to go to the police station. You scratched my face like this, and you want to leave just like that?”
“What? Are you trying to extort us?”
“Everyone, look, he’s trying to extort us! The ride-hailing driver is trying to extort us; everyone, please be the judge.”
Yang Shuo couldn’t care so much and said, “I’m Yang Shuo, the president of Baole Culture Media. I’m just here to experience the life of a ride-hailing driver. You better go to the police station with me, otherwise I’ll call the police to investigate you, and don’t blame me if it brings trouble to your work and life.”
“Haha… Why don’t you say you’re Yang Chen, the boss of the Star Group?”
“If you’re Yang Shuo, the president of Baole Culture Media, then I’m Yang Shuo’s father.”
“Haha…”
Yang Shuo: “Why are you cursing at people?”
“Yo yo yo, the expression you’re making, it looks so real, I almost believed it.”
“Yang Shuo is my son; I’m Yang Shuo’s dad. Tell him to come and settle the score with me; you’re too ridiculous.”
“Yang Shuo has nothing better to do than drive a ride-hailing car? Why don’t you say that Boss Yang of the Star Group has nothing better to do than deliver food?”
“Haha…”
Yang Shuo: “You people are really unreasonable; there’s no way to communicate with you.”
The two female passengers took advantage of the chaos and quickly left the scene. They were really afraid of being taken to the police station by Yang Shuo.
Yang Shuo looked at these righteous people and shouted angrily, “What’s the difference between you and those keyboard warriors [online trolls] on the internet who attack people without knowing the truth? You keyboard warriors will pay the price for your disgusting behavior sooner or later!”
After scolding these “righteous people,” Yang Shuo returned to the car angrily.
But the car still smelled of the two female passengers’ feet, and he almost threw up.
“Being a ride-hailing driver is really not something a normal person can do. There’s no way to deal with these kinds of low-quality passengers! I don’t know how Yang Chen can stand it every day. He even said that this job is free and easy,” Yang Shuo muttered to himself, feeling wronged.
At this moment, Yang Shuo’s phone rang.
He looked at it and saw that it was Li Yingying calling.
Yang Shuo had taken a liking to Li Yingying during the blind date. She had taken the initiative to call, so he hurriedly answered the phone and said excitedly, “Hello, Miss Li.”
Li Yingying: “You finally answered the phone, huh? I’m warning you, come to the First People’s Hospital right now. If you don’t come, you’ll bear the consequences!”
Yang Shuo: “First People’s Hospital? What’s wrong with you?”
Li Yingying: “What do you think?”
Yang Shuo: “Okay! I’ll be right there; I need to go over there anyway. Wait for me; I’ll be right there.”
Hanging up the phone, Yang Shuo quickly drove to the First People’s Hospital.
Since Yang Shuo was a bit far from the First People’s Hospital,
By the time he arrived, Li Yingying had already seen the doctor and was waiting at the entrance.
Yang Shuo honked the horn twice and stuck his head out to shout, “Miss Li, over here.”
Li Yingying was already angry, and when she saw “Yang Shuo” calling a substitute to deal with her again, she couldn’t contain the anger in her heart any longer.
“Too much! He’s still finding a substitute to fool me at this time!” Li Yingying said angrily.
Yang Shuo quickly got out of the car to greet her.
“Miss Li, hello…”
“Scumbag!”
“Slap!”
An enraged Li Yingying slapped Yang Shuo.
Yang Shuo was immediately dumbfounded, covering his face and questioning, “Miss Li, why did you hit me?”
Li Yingying: “What do you think? You know it yourself! It’s really too much; what do you take me, Li Yingying, and my Li family for?”
Yang Shuo: “What did I do? I was driving and didn’t answer your call; it shouldn’t be like this, right?”
“You’re a son of a bitch! Scumbag!” Li Yingying cursed angrily, and then turned to walk towards her car.
Yang Shuo was dumbfounded; he really didn’t understand what Li Yingying was going crazy about.
Just as Yang Shuo was about to chase after her, Li Yingying had already driven away.
“Inexplicable; are all girls so unreasonable these days? What do they take our Yang family for? They can just hit me if they want!” Yang Shuo muttered to himself angrily.
Yang Shuo got into the car and called his grandfather, saying angrily, “Grandpa, tell the Li family that I don’t like Li Yingying anymore; there’s no need to match us up.”
Grandpa was confused and said, “Why? Didn’t you say yesterday that you liked the Li family’s girl and wanted to pursue her? Why are you saying you don’t like her now?”
Yang Shuo: “Don’t mention it; I get annoyed just hearing her name now. She called me to the People’s Hospital, and as soon as I got there and said hello to her, she slapped me and called me a scumbag, and then drove away. If I really marry such an unreasonable and inexplicable girl, our family would be in chaos, right?”
Grandpa: “Ah? How could this happen? Is there some misunderstanding between you?”
