Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 295 - 220. Guan Guan does not have

Chapter 295: 220. Guan Guan does not have

The 2014 Range Rover, although not as flashy as a two-door sports coupe, definitely turned heads when parked at the school entrance.

Zhou Sinin opened the car door and stepped into the black Range Rover.

A nondescript van followed closely behind.

No one noticed all this.

"Living off someone else really isn’t great."

"Being dependent means having no status at home, always being meek and submissive, not being able to go out and flirt with girls, and even having to give your child someone else’s surname."

Lu Jincheng replied with a smile, pinching Zhou Sinin’s fingers teasingly.

"Lu Jincheng! So you think not living off someone else means you can go flirt with girls, huh?"

Zhou Sinin pouted and slightly lifted her chin, showing off her perfectly curved profile.

Being quick and clever, she soon found the small loophole Lu Jincheng had intentionally left in his words.

"Look at you, not making any sense at all."

Mr. Lu played with classic rhetoric, responding with a relaxed face.

"A implies not B is equivalent to B implies not A; your conclusion doesn’t hold unless you reverse the order."

"... Oh!"

Zhou Sinin huffed, glaring at him, and forcefully withdrew her hand that was intertwined with his.

"All you do is talk! Always going on about logic! Think it’s great just because you can debate?"

"Who is ’you guys’ you’re referring to?"

Lu Jincheng raised an eyebrow, feigning ignorance.

"Nobody."

Zhou Sinin turned her head towards the car window, the graceful and fair neck adorned with a classic Chopard necklace featuring a sparkling red heart.

After taking a few deep breaths, her mood somewhat calmed, and she casually asked.

"Hey, how’s your training going?"

"It’s just so-so, a ragtag team, simply making up the numbers."

"Can you make it through the qualifiers?"

Zhou Sinin rested her elbow on the car door, supporting her chin with her hand, and inquired curiously.

"... Predicting things like competitions, who can really tell!"

Lu Jincheng shrugged, a resigned look on his face, as he glanced over at Zhou Sinin’s expression.

"Why do you care so much about my competition? If you’re really curious, why not sign up and give it a try?"

"I did sign up..."

Unexpectedly, Zhou Sinin, with her head bowed and a blush on her face, muttered a surprising response.

Now it was Jin Cheng’s turn to be surprised.

He slowed down the car and grinned.

"You actually signed up? Who’s your partner? Why haven’t you mentioned it?"

"We got knocked out in the preliminaries!"

Their conversation led to Zhou Sinin feeling both embarrassed and annoyed, and she couldn’t help but swat away the man’s reaching hand.

"Hahaha, no wonder you make such weird faces whenever someone mentions logic."

Lu Jincheng couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"It’s not my fault, my teammate was too weak; there was nothing I could do."

Zhou Sinin whispered weakly in her defense.

"Plus we had bad luck in the draw, facing..."

Finance University’s White Horse Cup preliminaries occurred a few days before Nanhu University’s.

Xiao Zhou’s journey through the preliminaries started with Guan Yongyi’s vigorous daily training.

The short-haired girl quickly formed a high-level team, ready to compete in the White Horse Cup.

Despite having given her a heads-up, watching her best friend so seriously prepare for the competition, analyzing debate topics even during meals and seeking practice partners, all to get back at others on her behalf...

But Zhou Sinin couldn’t help feeling a bit jealous.

The reason was not complicated.

After a long silence, the Ran Dong WeChat group was suddenly filled by Guan Yongyi sharing several exciting debate videos, and she specifically tagged Lu Jincheng to taunt.

"Get ready to face elimination!"

"Bring it on if you dare!"

Lu Jincheng responded defiantly.

The two of them went back and forth on the topic of debate like a duel of words.

Regrettably, Zhou Sinin, not quite understanding, felt like an outsider, unable to get a word in.

Not until Guan Yongyi in the chat openly invited Lu Jincheng’s team for practice, did Zhou Sinin finally decide.

Right, I can also compete!

Despite the man’s categorical refusal, Zhou Sinin still decided to give it a try.

Relying on her excellent social skills, she found a few like-minded peers from the school group.

After a token period of practice, they faced the Law School in the preliminaries.

It was a one-sided battle, a clean and merciless thrashing by her best friend.

Opponents on stage, sisters off stage.

"Ah, bummer! You drew us in the first round."

"It’s okay, you’re more suited to being a spectator, I entered just to vent for you," Guan Yongyi said with a smile.

The finance girl could only accept her fate of being knocked out in the first round.

This was also why, whenever Lu Jincheng joked about logic, Zhou Sinin reflexively felt an odd emotion surge from deep within.

So you all know logic, huh!

So annoying!

"Guan Guan knocked you out? Your sister is pretty ruthless, huh... not cutting you any slack."

Listening, Lu Jincheng couldn’t hold back, his smile unmistakable.

"She letting water do nothing, her teammates won’t take pity anyway."

Zhou Sinin puckered her lips, her lower lip jutting out, her tone filled with helplessness.

"So you’re not blaming her for bullying rookies then?"

"You are interesting, you know, you should reflect on yourself instead of blaming others, if your own skills aren’t up to par, can you really blame the opponent for being too strong?"

Zhou Sinin huffed, folding her arms together.

"Always with the cool remarks, if you guys get lucky and advance, just wait to be bullied by her."

...

When Zhou Sinin and he were together, their radius of activities would unconsciously extend.

Today was no exception.

