I am reborn and refuse to be a sickly rich woman

Chapter 277: The tragic scene of catching an adulterer! (7k -in-!)
In a beverage shop on the third floor of the City of David.

Xu Musen and Zhu Yulan sat opposite each other.

Zhu Yulan took a sip of coffee and a slightly complicated look flashed in her eyes when she looked at Xu Musen.

She still didn't expect that he would just happen to see her in such an embarrassing situation.

This guy will definitely keep making fun of her about this matter in the future...

"I am your creditor after all. There is no need to be so resentful towards me, right?" Xu Musen said with a smile.

"Who wants to lend you money? I just... have some cash flow problems for the time being."

"Okay, then give me back the check."

“Why should I pay back the money I borrowed with my own ability?”

Zhu Yulan immediately protected the bag containing the checks, looking righteous and confident.

Xu Musen smiled and changed the subject: "It's been a while since we last met. Is there something wrong with your company?"

Zhu Yulan is a wealthy woman who drives a Ferrari every day. When she wanted Xu Musen to withdraw from the school's sponsorship activities, she gave Xu Musen hundreds of thousands of dollars without blinking an eye.

Now he has to sell all his belongings for tens of thousands of dollars. This kind of gap must be quite a big deal.

"What can I do? I'm just planning to open more branches recently, and I'm just running out of cash for the time being. When I make money in the future, a little money from you won't be a big help."

Zhu Yulan turned her eyes slightly to the left, but still looked proud, even speaking in Shanghainese.

Seeing this, Xu Musen picked up two pieces of melted dark chocolate and prepared to put them into her cup.

"What?"

"Some dark chocolate for you."

"You're going to make me suffer!"

"Oh, it turns out that Boss Zhu's little mouth can taste bitterness and sweetness. I thought it was as hard as a piece of iron."

Xu Musen laughed.

Zhu Yulan's eyes widened, her delicate cheeks reddened from the teasing: "None of your business! Stop adding insult to injury..."

"I'm not trying to take advantage of someone's misfortune. I'm just trying to help them out. Everyone has difficulties. Isn't it time for friends to step out and lend a hand?"

Xu Musen also took a sip of coffee with a smile on his face.

Zhu Yulan gently played with the coffee cup in her hand. She looked at Xu Musen and said, "Friend...if I really become a pauper one day, will you still be my friend?"

Zhu Yulan has quite a few so-called "friends" around her. Coming from such a big family, she always gets to know a lot of people.

She was familiar with almost all the rich boys and girls in Shanghai. In the past, due to her family's reputation, they would occasionally have tea parties together.

It seemed that they treated each other like sisters and brothers, but when something really happened, they all wanted to draw a clear line with her.

However, Xu Musen, who had always wanted to trick her, was the first one to take the initiative to help her.

When Xu Musen heard this question, he spoke with a slight sigh.

"In fact, I don't care whether a person is rich or not when I make friends with him. In the end, he will definitely not be as rich as me anyway."

Xu Musen put down his coffee cup with a somewhat worried look on his face. "Student Zhu, I don't have many friends. If I accidentally become the richest man in the world, please don't feel inferior and keep a distance from me."

Zhu Yulan stared at him for a long time and couldn't help but spit out the coffee in her mouth.

"Xu Musen, you are so... shameless."

Zhu Yulan looked at him pretending to be sad, and all she wanted to do was laugh. How could this man be so narcissistic?
However, after hearing what he said, Zhu Yulan felt much less worried.

"You still have to have dreams, just in case they come true."

Xu Musen handed her a wet wipe.

Zhu Yulan took it and wiped the corner of her mouth, looking at Xu Musen's sly appearance: "I say, you are not trying to make me happy on purpose, are you?"

"so smart."

Xu Musen smiled and snapped his fingers.

Looking at his smile, although it was mean, it was also very warm. She suddenly understood why some of the rich girls around her who had strict family education were easily attracted to what their parents called "thugs".

Maybe it's because we have seen too many hypocritical and pretentious people, so we feel very different after meeting these sincere and philandering boys.

Zhu Yulan felt as if her heartbeat seemed to miss a beat, but the next moment, she looked away in a trance.

Really, why did I suddenly have such crazy thoughts? He has a girlfriend... and a childhood sweetheart who is still obsessed with him and keeps pestering him.

