"Damn it!"
"You're a ruthless woman!"
"If you ruin my chances at future happiness, you're going to have to take responsibility!"
Su Can quickly dodged, blurting out the words as he moved.
He was only joking, of course.
If that kick had actually landed,
he probably would have been left without an heir!
Still,
it seemed that Su Can's comical display
helped ease Chu Youwei's guard a little.
With a tilt of her head
and a shy look on her face, she handed a thermos cup to Su Can
and spoke in a soft, gentle voice.
"You messaged me yesterday and said"
"you were going out for drinks with the guys from the dorm."
"You even said something about confessing your feelings to Lin Shanshan."
"I figured right then that you must have been completely drunk!"
"So I brewed some honey water for you, thinking it would help sober you up."
Hearing this,
Su Can felt a wave of warmth wash over him.
He never would have imagined
that Chu Youwei had such a tender, caring side to her.
In his past life, consumed by the agony of his failed confession,
he hadn't even stepped outside his door,
so naturally he had no way of knowing that a girl had waited the entire day downstairs in the boys' dorm just to bring him honey water.
"Um... thank you!"
"It's my fault. Whenever I drink too much, I just start calling people all over the place."
"I hope I didn't wake you up last night."
Su Can rubbed the back of his head, looking somewhat embarrassed.
Chu Youwei shook her head in response,
and then,
suddenly looking a bit nervous, she asked,
"So... did your confession succeed?"
When Chu Youwei asked that question,
her fists were clenched so tightly
that she didn't even notice her nails digging into her palms.
Fortunately,
Su Can shook his head.
That single gesture instantly made her let down her guard.
Giving Su Can a hearty slap on the shoulder,
she said in a carefree tone,
"Oh, so it didn't work out?"
"Phew!"
"Don't lose heart, my friend!"
"It was only your first time confessing."
"It's no big deal at all."
"Failure is the mother of success, after all."
While comforting Su Can, Chu Youwei also let out a long sigh of relief.
.......
In reality,
what Su Can didn't know was that
his very first meeting with Chu Youwei hadn't taken place at this university at all,
but rather back in their hometown when they were both very young.
Even back then, Chu Youwei used to wear short hair and ragged clothes covered in dust and mud,
rummaging through trash cans for anything and everything she could sell as scrap.
One day, when she was being picked on by a gang of bullies
who were kicking around the bottles and cans she had worked so hard to collect,
Su Can had stepped forward and, despite getting beaten black and blue, chased the bullies away.
That incident planted the seeds of a deep fondness for Su Can in Chu Youwei's heart from a very young age.
After that, the two of them had even shared a carefree summer vacation together.
Later on, however, some family changes forced Chu Youwei
to pack up and move away from that small county town.
Yet, through persistent inquiries in various places,
she finally managed to find out during her senior year of high school
which university Su Can wanted to attend and what major he planned to study.
That was how the two of them ended up crossing paths again in college.
Yet, after more than ten years,
Su Can had long since failed to recognize that the Chu Youwei before him
was actually the dirty little playmate from his childhood.
.......
Hearing Chu Youwei comfort him, Su Can couldn't help but chuckle.
"What?"
"Were you really hoping my confession would succeed?"
This sudden question
caught Chu Youwei completely off guard.
She let out a soft "Huh?"
and had nothing more to say.
"Forget it, forget it!"
"It's just some petty nonsense."
"No harm in telling you about it, I suppose."
"As for that woman, I must have been out of my mind to ever like her!"
With that,
Su Can recounted everything that had happened the previous night
to Chu Youwei.
After grasping the whole story from beginning to end,
Chu Youwei was left completely speechless!
"She actually said that?"
"'I've taken the money, now take back your feelings'???"
Su Can nodded.
Who would have thought?
How could someone with a warm mouth say something so ice-cold?
Chu Youwei was dumbfounded, too.
Then she asked,
"What about the money?"
"What are you going to do about the money?"
"That's five thousand two hundred yuan we're talking about! You saved every penny of it by pinching and scraping."
"I've seen how hard you worked for it!"
Hearing Chu Youwei bring up the money,
Su Can immediately pulled out his phone
and showed her his balance of five thousand two hundred yuan,
then said with a smug grin,
"Relax, do you really think I'm someone who lets himself get taken advantage of so easily?"
