Chapter 563: Making His Girlfriend His Wingwoman

Chapter 563: Making His Girlfriend His Wingwoman

“Who is she?” Li Ruobing leaned toward Wu Chen until their faces were almost touching. Her narrowed eyes and cold voice made it sound like an interrogation. “Who is she? Where is she? Do I know her? If she has an extraordinary background, I ought to know her, right?”

Li Ruobing’s reasoning was sound.

Su Qingying, Wu Yurong, and An Menglan all had prominent backgrounds, and Li Ruobing knew them. It seemed that the women Wu Chen pursued were always of that caliber. As for Mu Qianqian, she had entered his life before Li Ruobing did; back then, Li Ruobing hadn’t even known Wu Chen, and she wasn’t sure when Wu Chen and Mu Qianqian had first met.

Zhuang Xiaodie was a special case.

So…

“You’ve definitely heard of her, but you’ve never met her. There was one time when you almost did, but in the end, you missed her because of something on your side,” Wu Chen said with a smile. “In other respects, she might be different from what you imagine. I’ll give you a few clues.”

“She is a guest of honor in many prominent families, including some families of major tycoons. Everyone treats her with respect—even the elders.”

“Then there’s her profession. In some people’s eyes, it is practically the same as being a con artist. They don’t believe in it at all. That keeps her rather low-profile in certain circles. Unless someone reaches a certain level, they won’t have heard of her.”

“Her income is astonishing. Ordinary people would think it was unbelievable if they heard how much she makes.”

“And her private personality is very, very eccentric. Extremely so!”

“Also, she lives in Modu, but she’s not from Modu.”

Li Ruobing fell into thought and began an intense mental search. She was trying to identify a woman she’d heard of and almost met. As she considered the clues, she turned and sat down, then suddenly raised a hand. “Could it be… No, no!”

Before she had even finished, she rejected the idea. Clearly, she’d thought of something that didn’t fit.

Wu Chen crooked a finger at her and pulled her into his arms. Immersed in her thoughts, Li Ruobing leaned against him and shifted sideways until she found a comfortable position. One finger unconsciously caught a strand of her hair and kept winding it around.

“Mm… no, that doesn’t fit either!”

“Wait. Don’t tell me. Let me figure it out myself.”

Li Ruobing reminded Wu Chen not to tell her, and he fell silent.

A domineering woman who had always been determined to come out on top…

“Forget it.” Li Ruobing abruptly gave up. There was no need to force herself to guess. She turned to Wu Chen. “Just tell me. Who is she?”

“I can’t tell you yet,” Wu Chen replied.

“I’ll bite you!” Li Ruobing angrily punched him on the shoulder. How could he do this? He’d made her intensely curious, only to refuse to tell her who the woman was! Li Ruobing felt she might not be able to sleep for days after she returned to Donghai. She was already desperately curious about this woman.

“You seem to have forgotten what we were originally talking about,” Wu Chen said with a smile. He caught the hand she was about to use to pinch him and kissed the back of it.

“Oh, right!” Li Ruobing thought for a moment. “Role-playing, right? Then what does that have to do with this?”

“I’ll give you two options,” Wu Chen said with a smile. “First, I can tell you who she is right now. In that case, forget the role-playing. I’ll handle this myself, and you can return to Donghai and take care of your own business.”

“Second, stay in Modu for a few days and treat it as a vacation. Stay by my side and play a role… say, an assistant or a little sidekick. We’ll go find this woman together. You’ll only be pretending to be my assistant temporarily. I want to make her my real assistant.”

Li Ruobing was stunned for a moment.

Put simply, if she didn’t take part, Wu Chen would tell her the woman’s identity outright. If she could restrain her impatience and wait to find out, he’d let her be involved in the whole process.

Of course, there was a “price”: she would have to play Wu Chen’s little sidekick.

And that sounded… damn interesting!

As she thought about it, intense interest flared in Li Ruobing’s eyes.

She’d never truly had the chance to “observe” how Wu Chen managed to win a woman over. At most, she knew when things began, when they ended, and whether he’d succeeded. She’d never witnessed the whole process of how he managed to do such unbelievable things, so she didn’t know—and couldn’t understand—how he pulled it off. How was it even possible?