Her cheeks couldn't help but turn a little red, but this blush made her feel inexplicably depressed.

"He's full of tricks, a scumbag..."

Xu Musen was already used to being called a scumbag for no reason. He smiled and said, "Now can you tell me what happened?"

Zhu Yulan paused for a moment, holding the coffee cup, and finally spoke slowly: "Do you remember that person from last time?"

"Is it the guy named Huang, your childhood sweetheart... ahem, neighbor?"

Xu Musen said this, but when he saw that Zhu Yulan's expression looked a little strange, he immediately changed his words.

Really, isn’t “childhood sweethearts” a beautiful word?

Who would hold a grudge against their childhood sweetheart? Really.

Zhu Yulan gnashed her teeth whenever she mentioned him: "This scum! Ever since he came to my house at the beginning of the year, my family always wants me to interact with him, but I get annoyed when I see him, and I don't want to, so my family suspended my credit card and transferred several companies under my name to my second sister..."

Zhu Yulan was very angry, but her anger also contained a lot of grievances.

In recent years, the Zhu family has always relied on heavy industry, but with the changes in the domestic economic structure, heavy industry has gradually been subject to many restrictions.

The Zhu family is still prosperous, but heavy industry requires too much cash. Large amounts of capital are invested, but the returns in the short term are minimal. Now the Zhu family is just a giant shell, strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Therefore, the Zhu family needs large amounts of capital or project investment.

Then, family marriage is a very good way. When two families become relatives, many collaborations can naturally be carried out smoothly.

Zhu Yulan knew the difficulties at home, but when she thought of some things, she felt a tightness in her chest...

Why, why should they sacrifice their happiness for the so-called family interests, why should they obey the arrangements of their family, especially when she thinks of her deceased mother and elder sister...

"Coffee is boring, I want to drink wine!"

The emotions that had been suppressed in Zhu Yulan's heart for all this time seemed to have found an outlet at this moment.

Xu Musen looked at her and shook his head slightly: "If you are in a bad mood, drinking will only make you more annoyed."

"I don't care, I just want to drink..."

Zhu Yulan seemed to have forgotten her dignified demeanor as a young lady and was showing signs of throwing a tantrum.

Seeing this, Xu Musen smiled helplessly and waved to the waiter: "Please bring a bottle of cocktail."

"Ok."

After a while, the waiter brought over a bottle of cocktail, and Zhu Yulan grabbed it and took a sip.

The alcohol took effect quickly and she coughed, with a hint of red in the corners of her eyes.

Xu Musen continued to drink coffee: "It's not the right way to drown your sorrows in alcohol. What are you going to do next?"

"I am just thinking about keeping the company running and at least paying my employees' salaries on time..."

As Zhu Yulan drank, her mood became even more depressed.

"You're such a good boss."

Xu Musen laughed and said, most bosses would just run away when their capital chain breaks. How many bosses would think of selling their property and still have to pay their employees?

"Of course, I don't like to cheat people."

Zhu Yulan snorted, but was still worried: "But I don't have much money left, I don't know how long I can hold on."

"Don't you have any other assets? Like a house or something like that."

Zhu Yulan shook her head: "House...I have never thought about buying a house or anything like that. My car is also under my family's name."

Xu Musen nodded silently. He could actually understand it. After all, a young lady like Zhu Yulan didn't have the obsession with things like houses that were readily available to her like ordinary people.

This is also why many rich people always say that they like to rent a house. It is because they can afford to buy one at any time, and they just want to keep the money to invest in better things.

Therefore, Zhu Yulan never had the idea of ​​being prepared for danger in times of peace, because she had never spent all the money in her bank card anyway.

However, once the card in her hand was frozen, all her financial sources would be cut off immediately.

"Isn't your company doing well? You can't be unable to pay your employees' salaries, right?"

Xu Musen thought that Zhu Yulan's BOSS Direct Recruitment was now cooperating with his Kangaroo Takeaway, and she also cooperated with many large local companies in Shanghai, so the monthly income should still be considerable.

It’s not worth buying personal belongings to pay wages.

"Haha, those local companies originally wanted to cooperate with me just to give my family face. Now my family just wants me to go back and be a vase quietly. When those companies got the news, they all started to find various excuses to stop cooperating. Otherwise, it wouldn't be like this..."

