Can you be called a rich man if you don’t indulge yourself?

Chapter 99: It's too hard to be a scumbag.
Eleven o'clock noon.

Wedding hotel backstage.

"How about this? I'll start by singing 'The Beauty of the World' and then follow up with 'As Promised' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', songs that are barely suitable for weddings, right?"

As the originator of the Internet celebrity singer who has debuted for nearly 20 years, Xu Song has released many songs in recent years, at least songs, but there are not many suitable for singing at weddings.
Especially the well-known songs like "Funeral of Roses". If I dare to let him sing it, Li Feng will definitely jump out and beat me to death.
Several people worked backstage for half an hour before finalizing five songs.
The person in charge of the hotel stood aside, grinning and showing an unconditional cooperation.
Xu Song sang at their hotel, which was equivalent to advertising for them for free, and they didn't have to spend a dime. When the time comes, they can film the wedding scene and let others post it on Douyin. It doesn't infringe on copyright and can promote it. It's really great.
Gu Heng listened to the five songs Xu Song said and nodded slightly.
It's really hard for a singer who sings about breakups all day to come up with a few songs suitable for weddings.
Just when everything was almost arranged, Gu Heng's phone rang.

"Hengzi, where are you? Haven't you arrived yet? The wedding is about to start, and the best man has to go on stage to give a speech!"

"I'm at the hotel now and will be there soon."

"Hurry up, the emcee is ready."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Heng stopped lingering in the backstage. After giving Xu Song a few words, he took Lin Ran's hand and walked towards the wedding hall.

Lin Ran couldn't help but tremble when Gu Heng suddenly grabbed his hand. He blurted out subconsciously: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? Attending a wedding."

Gu Heng took her hand and walked out of the backstage. When he heard her words, he turned around and looked at her with a puzzled look.

"Should I go too?"

"You don't like this kind of occasion?"

Lin Ran thought about it, then shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't like it, it's mainly because I don't know anyone at the wedding, and it's a bit inappropriate for a stranger like me to run over there."

Gu Heng couldn't help laughing when he heard this.
Then, regardless of her reaction, he took her hand and rushed towards the wedding hall.

"I just told them that you are my girlfriend, so in this situation, we are one. It's no different if you pretend to be my girlfriend in front of my family or in front of them, so you might as well just be a good person.

Besides, as a senior executive of a big company like you, what scenes have you not seen? It's just a small wedding in the countryside, what's inappropriate about it?"

After listening to Gu Heng's words, Lin Ran did not continue to speak, but just stared at his back with flickering eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
"You're finally here. This is the only important event in my life. Can you be reliable?!"

After arriving at the wedding hall, Li Feng returned the car keys to Gu Heng and couldn't help but complain.

Although she was cursing Gu Heng, her eyes were looking at Lin Ran who was being led by Gu Heng.
"This...won't you introduce me?"

Gu Heng smiled and waved their holding hands in front of him: "Do I need to introduce her? My girlfriend, Lin Ran."

When Gu Heng introduced her to his parents, Lin Ran didn't have any special thoughts, but when she was introduced to his friends, an indescribable strange feeling rose from the bottom of her heart.
Suppressing this feeling, Lin Ran showed a decent smile: "Hello, my name is Lin Ran"

The last few words were impossible to utter.
Only when he turned around and saw the smile on Gu Heng's face did he continue speaking: "Gu Heng's girlfriend."

After Lin Ran admitted it himself, the only glimmer of doubt in Li Feng's heart began to dissipate, and he complained to Gu Heng: "Hengzi, you are too unkind, aren't you? You have such a beautiful girlfriend but you are hiding her? Don't you regard me as a brother?"

If he had known that Gu Heng had a girlfriend, he would not have deliberately brought Li Mengxue and Gu Heng together.
After a brief chat, Li Feng pointed to a large round table not far away where many people were already sitting and said, "The other tables are occupied by old men and women, so you can just sit at the table with your classmates.

It just so happens that you know all those old classmates Hengzi, so you can sit down and chat with them and then introduce Lin Ran to them.

I have to prepare to go on stage, so I won’t entertain you for now.”

