Treasure Hunt: Tycoon's Priceless Runaway Wife-Chapter 88: I Appreciate Your Kindness

Luo Yifan first sent Le Tong back to the alley entrance. Le Tong asked him to wait in the car for a moment, then ran home and in five minutes changed into skinny jeans, long boots, and a turtleneck sweater, layered on a jacket and a scarf, then jogged back to the car.

Sitting in the driver’s seat, Luo Yifan looked at her in surprise, "Tongtong, are you sure you went in to change clothes and not just came back in a new outfit?"

Le Tong buckled the seat belt while panting slightly, "I was just worried you’d wait too long!"

Luo Yifan leaned in closer to look at her, "That was so fast, wasn’t it? It took no more than ten minutes altogether. Did you even put on makeup?"

Le Tong touched her face, "What, are we going to a masquerade?"

Luo Yifan examined her carefully, "No makeup indeed. I thought your makeup skills were top-notch, able to make it look so natural. Turns out, you’re naturally beautiful."

Le Tong smiled, "Do all guys flirt with girls like this?"

Luo Yifan shook his head, "Is this flirting? I’m just telling the truth."

Saying this, he seriously glanced at Le Tong again, then sat up straight, started the car, and looked at the road, "Tongtong, has anyone ever told you, you’re a beauty that grows on you."

Le Tong shook her head seriously, "No one has ever told me I’m a beauty. Instead, it’s Yuan’er who calls me ugly every day, you know that!"

Luo Yifan glanced at her with a smile, "She’s just jealous."

"Yuan’er is the real beauty; she doesn’t need to be jealous of me."

Le Tong and Luo Yuanyuan were once known as the Two Blossoms in the department.

"She’s beautiful, but she doesn’t have lasting appeal," Luo Yifan bluntly analyzed.

"That’s because she’s your sister. If she were a girl with no familial relation to you, you might think she’s stunning."

"Maybe."

They chatted casually along the way. When they passed a men’s store, Le Tong asked Luo Yifan to stop the car and went in to buy a bottle of men’s perfume as a gift for Xu Tao.

"Tongtong, can I ask for my birthday gift in advance?"

Luo Yifan asked enviously, his eyes fixed on the beautifully packaged bottle of perfume chosen by Le Tong.

"Of course not. I gave you a birthday gift a few months ago. If I give another now, I’d be at a loss."

At times, Le Tong was as stingy as a miser.

Without thinking, Luo Yifan asked, "How about a Christmas gift then, can I ask for it in advance?"

Le Tong ignored him, handed her bank card to the clerk, and after swiping the card, took the packaged perfume and left.

"So stingy..."

Even after getting in the car, Luo Yifan still held a grudge.

The perfume gift for Xu Tao was a couple’s set with both men’s and women’s bottles. Xu Tao was very pleased with the gift and immediately gave the women’s bottle to Luo Yuanyuan.

Luo Yuanyuan happily hugged Le Tong and kissed her cheek, while Le Tong disdainfully tried to push her away. However, Luo Yuanyuan clung to her like an orangutan, leaving her no choice but to ask Xu Tao for help.

Having just received her gift, Xu Tao naturally had to help, and he pried open Luo Yuanyuan’s hands to rescue Le Tong.

"Yuan’er, if I’d known how clingy you were, I wouldn’t have hit on you back then."

Le Tong adjusted her collar and hair that were messed up, feeling emotional.

"I feel the same!"

Xu Tao’s response unsurprisingly earned him a flick on the forehead from Luo Yuanyuan.

Among the four of them, Le Tong was least familiar with Xu Tao, but Xu Tao’s easygoing and straightforward nature meant they quickly became as familiar as old friends after a few meetings. Le Tong and Luo Yifan had only met one or two months later compared to meeting Luo Yuanyuan, and counting on fingers, it had been four or five years.

Therefore, when the four of them were together, they could chat about anything without reservation. Dinner was lively and boisterous, like a market. After eating, the four still weren’t satisfied, so they moved to a karaoke bar to continue singing and drinking.

Xu Tao and Luo Yuanyuan were very affectionate from the start of the meal, but fortunately, Le Tong and Luo Yifan were already used to this. Once in the karaoke room, Xu Tao and Luo Yuanyuan took over the mics and the song list, singing love songs while hugging each other in front of the screen, while Le Tong and Luo Yifan, tired of such mushiness, sat leisurely on the sofa playing dice and drinking. Le Tong’s dice-playing skills were quite good, and after several rounds, the evenly matched pair each drank two or three glasses of alcohol.

"Too few people, it’s boring."

After a few rounds, Le Tong covered the dice cup with her hand, indicating she didn’t want to play anymore. At that pace, she and Luo Yifan would be drunk in less than an hour.

"Wanna play cards?" Luo Yifan somehow produced a deck of cards.

Le Tong nodded in agreement. After switching to cards, their drinking pace finally slowed down.

"Tongtong, it seems like you can hold your liquor better now?"

They chatted while playing cards, and Le Tong, as usual, drank straightforwardly whenever she lost, even more generously than many men.

"Brother, you don’t know, it’s always Ji Rui drinking when we go out to eat."

Luo Yuanyuan, who turned to get some fruit, got angry as soon as she mentioned this. When Le Tong first got hired by the Ji Family, she even said Ji Rui was quite handsome. Now, in her words, Ji Rui was just a shitty guy.

"He can’t really drink much. As his secretary, it’s only normal for me to block some drinks for him."

Even though Le Tong cursed Ji Rui a thousand times in her heart, she wasn’t accustomed to badmouthing him in front of others.

Luo Yifan looked at Le Tong in surprise, "Tongtong, where did you hear he can’t drink much? In our circle, not a single person can outdrink him!"

Accepting her fate, Le Tong shrugged, and said with a bitter smile, "So what? They pay such a high salary; it’s only fair they demand more."

The Ji Family paid her a basic salary of two to three times that of an ordinary secretary. There’s no way she could take such a high salary without doing anything in return.

She considered herself as having neither the extraordinary talent of Yang Sheng nor the connections of a family scion like Luo Yifan, so apart from working diligently and blocking drinks for her boss during social events, she couldn’t think of anything else that would make Ji Rui feel her salary was worth it.

"If Luo Family’s employees thought like you, I’d be much more relaxed."

After expressing his sentiments, Luo Yifan asked Le Tong, "Tongtong, are you really not considering switching over? I’ll match the Ji Family’s salary for you, give it some thought?"

Le Tong showed no interest, "Yifan, I appreciate your kind offer! I still have more than two years on my contract with the Ji Family; it’s not that easy to just leave."

Thinking of Ji Rui’s hard-to-refuse three million breach penalty, a surge of frustration welled up in her chest.

If she could be a little selfish and didn’t fear implicating Luo Yifan, she might seriously consider leaving the Ji Family and joining the Luo Family.

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