Chapter 398 - 259: "Bully" Lin Chu

Chapter 398: Chapter 259: "Bully" Lin Chu

After being lovey-dovey for a bit, the two got into the car.

Gazing at the Rolls-Royce, a car she had only ever seen on TV, Jiang Ya paused for a moment. She carefully pulled open the door and sat in the passenger seat. Then, looking over at Lin Chu, a faintly ingratiating smile crept onto her lips.

She wanted to offer a few words of praise, but she had a nagging feeling that it would just make her seem unsophisticated.

Sigh...

’This relationship... while it makes me feel incredibly sweet, it’s also immensely stressful at times.’

’It feels like I’m a kept woman.’

For the past three months, Lin Chu had been transferring a fixed sum of 300,000 yuan to the hospital’s account every month. Thanks to the power of money, her brother had finally woken up and was now in recovery.

And her own monthly living allowance was 50,000 yuan.

For the Qixi Festival, he even sent her a one-time payment of 52,100. Her own savings had now reached almost 200,000 yuan.

She was saving it.

She hadn’t even dared to tell her mom.

Sometimes, Jiang Ya would wonder, ’He must really love me, right?’

’After all, the way to tell if a man loves you is to see if he gives you money.’

But a few days ago, she saw those online rumors, all that gossip on Weibo...

A female celebrity had even publicly confessed her feelings for him.

’How could a little nobody like me compete with a celebrity?’

And the rumors about him and some billionaire heiress from a real estate group were so widespread that the entire Peng City knew about them.

Her own dorm mates had been feasting on that piece of gossip for days, relishing every detail.

They even exclaimed that they wanted something to happen with a rich man like that.

Every time she heard them talking about it, she didn’t dare to chime in. She could only secretly reread her chat history with Lin Chu over and over again.

She even wondered, ’Is it the same person?’

’It couldn’t just be someone with the same name, could it?’

But Lin Chu’s face on the livestream was undeniably the same, leaving no room for doubt.

These worries had been bottled up inside the young woman’s heart for a long time, but she never mentioned them during her daily chats with Lin Chu.

In short, most of the time, she felt quite inferior.

"Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"

Lin Chu started the car and asked with a grin.

"What do you want to eat?"

Jiang Ya asked meekly.

"It’s up to you. I’m good with anything."

"I’m good with anything too. I’ll have whatever you’re having."

Lin Chu smiled, rolled down the window, and lit a cigarette. Then he sped off toward the city.

After finishing his cigarette, Lin Chu glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. Seeing her silent and seemingly downcast, he pursed his lips and couldn’t help but sigh softly.

As for the reason...

’I have a pretty good idea why.’

’Melodramatic, insecure, sensitive, full of self-pity, timid...’

’She has nothing but her beauty.’

’That probably bothers her a lot too.’

Lin Chu could completely understand this situation.

Kids from the countryside usually went to one of two extremes. Either they matured early, could handle pressure, and charged forward single-mindedly because they had nothing and no way to retreat.

Like he himself once was.

But the cost of failure was extremely high. One wrong move, and there was almost no chance of a comeback.

The other extreme was people like Wang Hao and Jiang Ya. Their families couldn’t provide enough support and might even be a burden. They themselves lacked any great platforms or opportunities, and over time, they’d fall into a state of learned helplessness.

’It’s tough.’

"Why are you so quiet?"

Lin Chu thought for a moment, then asked in an extremely domineering tone.

Jiang Ya pursed her lips, her heart tightening as she looked at him. ’Why is he suddenly being so fierce?’ she wondered, pouting. "I... I think I’m a little carsick."

Lin Chu: ...

"What the fuck!"

"Can’t handle the good life, huh? You just have to suffer, is that it? Fine, get out and take a motorcycle taxi."

Hearing the teasing tone in Lin Chu’s laugh, Jiang Ya smiled, a little embarrassed, and shook her head.

"You silly goose."

Lin Chu added with another teasing curse.

She: ...

Her lips moved, but she didn’t dare to retort. She just turned her head to look out the window.

"Hand me your phone. Let me check if you’ve added any other guys on WeChat."

Lin Chu said suddenly, one hand on the steering wheel. The human heart is a strange thing. ’Instead of trying to change her, it’s better to change the way we interact.’

’A girl like Jiang Ya feels a sense of security when she’s being controlled, guided, and led.’

’Her need for security is like that of a drowning person clinging to any straw floating on the water.’

"Oh."

Jiang Ya said softly and handed over her phone without any hesitation. It was the iPhone he had bought for her. The lock screen was a photo of the two of them, which gave off a vibe of some cringey, middle-school romance.

Lin Chu couldn’t help but smile, checking her phone nonchalantly with one hand while driving with the other.

Jiang Ya: ...

She shot Lin Chu a look, wanting to say something but holding it back.

Her WeChat contact list was simple, with only 123 friends. There were no messy chats, and his own chat with her was pinned to the top.

Her WeChat balance was quite substantial, and she actually had 100,000 yuan saved in her Tenpay wallet.

Hah.

’Quite the little rich girl.’

But looking at her monthly spending record, she had only spent a little over 700 yuan in a month, most of it on food.

Lin Chu browsed casually, then suddenly opened her memos.

"Hm? You keep a diary?"

Inside the memos were a series of diary entries. Judging by the dates, she wrote one almost every day.

At the mention of this, Jiang Ya panicked. Her face flushed bright red as she said, mortified, "Don’t look! Don’t look at that!"