Chapter 1050 — The Gradual Entrapment
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The wooing fund he had brought from the Wu family this time was only ten million, and here five million had just come in. He had been feeling quite pleased with himself, thinking he would use that five million to put on a proper show — and the show had indeed been put on, but it had not achieved the effect he had anticipated. In his estimation, five million ought to buy him several rounds of showing off, surely? Now look at him: one round, and it was gone. That was one expensive bit of showing off, wasn't it?
At this rate, ten million would not even cover two rounds!
But the words were already out of his mouth. If he backed out now, not only would his image be ruined, but what worried him more was that Feng Xiaoxiao might take offense this time and stop playing along with his posturing in the future — and then how would his glorious image ever shine?
At that thought, Wu Chengtian could only cut his flesh to save his face. He gritted his teeth, then put on an air of perfect composure and a face full of smiles, and said to Feng Xiaoxiao, "No trouble at all, no trouble at all. Five million, is that all? A trifle! Give me your card number, and I'll transfer it to you right now!"
"Haha, just as I said — Brother Chengtian is tremendously generous! A man like that — whoever marries you is going to be happy, happy to death, I'd say!" Feng Xiaoxiao gushed in delighted flattery.
Only, the words carried a certain sarcasm: happy to "death." That was right — whoever married Wu Chengtian would probably truly die of it! Here he was, before anything had even happened, handing out five million. Give it time, and wouldn't he give away his entire fortune? What woman would dare marry a man like that?
Sun Jingyan caught the sarcasm in it too, and could not help but find it highly amusing. This Feng Xiaoxiao was a real piece of work — she took the advantage and still would not play the modest victor. What was even funnier was that Wu Chengtian, the fool, had not caught the slightest impropriety in it and was standing there grinning like an idiot: "Haha, don't go falling for me now — I've already got someone in my heart!"
Wu Chengtian was thoroughly pleased with Feng Xiaoxiao's praise. Laughing, he dialed the phone and made the transfer.
Sun Jingyan glanced at Wei Zhao and found his expression perfectly calm, as though this sort of thing were an everyday occurrence for him. She could not help but knit her brows slightly, and her curiosity about Wei Zhao grew all the more.
Five million was nothing to the Sun family, of course, but to Sun Jingyan as she was now, it could not be called anything less than a vast sum! At present her trading company did not clear five million in profit in a whole year, and yet Wei Zhao's wife had coaxed five million out of someone with the greatest of ease — and Wei Zhao seemed not to care in the slightest?
Was he feigning composure, or did he simply not regard this sum of money as worth regarding at all?
Judging by her manner, Feng Xiaoxiao must have been born into a fairly well-off family — though not a truly wealthy one, or she would never have set her sights on Wu Chengtian's five million.
But Wei Zhao evidently did not think much of him. As a pair, the two of them made a rather curious match.
Sun Jingyan drove into the parking lot of the Starlight Splendor Grand Hotel and casually parked the car in an empty space.
It was morning, and few people were dining here; many of the cars belonged to guests staying at the hotel, scattered here and there in twos and threes. The four of them got out of the car, and a doorman soon came over to usher them into the hotel lobby.