Qin Keren's eyes suddenly lit up upon hearing this.
Could it be that this guy only refrained from taking action because he thought the money she offered was not enough… and not because he was afraid of the family backing her?
"Here's the deal, since we're getting along so well now, I'll give you a discount. How about I charge you a thousand per event?" Su Chen continued, dead serious.
Qin Keren's mouth twitched.
A discount—a bloody discount!
Believe it or not, I could discount your whole family!
I was willing to give you that, and you should consider it the good fortune you've accumulated over eight lifetimes.
You dare to ask me for more money?
Why don't you go die!
Qin Keren wrestled herself free from Su Chen's grasp.
She decided to ignore this oddball whose way of thinking was completely out of line with normal people.
"Director Qin, do you still want your earring?" Su Chen dangled the Blue Gemstone earring in front of Qin Keren.
"I don't! You can have it!" Qin Keren said indignantly.
"Really? That's great, this is a Blue Gemstone, right? It must be worth a lot of money. Hmm, I'll give it to little Miss Yue, she'll definitely love it!" Su Chen happily tucked the Blue Gemstone earring into his pocket.
Hearing Su Chen's words, Qin Keren really had the urge to beat him up.
Damn it, even if you want to give it to another girl, could you please not say it in front of me?
"Give it to me!" Qin Keren approached Su Chen and reached out her hand directly.
"What?"
"My earring!"
"Didn't you give it to me?"
"I'm taking it back!" Qin Keren snatched the Blue Gemstone earring right out of Su Chen's hand.
"Director beauty, I really must say, as a big director, a big CEO, you should keep your word." Su Chen looked at her speechlessly.
"Heh, well I'm not keeping my word now, what are you going to do? Bite me? Want to give it to someone else? Dream on, I'd rather throw it away than give it to you!" Qin Keren said, and really took off her other earring as well.
Then she tossed it directly into the nearby river.
"You wasteful woman, what a wasteful woman!" Su Chen watched with heartache.
That pair of Blue Gemstone earrings, they were of quite good quality.
Worth at least tens of thousands each.
And yet, Qin Keren had thrown them into the river.
You have to understand, him pretending to be Qin Keren's boyfriend this time, being verbally attacked by her seven aunts and eight uncles, father and mother, his final compensation was only fifty thousand.
Qin Keren had casually thrown away a hundred thousand.
Of course, Su Chen's agreement to help Qin Keren was not for those fifty thousand.
After all, the calligraphy he made tonight, taken to the market, would easily sell for several hundred thousand too.
Qin Keren was like a victorious rooster, proudly raising her head.
But she quickly realized that the earrings were hers to begin with.
She lost them; Su Chen wouldn't be out of a penny.
She had been pleased for a moment, but now she was irritated.
Especially seeing the Schadenfreude expression on that guy's face.
"You owe me!" Qin Keren pouted and said to Su Chen.
Su Chen was speechless, "Sis, it seems you were the one who threw them."
"Who asked you to say you were going to give them to Wang Yue! I wouldn't have thrown them if you hadn't said that! I don't care; you compensate me!" Qin Keren launched into a fit of stubbornness.
"Do I look like I can afford to compensate you?" Su Chen's face twitched.
"Well, I don't care, you have to compensate me! If you can't afford it, then jump in and fetch them!" Qin Keren pointed at the murky river.
Splash!
Before she even finished speaking, Su Chen had jumped in.
"Ah!"
Qin Keren let out a scream.
Actually, she had just said it casually; who knew that Su Chen would really jump in.
The river water was not rapid, but quite deep, moreover, it was nighttime.
"Hey, Su Chen, come up quickly, don't scare me!" Qin Keren leaned anxiously on the railing, staring intently at the river's surface.
Except for the ripples, there was nothing else to see.
This guy, he couldn't have been carried away by the water, could he?
Qin Keren bit her lip, took off her high heels, then got ready to jump into the river.
But sitting on the railing, she dared not jump down.
Because she couldn't swim!
"To hell with it!" Qin Keren gritted her teeth, let go of the railing, and jumped down.
"Director beauty, I got it back!"
Su Chen's head popped out of the water, and in his hand, he was holding the earring Qin Keren had thrown away.
The moment Qin Keren tossed the earrings, he had actually injected a trace of Inner Strength as a marker into both.
So even though they had fallen into the mud, he found them rather quickly.
But just as he surfaced, he saw a figure smash down from above.
"Damn it!"
Su Chen only managed to utter two words before he was knocked back into the river…
Several minutes later.
"Are you stupid or what? For a single earring, you jump into the river? Don't care about your life?" Qin Keren looked at Su Chen with some anger.
"You told me to compensate you, and I couldn't afford it, so I had to jump in and get it. You say I'm stupid, but what were you doing jumping in when you can't swim?" Su Chen retorted.
"I was... I was trying to save you!" Qin Keren gritted her teeth.
"Are you sure it was to save me, and not a suicide mission to throw your life away?" Su Chen's face twitched.
Fortunately, he was strong; if it had been anyone else, getting smashed by a body weighing over a hundred pounds, they probably would've broken their neck.
"What do we do now?" Qin Keren looked at her soaking wet self and asked.