Chapter 43: Men Are All Insecure Wild Animals

  "What's wrong, is the price not suitable?" Ruan Yunna asked again when she saw Song Wen didn't speak up.

  Song Wen hurriedly waved his hand to prevent her from misunderstanding.

  "I'm not afraid of being laughed at, I originally wanted to use 100,000 yuan to install streetlights, but now 100,000 yuan can't even cover half the distance, so I'm a bit sentimental, don't blame me."

  "Don't worry, if you're short of money, you can pay in installments."

  Ruan Yunna said. As a good sister's friend, she should also be treated with kindness, let alone the one or two hundred thousand yuan which is just a small amount of money for her company.

  "I don't like owing people money." Song Wen smiled and refused her proposal.

  "Alright, I'll lend it to you first, and you can pay me back when you have the money." said Huang Xiaojun who was standing beside them.

  Song Wen shook his head, he didn't like owing people money, especially women.

  "After some thought, he said: 'Alright, I'll take out 100,000 yuan. You have people dismantle the streetlights from this side of the courtyard first and install them wherever they can. The rest can be installed later when I have more money, it's not like it makes a big difference in time.'"

  "You're such a person, I've already told you I'd help you out first, how can you still be so..."

  Huang Xiaojun was secretly annoyed, not to mention that he had helped her father with his illness, but just because he was the brother of her good sister's husband, she wanted to help him out this time. Moreover, she had been to his house for dinner before, so they were considered familiar people. Borrowing some money shouldn't be a big deal either. She didn't expect to be rejected by him, it really was a case of good intentions being treated like a donkey's liver and lungs.

  Ruan Yunna, who was standing beside her, noticed that she looked uneasy and quickly pulled at her sleeve, giving her a warning glance. Huang Xiaojun finally calmed down, but her face still looked a bit unpleasant.

  "That's good, I'll have someone come over to survey the place in the next two days and make a rendering for your review. Then we can arrange for installation. What do you think?" Ruan Yunna said after seeing that Song Wen had made up his mind.

  "It's okay, but I think I'll be out for the next two days, so just send the renderings to my email and I'll take a look when I get back."

  "That's it, we still have an exhibition at the flower expo on the other side, so I'll take my leave first."

  After finishing speaking, Ruan Yunna pulled Huang Xiaojun away.

  Huang Xiaojun followed out in a huff, came to the car, and only then remembered that he hadn't given Song Wen the "ginseng" he had helped take pictures of yesterday, so he took it out from the back trunk and gave it to Song Wen.

  Finally, she didn't forget to hum at him, raising her delicate nose and scolding: "A dog bites Lu Dongbin, not knowing the kindness of others." After finishing speaking, she turned around and left without looking back.

  Song Wen couldn't help but smile wryly. He really didn't want to owe anyone money, especially a woman's money, and it seemed like they weren't familiar enough with each other to borrow money yet.

  Huang Xiaojun is a kind-hearted person, and Song Wen is also Huang Wenyong's elder brother. Moreover, he had helped Huang Xiaojun's father recover from stomach disease. Not to mention the human feelings, just this coming and going, she has already regarded Song Wen as a friend. Helping friends in need is also a matter of course for her, and these hundreds of thousands are nothing to her. Unexpectedly, Song Wen was completely ungrateful.

  The Hummer drove back and forth on Bamboo Forest Road, Huang Xiaojun's face was stern with discontent.

  Ruan Yunna looked at her good sister's appearance and burst out laughing.

  "What's wrong with you, why think like this?"

  "I don't know what's wrong with me, I'm actually quite open-minded." Huang Xiaojun pulled down the corner of her mouth and said with a smile.

  "Aren't you angry with Song Wen?"

  "How is this possible?" Huang Wenfeng said with an incredulous expression.

  They say women are born performers, and indeed they are. Huang Xiaojun's face didn't show any other expression, only her evasive eyes betrayed her.

