170: 170 Eyes of Medusa!
170: 170 Eyes of Medusa!
After finishing his cigarette, Zhong Yongfeng and a few young masters were about to return to their private room when they happened to run into Sun Xiyu, who was coming back.
“Brother Sun.”
Zhong Yongfeng quickly stepped forward to greet him.
“What’s up?”
Sun Xiyu stopped walking, his smile natural, seemingly not bothered at all by the loss at the gambling table.
That’s what you call magnanimity.
That’s it.
“Brother Sun, Shi Qianxi just called me.”
Zhong Yongfeng lowered his voice, his expression serious.
Even with Sun Xiyu’s composure, the mention of that name caused his smile to fade slightly, and he involuntarily furrowed his brow.
“What did she say?”
“She said she called you a lot and you didn’t pick up, asked me if I was with you.”
“What did you tell her?”
“How could I?”
Zhong Yongfeng quickly replied, “I said I was eating with some friends, then she hung up on me.”
Sun Xiyu nodded.
“It’s best to keep some distance from her, let’s go in.”
Zhong Yongfeng forced a smile; he knew all too well she was like a plague god, and it was her who had actively sought him out.
The group returned to the private room.
“Jiang Chen, where’s your gift?”
Zheng Jingjing finally found the opportunity to ask.
With empty hands, Jiang Chen showed no sign of embarrassment, simply smiling casually, “I ordered a birthday cake, it should be arriving soon.”
“You’re not actually giving the cake as the birthday gift, are you?”
Zheng Jingjing glared.
“Sun Xiyu is coming in.”
Guo Ran whispered a heads-up.
Zheng Jingjing was indignant, but upon seeing Sun Xiyu enter the room, she shot Jiang Chen a furious glance and said no more.
Just now, playing the big shot, refusing the gambling money, how generous right?
But in reality?
Not even willing to give a proper gift.
And the key point was, Shu Rui was sitting right beside, seemingly without any reaction at all.
Insane, insane.
Could she really have been bewitched?
“Mr.
Sun, we’re waiting for you to order.”
After playing a few rounds of poker, their relationship seemed to have grown much warmer—a casual observer might even think they were good friends.
“You guys can order.”
Sun Xiyu sat down casually and took a small, yet clearly expensive, pearwood box out of his pocket.
He placed the box on the table and slowly pushed it towards Li Shuru.
“Shu Rui, happy birthday.”
Obviously.
The helicopter and flowers from before were merely setting the atmosphere; this was the real birthday gift he had prepared.
Including the young masters looking at the menu, everyone’s gaze instinctively focused on the box.
“Thank you, but I’ll have to decline the gift.”
Li Shuru’s voice seemed calm, but it was laced with a clear sense of distance.
“Won’t you open it to see what’s inside?
You might like it,”
Sun Xiyu watched her unwaveringly, his gaze sincere and tender.
Zheng Jingjing couldn’t resist giving a certain someone a glance and found him completely at ease, even pouring himself a drink.
The true Ninja Turtle.
She thought to herself.
But she could also understand to a certain extent.
Indeed.
At this point, aside from drinking water, what else could be done?
To fly into a rage and make a scene?
These eager young masters were probably just waiting for that moment to pounce and turn him into a punching bag!
Li Shuru seemed genuinely uninterested in whatever was inside the pearwood box.
“Please take it back.”
The other young masters present nodded to themselves, thinking that it was no wonder Sun Xiyu was so attentive to this girl.
This is just human nature.
They say they enjoy a challenge.
The less obtainable something is, the more one desires to conquer it.
“The things I give away, I never take back.”
“Shu Rui, just open it and take a look, maybe you’ll really like it.”
Guo Ran whispered.
Declining the rose wasn’t a big deal since its meaning was a bit too ambiguous, but if it was a common birthday present, there wouldn’t be any harm in accepting it.
“This box is really beautiful.”
Xu Siyi reached out, picked up the antique pearwood box and then lifted the lid.
In that instant,
a dazzling and beautiful luster burst forth, blinding everyone’s vision.
Even those nobles accustomed to luxury were visibly shocked.
Jiang Chen, who was quietly enjoying his tea, couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows as he looked at the item lying in the box, feeling a sense of amazement.
Truly worthy of being the distinguished young master of East Sea.
Such a grand gesture.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Xu Siyi’s delicate face stiffened slightly as if the pearwood box had suddenly become a bit too hot to handle and she hastily put it back down.
Inside the box lay a blood diamond the size of a cat’s eye, resplendent and enchanting, dreamlike—if it were placed anywhere else, there would undoubtedly be suspicion that it was a fake jewel picked from the floor!
But one must remember, this was personally presented by Sun Xiyu.
Knowing the wealth of the Sun Family, it would be impossible for them to present a sham as the real thing.
Which means,
this stunning, heart-stopping blood diamond must be real!
The reason Xu Siyi put the box down so hastily was exactly for this reason.
Even with her experience, she couldn’t guess the worth of the diamond, but one thing she understood very well—
if she happened to break it, she definitely couldn’t afford to compensate for it!
“This was excavated from a mine in South Africa five years ago, it hasn’t been processed in any way, and it’s been named ‘Medusa’s Eye,’ implying that anyone who looks upon it will have their soul captured, unable to extricate themselves.”
Guo Ran’s mind went blank.
She had certainly heard of blood diamonds, but this was indeed the first time she encountered one in real life.
“How… how much is it?”
She couldn’t help but blurt out the question, yet as soon as the words left her mouth, she wished she could cover it—
such a question was just too crass.
“The price isn’t important.”
Sun Xiyu smiled faintly, not emphasizing the value of the blood diamond.
The real difference between the truly wealthy and the nouveau riche was evident in these subtle details.
“Sun Young Master, I’ve heard rumors about a blood diamond in your family’s collection, and now I’ve finally laid eyes on it—tsk tsk, this size, this color, it’s got to be worth at least a hundred million, right?”
A hundred million?!
Hearing the young master’s exclamation, Zheng Jingjing couldn’t help but gasp.
In fact, it wasn’t just her; all the sophisticated young men present felt a surge of emotion upon seeing Sun Xiyu take out such a treasure as a gift.
They were all willing to spend money to woo a woman, but never to such an extravagant extent.
Subsequently, the gazes of the wealthy young men inevitably focused on Li Shuru’s face, curious whether this girl could withstand such a huge temptation.
Li Shuru, of course, didn’t expect Sun Xiyu to be so impulsive.
She was just an ordinary person and a student at that.
With a diamond worth over a hundred million so easily within reach, how could she not be dazzled?
“Do you like it?”
Sun Xiyu asked again.
This time, Li Shuru didn’t pretend to deny it—faced with such a gift, any woman would hardly be able to resist; claiming to be unmoved would be too hypocritical.
Just when those young masters thought she would definitely be swayed, the door was suddenly knocked.
“The cake must have arrived.”
Jiang Chen stood up.
The cake?
Who the hell cares about your cake at this time?
Seeing this, some young masters were inwardly impressed by the thickness of Jiang Chen’s skin—despite the situation, he didn’t show the slightest bit of perturbation.
As if nothing was amiss, Jiang Chen opened the door, expecting to find the cake delivery staff, but the person outside was not an employee of a cake shop.
“Miss, who are you looking for?”
The person didn’t respond to him, took a glance inside the crowded private room, smiled, and uttered the same opener as when he had first arrived.
“Heh, quite lively in here.”