For some time now, Fang Xin had been overwhelmed by company troubles, constantly dreading the day she might receive a pink slip from HR. Liu Jing was in much the same boat, except Fang Xin at least still had a job, whereas Liu Jing didn't even have a proper one. With both close friends under immense pressure and living so close to each other, they inevitably got together often to vent their frustrations.
As they complained, the two of them would occasionally bring up Xia Meng. Ever since Xia Meng had officially made things official with that fitness coach, she hung out with everyone a lot less. After all, her current persona was that of a hardworking girl juggling multiple jobs, so she naturally couldn't bring Lu Bin along to high-end hangouts with the group. Yet, she couldn't very well ask her two best friends to slum it at an outdoor food stall just to accommodate Lu Bin.
Choosing to host at home wasn't ideal either. The rent in He Wenjie's residential compound wasn't cheap; the only reason Fang Xin was able to afford her apartment below market rate was because He Wenjie had secretly arranged a subsidy so he could return to a normal life with Liu Jing all the sooner. If Xia Meng brought Lu Bin over to their place, she worried Lu Bin would feel inferior upon seeing their living conditions. If it came to that, she might as well just be honest about her identity from the start. For all these reasons, aside from those two chance encounters, Xia Meng had never introduced Lu Bi…
Chapter 1107