After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 771 How to Be Friends When Values Don’t Align

Chapter 771: Chapter 771 How to Be Friends When Values Don’t Align

Quan Jinbei held Shi Yaoguang tightly, his gaze towards Fan Yanshu brimming with a chilling coldness.

Fan Yanshu felt he was being incredibly wronged.

He couldn’t help but defend himself, "I didn’t bully you!"

He looked at Shi Yaoguang as if she were an unreasonable and troublesome woman, "I didn’t say anything wrong, even if my choice of words wasn’t appropriate, there was a reason for it..."

Shi Yaoguang’s sobs grew louder, "Husband, did you hear that? He’s doing it on purpose! He looks down on me so much, yet why did he say he wanted to be friends with me before? I suspect he’s deliberately trying to get close to me!"

At this, her eyes sharpened, "Speak, what on earth are your intentions?"

Seeing her switch to a woefully pitiful expression in a second, Fan Yanshu was even more speechless.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t say anything.

Or rather, even if he did, the other party wouldn’t take him seriously but would twist his words and make unreasonable arguments.

Quan Jinbei didn’t care about how frustrated Fan Yanshu felt, his heart and eyes were filled only with Shi Yaoguang, even if she appeared to be unreasonable.

After enough whimpering, Shi Yaoguang looked like she had made up her mind and said to Quan Jinbei, "I’m really sad, I thought Fan Shao and I were friends, but I didn’t expect that I would be such a person in his eyes."

"Since he sees me that way, I must not have a good image in his heart. With that being the case, I think..."

"It’s better if we don’t be friends anymore."

Fan Yanshu, hearing this, instantly felt a pang in his heart.

"I sincerely wanted to be friends with you, even friends can say things without thinking. Can’t you forgive me just this once?"

Shi Yaoguang was resolute, "No way!"

Fan Yanshu looked at Quan Jinbei, hoping he would speak up for him.

Quan Jinbei gave him a mocking look.

Where on earth did he get the confidence to think that he would help?

With this thought, Fan Yanshu’s expression changed.

Right.

Quan Jinbei and Shi Yaoguang were in cahoots.

No matter what, he wouldn’t side with him.

Thinking of this, his face immediately darkened.

Seeing his expression, Shi Yaoguang suddenly added, "I’ve never been so angry with a friend before! If you want me to forgive you, it’s impossible without a heap of gifts!"

Fan Yanshu felt a sense of relief upon hearing this.

Shi Yaoguang was willing to relent, which meant there was still hope.

For that, he could only figure out how to prepare a series of gifts Shi Yaoguang had mentioned before, and present them to her.

When Shi Yaoguang saw the gifts, her face showed a trace of delight.

"Are these gifts really for me?"

Upon hearing yet another question like "really for me," Fan Yanshu felt a sense of frustration but could only obediently deliver them, "Of course they’re real! These gifts are all for you."

"You’re giving me these gifts, and whatever I choose to do with them is okay, right?"

Shi Yaoguang asked eagerly.

Fan Yanshu mockingly thought to himself how petty, yet his face wore an agreeable expression, "You’re absolutely right, once given to you, they’re yours to deal with as you please, whatever you decide to do with them."

Shi Yaoguang was overjoyed and immediately said cheerfully, "Fan Shao, you’re such a good person, then I won’t be polite."

"I was just thinking of setting up a charity, but I lacked an attractive incentive to draw more people to join. With the gifts you prepared for me, I can invite people from the circle to come out and contribute to charity together."

Fan Yanshu originally thought that all Shi Yaoguang wanted these things for was her own use, and even if it was just for show, it would still be better than using them for charity.

If she was merely vain and wanted to use these things to decorate herself, that would have been fine, because a woman who loves vanity is easy to control.

Even if he couldn’t control her himself, he could use the fact that she accepted gifts as a means of attack, employing both threat and inducement, and he would certainly not come away empty-handed.

That was exactly why he had emptied his own coffers and even secretly misappropriated the Fan Family’s private assets to give her everything she had previously said she wanted.

Because he was sure he wouldn’t lose out, that’s why he had done so.

But now...

Shi Yaoguang had given him a severe lesson.

Indirectly telling him that he was still too naive.

What he had thought, she might have anticipated long ago, which is why she asked him whether the gifts he sent her were at her disposal.

At this thought, his complexion turned several shades paler.

Although he was the young master of the Fan Family, he really didn’t have much actual power.

And his reputation as a womanizer was so prominent that he couldn’t even marry a wife of equal family status.

In such circumstances, if he couldn’t win over Shi Yaoguang...

His departure from this world really wouldn’t be far away.

Shi Yaoguang, as if she hadn’t noticed his unpleasant expression, expressed her joy on her own, "I knew you were a good person, although you and I can’t be close friends, but..."

Before she could finish, Fan Yanshu’s expression darkened drastically.

"What did you say?"

Shi Yaoguang, with a face full of it’s only natural, "You and I don’t share the same values, we definitely can’t be good friends."

"What?"

Fan Yanshu’s shouting voice broke, "You clearly said before that as long as I gave you a gift, we would be close friends!"

He was even thinking of using this opportunity to advance further!

Shi Yaoguang rolled her eyes, "I did say before that we could be close friends, but the premise is that we are truly close friends, aren’t they? Your values clearly don’t align with mine; how could we possibly be friends?"

Fan Yanshu: "..."

He choked, but still was not willing to give up, "You’ve promised me before, you can’t go back on your word!"

"Even if I said you’re my close friend, you haven’t entered my heart, have you? What’s the difference then? Do you just want to look good on the surface? If that’s the case, I wouldn’t mind helping you achieve that."

Fan Yanshu: "..."

That was not what he wanted!

Watching his crumbling expression, Shi Yaoguang blinked, "Do you have any other questions?"

Fan Yanshu, with a dark face and in a serious tone, "I don’t care, I’ve already given up so much for you, you have to accept me!"

"If you insist on forcing me, it’s not impossible." Shi Yaoguang wore an expression that seemed to understand him very well, "How about this, from now on, to myself, I’ll say that you’re my best friend, okay? If you want, I can also say you’re my close friend. Is that enough for you?"

Listening to her perfunctory tone, Fan Yanshu felt even more aggrieved.

What use is a declaration to the outside world?

What he wanted was her true heart!

It wasn’t his first time on a mission, and he had never imagined he would encounter someone as tough as Shi Yaoguang.

He had originally thought Shi Yaoguang was a vain and materialistic woman; while looking down on her, he was still very confident in himself and thought that winning her over would be easy, but the reality turned out to be the exact opposite!

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