The Real Heiress Has an Appraisal System

His clothes were clean and stylish, but he still looked poor.

In fact, when Gu Shengsheng looked at his unbranded clothes, she could tell the quality was even better than her own outfit.

’How interesting. Pretending to be poor.’

She didn’t say anything, just watched as Lu Linlin hurried over to him.

A waiter led her to a neighboring table, where she sat down.

Gu Shengsheng was never very expressive or prone to smiling. At this moment, she was as aloof as could be.

However, the boy across from Lu Linlin was looking at her, a hint of regret in his eyes.

’She’s certainly good-looking, but her outfit looks cheap. She’s the type you keep as a canary in a gilded cage, not someone you spend your life with.’

’These people always see their prey as a commodity from the very first glance, waiting to put a price on them.’

’A perfect gentleman on the surface, but utterly filthy on the inside.’

Lu Linlin followed his gaze and asked, "You think she’s pretty?"

"Yeah, she came in with you. I saw. Is she your friend?" His voice was gentle. "I’ve said it before, we’d have to overcome a lot of obstacles to be together. The gap between us is too wide. Your friend wouldn’t approve of you constantly chasing after me either."

Lu Linlin grew excited. "So you mean you like me, but you think you’re not good enough for me?"

"..." He hesitated for a long while, then seemed to stop himself from speaking, as if having made some sort of resolution. "I don’t like you."

Gu Shengsheng snorted from the side. "As expected of an acting student. The performance is a little too obvious."

After speaking, she looked back at the show on her phone, as if she were commenting on the actors in it.

It made the young man uncomfortable.

Lu Linlin smiled. "Oh, don’t worry about it. My friend’s just waiting for her blind date, so she’s watching a show."

At that very moment, Lu Linlin’s blind date arrived. As fate would have it, it was none other than the owner of the used car dealership, Jin Ran.

Gu Shengsheng remembered this person; he was friends with her neighbor.

But today, Jin Ran looked a bit stiff and was even wearing glasses. He seemed afraid to even look at Gu Shengsheng.

Gu Shengsheng asked, "Mr. Jin? Are you alright?"

Jin Ran looked at her. "Aren’t you married, Miss Gu? Why would Mrs. Lu Sr. arrange for you to have a blind date with me?" His lip twitched.

It was nothing, really. He had just been mocking Lu Shijing too much outside and got beaten up for it.

A black eye, and countless wounds on his body.

He had been gloating before, but now that he’d been beaten, he didn’t dare act so brazenly. He even glanced a few times at the man in a hat in the corner of the second floor before quickly looking away.

Gu Shengsheng saw that Jin Ran had misunderstood. She said directly, "I’m here on behalf of Linnin. Grandma wants her to go on a blind date, but she likes someone else, so I came instead."

Lu Linlin raised a hand in greeting. "Hi, Brother Jin Ran!"

Lu Linlin also took the opportunity to say to her ’boyfriend,’ "I already told you about this. I really like you, and I really want to be with you, so what are your thoughts? I think I’ve been sincere enough."

"If you’re not willing, I’ll give up." She had always been this way, never forcing things. No matter how much she liked someone, she would do what she felt was enough and leave it at that.

The poor boy across from her was also surprised; he hadn’t expected her to say that. But seeing the determination in her eyes, he knew he couldn’t keep stringing her along. He said, "I... like you. I know you’ve been quietly paying attention to me."

"..."

Gu Shengsheng was disgusted. His acting was so bad, she wanted to go over and throw her drink in that phony’s face!

’Jin Ran: "..." Wait a minute. For this stupid mess, the blind date wasn’t even Gu Shengsheng? Couldn’t they have just explained that clearly? Why the hell did Lu Shijing beat me up!’

’So in the end, Miss Lu gets her sweet, sweet romance, and Miss Gu... is just demolishing the pastries.’

’They... both got something out of this. So what was the point of him getting beaten up?’

Fuming, he picked up his phone and started sending a message to Lu Shijing. He typed so fast, you couldn’t even imagine how foul his curses were.

Just then, a new set of afternoon tea pastries arrived to replace the ones Gu Shengsheng had mostly finished. Still fuming, Jin Ran began to wolf them down.

’He had to admit, he had never eaten so miserably in all his years!’

After Gu Shengsheng had eaten her fill, she saw that Jin Ran still had several plates left.

She frowned and asked, "Is something on your mind, Young Master Jin? You’re eating so little."

"...This is already the most I’ve ever eaten at once."

Gu Shengsheng had just gotten up, preparing to go and ’have a word’ with the poor boy, when everyone in the restaurant received a notification.

"No way! There’s a rumor going around that the Lu Group is going bankrupt!"

"It’s the number one trending topic!"

"Holy crap, the stock price plummeted! The stock has completely tanked. This is brutal! The Lu Group used to be a huge deal, right?"

’Gu Shengsheng: "..." Such a big move... Don’t tell me Grandma did this?’

Just then, Mrs. Lu Sr. sent a screenshot and a message to Gu Shengsheng: Grandma did it! I released some fake news and paid to get it to the number one trending spot.

’Gu Shengsheng: "..." Wait, if Lu Chaoyang finds out about this, won’t he be furious? Backstabbed by his own family?’

Suddenly, Gu Shengsheng felt that not helping out at the He Family’s private auction wasn’t such a big deal after all.

’It couldn’t compare to one-thousandth of what Grandma just did!’

Immediately after, Lu Linlin exclaimed in surprise, "Sister-in-law, all my bank cards have no money!"

Gu Shengsheng looked at the poor boy and said, "Have your boyfriend pay! I’m out of money too."

"For the time being, you can stay at your boyfriend’s rental apartment. On second thought, the house you bought for him—sell it. We’ll have to get through these hard times together."

Lu Linlin nodded, her face serious. "Okay. What about you..."

Before she could finish, the ’boyfriend’ became unhappy. His expression changed in an instant. "We just started dating. It might be... a little inconvenient."

But Lu Linlin was no fool.

Before, she had simply believed that loving someone meant being completely sincere. But she had, after all, been raised by a family that spent a fortune on her upbringing; it wasn’t like she was brainless.

’This ’fated one’ she had thought she’d found today had not only been eyeing her sister-in-law’s looks the whole time, but he’d also been so wishy-washy with his words. He only agreed after she was about to give up. Wasn’t that just stringing her along?’

’And now he pulls this so-called "inconvenience"...’

Lu Linlin was furious. She stood up and threw her coffee on him!

"Get lost!"

She maintained a final shred of dignity and didn’t curse him out further. After all, this was the scumbag she had once fancied. Even though that was over, she didn’t want to make an even bigger scene.

"You think I give a damn about you? If it weren’t for your family’s damn money, who would like a useless, incapable rich girl who only knows how to spend money?"

"You thought it was true love, but it was just me playing you. You idiot, falling in love and chasing after me."

"That house you gave me? The deed is already in my name. And all those clothes and pants you bought me? I sold them all. It came to over eight million. I put it in the bank. I’m set for life now!"

He cursed as he walked towards the exit, "Don’t even think about getting any of this stuff back. I was very careful to follow all the legal procedures. Everything is in line with the law."

He had always been a professional scammer.

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