Zhu Yulan smiled bitterly, grabbed the bottle and took another sip.

Obviously, she did all this to prove to her family that she could live well without them.

But the harder she worked, the more she realized that this society was full of complicated relationships and that there were no family ties.

She seemed like nothing.

She knew that her family was deliberately forcing her to submit in this way, but the more they did this, the more Zhu Yulan refused to accept it.

"You say, is it so difficult to start from scratch by yourself now?"

Zhu Yulan had already drunk half a bottle of wine in a few gulps. Her alcohol tolerance was average to begin with, so she was a little tipsy.

"It's very difficult. Unless you encounter a great opportunity, it can be said that ordinary people will have almost no chance in their lifetime."

Xu Musen deeply feels that this society is becoming more and more rigid. Unless ordinary people are in a favorable position, they can only make ends meet after working hard all their lives.

"Didn't you just build it up slowly by yourself?"

Zhu Yulan looked at him. Although she seemed unconvinced, she also knew that Xu Musen had almost started from scratch, so she still had some respect for him in her heart.

"Not entirely, in fact, I still benefited a lot from others."

Xu Musen smiled and shook his head. In the early days of his business, both Yao Mingyue and her daughter, as well as An Nuannuan's family, gave him a lot of help in secret. Coupled with his God's perspective as a reborn person, he was able to succeed until now.

"Is it your little girlfriend and childhood sweetheart? Is she a gigolo?" Zhu Yulan was a little tipsy at the moment, and her words seemed more casual.

When the term "living off a gigolo" was brought up, Xu Musen laughed out loud: "You can understand it that way, but I am living off my future wife, and it's not shameful. As long as I can repay her ten or a hundred times in the future, that's enough."

Xu Musen does not reject the idea of ​​"living off gigolos" or using other people's power to climb up the ladder.

The reason why human civilization can be passed down is because people know how to carry it forward from generation to generation.

If I don't rely on my father or use backdoors, wouldn't the resources that my father has worked hard for all his life be wasted?
In fact, people don’t hate people who live off others, they just hate that they don’t get to enjoy this kind of benefit.

Who would want to start from scratch when there is a shortcut?
Isn't this just eating without suffering?

"very nice…"

Zhu Yulan looked at his calm expression. Yes, there was nothing wrong with living off his wife, especially since An Nuannuan was so obedient to him.

Zhu Yulan felt even more upset. She took another sip of wine, then leaned on the table and said bitterly, "But everything has a price. My mother died early due to illness, leaving only the three of us sisters. In that family, if there is no boy in the family, you will always be inferior to others. Although my father holds the power of the family business, the people in the family do not obey him, especially the three of us sisters. Every time we want to take over the core industry of the family, we are obstructed in various ways..."

Xu Musen listened silently. The idea of ​​favoring boys over girls was still very serious in the previous generation, especially in big and powerful families with industries accumulated over many generations.

If there is no boy to support her, the property will be taken away by outsiders slowly.

Even in an ordinary family, where there is a preference for boys over girls, girls will feel very aggrieved, not to mention such a large family with intrigues. The three sisters Zhu Yulan grew up in a wealthy environment, but they did not feel much warmth.

"My eldest sister is a very capable person and she treats me the best. Although she is a girl, she is very capable and many elders in the family are convinced by her. She told me that all her efforts were to allow my second sister and I to live freely in the future."

Zhu Yulan spoke in a drunken state, and when she mentioned her elder sister, her face finally revealed the warmth and admiration from the bottom of her heart.

However, this warmth slowly turned into sadness: "But my eldest sister inherited the same disease as my mother, and she passed away because of the disease when she was about to shine..."

Zhu Yulan's eyes welled up with tears: "After my eldest sister left, my father once again faced pressure from the family. He wanted to train a successor. My second sister followed the arrangement and married a man she had barely met, helping the family to fight for so-called business resources..."

Xu Musen had an impression of Zhu Yulan's second sister, the beautiful woman he met at the school sponsorship meeting before.

“She is also a very capable person.”

Xu Musen spoke up. Although they had not had much contact, she could still feel that her second sister was a typical smiling tiger.

