Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 187 - 160 Do you have someone you like

Chapter 187: Chapter 160 Do you have someone you like?

Chapter 187: Chapter 160 Do you have someone you like?

Outside the restroom in the cinema, every man who walked out couldn’t help but glance at Lin Lu, who was standing aside waiting for someone.

It couldn’t be helped. With her beret on, all she had to do was stand there prettily, and she would be the most eye-catching scenery in the cinema.

Cheng Zhu came out, washed his hands, and walked towards her, asking, “Do you have tissue paper?”

“Yes, yes!” Lin Lu immediately opened her small purse, took out a tissue, and handed one to Cheng Zhu.

After they walked out of the cinema, Lin Lu suggested, “How about this car god drives you home?”

“Ah? It’s already late. If you take a detour to drop me off, won’t you get home too late and be criticized?” Cheng Zhu asked.

“No way, I don’t have a curfew. As long as I don’t get home too, too late, I’m fine,” Lin Lu replied.

“Is that so? I thought all girls would have a curfew at home,” Cheng Zhu remarked.

Lin Lu pursed her lips slightly, explaining, “Well, my mom said that if you really want to do something outside, the time you get home doesn’t actually make a difference.”

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zhu thought that Lin Lu’s mother made a lot of sense.

It’s like some girls have a curfew at home of ten o’clock, but it doesn’t mean nothing can happen before ten, right? Hotels are open 24 hours!

“Fine then, you drive me. Seems like I’m getting pretty good treatment. Usually, guys drive girls home, but I get to enjoy this service,” he said with a laugh.

“Tch! Don’t flatter yourself!” Lin Lu didn’t mind driving a bit out of her way at all; she just wanted to spend more time with him.

Cheng Zhu hadn’t ridden his little electric scooter to the cinema because he had left it at the workplace downstairs… because it… ran out of battery.

On the way to the elevator, they passed by a welfare lottery store.

In the following years, these kinds of stores opened frequently in shopping centers, and many young people, bored with nothing better to do, would go in and buy scratch cards.

More precisely, it was this gimmick that doubled the industry’s revenue in the year 23.

“I didn’t expect to see these in a mall back in 14,” he thought.

And you know what, the people who buy scratch cards in malls are seemingly the same ones who used to buy lottery tickets at the kiosks outside school when they were kids!

“Let’s go. Let’s buy two scratch cards and see which of us is luckier,” Cheng Zhu suggested.

“Scratch cards! Sure thing!” Lin Lu perked up immediately.

Cheng Zhu knew she’d enjoy this kind of stuff…

“Boss, give us two for fifty each,” Cheng Zhu started by scanning a QR code to pay.

As the owner was about to tear off two for them, Lin Lu intervened, “Can we pick our own?”

“Beauty, they’re all the same. But if you want to pick for yourself, that’s fine too, just tell me which one you want,” the middle-aged owner said.

“My lucky number is 7, so I’ll take the seventh one from this stack,” then she turned to ask Cheng Zhu, “What’s your lucky number?”

“3, I guess,” Cheng Zhu said without much thought, not really having a concept of a lucky number.

After tearing off the scratch cards, the owner also handed each of them a bottle opener which worked pretty much just as well as a coin to scratch the cards.

“Start scratching,” Cheng Zhu glanced at the girl.

“No, I want to see you scratch first!” She was quite a handful.

As Cheng Zhu scratched, he mumbled, “You see, I’ve been very lucky with my projects lately, and our next game will definitely be a hit. I’ve always been lucky when it comes to money, today I’ll show you what it means to be an unbeatable lucky star.”

—Damn it, not a single win!

“Heh!” Lin Lu scoffed from the side, “Watch carefully now!”

She began to scratch the card forcefully with the bottle opener.

Her lips pressed tightly together, as if all her features were straining along with her, her right hand gripping the bottle opener extra hard although she was moving it in short, deliberate strokes, scratching away very slowly.

Not like Cheng Zhu, who had scratched it off swiftly, completely neglecting to savor the process.

Lin Lu’s winning numbers were 17 and 42.

Meaning, if she were to scratch a 17, she’d win 50, or a 42 would get her a hundred.

These numbers could come up more than once, and there were even a few cards displayed in the store that had won a thousand.

She quickly scratched the two rows of numbers, coming up empty-handed, for the time being.

She began muttering to herself, “Forty-two,” over and over.

“Quite greedy, aren’t you? You only want the hundred and not even calling for the seventeen?” Cheng Zhu couldn’t hold back a chuckle as he watched her exerting little hand, “Do you think you’ll call it out by chanting like that?”

“You don’t understand, sincerity moves spirits!”

“Well then, maybe you should bow down to it,” he teased.

“Go away! It must be your bad luck blocking mine!”

After saying that, Lin Lu actually took a step to the side.

“Is that so?” Cheng Zhu immediately followed closely, eager to mess with her.

Lin Lu retreated, and he followed again.

The owner watched on the side, unable to help but smirk.

Are the young folks nowadays really this juvenile? But the young lady is really pretty, that guy is lucky.

After this back and forth thrice, Lin Lu stood her ground, “Well, if I can’t scratch any winnings, I’ll blame you!”

No sooner had she spoken than she scratched off a 42.

She got excited instantly, her face beamed triumphantly, and she even gave Cheng Zhu a smug lift of her chin, showing off her teeth in a taunting fake grin, “Hehe!”

The owner grinned and suggested, “You’ve broken even, eh? Want to use the money to buy a few more?”

Cheng Zhu immediately waved his hand, “No need, no need. We haven’t finished scratching this one yet.”

