After modification, enter the love game

Ella felt that these two people would never be able to become lawyers in the future.

"Come to think of it, we haven't been formally introduced yet." Jiang Mu smiled and pointed at Li Hua: "This is Li Hua, Muzi Li, Hua as in flashy but not practical."

Li Hua also pointed back: "This is Jiang Mu, the surname of Shennong, which means "a monkey wearing a crown."

Ella blinked. "I'm Ella, Ella Stuart."

Jiang Mu was surprised: "So this is your real name?"

He looked at the other person's face carefully, and then he found that although this black swan-like girl bargained very fluently, there was indeed a bit of exotic color on her cheeks - from this, it seems that the strand of gold at the end of her hair was natural.

Ella had no sense of embarrassment at all. She held her chest high and met Jiang Mu's gaze with a smile, her confidence like the sunshine.

"Yes, my mother is half British, and Ella is the name she gave me. It sounds nice, right?"

Li Hua asked: "So what you mean is that when you are at least a quarter British, you actually need Jiang Mu to hand you the answers to the English test paper?"

Ella's smile froze.

Jiang Mu glared at Li Hua, saying he was talking about things that were irrelevant.

He quickly tried to smooth things over: "It's okay, it's okay. Look, this guy is a real Chinese, and I didn't hear him say anything human."

After a slight pause, he decided to change the subject, "Since your English name 'Ella' is so beautiful, your Chinese name must be the same, right?"

Jiang Mu's words were indeed effective, and Ella no longer maintained her stiff smile.

She simply stopped smiling.

Ella was silent for two seconds. "My last name is Zhang. Well, my Chinese name was also given by my mother... It's also a very beautiful name, which means 'a girl as beautiful as flowers and jade'."

"Zhang Cuihua?" Li Hua blurted out.

"..."

Jiang Mu suddenly understood why he had never heard Li Hua say that he had a good relationship with any girl.

Judging from the way she spoke, even if she really met the girl holding a piece of bread in her mouth, there was a high probability that she would run over Li Hua and kill him.

Perhaps Li Hua himself felt that this was inappropriate, so he quickly tried to smooth things over:

"Your mother has excellent taste."

After thinking about it, I still felt it was inappropriate, so I added: "I'm talking about the taste in naming."

As if there was still some ambiguity, he added: "Both Chinese and English names have good taste."

Ella looked at the ancient book in Jiang Mu's hand expressionlessly, and then looked at Li Hua expressionlessly.

Probably thinking from what angle I can throw the weapon to kill it.

Considering that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, Jiang Mu silently took a step forward, stood in front of Li Hua, and coughed lightly.

He placed the ancient book in Ella's hands and said with a smile:

"Here you go, Ella Stuart."

Jiang Mu deliberately emphasized Ella's full name.

The girl stopped staring at Li Hua and smiled back, "Just call me Ella... I haven't thanked you yet!"

She was blinking again, her eyelashes fluttering like clouds pulled back by the full moon.

Ella thought about it, took out a few old bills from her handbag and handed them over.

"Here, it's yours."

"My what."

"To buy books."

Jiang Mu had no intention of taking it.

He shrugged. “As you can see, I only spent five bucks, and it wasn’t even my own money.”

"It's different." Ella said seriously, "I think this book is worth 70 yuan, so no matter how much it's priced at, I will try my best to spend 70 yuan to buy it; if it's more expensive, I will try my best to bargain it down to 70 yuan, and if it's cheaper, I will make up for it."

"Although you only spent five dollars, it was something only you could do. I can't assume that I can do it easily just because you did it. I can't deny your efforts and your ability... This is wrong."

"You're really opinionated." Jiang Mu praised.

A girl who is persistent and independent-minded is as beautiful as a unique gem.

——But Jiang Mu still had no intention of continuing.

He just said lightly:

"But you need it more than I do, don't you?"

Ella was silent longer this time than ever before.

“…Has it been discovered?”

Jiang Mu joked, "You said I'm a very capable person. If I can't be really capable, wouldn't that be a letdown to your expectations?"

Many times, Jiang Mu would say things that made people laugh or cry.

——But more often than not, he knows how to say something when faced with something that "cannot be said directly".

This is called "maturity", this is "adulthood".

It is not difficult to see that Ella is living in poverty. For example, it is very important that if a person comes from a wealthy family, it is difficult for her to master the skill of "bargaining".

Of course her skirt and tights are beautiful. She is such a beautiful girl that she looks beautiful in anything.

But it is midsummer now, and the temperature today is over 30 degrees. In such weather, even a white shirt seems redundant - as for Ella's outfit, it is probably because the skirt was bought a long time ago and is too short to wear now, so she has to wear stuffy tights.

So of course she looks tall and slender. Corsets are meant to highlight the female figure, and a smaller size of clothes will have the same effect on girls with a good enough figure.

That's why Jiang Mu used such an almost "unreasonable" way to get the two books - just as Li Hua said, his family is indeed a "rich dog family".

