Chapter 666: Chapter 666: About to Slap Faces Again
Ye Shu noticed that Song Xiaoxin had already eagerly made her move, so she also signaled to Ou Linlin with a glance. Ou Linlin immediately took out a small box and placed it in front of Yu Manting, together with Song Xiaoxin’s gift box.
When Song Xiaoxin saw the gift box presented by Ou Linlin, she couldn’t help but note how small and plainly wrapped it was—it looked just like those low-end products sold on the street!
She snorted coldly and mocked, “Ye Shu, what are you trying to do? If you can’t afford a gift, then don’t bother trying to give one, trying to imitate others. What have you even prepared for Writer Yu? I can smell the stench of poverty without even opening the box. You might as well throw it away and not spoil the great writer’s nose.”
Although Yu Manting already knew that they both intended to vie for the “Red Fox” script, she didn’t point it out but expressed surprise, “What are you two doing? Giving gifts at a dinner?”
Song Xiaoxin gestured for A Lai to open her gift and said, “This is the genuine Wujiang Green Jade King, the only one in the world, and not too expensive, just a mere sixty million.”
Everyone gasped in amazement upon seeing it.
Although most people had only a superficial knowledge of jewelry appraisal, they were all taken aback by the sight of the meticulously made, oil-like green jade necklace.
It was genuinely a top-notch jade king!
Moreover, that statement, “just a mere sixty million,” immediately scared off those who also wanted to please Yu Manting by giving gifts in hopes of securing the script rights.
Thus, the dinner had effectively become a competition between Ye Shu and Song Xiaoxin.
Song Xiaoxin thought that by revealing the price, she would immediately scare Ou Linlin enough to take back the gift box Ye Shu had prepared, or else it would be a major loss of face.
However, she noticed that Ye Shu’s expression hadn’t changed at all; in fact, she seemed confident. This infuriated her, so she took and opened the ordinary gift box that Ye Shu had prepared!
Everyone’s eyes followed as the ordinary gift box was opened, and they were all dumbfounded in an instant!
Sure enough, the gift was extraordinary—it was a small jar of Repair Cream!
Everyone was extremely surprised and thought, what exactly was Ye Shu up to?
“Hahaha!” Song Xiaoxin suddenly couldn’t help but laugh, “Ye Shu, Ye Shu, I’ve really overestimated you. Seeing how calm and composed you were, I thought there might be some secretive treasure in that shabby package. Is it just Repair Oil? Are you kidding? Buying some random repair oil from the streets and having the audacity to gift it to a great writer? Didn’t you buy this piece of junk for less than one hundred yuan from a street stall?”
Ye Shu calmly responded, “You guessed it right, less than one hundred yuan. After a discount, it totaled 68 yuan.”
“68? Hahaha!” A Lai burst into laughter, prompting everyone else to laugh along.
They all thought that Ye Shu was indeed too funny, giving such a cheap item to a renowned writer—it would have been better not to gift anything at all. Giving something worth a few tens of yuan could either be seen as insulting, or accepting it could lower the recipient’s status.
“A light gift carries deep affection,” Ye Shu responded calmly, not showing any anger. “Although the price is very cheap, the shop that sells this repair oil isn’t easy to find. It is run by an old peddler who travels from place to place throughout the year. I was lucky to meet him once. It works very well for maintaining and repairing jade necklaces.”