Lin Lu took her bottle opener and continued her streak, and sure enough, scratched off a 17.

So she had won 150 on that card, a small profit of 50 for them both.

“You’re really not going to continue? You’ve got pretty good luck, miss,” the middle-aged owner tempted further, “Hey fella, aren’t you going to let your girlfriend try another one? Worst case scenario, you break even.”

Cheng Zhu heard the term “girlfriend” and remained silent but then turned his head to look at her, ready to heed “his girlfriend’s” wishes.

“Nope, nope! Quit while you’re ahead!” Lin Lu felt happy enough winning money.

The owner reluctantly started the transfer, and Lin Lu even decided to keep the scratch card instead of throwing it into the recycling bin.

Walking in the mall, she jumped in front of Cheng Zhu, raising the card high in her hand and added her own sound effects, “Ding-ding!”

“This time for real, for real, I won!” The girl was over the moon.

Before, it was almost always Cheng Zhu letting her win. Today she won by skill… no, ah, she actually also won by luck!

But it didn’t matter, she was the big winner!

Cheng Zhu blatantly stood in the crowd, shamelessly announcing loud enough for all to hear, “I know, I know. You made a hundred bucks off one card, Lin Lu made a hundred bucks off one card, Lin Lu she… eh, eh, eh! What are you doing? Trying to cover my mouth, huh?”

“Anyway, I just have better financial luck than you! This is the symbol of my financial luck!” Lin Lu was ready to clip it into her notebook which she kept in her drawer.

Being someone who liked to record life, she inevitably had a bit of a collecting habit.

Like the movie ticket from today’s film she saw with Cheng Zhu, she had kept it in her purse rather than tossing it away.

She planned to take this scratch card back for her collection, too.

Hearing that, Cheng Zhu frowned and nodded, “Makes sense. I’d better throw away this crappy scratch card soon. Can’t let this damn thing block my money luck.”

“You’re quite superstitious, huh?”

“A little, everyone in business is,” Cheng Zhu said as if it were a matter of course.

When he tossed the card into the bin and turned around, Lin Lu extended her hand with her scratch card to him.

“What for?” Cheng Zhu asked.

“Well, I’m not in business anyway. I’ll lend you all my financial luck for now!”

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…

Lin Lu was handing over just a scratch card but did so with the demeanor of handing over a black card.

Cheng Zhu knew that was just her straightforward, lively, and simple nature.

Oftentimes, he actually felt very comfortable around Lin Lu.

There was a genuine cuteness about her, an adorable quality that made him feel at ease.

The spirited, big-chested girl was sure to lift anyone’s spirits.

He took the scratch card and even said with a laugh, “Alright, I’ll stick it up in my game studio’s office.”

“Really?” She was genuinely delighted.

“Really, if I don’t, I’m a puppy.”

When two people genuinely connect, even silly interactions can make them incredibly happy and fulfilled, making them feel valued.

But if there’s no spark, all of your efforts might just end up as an embarrassing self-delusion in the end.

After arriving at the underground parking lot, Cheng Zhu was a little dazed when he saw Lin Lu unlocking the Land Rover Discovery.

“Did you really get a new car?” Cheng Zhu asked.

She didn’t play coy or come up with any pretentious excuses, such as wanting a car with a better view.

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Instead, she bragged, “Yeah, I am indeed the Deer God’s lantern; I’ll satisfy your needs occasionally then!”

“Then you probably don’t understand my needs,” Cheng Zhu muttered to himself.

But when Lin Lu handed him the car key, his heart was indeed touched a little, because at that moment he had just mentioned it casually.

“I brought both sets of car keys. Keep this one, and if I don’t need the car after the holidays, I’ll lend it to you.”

Cheng Zhu glanced at the silver vehicle, noting it was a high-end model, likely to cost around 1.4 million on the road.

No wonder there’s a question: choose between a woman and making money.

There are two popular answers to this question.

—Have the woman make the money.

—Take the woman’s money.

A freshman driving a Land Rover in school was already flamboyant.

What’s worse, the rascals from dorm 309 and studio 212 were probably going to explode when they saw the car!

After settling into the passenger seat of the car, Cheng Zhu felt that cars driven by women were good since the interior was free of smells from smoking or other causes and even had a pleasant fragrance.

As the car drove on, they chatted about the movie.

“It’s strange, isn’t it, how a couple that seemed so perfect for each other at the beginning could end up divorced, with the woman falling for someone else?” Lin Lu was puzzled.

“That’s normal. Falling in love and staying in love are two different things.”

“Hm? That does make some sense when you put it that way.”

The car stopped at a red light.

Lin Lu, unaware that Jiang Wanzhou had told Cheng Zhu about her querying into his romantic history, played dumb as she brought up the subject, “Cheng Zhu, have you ever been in love?”

“Yes,” he nodded, not denying his past, “I broke up over the summer.”

“Ah, were you sad?”

Cheng Zhu didn’t know how to respond; in his previous life, he had been upset at this stage, but in this one, he was quite comfortable.

“I don’t know how to put it, but it did influence my views on love,” he said sincerely, then asked in return, “What about you?”

“Ah? Me what?” Lin Lu hadn’t quite caught on yet.

Their eyes met in the car.

Cheng Zhu went straight to the point, “I mean, do you have someone you like?”

The next moment, he saw turmoil in the depths of Lin Lu’s large eyes.

Lin Lu’s heart began to beat frantically, the metaphorical deer panicking within her.

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(P.S.: Second update, the last day of the month, asking for double monthly tickets!)