"Mm, pure innocence just won't do!" someone echoed from the crowd. Presumably another longtime customer of White Jade Capital.
The guests who did not get the joke began asking around. Once they understood, they could not help but smile.
Cheng Lang continued, "I hadn't really wanted to take this job from the start. But our manager said I had to, because this highly respected birthday elder was our big boss's grandfather."
At that, Cheng Lang glanced at Qin Mu and said with deep feeling, "Rich people really can do whatever they want."
"Those without money just have to accept their fate."
So Cheng Lang accepted his fate and came here to perform crosstalk.
"Before I came, our boss even had this outfit specially made for me. Then he drove his Rolls-Royce Phantom to the school gates to pick me up. To be honest, everyone, this was the first time in my life I'd ever received such treatment." Cheng Lang gestured animatedly. "Once that car left X City, it went onto a winding mountain road. Sitting inside, I watched the scenery outside rise and fall along with the road, and my mood went up and down too."
"That should be called apprehension." Xu Rujun was so engrossed that he could not help feeding Cheng Lang a line.
"What apprehension?" Cheng Lang looked at Xu Rujun with a blank expression.
Xu Rujun explained, "Apprehension refers to a state of emotional unease and extreme anxiety. You said your mood rose and fell with the scenery outside along the mountain road. Apprehension would be the proper word."
"I wasn't apprehensive!" Cheng Lang blinked. "I know what apprehension means. You have to have something on your mind, turning it over and over, unable to let it go or put it down—that's apprehension. Take that Young