  Ruan Yunna smiled and said, "Xiao Jun, you should know that men are actually a kind of inferior animal. They look strong on the surface, each one is a gladiator, but in fact they are a kind of superficially arrogant, yet deeply insecure wild animal. They are most afraid of being surpassed by women around them. The more capable and better-off a woman is, the more panicked men become, the more helpless they feel. Because men love face the most, and fear showing their incompetence in front of capable women. Two professors from the University of Michigan and the University of California, Los Angeles conducted research on over 300 college students' dating preferences, including 120 males. When observing whether a sense of superiority would affect their willingness to date, they found that most men tend to choose their work assistants as partners, but are not very interested in their colleagues or superiors. However, women do not particularly consider this sense of superiority. Therefore, it is common for male bosses to marry female subordinates, or for a young and beautiful female secretary to marry a successful male boss.

  "Excuse me, what did you say? I didn't quite catch it." Huang Xiaojun had no idea what Ruan Yunna was talking about.

  "No matter whether you understand or not, I still want to tell you that a female strong person, from a man's perspective, is like Mount Everest - tall and mysterious. Although men all want to be conquerors, with the desire to conquer famous mountains and rivers, Mount Everest is too high and the climate is too harsh, making it difficult to climb, unless one is a mountaineer. But now Chinese men are all timid and short-sighted, finding it tiring to even climb Mount Huang or Mount Tai, who would still be willing to expend great effort to climb an unattainable peak? This is the fundamental reason why our Chinese-style female strong persons make the men around them tremble with fear, only able to fall into a state of solitary self-admiration. Honestly speaking, if I hadn't met Jian Fei, I wouldn't have known when someone would finally want me." Ruan Yunna said with some emotion.

  "Yes, your sword flies the best."

  Huang Xiaojun glared at her with a bad temper, but she didn't take it seriously.

  "A man is just that sort of thing, remember one sentence - imperialism and all big men are paper tigers! We must bravely charge forward."

  Ruan Yunna raised her hand magnanimously and said, leaving Huang Xiaojun staring in shock. He couldn't help but tease: "You're not satisfied with your beloved Sword Flying, are you? Where else do you want to rush to? Won't you be starting a new romance again?"

  "Alright, you actually dare to tease me? Watch my invincible scratching hand."

  "No way, I'm driving."

  Huang Xiaojun was scratched by Ruan Yunna and drove crookedly, so she stopped the car on the side of the road and attacked her.

  After a while, the two of them finally stopped, their hair disheveled and their clothes in disarray. Fortunately, there was no one else around; otherwise, if those despicable people had seen them, who knows what kind of lewd thoughts they would have had.

  After tidying up her appearance, Ruan Yunna said to Huang Xiaojun in a serious tone: "Honestly, if you want to continue with Song Wen, it's best not to bring up the topic of money for now. It can be seen that although he is not wealthy, he has a man's pride. What you did earlier was very inappropriate. Just like a few years ago, Jian Fei invested a large sum of money in researching solar power generation, which caused the company's funds to become temporarily strained. I sold my house and took out all my savings to give to him. Do you know what he said? He said he wasn't a gigolo. He treated my kindness as a joke, and I almost threw the money directly at his face."

  Ruan Yunna said with a sullen face, "My cloud is flying away." Although she said so with her mouth, the thick smile at the corner of her eyes betrayed her true feelings at this moment.

  "You don't think we're in a romantic relationship, do you?"

  Huang Xiaojun asked in surprise, from the beginning she felt that what she said was strange, and now she finally understood, daring to treat her and Song Wen as boyfriend and girlfriend.

  "Isn't it?"

  "Here."

  "She's just the sister-in-law of my good friend's husband, we've only met a few times, how could it be that kind of relationship."

  "No way! I feel like you guys have known each other for a long time, the way you looked at each other when you met earlier, that tone of voice, that affectionate expression, it's just like a couple who haven't seen each other in ages, all that's missing is a hug and a kiss. Ugh... this is so cheesy, I almost got goosebumps listening to it."

  "It's not as dirty as you think, it's just a normal greeting between friends."

  "Oh, so that's what you mean by not normal? I thought you two were just being affectionate! The way your eyes met earlier, it was like sparks flying everywhere. Didn't you see his eyes, they were burning with passion, like a fire in the middle of winter."

  "What nonsense. Let's go, it'll be noon if we don't leave now."

  Huang Xiaojun was flustered and hastily changed the subject. But then she couldn't help but think of Song Wen's fiery eyes, and that unintentional glance, although he hid it well, as a woman's intuition, how could she not know? Now being said by Ruan Yunna like this, her heart was suddenly in a mess.