Chapter 61: Fine, You’re Ruthless!

After a long silence, Lin Wan shook her head again and said to Wu Mengting with earnest advice, “I think you still need to be more cautious. That blind man’s fortune-telling might be somewhat accurate, but it’s not necessarily 100% correct. This concerns your entire life. It would be too rash to completely believe that blind fortune-teller.”

Wu Mengting smiled, “I haven’t done anything yet. I haven’t even officially started dating him. Besides, haven’t you noticed?”

Lin Wan asked in confusion, “Noticed what?”

Wu Mengting didn’t keep her in suspense and said directly, “It’s that Brother Feng has been trying his best not to hurt me. After I took the initiative to express my interest, he has tactfully rejected me several times. It wasn’t until you brought things into the open earlier that he also clarified his position with those words. Before, I was angry because of Sister Sun and felt wronged. But after what he said, I suddenly realized he’s rejecting me because he doesn’t want to hurt me.

“I’m not ugly. If it were any other man, after I took the initiative to show my interest, they definitely wouldn’t be as considerate as Brother Feng, so full of worries and indecisive. They would surely just try to win me over first. Most men are like that. But Brother Feng is an exception. He’s a good person.”

“Uh, are you giving him the ‘good person card’?” Lin Wan teased.

Wu Mengting said with a serious expression, “I’m serious. He’s a man of very good character. Men like him are rare these days.”

Lin Wan quickly nodded in agreement, “That’s true. The vast majority of men nowadays think with their lower body. If they encountered a beauty of your level, and you took the initiative to show interest, they would have already made a move, not caring if it was a mistake.”

Wu Mengting smiled, “Although your words are a bit extreme, they’re more or less accurate. So, in this regard, when you compare Brother Feng to most other men, he’s really quite good.”

Lin Wan smiled bitterly, “I admit his character isn’t bad, but that doesn’t prove he’s worthy of you entrusting your life to him. You still don’t know him very well.”

Wu Mengting said, “I already know where his hometown is, and I’ve even met his own brother. I already understand his family situation.”

“Then do you know the reason for his divorce? Is he still in contact with his ex-wife? Are there any property disputes? Besides the car wash, what other businesses does he have? How much money does he have?”

Wu Mengting couldn’t answer a single one of Lin Wan’s questions.

“Also, you said the blind man’s predictions are accurate, but I think that’s relative. Unless you can have another chance encounter with him.”

After all, Lin Wan had been educated with atheistic and materialistic ideas since she was young. In her bones, she was still skeptical of these superstitious matters, even though she had personally witnessed the three coincidental meetings between Wu Mengting and Chen Feng.

Wu Mengting just smiled lightly at this and didn’t respond. However, her gaze turned to the floor-to-ceiling window. On the runway outside, a plane was just taking off, flying into the vast sky.

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After successfully boarding the plane, Chen Feng was still a little worried, afraid of another delay or that it wouldn’t be able to take off.

He only breathed a secret sigh of relief when the plane took off smoothly.

This time, I should be able to successfully avoid this romantic fate.

Maintaining contact with his fellow townswoman Wu Mengting from a distance and being ordinary friends was fine. He was just afraid of being forced into some kind of physical intimacy. If that happened, it would be difficult to resolve.

Now that the plane had taken off smoothly, there shouldn’t be any more problems… right?

Chen Feng prayed to the heavens in his heart, hoping he could successfully avoid the romantic fate with Wu Mengting.

After praying for a while, his heart finally relaxed.

Today had been quite an ordeal, including a high-speed train ride of over two hours.

Once he relaxed, Chen Feng leaned back in his seat and quickly fell asleep.

He slept soundly until a continuous commotion in the cabin woke him up.

He was groggy for a moment, then suddenly woke up with a start and couldn’t help but stand up from his seat.

He had heard the noisy passengers loudly protesting to the flight attendants that the plane was not flying to Qiongzhou as planned but was suddenly going to land in Xiuzhou. They demanded an explanation.

The flight attendants could only patiently explain that the aircraft needed an emergency inspection and that this was for everyone’s safety, and so on.

But the plane was flying perfectly fine at the moment, very stable, so many passengers didn’t believe the flight attendants’ story.

A few passengers who were in a hurry to get to Qiongzhou were particularly agitated, their voices loud.

Hearing this news, Chen Feng truly felt like he’d been screwed over by a husky.

Damn it, you’re still not letting me go!

Chen Feng also wanted to go up and confront the flight attendants, but in the end, he held back.

Because in the end, it was he who had implicated everyone.

Chen Feng sat back down in his seat, somewhat dejected. He looked at the time and realized he had been asleep for over four hours.

He had really slept deeply.

The passengers protested loudly for a while, but after an air marshal stood up and issued a stern warning, they had no choice but to quiet down.

About half an hour later, their plane finally landed at Xiuzhou Airport.

All passengers disembarked to wait for further notice on when the plane would take off again.

This experience was, of course, very frustrating for the passengers, but there was nothing they could do. The airline was just that powerful.

Chen Feng was also very frustrated. Waiting like this, and not knowing for how long, gave him the feeling of being screwed over by his own father.

Several times, Chen Feng wanted to just give up and not go to Qiongzhou, but then he felt unwilling. He had already bought the ticket, and they certainly wouldn’t let him refund it now.

Of course, that wasn’t the main thing. The main thing was that he was afraid if he stayed in Xiuzhou, he would very likely be forced into a match by that unseen existence.

Therefore, running off to another place was the safest option.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Feng finally decided on a two-pronged approach. The first was to continue waiting, but for at most another hour. Because Wu Mengting’s flight back to Xiuzhou was just over an hour after his.

He did not want to have another “chance encounter” with her at the airport.

The second approach was to buy a ticket to another place, as long as it took off in an hour. That way, even if this plane couldn’t take off in an hour, he could leave calmly, making it impossible to have any more contact with Wu Mengting, let alone another chance encounter.

Having made up his mind, he immediately took out his phone to book a ticket, but he couldn’t. The payment kept failing.

He had to go to the ticket counter to try and buy one manually. After the ticket agent went through the process, she told him it was impossible. The reason was the one-person, one-ticket policy. His ID was already associated with a ticket, the one for the plane that had just made an emergency landing here.

Chen Feng immediately said he could change his flight or cancel it directly, but that was also not possible.

Because the Qiongzhou flight was undergoing a temporary emergency inspection, it wasn’t considered a malfunction that prevented it from flying. It couldn’t be changed or canceled.

Receiving this answer, Chen Feng went full Spartan.

Fine, you’re ruthless!

Chen Feng had to admire the heavens’ hardcore tactics.

He immediately made a decisive choice: to hell with this plane ticket, I’m going straight home. Before Wu Mengting gets back.

Otherwise, it was highly likely he would run into her at the airport again.

Thinking this, he did it. He grabbed his suitcase and walked towards the exit.

As he was about to reach the exit, a crowd of people suddenly surged in from outside. Many of them looked like reporters, all pointing their cameras at a person in the middle of the crowd.

Large sunglasses, long legs, a hoodie paired with stretchy leggings—an aura of cool aloofness washed over him.

“Zhang Jingwen, over here! Look here!”

“Jingwen, give us a smile!”

“Jingwen, I love you!”

“Ah! It’s Zhang Jingwen!”

“Which celebrity is she?”

“Ye Xiaoling from ‘Dream of Immortal Fate’.”

“Ah! It’s her!”

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