Chapter 158 — Why Can't We?
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Ha? Hearing Wu Chengtian's words, Sun Jingyan nearly burst out laughing inside.
You didn't bring your wallet? It's not that you didn't bring your wallet, is it? Your wallet is in Wei Zhao's hands!
But wait, wasn't Wei Zhao's wallet in Wu Chengtian's hands? How could he have no money to pay? At that thought, Sun Jingyan put on an angry tone: "Wu Chengtian, don't play the thief crying 'stop thief' and put on that clownish little act. You took Wei Zhao's wallet, didn't you? You, with no money to pay?"
"That money, that money, I tipped it to the doorman." The mere thought of it made Wu Chengtian feel utterly wronged.
"Do you think I'd believe that?" Sun Jingyan felt a surge of satisfaction. Serves you right for showing off. How about that? "I'm very busy, let's leave it there. Goodbye!"
Sun Jingyan hung up without ceremony, then switched her phone off outright, leaving Wu Chengtian to thrash about on his own.
"Jingyi... Jingyi..." Wu Chengtian called a few times, but the line had already been cut.
He hurriedly dialed again, only for the receiver to give him the recorded message: "The number you have dialed is switched off..." Wu Chengtian was beyond tears. "..."
"Master, brother, my man, you saw it yourself... my friend doesn't believe me," Wu Chengtian said with a bitter face.
"Cut the act. I don't even know whether you made that call or not, and you're telling me you tipped the doorman? Go on, keep making it up," the cab driver said with plain contempt. "I've seen plenty of swindlers like you. What, do you want to talk it over down at the station?"
"No, no, no, brother, just let me think a bit more!" Wu Chengtian waved his hands frantically. To land in a police station over a trifle like this, and let the whole world know that the young master of the Wu family couldn't even pay a cab fare, would be mortifying beyond words!
In all of Songjiang City, the only person he knew was Sun Jingyan... Suddenly Wu Chengtian remembered that his aunt and uncle seemed to have brought his grand-uncle here for medical treatment... But he had only just returned to the country and hadn't saved their cell numbers. If he had to phone home to ask about a thing like this, he'd lose face in a spectacular fashion...
At that thought, Wu Chengtian could only say: "Brother, look at this phone of mine, an iPhone 4. It cost four or five thousand when I bought it. How about I give it to you to cover the fare?"
"iPhone 4?" The cab driver glanced at Wu Chengtian's phone. "Is that thing real or fake? A knockoff is only two or three hundred, and secondhand it'd be lucky to fetch a few dozen yuan!"
"Brother, it's the genuine article, take a look if you don't believe me!" Wu Chengtian handed the phone to the cab driver...
The cab driver fiddled with it for a long while, then nodded grudgingly. "Fine, I'll take your word for it. Let's leave it at that, off you go..."
Wu Chengtian got out of the car bearing infinite humiliation. When had he ever fallen so low? Damn it, all because of that kid Wei Zhao. He had to look into him properly and teach him a lesson. Some people, when they come to grief through their own doing, insist on pinning the blame on someone else... Wu Chengtian was exactly that sort of person. He felt that if not for Wei Zhao, nothing today would have turned his relationship with Sun Jingyan so sour, and he wouldn't have forgotten his wallet because of it... Hm? No, wait. When he'd gone to the bar earlier, he'd paid for the cab himself, and his wallet had still been there then. Could he have left it in the cab in his haste?
At first, Gu Mengyao had brooded over Wei Zhao striking up a conversation with a mature woman, but after Wu Chengtian arrived, she gradually saw what was really going on.