"Brother Beichen, I know you mean well for me. But Ye Ya'er will always be Brother Beichen's person. If it weren't for Brother Beichen, I wouldn't be where I am today. Brother Beichen, please let me help you, okay?"
Ye Ya'er said coquettishly.
"Alright, alright, I can't stand you. You don't want to enjoy good fortune but insist on getting involved in these messes. I think you're tired of being a big star. You can be involved, but only in intelligence matters,"
Ning Beichen said to her.
"Thank you, Brother Beichen. I knew you wouldn't refuse me."
Ye Ya'er leaped and hugged Ning Beichen, clinging to him like a koala and planting a kiss on his cheek.
"Get down quickly. This is a public place. You're truly lawless. Do you still care about your big star persona?"
Ning Beichen said, torn between amusement and exasperation.
"What am I afraid of? Are big stars not human? Besides, what's a big star's persona compared to Brother Beichen!"
Ye Ya'er said with a giggle.
However, at that moment, Fang Qing appeared from nowhere. Seeing Ye Ya'er clinging to Ning Beichen, she was instantly consumed by jealousy.
"Ning Beichen, who is she?"
"She's my friend."
Seeing it was Fang Qing, Ning Beichen didn't have a good impression of her, but he still explained.
"Brother Beichen, I'm leaving now."
Ye Ya'er glanced at Fang Qing, then turned and waved goodbye to Ning Beichen with a smile, completely ignoring Fang Qing.
From her understanding of Ning Beichen, Ye Ya'er knew that he could never like a woman like Fang Qing, so she wasn't qualified to be her competitor. The only one who could be her competitor was Liu Yilin.
"She's... Ye Ya'er!"
After Ye Ya'er left, Fang Qing suddenly remembered who she was, and was astonished.
"Do you need something?"
Ning Beichen seemed uninterested in dealing with her.
"Can't I come to see you if I don't need anything?"
Fang Qing said with some dissatisfaction. No man had ever spoken to her like this before.
"No."
Ning Beichen was blunt, discarding his Iron Man persona and becoming a solid steel plate.
"Ning Beichen, is this how you treat a lady?"
Ning Beichen's attitude drove Fang Qing to the brink of madness.
"Fine, Madam, speak. What is it you need? If there's nothing, I won't keep you company."
Ning Beichen said to her without any pleasantries.
"That's more like it. I've come specifically to invite you to dinner to apologize for what happened last time."
Fang Qing emphasized the word "individually," implying that it would be just the two of them today, with no one else.
"There's no need. Didn't you invite me last time?"
Ning Beichen said.
"Last time was last time, this time is this time. This time, I've specifically invited only you."
Fang Qing blinked her eyes. She refused to believe that despite her initiative and her beauty, Ning Beichen wouldn't be moved.
"There's no need for dinner. I've already forgiven you. You can leave now."
Ning Beichen had no idea what this woman was trying to achieve.
Was she trying to seduce him?
But her acting was too obvious.
"Ning Beichen, don't be ungrateful. How many men would beg for a chance to have dinner with me and don't get it?"
Fang Qing, having been rejected so decisively, stamped her foot in anger.
"Then go find them. I'm not interested in you."
Ning Beichen rolled his eyes at her. Since the woman wouldn't leave, he would.
"Ning Beichen, stop right there. Explain yourself before you leave."
Seeing Ning Beichen actually walking away, Fang Qing became anxious and yelled after him.
At this moment, everyone around them turned to look, making Ning Beichen seem like Chen Shimei, who got a woman pregnant and then heartlessly abandoned her.
Ning Beichen stopped with a headache, turned back, and asked displeasedly.
"Fang Qing, what exactly do you want?"
"Ning Beichen, unless you agree to go to dinner with me, I will keep pestering you."
Fang Qing said to him with a hint of triumph.
"If I go to dinner with you, you'll stop pestering me?"
Ning Beichen looked at her as if she were a lunatic.
"Yes, Ning Beichen. You're a man, you won't be afraid of a little woman like me, will you?"
Fang Qing said.
Unfortunately, her tactic was completely ineffective on Ning Beichen.
"Then keep pestering. I won't accompany you."
Ning Beichen waved at her and turned to leave.
What a joke. In this world, no one dared to threaten him, King Ning. He didn't even care about the Holy See, so why would he be afraid of a spoiled, unreasonable woman?
Did she really think he, Ning Beichen, had never seen women? If he wanted to, with just a flick of his finger, those supermodels and actresses from the Amazon would rush into his arms, crying.
"Ning Beichen, you're not a man!"
Fang Qing had never encountered a man who completely disregarded her. Seeing Ning Beichen walk away without looking back, she was so angry that she stomped her feet repeatedly.
Not long after, Fang Qing, fuming, rushed into Liu Yilin's office and poured out her woes.
"Rich Madam Liu, I suspect Ning Beichen is not a man."
Fang Qing said indignantly, then dejectedly recounted the entire process of her failed attempt to seduce Ning Beichen to Liu Yilin.
Unexpectedly, Liu Yilin not only didn't sympathize with her but burst into laughter.
"You're laughing? Rich Madam Liu, do you have any sympathy at all?"
Fang Qing was already extremely frustrated, yet she saw Liu Yilin still roaring with laughter.
"Fang Qing, I warned you long ago that Ning Beichen is not an ordinary man. I told you not to try to seduce him, but you didn't believe me. Now you've hit a hard wall, haven't you?"
Liu Yilin said, holding her sides with laughter.
"I don't believe it. Even if he's gay, I'll make him straight. I refuse to believe that with my charming allure, I can't handle a mere Iron Man."
Fang Qing said indignantly.
"Fang Qing, stop doing useless things. Ning Beichen is truly not as simple as you think."
Liu Yilin said to her.
In fact, there were many things she had experienced with Ning Beichen that she hadn't told Fang Qing.
For example, escaping Las Vegas in a plane, or how the friends Ning Beichen mentioned he met "while working" overseas were all influential figures.
These were secrets between her and Ning Beichen, and Liu Yilin hadn't even told her own sister.
"I'm not convinced, Rich Madam Liu. Just wait and see. I will definitely make Ning Beichen willingly fall under my spell!"
Fang Qing said with a puffed-up chest.