NOVPUB
Chapter 232: Chapter 232: Saying Our Darling Wants to Flirt?
Lu Sheng was dressed quite simply today.
A white vintage-style thick linen shirt adorned her top, featuring delicate rose embroidery at the cuffs. The slightly open neckline revealed her collarbone and the subtle pendant of her necklace.
Tucked in at the waist, the shirt outlined her slender figure, while her lower half was clad in light-blue skinny jeans, which made her legs appear slim and long, finished with a pair of high-top lace-up canvas shoes.
At first glance, this attire might seem unspectacular, similar to that of an average high school student.
But paired with the girl’s delicately featured face, even the most inconspicuous clothing gained an understated elegance and casual beauty.
Without uttering a word, passersby who glanced at her, however casually, found it difficult to look away.
Lu Sheng appeared before that square table, where a balding, overweight foreigner with blue eyes had been drinking water.
When she suddenly sat down opposite him, the man seemed quite taken aback, or rather, he was unprepared for such a beautiful girl sitting before him.
He choked heavily on his water, and the next second, without caring for anything else, he banged his glass down on the table and began to cough violently, his face turning red.
"Cough, cough... cough cough..."
Lu Sheng thought she had surprised Chen Shu by arriving so suddenly.
Seeing him coughing non-stop from the water he choked on, she immediately stood up after sitting down and went over to help him pat his back to ease his breathing, "I apologize, Mr. Chen. I didn’t mean to startle you."
Once the man’s coughing started to subside, Lu Sheng quickly took two tissues from the table and handed them to him, apologizing, "I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to appear so abruptly. Are you alright?"
"I’m fine..."
The man finally recovered from choking, his face still flushed but his eyes fixated on Lu Sheng as he asked, "What is your name, miss beautiful?"
As soon as the man spoke, Lu Sheng immediately realized she had mistaken him for someone else.
Chen Shu’s Chinese on the phone was so fluent it was almost indistinguishable from that of a Chinese person, and his voice was husky and pleasant to hear.
But this foreigner’s command of the Chinese language clearly was not proficient, and even his pronunciation was awkward, as if he had learned the language but hadn’t mastered the tones yet.
So, Lu Sheng took a deep breath and immediately stepped back, "... I’m sorry, sir, I mistook you for someone else. Excuse me."
As Lu Sheng was about to turn and leave, the man hurriedly grabbed her, "Wait a minute, miss, even a mistaken encounter is a form of fate. I think we could be friends..."
The man’s sudden grab at her wrist made Lu Sheng frown.
She frowned, intending to shake off his hand, but before she could act, a woman suddenly burst out of nowhere and pushed her hard from behind—
Ever since You Yi came to look for her, Lu Sheng had restrained her Soul Power.
With her Soul Power released, she was highly sensitive to danger around her. But during the two months of recuperation at home, there had been no need for Lu Sheng to be constantly on guard, so she had kept her Soul Power retracted.
Meaning, for the past two months until just now, she had been in the state of an average human.
It was precisely because of this, plus the fact that the woman came over so abruptly, that she couldn’t prepare herself.
Caught off guard by a fierce shove, if Lu Sheng hadn’t reacted quickly, propping herself up with her hands before hitting the table, she might have banged her waist directly on the corner of the table.
The glass that was originally placed on the table fell to the ground with a loud "snap" due to the shake, attracting the attention of many around.
Almost concurrently with pushing Lu Sheng, the woman began to curse loudly.
"Are girls nowadays so shameless, hitting on someone despite knowing they’re engaged?"
"Have you never seen a foreigner before? You’re rushing forward to throw yourself at him, how shameless!"
Lu Sheng looked up and met the fierce gaze of the woman in front of her.
The woman appeared to be in her late twenties, with a sophisticated makeup featuring fiery red lips. Despite it being winter, her legs were bare beneath a tight-fitting long skirt that hugged her curvaceous figure, and she wore a pure white fur wrap over her upper body.
When this woman saw her face, she was visibly stunned for a second, and then the anger in her eyes intensified.
"Ha, young lady, you look like a student, don’t you?"
"I just went to the restroom to touch up my makeup for a moment, and here you are flirting with my fiancé and pulling and tugging at him."
"At such a young age, not learning good things, relying on the fact you’re somewhat pretty, thinking of seducing men, and dreaming of marrying a wealthy foreigner to rise in status? Have you no shame at all?"
Out in the open, the woman ranted and raved like this. Lu Sheng withdrew her hand from the table corner and stood upright.
