OFR – Chapter 316 Encounter with Lan Lan.

In the next few seconds, Mu Bai and Zhan Yuyun exchanged glances, waved to each other, and parted ways.

Mu Bai walked into the joint car exhibition.

Zhan Yuyun returned to his Lamborghini to wait.

As for the Nanjing University girl who had been chatting happily with Zhan Yuyun the whole way, she smiled and said goodbye, chatted for a bit longer, then checked the time and realized the charity event organized by Qing Yanchen for young entrepreneurs was about to begin. She turned and walked into the exhibition as well.

Xiao Qian came from a rural background and had been admitted to Nanjing University with excellent grades.

She was now a senior, about to graduate, and after a year of interning in the real world, she had come to understand how difficult life truly was.

Especially for someone like her, from the countryside with no support system—it was even harder.

During her internship, she also realized that graduating from a prestigious university didn’t guarantee a comfortable future.

Even graduates from top-tier schools like Tsinghua or Peking University had average salaries of just a few thousand yuan.

And Nanjing University graduates earned barely enough to match the city’s average wage.

To think that over a decade of hard work from kindergarten to university only earned her a salary just at the average level…

To be honest, Xiao Qian felt it was unfair. She didn’t think it was worth it.

She had studied so hard all these years to make her rural parents proud and to be able to interact equally with her wealthy classmates, not constantly feel like she had to bow her head and curry favor.

So Xiao Qian didn’t see herself as a gold digger by nature—just someone forced into that mindset by the harsh reality of society.

All she wanted was to find a rich, kind-hearted boyfriend to rely on for the rest of her life.

That was it—no extravagant dreams. She didn’t think she was wrong for wanting that.

With these thoughts in mind, Xiao Qian entered the car exhibition. As she stepped inside, she suddenly remembered that the quiet boy from the cab was actually here to buy a luxury car.

He was much younger than Zhan Yuyun and very handsome. Despite his cold and distant air, it didn’t make people dislike him. On the contrary, his aloof, self-controlled demeanor had a certain charm that many girls found attractive.

Xiao Qian was one of them.

At the entrance, as the reception ladies welcomed her in, she spotted that slender figure ahead and bit her lip before running up to him.

“Hey! Handsome, wait a second!”

Hearing her voice and the hurried footsteps behind him, Mu Bai—already inside the venue—paused and turned slightly to glance back.

“Hm? What is it?”

He looked back and saw the girl from the cab—Xiao Qian—catching up.

Mu Bai didn’t particularly like her, but he didn’t dislike her either. She was just… neutral.

He could roughly guess what she was thinking. After overhearing his conversation with Zhan Yuyun, she probably wanted to come over and make friends.

A gold digger?

Mu Bai didn’t really judge her. He simply looked at her calmly, waiting for what she had to say.

“Hi, handsome. We shared a ride, but I don’t even know your name yet. Let’s walk around together? I also have a freshman roommate here with her boyfriend. He’s really into luxury cars—maybe he can help you pick one.”

As expected, her words were just as Mu Bai had anticipated.

He was about to wave her off and refuse, but before he could speak, a girl ahead waving at Xiao Qian caught his attention and made him hold his words.

“Hey Lanlan, I’m here!”

Xiao Qian waved to the girl and her boyfriend not far ahead.

Lanlan!

In a noisy crowd, most people couldn’t identify someone clearly from several dozen meters away unless they were very familiar.

But Mu Bai had sharp eyesight. He instantly recognized the girl.

She wasn’t a stranger—she was the main figure in the “scheming girl” random task that had triggered shortly after Mu Bai got his system.

She studied in the same literature department at Nanjing University as Qian Yiwen, and had tried to treat Mu Bai as a backup option—but nothing ever came of it.

Now, Lanlan was running over with her boyfriend, clearly not recognizing Mu Bai. She came up to Xiao Qian and started chatting with her happily.

As for her boyfriend, Mu Bai gave him a brief glance and noticed that, while a bit older for Lanlan (around 30), he was well-dressed and carried himself like someone from a decent background.

In particular, the man kept raising his arm, clearly showing off a luxury Piaget watch worth over a million yuan.

Whether intentional or not, that watch alone showed he had some status.

After all, in Nanjing, there weren’t many 30-year-olds wearing million-yuan watches.

Aside from elites like Nalan Yunshao and Li Shaofeng, there were only a handful of such people.

After taking a few casual glances, Mu Bai looked away.

At that moment, he finally understood why the system had flagged Lanlan with a “scheming girl” task—because she already had a powerful, wealthy boyfriend.

Indeed, with such a boyfriend, replacing him would require serious thought.

Back then, Lanlan had probably considered Mu Bai as a backup while weighing her options.

Unfortunately for her, Mu Bai had never pursued her, and had even ignored the system’s random task altogether—rendering all of Lanlan’s scheming pointless.

“Oh right, Lanlan, let me introduce you. This is a friend I rode over here with. He’s here to buy a car.”

After chatting for a bit, Xiao Qian casually introduced Mu Bai.

Lanlan, probably because her boyfriend was with her, merely gave Mu Bai a brief glance and then looked away without saying much.

Mu Bai just chuckled lightly and said nothing. He was already preparing to turn and leave—he still had to shop for Lunar New Year goods and didn’t want to waste time here.

As for Lanlan?

He wasn’t interested. He had no intention of engaging with her.

But just as Mu Bai was about to wave and walk away, Lanlan’s boyfriend suddenly spoke up.

“Excuse me, sir. Lanlan’s a little shy around strangers—don’t take it personally. But I heard from Xiao Qian that you’re here to buy a car? I used to manage a few luxury car dealerships under my uncle, so I know a bit about cars. If you don’t mind, I could recommend a few good ones.”

Lanlan’s boyfriend came across as gracious and polite, and he was also very protective of his girlfriend.

This made Mu Bai look up and glance at him again—acknowledging his decent manners and tone.