Chapter 230: Chapter 228: A Close Call
Meanwhile, Fang Chenyi was tearing down the road in his Lamborghini, terrified that the woman was chasing him.
He was cruising along, just a turn and a traffic light away from the entrance to his apartment complex. Suddenly, a phone started ringing from the passenger seat.
The ringtone made Fang Chenyi freeze.
’That’s not my ringtone, and it’s not Bai Menghan’s, is it?’
He glanced uncertainly at the passenger seat. His woven bag was sitting right there, and the ringing was coming from underneath it.
Seeing no other cars around, he kept one hand on the steering wheel and used the other to move the woven bag. The next moment, a Louis Vuitton handbag appeared before his eyes.
"Holy shit! How did I end up taking her bag?!"
Once he got a clear look, Fang Chenyi was shocked and couldn’t help but curse out loud.
He had been in such a hurry to get away that he hadn’t even noticed he’d taken the handbag that woman had handed him.
The phone inside the bag kept ringing. Fang Chenyi hesitated. He wasn’t about to just open someone else’s bag. The call was probably from her. ’Wouldn’t that be awkward?’
He shook his head helplessly, cranked the steering wheel, and the pink Lamborghini quickly made a U-turn to head back the way he came.
Fang Chenyi had a clear plan: he’d drive back, keep the doors locked, and just hand the bag out the window.
But as luck would have it, he hit a traffic jam on the way back. A three-minute drive turned into nearly fifteen.
By the time he got there, the two women were nowhere to be seen.
He sighed in frustration. ’What kind of mess is this?!’
Just then, the phone in the handbag started ringing again. He thought for a moment. He couldn’t find her now, so he figured he might as well answer and have her come pick it up.
Shaking his head, he hesitantly picked up the handbag and carefully unzipped it.
Fang Chenyi assumed the phone would be right on top, easy to grab. But when he opened the bag, there was no sign of it.
As much as he hated going through someone’s belongings, he had to bite the bullet and find that phone.
He shook his head, looked inside the bag, and prepared to take things out.
His eyes fell on a rather large object inside. It was a large pink diamond, at least half the size of an egg.
It was quite large, so he’d have to take it out to find the phone inside. He reached in, pulled it out with some confusion, and immediately froze.
’This thing... why does it look so familiar?’
On closer inspection, the large pink diamond was embedded at the tip. The other end had the metallic sheen of stainless steel. The whole thing was about six inches long and looked like a large cone, with a pointed head and an egg-sized "belly."
The moment he realized what it was, Fang Chenyi’s fingers recoiled as if shocked. He threw it back into the handbag, then frantically pulled out a wet wipe to clean his hands while cursing.
"Holy shit! No wonder it looked so familiar! So this is the ’teaching equipment’ Teacher Boduo often uses in her lessons! That’s... a bit much, isn’t it? Carrying this thing around with her... Eww~"
Thinking about what the object was used for, a shiver of disgust ran down Fang Chenyi’s spine. He went through three wet wipes on his hands before he finally stopped.
He glanced at the still-ringing phone and the "teaching aid" that was now half-in, half-out of the bag. He decided he wouldn’t touch her bag again if his life depended on it. He seemed to recall where she lived from the last time she’d tricked him into collecting junk. ’Maybe I’ll just go to her complex and have the security guard deliver it.’
With that thought, Fang Chenyi decided to ignore the ringing phone. He used a tissue to carefully push the "teaching equipment" back into the bag, then quickly zipped it shut.
After all that, Fang Chenyi let out a long sigh of relief. He was about to start the car and leave.
But when he looked ahead, his heart skipped a beat. About a dozen meters away, Bai Menghan was getting out of a taxi, skipping cheerfully toward him.
He shot a quick glance at the approaching Bai Menghan, then at the handbag on the seat beside him, its phone still ringing. His head started to ache. ’There’s no explaining this!’
"Oh, crap. What do I do now?!"
In the nick of time, the corner of his eye caught sight of the woven bag next to him. Gritting his teeth, he threw caution to the wind, grabbed the handbag, and tossed it into the woven bag.
[Host has collected one old handbag. System reward: 600 yuan. The reward has been deposited into the host’s bank account. Please check your balance.]
[Host has collected one old Apple phone. System reward: 3,500 yuan. The reward has been deposited into the host’s bank account. Please check...]
[Host has collected one box of condoms. System reward: 500 yuan. The reward has been deposited into the host’s bank account. Please check your balance.]
[Host has collected one used small plug. System reward: 1,500 yuan. The reward has been deposited into the host’s bank account. Please check your balance.]
[Host has collected one used small leather whip. System reward: 300 yuan. The reward has been deposited into the host’s bank account. Please check your balance.]
[Host has collected one used jumping ball. System reward: 900 yuan. The reward has been deposited into the host’s bank account. Please check your balance.]
[Host has collected one bottle of Viagra. Activating special system reward. Reward: two-hour skill bonus. The skill has been automatically learned. Please experience it at your leisure, Host.]
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The system notifications were still chiming in his mind, but Fang Chenyi wasn’t paying any attention. Bai Menghan had already reached the car door.
She gently pulled open the car door. Seeing Fang Chenyi fussing with his precious woven bag, Bai Menghan was speechless for a moment before she spoke teasingly:
"Chairman Fang, are you working on your grand project of ’social resource integration and reuse’ again?"
Hearing this, Fang Chenyi gave a sheepish laugh and asked Bai Menghan why she wasn’t in class. A drop of cold sweat secretly trickled down his forehead. ’Good thing I was fast enough. Otherwise, this misunderstanding wouldn’t have been resolved so easily.’
"Sigh, the professor for our class today fell and was taken away by an ambulance, so class was canceled. I figured you’d just gotten home, so I took a taxi back. I didn’t expect to hear my driver admiring a beautiful Lamborghini over there, and when I looked, I realized it was you."
Hearing Bai Menghan’s explanation, Fang Chenyi finally understood. So that’s what happened.
[To be continued...]