Yang Shuo: “No misunderstanding! I told you I just went over to say hello to her, and before I could say anything else, she slapped me. There were so many people coming and going at the hospital entrance, she slapped me like that; don’t I have any face? Even if the King of Heaven came to be the matchmaker, I wouldn’t like her. You quickly call the Li family and tell them, and don’t associate with them in the future; I find it disgusting.”
After speaking, Yang Shuo hung up the phone angrily.
Grandpa Yang Qian felt a little puzzled and also a little angry.
The Li family’s girl was too much; how could she slap Yang Shuo in public?
His grandson had grown up so much, and no one in the family had ever slapped him.
Yang Qian immediately called Li Yingying’s grandfather, Li Guo.
Li Guo: “Old Yang, what’s the matter?”
Yang Qian: “Old Li, what’s going on with your family’s girl? She inexplicably called my grandson to the hospital, and my grandson only said hello when they met, and she slapped my grandson and called him a scumbag. My grandson has grown up so much, and we haven’t been willing to slap him; isn’t your granddaughter going too far?”
Li Guo: “Ah? Is there such a thing?”
Yang Qian: “Yes!
My grandson just called me and was so angry, he clearly asked me to call you to refuse to continue with your granddaughter.”
Li Guo: “Hospital, scumbag? Old Yang, could it be that your grandson did something too much? Old Yang, let me tell you, if your grandson really did something too much to my granddaughter, and then wants to clear his relationship and not admit it, I won’t agree. If he really dares to do such a scummy thing, I will definitely make him pay the price!”
Yang Qian was immediately shocked, scumbag, hospital, could it be that the Li family’s girl is pregnant?
Yang Qian immediately laughed happily and said, “Old Li, don’t be angry, don’t be angry. This way, I’ll call and ask clearly. If it’s really as you guessed, brother, I’ll give you a guarantee right now, we will definitely be responsible for your family’s girl. If my grandson dares not to be responsible, I’ll break his legs!”
Li Guo: “It’s best if it’s like this! I’ll also ask my granddaughter; we’ll talk after we have the results.”
Yang Qian: “Hey, okay, okay. We’ll both ask clearly before we talk. Haha…”
This is the difference between raising a boy and raising a girl. For the same thing, the girl’s parents will be very angry, but the boy’s parents will be very happy.
Yang Qian hung up the phone and praised happily, “My grandson is really amazing; he made the Li family’s girl pregnant so quickly. Hmm, he has some of my charm from back then. Haha…”
When the old lady next to him heard this, she asked excitedly, “What did you say? Your grandson made the Li family’s girl pregnant?”
Yang Qian: “Haha… It should be right. Just now, my grandson and the Li family’s girl met at the hospital, and the Li family’s girl cursed him as a scumbag as soon as they met, and then left angrily. Think about it, meeting at the hospital, cursing my grandson as a scumbag, what else could it be because of?”
Old lady: “Haha… That’s great, that’s great, we’ll be able to hold our great-grandson soon. I’ll go tell his parents to go to the Li family with gifts; no matter what, we have to stabilize the Li family’s girl’s emotions and not hurt the child in her belly.”
Yang Qian: “Yes, yes, yes, you go quickly. I’ll call my grandson and ask him to confirm.”
The old lady went out happily, and Yang Qian quickly called Yang Shuo.
Yang Qian: “Hey, Shuo’er, did the Li family’s girl slap you without saying a word as soon as you met?”
Yang Shuo: “Yes!”
Yang Qian: “Haha… That’s right then. Girls, their mood must be irritable and even a little scared at this time; it’s understandable. As a boy, you can’t give up so easily. Look at your grandma, your mom, which one of them doesn’t often make trouble unreasonably and make things difficult for me and your dad? That’s women; is she still a woman if she doesn’t make trouble? If you were me or your dad, would you want a divorce just because your grandma and your mom made trouble? If you think that way, you don’t have to get married in this life. Women are all like this now.”
Yang Shuo touched the scratches on his face and said, “Grandpa, you’re so right; girls these days are really unreasonable and also very barbaric.”
Yang Qian: “Haha… There’s no way; the times have come to this point; women are all like this; you can’t just not get married because of this, right? Listen to Grandpa, in order for our Yang family to have more descendants as soon as possible, just bear with it. Your grandma and your mom, aren’t they fine after being coaxed? Buy some gold and silver jewelry to give her; women are the easiest to coax.”
Yang Shuo hesitated for a moment, sighed, and said, “Okay! I’ll go buy some jewelry later and call her out to give it to her.”
Yang Qian: “Haha… That’s right. Buy the best ones; don’t be stingy; don’t make it seem like our Yang family is reluctant to spend money on our future granddaughter-in-law.”
Yang Shuo: “Okay! Got it. I’m hanging up; I’m driving.”
Hanging up the phone, Yang Shuo quickly went to a jewelry store to buy jewelry.
Yang Qian hummed Peking opera happily and began to imagine the scene of holding his great-grandson.