Gu Heng knew that he was busy today, so he didn't say much. He patted his shoulder and took Lin Ran to the table with his classmates.
The group of people who were originally chatting happily fell silent as if they had agreed upon it when they saw Gu Heng and Lin Ran coming over.
I had already thought about how to deal with this group of people.
But the sudden silence caught Gu Heng off guard.
When I glanced around, I happened to see Li Mengxue sitting next to me with her head down, and I probably understood why these old classmates were silent.
The ex and the current appear at the same time.
In their eyes, isn't it a Shura field?
If it were an ordinary classmate, they might even make some fun of him.
But the protagonist is Gu Heng, and they have no intention of teasing him at all.
After all, there were still many realistic and snobbish students who wanted to build a good relationship with Gu Heng, and they might even need his help in the future. As for those students who had no intention of getting close to him, they would not go to such lengths to deliberately disgust Gu Heng.

Gu Heng took a look and saw that most of the seats were occupied, with only two empty seats left to the left of Li Mengxue. He was hesitating whether to sit down.
To be honest, he really didn't want to have too much contact with Li Mengxue.
I have no interest in showing off in front of her and showing how good my life is now.
After all, they have been separated for almost six years. When they were dating, they were still 17 or 18 years old. Now they are old enough to start a family.
When he was dumped by Li Mengxue, he really wanted to make a name for himself and then prove to her what a wrong decision it was to dump him.

But when this idea came true, he no longer had this thought.
It's not that he is open-minded and can forget the grudges with a smile after being hurt by others.
Mainly because it took too long.
It has been so long that Gu Heng no longer has any desire for revenge on that insignificant relationship.
Just when Gu Heng was hesitating, a female classmate saw his embarrassment, stood up and said, "Gu Heng, why don't you come sit here? My seat is a little more spacious and can accommodate two people."

Hearing this voice, Gu Heng immediately felt that this plain-looking female classmate, whose name he couldn't even remember, was simply too cute.
Just as I was about to respond, I found that Lin Ran had already sat down.
There was only one position left between her and Li Mengxue.
Lin Ran was already sitting, so of course he couldn't leave her behind. He ran over to change seats and could only apologize to the female classmate with a smile, "No need, you can sit anywhere."

As he said this, he sat down between the two of them.
There were more than a dozen people at the table, all of them were silent.
Compared to the lively atmosphere at other tables, this one seems very strange.
Lin Ran sat on Gu Heng's left hand side, quiet and elegant. Although she didn't do anything, her temperament revealed unintentionally made people know that she was definitely not an ordinary girl.
As for Li Mengxue, she lowered her head and played with her phone, showing no intention of talking at all.
She was afraid that if she spoke, someone would compare her with Lin Ran.
Although she is also arrogant and thinks she is one of the outstanding girls, she still has the necessary self-awareness.
Lin Ran is not only prettier than her, but also more beautiful than her in other aspects.
Not to mention her red BMW, she doesn’t even have a car to get around in now.

And the bag in her hand, she has never seen anyone around her using it, she just saw it by chance on Xiaohongshu, the LV worth more than 40,000 yuan is equivalent to her half-year salary.
And the clothes she was wearing were all from the major luxury brands that she dreamed of wearing.
But besides self-knowledge, there was another feeling that slowly rose from the bottom of her heart.
That's jealousy.
In her mind, it is natural for a man to give a woman luxury goods.
So she didn't consider at all that Lin Ran's car, bags, and luxury goods were hers, and thought they were all given to her by Gu Heng.
And all of this, I originally had the opportunity to get
After being silent for who knows how long, someone finally couldn't hold it in any longer and started to flirt with Gu Heng.
"Gu Heng, what on earth have you been doing outside these years to make such a fortune?
Please show us old classmates some way. Since the prevention and control measures were lifted, it has become increasingly difficult to make money. In two years, I opened three small restaurants, and all three went bankrupt.

Not only did I not make a penny, I also lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

With this topic, everyone followed suit and started to complain.
As the economy goes into recession, even the wealth of those rich people on the list has shrunk. Although ordinary people at the bottom of society do not have to tighten their belts to make ends meet, they certainly do not live as comfortably as before, whether they are working or running their own business.

