Chapter 245 — You're Too Much Trouble

"Of course you're not, little brother..." The owner's face stiffened. He had laid the flattery on thick and landed it all wrong. This guest clearly had no trouble paying for a meal and needed no treat from him. Embarrassed, he mumbled, "All right, let me add it up..."

The owner did not count in detail. He just weighed the bamboo sticks on the table in his hand. There were well over a hundred of them, so he said, "Let's call it a hundred. Forget the change. Fifty yuan."

"Pay up." Wei Zhao glanced at Sun Jingyan.

Sun Jingyan stared in surprise. From the way Wei Zhao had acted just now, she had thought he meant to treat. In the end he was making her pay?

The stall owner did not know whether to laugh or cry either. So you are not the one paying? Then why did you make your friend spend extra? Was a free meal not good enough?

Sun Jingyan took out her wallet, pulled out a fifty-yuan note and handed it to the owner, shot Wei Zhao a glare, then left the street stall with him.

Scarface cursed silently. This pretty boy puts on airs and still spends a woman's money. That really takes some nerve. But he only dared think it. This was a man even their leader Zou Ruoguang did not dare offend, so how would he dare?

Only after Wei Zhao was gone did Zou Ruoguang shoot Scarface a dark look. "Look at the fine mess you made! Damn it, I nearly ended up in the hospital again today!"

"What happened..." Scarface started. It looked as if his boss did not just avoid offending Wei Zhao, he actually feared him. "Brother Guang, is that kid really that tough?"

"Tough? Look how my hands got broken!" Zou Ruoguang shook his two gauze-wrapped hands. "He snapped them! How can you mess with a madman like that? His skills are absurdly good. No matter how many men you bring, it will never be enough for him to beat down!"

"Ah? That powerful?" Scarface blinked. Could this be one of those legendary masters of the martial world?

"Get back now, stop embarrassing us here!" Zou Ruoguang snapped irritably. "Open your eyes from now on. Stay away from hard cases like him!"

"Yes, Brother Guang!" Scarface felt wronged too. How was I supposed to know the kid was that fierce? If I had known, why would I go out of my way to provoke him for nothing? Am I sick in the head?

Ah, beauty is trouble. If he had known, he would never have teased Sun Jingyan and none of this would have happened...

In the car, Sun Jingyan gave Wei Zhao a reproachful glare. "You would not pay, and when the owner offered to waive the bill, you still would not take it?"

"Those small vendors do not make much money," Wei Zhao said. "Fifty yuan is pretty much just the cost."

"Hmm?" Sun Jingyan paused, caught off guard. She had not thought that much about it before, but hearing Wei Zhao say it, it was true enough. Who would toil at a street stall under the blazing sun if they had money? It made Sun Jingyan see Wei Zhao in a new light.

In truth, Wei Zhao had only thought of Tang Yun's family, and did not want to take advantage of this spicy-skewer owner.

As for whether Scarface would keep shaking him down for protection money, that was beyond what Wei Zhao could control. Everyone had their own life, and Wei Zhao could not go sticking his hand into all of it.

"Where to, darling?" Sun Jingyan backed the car out and turned to Wei Zhao tenderly.

"Darling?" Wei Zhao blinked. "Who are you talking to?"

"You, of course. You are my lover now. Only half of one, but I can still call you that!" Sun Jingyan looked at Wei Zhao with a half-smile. "What, does dating an older sister embarrass you?"

"..." Wei Zhao was speechless. This girl looked open enough, but she did not seem to be quite like that, or she would never have turned down that company boss. So why pick on him? Did she think he was easy to bully? Or did she think he would never do anything to her?

"I am warning you, you are playing with fire here. One of these days I might just turn the fake into the real thing!" Wei Zhao warned Sun Jingyan.

"Great, I was hoping for that. Let's see if time can turn us into something real!" Sun Jingyan smiled at Wei Zhao, as if she had not taken his words seriously at all.

"Take me back to where I was." Wei Zhao rolled his eyes and stopped paying her any attention.

"First High School?" Sun Jingyan asked, puzzled. "Why go back to where we just were?"

"Why do you ask so many questions?" Wei Zhao frowned. "Do you not want my help tonight?"

"Hah, I am already your lover, and you have taken your pay. You cannot just refuse to help!" Sun Jingyan shrugged indifferently.

"Pick me up there tonight! Once this job is done, we are even!" Wei Zhao did not want to get too tangled up with Sun Jingyan. The woman was beautiful, and she had a mature air that Tang Yun and Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu lacked, but instinct told Wei Zhao this woman was trouble. Once he got stuck to her, trouble would never stop coming.

Today she made him play the gentleman thief. Tomorrow would it be murder for loot? It seemed very possible. Judging by that Wu Chengtian alone, Sun Jingyan's family background was anything but simple.

Otherwise she could not be old family friends with that Iron Hand Wu family. He did not know why Sun Jingyan did not use her family's power to settle the trouble before her, but anything stirred up by a princess of such a house was bound to be troublesome, and Wei Zhao had no wish to work full-time cleaning up after her.

"Hey, how can you be like this? Do you not want to take responsibility?" Hearing that, Sun Jingyan gave Wei Zhao an aggrieved look.

"A lover is not yet a wife, so we can break up anytime." Wei Zhao said flatly. "I am notifying you now. I am dumping you. From now on you are not."

"..." Sun Jingyan stared at Wei Zhao in disbelief. Here she was, a great beauty right in front of him, and he was not moved? The men chasing her could line up in a queue. Even as a fake lover she could satisfy a man's vanity. With a beauty at his side, everyone would envy him.

"You really have no interest in me?" Sun Jingyan could not help asking.

"I do." Wei Zhao said it cleanly and decisively.

"Ah?" Sun Jingyan had fully expected Wei Zhao to say no, but he had said yes. It surprised her and puzzled her too. "Then why dump me?"

"You bring too much trouble. Today you make me play the gentleman thief, who knows what tomorrow will bring. I do not have that much time." It was not that Wei Zhao had no interest in Sun Jingyan. That was impossible. When he saw a beauty he always felt interest, like with Gu Mengyao, like with Shen Yushu... Hmm, but even so, it depended on whether the beauty was troublesome or not. If she was like Qiu Lingshan... for now it was better to keep a respectful distance.