Jiang Nanfang didn't understand what was so good about her that he would fall in love with her at first sight.
He was shamelessly clinging to her, wanting to be with her.
"Do you have amnesia? Have you forgotten the unpleasantness when we first met?"
"Usually, young masters like you prefer gentle, cute, and obedient girls. You dislike women like me. Did you make a bet with someone?"
Zhou Jinxiu found that while this woman was a bit sharp-tongued, she was truly direct.
So direct that she dared to speak her deepest, darkest thoughts out loud. It was a bit endearing.
After Jiang Nanfang finished speaking, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Are you that unconfident about your beauty? Can't I just be attracted to your beauty and fall in love at first sight?"
Jiang Nanfang: "Then you probably don't know how ugly I used to be."
She deliberately lifted her hand carefully, propping it around her eyes: "This is all fake, it's been done through surgery."
"I shaved bone here, ground down my jaw there, got double eyelids, and had my nose job. Do you like artificial beauties too?"
Zhou Jinxiu followed her fingers, observing her face all over, then his gaze slowly drifted down to her chest.
"Then your surgery turned out quite well, very natural. Is this part also enhanced? It looks quite perfect."
"Where are you looking?"
Jiang Nanfang lowered her hand, loosely shielding her chest.
Zhou Jinxiu said with a smile, "Which country and which hospital did you get it done at? Can you introduce the doctor to me?"
"Many of my friends want plastic surgery. If your doctor's information gets out, they'll definitely become famous in our Nan City."
Even plastic surgery couldn't scare him away. Jiang Nanfang tilted her head, avoiding his gaze.
"You should be able to tell, I'm very violent. As your girlfriend, you'd be beaten at least three times a day, and I hit hard. You've already experienced it, have you decided you can handle it?"
Zhou Jinxiu said without hesitation: "Yes. If you hadn't beaten me that day, I wouldn't be so infatuated with you."
"All the girls I've met since childhood have been like delicate willows, needing men to support them just to walk. Suddenly meeting someone as cool as you has almost driven me crazy. Forget three meals a day, I can handle thirty meals a day."
"As long as I can be your boyfriend, I'll do anything."
Jiang Nanfang suddenly began to suspect he had a problem with his brain.
She reached out and touched his forehead, "Mr. Zhou, you didn't just get released from Qing Shan Hospital, did you?"
Zhou Jinxiu took the opportunity to grab her finger and press it to his cheek, sniffing it with great intoxication.
"Say whatever you want. I don't care if you say I just crawled out of a cemetery. I just like you, I'm attracted to you, and I want to be with you. Nanfang, please say yes to me."
Jiang Nanfang got goosebumps again and quickly pulled her hand back.
"Alright, alright, eat your meal. To be my boyfriend, just sweet-talking and getting beaten isn't enough, you need a brain too."
"So you're saying you're willing to give me a chance to prove myself?"
It just so happened that she was going out alone today, and it wasn't convenient to have a man with her to intimidate others. This guy was tall and well-built, with good looks and demeanor. He could help her save face.
Jiang Nanfang said, "Eat first. Once you're full, I'll give you a chance to show me what you've got."
As they spoke, the owner brought over two bowls of rice noodles.
Jiang Nanfang's bowl was bright red, with a vibrant broth underneath and green cilantro floating on top. It was steaming hot, a mix of red and green, looking incredibly appetizing.
His own bowl, however, was bland and watery.
To show his masculinity, Zhou Jinxiu swapped their bowls.
"You eat this, I'll eat this. From this second on, I accept your challenge."
Jiang Nanfang finished her bowl of rice noodles in less than three minutes.
She watched Zhou Jinxiu struggling to swallow, tears and snot streaming down his face.
After finishing, he even stood up and rushed to pay: "Boss, the bill."
In such a small restaurant, the owner had never heard such an elegant term.
Amused, he smiled and said, "The total for two bowls of rice noodles is 12 yuan. Will that be cash or mobile payment?"
Six yuan for a bowl of rice noodles?
He paused for a moment: "Mobile payment."
Zhou Jinxiu couldn't handle spicy food. He gulped down the entire bowl of spicy rice noodles, broth and all. Back in the car, he was hiccuping uncontrollably from discomfort.
Jiang Nanfang saw how pathetic he looked and went to the roadside to buy him a bottle of mineral water.
As the car drove off, they chatted.
"Aren't you supposed to be at work today?"
"No, I'm skipping work for you, it's no big deal."
"What kind of work do you do? Are you an entrepreneur, or are you taking over your dad's business?"
"Isn't taking over my dad's business considered entrepreneurship?"
Jiang Nanfang understood.
"So, what does your family do?"
"You don't wear much makeup, so perhaps you're not very familiar with the beauty industry? Have you heard of the brand Keqila? Our company founded it."
"You do makeup. That's good. The beauty industry has been a sunrise industry these past two years, business must be good."
Zhou Jinxiu liked hearing this and nodded happily.
Unexpectedly, after he finished, Jiang Nanfang added, "No wonder you have such a strong perfumed scent. I've heard that most men in the beauty industry are gay."
"...I don't wear makeup. And I don't like men. I'm a pure, straight guy."
Zhou Jinxiu put his hand to his forehead. "I've had countless girlfriends, and this is the first time anyone has ever called me perfumed. You don't happen to like big, muscular men, do you?"
Jiang Nanfang said, "Whether a man has masculinity isn't about the size of his muscles, but about his overall temperament."
She wanted to give him an example, and Zhan Beijue's face instantly popped into her mind.
Pah, pah, pah. She was talking fine, why was she thinking of him?
Enough said.
Zhou Jinxiu asked her what her plans were for the day. Jiang Nanfang saw a flower shop by the road and said, "I'm going to visit a grave. Do you want to come?"
He was quite excited: "Whose grave are you visiting? Your family? You're taking me to meet your family so soon? That's great!"
They got out, each choosing a bunch of white chrysanthemums, and headed to Babaoshan.
Babaoshan was, at that time, Nan City's largest cemetery with the best hardware facilities and environment.
Twenty years ago, cemeteries were just like houses, places for people to reside.
In the past decade, with the rapid rise of the real estate industry and soaring housing prices, cemeteries had also become coveted, high-priced properties.
Jiang Nanfang's mother's burial plot was bought for 2,300 yuan. Who would have thought that its value would more than a hundredfold increase one day?
For money, Jiang Zhenjun was naturally willing to sell his investment.
Jiang Nanfang didn't expect him to act so quickly. Upon arriving at the cemetery, she searched in the familiar location but didn't find her mother's name.
Thinking she might have remembered incorrectly after not coming for years?
She scanned three rows in all directions.
Still, she couldn't find it.
Her mother's grave had been exhumed and sold. Her remains had been relocated by the heartless Jiang Zhenjun to an unknown location.
And just yesterday, he had the nerve to shamelessly talk about father-daughter affection with her?
The word "furious" couldn't describe Jiang Nanfang's feelings when she learned the truth.
She threw the flowers in her hand. All she wanted now was for Jiang Zhenjun and his wife to be torn to pieces and buried with her mother!