Chapter 34 Exchanging Cars

Once again, Li Mu praised Xiaoyu on their meeting.

After the meeting ended, Xiaoyu barged into his office and sat on his seat. Casting him a side glance, she gave him a vague smile.

Li Mu felt a little nervous. Anxiously, he asked, “Why are you looking at me like that? You look so evil. It’s scary!”

“F**k you. Li Mu, is there something bothering you?”

“Why are you asking me this question again? You should learn to become more optimistic. Otherwise, you might get depression!”

“Don’t worry. I won’t get depression so easily. Tell me, what exactly happened to you?”

“I told you I’m fine. Stop questioning everything. Be more positive!”

Sighing, Xiaoyu tapped her fingers on the table, “Li Mu, I know you very well. You keep complimenting me these days. I’m sure there’s a reason for it...”

Speaking of which, she began to smile out of embarrassment.

“Come on, go ahead and finish your sentence!” Li Mu rolled his eyes at her, “What’s the big deal of complimenting you?”

Suddenly, Xiaoyu slammed her fists on the table and shouted, “Li Mu, are you going to tell me the truth or not?”

Shocked, Li Mu turned his head to look at the lobby. Fortunately, nobody heard her. He looked at Xiaoyu again and scolded her, “Are you crazy? Why are you shouting in the office?”

Unfazed, Xiaoyu smiled and answered, “Hah, this is the Li Mu I know. I’m sure there’s something bothering you. Come on, tell me!”

Hesitating for a moment, Li Mu scratched his head and said, “Well, there is indeed something bothering me, but I’m not sure how to tell you this.”

“I knew it!” Xiaoyu roared.

“Hey, can you keep your voice down? Don’t yell all of a sudden. You’re going to give me a heart attack!” Li Mu complained.

“Tell me what happened then.” Xiaoyu said so softly that Li Mu could barely hear her.

After pondering for a moment, Li Mu made up his mind and said to Xiaoyu, “Follow me to the parking lot. You’ll find out what happened.”

Looking at the dent on the car, Xiaoyu was stunned.

“Did you get into an accident?”

“Yes!” Li Mu nodded furiously, “I ran into a tree.”

Turning on the flashlight on her phone, Xiaoyu knelt down to examine her car. The more she looked at the dent, the more she felt something was wrong.

“Li Mu, although I don’t know a lot about cars, you can’t treat me like a fool. I don’t think you’ll get a dent like this by running into a tree!”

“I don’t know how it happened, but it somehow turned out that way. Don’t worry. I’ll get it fixed.”

“Someone kicked my car, huh?” Standing up, Xiaoyu shone the flashlight on Li Mu’s eyes.

“Hey! Don’t do that!” Li Mu blocked the light with his hand and tried to dodge the light.

Xiaoyu kept shining the flashlight at him. Unhappily, she asked, “Lin Wan did it, right? Did she take her anger out on my car?”

Li Mu took the phone away from her hands and turned off the flashlight before shoving the phone back into her hands.

“It’s not her. I was the one who did it. I was drunk, and I took it out in your car. It’s my fault. I’ll pay for the repair fees and compensate you!”

Letting out a hum, Xiaoyu crossed her arms and asked coldly, “Compensate me? Tell me how you’re going to compensate me then.”

“How about this? Send your car to the service center, and I’ll pay for the repair fees. Besides that, I’ll pay you an extra amount of money. You can name your price.”

“Are you sure you can fulfill my request?”

“As long as you don’t ask me to keep you company, I’ll do anything!”

Xiaoyu punched him on the arm, “That’s exactly what I want! I want you to keep me company! Otherwise, you buy me a new car!”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Let’s get back to the topic. Can’t you say something more normal?”

Xiaoyu gave him a few more punches on his arm, and Li Mu smiled.

“You take my car then. We’ll exchange cars!” Xiaoyu suddenly blurted out.

Stunned for a moment, Li Mu snapped back to his senses, “That’s all?”

“Yeah, that’s all. It’s either we exchange cars, or you buy me a new car. Choose one or the other!”

“But my car is a cheap car!”

“I like it. It feels very comfortable. I want to exchange my car with yours, is that alright?”

“Is it necessary for us to exchange cars?”

“Since I like you, I like your car too. Don’t you get it?”

“Be serious!”

“Alright. Since Lin Wan doesn’t feel comfortable with you driving my car, I want her to look at my car every day and keep annoying her! She can smash my car up if she wants to. I’ll buy you another car to annoy her!”

Hearing Xiaoyu’s words, Li Mu did not know whether to laugh or cry. Instead of solving the problem, she was just trying to piss Lin Wan off.

At the end of the day, it was still Lin Wan’s fault. Xiaoyu was the victim, so Li Mu could only put away his pride and apologize to Xiaoyu.

“Xiaoyu, don’t get angry at Lin Wan. I apologize to you on her behalf. Can you please forgive her for my sake?”

