Fan Jian's gaze was complex, wandering at the crossroads, pedestrians and traffic flowing around him inconsequentially. The lonely feeling of the city and the slightly chilling breeze made him unconsciously shrug his shoulders, gripping his clothes tighter.

Ahead was a small café, inexpensive, serving only simple and ordinary Nescafe coffee for just 18 yuan, and 36 yuan for two.

Fan Jian chose this place to break up with his girlfriend he had just started dating last week; first, because it was where they met and had deep, unforgettable memories of their initial romantic encounter.

Secondly, the place was really cheap. With Fan Jian's monthly salary just over two thousand yuan, after rent and utilities, there wasn't much left. Previously, he could save for three months to afford a foot massage and a foot wash at a massage parlor, and that was only after the workers there got familiar with him.

In his youth, Fan Jian too had dreamed of striving hard and progressing, to live a life flinging gold like dirt and to experience the lavishness of riches.

However, things went contrary to his desires. Coming alone to the cosmopolitan city of Huadu from a rural village, Fan Jian, gnashing his teeth in confusion, endured people's disdain and still ended up with nothing, receiving only a performance bonus at the end of the year which he sent to his parents as their financial support.

Standing at the café entrance, Fan Jian hesitated.

At that moment, a BMW 530 stopped not far at the curb.

From the BMW, a girl with a provocative appearance, dressed flamboyantly and heavily made up, descended. She seemed only in her early twenties but dressed maturely.

Fan Jian could smell the scent of the massage parlor from afar and, turning his head, his eyes were filled with complexity when he saw the woman walking towards him.

That girl was Fan Jian's girlfriend.

But now, this ex-girlfriend was affectionately supporting an obese middle-aged man about forty, with small, greedy eyes exuding a sleazy and vicious gleam.

The pair didn't pay any attention to Fan Jian, walking and laughing intimately.

"Qianqian, you're here..." Fan Jian felt a choke in his throat; despite having a lot to say, he couldn't voice anything as if something was stuck.

The girl called Qianqian laughed and talked with the middle-aged man, giving Fan Jian a lazy glance filled with contempt, disdain, and deep disgust and aversion before entering the café.

That look, Fan Jian would never forget.

"Idiot, what are you stunned for? Not talking?" A grating voice echoed in Fan Jian's ears, reverberating in his mind.

Once, to please this beloved woman, he had spent an entire year's savings to buy her an iPhone 6, satisfying her vanity, only to realize shortly after that she had no attachment or concealment of her disdain for him.

His male pride was mercilessly trampled at this moment.

Fan Jian looked up at the sky, the sunlight so glaring that even breathing felt like his lungs were searing.

It hit him deep in the heart and bones.

Life, as if frozen in this moment, that humiliating period, that unbearable age, that heart-wrenching damned first love!

Suddenly, Lin Hai's words from earlier today echoed in Fan Jian's mind.

A person is sometimes like an egg, broken from the outside it's food, but hatching from the inside, it's growth!

He should face it, even if it tears him apart.

Taking a deep breath, Fan Jian squinted his eyes and took a difficult step into the café.

"Useless, foolish, a poor wretch, incompetent, akin to the dregs." The woman named Qianqian mercilessly mocked Fan Jian again.

At this moment, Fan Jian felt he was truly a fool, yet so unwilling to accept it.

Clamping his teeth and carrying the humiliation, he walked into the café.

That middle-aged man, with a Yuxi cigarette hanging from his lips, was leaning arrogantly against the booth sofa. When he saw Fan Jian approaching, he snorted through his nostrils, not even bothering to spare Fan Jian a glance.

Sitting on the sofa, Fan Jian looked across with a complicated expression at Qianqian, who was laughing and chatting unrestrainedly with the middle-aged man, showing a face that was both pleasing and enjoying.

In the short week they had been together, this girl was like a treasure in Fan Jian's eyes, someone he couldn't even bear to touch. If it hadn't been for her ecstatic reaction after buying the iPhone 6, Qianqian might not have taken the initiative, and Fan Jian would still be foolishly hesitant to touch her even now.

Yet here was this treasured girl, sitting right across him, her eyes full of indifference as if they were strangers. The occasional disdainful glance and mocking sneer felt like a thorn piercing deeply into Fan Jian's heart.

Despite being face to face, it felt as though they were worlds apart.

His own little princess, his first innocent love, the woman he planned to dedicate his life to, including his life, was now currying favor with another man. A man with a sleazy face, ugly and arrogantly pleased with himself, she was showing off her most beautiful side to him.

The middle-aged sleazy man's eyes held a triumphant look of conquest, as if he was a victorious male animal. He snorted arrogantly through his nose.

"Kid, let's be clear, do you even qualify to compete with me for a woman?"

The middle-aged man sneered threateningly.

Fan Jian clenched his humiliated lips, his eyes firm. Upon seeing Qianqian's cold gaze, he felt a sharp pain in his heart.

......

On the other side, Lin Hai stylishly grabbed his car keys and started up the Maybach.

He gently pressed on the gas a few times, executed a magnificent reverse drift, and the car smoothly exited the parking lot.

"Ah, Fan Jian, I'm doing this to save your face, don't mess it up," Lin Hai muttered to himself, only to discover that his phone was suddenly ringing. He glanced down and saw it was Mrs. Ouyang calling.

"Boss's wife, what can I do for you? You're not backing out, are you? Just so you know, I've already driven the car out, changing your mind won't work now," Lin Hai finished in one breath, laughing proudly.

"Petty mindset, huh, would this boss really fall short?" Ouyang Xiaoya replied irritably.

"Eh, what do you need, wife?"

"Aren't you going to restore some dignity for Fan Jian?" Ouyang Xiaoya asked.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Since it's about saving face, you've got the luxury car, you've got the servant, now all you need is a beautiful woman!"

"Come back to the office, bring along our new secretary Murong Xue too, I've already talked to her about it. I'll also contact Miss Han Qin to join you, make sure you really boost our company's face!"

After hearing Ouyang Xiaoya's words, Lin Hai was stunned with the phone still in his hand.

"What? Are you dead? If not, make some noise!" Ouyang Xiaoya's irritated voice came through the phone, breaking Lin Hai's stupor.

"Sh*t, boss's wife, I give you 32 thumbs up, too powerful, heading back now!"

After speaking, he planted a noisy kiss on the phone, "Mwah" went the sound loudly. Only then did Lin Hai realize the phone on the other end had already hung up.

The Maybach made a sharp U-turn, and Lin Hai headed back to his parking spot.

Meanwhile, in the office, Ouyang Xiaoya, standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows exuding an air of majesty, disgustingly threw her phone onto the sofa, goosebumps forming on her delicate arm.

"That Beast Lin, such a detestable guy, even trying to take advantage during a phone call!" Ouyang Xiaoya bitterly clenched her teeth.

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