Nine in the morning.
Fated Cafe.
Lin Xuan, dressed in casual clothes prepared by Lin Ya, sat in a corner.
His clean, sunny attire, coupled with Lin Xuan's handsome face, attracted several girls who came to strike up a conversation early in the morning.
A beautiful woman in a white jacket walked in and immediately spotted Lin Xuan.
"Over here."
Lin Xuan smiled and waved to Jiang Qingyue.
Seeing Lin Xuan, Jiang Qingyue walked over in her white sneakers.
Lin Xuan shamelessly sized her up.
She wore a white jacket and jeans, looking fresh and without makeup, and her thick, seaweed-like long hair gave her an innocent and charming aura.
At twenty-four or twenty-five, she had an extremely beautiful face and a curvaceous figure.
As expected, she was a beauty with a system score of 98.
[Name: Jiang Qingyue, Age: 25, System Score: 98, Favorability: -5. (Dislikes)]
"Had enough looking?"
Jiang Qingyue said unhappily, then sat down in front of Lin Xuan.
"I can never get enough of my wife."
Lin Xuan grinned.
"Tch, your wife? You wish. You don't really think I want to be with you, do you?"
Jiang Qingyue said, hugging her chest and looking at Lin Xuan with displeasure.
She had to admit, this Lin Xuan was indeed very handsome, but unfortunately, he was a scumbag.
Then Jiang Qingyue got straight to the point, saying, "I need your help. Later, go to my house to meet my parents. Just say that we are blind date partners, that we've hit it off, and are planning to start dating. You'll just pretend to be my boyfriend, and you might occasionally visit my house as a guest in the future."
After speaking, she pushed a wad of money to Lin Xuan.
"This is ten thousand yuan, consider it your payment for this time. I'll pay you every time I ask for your help in the future."
Lin Xuan took it, lowered his head to count, and said, "Twenty thousand."
Jiang Qingyue: "…"
"You! Ten thousand isn't enough for you?"
Lin Xuan looked up and grinned at her: "Meeting the parents is tiring, and I also have to buy gifts for your parents, which costs money, right? Shouldn't you pay for that?"
"Fine, twenty thousand it is. Transfer it."
She then directly transferred another ten thousand yuan to Lin Xuan.
"Still short ten thousand."
Lin Xuan said.
"Didn't I give you twenty thousand?"
Jiang Qingyue glared at Lin Xuan, fuming.
"What I meant just now was, twenty thousand on top of the original ten thousand."
Bang—
Jiang Qingyue slapped the table, pointed at Lin Xuan, and said, "Lin Xuan, do you think I can only find you? If I weren't too lazy to find someone unfamiliar, I definitely wouldn't have looked for you. I could just pick someone randomly off the street, and any one of them would be better than you!"
"Ding… Detected Jiang Qingyue's anger, significant emotional fluctuation, System Value +10000."
"No, no, no."
Lin Xuan quickly waved his hand and said, "Beautiful lady, don't talk nonsense. I'm not familiar with you either. My definition of familiar is having been intimate, that's what I call familiar. As for you… I've only touched your butt. Hmm, not familiar, not familiar."
"You!!! Shameless!"
Jiang Qingyue gnashed her teeth.
"Ding… Detected Jiang Qingyue's anger, System Value +10000."
This Lin Xuan, why did he seem like a different person?
The old Lin Xuan, though annoying, was at least subtly perverted. Why was he so blatant now?
Did he think Jiang Qingyue was easy to bully?
"Ding… Jiang Qingyue's favorability towards you -5."
Lin Xuan shrugged, indicating he didn't care.
This was just the beginning, wasn't it?
No rush, take it slow.
"Give me the money, I'll find someone else."
Jiang Qingyue held out her hand to Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan quickly stuffed the money away.
"No way, I already promised my sister. Hurry up, give me another ten thousand."
Jiang Qingyue: ???
"Big brother, I'm giving you money to do something for me, why do you act like I'm begging you?"
Jiang Qingyue asked, bewildered.
"I don't care. If you don't give it to me, I'll tell Auntie and Uncle that all the boyfriends you bring home are fake."
Lin Xuan showed off his two rows of white teeth and laughed.
Satisfying!
This little girl used to always mock and look down on him, and even wanted to have him arrested and locked up for a few years?
"You! Shameless!"
Jiang Qingyue gritted her teeth.
"Ding… Jiang Qingyue's favorability towards you -5, current favorability: -15."
"Ding… Detected Jiang Qingyue's anger, System Value +20000."
"Hurry up, still short ten thousand."
Lin Xuan took out his phone and opened the QR code again.
Jiang Qingyue took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling with the movement.
"Ding… Zhimaibao received ten thousand yuan."
