Chapter 121 A Filial Girl


    "You are?"


    Ye Fan was taken aback. He had not expected anyone here to know him.


    "Mr. Chu, I am Li Xiao-Hong! I used to be an intern at Hongqi Bank. We met when you came to the


    bank to withdraw money." Meeting Ye Fan for the second time had clearly made the girl agitated. Just


    then, she was blushing bright red.


    "Oh, so it''s you." And Ye Fan suddenly remembered who the ingenuous girl in front of him was. Ye Fan


    had been humiliated when he went to Hongqi Bank to withdraw money, and this girl was the one who


    spoke up for him. That was why, when Li Xiao-Hong mentioned Hongqi Bank, Ye Fan could remember


    who she was.


    "Xiao-Hong, what are you doing here? And you are even working as a server?" Ye Fan had a good


    impression of Li Xiao-Hong. In this materialistic world, it was rare to find girls who were both beautiful


    and kind like her. But Ye Fan could not help feeling curious. Thest time he saw her, Li Xiao-Hong had


    been working at Hongqi Bank. So why was she working as a server now?


    "Did Miss Xu fire you?" Ye Fan asked curiously.


    "No, it was nothing like that, Mr. Chu," Li Xiao-Hong exined hurriedly.


    As it turned out, Li Xiao-Hong had been working at the bank during the day and doing part-time work at


    the restaurant during her evenings.


    Li Xiao-Hong had just graduated college and was barely making ends meet as an intern. After paying


    for rent and food, she hardly had anything left. Due to Ye Fan''s intervention, Xu Lei had promoted Li


    Xiao-Hong to be her personal assistant. But Li Xiao-Hong was still too inexperienced, so she had


    found herself unable to handle the job and ended up making a lot of screw ups. Finally, out of guilt, she


    had tendered her resignation and returned to her original position at the bank''s front counter.


    That was why her sry was as meagre as before.


    "My mother''s birthday ising soon. So I want to earn a bit more money to buy her a jade bracelet.


    All these years, my mother has always been providing for my brother and me. This year, I want to give


    her a huge surprise on her birthday.” As she said this, an inscrutable light shed in her eyes.


    She had been working part-time at this restaurant for nearly three months.


    During the day, she had to work at the bank. And during her evenings, she had to serve customers at


    the restaurant. Her work day was eighteen hours long and Li Xiao-Hong had no time for leisure


    activities at all.


    Was it tiring?


    Of course it was.


    But Li Xiao-Hong regretted nothing. In her tiredness, she found happiness.


    During this year''s birthday celebration, as long as she could see a gratified and satisfied smile on her


    mother''s face, then her three-month''s worth of hard work would have been worthwhile.


    "Mr. Chu, look. Do you think this bracelet is pretty?"


    As she was talking to Ye Fan, Li Xiao-Hong carefully brought out a jade bracelet that had been


    thoroughly wrapped up.


    She had just received her sry from the bank today. And together with the money she had saved up


    from two months of part-time work, she finally had enough money to buy the jade bracelet, which she


    went out and bought without dy. In a few days time, the restaurant would be paying her the


    remainder of her sry and she would use that to pay this month''s rent and food bill.


    Children from poor families had to take up responsibility early in life. So Li Xiao-Hong knew exactly how


    each cent of her money should be spent.


    Ye Fan chuckled and said, "Mm, it''s pretty.


    But it must be very expensive? Is it worth it to work so hard for a bracelet?"


    "No, Mr. Chu, you don''t understand. As long as it makes my mother happy, I am willing to endure any


    hardship."


    "I never had a father. My mother was the one who single-handedly brought up my brother and me. She


    could never bear to spend money on food, clothes and makeup for herself. The only essory she


    owns is a two-yuan stic bracelet she bought from a roadside stall."


    "My mother has given too much to my brother and me. Her youth, her best years and her health have


    all been given to us. Now that I have graduated and am working, I want to earn more money to lessen


    the burden on my mother."


    "This bracelet is my first present to my mother. In future, I will be buying more and better presents for


    her."


    Li Xiao-Hong''s eyes reddened as she was speaking. And Ye Fan could clearly see the tears in the


    corner of her eyes. But she continued to smile and her smile was as bright as a lotus flower in June.


