ALL NOVEL Chapter 40: This Is Nothing!!!
Chapter 40: This Is Nothing!!!
“What?” Smith felt like either his ears were malfunctioning or the other party’s brain was. He was leaning towards the latter.
“Are you saying you want to end our cooperation? Did I hear that right?”
Smith maintained his arrogant demeanor, showing his tobacco-stained yellow teeth as he bragged, “Chu Hanting, you might be the richest man in Chinese eyes, but to our Smith family in America, you’re just another contractor.”
“Do you realize that if you don’t cooperate with us Smiths, no one will dare take on your project? The losses won’t just be a few hundred million. Can you bear that responsibility?”
Chu Hanting replied coldly, “What I do is none of your business. I originally thought the Smith family would be worth cooperating with. But now I see I misjudged.”
“If the Smith Group is run by someone like you, bankruptcy isn’t far off.”
“Show him out.”
Shang Guan Fan gave Manager Wang a look, and Wang turned to call security.
“Fine, fine, I’ll remember this. The Chu family and the Shang Guan family – the Smith family will remember you. This isn’t over…”
Even as security dragged him away, Smith was still ranting unwillingly, swearing that Chu Hanting and the others would pay for today’s humiliation.
“Oh right,” Shang Guan Fan called out to Smith who was struggling with security, smiling mischievously, “Remember to pay for today’s damages to the bar before letting him go.”
Smith, already furious, became even more enraged at these words, his face turning red, “Shang Guan Fan, you &^%#./*…”
Shang Guan Fan, who had been wearing a casual smile, suddenly brightened his smile even more – to a frightening degree.
The smile didn’t reach his eyes, resembling a bottomless abyss.
He pressed his tongue against his back teeth.
A hint of viciousness emerged.
But when he turned to look at Su Mu’s direction, he hid it away.
He wanted to say something but suddenly felt it wasn’t appropriate for him to be there.
“Tsk,” really makes his teeth ache.
Those two seemed to be surrounded by pink bubbles. No, his eyes hurt, he couldn’t watch anymore.
Shaking his head while giving them a meaningful look, he left the huge space to the two lovebirds.
Whistling, with one hand in his pocket and the other swaying by his side, his gait was extremely casual and carefree.
As he passed by the rest area, the door suddenly opened, and he took a look.
He made direct eye contact with a fully-dressed Gao Yang.
Before he could say anything, the door was slammed shut with a loud “bang”.
?????!!!!!
At this time, Manager Wang, who had just finished dealing with Smith, came back to report.
Shang Guan Fan turned to Manager Wang, “Old Wang, do I look scary?”
Manager Wang shook his head vigorously, “Of course not.”
“Then do I look like I eat people?”
Though Manager Wang didn’t understand why his occasionally eccentric boss would ask such strange questions,
He knew the principle was to “praise heavily.”
“Boss, what are you saying? Your looks are extraordinary. If you became a celebrity, you’d have countless young girls falling for you.”
Shang Guan Fan stroked his non-existent beard, nodding firmly, fully agreeing with Old Wang’s words, affirming himself, “That’s what I think too. Old Wang, you really know how to talk.”
Manager Wang kept up his professional smile while thinking: Whatever makes you happy.
On the other side of the door, Gao Yang, hearing Shang Guan Fan’s extremely narcissistic words, felt sick, “Ugh.”
He couldn’t help but mock: “Pft, narcissist.”
Who knew why he was so unlucky today – must have forgotten to check the almanac before going out.
He thought the bathroom incident was today’s biggest ordeal, and he had spent a long time in the rest area doing mental preparation to hypnotize himself to forget that scene.
But just when he had recovered and decided to let it go, as soon as he opened the door, he saw this person again.
Without thinking, his body reacted before his brain and immediately closed the door.
The scene he had tried so hard to forget came flooding back – those uncensored bathroom images jumped into his mind uncontrollably.
The key was that he was the one at a disadvantage. Sure, they were both men. Back in school, everyone saw each other in the public bathhouse.
Maybe he shouldn’t care so much?
Hell no!!!
Why was he the one who was exposed while the other was fully dressed? This wasn’t fair.
The public bathhouse was different because everyone was naked, so no one cared.
But now he was the only one exposed, so wasn’t he clearly at a disadvantage?
Who says men don’t care? Men have chastity too.
The more Gao Yang thought about it, the more indignant he felt.
But he could only stew in his anger.
Because it wasn’t really the other person’s fault – didn’t he forget to lock the door?
“Ahhhhhhh”
Gao Yang frustratedly messed up his hair, making his soft hair all frizzy. His cheeks were puffed up as he leaned against the door, looking completely disheveled and lifeless.
He repeated to himself: This is nothing!
On the other side, in the now empty bar hall where all the onlookers had dispersed,
Chu Hanting and Su Mu were still standing on the stage.
Just then, Su Mu had dropped his earlier pretense of being frightened, his expression instead showing a trace of worry.
He wasn’t afraid of Smith – those with nothing to lose fear nothing.
But from Smith’s words, it seemed the Chu family had an important cooperation project with him originally.
Now that it fell through, he wasn’t sure if it would have a huge impact on the Chu corporation.
Worriedly, he asked: “About the cooperation?”
Chu Hanting knew what he wanted to ask and immediately interrupted, unconsciously reaching out to touch Su Mu’s head – his hair was soft and pleasant to touch.
“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing.”
“Besides, if I had known what kind of person he was beforehand, I wouldn’t have chosen to cooperate.”
“If anything, I’m grateful this helped me see Smith’s true character and avoid future losses.”
Su Mu nodded. Though he didn’t understand business matters, he agreed that if a business partner had character issues, the cooperation would eventually run into problems.
Chu Hanting, afraid today’s events might affect Su Mu’s mood, found he strangely disliked seeing Su Mu in low spirits.
So he suggested: “Enough about these irrelevant people. Want to get some late-night snacks? I’ll take you.”
Actually, Su Mu was in a very good mood. The bad feelings brought by Smith couldn’t compare to the joy of Chu Hanting appearing here and helping him.
The two weren’t canceling each other out – the latter far outweighed the former.
Just being close to this person made Su Mu happy.
And now, not only had Chu Hanting not pushed him away, but he was inviting him for late-night snacks – Su Mu’s eyes were practically sparkling with stars.
His delicate features relaxed, his beautiful phoenix eyes lifting at the corners, declaring their owner’s happy mood.
Chu Hanting felt his heart pounding. It seemed that every time Su Mu saw him, he carried a special kind of joy, and Chu Hanting found himself infected by these emotions.
He couldn’t help but wonder.
Could this be?
Is this the “like” that Su Mu spoke of?