Upon seeing Qin Feng, Xia Lingling immediately widened her eyes and asked with curiosity, "Anqi, who is this?"
"Is he your driver or your bodyguard?"
"Weren't you always by yourself before?"
"This..." Zhao Anqi stammered, unsure of how to put it.
Qin Feng didn't have so many reservations and smiled directly, replying, "I'm her husband!"
Upon hearing the word "husband," Zhao Anqi instantly reacted as if triggered!
Her face flushed so red it looked like it could drip blood!
"Qin Feng, what nonsense are you spouting?"
"Who says you're my husband? Have we gotten married? Have we gotten our marriage license?"
"At best, you're just my fiancé, so don't talk rubbish!"
"Otherwise, this young lady will sue you for slander!"
You couldn't really blame her for reacting so strongly; after all, this was at the university, and right in front of her best friend!
If word of this got out around campus, it would probably become a trending topic on the school's hot search list instantly!
The campus belle of Tianhai University, the esteemed daughter of the Zhao Family, had actually gone and married some mountain bumpkin!
Just thinking about it made her feel mortified!
Even so, the three words "fiancé" still struck a nerve with Xia Lingling!
"A... a fiancé???"
Xia Lingling looked at Qin Feng in disbelief, then turned to look at her good friend, her face full of shock!
"Anqi, what on earth is going on here?"
She grabbed her friend by the arm, pulled her to the side, and began whispering in a low voice.
Zhao Anqi sighed, looking utterly helpless. "This is an engagement my grandfather arranged for me when we were kids!"
"I was originally planning to tell you about it today anyway!"
Xia Lingling widened her eyes and then asked, "Then who is this guy? What's his background?"
"I remember that none of the young masters in Tianhai's inner circle match this person!"
"No background. He just came from the mountains."
"No way?" Xia Lingling was speechless. "Your grandfather married you off to someone like that?"
Zhao Anqi nodded helplessly.
"Goodness! How could a country bumpkin like this ever be worthy of you? Your grandfather must be joking!"
She couldn't help but feel a sense of injustice for her good friend.
"I know, but Grandpa seems to really like him, so there's nothing I can do..."
"What do you mean there's nothing you can do? Watch me!"
Xia Lingling flashed a mischievous smile, then walked briskly over to Qin Feng.
"You're Qin Feng, right?"
"Since you want to marry my best friend, the least you can do is find a job, right?"
"Otherwise, how is my best friend supposed to live with you in the future? She's a pampered young lady used to the finer things in life!"
"As a grown man, surely you don't plan on living off a woman?"
Zhao Anqi understood what she was getting at, smiled faintly, walked over as well, and said to Qin Feng, "Lingling makes a good point!"
"Qin Feng, you really do need to find a job."
"Living in the city without a job means starving to death!"
"You can't possibly live at my house forever, can you?"
Qin Feng smiled and said, "A job? That's nothing! Piece of cake!"
What these two women were saying actually made sense.
He was a newcomer; staying at the Zhao Family for a few days was fine, but staying indefinitely really wouldn't be appropriate!
It was indeed time to find a proper job.
Seeing that he had taken the bait, Xia Lingling chuckled inwardly while maintaining a completely straight face on the outside. "Since you agree, let me set a standard on Anqi's behalf: a monthly salary of over ten thousand!"
"How about it? That's not an unreasonable requirement, is it?"
"As a grown man, you can't even find a job that pays over ten thousand a month?"
"For ordinary people, that's just a basic requirement!"
"Let alone the fact that the person you want to marry is our Anqi!"
"If you can't even manage this, then don't even talk about marrying our Anqi. How embarrassing!"
Hearing this requirement, Zhao Anqi was thrilled beyond measure!
She desperately wanted to hug her best friend and plant a kiss on her!
Brilliant, simply brilliant!
Finding a job that paid over ten thousand a month might not be too difficult for an ordinary person.
But for Qin Feng, it was as hard as ascending to the heavens!
A rustic hick from the mountains with no special skills, no worldly experience, and no background—how could he possibly find a job paying over ten thousand a month just like that?
It was impossible!
The two girls exchanged a glance and shared a knowing smile!
From their perspective, Qin Feng should have backed down out of a realization of his own limitations by now!
To their surprise, upon hearing these words, Qin Feng simply laughed!
"Psh, I was wondering what kind of demand it would be! Is that all? Just a job paying over ten thousand a month—piece of cake!"
Hearing this, both girls were stunned!
Especially Xia Lingling, who looked at Qin Feng in sheer disbelief, her face twisted in mockery as she said, "You country bumpkin! Can you stop bragging for once?"
"I've seen plenty of guys who are overly confident despite being mediocre, but I've never seen anyone as delusional as you!"
Bragging!
As far as Xia Lingling was concerned, Qin Feng was just blowing hot air!
She even wondered if Qin Feng had lived in the mountains all his life, never having experienced the bustling metropolis of Tianhai, and therefore had absolutely no concept of what a monthly salary of ten thousand yuan meant!
Perhaps he didn't even know what earning over ten thousand a month entailed!
Meeting Xia Lingling's scornful gaze, Qin Feng was baffled internally: how on earth was he bragging?
Wasn't it just finding a job that paid over ten thousand a month? What was there to boast about?
Back in the day, when he went on missions in North Africa, he could easily rake in hundreds of millions of US dollars!
It was just that all that money had been stashed away by his master in some mysterious foundation, leaving him with no way to access it!
Was a lousy job paying ten thousand yuan a month really that hard?
Qin Feng was slightly at a loss for words. "Who's bragging?"
"Stop looking down on people!"
"Today, this young master is going to find a job paying over ten thousand a month just to show you!"
"If I actually find one, you'll have to call this young master 'husband' too! How about that?"
"You—" Hearing this, Xia Lingling flushed a furious red!
She hadn't expected Qin Feng to have the audacity to utter such shameless remarks right in front of Zhao Anqi!
Zhao Anqi, however, didn't seem to mind too much. Instead, she took over the conversation and smiled, "Fine!"
"Then let's make a bet!"
"If you really can find a job today with a monthly salary of over ten thousand, then this young lady will grant you one request! You can do whatever you want tonight!"
"But if you can't find one... humph!"
"Then our engagement is immediately canceled! And you leave my house!"
"I don't care where you go, but you are forbidden to pester me ever again!"
"Deal, it's a promise!"
Without missing a beat, Qin Feng agreed wholeheartedly!
His casual and breezy attitude actually caught the two girls off guard.
"Alright, it's a deal! Whoever goes back on their word is no man!"
Zhao Anqi immediately locked in the terms, terrified that Qin Feng might back out!
Yet shortly after, Qin Feng furrowed his brow. "Finding a job is fine, but since this is my first time in Tianhai, even if there really are jobs paying over ten thousand a month, I have no idea where to go for an interview!"
A thought suddenly struck Xia Lingling, and she quickly put on a feigned expression of kindness. "In that case, why don't you try your luck with my aunt?"
"My aunt is the president of the Oriya Group!"
"I heard she seems to be rather short-handed lately, so you could go give it a try!"
"If she gives you a high position, a monthly salary of twenty to thirty thousand might even be possible!"
Hearing this, Qin Feng clapped his hands in delight. "OK! No problem!"
"This young master is going to go give it a try right now!"
"Just you wait to call me 'husband' alongside my wife!"
With that, he whirled around, spotted a shared bicycle right outside the school gates, scanned the code, and zipped away into the distance in the blink of an eye...