Chapter 66.2: Even if there are stars in the sky, he probably wants to take them off and hold them in front of her.
Ji Lin was at a loss for words. “I’ve never tried that before, I didn’t know. I won’t do it again in the future.”
“No!” Bai Duan Duan quickly interjected. “I haven’t finished yet.” She cleared her throat. “Although the method is a bit old-fashioned, I’m a nostalgic person. I like this kind of simple and crude love.” She glanced at Ji Lin. “It’s quite touching.”
“…..”
Ji Lin fell silent for a moment, then looked back at Bai DuanDuan. He confirmed in a soft voice, “So I’m your first love too?”
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As he spoke, he continued to hold Bai Duanduan’s hand, which had gone from a simple grip to a more intimate, intertwined hold.
Bai DuanDuan nodded, “Yes.”
As soon as Bai DuanDuan finished speaking, she felt a peck on her cheek. She glared at the man beside her, but Ji Lin remained quite calm and unapologetic.
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Just as she was thinking about this, trying to adjust their ambiguous superior-subordinate relationship to their sticky new relationship as lovers, Ji Lin kissed her again.
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This man kissed Bai Duan Duan’s forehead without warning.
“?”
Facing Bai Duan Duan’s puzzled look, Ji Lin was very straightforward, “You were cute just now.”
Bai Duan Duan blushed again. How come she didn’t notice that besides being able to say sharp and even sarcastic words, Ji Lin could also sprinkle so much sugar?
“Didn’t notice that your mouth can talk so well.”
“Just talking?” Ji Lin looked at Bai Duan Duan seriously, then awkwardly looked away. “Shouldn’t there be other things too?”
“?”
Facing Bai Duan Duan’s meaning, Ji Lin proved the versatility of his mouth with practical action, such as kissing.
From confession to now, Bai Duan Duan felt that she had lost count of how many times Ji Lin had kissed her. Looking at Ji Lin’s still cold and indifferent expression, she even felt a little split. It turns out that you can’t just judge people by their appearance. Ji Lin looks so noble and glamorous that he can’t be trifled with, but in love, he’s actually quite passionate. Truly, you can know someone’s face, but not their heart…
“You won’t have a chance to have an ex-boyfriend in the future.”
After Ji Lin finished speaking plainly, he summarized, “Since we have reached a consensus, that’s settled then.”
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“What consensus did we reach?”Bai Duan Duan looked at him.
“However, because you and Lin Hui have been rumored with too many inexplicable scandals, I think it’s necessary to clarify things,” Ji Lin looked at Bai Duan Duan and said.
“What do you want to clarify? That we didn’t have a thing together? Don’t you think it’s a bit suspicious to suddenly clarify it now?” Bai Duan Duan never paid attention to any rumors before, thinking it was unnecessary to do so. “It was just a groundless thing. Suddenly clarifying it would be embarrassing, wouldn’t it?”
“No need to clarify,” Ji Lin pursed his lips. “Clarifying it would also involve Lin Hui, which is unnecessary.”
It seems that Ji Lin and Lin Hui really have some private grievances…
Ji Lin looked at Bai Duan Duan and said, “We just need to make it public.”
“…”
Although it’s inevitable that Ji Lin and she will eventually go public with their relationship, isn’t Ji Lin being too high-profile about it?
Fortunately, Ji Lin still has some conscience left and added, “There’s no need to make an official announcement like celebrities do. That’s too showy, boring, and a waste of public resources. It also takes away the attention of our colleagues at work, distracting them and preventing them from creating value for me. I think we don’t need to be taboo about our relationship at work. If someone is observant enough, they’ll naturally notice over time that we’re together. Of course, their standards will be high, and they won’t think much of someone like Lin Hui, let alone that he’s your ex-boyfriend.”
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“…”
Fine… Bai Duan Duan actually wanted to explain that although Lin Hui is always a little older than Ji Lin, he’s not as bad as he make him out to be… there are still many young girls who are interested in Lin Hui. Look, there’s someone now who’s into the older guy type like you…
Besides, how does being in a relationship with Ji Lin automatically make it a high-standard one? This man seems to have a pretty good opinion of himself, putting himself in the category of high-end men… Who knows what kind of disappointment he might face, considering she fell for him based solely on his appearance and once even questioned whether she was blind…
Fortunately, because Ji Lin was not good at picking up signals, he didn’t interpret Bai DuanDuan’s past behavior as pursuing him. Otherwise, Bai DuanDuan wouldn’t know where to put her face now. At least in the current situation, she could still confidently say that it was Ji Lin who first confessed to her. She had won.
But thinking about this, Bai DuanDuan suddenly remembered something. “Wait, can you tell me your bank account number?”
Ji Lin frowned, puzzled. “Why?”
“I want to transfer the money back to you.” Bai DuanDuan didn’t even think about it. “Do you know how much you transferred to me last night when you were drunk? You transferred 520520 nine times to my bank account, and also sent me red envelopes and transferred money on WeChat. Ji Lin, take a look at your bank statement. You spent five million yuan in just one night.”
Bai DuanDuan believed that Ji Lin was still calm up to this point mainly because he had no idea what he had done with his money when he was drunk last night. But if he found out, even with his character, he wouldn’t be able to stay calm in the face of five million yuan.