She gritted her teeth and scanned another ten thousand to Lin Xuan.
"I'm warning you, I've given you the money. If you don't do this well, I will definitely get you locked up. Also, twenty thousand yuan for gifts, return the excess to me."
Jiang Qingyue said with extreme displeasure.
Lin Xuan smiled and made an "OK" gesture.
Return?
Definitely not returning it.
Lin Ya had already bought him gifts.
A net profit of thirty thousand!
"Hmph!"
She snorted unhappily, then stood up.
"Let's go, come back with me. We can buy it on the way."
Just then, Lin Xuan's system prompt came.
"Ding… Congratulations to the Host, the mission has advanced to the meeting-the-parents stage. You can choose a meeting gift."
"Oh?"
Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow.
"Any meeting gift will do?"
Lin Xuan asked in his mind.
"Ding… Of course not. The selectable meeting gifts are directly proportional to the Host's current wealth, status, and ability. The stronger the ability, the more valuable the selectable meeting gift."
Lin Xuan rubbed his chin.
"Hey, what are you doing? Let's go."
Jiang Qingyue said impatiently.
Lin Xuan stood up and said, "You go back first, I'll be there in a moment."
"What are you doing? I'm telling you, I know your sister. Don't run off with my money."
Jiang Qingyue said vigilantly.
"Don't worry, I'm going to prepare meeting gifts for your parents."
Lin Xuan smiled and then walked away.
"Damn it!"
She gnashed her silver teeth.
…
An hour later.
Jiang Family.
In a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, Jiang Qingyue's mother was preparing lunch.
Her father, Jiang Hai, sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper, while Jiang Qingyue felt uneasy inside.
That hateful Lin Xuan, not answering his phone, not replying to messages, did he really run off?
What would she do then?
Pah!
Scumbag!
"Xiaoyue, where's your blind date? Not here yet?"
Jiang Hai put down his newspaper and looked at Jiang Qingyue, asking.
"Ah… He said he's specially preparing meeting gifts for Mom and Dad, he'll be here soon, should arrive any minute now."
Jiang Qingyue smiled awkwardly, cursing Lin Xuan to death in her heart.
Her mother, Xu Ling, brought the dishes to the table and said, "If you ask me, this Lin Xuan is actually just average. If it weren't for his sister and younger sister being extraordinary, I definitely wouldn't agree to him being with my daughter."
"Mom, I really like him. I met him several times before the blind date. He's not as bad as the rumors say, he's quite good."
Jiang Qingyue said against her conscience.
Jiang Hai nodded; "Hmm, if you ask me, his sister Lin Ya is indeed capable. A girl with no background, starting from scratch, her company can now earn hundreds of thousands a year. And his younger sister is the top student in the entire school, and also a national taekwondo champion. Her future is boundless. I estimate that even if this Lin Xuan is bad, he can't be that bad. Xiaoyue, you must tell him not to prepare anything too expensive for the meeting gift."
Jiang Qingyue nodded.
Expensive?
Twenty thousand yuan, he'd definitely pocket eighteen thousand.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she got.
Knock, knock, knock—
Just then, the door was knocked.
"Coming, coming."
Jiang Qingyue quickly ran over.
This Lin Xuan was at least a man, he didn't run away.
Jiang Hai put down his newspaper, and Xu Ling also walked to the door.
Click—
The door opened, and Lin Xuan stood before them.
"Hello, Uncle. Hello, Auntie."
Lin Xuan smiled and greeted Jiang Hai and Xu Ling.
But Jiang Qingyue was dumbfounded!
Big brother!
You're empty-handed?
Where's your meeting gift? Where's your present?
Did you actually pocket all twenty thousand?
"Hmm, you're here. Come in."
Jiang Hai nodded and said to Lin Xuan.
Xu Ling also glanced at Lin Xuan's hands and by his feet.
Didn't he bring a gift?
Although it wasn't important, it was proper etiquette.
"Ding… Detected Jiang Qingyue's extreme displeasure, System Value +50000."
"Uncle, wait a moment."
Lin Xuan said to Jiang Hai, who was about to turn away.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Hai looked at Lin Xuan curiously.
Lin Xuan then moved aside.
Behind him, in the hallway, a row of more than a dozen people with bruised faces were squatting with their heads in their hands.
Lin Xuan had been standing in front of them, blocking their view, so they hadn't seen this scene.
Lin Xuan smiled at their confused faces and said:
"First time meeting, and I wasn't sure what to bring as a gift for Uncle and Auntie. I heard Uncle and Auntie are both police officers, so I busted a criminal group. I've brought them all here. Consider it a meeting gift for the two of you."
Jiang Hai: ???
Xu Ling: ???
Jiang Qingyue: ???