But if Jiang Mu had said directly at that time, "It's okay, just put the money in my account," it would have been too harsh on the girl's self-esteem.

Trying to have fun in a more "fun" way will be good for everyone.

As for the missing money, he would make up for it to Uncle Wang later, but there was no need to mention such a small matter to Ella specifically.

I help you only because I want to help you, because I have more than you, and what I don’t need so much is what you desperately need.

I will take your self-esteem into consideration, but there is no need to let you know this specifically.

This is Jiang Mu.

This is what we call “adult male style of doing things”.

NO.14 “Now, you owe me!”

Ella looked at Jiang Mu, and Jiang Mu also looked at her with a smile.

Li Hua silently took two steps back, not daring to breathe. The expression on his face seemed to say "Yes, this is what I want to see. This one is very powerful."

In the end, Ella couldn't help but look away.

If Ji Suyi saw this scene, she would probably not be able to help but hold Ella's hand to show her understanding.

Because Ella suddenly discovered that the man standing in front of her was actually a very charming boy.

If he was just laughing and joking as usual, Jiang Mu would be just a young man with red lips and white teeth. He is indeed very handsome, but there are so many handsome boys in this world.

Not all male protagonists are eyeless, just like not all dating games have male protagonists - there are many boys who can't even be described simply as "handsome", they are simply "beautiful".

But "charm" and "beauty" are different.

Only when Jiang Mu calms down, the sense of "maturity" in him will slowly seep out like the aroma of wine. It is something completely different, completely different from everything in this world, like overwhelming silence, and the soul is like a small boat in a rainstorm.

Therefore, Ji Suyi could never look Jiang Mu in the eye quietly for more than ten seconds. Every time the air froze, she could clearly hear her own heartbeat.

So of course Ella couldn't do it either. Her eyes were wandering, and her gaze was like the gathering and dispersing swimming fish.

She asked, "You really don't want to take it?"

"Of course I will, but not now." Jiang Mu smiled gently, "I don't need it now, but you really need it, that's all... Just like you said, the value of something lies only in our 'need'."

He thought for a moment, "If one day I need something urgently, but you don't need it that much, you can return it to me then."

"But I hate owing people money," Ella said seriously.

Jiang Mu was about to say something else, but he saw the girl in front of him suddenly stretched out her hand and made a "come here" gesture.

She looked so beautiful, the word "cute" was simply engraved on her forehead.

Jiang Mu blinked: "What is this?"

"Come here, let me tell you a secret." Ella smiled like a cat, "It's definitely worth the money."

Jiang Mu raised his eyebrows and moved closer suspiciously.

——As the distance between them shortened, a rose-like scent that belonged only to girls slowly entered Jiang Mu’s nostrils.

[Ah, it is indeed like this...] Jiang Mu complained in his heart, [Here, some details are indeed "beautified"... If I had come there before, the girls would dare to wear such warm clothes in the summer, and the sweat odor would probably be very clear from two meters away.]

"Listen up."

Soft warm air was exhaled beside the ear.

"I'm listening." Jiang Mu said.

"This is my first time kissing someone."

——A voice like this came to my ear.

Then came the warm touch that blossomed on his cheek.

Like crimson rose petals, falling with morning dew.

Jiang Mu looked up in astonishment, but saw a black swan-like girl with her hands behind her back, slowly taking a step back, her eyes flickering, in the dazzling sunlight.

"Well," she smiled, "it's worth the money, isn't it?"

"You... this..." Jiang Mu blushed, "I..."

——For the first time since birth, someone who used to be very eloquent couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

Jiang Mu took a deep breath and finally spoke.

"…You paid it off," he said.

Ella's cheeks were also red, but she was still smiling, like a cat that had stolen some dried fish.

That smile was so beautiful, so malicious yet so gentle and moving, so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at it. She tried to keep a straight face but couldn't help but burst out laughing, so she could only use the book to gently cover her cherry lips.

"What are you thinking about!"

Ella's eyes blinked again.

"—Now you owe me!"

After saying that, as if she was afraid that the boy in front of her would go back on his word, Ella took one step, two steps, three steps back, and then her steps became faster and faster, like a cat that had eaten dried fish, and she quickly fled the scene.

"Don't think too much!" she shouted from a distance, "It's just a kiss on the cheek... My mother is British!"

"...The kiss on the cheek is actually a French etiquette." Jiang Mu said softly.

The sound was very light, flowing along with the hot summer breeze and dissipating among the blooming flowers and green leaves.

"How is it, how is it, how is it!"

Li Hua was so excited that he looked like Friend A who suddenly appeared in the finale. "Was my silence just now a sign of my ability to read the atmosphere?"

"You are really good at reading the atmosphere." Jiang Mu held his forehead, "Since you are so good at reading the atmosphere, can you be quiet for a while?"

"That won't work." Li Hua said, "I still have some procedures to go through."

He cleared his throat:

"Congratulations. Ella Stuart has a perfect impression of you in this incident. Your favorability is up!"