Xu Bingning turned up her nose at Ling Xiaodong. She found him utterly repulsive.
But the young ladies from prominent families sitting beside her—plainer in looks and figure—reacted very differently.
The indiscriminate influence of Ling Xiaodong's utterly unreasonable Dumbing-Down Halo washed over them.
The young ladies acted as though they had been bewitched.
Clutching their hands to their hearts, they stared at Ling Xiaodong's chiseled face, their eyes sparkling with adoration.
"Wow... he's so handsome!"
"Is this the commanding presence of a domineering CEO? He's so manly!"
"That wild masculine charm pouring off him... I can't take it~"
The young ladies screamed inwardly, their reason thoroughly crushed by the Dumbing-Down Halo.
One of them, dressed in a pink gown, could no longer contain her excitement and rose from her seat.
She swayed over to him and spoke with a giggle.
"Hey, handsome~"
"Xu already has someone, so stop bothering her~"
"If you really want someone to hang out with tonight..."
"Why don't we add each other on Green Bubble~?"
With that, she pulled out her phone and quickly opened her QR code.
Then, imitating Ling Xiaodong, she gave him a coy little wink.
Faced with this unexpected attention,
Ling Xiaodong's expression stiffened slightly before he managed a polite but awkward smile.
He glanced at the woman who had thrown herself at him.
Plain face, scrawny figure—she was nothing like his type. Compared with the cool, beautiful Xu Bingning beside her, they were worlds apart!
But...
Then he remembered that Xu Bingning was watching.
If he rejected this woman to her face, wouldn't he seem ungentlemanly and ruin his image as the perfect tough guy in Xu Bingning's eyes?
Having worked that out,
Ling Xiaodong straightened his back and nodded with a smile.
"In that case, why not?"
He took the