"Meng Han, what are you saying? Fan shouldn't have to pay for this meal. Let me pay for it?"
Xu Lei was having lunch with her classmates. Ye Fan pulled time out of his busy schedule to lunch with them for Xu Lei's sake, and he wasn't her boyfriend either anyway.
So it made no sense for Ye Fan to pay for lunch.
Xu Lei was naturally unhappy that her classmates were targeting Ye Fan.
After defending Ye Fan, she stepped forward to foot the bill.
"Forget it, Lei. Save your salary. How can we let you pay now that you have come to Yanjing?"
Guo Ya-Wen and Lei Dong-Bao didn't let Xu Lei foot the bill. After all, Meng Han was around. If they let a visitor like Xu Lei pay for lunch, their classmates would think they were miserly if they caught wind of it.
Guo Ya-Wen and Lei Dong-Bao were both prideful folks, so they didn't mind paying for lunch as long as it made them look good.
"Humph, Lei. How can you go on with someone like him? Is he worth it? He's so poor and stingy! Why did you end up dating him? Just look at how rich, talented and generous Dong-Bao is. That's the kind of man you should date. Lei, why don't you accept Wenwen and Dong-Bao's offer to introduce some men to you? Even Wenwen's driver is better than Ye Fan, right? You're the belle of the finance faculty, so you can't do this injustice to yourself."
Meng Han's impression of Ye Fan undoubtedly worsened because he didn't pay for lunch.
She felt that Ye Fan was a thick-skinned pauper who leeched off them without saying a word of thanks and was utterly shameless.
Meng Han was clueless about why the finance faculty's belle, Xu Lei, would land herself a boyfriend like Ye Fan.
It was too embarrassing to even speak of it!
Instead, Xu Lei shook her head when she heard Meng Han's pity. Then Xu Lei said, "You don't understand, Meng Han. You are an outsider, so you don't understand anything or know Fan. You think that he is beneath me, feel sympathetic about me, and think he isn't worth my time, but none of you know the kind of man Fan is behind his ordinary fagade. If I could become Fan's wife one day, I won't feel indignant about it. Instead, it would be my greatest honor."
Xu Lei and Meng Han walked behind the crowd on the marble pavement.
Xu Lei cast a furtive glance at the skinny man as he walked in front of her with her eyes gleaming inexplicably.
Although all Xu Lei spent was a short day with Ye Fan, she really enjoyed being treated like his girlfriend.
So what if Xu Lei knew it was a misunderstanding?
At least for just one day, Ye Fan belonged to Xu Lei alone in their view.
She was already contented for that.
Meng Han stared wide-eyed when she heard Xu Lei's words. Meng Han looked at Xu Lei disappointedly and said angrily, "Lei, I don't know what to say about you. You're hopeless! I don't know why you are so smitten with this fellow! He has stolen all your rationality!”
Meng Han felt speechless.
Xu Lei continued to gaze at Ye Fan from behind as she smiled gently.
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