"A rusty tripod? Lei, are you joking? No, not you...Is Fan trying to kill us with his humor? How could he give you some crummy tripod for your birthday? Heavens, I have no idea whether your lover boy is a scrooge or just downright poor. How could he give his girlfriend a rusty tripod? He probably picked it out from a pile of trash, right?" said Guo Ya-Wen. The moment Guo Ya-Wen heard Xu Lei's words, she almost died from bursting at the seams laughing.
To think that Guo Ya-Wen expected Xu Lei to bring up some extravagant gift to help defend her boyfriend's dignity, but in the end, all he gave her was trash.
How could Xu Lei have the cheek to bring up a dumb tripod?
Of course, it was even funnier that Ye Fan was brazen enough to give it to Xu Lei.
Guo Ya-Wen smiled blatantly. Although she mocked Ye Fan, she was laughing at Xu Lei in her heart.
After all, Ye Fan and Xu Lei were an item, so whatever embarrassment Ye Fan suffered was on Xu Lei too.
The more appalling Ye Fan was, the more Xu Lei degraded herself.
"Man, you're the best! It's incredible that you gave your girlfriend some garbage you picked from nowhere. Haha!" said Lei Dong-Bao to Ye Fan as he stuck up his thumb with ridicule brimming from his face.
Meng Han was so angry that she lashed out at Ye Fan too, "Did you only give her a crummy rusty tripod for her birthday? And you call yourself her boyfriend? Lei was the belle of the faculty and a goddess at school. She really made an epic mistake of dating someone like you!”
"Meng Han, let me explain. You're mistaken,” explained Xu Lei to Meng Han even more anxiously as she pulled Meng Han aside, "Fan didn't give me any ordinary tripod, but an antique worth $5 billion.”
"That's enough, Lei. How can you still defend him now? $5 billion? You may as well say it's worth $50 billion! You were the most beautiful girl in the finance faculty back in the day, and so many girls looked up to you. But how could you have set your sights on a man like this and plan on marrying him? Even I feel sorry for you!" said Meng Han furiously in disbelief when she heard Xu Lei's explanation.
After all, Ye Fan giving Xu Lei a rusty tripod worth $5 billion sounded like a tall story!
No one would believe Xu Lei if she put it across this way.
So Meng Han continued talking angrily and looking at Xu Lei pitifully.
Meng Han sounded harsh.
But she undoubtedly cared about Xu Lei.
But Guo Ya-Wen and Lei Dong-Bao weren't like Meng Han and merely reveled in Xu Lei's misfortune. So Guo Ya-Wen fanned the flames even harder as she said, "Hanhan is right, Lei. How can you have such poor taste in men? You ignored the top student when he courted you for years back in the day. We used to think you had high standards, but I didn't expect you to cheapen yourself by being together with a pauper like him. Couldn't you find someone better? My driver and bodyguard are both decent bachelors with good looks and hot figures. Although they can't compare to my hubby in wealth, they certainly won't give you trash as a birthday present!"
Guo Ya-Wen sneered as she spoke.
Lei Dong-Bao chimed in too. He said if Xu Lei wanted, they could help make introductions and matchmake her.
Then just as Lei Dong-Bao and Guo Ya-Wen chimed and echoed each other and waited to see Xu Lei made a laughingstock, Ye Fan put down his porcelain cup after he remained quiet all this time. Then he said softly, "No matter how lousy the bronze tripod I gave Xu Lei was, it was genuine. It beats people who carry high-quality fakes to pass them off as authentic and brag about it, right?"
Ye Fan's calm laughter quietly rang through the air.
The air immediately fell silent.
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