Show Your Face

A hundred yuan really wasn't much these days, but on ChatChat, it counted as a huge sum.

Normally, people were thrilled to snatch up red packets worth three or five yuan.

So everyone was certain that this friend request would most likely be accepted.

Li Qiang spoke half-jokingly, half-seriously. "President Feng, what if she's ugly? Are you still sending the red packet?"

"Haha," Zhang Wei laughed too. "If she's ugly, just block her. President Feng's method is really something... it guarantees that every red packet he sends goes to a beauty."

"Brilliant." Li Qiang gave him a thumbs-up. "President Feng's tactics are too brilliant. Spending a hundred yuan to meet a beauty is totally worth it... I learned another trick from you today, brother."

The hostess timidly spoke up. "What if that beauty isn't by her phone?"

"I mean, do you even know how to chat?" Zhang Wei shot her a sidelong glance. He was not really blaming her, just teasing her with a grin. "President Feng only has ten minutes. She has to be there."

As he spoke, he kept glancing sideways at Feng Jun, looking thoroughly mischievous.

Feng Jun did not care in the slightest. He spoke smugly, "Of course. She has to be there."

Li Qiang raised his beer and said with a grin, "President Feng, I don't bow to walls, only to you... How are you so confident?"

"I have to be confident." Feng Jun raised his chin. "Didn't you see? Her name is Good Scenery. 'In Jiangnan, the scenery is good; when flowers fall, I meet you again'... and isn't my name Feng Jun?"

"Pfft!" Zhang Wei laughed so hard that he sprayed beer. "President Feng, you're amazing. You can even recite poetry."

Just then, Feng Jun's phone lit up. The ChatChat interface displayed: "Good Scenery has accepted your friend request. You can now chat."

"Oh, she really was nearby." One of the hostesses exclaimed. She was not entirely playing along either. As a professional drinking companion, she rarely encountered customers this entertaining.

Good Scenery not only accepted the request, but quickly sent a message: "?[Question]"

Feng Jun opened the red packet and directly sent one for fifty yuan. The message on it read: "Hello, beautiful."

Then, without waiting to see whether she had claimed it, he opened Good Scenery's Moments. After scrolling several times, he found that beautiful selfie and proudly held the phone out. "See? Isn't she beautiful?"

As for what standards defined a beauty, he could not be bothered to discuss it. The woman he had found was an indisputable beauty.

Nothing beat crushing the competition...

Zhang Wei was not a sore loser. The moment he saw the photo, he immediately nodded. "Holy shit... What kind of luck do you have?"

Good Scenery considered herself unbelievably ugly, but a beauty was still a beauty. A few marks from cupping therapy could not hide her beauty at all.

Li Qiang took the phone and looked at it. He froze for a moment, then clasped his hands toward Feng Jun. "I'm convinced, President Feng. I really am... May I ask, do you take apprentices?"

Seeing this, the three hostesses also picked up Feng Jun's phone and huddled together to look. Then they could not help crying out in surprise.

"Really... this is incredible."

"Damn, aside from being a little older, she's practically perfect."

Only one hostess felt a little jealous, so she pointed out a flaw. "Her mouth seems a little too big."

Feng Jun could not be bothered with her. In his opinion, Good Scenery's face alone scored nearly ninety-five points. As for her figure, only her upper body was visible, but it probably was not bad either.

Just then, his phone vibrated once, then again.

Good Scenery had sent two messages in a row. One was still a question mark, while the other said, "Why is there only fifty yuan?"

Feng Jun took the phone and replied, "Here's the thing, beautiful. My friends all say you're a plant I found, so I sent fifty first. Let's have a video call to prove you really are beautiful, then I'll send the other fifty. [Grin]"

Good Scenery fell silent for nearly three seconds. Then the screen quickly displayed—"The other party is typing..."

"When you added me, you didn't say anything about a video call. [Angry]"

When Flowers Fall: I called you beautiful too—you have to actually be beautiful.

Good Scenery: ...

Good Scenery: I'm an ugly woman. I don't want that fifty, but I'm not returning this fifty either. [Smirk]

When Flowers Fall: Beautiful, don't mess with me like this. [Tears]

Good Scenery: Doesn't "beautiful" just refer to gender?

When Flowers Fall: For other people, "beautiful" refers to gender. For you, it means truly beautiful.

Seeing this, Li Qiang gave him a thumbs-up. "President Feng, I don't even help old ladies across the street, but I bow to you. You're absolutely incredible."

One of the hostesses beside him covered her mouth and giggled. "Handsome, first you're bowing to walls, then you're helping old ladies. What exactly are you doing?"

"Neither." Li Qiang kept a straight face and shook his head firmly. Then he pointed at Feng Jun. "I only bow to President Feng!"

Good Scenery replied again: Fine, hurry up and send the other fifty, or I'll report you to the police for fraud. [Angry]

When Zhang Wei saw that, he could not help smacking his lips. "President Feng, this one... seems pretty easy to win over."

Feng Jun looked at him with delight. "Of course. I told you, she's Good Scenery, and I'm Feng Jun."

