The decor was beautiful. The entire bar was bedecked with fairy lights, giving off a mystical impression. Under the colorful lights, a large crowd of well-dressed people enjoyed themselves.
Tonight was Tianshui Bar's fifth-anniversary celebration. Naturally, there was a series of activities planned.
The event was hosted by an extremely famous star in Haishi City. She had an easy-going personality and a sweet smile. Thanks to her, there was a bright atmosphere in the bar.
The event began with a giveaway of grand luxury cars.
To win the prize, it was simple. All you had to do was win Tianshui Bar's drinking competition!
In any other situation, Liu Yanbo would definitely have accepted the challenge. When it came to drinking, he considered himself invincible. After all, who could beat a drinking addict in a drinking competition?
However, right now, Liu Yanbo wasn't feeling like participating. Ji Ruyan's ambiguous words had left him very confused.
"What do you mean, Boss Ji?" Liu Yanbo asked in a somewhat disrespectful tone.
Ji Ruyan was not only indifferent but instead of explaining, she answered with another question: "What do you hope it to mean?"
Liu Yanbo smiled and said, "I don't hope for it to mean anything."
This was a once in a lifetime kind of offer, and Liu Yanbo knew. But he also knew that the more he got involved with this woman, the more the chances of falling into a deep pit of trouble.
Who was Ji Ruyan?
Ji Ruyan was known as the queen of Haishi City. If you needed help, she had dozens of men to do her bidding. If you sought money, she had plenty. In fact, you could say that whatever you desired, she would have it.
Liu Yanbo really couldn't figure out why she was making an offer to him.
The more he tried to figure it out, the more he wanted to retreat about thirty miles as a condition for peace. This was the way Liu Yanbo had lived for the past three years. Only in this way could he truly live like dust.
No one ever inquired about him. For Liu Yanbo, that was a kind of happiness.
Ji Ruyan's eyebrows slightly wrinkled, somewhat displeased.
It had been a very long time since someone refused her so decisively, especially when she was the one that took initiative.
If it were any other man in Tianshui Bar, they would not have been as confused as Liu Yanbo. Ji Ruyan's ambiguous words were a fatal temptation for people's imagination. Even if they knew it meant trouble, they would still desperately want it, just like moths to a flame.
At the very least, they wouldn’t waste the opportunity to befriend a rich and powerful beauty such as Ji Ruyan.
But women's minds were sometimes strange, the more unpredictable the men, the more interested they became.
Ji Ruyan took the initiative to attack. She slightly leaned forward, and softly opened her red lips, "Don’t you know how heartbreaking a ruthless refusal is to a woman? Sad women are hard to deal with."
Ji Ruyan’s beauty was very different from Shangguan Qingmeng’s, although both of them had a natural charm, one was confident, and the other was fiery hot.
A fiery hot charm that left men powerless.
For a brief moment, Liu Yanbo wanted to bite her tempting red lips. It had nothing to do with desire, it was just an instinctive impulse.
"Sister, what kind of trouble do you want?" Liu Yanbo stepped back slightly and depressingly said, "I'm just a taxi driver, I can't afford it."
"Then become my driver." Ji Ruyan smiled and leaned forward again.
Tianshui Bar’s drinking competition had finally reached its final stages. Most of the people in the bar were attracted to the event. Only a few people noticed the strange scene between the beautiful boss and the ordinary-looking taxi driver. Even less caught sight of Liu Yanbo retreating.
Although it was Ji Ruyan who shortened the distance between Liu Yanbo and her, for outsiders, it didn’t seem that way.
They rubbed their eyes in disbelief. First, they were shocked. Then they gritted their teeth in jealousy.
How could an ordinary-looking taxi driver get so intimate with a beauty like Ji Ruyan?
Did he find a four-leaf clover on his way out of home?
Why? What could be the reason?
Liu Yanbo also wanted to know.
"Sister, what do you even like about me?" Liu Yanbo simply stood up, looked at himself from up and down, then front and back, and bitterly said, "tell me, so I can change it."
“Wheeze~” Ji Ruyan sat back with a smile and asked, "am I that scary?"
Liu Yanbo shook his head immediately and didn’t dare to answer, but his expression betrayed him.
"It seems that you’ve heard a lot of gossip about me!" Ji Ruyan played with her wine glass and casually asked: "Do you believe in them?"
Liu Yanbo had indeed heard many rumors and in many different versions.
Some people believed that she was a hooker who got her status by selling her body.
Some people believed that she was only a puppet of a powerful man, just a tool for collecting money.
Lastly, the rumor he heard the most was that she was the illegitimate daughter of one of the important men who made Haishi into what it was today. But unfortunately, she had a rotten relationship with her family.
As different as they were, there was one thing they all had in common: that she was a cold-blooded woman.
Liu Yanbo didn’t know how much of those rumors were true, but he was aware that all of them were probably very exaggerated.
But did this have anything to do with Liu Yanbo?
"Does it matter if I believe it or not?" Liu Yanbo sat back at the table and lightly said, "you’re a somebody, and I’m just a nobody. Before today, I didn’t even know that you were Tianshui Bar’s boss. I’ve heard a lot about you but only from casually listening to some gossip. If it’s true or false, it has nothing to do with me. Why would the opinion of a nobody matter? The world of great people will continue the same whether the nobodies believe in the rumors or not."
“But you’re a special nobody!” Ji Ruyan secretly pointed to a few men whose eyes were filled with greed. “At the very least, different from them.”
Who were “them”?
They were what Ji Ruyan considered as the real nobodies. They went behind her back and defamed her reputation.
A man who slandered another man just because he was stronger than him was because of envy, jealousy, and hatred.
But a man who slandered a woman just because she was stronger than him was because he knew that he could never have her.
They were unwilling to accept being ordinary. They always thought that the others were better only because they had an opportunity. But they never once thought of all the sacrifices they made, the mental or physical cost that they paid, just to chase their dream of being someone special.
Liu Yanbo understood what Ji Ruyan meant, and he believed that nobodies like him should know this.
The price of being extraordinary wasn’t cheap.
"Since you despise nobodies, why do you care about me?" Liu Yanbo reminded, "You shouldn’t forget, I’m a nobody too."
"I only despise the delusional nobodies!" Ji Ruyan took a sip of wine and asked with a smile: "Then tell me, since you say you’re also a nobody, why aren’t you the same as them?"
The same as them? The people who want to have you?
Liu Yanbo shook his head, lit a cigarette, and slowly said: "Not all toads want to have swans. Compared to the vast sky, a stinky pond is much more suited for a toad like me, because there is the warmth of home."
Liu Yanbo let out a cloud of thick smoke, and the smoke slowly spread out in the air, until it was out of sight. His eyes seemed to have lost a bit of its brightness, and his voice was also a bit lower, showing a little vulnerability. "The sky belongs to the white swan. Although she may share the sky with the toad. But she will never follow the toad to his stinky pond."
It was probably the saddest part about being a nobody. That was what Liu Yanbo thought.
Han Feiyan, did you find a sky that belongs only to you?
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