Chapter Seventy: Negligence

The deep-black SUV drove all the way into one of the Urban Villages in the city—the address Xiao Lu had given Zhu Maolin.

She had a father addicted to gambling, while the girl herself was exceptionally frugal. It did not seem all that unreasonable for her to live in such a shabby place.

Only then did Zhu Maolin remember something amusing. The bus stop sign clearly listed the bus schedule... In other words, whether there was a bus or not, one only had to glance at the sign to know roughly. No one would really be foolish enough to keep waiting there.

But when he had found Xiao Lu, what had she been doing?

She had been jogging and hopping around the bus stop, seemingly doing warm-up exercises—she had probably truly intended to spend the long night like that.

Actually, before Xiao Lu left GG Company, she could have brought up the problem that there were no buses. At worst, she could have asked Zhu Maolin to lend her some money for a taxi. No one would have minded a hundred or so yuan... Yet she had chosen the stupidest method.

Was this kind of girl someone who had walked straight out of a fairy tale?

The messy Auras of the GG circle had already quietly changed Zhu Maolin's outlook.

Of course, this change might not have been a good one—but it was clearly necessary for survival. Thus, when his thoughts had habitually begun considering a woman approaching him in terms of her purpose, Xiao Lu's appearance seemed to have... seemed to have brought a different kind of impact.

Zhu Maolin also remembered another viewpoint: when men were young, they yearned for and longed after women more mature than themselves. But when men... when we had already matured, we instead