In the past, old classmates would show off their wealth when they met, but now they would compare their misery. Suddenly, an outlier like Gu Heng appeared, and naturally he became the target of public criticism.
Hearing this, Gu Heng just smiled faintly and said, "I'm just making a little money by luck. If I really want to make a fortune, how can I not think of you old classmates?"

I have no way to show them.
Do we have to let them do nothing, indulge themselves, and wait for the system to activate?

The old classmates were a little disappointed when they didn't get the answers they wanted, but they soon started to flatter him again.
Gu Heng has become the absolute center of the table at this moment.
"Gu Heng, I want to eat that."

As he spoke, he pointed to the two plates in the middle of the table.
One is filled with fruits, and the other is filled with various wedding candies.
Upon hearing this, an attentive classmate immediately pushed the plate closer to Lin Ran and said with a smile: "This table is too big, it's normal that girls can't reach it."

Lin Ran politely thanked Gu Heng's classmate, but he remained motionless, his eyes just staring at Gu Heng's face.

Gu Heng: “???”

This woman is very wrong today.
From the time I met her until now, when has she ever acted like a little girl?
The strong woman’s character has collapsed, okay?
But no matter what he thought, Gu Heng could only obediently grab a handful of wedding candy from the plate and put it in front of Lin Ran: "Eat it."

Seeing Gu Heng take the candy for him without any hesitation, Lin Ran smiled with satisfaction in his heart, peeled off the candy wrapper with his slender hands, and handed the candy to Gu Heng's mouth before he could react, saying: "Try it for me first to see if it tastes good."

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Gu Heng had no idea what she was doing and could only eat the candy that was placed in front of him.
Seeing Gu Heng eating it, Lin Ran peeled another one and put it into his mouth, glancing at Gu Heng with a provocative look.
Others didn't know the inside story between the two, and they were just envious of Gu Heng.
Not only is he rich, he also has such a beautiful girlfriend.
Not only did he find such a beautiful girlfriend, but he was also so sensible.
What’s even more infuriating is that the second most beautiful girl at the table is the one she has left over. How the hell can I find justice in this?

suddenly
Li Mengxue, who had been keeping her head down and silent, saw a white hand reaching out to her, holding a candy wrapped in red paper. Before she could react, she heard Lin Ran say, "Eat one, it's quite sweet."

Li Mengxue said thank you blankly, and then subconsciously took the candy...

This scene was not something Li Mengxue had expected.
The whole table was stunned.
Including Gu Heng who was caught in the middle
He finally understood why Lin Ran had such a plan.
Lin Ran is clearly asserting his sovereignty towards Li Mengxue.
Could it be that she really put herself into the role of girlfriend?

When he thought of this, two feelings emerged in Gu Heng's body at the same time.
One is secretly happy, the other is sitting on pins and needles.
The reason for his secret joy was of course very simple. Lin Ran was the most outstanding girl he had met so far. Wasn't it worth being happy to be liked by such an outstanding girl?

Sitting on pins and needles is easier
He really has no intention of falling in love.
What he wanted most was to maintain this ideal ambiguous relationship with Lin Ran.
If Lin Ran really wants to break this window paper, what should I do?
agree?

This is the most impossible
He believed that Lin Ran was an open-minded girl who would not dwell on his past behavior as a scumbag.

But he didn't believe that Lin Ran could accept having another woman with him at the same time. He thought he was not attractive enough to that extent.
But if you refuse.
He was reluctant.
Once a relationship between a man and a woman is broken, there is no going back.
Given Lin Ran's personality, if I really rejected her, she would definitely delete all my chat information and no longer have any connection with me.
If this happened in Wuzhen, Gu Heng would probably refuse without hesitation.
But now
He admitted that he couldn't do it
Men's possessiveness is a strange thing in itself.
What he wanted most now was to enjoy the intimacy with Lin Ran without having to take any responsibility.
A typical scumbag.
Just when his mind was in a mess, the classmate sitting opposite Gu Heng said to him, "Gu Heng, aren't you the best man? Hurry up, the emcee is inviting the best man to speak. Li Haibin and Song Hua are both up there."

Turning his head to take a look at the stage, Gu Heng didn't think any more about it. He said something to Lin Ran and walked towards the stage.
Whatever happens, happens.
It's too hard to be a scumbag
This was just the beginning and we encountered difficulties.
(End of this chapter)