By then, Lu Tao had completely learned about Xia Lin's family, and he was increasingly convinced that her claim that she'd given up going to France for his sake was nothing but a lie.
After all, Xia Lin's family could barely support themselves. How could they possibly afford to send her abroad?
What she called love at first sight had really just been lust at first sight.
Lu Tao liked Xia Lin, but he only liked her looks. And Xia Lin felt the same way about him.
She had tried to improve her image by acting as though she didn't need her boyfriend, Guan Peng, to support her. But now that only made her seem less appealing to Lu Tao.
After all, deception was the thing people feared most when they were in a relationship.
Once Lu Tao realized he'd been lied to about something, everything he'd thought about her before would be called into question.
But just like his mother, Lu Tao was now a gambler who'd already put his money on the table. He refused to accept that he might lose.
So he buried his doubts and threw himself into finding a job and earning money.
But jobs people found in a hurry were usually not very good. He ended up working as a designer for a small renovation company.
That left Lu Tao as the least successful of the four guys in their dorm.
The one doing best was actually Gao Qiang, the guy they'd always looked down on. He was now the manager of the game testing department at Future Technology.
After Wang Yue released Future Technology's first game, the company expanded even further. Gao Qiang's salary had now reached eight thousand yuan!
Lu Tao's new job paid only a little over three thousand yuan, and