“I’m not blaming her. If it weren’t for you, I would call the police. It’s illegal to destroy other’s property. Do you know the legal standards of destroying other’s property?”

“Five thousand yuan!” Li Mu answered coldly.

“Yes, I can file a case just for five thousand yuan. She can be locked up for at least two years for this. Let’s see how arrogant she can be!”

Xiaoyu was getting excited as she spoke. Suddenly, she noticed Li Mu’s face turning blue. Quickly, she said, “Forget it. I’m just kidding. I won’t report it to the police for real. But you have to pay for my repair fees!”

“Of course! I’ll send your car to the automobile sales service shop later, and I’ll make sure it’ll turn back to the way it used to be.”

“No way! We have to exchange cars. If you don’t agree to my request, you have to pay me an extra one million yuan other than paying the repairing fees!”

“One million yuan?!” Li My exclaimed, “Are you trying to blackmail me?”

“I’m not blackmailing you. Even if it’s all repaired, the value of the car will depreciate. I’m just trying to claim back the depreciated cost.”

“Well, I mean, is it possible to reduce the amount?”

“No. It’s either we exchange cars or you pay me the money. That’s my line.”

Knowing her stubborn character, Li Mu tried to persuade her, but it seemed like Xiaoyu had already made up her mind.

He could not afford to pay so much money. Hence, he could only choose to exchange cars with Xiaoyu.

Anyway, the issue was solved. But before he could heave a sigh of relief, Xiaoyu walked to the other side of the car and kicked on the door violently.

Bang! A dent was formed on the right door of the car.

Shrieking, Li Mu could not help snapping at her, “You br*t! Are you crazy? Why did you kick your own car?!”

“I’m angry, so I want to let my anger out on the car too. Why can’t I do it if she can do it?” Xiaoyu answered coldly.

Furious, Li Mu shook his head. Pointing at the door, he uttered, “You’re the one who made this dent. I’m not going to pay for it!”

Li Mu ended up paying for the other dent, but fortunately, it did not cost him a lot.

The Lamborghini was fixed on the day itself. Xiaoyu saw how stingy Li Mu was that day.

Instead of going to an automobile sales service shop, he drove the car to a normal repairing center.

Xiaoyu mocked him, but he answered rightfully, “Didn’t you want to exchange cars? Now this car belongs to me. I can send it to whichever repair shop I want!”

The owner of the shop charged him eight hundred yuan to repair two dents and touch up the car’s paint.

These shops never use original car paints. The best paint they could offer was metallic paint. Before spraying the paint, the staff kept double-checking with Li Mu, “Boss, I’m going to spray it now!”

Generously, Li Mu answered, “Go ahead. As long as the color looks similar, it’s fine!”

After a while, all the staff in the shop gathered around the car.

Surprisingly, their skill was pretty good. No one would notice the difference if they didn’t look closely. It looked quite perfect.

Taking out their phones, the staff started taking photos of the car. They could boast and tell other friends that they repaired a Lamborghini now!

...

When Lin Wan was about to get off work, she received a call from Mr. Wu.

“Lin Wan, come out. I’m waiting for you in the car!”

Politely, Lin Wan answered, “Mr. Wu, is there something I can help you with?”

Mr. Wu was dissatisfied with Lin Wan’s attitude. How could she be so dim-witted? Was she trying to play dumb?

“Ms. Lin, I thought I already informed you that I have something to discuss with you tonight. Don’t you remember?”

“That’s not what I meant. Of course, I didn’t forget. I’m just curious why we have to talk about work in your car.” Lin Wan continued to ask politely.

“Oh, I booked a restaurant so we can eat while we talk. I want us to get to know each other better. I sincerely want to help you out, Lin Wan.”

“Thank you for your care, Mr. Wu. If you want to talk about work, I think we can talk about it in the office. It’s not necessary for us to go to a restaurant.”

“So you mean you’re not coming?” Mr. Wu’s tone became solemn.

“Please don’t misunderstand, Mr. Wu. I just feel like it’s not appropriate for us to talk about work in a restaurant.”

Mr. Wu clicked his tongue. Lin Wan was so stubborn, yet he got nothing that he could use to threaten her.

He had no idea what to do now.

Knowing that Lin Wan would not get convinced so easily, he hung up the call helplessly. After getting out of his car, he walked towards the school angrily.

As soon as he reached his office, he called the music department, “I’m Mr. Wu. Ask Ms. Lin to see me now.”

He had already made up his mind to give Lin Wan an earful when she came. Of course, he came up with a lot of reasons.

He was going to lash out at her for her poor teaching and poor lesson planning. Anyway, there was no fixed standard for such issues. As long as he felt like she was not doing her best, he could lash out at her as much as he wanted to.

Once Lin Wan started crying, he would pretend to comfort her and go with the flow then.