Happy to Be a Good-for-Nothing

The guests present all had different thoughts as they began reassessing Lin Weiwei's standing.

Qi Si waited for a while, but when no answer came from Lin Weiwei, he impatiently asked, "Do you need to think about it for that long? It's just writing an IOU. Is it going to kill you? Or do you really not want to pay me back?"

"Of course not!" Lin Weiwei immediately denied it.

"Then are you borrowing it or not? If not, I'm hanging up. Aren't you just wasting my time?"

The disdain in Qi Si's words was completely undisguised. Anyone could hear it.

Lin Weiwei's expression turned ugly, and she could no longer maintain the smile on her face.

"You... Qi Si! What kind of attitude is that?" Unable to endure any longer, Lin Weiwei finally lashed out at Qi Si.

Accustomed to being indulged by Qi Si, Lin Weiwei did not think there was anything wrong with losing her temper at him.

Whenever she got angry in the past, Qi Si would immediately lower his head and apologize, agreeing to anything she wanted.

Even now, Lin Weiwei still believed that Qi Si was merely sulking with her because she had turned down his previous invitation.

She thought that as long as she showed she was angry, Qi Si would surely panic.

But that had been the old Qi Si.

How could the current Qi Si possibly panic?

Not only did he not panic, he was furious.

"Huh? What kind of attitude? You're asking me to lend you money, and I'm supposed to coax you? Is there something wrong with your logic?"

Qi Si genuinely felt that something was wrong with Lin Weiwei's head.

As someone borrowing money—and someone who opened her mouth asking for such a huge sum at that—she still had the nerve to be so arrogant?

Even if Qi Si had truly been pursuing Lin Weiwei, wasn't she taking things far too much for granted?

She was acting as if Qi Si owed her money.

Even debt collectors would not dare act so outrageously.

"Qi Si, if you don't want to lend it to me, then forget it. Did you have to speak to me like that?" Before the cameras, Lin Weiwei's eyes reddened, and her voice sounded terribly aggrieved.

Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought Qi Si was deliberately bullying Lin Weiwei.

There was no need to think about it. If this segment aired later, Lin Weiwei's fans would definitely mindlessly defend her the moment they saw her red eyes.

Qi Si would inevitably be subjected to a torrent of condemnation from Lin Weiwei's fans.

But Qi Si did not care.

Being cursed at a few times would not cost him a piece of flesh, but there was no way she was scamming him out of his money!

"Then how should I talk to you? I didn't curse at you, did I? I didn't deliberately humiliate you either, did I? Weren't all my questions perfectly normal? You're asking me for money, and I'm supposed to hold you up, coax you, and beg you to borrow money from me? Wouldn't that mean I'm seriously sick in the head?"

To be fair, the original owner really had been sick in the head, because this was indeed the sort of thing he would have done.

But the one with the problem was the original owner. What did that have to do with him, Qi Si?

After hearing Qi Si's words, the people around Lin Weiwei looked at her with increasingly subtle expressions.

Some even showed undisguised contempt.

Even some of the fans present vaguely sensed that something was off.

The atmosphere at the scene became somewhat awkward and stagnant.

The host had no choice but to step in and smooth things over.

"Uh, haha... Hello, Young Master Qi!"

Hearing the host's voice, Qi Si raised a brow on the other end of the line. "Who is this?"

The person on the other end immediately explained, "Hello, Young Master Qi! Here's the thing—we're currently filming a show where the guests have to call friends in their contacts to borrow money. She wasn't actually asking to borrow money from you!"

"Oh, so you're filming a show? You scared me. I thought she was really asking to borrow that much money from me!"

"Hello, Young Master Qi. I'm one of the show's guests. You might not know me, but my name is Xu Zhening!"

With Xu Zhening taking the lead, the other guests also began greeting Qi Si.

Qi Si responded to every one of them in good spirits.

The audience and host could not help feeling puzzled again. From the sound of it, this young master of the Qi Household did not seem to have such a bad temper. Why, then, had his tone been so harsh when speaking to Lin Weiwei just now?