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Unexpectedly, after Bai DuanDuan kindly reminded him, Ji Lin remained indifferent.
He just responded with an “oh”, treating the five million yuan like it was just five dollars, and said casually, “That’s my sincerity when I confessed to you. It’s for you. Don’t transfer it back to me. It’s almost the end of the month, and didn’t you say you’ve spent most of the money already? Buy whatever you want with it.”
“???”
Bai DuanDuan was shocked to death, but Ji Lin still boasted shamelessly, “I actually wanted to transfer 5201314 yuan in one go, but the online banking transfer limit is only five million yuan per day, and each transfer cannot exceed one million yuan. So I had to transfer it several times, and each time I settled for 520520 yuan.”
“…”
Ji Lin, you are such a show-off…
Shocked, Bai DuanDuan could only remind him tactfully, “But if you give me five million all at once, aren’t you afraid that I will become difficult to satisfy? Like Tang Li, once you get used to luxury, it’s hard to go back to frugality. And then I’ll start asking you for ten million or twenty million in the future?”
“It’s okay, I’ve been working for so many years and I still have some savings,” Ji Lin pursed his lips. “As long as you don’t ask for an exaggerated amount, I can still meet your needs.”
Ji Lin’s usual stingy style suddenly changed to throwing away five million yuan at once, and he even casually said it was nothing. Bai DuanDuan began to feel something was off.
“So, how much savings do you have exactly?”
“It’s enough to satisfy your daily life,” Ji Lin glanced at Bai DuanDuan. “Most of the money is invested in real estate and some other investments, so I don’t have a lot of cash on hand.”
“Uh…”
“Probably around three hundred million yuan or so.”
What???
Ji Lin secretly saved three hundred million yuan? And it’s “only” three hundred million yuan? Can he really make money just by being frugal???
Bai DuanDuan was shocked. “Ji Lin, how did you earn so much money? Even as a lawyer for labor disputes, no matter how high your fees are, you’ve been in this field for a shorter time than me. According to what you said before, you couldn’t have earned three hundred million yuan in such a short time. Are you doing something illegal?”
Ji Lin looked at Bai DuanDuan with sympathy and restraint. “I used to work on corporate IPOs and mergers and acquisitions in the United States. I charged according to American rates, so I earned a lot of money back then. To be honest, high-end non-litigation business is still more profitable than litigation business.”
“Then why did you give up such a high-paying non-litigation job and come back to China to handle labor disputes?”
This was something that Bai DuanDuan could never understand. Although there were ceilings in every legal field, in terms of social status and income, non-litigation business was still considered more high-end and lucrative than litigation. Even if labor disputes could make money, they were more likely to touch the income ceiling. Moreover, most of the people he had to deal with were either laborers or employers, and many of them lacked basic legal concepts, making communication much more difficult than with elite clients in non-litigation business.
Ji Lin paused, then rubbed Bai Duanduan’s hair. “Maybe it’s to meet you.”
Ji Lin spoke the truth, but it was also not the whole truth. His initial intention for returning to China was because of his hatred, but he didn’t expect to find love. Meeting Bai DuanDuan did make him feel that giving up his high-paying non-litigation job and returning to China was all worth it.
He also realized that he wasn’t a stingy person. When it came to someone he loved and cared for, Ji Lin didn’t even want to consider the price. As long as Bai DuanDuan was happy, even if it meant picking the stars from the sky, he would want to bring them to her. Five million or ten million, as long as Bai DuanDuan could smile, it was worth it.
[Small Theatre]
Bai DuanDuan: Rong Sheng, this weekend I will personally cook for you! Don’t you want to try my cooking?
Rong Sheng: Okay, okay! (Very excited)
After the weekend:
Rong Sheng, lying in the hospital: Bai Duanduan, why did you do this to me?
Bai DuanDuan: Who let you spread rumors that Lin Hui and I were a couple for so long, delaying me from getting out of singlehood for so long.
I have always believed that no matter how calculative and thrifty a person is, there will always be someone who would make her/him willing to give in.
If someone is very calculative with you, it’s just because you’re not significant for her/him…your value in their heart is not high enough to make him compromise.
Because when you truly love someone, you would want to make the person happy and you’d do your best to do it, you’d not mind to compromise.
Btw Rongsheng …yeah, you do deserve a punishment LOL.
On the other hand…no matter how flamboyant and wasteful a lady is…if she loves her man genuinely, she wouldn’t bear to just throw away the hard earned money of her beloved out of the window. At least she would definitely be considerate enough to not endanger his financial security with her reckless behaviour. She would know her limit.
I have always believed that no matter how calculative and thrifty a person is, there will always be someone who would make her/him willing to give in.
If someone is very calculative with you, it’s just because you’re not significant for her/him…your value in their heart is not high enough to make him compromise.
Because when you truly love someone, you would want to make the person happy and you’d do your best to do it, you’d not mind to compromise.
Btw Rongsheng …yeah, you do deserve a punishment LOL.
On the other hand…no matter how flamboyant and wasteful a lady is…if she loves her man genuinely, she wouldn’t bear to just throw away the hard earned money of her beloved out of the window. At least she would definitely be considerate enough to not endanger his financial security with her reckless behaviour. She would know her limit.
kobold is right!