Qi Man firmly grasped the bottle of red wine with both hands and asked, "Haven’t opened it yet?"
Gu Bai’s face was also flushed red.
"Hang in there a little longer, it’s almost done."
"Hurry up, my hands are getting numb! I don’t know what you’re thinking, insisting on opening wine by hand."
"Just want to try the experience!"
After struggling for several minutes, Gu Bai threw the bottle of red wine to the side.
"Without a corkscrew, this wine really can’t be opened, forget it, let’s not drink."
Watching Gu Bai panting on the sofa, Qi Man brushed her hair behind her ear and teased with a smile, "Usually you’re pretty strong, how come you can’t even open a bottle of wine today?"
Gu Bai glanced at her.
"Did your skin get itchy and need a good spanking while I was in Europe the past few days?"
Qi Man deliberately elongated her tone, her voice full of seduction.
"Did you meet any ocean-loving Western girls on this Europe trip?"
Gu Bai took the last puff of his post-cigarette and extinguished the butt.
"There was one, just as beautiful as you."
Qi Man was somewhat skeptical, after all, she hadn’t met many girls prettier than herself since childhood.
"She’ll be coming to Hua Country soon, you two can meet then."
Among his women, Qi Man was the one Gu Bai worried least about. In front of her, he didn’t need to hide anything, so he confessed everything openly.
"Pfft, who wants to meet her?"
Gu Bai looked at her proud face and gently held her hand.
He asked, "What do you think of me?"
"Do you want the truth or a lie?"
"Of course the truth, if I wanted a lie, I wouldn’t ask you."
Hearing his question, Qi Man’s beautiful eyes flashed with playfulness, but she still answered honestly.
"The truth is, you’re rich, and I like that a lot."
Hearing such a dismissive answer, Gu Bai’s face darkened.
Qi Man covered her mouth and laughed.
"I’m not done yet, don’t rush me."
"I’ll just say your strengths and weaknesses in my mind. The strength is, you’re rich, very rich, I don’t even know to what extent you’re wealthy. And you’re handsome, even though you’re a straight guy, it’s not a flaw, but rather gives you a masculine charisma among girls. Besides...
You’re really good to me. If we weren’t in this kind of relationship, if you were really my boyfriend, I’d probably laugh myself awake in my dreams."
By the end, Qi Man’s tone carried a hint of loss.
Gu Bai didn’t comfort her but looked into her eyes and said, "Have you ever thought of changing this relationship?"
"To be honest, from the beginning until now, I’ve always been interested in you for your looks and had ulterior motives, but I think you deserve more from me."
Qi Man’s beautiful eyes stared closely at Gu Bai, silent.
"Tomorrow, I’ll ask the property management to get you a smart card and register your facial recognition. From now on, you’re the true mistress of this room.
But you have to understand, I will never focus my thoughts on any one person, even if you’re acknowledged by me, it’s still the case. However, I can explain this to you in another way.
Starting today, you can gain more from me."
Gu Bai was never stingy. To a sensible woman like Qi Man, he believed she deserved more.
Qi Man asked with puzzlement, "Aren’t you afraid that once we’re public, you won’t be able to fish in Shanghai Theatre Academy anymore?"
"Do you think my eyes are set only on one Shanghai Theatre Academy?"
"What about Yi Yi? Aren’t you tempted by her?"
"She wouldn’t care about this."
"With your intelligence, you should know Yi Yi isn’t as simple as she appears."
Thinking of being tricked tonight, Gu Bai felt irritated just mentioning her and changed the subject directly, "Enough about her, you mentioned not planning to enter the entertainment industry, what do you want to do?"
"I’ve always wanted to create a trendy brand."
Qi Man thought for a moment and said seriously.
Gu Bai recalled that the concept of trendy brands had become popular a few years ago, considering that the current main consumer demographic is young people. Content orıginally comes from 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩⁂𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾⁂𝔫𝔢𝔱
But high-end brands are too expensive, and cheap brands lack innovation and aesthetics. Trendy brands emerged to fill the gap in the middle market.
Originally, Gu Bai hadn’t thought of this, but now with Qi Man’s reminder, he realized this indeed had potential.
However, Gu Bai’s current career focus is still in the entertainment industry, and he hasn’t thought about this for now.
"Since you’re interested, I’ll arrange for you to learn about brand management sometime later."
"But you’ll probably have to take a break from school by then."
"No problem! Forget about taking a break, I can even drop out if needed. After all, you know why I came to Shanghai Theatre Academy, now that my goal is achieved, I have no interest in staying there."
Gu Bai smiled and pinched her cheek, "Aren’t you afraid I’ll ditch you?"
Qi Man freed herself from his grasp and smiled sweetly.
With your personality, if you wanted to ditch me, you’d do so directly without saying all this nonsense. I still remember vividly the scene in Shangri-La you told me to go back from where I came."
The two talked, inhaling the faint fragrance from Qi Man’s body.