But this time, Wu Chen was giving her the opportunity.

Of course she wanted to take part and watch the whole thing unfold! And unlike before, there was another aspect that interested her immensely: Wu Chen said this woman had the ability to take over some of his affairs.

Li Ruobing couldn’t think of anyone like that.

Even if Wu Chen gave her the woman’s name, she wouldn’t believe that the woman had such abilities. But Wu Chen believed she did. Perhaps she really did possess those abilities, but the outside world didn’t know about them. That would explain how Li Ruobing could have heard of her yet still be unable to guess who she was.

So…

It wasn’t just the process of “winning her over” that attracted Li Ruobing. The woman herself fascinated her, too. A name alone wasn’t enough.

“If I stay for a few days and play your little sidekick, that counts as compensation for breaking my promise?” Li Ruobing didn’t agree immediately. Instead, she adopted the posture of someone negotiating, trying to appear composed.

“Of course!” Wu Chen nodded with a smile. “Getting a strong, independent woman like you to play a little sidekick—a role that costs you face—all for my sake definitely counts as compensation.”

“Then I’ll choose the second option! I’ll stay and go with you,” Li Ruobing decided.

“Perfect!” Wu Chen smiled and kissed the corner of her mouth. “Time to get up.”

“I was just about to take a shower…” Li Ruobing sat up, got out of bed, and walked toward the chair. She picked up her skirt from the carpet beside it, then took her bag from the chair and rummaged through it. Suddenly she stopped, as though something had just occurred to her, and frowned slightly.

“You played me!” Li Ruobing looked up at Wu Chen. “You want me to be your wingwoman, don’t you? Making your girlfriend your wingwoman—you really are my boyfriend! You’d actually do something like this!”

“Does it bother you?” Wu Chen asked.

Li Ruobing was left speechless, as though he’d landed a direct hit.

It wasn’t that she minded. Wu Chen had given her a choice; he hadn’t forced her to do anything. She’d chosen this herself because she was too curious. But saying she didn’t mind would sound strange, while saying she did would be a lie.

“This isn’t about whether I mind. It’s about how you manipulated me!” Li Ruobing said after a few seconds, then teased him with a smile. “Ha! You can’t win her over on your own this time, can you? That’s why you need me as your wingwoman!”

“Are you challenging me? Then why don’t we make a big bet this time—”

“I was wrong! You’re right, darling. Forget I said anything. No bet!”

They were both quick with their words. Before Wu Chen could finish, Li Ruobing immediately admitted defeat and refused.

“Hmph.” Li Ruobing gave another cool, knowing laugh. “You must think having me as your wingwoman will make it much easier to recruit this assistant. You could still manage without me, but it would be a lot more trouble.”

“You should look at it this way: persuading you to cooperate willingly is part of my plan, too,” Wu Chen said with a smile. “I can even tell you that openly right now. That’s exactly what I’m doing.” He paused, then asked, “Do you want to back out?”

Li Ruobing stared at him for several seconds before finally saying, with displeasure, “You’re good.”

With that, she took her hair tie and headed for the bathroom.

This was the most frightening thing about Wu Chen, as Li Ruobing understood him at present: he could make you realize you were being used, and even after you’d figured it out yourself, you’d still want to let him use you. You might even find yourself unable to do otherwise!

You had to play along!

Li Ruobing now absolutely had to find out what kind of woman this assistant was, and how Wu Chen would win her over. Nothing else mattered.

Losing verbal sparring matches to Wu Chen wasn’t new to her, anyway.

In the living room, An Menglan was still lying on her side on the sofa, scrolling through Weibo. Scrolling was addictive enough when you were following someone else’s gossip all day, let alone when the gossip was about you.

Wu Chen came out of the second bedroom and walked over to the sofa. An Menglan didn’t notice him until he sat down beside her.

“How are people reacting online?” Wu Chen asked with a smile.

An Menglan sat up without saying a word, put down her phone, took Wu Chen by the arm, and burrowed into his embrace, wrapping both arms tightly around his waist.

“Whatever you’re thinking, tell me. You don’t have to hide anything from me. If there’s a problem, we’ll solve it,” Wu Chen said, stroking her hair. “There’s nothing we can’t handle.”

He could guess what was troubling An Menglan.