CHAPTER 285: CHAPTER 285 I HAVE A SPARE CAR_1

"Can you lend me twenty thousand?" Zhao Ling pondered for a moment before suggesting the amount.

Although he knew Su Xuan was incredibly wealthy, he was embarrassed to ask for too much. After all, they were on opposing sides, and borrowing too much would make it even harder to seek revenge against Su Xuan in the future.

"We’ll find jobs right away and pay you back once we’ve earned the money," Wei Haojie said, looking at Su Xuan with pleading eyes.

"Right, we’ll definitely pay you back!" Zhao Ling nodded. If they didn’t repay the money, they would feel too ashamed to seek revenge.

"Alright then." Su Xuan reluctantly agreed and transferred the money to them with his phone.

But he wasn’t doing it out of pity. Instead, he admired their integrity. They would rather borrow money from him than resort to theft or robbery, and they even promised to find jobs to repay the loan. For that reason alone, he had no problem lending them the money.

Zhao Ling and Wei Haojie also took the opportunity to add Su Xuan as a friend.

"Brother Su, please don’t take our seeking revenge to heart," Zhao Ling said, his embarrassment growing after receiving the money. He explained, "We really have no choice. It’s just for..."

"For the sect’s rules," Wei Haojie added.

"Yes, the sect’s rules," Zhao Ling nodded. "If we weren’t worried about answering to our sect, we’d be more than happy to be friends with you, Brother Su. The more we get to know you, the more we are captivated by your character."

Su Xuan suggested, "How about you quit the sect? I can refer you to a job. I own a security company that desperately needs talented people like you."

Not long ago, he had signed a partnership agreement with Chen Yuesheng, becoming a partner in Shenfeng Security Company.

"No, no, we can’t." Zhao Ling and Wei Haojie shook their heads vigorously. "If we leave the sect without permission, we’ll be hunted down."

"What era is this to still have rules like that..." Su Xuan muttered to himself.

"Sigh, there’s nothing we can do!"

"Brother Su, we won’t take up any more of your time. We’ll take our leave now!"

"Thank you for your generous help!"

With that, the two men stood up to bid Su Xuan farewell, and he saw them to the gate.

"Brother Su, we actually came by last night," Zhao Ling recalled just before leaving. "But we saw you had guests, so we didn’t dare to disturb you."

"Yeah," Wei Haojie added. "Not only did you have guests inside, but there were also some outside."

"Oh?" Su Xuan narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"

"Last night, two shady characters were lurking outside your house!"

"Right! And later, they followed the group of guests that left your house!"

Zhao Ling and Wei Haojie relayed what they had seen.

"Got it. Thanks!"

After watching the two men leave, Su Xuan got on his electric scooter.

There was something he hadn’t told them. He could see a red aura on their foreheads—the aura of misfortune from Zhuilong Mountain. He was confident he could use his iron rod to absorb it, but he chose not to. He’d consider it a trump card. After all, the duo wasn’t completely under his control, and one must always be wary of others. He also had a rough idea of who the guests outside were. They had to be Madam Bai’s people. That woman was surely still plotting to avenge her husband, Bai Yongnian. But what he couldn’t understand was why those two had followed Du Zilong and his group. Were they planning on forming an alliance?

At that thought, Su Xuan got off the scooter, fetched the iron rod from his house, and placed it on the vehicle. He had even given the iron rod a name: the Ruyi Rod.

"Heh, Ruyi Tai Chi, Ruyi Rod!"

"Whoever dares to cause me trouble, I’ll take them down one by one!"

With a mischievous smirk, Su Xuan drove away from his home.

Soon, he accepted a DiDi order and met a peculiar customer.

RUSTLE!

The customer was a slender young woman in a long dress. Upon getting into the car, she sat right down in the passenger seat and dumped stacks of money from her bag toward Su Xuan.

"What’s the meaning of this?" Su Xuan asked, his eyes widening.

Could this be another rich girl trying to buy him with her money? But that didn’t seem to be the case. It looked as though she hadn’t even had a chance to lay eyes on him! Besides, she was only around twenty, with a beauty score of at least ninety-five or ninety-six. What kind of handsome guy couldn’t she find? Why the rush to pick him?

"Eh?" The young woman’s gaze finally landed on Su Xuan’s face, and she gasped in surprise. "You’re so handsome! This must be fate!"

Su Xuan: "..."

The young woman asked, "What’s your name?"

Su Xuan told her his name.

She reached out her hand to him. "Nice to meet you, handsome Su Xuan. I’m He Yao!"

Su Xuan politely shook her small hand and asked, "Why are you...?"

"It’s like this," He Yao said, pursing her soft lips. "Today is the Qixi Festival, and some disgusting guy wants to ask me out. He’s been pestering me for a long time, and I want to put an end to it today by letting him know I have a boyfriend!"

"Oh," Su Xuan said, his mouth slightly agape.

"I was just going to find any random guy to act as my shield, but I can’t believe I ran into someone as handsome as you. This is really interesting, hehe!"

"But I don’t need money, and I don’t want to be your shield," Su Xuan said, shaking his head.

"Don’t worry, that’s just a deposit!" He Yao insisted. "As long as you help me with this, I’ll give you however much you want. The only thing I have is money!" After speaking, she fixed her beautiful eyes on Su Xuan’s exceptionally handsome face.

She was certain he would agree to her request.

But to her utter surprise, Su Xuan replied, "I’m the same as you. I might lack other things, but I certainly don’t lack money."

"Eh?"

"Hey!"

The two stared at each other.

"You’re bluffing!" He Yao said immediately.

"I’m not bluffing," Su Xuan replied sincerely.

"Please help me!" He Yao changed her tone, now wheedling. "You’re so handsome, you must be a helpful person. Besides, how much can you possibly make driving for DiDi all day? It’s definitely not as much as I’m offering. Just think of it as me renting your car for the day. How about it?"

Rent her car... Su Xuan blinked. He had a premonition that this could very well be a super order—one he couldn’t afford to miss.

"Is that okay, handsome?" He Yao gently nudged his arm.

"Alright, then."

Su Xuan agreed and started the vehicle, ready to head to the destination. However, when he stepped on the accelerator, the vehicle didn’t move.

The motor’s indicator light was flashing red.

"Su Xuan, is your car broken?" He Yao asked.

"It might be," Su Xuan said, annoyed. "These cheap things are so unreliable."

"What should we do then?" He Yao asked. "We could go to my place and take my car."

"No need," Su Xuan said, enunciating each word clearly, "I have a backup."