Seeing Liu Mengran emerge from the women's dormitory dressed in pure, dazzling beauty, Lu Fan's eyes lit up. He pushed open the car door and eagerly hurried over.
"Baby, you look gorgeous in that outfit today!"
Liu Mengran blushed as Lu Fan took her little hand. His compliment made her more than glad she had spent over half an hour carefully dressing up.
Already tall and sexy, she looked like a fairy descended to earth in her white dress.
A section of slender legs clad in nude stockings showed beneath the hem, straight as chopsticks.
Her silky hair fell all the way to her waist, simply tied with a ribbon into the perfect hairstyle.
Her exquisite features, paired with light makeup, seemed to make Liu Mengran glow softly, drawing the eyes of every man and woman around her.
"As expected of the Number One Campus Belle at Long University. That face, that poise, that figure, that charm... damn..."
Lu Fan's heart pounded as he took Liu Mengran's hand and led her toward the car.
Behind them, Mao Lili and the other two watched Lu Fan's antics with speechless expressions. In his eyes just now, they had been no different from air.
"That bastard. We're living, breathing people too, okay? We might not be as pretty as Mengran, but couldn't you at least spare us a glance and treat us like people?"
Mao Lili, He Lu, and Li Qian exchanged looks. They had long since grown used to this.
With Liu Mengran by their side, the pressure they faced was easy to imagine. Everyone's attention was always on Liu Mengran. They had always been mere leaves to set off the flower.
Lu Fan directly pulled Liu Mengran into the back row. Wrapping an arm around her slender waist over the seat, he leaned in for a kiss, only for Liu Mengran to blush and block him with her hand.
"Lu Fan, behave yourself. People are watching."
When Lu Fan looked up, he saw the driver staring blankly at Liu Mengran over his shoulder, clearly stunned by her breathtaking beauty.
"Hey, where do you think you're looking?"
"Uh, sorry. Your girlfriend is just too pretty!"
The driver awkwardly wiped the corner of his mouth. When he turned back around, a youthful, lovely figure had already taken the seat beside him.
The car seated six people. With the driver included, Lu Fan and the girls filled it perfectly. Straightforward by nature, Mao Lili voluntarily took the front passenger seat.
Lu Fan was treating them to a lavish dinner tonight. Not only had Liu Mengran carefully dressed up, Mao Lili and the other two were also youthful and beautiful. It was just that Liu Mengran's aura was too dazzling and overshadowed them. Otherwise, if they walked down the street alone, they would attract plenty of attention too.
The driver's eyes shamelessly lingered on Mao Lili's fair, tender calves before he finally drove out of campus.
Along the way, Lu Fan kept holding Liu Mengran's hand and whispering to her, asking all sorts of questions to learn about her. Everyone else remained very quiet. With all that lovey-dovey sweetness being shoved in their faces, how could they possibly get a word in?
Liu Mengran came from half a scholarly family. Her mother was a teacher, while her father was a major farmer in the countryside. The hardworking couple supported Liu Mengran and her brother.
"What does my brother-in-law do now?"
"Pah! Who's your brother-in-law? My brother works in Magic City as a designer at an advertising company."
Liu Mengran blushed and glared at him. The flirting pair failed to notice the teeth-gritting expressions of the three girls in front.
If not for Lu Fan's lavish dinner, and if not for the Fruit Sixteen phone he had given them, they would never have sat there dryly enduring this nonstop display of affection.
The car soon arrived in East City. Mao Lili practically sprinted as she yanked open the door and rushed out. She was lively by nature and had endured it all the way here. If she had not owed Lu Fan for the meal and the gift, she probably would have cursed him out already.
Lu Fan led the four girls to a reserved seafood barbecue restaurant. He had specifically booked a private room, afraid that some drunkards might come looking for trouble and ruin the mood.
Lu Fan had really splurged on tonight's dinner. He had paid a deposit in advance to reserve an exceptionally luxurious seafood barbecue feast.
That twelve-pound king crab alone cost him quite a bit.
As Lu Fan led the four girls to their seats, he stepped on a small cardboard box. Looking down, he happened to see the words "Scan the QR code to claim an 888-yuan red packet" printed on it.
Any normal person would have ignored something like that. With the internet so developed these days, this kind of scam had been reported on countless times. Every college student had surely come across it before.
But was Lu Fan a normal person? His eyes lit up as he picked up the box and excitedly took out his phone.
"Don't scan it!"
Liu Mengran's expression changed. She hurriedly reached out and blocked her hand over Lu Fan's phone camera.
"What's wrong?"
Lu Fan looked up at Top Campus Belle Liu with a baffled expression. Liu Mengran shot him an irritated glare.
"What do you mean, what's wrong? You're actually taking such an obvious scam seriously?"
"If you scan it, they'll either trick you into joining a group or make you pay to claim some huge prize. Once you pay, they'll just block you."
"Haven't scams like this been reported enough online? Only an idiot like you would take it seriously."
Liu Mengran was about to throw the box away when Lu Fan quickly snatched it back.
"Hehe... you said it yourself, I'm an idiot. There can't be that many scams in this world."
With Liu Mengran glaring at him in displeasure, Lu Fan directly scanned the QR code with his phone. He wanted to verify an idea. If it worked, then perhaps he could take a stroll around the courier station. Whether he got money or not did not matter—the key was that it would be a fast way to farm points!
The scanned QR code did not lead to any page. Instead, an enormous 888-yuan red packet was deposited directly into his account, the kind that arrived instantly through WeChat.
"Just as I thought!"
Delighted, Lu Fan held his phone out in front of Liu Mengran. Liu Mengran covered her little mouth in shock, staring incredulously at the huge red packet that had actually arrived. She felt as though her worldview was rapidly collapsing.
"Impossible. How is this possible?"
"It really deposited an 888-yuan red packet? Let me see!"
Mao Lili beside them snatched Lu Fan's phone away and was instantly shocked into a meme-worthy expression by the amount displayed on it.
Li Qian and He Lu also craned their necks to look at the phone. The atmosphere in the private room became strange to the extreme. The four girls' expressions froze, their wide, dazed eyes making them look as though they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
"I don't believe it!"
Mao Lili took out her new phone and scanned the QR code.
The result was far beyond her expectations. There was no 888-yuan red packet. Instead, a prompt popped up:
"Congratulations! You have won our grand prize of 200,000 yuan. Please click the staff member's WeChat below to claim your prize."
"This..."
How could Mao Lili not understand what would come next? After adding the other party, they would tempt her into paying some so-called handling fee first before she could claim the 200,000-yuan prize.
But after she paid several thousand yuan in handling fees, they would directly block her and disappear. That was the normal procedure.
The four girls looked at one another, then at the 888-yuan red packet that had arrived on Lu Fan's phone, all with utterly bewildered expressions.
Only Liu Mengran seemed to remember something. She had personally seen Lu Fan slash someone for over a hundred thousand yuan, then buy ten Fruit Sixteen phones for one hundred yuan each through slashing. Now, right before her eyes, Lu Fan had scanned a code and claimed an 888-yuan red packet. Was all of this coincidence, good luck, or something else?
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