As he spoke, he replied, "I looked through your Moments. You really are beautiful... Fine, the price has gone up. Video call me, and I'll send you an eighty-eight-yuan red packet."

Good Scenery: ...You're not someone I know, are you? [Question]

When Flowers Fall: Video call me and you'll know, won't you? Stop messing around, we're in the middle of a bet. [Happy]

Good Scenery: ...You people are really bored. Wait, I'm taking off my face mask.

After waiting a full ten minutes, Feng Jun's phone finally vibrated again. "Good Scenery is requesting a video call with you."

The moment he accepted, an incomparably gorgeous face appeared on screen. Even though Zhang Wei and Li Qiang had already seen the photo, they still could not help exclaiming, "Wow, President Feng, you really have good taste."

On the other side of the screen, Good Scenery stared intently into the camera and said coldly, "Hey, show your face!"

Feng Jun was covering the camera with his finger. Hearing that, he laughed. "I'm handsome. Do you have a red packet for me?"

Good Scenery burst into laughter. Her lovely face thawed, and her expression became even more alluring. "Handsome... doesn't that just refer to gender?"

"We're at a karaoke bar. Let me make this clear... um, we didn't hire any hostesses," Feng Jun said with a smile. "We were just bored and made a bet. Don't be mad."

Good Scenery gave a soft snort, clearly somewhat displeased. "Whether you hired hostesses or not, what does that have to do with me?"

Hearing that, Feng Jun removed his finger from the camera. He even raised a hand and waved at her, smiling. "Hello, beautiful!"

"This is what you call handsome?" Good Scenery looked at Feng Jun on the screen and spoke with a half-smile. "Just as expected, handsome only refers to gender."

"What are you talking about?" Feng Jun could not help rolling his eyes. He said with a grin, "Don't people always say it? It's all about temperament!"

"Hello, beautiful." Li Qiang quietly slipped behind Feng Jun and raised a hand to greet her with a smile. "Someone like me is what you call handsome, right? President Feng is handsome too, but he's a little behind me."

Good Scenery covered her mouth and giggled. "So you're one of the people who made the bet. Tell me, aren't you all just bored out of your minds?"

"I'm here, I'm here." Zhang Wei also leaned over and greeted her with a grin. "Hello, beautiful. I'm the one who made the bet. I'm the genuinely handsome one. Once I show up, you won't have to worry about being dazzled by too many choices."

"Fine, the video call is over." Good Scenery reached out and ended the call.

Then she sent an emoji—a beckoning finger.

Actually, calling that emoji "seduction" was not quite appropriate. It should have been "curling a finger." Her meaning was obvious: where was the other fifty yuan?

Feng Jun played dumb and directly sent a message. "Which beauty are you beckoning over?"

Good Scenery: Tch. I'm not beckoning any of you. Every one of you is uglier than the last.

When Flowers Fall: Don't say "tch." If you cut it off, I won't be able to use it. How am I supposed to live out the rest of my life?

Good Scenery: What do I care how you live? Hurry up and send the red packet! [Angry]

Feng Jun knew that jokes had to stop at the right point, so he sent her an eighty-eight-yuan red packet with the message: "A promise kept."

Then... there was no then. Good Scenery claimed the red packet and never said another word.

Feng Jun and the others also settled down and started drinking. But by then, the looks in Li Qiang's and Zhang Wei's eyes had become somewhat strange.

As they drank, Li Qiang took out his own phone. "President Feng, can you work your magic again... and help your brother pick one too?"

Zhang Wei had already raised his glass to his lips, but he paused and watched the two of them talk.

Feng Jun gave an awkward laugh. "Stop fooling around. Everyone's busy. Don't you have a beauty right beside you?"

Hearing that, the hostess beside Li Qiang leaned against him and stretched out an arm around his waist. In a coquettish voice, she said, "You men are all the same, eating from your bowl while eyeing the pot."

Li Qiang glanced at her and smiled as he stroked her cheek. "What are you talking about? You haven't made it into my bowl yet."

His words were somewhat suggestive, but professionals in places like this had their own ways. "Isn't this already in your bowl? Do I have to take the initiative and put myself in your mouth?"

Li Qiang gave an awkward laugh. He worked at a television station and had seen countless beautiful women. To be honest, these nightclub girls did not really catch his eye—it had little to do with whether they were pretty.

At the end of the day, for most young, wealthy, well-groomed men, innocent college girls were their true favorites.

But for Li Qiang, college girls were certainly nice, yet actually winning one over took a long time and was not worth the trouble.

These days, fast food was everywhere. Who had the patience to slow-cook a meal?

Even worse, once you got tangled up with a college girl, it was easy to find yourself unable to get away.

Li Qiang was still young and liked to have fun. He had no desire to "trade stocks until he became a shareholder, or date girls until he became a husband."

So he preferred respectable women—just like Wang Haifeng.

Seeing how uncanny Feng Jun had been, he looked at him eagerly. "Brother, Brother Feng, Uncle Feng... help me add one too, will you?"