At that moment, Xu Zhening, who had greeted him first, could not help asking, "Young Master Qi, from what you just said, are you short on cash lately? Five hundred thousand isn't a large amount for you, is it?"

Qi Si sneered. "You're mistaken. Five hundred thousand isn't a large amount to the Qi Household, but it isn't a small amount to me either. I'm a good-for-nothing who loafs around at home, waiting to die while living off my brother. Even when I spend money, I have to hold out my hand and ask my brother for it, okay?"

"Uh..."

No one had expected Qi Si to so openly admit in front of so many people that he was a good-for-nothing living off his brother.

And there was not the slightest hint of bitterness or resentment in his tone. Instead, he even sounded a little proud?

Everyone could not help feeling confused. What was there to be proud of about admitting you were useless?

Being overshadowed by his own brother, having the company controlled by his brother, and even needing to hold out his hand to ask his brother for spending money—didn't that feel stifling?

Weren't rich people like them all very concerned with saving face?

Why could Qi Si admit his own incompetence so openly in front of so many people?

After hearing Qi Si say that, Lin Weiwei was completely lost.

Hadn't Qi Si said before that he found it annoying to be controlled by Qi Wang every day?

How had he changed his tune so quickly?

Before Lin Weiwei could figure it out, Qi Si continued, "If it were money I earned myself, then fine, she wouldn't need to write an IOU. If she really didn't want to repay it, then she wouldn't have to. At worst, I'd consider it poverty relief."

"I never said I wouldn't repay it!" Lin Weiwei retorted with a dark expression.

If she let Qi Si keep talking like this, there would be gossip online before tomorrow claiming she borrowed money and refused to pay it back!

"Besides, I'm only filming a show. I wasn't really asking you to lend me money!"

Who knew that after hearing Lin Weiwei's words, Qi Si not only did not feel apologetic, but seemed to breathe a sigh of relief instead.

"Good, good! Thank goodness you weren't really borrowing money from me!"

Xu Zhening could not help reminding him, "Young Master Qi, if you didn't want to lend it, you could have simply refused."

That was right!

There was no rule saying he had to lend money to Lin Weiwei!

The moment Lin Weiwei's fans heard that, they immediately perked up again!

He clearly could have chosen not to lend it, yet he had not refused right away!

Wasn't that love?

He still liked our Weiwei after all!

Hah! Stupid man!

With how stingy he was, he still wanted to win our Weiwei over?

So what if he had money?

If he was unwilling to spend money while pursuing someone, then what the hell was he pursuing her for?

"That makes sense!"

Everyone: "???"

So he had not known that was an option before?

"I was just thinking that she's a woman, so would directly refusing her be a little inappropriate? Besides, she told me before that she was short of money and that her family circumstances seemed pretty bad. Everything about me is good, except that I'm too softhearted. Seeing how pitifully she put it, I couldn't bear to refuse."

Huh?

Everyone was stunned again.

Lin Weiwei's family circumstances were bad?

Was that true?

Why had they never heard about it before?

"Oh, right, she also told me before that she had a..."

"Beep beep beep—"

Before Qi Si could finish, Lin Weiwei rushed to the host's side and forcibly hung up the phone.

Everyone looked at Lin Weiwei in astonishment.

Lin Weiwei said with an ugly expression, "That counts as failing the task, right?"

"Uh, yes."

Qi Si looked at the disconnected call, not at all surprised.

A malicious smile curled at the corner of his lips.

It would probably be difficult for Lin Weiwei to keep using him as a stepping stone to climb higher now. Hehe.

In the original plot, Qi Wang had been dragged down by his younger brother because the original owner had indeed always resented Qi Wang for controlling him.

Later, Lin Weiwei had provoked them further, driving a wedge between the brothers. That was how Qi Wang had been dragged into disaster.

Now, he did not mind being controlled by Qi Wang at all, and he was happy to be a little good-for-nothing under his brother's care.

He wanted to see how Lin Weiwei would drive a wedge between him and Qi Wang this time.