They had no important matters in the afternoon, and had finished work ahead of schedule, so dating naturally became the top priority.

She had prepared the plan in advance and Lu Jincheng only needed to drive to Li Huangpi Road, leaving the rest to the camera and film.

"Hurry up! This place is so beautiful, take a picture of me~"

As soon as she got out of the car, Zhou Sinin, who was arm-in-arm with Lu Jincheng, immediately turned into a photo-taking fanatic.

Li Huangpi Road was not just an old concession area, but also an old street in Jiang City known for its slow pace of life, and had recently become a romantic hotspot for couples.

This is the most stylish street in Hankou, with many buildings here having a Western vintage style, also bearing witness to the recent and modern history of Jiang City.

The marks of time, beneath the red brick walls and old trees, everywhere gave off a historic charm.

Camphor trees, cobblestone paths, vintage buildings...

A romantic winter, handsome men and beautiful women, no matter how you took the photos, they would turn out great.

"I heard from a local student that most of the old houses on Li Huangpi Road can be visited, it’s really true!"

Zhou Sinin hopped and skipped ahead, entered an old western building called Wangdetang, and pushed open the creaky old wooden door, her eyes shining bright as she immediately discovered a new world.

This was a brick and wood structure western building built in the 1930s, standing on the corner of Victory Street, in a Renaissance style, with beautiful Baroque carvings on the stone pillars at the entrance.

The tip of his nose was filled with the lingering and comforting scent of wood; they walked lightly upstairs, leaned on the window, and the view that met their eyes was just right—plane trees and warm sunlight.

A view they could never tire of.

Lu Jincheng stood still, consciously snapping several photos of Zhou Sinin.

In the blink of an eye, she pulled him through a beautiful carved iron gate, across a courtyard bathed in sunlight, to a tiny tea room that was less than 10 square meters.

The little shop was an annex of Wangdetang, with the courtyard belonging to the mansion.

Bright signs, charging per head, 58 yuan each, tea leaves free to choose.

"Let’s have something to drink before we go."

So, a man and a woman sat inside, crowded with other guests around a stove brewing tea, with a fluffy big dog lying nearby, lazily wagging its tail.

After drinking a whole pot of rock tea, which dispelled the chill in their breath, the two got up and continued on their way.

Li Huangpi Road couldn’t compare with some of the larger commercial areas; most of it comprised small, yet beautiful shops.

The store fronts of the youths crowded in alleys, with dinner smells in the evening, this was the most down-to-earth part of Li Huangpi Road.

Zhou Sinin held hands with the man as they walked, smiling and laughing, stopping now and then, her silvery voice melting into the wind.

The two followed the 600-meter-long Li Huangpi Road deeper, saw a sign for "Great Massage," and found a snack shop called [Under the Bridge Little 7].

The little taverns on Li Huangpi Road were plentiful, but their accompaniments for drinks were rare; this place’s sign dishes included dry fried lotus strips, lotus balls, and stinky dried tofu, also offering early Han-style snacks.

The shop had a fun decor, with refined bilingual menus, old maps, antique tables, and also randomly styled graffiti walls and decorations.

"Why is there no soda in both soda buns and soda meat?"

Zhou Sinin, reading the messages left by customers on the wall, couldn’t help giggling.

"That’s normal, just like there’s no fish in fish-flavored shredded pork, and no wife in wife cakes, the same idea."

"Well then, according to you, no pearls in pearl milk tea, no breasts in bras, no money in wallets are all justifiable too?"

"That won’t do!"

Lu Jincheng, influenced by the girl’s spirited mood, chuckled and shook his head.

"Besides, who says there isn’t any? You clearly have some."

He leaned close to the girl’s ear, whispering, his arm passing under her armpit, and pressed against the edge of the mountain through the clothing.

Even through the winter clothes, the fullness was still bouncy.

"Some people don’t have it! Like Guan Guan..."

Zhou Sinin narrowed her eyes and instinctively clamped his hand, turning her head and whispering softly.

The voice was like a mosquito’s hum.

"Kiss me quickly, otherwise I’ll go back and tell Guan Guan."

"You’re so annoying!"

The girl widened her peach blossom eyes, pursed her lips, and lightly pecked the man’s face.

"Hello, what would you like?"

The server brought a bilingual menu, with a picture featuring a classic scene of young friends dining together from Dream of the Red Chamber.

"We’ll take a look."

Lu Jincheng spread the menu in front of them.

"I want this one, and..."

Zhou Sinin leaned half her head on the man’s shoulder, stretching her finger, pointing at the food she wanted.

"Boss, a lotus sphere and a dish of dry fried lotus strips."

Lu Jincheng read aloud.

The lotus sphere’s shell was specifically wrapped in a layer of ultra-fine lotus strips, eaten with two types of spicy sauce, crispy and savory.

Dry fried lotus strips were spicy and fragrant; Zhou Sinin poked out a little bit of her tongue and fanned in front of her face nonstop.

Halfway through eating, they just saw the neighborly artisanal beer shopkeeper greeting the patrons like old friends.

"There’s a rapper performing soon, come over and watch!"

"Shall we go?"

Zhou Sinin also wanted to see the excitement, vigorously shaking Lu Jincheng’s arm.

"Either way."

Thus, the final stop of their date led them next door.

Neon lights on, music rolling, lights flashing, they gulped down a big swig of beer, let out a satisfying burp, and savored Jiang City’s winter night.

A moment full of life’s simple pleasures.