Chapter 1977 80s 26

Wu Jianguo deliberately wandered around the shopping mall where Su Yan had opened his shop. Now he had opened several shops, but they were all located on the street. He thought it was not worth it to open a shop in a department store because the rent was too expensive.

He waited in the mall for several days before he encountered Su Yan inspecting the store.

Five years have passed, and apart from becoming more fashionable, her appearance seems unchanged.

Now, she is so elegant and aloof that he hardly recognizes her.

Thinking of how she took care of him at home her whole life in her previous life, she never even got a perm, let alone big waves in her hair. She always had a very simple and plain appearance.

Even now, her clothes and style will not be out of fashion even 20 years from now.

He deliberately pretended to bump into her by chance and asked in feigned surprise, "Are you Su Yan?"

Su Yan had already seen him and scoffed at his clumsy acting.

"Who are you?"

"Um, it's me, Wu Jianguo. You don't remember me, do you?"

"Oh, it's you. Shopping at the mall?"

"Yes, I wanted to buy something. What about you? What brings you here?"

Su Yan looked at him with a half-smile and said, "If I remember correctly, we're not the kind of people who can chat about everyday things, are we?"

"So many years have passed, and you still mind? I thought you had long forgotten. I only treated you as an old friend." Wu Jianguo spoke very sincerely, thinking that Su Yan would change her attitude, but Su Yan still looked indifferent.

"Oh, hehe..."

If Su Yan had said something, he wouldn't have been so upset.

However, Su Yan's indifferent demeanor was as if he had heard a joke that wasn't funny at all; his reaction was cold, with a hint of disdain and impatience.

"Are you here to buy something?" Wu Jianguo deliberately ignored her coldness and continued to ask.

He actually knew she was most likely there to inspect the shop, but he pretended not to know anything.

Su Yan directly asked, "Is there anything else? If not, I'll be leaving now."

"Uh, what's with this attitude? Am I that annoying to you?" Wu Jianguo couldn't help but ask her in the same tone he used to use on her in his previous life.

Anyone who didn't know them would think they were old friends, even though when he wanted to cancel the engagement he told her to treat him like a stranger if they ever saw each other again.

As a result, this guy took the initiative to talk to her several times, completely forgetting what he had said before.

Su Yan sneered, "Wu Jianguo, have you no shame? Do you think your words are nothing but farts? We agreed to be strangers, so why did you come to talk to me? Do you think we're that close?"

"You...you are ungrateful!"

"I'm ungrateful? You're talking about yourself, aren't you?" Su Yan laughed.

"If I hadn't given you a thousand dollars back then, would you be where you are today? You have no gratitude towards me at all, and you won't even say a nice word to me."

"Pfft, I didn't expect you, Wu Jianguo, to be able to twist the truth like this. That thousand yuan wasn't given to me by you, it was compensation you gave me. Don't try to make yourself look good. You betrayed your promise, fell for the leader's wife, and abandoned me, your fiancée. Do you think no one knows? Now you're turning around and blaming me. You're truly shameless."

Su Yan ruthlessly exposed what he cared about most all these years: back then, many people in the compound gossiped about him behind his back, saying that he was unrighteous and actually tried to steal the battalion commander's man.

In the past two years, many people have deliberately tried to criticize him, saying that he stole the battalion commander's wife back then, but now the battalion commander has been promoted three ranks, and he has a wife and children and a bright future. It is thanks to him that he stole the useless Li Chunyan that Yuan Qing was able to meet the daughter of the division commander who was of great help to him.

No matter how big his business is or how much money he makes, so what?

Compared to Yuan Qing, he was always a step behind.

After all, compared to power, his little bit of money is just a small amount.

Now that Su Yan had exposed his shortcomings to his face, he was furious and denied it outright, saying, "What nonsense are you talking about? You were jealous of me because I canceled our engagement and you're doing well, so you're deliberately slandering me."

Su Yan looked him up and down with disdain and sneered, "You're doing well? I don't see it. If we stood together, people would probably think we were from different generations. Why would I be jealous of an old man like you? If you had any eyes, you could ask anyone and they wouldn't say something like that."

Wu Jianguo wasn't old, but he did look older than Su Yan.

After all, the original owner was several years younger than him, and with Su Yan's good maintenance, her appearance not only did not age at all, but became even more youthful and radiant.

Wu Jianguo was so angry that he fell backwards. Over the years, he had been quite successful, at least as a businessman, and people would give him face when he went out.

But seeing Su Yan belittle him so much in front of him made Wu Jianguo especially angry.

"What gives you the right to say that to me? You think you're so great. Every penny I earn is earned through my own hard work. As for the life you live now, do you think every penny you spend is earned by yourself? You still have the nerve to say I'm old? That's because I have to go out in the wind and sun, while you only need to fawn over men to get everything easily."

Wu Jianguo assumed Su Yan with the utmost malice, and felt a sense of relief after he said it, thinking he had hit Su Yan's weak spot.

I assumed she would be furious or try her best to prove herself.

However, he guessed wrong.

"Slap!" A slap landed directly on Wu Jianguo's face, stunning him on the spot.

"You dare to hit me?"

"I'll teach you to spew filth. Don't try to slander me with your dirty thoughts. Wasn't the last time enough? Are you asking for a beating today?"

"Can you swear to God that everything you have now wasn't achieved through men?"

"Watch your mouth, or I'll slap you again."

People around looked over and pointed at the two of them.

Seeing that Su Yan wanted to hit him again, Wu Jianguo didn't want to be laughed at by others, nor could he bring himself to hit a woman. He snorted coldly, "A good man doesn't fight with a woman, hmph!"

Wu Jianguo practically fled in panic; he hadn't expected Su Yan to have such a bad temper.

However, upon hearing her resolute denial, Wu Jianguo was momentarily at a loss for words.

However, he still couldn't understand how Su Yan could be so rich.

So he spent some money to have someone investigate Su Yan for him.

When he received the investigation results, he became even more defensive.

I initially thought she was just moderately wealthy, but then he saw a thick stack of documents.

The document shows the shops she currently owns, as well as the properties she has publicly listed; these assets alone are dozens of times more than what he currently possesses.