Chapter 354: Chapter 225: What is it like to be caught showing off? Chapter 354: Chapter 225: What is it like to be caught showing off? Bvlgari basement level.
The pitch-black Bentley parked at the elevator entrance, its engine emitting a deep growl.
“Click—click—click—” high heels tapped rhythmically on the ground, resonating throughout the basement.
Having escorted Zhao Yaqian to the elevator, Lin Muxue sashayed back with a swaying waist.
She didn’t get into the car immediately but leaned against it for a selfie, then contentedly settled into the rear right seat to enjoy her private ride.
She turned on her phone and entered a WeChat group chat.
The group had only four members, apart from her, the other three were her college friends who had moved to Shanghai.
One of them was her old roommate, Cao Jingsi, although they hadn’t been in contact for a long time and had even deleted each other on WeChat.
In fact, the relationship between the four of them wasn’t good, and they had gotten together only thanks to her friend Xue.
They all wanted to see if she had truly become successful.
Reading through the chat history, she chuckled softly to herself.
In a gentle voice, she said, “Driver, take me to the Somekh Building on East Imperial Road. I’ve had a bit too much to drink tonight, could you please take a detour through the Bund so I can get some fresh air?”
“Certainly, Ms. Lin!” the driver responded immediately.
The Bentley smoothly accelerated out of the parking spot.
High-end fragrances filled the inside of the car, Lin Muxue crossed her legs and leaned back into the leather seat, unable to suppress the smile tugging at her lips.
Li Xinyi and the others had just finished dinner at the Bund and were walking towards a small tavern near the Somekh Building.
This was the perfect moment for her, the protagonist, to make her entrance.
The car exited the garage.
Listening to the soft instrumental music by her side.
She switched on the tablet in front of her, connected her phone, opened the cloud music app, and searched for an “Entrance” playlist.
As the protagonist of the evening, her entrance naturally required a BGM to highlight the style of “Emperor Muxue.”
She casually hit the play button.
“Thump thump thump—thump thump thump—” the explosive entrance music started playing.
The professionally trained driver at the front gripped the steering wheel tighter, feeling a surge of adrenaline.
Darn, suddenly playing the gambler’s entrance BGM? It made him want to floor the accelerator.
Lin Muxue awkwardly hit the pause button, then started searching for another song.
The car crossed the Suzhou River and continued forward.
The city lights flickered into the interior of the car.
Lin Muxue finally selected an elegant English song.
Its gentle melody circulated through the Naim high-end sound system inside the car.
Lin Muxue gazed out the window at the night, her expression slightly intoxicated and blurred.
She wondered what Tang Song’s surprise for tonight would be.
A bag? Cosmetics? Fashion? Jewelry?
Even though the gifts were for Qianqian, she was also eager to feast her eyes.
As the music played, the car slowly drove onto East Imperial Road.
Lin Muxue sat up straight, her right hand resting on the window’s armrest, looking out the window to see several familiar figures in the distance.
College classmates Li Xinyi, Cao Jingsi, Wang Mei.
“Driver, slow down a bit, I’ve come across some friends and I’d like to greet them.”
Following that, the car slowed down.
Lin Muxue picked up her phone and dialed Li Xinyi’s number.
Cao Jingsi spoke disdainfully, “Ugh, we haven’t seen Lin Muxue in so long, and she still puts on such an act. Talking about attending a Hermes private event, she probably just thinks dining at Roosevelt Mansion is too expensive and didn’t want to come.”
“Heh, there are actually quite a few people like that, just quite vain, trying to craft an image.”
“I think so too. She always blocks us on her social circle because she fears we’ll expose her pathetic past,” Cao Jingsi snorted dismissively.
Having been roommates for three years, she knew Lin Muxue very well.
Coming from a poor family, she worked part-time jobs for modeling gigs while at university and was once publicly mocked by an interviewer for her tacky clothes and lack of taste.
This incident became widely known in their small circle, and since she was pretty, many classmates often teased her about it.
Later, she bought some high-quality counterfeit designer clothes and was publicly exposed by a wealthy girl at an event.
She was down for a while before she started pretending more than ever.
After graduating, she supposedly entered some finance company and had been making a big splash.
But they didn’t believe it, knowing Lin Muxue’s academic level in university, not to mention finance; she couldn’t even handle accounting.
While the three were gossiping, the phone rang.
Li Xinyi glanced at the caller ID, made a hushing gesture, “It’s Lin Muxue.”
She answered the call, speaking kindly, “Hello, Muxue, where are you? We’ll be at Cofo Bistro soon.”
“Oh?” she stopped, turned towards the road, “You’re in a car? You can see us?”
The other two also stopped.
Under a night sky dimly lit by neon, on a quiet and elongated street.
A black Bentley slowly approached, its high-end paint glistening in the light, blending with the surrounding night.
The winged logo shone brightly at the front of the car, like the most dazzling star in the night sky.
The wheels gently rolled over the damp road.
Then, the Bentley stopped next to them.
The rear window slowly descended.
The first thing heard was the high-quality music, soon followed by a familiar yet estranged face appearing before them.
Elegant earrings, a dazzling gem necklace, high-end fashion, luxurious interior, and a Hermes Birkin bag on her lap…
The dim streetlight shone through the Bentley’s window on her, elegant, refined, aloof, making her particularly stylish.
Li Xinyi and the others stood dumbfounded.
Cao Jingsi bit her lower lip, incredulous, “Lin Muxue!?”
She hadn’t seen Lin Muxue in two years and had difficulty connecting the glamorous woman in front of her with the shabby roommate she remembered from memory.