Chapter 816 — The Terms of the Bet

She had just bought a villa in this residential compound — a secondhand one, at that, and since the previous owner had not lived in it for a long time, she had found the inside thick with dust and the courtyard overgrown with weeds when she went to look it over. So Gou Huli had decided to make Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Wei Zhao her unpaid laborers and set them to work. That way she could humiliate and needle them a while longer besides.

"You could hire a cleaning service for this sort of thing. We would still rather just pay you the money," Wei Zhao said mildly.

"Pay money? Hmph. So you won't do it, is that it? Fine, then — go buy me an identical outfit!" Gou Huli looked at Wei Zhao as though she already had him cornered. "Go on, buy it! Only diamond-card members can buy one!"

"Oh. So if we do manage to buy one, this matter is settled and done with?" Wei Zhao could not be bothered to squabble with a shrew like her.

"Settled? Hmph — if you can buy one, I will tear my own head off!" Gou Huli knew perfectly well what the situation with that outfit was, and that was why she dared say such a thing. When she had bought hers yesterday, aside from the sample in the display window, hers had been the only one left. And Pengzhan Commercial Building would not sell the window sample; ordinary shop assistants did not even have the authority to open the display window. The window displays were changed on a fixed schedule, and no one would open them at random before the schedule came due.

That was why Gou Huli dared utter such a vicious vow — that if Wei Zhao could buy one, she would tear her own head off. Of course, the words were not spoken for nothing; her next move would be to set even more devious and cutting terms for Wei Zhao and the others.

"Ooh, this is fun! Sister Yaoyao, can a person still live after they tear their head off?" Shen Yushu asked Gu Mengyao curiously.

"I don't know. Maybe some people have special powers? I've heard that some people's heads can come right off their bodies," Gu Mengyao said, shaking her head.

"Ooh, that would be pretty fun. Arrowhead Bro, hurry up and buy her an identical outfit, and then have her perform the head-tearing-off thing?" Shen Yushu said expectantly.

"Hmph! Wait — and what if you cannot buy an identical outfit?" Gou Huli was inwardly furious at what Shen Yushu had said, but for the sake of what she meant to say next, she could only swallow her temper for the moment.

"Oh, but we don't know how to tear heads off. Once a head comes off, aren't you dead for good?" Shen Yushu shook her head flatly.

"Hmph, I am not asking you to tear your heads off. It is only that if you cannot buy an outfit identical to mine, then you will come work for my family for a year, free of charge — how about that? Every day you will come to my house to clean and pull weeds, and whatever I tell you to do, you will do!" Gou Huli said.

"Okay, okay, then let us go buy it quick, I want to see the head-tearing-off show!" Shen Yushu nodded impatiently, agreeing to Gou Huli's terms.

Wei Zhao had wanted to stall a little longer, because he disliked doing things he was not sure of. He meant to ask Gou Huli for the brand and model of her outfit, then call Uncle Qing to confirm before going off to buy it.

But Shen Yushu had already agreed, and naturally Wei Zhao could no longer change that. Even if Pengzhan Commercial Building did not have one, though, Wei Zhao could send Fatty Lai to procure it; there was no time limit set in any case, and this was a loophole he could make use of.

"Hmph, let's go then — what are you dawdling for? Come buy the clothes with me!" Gou Huli gave a cold laugh. "Oh, right — how are you getting there? My car cannot fit so many of you!"

"We have a car!" Wei Zhao said to Gou Huli, pointing at Gu Mengyao's Beetle.

Gou Huli glanced at the Beetle. She was a little surprised, but did not think much of it. "Your master is quite rich, isn't he? Buying a car like that for you slaves and servants — not bad at all! Is it for you to go out and buy groceries?"

Gu Mengyao glared at Gou Huli and said nothing more. There was no use saying anything now; everything would wait until the clothes were bought.

Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu got into the Beetle, and Wei Zhao drove out of the villa compound, following Gou Huli's Porsche Boxster all the way toward the commercial district.

It was the weekend, so the commercial district was already packed with cars, and there had long since been no spaces left outside Pengzhan Commercial Building. Gou Huli had a membership card, however, so she got out of her car with great swagger, waved the diamond card in her hand, and boasted to Wei Zhao in the Beetle behind her, "I am a member here, so I can park in the members-only underground parking garage — there is always a space free. You can find somewhere to park yourselves, but be careful you do not get a ticket slapped on you!"

With that, Gou Huli got back into her car and drove toward Pengzhan Commercial Building's underground garage.

Wei Zhao did not go looking for a parking space, however. He simply followed Gou Huli all the way down into the underground garage.

Gou Huli sneered to herself. Follow me, then. My diamond card does carry the privilege of parking one car alongside mine, but I simply will not let you use it. Just wait and see how pathetic you look when the security guards chase you out — I hope you die of embarrassment!

"Ma'am, might you be a VIP guest of Pengzhan Trading?" When Gou Huli pulled her car up to the barrier of the underground garage, a security guard came over and asked respectfully.

"Of course!" Gou Huli flung out her membership card. "I am a diamond-tier member!"

"Welcome, esteemed diamond guest, Ms. Gou..." The guard took Gou Huli's diamond membership card and swiped it through the machine beside him, which immediately displayed her information. Diamond guests were a rare sight, and so the guard treated her with exceptional deference.

Diamond guests were invariably people of wealth and influence, and from the look of Gou Huli alone, she was clearly not someone to be trifled with, so the guard was all the more cautious.

"Excuse me, is that car behind you part of your party, Ms. Gou?" The guard glanced at the Beetle behind Gou Huli's car. "As a diamond member, you may bring one additional vehicle into the parking lot free of charge. That is your privilege!"

"No, it has nothing to do with me!" Gou Huli took back her membership card and said it deliberately loud enough for Wei Zhao and the others to hear. She meant to humiliate them, to make these low-class servants understand the difference between themselves and people like her, wealthy people, upper-class people!

"Very well, please proceed." The guard nodded and raised the barrier, inviting Gou Huli's car to drive into the underground VIP parking lot of the Pengzhan Commercial Building.

But after her car passed the barrier and entered the parking lot, Gou Huli did not drive on at once to look for a space. Instead she pulled over to the side and waited to see Wei Zhao and the others make fools of themselves. She wanted to watch how the guards would drive them out of the parking lot!

Only high-class guests like us are allowed to park here. How could low-class cleaners and gardeners like you deserve to park your cars alongside a person of high society like me?