Chapter 969: Beautiful Girl (16)

“It felt like we were freeloading off her,” Zuo Ran frowned, but then something occurred to him and his expression relaxed. “But she doesn't refuse to ride in our car anymore.”

“So we've achieved our goal today and gotten a little closer to her?” Wei Liang asked.

Zuo Ran nodded. “You could say that.” A smile appeared on his face. “I believe it won't be long before she starts treating us as people she can trust.”

“We're the only two people in the entire school standing by her side. She'll only trust us, right?” Wei Liang's eyes brightened. “Then we can start pursuing her properly. I refuse to believe she won't eventually show us her true colors. She works so hard to earn money and can make so much in a single job. Isn't that all to satisfy her vanity?”

“Exactly. Most of those bosses are willing to pay high prices because she's pretty and attractive, so she's fully aware of her advantages.”

The two continued analyzing all the way home, completely ignoring just how much that clean, bright smile had touched them.

They still refused to believe that a girl like her wasn't materialistic. Someday, they would expose her true face. She would become just like all the other girls.

After returning home, Tang Guo found Xu Meihui sitting in the living room. Seeing her daughter return, she smiled warmly.

“Xiaoguo, you're back.”

“Yes, Mom.”

Tang Guo smiled back.

“The boss today was very generous. He gave me a red envelope worth five thousand yuan, and my commission from the products sold was around twenty thousand.”

Hearing this, Xu Meihui's eyes curved into crescents with delight.

“My baby is amazing. It's getting late, so go wash up. Tomorrow is Saturday, so you can have a good rest.”

“Okay.”

Xu Meihui had never stopped her daughter from pursuing the things she wanted, so long as they weren't crooked or immoral. She completely supported part-time work like this.

Not only could it earn money, but it also helped build valuable experience.

She hoped her daughter would become an independent and self-reliant person, someone who learned about society early and wouldn't repeat the mistakes she herself had made when she was young—back when her lack of experience had nearly allowed someone to ruin her entire life.

Now, she was a department manager at a company. Her salary wasn't low. She wasn't wealthy, but it was more than enough to support herself and her daughter.

Living costs and housing prices in the city were extremely high. When she first moved here to provide her daughter with a better environment, she had not only worked her regular job but also taken on additional work on the side.

In order to secure a stable home, she had purchased an apartment with a mortgage. With her abilities, paying off the monthly installments wasn't difficult. However, maintaining their quality of life meant she had to work harder than before.

Back then, Tang Guo had come up with the idea of earning her own spending money through part-time jobs. Thanks to her appearance and astonishing eloquence, she had achieved considerable success.

During high school, she had promised Xu Meihui that she would accept no more than two part-time jobs per week. Seeing her daughter's remarkable abilities, Xu Meihui hadn't stopped her and was instead happy to see her grow.

It was precisely because of Xu Meihui's open-mindedness that, despite all the slander and humiliation Tang Guo endured at school, she had never been crushed by it.

Because her mother was a strong woman.

And she, too, wanted to become someone strong.

She had never known who her father was. However, from bits and pieces of her mother's words, she understood that he must have been a man of extraordinary status who had deceived Xu Meihui.

That was why Xu Meihui had repeatedly warned her.

She was not allowed to be deceived by boys.

She was not allowed to date before university.

She was not allowed to take advantage of others or covet petty gains.

And she was especially forbidden from associating with wealthy second-generation heirs.