Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 473 - 455: The Wedding Invitation Exchanged for a Necklace

Chapter 473: Chapter 455: The Wedding Invitation Exchanged for a Necklace

"Years of sitting next to each other, and you can’t even give me this bit of face?" Jenny’s eyes turned red with anger as she accused Ye Man.

Ye Man remained indifferent.

Her relationship with Jenny wasn’t that close, anyway.

Moreover, she wasn’t a man; she truly couldn’t muster any pity for beauty. If the person before her was an indescribably handsome man, perhaps she might be momentarily dazzled, softening her principles a tiny bit for something not so important.

"You, you’re too heartless, aren’t you? Ye Man, just consider it me begging you, my boyfriend doesn’t like it when others contradict what he says, please just do it as a favor to me." Jenny stuttered in anger and ultimately had to capitulate, coaxing Ye Man with a gentle tone.

Pfft.

Ye Man almost burst out laughing. It’s not like he’s the Emperor, acting as if his words are imperial edicts?

"I’m really sorry, Jenny, my boyfriend truly doesn’t like me receiving gifts from others, especially from men," Ye Man stuck to her principles.

"Jenny, let’s forget it. Since Miss Ye doesn’t want to accept the gift, we shouldn’t force her," Huang Chenghou said, his face darkening completely at Ye Man’s consistent cold demeanor, while his self-esteem took a serious hit.

Unappreciative.

She was just an obscure little secretary in the Lu Family, certainly not worth the great effort it would take to win her over.

"Xiaoman, who are they?"

Just as Jenny released Ye Man’s arm, intending to return to Huang Chenghou’s side while taking the opportunity to mock Ye Man, she suddenly heard a magnetically pleasant voice that seemed to carry magic ring in her ears. She couldn’t help but turn toward the source of the voice, only to see a tall, handsome young man walking toward the light--

This man is so handsome!

That was the only thought in Jenny’s brain, her mouth slightly agape and momentarily dazed. Suddenly, she snapped to her senses and hurriedly turned to check on Huang Chenghou.

Huang Chenghou, being self-conscious about his appearance as inferior to others, was very particular about his female companions not focusing their attention on other men. If he noticed her just-now slip...

Jenny inwardly cursed herself for her annoyance. Offending the "cash cow" just for a man who happened to be handsome would be a very bad deal. She cautiously glanced at Huang Chenghou and then sighed with relief, as it seemed he too was quite shocked.

Was this man really so handsome that even Huang Chenghou, a man himself, was captivated?

Suddenly, Jenny felt a strong surge of jealousy as she observed the man looking at Ye Man with a drowning indulgence. A sense of unwillingness once again overwhelmed her reason.

This Ye Man, just like any other girl—why did she get all the affection from her family, treated like a princess, while she, who was even prettier, was just grass in her parents’ eyes, a loss-making commodity?

While they were studying, Ye Man had her parents doting on her. Now grown up, who would have thought she would have such a good-looking man being nice to her—why?

Jealousy gnawed at Jenny’s heart like a frenzy, her voice suddenly turning shrill: "Ye Man, is this your orphan boyfriend?"

This man—she had already told Jenny so many times that her man wasn’t an orphan, yet she insisted on believing so.

"My high school desk mate and her boyfriend."

Ye Man spread her hands toward Gu Feng in a muted voice, indicating a lack of enthusiasm. After that simple sentence, she refused to say more. Gu Feng immediately knew these were insignificant people and thus just nodded briefly in greeting, "Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, nice to meet you, Mr. Gu, the noble son. I’m Huang Chenghou from Huang’s Building Materials." Huang Chenghou excitedly stepped forward, bowed, and extended his hands, indicating he wanted to shake hands with Gu Feng.

"Have we met?" Gu Feng raised an eyebrow, looking at the outstretched hand but not intending to shake it. If he had to shake hands with everyone who reached out, what would he become?

"You’ve forgotten, sir. A few months ago, at Ma Shao’s birthday feast, we met briefly."

Huang Chenghou didn’t think there was an issue with Gu Feng not reaching out, and he calmly retracted his hand, nodding submissively. Then he looked at Ye Man with twelve degrees of respect, "I didn’t expect my girlfriend and your esteemed lady to be so fated, to be high school classmates and desk mates."

"Oh."

Gu Feng tried to recall but had no impression and dropped the matter.

It was just Xiaoman’s high school desk mate, and one who did not seem favored by Xiaoman at that. This person was of no consequence to him, and so he perfunctorily lifted his wrist, glanced at his watch, and smiled, "Do you have further business? My wife and I have an appointment."

"Nothing else, nothing else, please, you go ahead with your matters." Huang Chenghou quickly pulled a bewildered Jenny aside, bowing and scraping until Gu Feng and Ye Man had gone far before he straightened up, deep in thought.

"Er, dear, wasn’t Ye Man’s boyfriend an orphan? How did he turn into some Mr. Gu?"

Jenny stared at Huang Chenghou with dissatisfaction, questioning.

"Nonsense, what orphan. Didn’t he always tell you he’s not an orphan, can’t you understand human language or what?"

Huang Chenghou almost wanted to slap this foolish woman, Jenny. Clearly, they were classmates, even desk mates, which was a good relationship. Yet this was ruined by her pretentiousness. What did this foolish woman have to brag about to them?

"That’s the eldest son of the Lu Group’s Mr. Gu."

He huffed irritably, then added, "Don’t think this status is trivial. Mr. Gu and the CEO of Lu Group, Mr. Lu, are brothers-in-law. The young Mr. Gu has to call Mr. Lu ’Uncle’.

I heard the two brothers grew up in Mr. Lu’s house when they were young, with a relationship as close as a real father and son. A few years ago, the young Mr. Gu started his own company, and Mr. Lu privately found many people to support him, helping him grow his business. The young Mr. Gu’s company, the Jia@He Group, you’ve heard of it, right? Although it hasn’t been around for many years, it’s already several times larger than our Huang’s Building Materials, which has been operating for over a decade."

That’s why having a powerful relative is such an abundant resource.

While speaking, Huang Chenghou couldn’t help drooling over something he deeply envied.

"Ah?" In Jenny’s eyes, shock outweighed the surprise.

Huang Chenghou didn’t pay attention to Jenny’s reaction. He was very confident that Mr. Gu would marry Ye Man. As a man, he could tell whether another man’s look at a woman was serious or just for fun.

With a sly gleam in his eyes, he adopted a smiling face and said to Jenny, "Jenny, see if your desk mate is going to have a wedding with Mr. Gu soon. If you can get an invitation to their wedding, I’ll buy you that diamond necklace you’ve had your eye on for a long time, how about that?"