Jiang Ruitian beamed, her face lighting up with excitement.
“Good thing he’s not coming!”
“Suisui, I’ll hire you a porter later. I guarantee you’ll have a great time.”
When Zhou Suisui learned that Jiang Zongyan couldn’t make it at the last minute, the corners of her lips drooped slightly.
“Sure!”
She kicked a pebble at her feet, unable to stop herself from grumbling inwardly: If he’s not coming, then so be it. I’ll have even more fun with Tiantian.
Jiang Ruitian saw through her disappointment at a glance. She leaned closer and gave her a mysterious little wink.
“Don’t be upset. Actually, I only invited my brother along so he could pay for us. Look—he just transferred one hundred thousand yuan to me. With that kind of money, we can have fun however we want, can’t we?”
One hundred thousand?
Zhou Suisui glanced at the transfer history on Jiang Ruitian’s WeChat.
Jiang Zongyan had transferred quite a lot of money to her…
He really was generous.
“Come on. I’ll take you somewhere even more interesting.”
“Where?”
“You’ll find out in a minute.”
Remembering a clip she had seen online, Jiang Ruitian grabbed her hand and pulled her toward the ticket booth.
“I saw this place in a video a few days ago. All the handsome guys here are 188-centimeter-tall athletes with eight-pack abs. For a thousand yuan, four handsome guys will carry you up the mountain, and for two thousand, you can even touch their abs!”
“Huh?”
Zhou Suisui looked utterly bewildered. She licked her lips hesitantly. “Th-That doesn’t sound quite right, does it?”
If she dared to touch the abs of strange men so brazenly, her brother would kill her when he found out.
Seeing how innocent she looked, Jiang Ruitian burst out laughing.
“Suisui, you’re way too well-behaved. Don’t worry. Your sister’s treating you today. I guarantee I’ll give you an experience you’ll never forget!”
Zhou Suisui hesitated. “But…”
“No more buts. Hurry up.”
Without giving her a chance to argue, Jiang Ruitian dragged her straight into the densest part of the crowd.
Sure enough, on a patch of open ground beside the ticket booth stood eight young men, all shirtless and lined up neatly.
Every one of them was tall and long-legged, with healthy wheat-colored skin and clearly defined abdominal muscles.
Beside them stood an eye-catching sign in colorful lettering:
“188-cm Athletes, Eight-Pack Abs, Licensed and Ready for Work! 1,000 Yuan to Be Carried Up the Mountain; 2,000 Yuan to Touch Their Abs!”
Zhou Suisui sucked in a breath.
Two thousand yuan just to touch someone’s abs?
Wasn’t that money ridiculously easy to earn?
Two thousand yuan could buy her dozens of little cakes.
As a seasoned foodie, she absolutely refused to let the scenic area make that much money off her.
But before she could say anything, the young lady beside her had already pulled out her phone and scanned the payment QR code with great bravado.
“Boss, sixteen thousand yuan. I’ll take all eight of them!”
She was so extravagant that she didn’t even blink while making the payment.
“Sixteen thousand?!”
Zhou Suisui tugged at her arm. “Tiantian, wait…”
“It’s fine.” Jiang Ruitian waved her phone smugly. “It’s not my money anyway. Someone else is paying. My brother couldn’t come here to hike with us, so he has to pay a price, right? Let’s call it compensation for emotional distress!”
Zhou Suisui was dumbfounded.
Jiang Ruitian really was an expert at coming up with excuses for herself.
She was clearly just blinded by lust!
Zhou Suisui couldn’t help giving her a thumbs-up. “Miss Jiang, you really know how to have fun.”
“No one will find out. Come on.”
The eight scenic-area NPCs had been striking poses to attract customers. But when they heard that someone had paid sixteen thousand yuan to hire all of them, they turned around curiously.
Anyone who could afford that much money was usually a wealthy woman. And “wealthy” in this context referred not only to her wallet, but often to her figure as well.
After all, with a good standard of living, it was difficult for one’s body not to become “wealthy” too.
However, when they turned around, they saw two young women as beautiful as fairies walking toward them.
Everyone’s eyes lit up instantly.
