The Beautiful CEO’s Close Bodyguard
Chapter 192 - 0192: Give me a Seat

Chapter 192: Chapter 0192: Give me a Seat

No words were exchanged that night. The next morning, after enjoying his breakfast, Chu Ge informed Mr. Ouyang and then left the hotel on his own.

The Duan Family’s cruise ship wouldn’t officially open to the public until the evening, so there was still a full day of free time to wander around during the day. Plus, it was Chu Ge’s first time at the seaside.

At first, the plentiful bikini-clad beauties on the coast drew his attention, but after a while, they lost their appeal. Mainly because he had spent a lot of time with a stunning beauty like Mu Bingtong, other women hardly caught his eye anymore.

Contrary to what Chu Ge had imagined, the places selling exquisite seashells weren’t by the coast but were located in a small market at some distance from the hotel.

The most frustrating thing was that there were no taxis available, and the Mercedes that brought them had returned after dropping them off at the hotel.

Fortunately, Chu Ge managed to catch a bus to the marketplace and boarded it without hesitation.

Perhaps because there were many tourists, combined with some local residents, the bus was rather crowded. When Chu Ge got on, there was just one seat left.

Next to him sat a girl in a white dress who flashed a sweet smile at Chu Ge as he took the seat beside her.

For some reason, that smile calmed Chu Ge’s originally restless heart, and he gently asked, "Are you taking the bus by yourself?"

"Mhm!" The little girl didn’t seem to be shy at all. She nodded and said, "My mom is unwell and can’t get out of bed, I can take care of myself!"

It’s said that children from poor families mature early. That’s exactly the case here.

One inconvenient thing about buses is that they stop at every station regardless of whether someone is boarding or alighting.

Perhaps it was peak hour, because when the bus stopped this time, a large number of people surged on board. Since all the seats were taken, the new passengers had to stand.

At that moment, a woman in her forties suddenly approached Chu Ge and said, "You, stand up."

"Me?" Chu Ge pointed at his own nose, puzzled, as he didn’t recognize the woman.

"Of course, it’s you. Who else could I be talking to?" The woman looked at Chu Ge impatiently and urged, "Hurry up and move!"

Chu Ge sneered and replied, "I remember that this is supposed to be a public bus, right?"

"So, you do know it’s a public bus?" The middle-aged woman placed her hands on her hips, looking at Chu Ge with an air of entitlement. "Don’t you know that on a bus, you should give up your seat to the elderly? Don’t you have any public manners, young man?"

"Give up my seat?" Chu Ge said to the middle-aged woman with a sarcastic tone, "Auntie, you seem to be just over forty, far from qualifying for a seat offer?"

"Hey, don’t you know any better, young lad!" The middle-aged woman rolled up her sleeves, ready for a fight, as it seemed to onlookers. "Even so, I’m a generation older than you. Is it wrong for me to ask for a seat?"

"Nothing wrong with giving up seats," Chu Ge stated calmly, "It’s your tone that is wrong."

As soon as these words were spoken, a brief silence of a dozen seconds followed between them.

Suddenly, the middle-aged woman stepped back and shouted loudly at the people around her: "Hey, everyone, come and see, come and see what society has degenerated into now. This strong young man here, when I asked him for a seat, not only did he refuse, he even had the nerve to argue. Is this how your teachers taught you in school?"

"Ah, these young people these days!"

"Exactly, this young man looks so morally upright, but who knew he’s actually bad seed."

"Just look, the auntie looks aged, and he still doesn’t know to give up his seat, no manners at all!"

Instantly, the people around started chattering. However, Chu Ge noticed that these comments came from those standing without seats, while the young people who were seated either buried their heads pretending to read, or leaned on their chairs with closed eyes as if asleep, or looked outside the window, indifferent to the whole ordeal.

"Auntie!"

At that moment, the little girl in the white dress stood up and said to the middle-aged woman, "Auntie, you can sit here."

The little girl could hardly have been more than seven or eight years old, barely taller than one meter, certainly unable to reach the overhead handrails. As she stood up from her seat, the bus’s jerking motion nearly caused her to fall several times.

However, the middle-aged woman didn’t pay any attention to the girl. Seeing the girl vacate her seat, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly ran over to take it, as if a moment’s delay would see the seat snatched away.

It wasn’t until she sat down that the woman breathed a sigh of relief. Then she looked at Chu Ge with scorn in her voice: "Humph, some people really are less than a seven or eight-year-old girl!"

In response to this, Chu Ge nodded in agreement and said, "Indeed, some people have lived to a ripe old age, but their lives might as well have been spent as a dog, less respectable than a seven or eight-year-old girl, shameless!"

After finishing his words, he stood up and lifted the little girl onto his seat: "Here, you sit. I’ve been sitting too long and my legs are a bit numb; I could use a stand."

"You..." The middle-aged woman’s face flushed red, and she found herself unable to respond to Chu Ge.

Chu Ge’s actions, together with his previous words, were a clear mockery of her. At this moment, even those who had cheered on the middle-aged woman earlier cast their eyes down and fell silent.

Chu Ge looked at them with mockingly, then slowly made his way to the front of the bus; he was about to reach his destination and prepare to disembark.

Meanwhile, at the back of the bus, the little girl turned to the middle-aged woman and called out, "Auntie..."

"Humph!" The middle-aged woman snorted at her and turned her head away, believing the humiliation she endured was entirely the fault of Chu Ge and the little girl.

The bus continued its journey, and the carriage gradually quieted down. It was approaching noon, and everyone around seemed sleepy.

But just then, the middle-aged woman, who had been squinting her eyes, suddenly opened them wide and stared at a man in front.

The man quietly pulled out a small knife, sliced open the handbag of a woman standing in front of him, then caught all the items like a falling cell phone and tucked them into his own pocket...