Zhu Yulan propped up her chin and sneered, "Yes, she is very capable. As soon as my eldest sister left, she went around privately and seized all of my eldest sister's assets. She had the opportunity to rebel against the family, but she helped the evil... She was submissive and forgot all the promises she made to my eldest sister. Now... she took the opportunity to take away several of my companies. I really don't understand... She was also a victim of the family's interest struggle before, why does she have to do this now..."

Zhu Yulan sneered, but only she knew the sadness in her heart. After all, they were sisters, and now it had come to this point because of family interests, which made Zhu Yulan even more sad.

Why, we are all family, why has it come to this?

Zhu Yulan no longer had the proud attitude she had before. She was like a little girl abandoned by her family, lost and helpless...

Xu Musen listened silently. He had no way to comment on these things. It was just like what was said in the movie "Fortress Besieged", the people inside wanted to get out, and the people outside wanted to get in.

They envy each other, but each has their own difficulties.

Zhu Yulan drank all the wine in her hand in one breath. She was still dazed and wanted the waiter to bring more wine.

Xu Musen interrupted her with a wave of his hand, handed her a wet towel to wipe her eyes: "But at least you are still free now, and you have a good friend who cares about you."

Zhu Yulan raised her eyes and watched Xu Musen gently wipe her eyes. Her cold heart seemed to feel a little warmer.

She looked down at the ruby ​​watch on her hand, which was a gift she gave herself when she turned eighteen.

She originally thought that she could no longer keep it, but his sudden appearance and the check for $100,000 he gave her without hesitation helped her keep not only a watch, but also her last bit of dignity.

"Friends... If family members and relatives are unreliable, how can friends be trusted?"

Zhu Yulan looked at him, but now she didn't know who she could trust.

"Of course I can. Relatives are predetermined, but friends are made by oneself. I can't guarantee others, but I think I am a very reliable person to choose as a friend."

Xu Musen was smiling. He still liked making friends very much. Nuannuan was the best example.

Just as I was thinking about it, a phone call suddenly came.

Warm little cutie.

"Sorry, I have to take a call first."

Xu Musen picked up his phone and shook it.

"Haha, it's up to you."

Zhu Yulan also saw the note on his phone screen. Ugh... so corny.

Xu Musen came to the door.

"Xu Musen, have you come to the mall?" An Nuannuan's sweet voice came.

"I'm already here. I ran into someone I know. I'm in the drinks shop on the third floor. Are you guys done shopping?"

"Yeah, we're almost done buying it, so let's go find you!"

"It's okay, I'll come find you guys later. Buy a few more clothes. Don't say I don't want to spend money on my wife."

"Hey..."

An Nuannuan is always easy to coax, she hung up the phone with a silly smile.

"Is he here?" Yao Mingyue walked over and asked.

"Yeah, he said he met someone he knew and is on the third floor now. He will come to see us later."

"acquaintance…"

Yao Mingyue narrowed her eyes instantly. Her Mingyue automatic radar for catching adultery had captured something in an instant.

"Did he tell me who the acquaintance was?"

"No."

"……hehe."

Yao Mingyue squinted her eyes and smelled something, hmm... the smell of a little vixen!

……

And at this moment,
Zhu Yulan looked at Xu Musen who was standing at the door and talking on the phone.

Look at the doting smile on his face when he was on the phone.

Although he was shameless most of the time, he made people feel extremely pure and sincere. She suddenly felt a little envious of that girl.

If, if I could have such a person by my side, wouldn't many things be different...

Zhu Yulan shook her head. She felt a little dizzy from the alcohol and her mind was filled with a lot of chaotic thoughts.

I envy An Nuannuan, and I'm a little jealous of Yao Mingyue.

Why is her childhood sweetheart so good? If her childhood sweetheart was also Xu Musen... maybe she would have agreed.

She was shocked by her own thoughts. What was that? He just gave in...but it seemed to linger in her mind and couldn't be shaken off.

She ordered another bottle of wine, opened it and drank it in one big gulp, choking and coughing several times.

"Boss Zhu, why are you drinking again?"

When Xu Musen came back and saw that she had opened another bottle of wine, he felt a little headache. Judging from the fact that she could finish this bottle, it seemed that she was really depressed.

"Can't I drink if I want? You can't even afford a bottle of wine?"

Zhu Yulan bit her lip but didn't dare to look at Xu Musen.

"That's not the case. I'm just worried that your body can't handle it."