They rushed forward one after another.
“Welcome, Your Highnesses!”
All eight men bowed in unison, giving them a perfectly executed gentleman’s bow.
Zhou Suisui and Jiang Ruitian were immediately surrounded by a group of tall, broad-shouldered young men.
The eight men were shirtless, wearing matching dark-colored mamian skirts and red silk headbands. They were clearly following the trendy, suggestive Chinese-style aesthetic that was popular these days.
All Zhou Suisui could see in front of her were gleaming eight-pack abs and solid, well-defined chests.
Zhou Sui’an had always kept a strict watch over her, even enforcing a ten o’clock curfew.
She had never encountered a scene like this before.
Her face reddened at once, and she didn’t even know where to look.
“Holy crap! Those abs are incredible!”
Jiang Ruitian, on the other hand, wasn’t shy in the slightest. She had already moved in close, touching one man, then another, her little face blooming with delight.
“They feel so good.”
“Suisui, come touch them!”
“I’m fine…”
Startled by her words, Zhou Suisui hurriedly waved her hands.
“We already paid. It would be a waste not to touch them!” Jiang Ruitian looked at her reproachfully, as though she were disappointed in her. “Once you’re married, you won’t have any chance to touch another man’s abs.”
After all, her brother was a petty, jealous man with an extremely possessive streak.
“…I really don’t need to…”
Before Zhou Suisui could finish, Jiang Ruitian grabbed her hand and pressed it against one of the men’s abs.
A firm, warm sensation traveled through her palm. His skin was smooth and soft, like the finest silk.
Zhou Suisui jerked her hand back as though she had been burned, hopping anxiously on the spot.
“Jiang Ruitian!”
Jiang Ruitian leaned close to her ear and asked with a mischievous smile, “Compared with my brother’s abs, which ones are better?”
Zhou Suisui: “…”
Did your brother know you had such daring thoughts?
After fooling around for a while, the eight men lifted the two rattan chairs and carried them slowly up the mountain.
There was no way the two girls could climb the mountain themselves. They would have collapsed long before reaching the summit.
The mountain at Moon Bay consisted of pristine forest. The air was so fresh it seemed freshly washed. Lush trees stood on both sides of the path, while sunlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves, casting dappled shadows across the ground.
The mountain breeze brushed against their cheeks, carrying the refreshing fragrance of grass and trees. It was so comfortable that it made them drowsy.
Jiang Ruitian narrowed her eyes in contentment and swung her feet.
“Spending money really is the most comfortable way to do things.”
As she spoke, she took out her phone and found the perfect forty-five-degree angle, framing herself and the abs of the four handsome men behind her in the shot. She snapped a picture.
She added the caption: “Today’s happiness.”
Then she posted it to her Moments.
At the Jiang Corporation’s president’s office, President Wang was sitting on the sofa, chatting amiably with Jiang Zongyan.
“Mr. Jiang, you’re truly young and accomplished. You’re every bit as impressive as your father was in his day.”
President Wang lifted his teacup and praised him lavishly. “Speaking of your father, he was such an upright man. When I had just entered the industry, I owed much of my advancement to his guidance. And CEO Zhou, Zhou Sui’an’s father, was another exceptionally good man—calm and refined, like a chrysanthemum, and deeply devoted to Mrs. Zhou. What a pity that good people never live long…”
Jiang Zongyan gave a slight nod and listened quietly.
“Come to think of it, there’s an old matter you probably don’t know about.” President Wang smiled.
Jiang Zongyan asked, “Something concerning CEO Zhou?”
President Wang replied, “Mrs. Zhou was actually an adopted daughter of the Fu family. For some reason, she severed ties with the Fu family when she was in her teens, and only later married CEO Zhou.”
Jiang Zongyan raised his brows, somewhat surprised.
He had known that Fu Jie was a member of the Fu family, but he had never known that Mrs. Zhou had such a connection to them.
He was just about to ask for more details when the phone on the table suddenly lit up.
Jiang Zongyan lowered his gaze and glanced at it instinctively.
A friend he had marked as a special follow had just posted on Moments.
