Chapter 399 - 259: "Bully" Lin Chu

Chapter 399: Chapter 259: "Bully" Lin Chu

"I’m begging you!"

"Please, please don’t look at that. You can look at anything else."

Lin Chu rolled his eyes at her.

"I’m going to look."

"Don’t you dare grab the steering wheel. If we crash, it’s on you."

He said this while keeping his right hand on the wheel and using his left to continue flipping through the diary in her memo app.

Jiang Ya: ...

She clutched her head with both hands, burying her face against her chest, completely unable to look at him.

"Ooh, what’s this? A poem?"

"I like for you to be still. It is as though you are absent."

"And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not touch you. It seems as though your eyes had flown away."

"And it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth."

"You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations."

"Your silence is that of a star, as remote and bright."

Lin Chu randomly picked one and began to read it aloud.

When Lin Chu read the first line, Jiang Ya looked up, her eyes red and rimmed. She pouted, but quickly buried her head again.

She mumbled a soft explanation.

"I copied that from a book in the library!"

"I didn’t write it!"

After reading a few more lines, Lin Chu lost interest and tossed her phone back. "Your crappy school has a library? Fine, I’ll count you as a good girl. Have you ever been out clubbing at night?"

Jiang Ya: ...

She gave him a weak look. "No. A classmate invited me to a KTV for their birthday, and I didn’t even go. I even texted you that day, and you told me I wasn’t allowed."

"Such a good girl."

"That’s more like it."

"Remember this: if you’re not good even once, we’re done. You can go do whatever you want, and I won’t care anymore."

Lin Chu said in a flippant tone.

She licked her lips and nodded lightly, looking up at Lin Chu for a moment before lowering her head again.

...

They soon arrived at the city center plaza.

Lin Chu drove into the surface parking lot. When he saw a security guard approaching, he casually tossed him the keys. "Find a spot and park it for me."

The guard was stunned for a moment. Lin Chu then casually stuffed two red bills into his hand, and the guard’s face immediately broke into a wide, fawning smile as he nodded.

Jiang Ya watched this unfold.

She increasingly felt that this man... ugh, he was just like a tyrant, like one of those "Young Master Zhao" characters from a TV show.

’He really doesn’t treat money like it’s money, does he?’

’And he doesn’t seem to respect anyone.’

’He doesn’t just disrespect me; he disrespects everyone.’

’Which I guess means his attitude toward me is actually pretty good, relatively speaking.’

’What a bad guy!’

’A total tyrant!’

After getting out of the car, Lin Chu casually slung an arm around her shoulders, looking every bit the carefree loafer. He leaned almost half his weight on her as they walked toward the mall.

"What do you want to buy? Go on, buy it. Obedient girls deserve a reward."

"I... I want a cone from Xue Wang."

She said softly, struggling slightly under the heavy weight on her shoulder. Still, a strange feeling bloomed in her heart.

’His arm is so strong.’

"Hm?"

"The two-yuan kind?"

Lin Chu glanced at her, a look of disdain on his face as he spoke.

Jiang Ya pressed her lips together and nodded lightly. "Mhm."

"Fine, fine, whatever you want. How many are you getting? You can have your Xue Wang, I’ll have Häagen-Dazs."

Lin Chu said, his face a mask of impatience.

Jiang Ya: ???

For a moment, she was completely dumbfounded.

’Is he for real?’

"Your choice. Häagen-Dazs? Or Xue Wang?"

Lin Chu was now looking at her with a teasing, mischievous grin.

She pouted, a helpless, exasperated smile forming on her face. "I’ll have whatever you’re having."

Lin Chu rolled his eyes at her.

"See? You know what’s good."

"That’s more like it."

"Don’t worry. When Daddy eats meat, you’ll always have a bone to chew on."

Shooting him a glare, Jiang Ya took a deep breath, then let out a long sigh.

’I feel so pathetic and a little angry, but what can I do?’

’All I can do is quietly stew in my own frustration.’

After buying two scoops of Häagen-Dazs, they wandered aimlessly through the mall.

It was a weekday, so the mall was mostly empty, except for the Walmart, which still had a decent amount of foot traffic.

"How about we play a game?"

"I’ll give you three hours to spend one million yuan in this mall. If you can spend it all, I won’t yell at you for three days. If you can’t, get ready for a spanking."

Lin Chu said suddenly.

The truth was, every girl liked a thrill—provided, of course, that it was in a context of absolute, or at least perceived, safety.

Lin Chu wanted to give her a taste of that excitement.

’The world is just a giant playground. For a sheltered little girl who hasn’t seen much of it, you just have to show her its splendor.’

’My daily ’control’ over her gives her a father-like sense of security, but control alone isn’t enough. There has to be ’play’ as well.’

’Go on now. Be like a six-year-old girl. Don’t be afraid of anything. Just go play.’

’This is the one-of-a-kind dating experience I’ve created just for you.’

Jiang Ya: !!!

She was completely and utterly floored!

She looked up at Lin Chu in disbelief, her mouth hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.

"Alright, it’s 11:12 AM now. The three-hour countdown starts now, okay?"

"Go!"

Lin Chu casually thrust a credit card into her hand. "The PIN is 970822."

Jiang Ya stared at the credit card in her hand, and it suddenly hit her. He was serious!

He wasn’t joking!

’What kind of sane person spends a million yuan on a single shopping trip?!’

She swallowed hard, a million retorts dying on her lips. But her eyes were sparkling, and she felt a sense of release that seemed to spread from the very core of her soul.

’She couldn’t imagine how amazing it would feel to actually pull it off!’