Chapter 2697 — Much Displeased
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"Plans... not exactly... it's just that a friend asked me to dinner, also on Friday..." Yu Xiaoke didn't want to lie to Male Thief, so she told the truth.
"A friend asked you to dinner? A boyfriend?" Wei Zhao asked deliberately. "If you don't have the time, then..."
"No, don't call it off—it's not a boyfriend, it's just... just a suitor of mine!" Yu Xiaoke said hurriedly. "But I don't like him at all!"
"Oh, I didn't mean call the whole thing off—I meant, why don't you have dinner first, and whenever you're free after, we can set out then?" Wei Zhao said. "But if you don't like him, why go to dinner with him at all?"
"Because I've got no choice, that's why!" Yu Xiaoke said, thoroughly vexed. "He's the orphanage's biggest donor. At first I thought he simply wanted to help the orphanage—and that's what he said in the beginning too. But later on, he seemed to take an interest in me, and I was afraid he'd stop donating to the orphanage, so I had no choice but to agree when he asked me to dinner..."
"I see. But, Xiaoke, to be honest, you might actually consider him. He's been donating to you all this time—he must genuinely like you and care about you. I think you could be happy with him, don't you?" Wei Zhao counseled with an air of righteous virtue.
"But I only like you!" Yu Xiaoke said. "If I hadn't met you, I might have considered it, but now, I really don't want to be with anyone else..." Yu Xiaoke said. "Don't worry, going to dinner is actually me scamming him. I told him to give me ten thousand to treat me to dinner—I'll take the money, buy him street food, and pocket the rest. Hehehehe..."
"Is that so..." Listening to Yu Xiaoke's sly, dark chuckle, Wei Zhao broke out in a sweat. The girl was planning to swindle him—and she'd gone and told him all about it...
"Yes, yes! Oh, right—so I'll go to dinner first, then come find you? You give me a call midway, and I'll use that as an excuse to leave. How about that?" Yu Xiaoke asked.
"Give you a call..." Wei Zhao thought: I'm the one having dinner with you, so how am I supposed to call you? So he said, "I don't have a cell phone, so calling you is a bit of a hassle. Why don't you come up with an excuse yourself?"
"I see. That works too—I'll figure something out! If he won't let me go, I'll just keep scamming him for money. When he runs out, he'll naturally let me leave!" Yu Xiaoke said.
Wei Zhao felt for his wallet and gave a bitter smile. It seemed Yu Xiaoke was quite displeased with him in his Wei Zhao identity!