This woman must be this foreigner’s fiancée.
He must have thought that she intentionally approached and physically flirted with him just now when he saw her patting this man’s back and having physical contact from a distance as she came from the washroom.
Though the woman’s words were unpleasant to hear, even violent, after all, it was a case of mistaken identity on her part.
Moreover, if the woman got so angry because she misunderstood that someone was hitting on her fiancé, Lu Sheng could understand that, as nobody would like their significant other to have contact with the opposite sex.
"Lady, I think you’ve misunderstood," Lu Sheng explained calmly, "I wasn’t hitting on your fiancé. I just sat here because I mistook him for someone else."
"Mistook him for someone else—?"
As soon as Lu Sheng said this, the woman became even more infuriated, "Of all the men in the restaurant, you didn’t mistake them, but my obviously foreign fiancé, you mistook? Who would believe such an excuse?"
"I know a lot of young girls in China dream of marrying a foreign man, but you should at least be realistic about your own worth, right? Also, you say you mistook someone, then what were you pulling at with my fiancé just now?"
"I wasn’t pulling at your fiancé."
While arguing with this woman, the foreign man, out of guilt, pretended to not understand Chinese and kept silent.
Lu Sheng felt even more disgusted.
"Your fiancé was startled by my sudden appearance and choked on water, and I thought he was my friend, so when I saw him coughing badly, I naturally helped him by patting his back to clear it."
"As for the pulling you mentioned, I already apologized and was ready to leave when I realized my mistake, but it was your fiancé who suddenly grabbed my hand, and right as I was about to shake it off you came over."
Lu Sheng was telling the truth.
However, to this woman, it seemed as if she had cracked some huge joke, as her tone became even more sarcastic.
"Ha, I’m really laughing now. Truly, shamelessness is invincible, with a thick enough skin you can spin any story."
"And to slander my fiancé by saying he reached out to pull your hand, I can’t believe you have the nerve to say that."
"You claim you mistook him for a friend, then where is this friend of yours? Point them out to me!"
"I think you just saw my fiancé as rich, handsome, and a foreigner, and you couldn’t wait to throw yourself at him!"
As soon as the woman said this, the surrounding onlookers began to feel uncomfortable with what they were hearing.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but not like this, right?
Looking at the man’s shining LV logo belt and his Rolex wristwatch, it was probably true he was rich and a foreigner.
But handsome... that’s a stretch, isn’t it?
Clearly bald and fat, and not particularly attractive. At most, his features were just a bit more pronounced than that of Chinese men, and his nose was so big.
This woman’s overt idolization of everything foreign was too apparent. It was as if she felt superior for having snagged a foreign man, insinuating that everyone might be after her fiancé.
Ever since the quarrel started here in the Great Hall, quite a few people had come over to watch the excitement.
Initially, bystanders thought the woman was upset because there was some truth to the matter, but after hearing Lu Sheng’s explanation and seeing her appearance, most of them sided with Lu Sheng.
Not to mention that her explanation sounded quite reasonable on its own, but just based on how pretty this girl was, if she really wanted to hook up with a man, she could easily latch onto a domestic tycoon with that face.
There was no need to deliberately entice such an unattractive, obese foreigner.
Seeing the woman being so unreasonable, Lu Sheng didn’t want to waste any more time explaining.
"What I said is the truth."
Lu Sheng said indifferently, gesturing above her head not too far away, "There happens to be a surveillance camera here aimed at this table, which should have captured the whole process and conversation. If you don’t believe me, you can check the footage."
Lu Sheng said no more and turned around, intending to leave. It was past 7:30, and she still had to find Chen Shu.
However, when the woman saw her attitude, she seemed even more infuriated and rushed over, trying to grab her: "Wait! You can’t leave—"
Yet, she hadn’t even touched Lu Sheng’s shirt.
Lu Sheng felt a shadow cast over her, and the next second, someone was holding her shoulders, turning her around, distancing her from the woman.
"Look, aren’t you a little too full of yourself, lady?" a lazy and husky, pleasant voice came from overhead, "What, this restaurant can only have your husband as the foreigner?"
"Talking about your husband being rich, handsome, and a foreigner, our baby would be seduced—?"
The man chuckled lightly, his voice lazy and enticing, with an air of careless condescension and disdain.
"Hey, why don’t you open your eyes and take a good look at me? Do you even know what it means to be rich, handsome, or a foreigner?"
