Chapter 1075: Chapter 1080: Young Master Hou
"Hou Xiaosheng! Is that you?!"
Su Zi looked at the young man outside the door in surprise, asking instinctively.
"Yeah, it’s me!" Hou Xiaosheng became even more excited when he heard Su Zi call out his name, "Su Zi, after we graduated high school, I looked for you everywhere in the Imperial City, but I never saw you... I thought you went abroad, but I never expected to find you in this little shop! Su Zi, I missed you so much..."
When he said the last sentence, Hou Xiaosheng’s expression became very affectionate...
"Pfft..." Su Zi was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, glanced awkwardly at Lin Feng, and said lightheartedly, "Hou Xiaosheng, are you joking with me? Who doesn’t know you got together with Jiang Yulan back in the second year of high school..."
Su Zi was afraid Lin Feng would misunderstand something; this Hou Xiaosheng was merely a high school classmate of hers. Although his parents seemed to be senior executives of some large company, and his family was quite wealthy, Su Zi was not close to him.
Lin Feng didn’t think too much about it. After all, Su Zi was so outstanding; many men admired her. If Lin Feng overthought it every time someone talked to Su Zi, he’d be exhausted.
Hou Xiaosheng was momentarily dumbfounded, then said awkwardly, "Su Zi, don’t misunderstand, Yulan and I broke up long ago. Actually, there’s always been a woman in my heart, and she is..."
"Your mother?" Su Zi didn’t say anything, but Xu Jing nearby laughed as she interjected. She found this young master’s words very annoying and couldn’t help but say something.
"Uh..." Hou Xiaosheng was so flustered by Xu Jing’s words that he was speechless for a few seconds. He glared at Xu Jing angrily, but when he saw her clearly, his anger subsided a little, and he gave an awkward smile before continuing to tell Su Zi, "Su Zi, your place in my heart is even more important than my mother’s..."
Hou Xiaosheng’s words were sincere, and his eyes held deep earnestness, but Xu Jing still mercilessly mocked him.
"Tsk, so ungrateful... Meets a beauty, and forgets his own mother!"
Xu Jing sneered, pursing her lips dismissively.
"You..." Hou Xiaosheng glared at Xu Jing again, his face turning red with anger, but he finally held back his fury. Trying to act unbothered, he smiled at Su Zi and asked, "Su Zi, is this beautiful lady your friend?"
Obviously, if it weren’t a beautiful woman speaking, Hou Xiaosheng probably would have already jumped up angrily.
Su Zi glanced at Xu Jing and then politely smiled at Hou Xiaosheng, "What’s wrong, Hou Xiaosheng? Did you think Teacher Xu said something wrong?"
"Teacher Xu?! This beautiful lady is your teacher?" Hou Xiaosheng was taken aback, then looked at Xu Jing with some surprise. He hadn’t expected that Xu Jing, who looked only about twenty-five or twenty-six, could be Su Zi’s teacher. To become a university teacher generally requires at least a master’s degree, and Xu Jing looked incredibly youthful for that.
"Yes..." Su Zi nodded lightly and then gestured towards Lin Feng, Xue Qingyi, and Ning Aoxue, casually saying, "Besides Teacher Xu, these are my classmates from Jiangzhou University, Lin Feng, Xue Qingyi, and Ning Aoxue..."
Actually, Xue Qingyi wasn’t a student of Jiangzhou University nor Su Zi’s classmate, but Su Zi didn’t want to bother explaining to Hou Xiaosheng, so she just said it vaguely.
"So you went to Jiangzhou University..." Hou Xiaosheng looked enlightened, then followed Su Zi’s pointing angle and saw the equally outstanding Ning Aoxue and Xue Qingyi, and a hint of surprise appeared on Hou Xiaosheng’s handsome face!
Am I seeing things?! Jiangzhou University has so many beauties?! Hou Xiaosheng cried out in his heart. For a moment, in front of Xue Qingyi and Ning Aoxue, he suddenly felt that Su Zi seemed not so important after all...
Hou Xiaosheng’s gaze greedily swept over Ning Aoxue and Xue Qingyi’s faces before finally landing on the incongruous Lin Feng...
"This guy is too lucky!" Hou Xiaosheng looked at Lin Feng discontentedly, thinking, what skill does he have to be fortunate enough to dine with such beautiful women, it’s like God is blind!
"This classmate is called Lin Feng, right?" Instinctively, Hou Xiaosheng squinted his eyes slightly, and in a deep voice, he spoke to Lin Feng, "May I know where Lin Feng is from? What does his family do? Personally, I’m currently studying international trade at the China University of Economics and Business while concurrently working as a project manager at Central Ocean Trading Group, specially responsible for the export trade of five small countries in North Africa. Here’s my business card; I hope to get to know you better and become friends..."
With that, Hou Xiaosheng pulled a gold-embossed business card from his pocket, pinched it lightly between his right thumb and forefinger, and placed it in front of Lin Feng with a carefree attitude as if he was looking down on Lin Feng, waiting for him to show a look of admiration and take the card from him with both hands...
Hou Xiaosheng was, in fact, the only son of Hou Lin, the chairman of the Zhonghai Overseas Group. Even in an Imperial City full of elites, the Hou family was a household name, and Hou Xiaosheng could barely be considered a third-rate figure in their circle...
Don’t let this third-rate label deceive you into thinking Hou Xiaosheng’s status is too weak. In reality, apart from the top elite offspring at the state level, considered first-rate, those second-rate were mostly big young masters with direct ties to ministerial-level elders. As for the third-rate, they were already an almost unattainable prospect in regular social circles!
Zhonghai Overseas Group is also a large company with assets of hundreds of billions and has a state capital background, with Hou Lin having an administrative rank...
In other words, Hou Xiaosheng’s casual self-introduction, when faced with an ordinary college student, would almost inevitably result in the student standing up respectfully to receive his business card, and some might even flatteringly approach him, proactively engaging in conversation...
Unfortunately, Lin Feng was not just any ordinary college student...
Faced with Hou Xiaosheng’s proffered gold-embossed business card, Lin Feng didn’t even lift his head and lazily remarked, "Central Ocean Trading Group? Oh, I’ve heard of it... it’s that shipping company or something!"
And then, nothing more...
Hou Xiaosheng’s face turned blue. The Central Ocean Trading Group, which he assumed had high prestige, was just considered a shipping company in Lin Feng’s eyes...
Damn it, do you think every shipping company has the scale of the Central Ocean Trading Group?
This guy has no sense of gratitude, treating me with such disrespect! Hou Xiaosheng’s eyes narrowed, and he reluctantly put away his business card, already harboring a grudge against Lin Feng.