    Ye Fan was suddenly taken aback. As he looked at her, he could see a shadow of himself. Both of


    them had such simr pasts.


    "Mr. Chu, I am sorry. I have said too much. We can''t chat anymore. I still have to send the beer to a few


    tables. I have to hurry.” Li Xiao-Hong wiped her eyes, turned around and hurried away to serve the


    tables.


    As Ye Fan looked at Li Xiao-Hong, he could hardly believe that a frail girl like her could carry so many


    bottles of beer up and down the stairs.


    "Let me help you."


    Ye Fan walked forward and took the bottles of beer from Li Xiao-Hong. He was going to help her with


    her deliveries.


    Meanwhile, in a room on the second floor.


    Su Qian was having dinner with a couple of friends.


    She had just returned from abroad so, naturally, she wanted to meet up with her old friends.


    "Qian-Qian, where is Mu-Cheng? Why didn''t you invite her as well?" The speaker was a heavily made-


    up woman. And although her clothes were not as extravagant as Su Qian''s, they were all expensive


    brands.


    Her name was Yang Qian. And she was also Qiu Mu-Cheng''s former school mate.


    "Ah, Qian-Qian, let''s not talk about her. That fellow is a workaholic. She always work tillte at night. I


    called her several times already, but she kept saying she was too busy toe.” Su Qian drank her


    red wine andined angrily.


    "Oh? I heard she got married though? Why is she still working so hard? Why can''t she just let her


    husband support her?" Just then, a handsome and slim man at the table spoke up. He was wearking a


    white short-sleeves shirt and a Rolex watch.


    "Xue Lin, let me tell you this. Don''t talk to me about her husband. I get angry every time he is


    mentioned. You don''t know this but Qiu Mu-Cheng has married a country bumpkin. He has no


    background to speak of and ispletely useless. He is just a good-for-nothing who is freeloading off


    Mu-Cheng. And he is the Qiu''s live-in son-inw."


    "He is as useless as can be. Compared to my idol, he ispletely worthless." And Su Qian quaffed


    another ss of red wine.


    "That can''t be true?"


    "Mu-Cheng was renowned as our school''s beauty queen. How could she marry such a useless man?”


    Yang Qian eximed in surprise. She pretended to feel sorry for her former school mate but, inwardly,


    she actually felt an inscrutable sense of satisfaction.


    This was human nature at work. Back in the day, Qiu Mu-Cheng had been an elite that Yang Qian was


    never able to measure up to. And now that the former queen had fallen off her throne and living in


    sadder straits than herself, Yang Qian could not help but feel an inscrutable sense of pleasantness well


    up within her.


    Xue Lin also shared his heartfelt regret, and kept saying that Qiu Mu-Cheng had married the wrong


    person.


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    "Isn''t that right?"


    "If Mu-Cheng had agreed to be with you, then she would not be suffering now." Su Qian felt sorry for


    her BFF but, at the same time, she was also inordinately angry.


    Earlier, she had told her BFF to divorce that good-for-nothing, but Qiu Mu-Cheng had actually shot


    down the advice.


    "Isn''t she just debasing herself?" Su Qian poured herself another ss of wine and then discovered


    that the bottle was empty. So she asked the server for more wine.


    "Your wine is here.” And soon, a server arrived with the wine. He stood beside their table and waited for


    Su Qian to take it from him.


    A frown appeared on Su Qian''s face immediately. "Can''t you read the mood?


    Aren''t you going to open the bottle and ce it on our table? How could this restaurant call itself high-


    ss when their servers are so unprofessional?"


    Su Qian was a hot-tempered person to begin with. And the wine she had drunk earlier was making her


    even quicker to anger. So she startedshing out at the server. But when she saw the face of the


    server who had delivered the wine, she got so surprised that she sobered up a little.


    "Damn!”


    "You... you are Ye Fan, aren''t you?"


    "Cheng-Cheng''s good-for-nothing husband?"


    "What are you doing here? Why are you serving wine?"


    Su Qian was dumbfounded. She had not expected to see Ye Fan here.