Xu Musen shook his head. A drunk person is like a child. Xu Musen took out a wet wipe and handed it to her to wipe the wine from the corner of her mouth.

Zhu Yulan's heart was in a state of chaos as she looked at Xu Musen's face so close to her and his concerned eyes.

She suddenly felt for the first time that her heartbeat didn't obey her control when facing a boy.

"I...want to go back. I will find a way to return the money to you soon."

"We are all friends, so I should lend a hand. I believe you will succeed."

Xu Musen didn't stop her.

Zhu Yulan looked at his smile. Ever since she decided to start her own business, everyone in her family, her father, and even her second sister... said that she would never succeed.

The only person who said he believed her was the guy in front of her who had cheated her several times.

Zhu Yulan shook her body slightly. She looked at Xu Musen with a drunken smile.

"Of course I will succeed. When I become the richest woman in the world, I can help you a lot!"

"I understand."

Xu Musen coughed dryly: "But how are you going back?"

She drank so much from this bottle that she felt like she was staggering when she stood up.

"I asked Xiaotao to pick me up... I didn't... um..."

Zhu Yulan said this, but she felt dizzy as soon as she stood up. The caffeine in coffee can easily excite the brain, and coupled with the stimulation of alcohol and emotional excitement, she felt a little dizzy as soon as she stood up suddenly, and she stumbled and was about to fall down.

Xu Musen quickly caught her. Zhu Yulan felt her head spinning, but her body soon fell into a warm embrace.

"Are you OK?"

"I…"

Zhu Yulan felt a little dizzy, but for some reason, she felt particularly safe in Xu Musen's arms.

So this is what it feels like to be pampered in someone’s arms?
She has never experienced this feeling again since her mother left and her elder sister left.

"Boss Zhu, if you can't drink anymore, stop trying to be tough. With your alcohol tolerance, you can't even sit at the table with the kids in my hometown..."

Xu Musen said helplessly.

But when Zhu Yulan heard these naggings, another gentle figure seemed to appear in front of her eyes, holding her and coaxing her gently.

"You, don't be so stubborn about some things. You have a sister..."

"elder sister…"

Zhu Yulan murmured in a daze, as if she was afraid that the person in front of her would disappear. Xu Musen originally planned to put him aside, but Zhu Yulan suddenly hugged his neck with her backhand.

Xu Musen was stunned for a moment. Zhu Yulan was very thin, although Yao Mingyue often criticized her for being open-minded.

But a girl is still a girl after all, still soft, and she does have a faint scent of bamboo on her body.

Xu Musen wanted to put her on the sofa to rest first, and then call Xiao Tao to come and pick up her boss.

But Zhu Yulan was hugging his neck, so it was not easy to put her down. Xu Musen could only adjust his posture and gently put her on the sofa, but this action was as if he was pressing on her.

"Oh, that's really hard work, do you need any help?"

Suddenly, a pleasant voice came from behind.

Xu Musen thought it was the waiter and responded subconsciously: "No need, I can do it myself..."

But suddenly his ears moved. No, why did this voice sound so familiar?
This has a hint of vinegar and a dark tone…

Xu Musen turned his head suddenly, and in front of him, Yao Mingyue was biting her silver teeth, one of her small canine teeth was flashing with a cold light, and her phoenix eyes were narrowed into an extremely dangerous arc!

Beside her, An Nuannuan opened her clear eyes, showing no sign of anger, but her cheeks were noticeably swollen as she watched the two people's misleading actions.

"..."

Xu Musen vaguely felt that the word "death" seemed to appear before his eyes.

"Well, listen to my excuse..."

Xu Musen exerted force with his hands, trying to put the hot young lady in his arms onto the chair.

But Zhu Yulan was feeling dizzy at the moment, and the more Xu Musen pushed her, the tighter she hugged him.

In a trance, she seemed to dream of her sister's warm embrace moving away from her...

"No, don't leave me..."

She murmured to herself, wishing she could hang in Xu Musen's arms.

Xu Musen: "..."

"Hehehe..."

He turned his head to look at Yao Mingyue and An Nuannuan. The same dangerous light seemed to flash in the eyes of both of them, which made Xu Musen shudder.

He can't even handle one yandere, let alone two of them.

My life is at an end...

(End of this chapter)