"Just a little trick,"
"and that Lin Shanshan handed it right back to me!"
Hearing that Su Can had gotten his money back,
Chu Youwei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she landed a heavy punch on Su Can's shoulder
and scolded angrily,
"You total idiot!"
"Crying to me about being broke all the time!"
"Scrounging free meals off me whenever you get the chance!"
"So that's how it is—you were saving every last cent to spend on another woman!"
"You are going too far!"
Seeing that Chu Youwei was so angry her voice was trembling on the verge of tears,
Su Can quickly placated her.
"Hey, don't be like that!"
"Big Sis, I was wrong, okay?"
"Your little brother was a complete moron back then!"
"Got blinded by that vixen!"
"Come on, let's go. I'm treating you to a meal today. Order whatever you want!"
"I'm paying!"
Su Can declared with a grand, swaggering air.
Only then did Chu Youwei's expression soften slightly.
She bared her teeth and retorted with fierce momentum,
"Fine!"
"You said it yourself, so don't cry when I bleed you dry today!"
With that, the two of them headed off to the cafeteria to stuff their faces!
Though she had talked about bleeding Su Can dry,
Chu Youwei still showed plenty of restraint when ordering food.
The two of them only ordered three dishes in total,
and one of those was soup.
Even better,
every single dish happened to be one of Su Can's favorites!
After eating their fill
and letting out a loud, satisfying burp,
Su Can reached over, slung an arm around Chu Youwei's shoulder,
and finally revealed his true intentions!
"Hey,"
"Chu Youwei!"
"Let me run an idea by you."
"I've got a project I'd like to discuss with you!"
"Let me finish explaining first, and then you can think about whether you'd be interested in partnering up!"
Hearing the word "project,"
Chu Youwei instantly snapped to attention!
Her entire body went rigid,
and her voice trembled uncontrollably
as she asked in a panic, "Y-y-y-y-you... you aren't talking about one of those projects worth hundreds of millions, are you?"
Hundreds of millions?
Su Can was momentarily stunned.
Well, hundreds of millions wouldn't be impossible, would it?
At the rate Bitcoin was projected to surge tenfold, investing tens of millions could indeed yield returns in the hundreds of millions.
Was this girl really willing to shell out that kind of money?
Just as he was about to answer,
he suddenly realized
that probably wasn't what Chu Youwei meant at all.
The year was 2013,
and back then, there was a very popular slang joke
where guys would tell girls they wanted to discuss a "hundred-million-yuan project" with them.
As for what it actually implied...
well, if you know, you know!
Su Can was dumbfounded!
Could this girl have misunderstood him?
.......
Thinking of this, Su Can quickly clarified,
"Hold on, don't let your mind wander. The project I'm talking about isn't that kind of project!"
"It's a legitimate business project!"
The moment the words left his mouth,
Su Can regretted them.
She probably hadn't even been thinking along those lines, but with an explanation like that, it was impossible for the topic not to sound suggestive.
Sure enough,
after hearing that,
Chu Youwei's face turned beet red in an instant.
She snapped indignantly,
"Get lost! Who let their mind wander? You're the one who's thinking about dirty things!"
Seeing that Chu Youwei was genuinely getting angry,
Su Can dropped the beating around the bush
and quickly laid out his idea for her,
including his plan to borrow money from her.
.......
However,
to his complete surprise,
after listening to his pitch,
a look of utter astonishment crossed Chu Youwei's face.
She speechlessly pulled a black bank card out of her pocket,
shoved it directly into Su Can's hand,
and said with a helpless sigh,
"Is that it?"
"And here I thought you wanted me for something else!"
"Su Can, I don't know anything about whatever coin you're talking about!"
"But when it comes to borrowing money, you came to the right person. There should be a little over a million in this card."
"Take it and spend whatever you want. As long as you aren't doing anything illegal, I don't care if you spend it all—I wasn't planning on touching that money anyway."
Hearing this,
Su Can was left completely dazed.
He knew Chu Youwei was a little heiress with some money,
but he had never imagined
she could be wealthy to this degree!
Handing over more than a million yuan without a second thought, not even blinking an eye.