HRPM – Chapter 308 The Wicked Queen (2)

Dongfang Hong rubbed his forehead helplessly. “Luoluo, how can you say you don’t know me? I’m Dongfang Hong—the handsome guy you once said was so good-looking that he could bring heaven and earth crashing down.”

“I don’t care whether you’re so handsome that the heavens collapse or so ugly that ghosts wail and wolves howl.” She snorted. “You even hid things from your friends. That’s really not cool of you. Fine, maybe you had your reasons for concealing your identity, but there was no excuse for not even telling me your real name! Even if you’d told me your real name, I still wouldn’t have known you were part of the Yun family. Did you really need to be that cautious?”

She was furious. Did he think “Yun Zhihong” was some world-famous name that everyone knew? Even if he had told her, it wouldn’t have exposed anything!

Hmph. This only proved that he hadn’t been sincere from the very beginning. She had wasted so many descriptive phrases praising his good looks. Thinking about it now, it all seemed so ironic.

What an ungrateful wretch. She had put so much effort into him, and it had all gone down the drain.

Dongfang Hong felt utterly wronged and hurriedly explained, “Well, Luoluo, I really didn’t lie to you. My name is both Yun Zhihong and Dongfang Hong. One of my ancestors married into the Dongfang family, and in order to preserve the bloodlines of both families, two surnames were established. So Dongfang Hong is also my real name. When I travel and conduct business, I always use this name. I absolutely didn’t make it up to deceive you.”

Jin Luoluo blinked her wide eyes.

So… technically, he hadn’t lied to her at all.

Even so, she still felt uncomfortable. You thought the person beside you was a harmless little rabbit you could push around, only to discover in the blink of an eye that he’d transformed into a tyrannosaurus rex.

That psychological gap left her feeling intensely dissatisfied.

Yes—extremely dissatisfied.

“Really? I still don’t feel good about it.” She tapped the rim of her cup with a swaggering air, looking every bit the streetwise troublemaker.

Her Majesty Queen Jin Luoluo was notoriously difficult to please, and irrational obstinacy was one of her defining traits.

“Then how about I offer you an apology and make amends?” Dongfang Hong asked gently and humbly.

Partly because he genuinely wanted Jin Luoluo to be happy, and partly because everyone was watching them. If the two of them appeared to be on bad terms, it wouldn’t look good.

Exactly what she had been hoping for.

Jin Luoluo immediately beamed. “Sure! Since you want to apologize, you’ll have to do it my way. Only then will I feel better. Of course, I won’t ask you to do anything too difficult.”

Dongfang Hong knew full well that Jin Luoluo was never that easy to deal with, so he quickly added, “You’re not allowed to rope me into helping with your business ventures.”

Once bitten by a snake, one fears even a coiled rope for ten years.

Jin Luoluo smiled sweetly. “I won’t. Don’t worry so much. It’s something very simple—I guarantee it’s something everyone can do.”

The key question was whether anyone would actually be willing to do it.