As he spoke, Zhang Kang patted the hood of the car behind him.
A BMW 320.
It was a little old, passed down to him after his father had upgraded.
But so what? It was still a BMW, after all.
"My dad's company is worth over a hundred million and does business across the province. The moment I graduate, I'll have a BMW to drive and the means to buy a marital home outright. With conditions like mine, what could Zhou Jialu possibly be dissatisfied with?"
"That doesn't mean senior school sister has to like you!" Liu Yuanyuan rolled her eyes. This guy was such a turnoff. His outlook did not seem much better than Xue Tao's.
"Sigh, Zhou Jialu probably just met some handsome guy recently and got blinded by the temptation of a pretty face. Once she really enters society and gets beaten up by reality for two or three years, she'll realize just how wrong her choice was. She shouldn't have casually handed over her precious first time..."
Just as Zhang Kang kept rambling on and on—
A brand-new Mercedes-Benz C260L smoothly pulled into the parking spot beside them.
It was parked a little crooked, but the whole maneuver was completed in one go, looking utterly carefree.
Then the car door opened. Zhou Jialu stepped out in high heels, grabbed a complimentary pack of tissues from the dealership in her hand, and flung it toward Zhang Kang.
Smack!
The tissues hit Zhang Kang in the face. Since the packaging was a hard cardboard box with sharp edges, it hurt enough to make him howl.
"Where did this brain-dead idiot come from? Who I want to be with and who I give my first time to—what the hell does that have to do with you?"
Zhou Jialu strode over imposingly and pointed at Zhang Kang's nose as she cursed, "You're just a stray dog by the roadside. Usually, when a dog barks a couple of times, I can't be bothered to deal with it. But now you're pushing your luck and trying to interfere with my normal life? Get the hell out of here!"
Zhang Kang shrank back from the scolding.
After all, she was a woman who had remained chaste while working as a dealership saleswoman and had never even let anyone take advantage of her. It would have been impossible for her to achieve that without a fierce personality.
Her gentleness was reserved for her husband.
When dealing with a mangy mutt like this, she had to hit hard.
Intimidated by Zhou Jialu's presence, Zhang Kang stood there in a daze for quite a while before coming back to his senses. He said incredulously, "Zhou Jialu, y-you dared to hit me?"
"You're exactly who I hit! Let this be a lesson to you. Stay the hell away from me from now on. If you come harass me again, I'll hit you every single time!"
"Heh, you poor bastard from some rural town in another province. Who gave you the nerve to act wild? Believe it or not, I can pull some strings and make it hard for you to even graduate?"
Seeing that Zhou Jialu was giving him no face at all, Zhang Kang finally snapped. He completely tore off his mask and even began threatening her in a cold voice.
But Zhou Jialu was not afraid in the slightest. She sneered, "Who do you think you are? You've got a little dirty money and suddenly you think you're something special? Driving some crappy secondhand BMW, with your nose practically in the sky. Do you really think you're some big shot?"
As she spoke, Zhou Jialu raised the LV handbag in her hand and waved it in front of him. "If you sold your car right now, you still couldn't afford this bag of mine!"
"Haha, you must be dreaming..."
The smile on Zhang Kang's face suddenly froze. Looking more closely, he realized the bag seemed familiar.
At once, he recalled a hostess from a bar mentioning this bag while he was flirting with girls there last month.
Later, Zhang Kang had asked that hostess out shopping, and she had even taken him to an LV counter to look at it.
It was exactly the same as the one before him.
Zhang Kang's first thought was that it was a counterfeit. It had to be fake!
But then he looked at the clothes Zhou Jialu was wearing.
She was dressed head to toe in Chanel, and every piece was tastefully designed—not the basic styles college girls bought to save face.
His heart skipped a beat.
Could it be that the boyfriend Zhou Jialu had found was actually someone with real money?
Then Zhou Jialu pointed at the Mercedes behind her. "This car was also bought for me by my boyfriend."
"Haha, he bought you a car? I think it's a company car registered under the business name and only temporarily lent to you." Zhang Kang still stubbornly refused to admit it.
"You don't believe me? Fine, let me broaden your horizons. This is how real rich guys pick up girls!"
Zhou Jialu took out the vehicle registration certificate from the car. Her name was clearly written on it.
When the registration certificate was slapped across Zhang Kang's face, his expression turned completely ashen.
Now, even if he wanted to deny it, he couldn't!
Zhang Kang was utterly horrified inside. What the hell was this?
A three-hundred-thousand-yuan car, bought just like that.
Zhou Jialu had stayed single all this time, so she probably had not been dating this boyfriend for long.
The car, the clothes, the bag.
That whole outfit alone had cost several hundred thousand yuan.
With money being spent so freely, it was no wonder he could get a girl.
If Zhang Kang dared to secretly take his parents' money and do something like that, he would probably be beaten to death.
At that moment, Zhang Kang's expression changed rapidly, frustration and jealousy twisting together.
Gritting his teeth, he said, "Tch, Zhou Jialu, I knew I wasn't wrong about you. You're just a gold-digging bitch. The only reason you ignored me was because I wasn't rich enough!"
"What's wrong with that?"
What Zhang Kang never expected was that Zhou Jialu was completely unfazed by his venomous words. She admitted frankly, "I am materialistic, but I'm devoted to my husband. I don't sleep around, cheat, or keep backups. But you, Zhang Kang—did you think I didn't know? Flirting with your subordinates in the student union, going to bars to hook up... I think you're the slut here!"
"..."
"Don't show up in front of me again. I'm not interested in you."
"That BMW you're so proud of isn't even worth as much as the car my husband casually bought me for getting around."
"If you keep bothering me, my husband won't just stand by and watch. You know how it is—his temper is much worse than mine."
With that, Zhou Jialu stopped paying attention to Zhang Kang, turned around coolly, and got into the car.
Zhang Kang's face went deathly pale, but he did not dare retort at all.
Zhou Jialu's words had reminded him.
A man with such immense wealth naturally had no small amount of influence behind him.
For all he knew, a mere flick of that man's finger could affect his family's business.
At that thought, Zhang Kang immediately wilted, cold sweat pouring down his back.
The thought of taking revenge on Zhou Jialu, which had only just arisen in his heart, quickly died out. He did not dare make trouble again.
What a joke. Ruining his family business over a woman simply wasn't worth it!
If anything, Zhou Jialu had already shown him plenty of respect by letting him off instead of having her man deal with him.
Compared to a true tycoon, Zhang Kang was nothing but a nobody.
Assets worth over a hundred million sounded impressive.
But in reality, someone had once calculated that in traditional manufacturing, a boss with a hundred million in assets usually only earned around one to three million a year.
That was definitely far better than an ordinary wage worker.
The problem was, Zhou Jialu's boyfriend had spent several hundred thousand on her as soon as they started dating.
And a Boss's annual income also had to cover social obligations, living expenses, investments in their children's education... after all those miscellaneous deductions, there was not actually that much spare cash left to spend freely.
Simply put.
Zhou Jialu's boyfriend was someone Zhang Kang could never defeat, no matter how hard he tried!
"Damn it... I thought I was already one of the best among her suitors. Who knew this would suddenly happen..."
At the same time.
Liu Yuanyuan followed behind and got into Zhou Jialu's car.
The car started and drove steadily toward the campus exit.
"Phew..."
Zhou Jialu let out a long breath. After calming down, she returned to her usual lively and enthusiastic self.
"Sorry you had to see that, junior female student. Dinner's on me tonight—pick anything good near the school!"
"Thank you, senior school sister!" Liu Yuanyuan said happily. Then she revealed an admiring expression. "You were so commanding just now, senior school sister. That was amazing! If I were being harassed by someone as troublesome as Zhang Kang, I wouldn't even know what to do."
"Sigh, he really is annoying. His family has a little money, and he hangs around the student union, knows how to curry favor with teachers... If it were an ordinary girl without anyone backing her up, she really would be in a difficult position."
Zhou Jialu analyzed the situation, then a blissful look appeared on her face. "Luckily, I have an amazing boyfriend. He's the source of my confidence."
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