Chap 4 H*rassment, B*tt Touched

Three months later, The Imperial Capital.

The dazzling golden light penetrated ​​Chaoyang District’s most prosperous area, where tall buildings stood and rows of cars lined the busy roads.

Approaching four o’clock in the afternoon, the private open-air restaurant of the Marriott Hotel had half of their available seats occupied.

This was a very pleasant time to have afternoon tea with friends.

  

Such a large hotel would have numerous waiters, which after their change of shift, would gossip in their groups of twos and threes in the lounge.

“Say, why does she put on airs? She looks like a wh*re who sleeps around. Thinks she’s a fairy. Doesn’t she still bring tea and wait here like us?”

“Isn’t it, ignoring others just because she has such a face? She should go and look for rich people to be her s*gar d*ddy if she’s so capable. Oh but she doesn’t have that ability.”

“Can’t be helped, haven’t you heard of the saying ‘a body of a young lady but the fate of a maid’.” A round-faced girl in her twenties complained while changing, “She just loves to pretend, even in the dormitory she likes to put on a show reading books, and on her days off, she’d disappear. Must be out to h*ok up with a man.”

And Lin Zhinan, the topic of their discussion, was walking towards the western restaurant while balancing a tray propped on her palm. In just three months, the girl had grown like a plum– ripened.

The ordinary uniform on her enhanced her slim waist and legs that are long and well-proportioned, the exact definition of slim and graceful.

It’s no wonder that she was often pointed out by others. Hostility towards those who stood out should not be underestimated.

While walking past them, she received another cold eye from the other party. Lin Zhinan didn’t take it to heart, unfaltering in her steps.

A saying from the book she read; jealousy only exists among those of the same class. But towards someone they could only look up to, they would have nothing but admiration.

Rather than worrying about these, it is better to think of how to improve yourself.

But… What really worries Zhinan is the collapse of the worldview of her past eighteen years after she’d moved to the imperial capital for just three short months. 

Since childhood, the boundary of her life has been limited to Eastern Zhejiang. Looking out at the countless square houses situated on hills, where it’d always be crowded full of prosperity,  and her dream of LiDu University.

Yet after coming to the imperial capital, she realized East Zhejiang is only but a drop in the ocean, and the capital is the economic and cultural center of China.

   

Good colleges and universities abound here, luxury cars seen everywhere like clouds in the sky, and any random house would be worth tens of millions, let alone villas and luxury houses.

The sweet dream that Lin Zhinan had when she escaped the county town, has been shattered into pieces in the countless collisions from reality.

She is soberly aware that with her own strength, she couldn’t even enter the university’s threshold.

The household registration control here was strict, outsiders wouldn’t even have the opportunity to re-enter the college entrance examination, let alone the “airborne student”* mentioned in the newspapers.

That is a game played by the bigwigs and has nothing to do with her.

Her dream of settling down in a school has since shattered, and after a long period in a state of loss, Zhinan forced herself to cheer up again.

Since God gave her a life path by letting her leave Changshui Town, God must have an arrangement for her.

She can’t sit still and wait for death.

Thus, she started studying while working, spending her rest time disguised as a student to attend classes at YenChing University. English was a compulsory daily class, now in the era of economic globalization, the importance of learning an additional language is self-evident.

“In the early 1990s, the notion of meeting a partner online seemed freakish, and not a little pathetic…”

Zhinan silently memorized the “The Economist” article in her heart, while smiling at the customer.

As she placed the coffee firmly on the table, she could hear a female’s voice from the table behind making a call.

“Brother, I’m almost done with my black forest and you’re still not here. Have you forgotten your only sister? You workaholic!”

Not sure what the other side of the line said, but she started acting coyly, “I’m waiting for you, if you don’t come to pick me up, I will stay here tonight~”

“Mmhm, it may rain later, remember to get the driver to bring an umbrella, otherwise…”

As Lin Zhinan turned around, the girl who was on the phone was stunned for a second when she saw her.

Zhinan smiled out of politeness, while bushing past her table, her mind naturally did a comparison.

The floral knee-length skirt is Chanel, and the pearl bag next to it is Burberry’s latest model.

Thanks to the blessing of this job, she has also become familiar with these big names in a short time.

After a busy round of comparison, Lin Zhinan found the girl still stealing glances at her, and she peeked over from time to time, as if she had something to ask.

Zhinan deliberately bypassed in front of her.

 
“Wait a minute!”

Sure enough.

Lin Zhinan turned around.

The girl before her should be about the same age as her, her eyes are bright and brilliant as if unfamiliar with the ways of the world, you could tell at first sight she’d been well protected by her family.

“Sorry to bother you, Miss,” Han Xing raised her chin and asked with a smile, “Has anyone ever said that you look like a person. Tang Yanan.”

Tang Yanan?

Zhinan repeated silently in her heart, why does this name sound so familiar? Like I’ve seen it somewhere.

As she was wondering, Han Xing had already swiped the phone screen and showed it to her, “Isn’t she super-alike?”

The woman in the center of the screen is holding the camera, smiling beautifully with twinkling eyes.

Oh, it’s her, Zhinan suddenly realized.

——The actress on the city billboard.

“Isn’t it? Your eyes and face shapes are exactly the same.” Han Xing was very excited, “When you turned around just now, I almost recognized you as Sister Yanan.”

Sister Yanan?

Lin Zhinan laughed and shook her head: “Unlike, she is much more beautiful than me.”

And also luckier than me.

As a waiter, Lin Zhinan could not stay at the table for a long time, so she nodded and left.

Just out of the western restaurant, Li Meng, who is in charge of the front desk, walked over and handed a bag of documents to her, “Lin Zhinan, the things of the guest in Room 602, he named you to send it over.”

602?

Immediately, Lin Zhinan felt as if she was carrying a bag of scorching hot potatoes, she refused, “I am not in charge of room service today. You should find someone else to send it.”

She handed the bag back, but Li Meng didn’t take it, her facial expression ugly, “I don’t care what you do. It’s not me who’d be complained anyway if the client’s business is delayed.” After a few words of sarcasm, she walked away.

“……..”

Lin Zhinan clenched the bag tightly, forget it, for the sake of my pay.

The man in 602 is a p*rvert, when he stared at her with squinted eyes, Zhinan couldn’t help having goosebumps.

Helplessly, all she could usually do was hide from him as he is a VIP guest of the hotel.

She made up her mind to leave as soon as she finished the delivery, she took a few steps back after ringing the doorbell.

The person who opened the door was a man in his thirties, with a creepy smile on his face: “It’s you.”

Must be sick! (as if) it isn’t you who named me to send it up.

Lin Zhinan’s heart was icily cold, but the corner of her mouth still upturned in a polite smile, and she handed it over, “Mr. Song, here are your baggage.”

She felt a pull suddenly from the other end. Zhi Nan saw the man on the opposite side grabbed it so she let it go.

Yet that person let go before her, and the baggage fell to the ground with a thud.

“You are too careless, your training doesn’t seem too qualified.” Song Lei laughed and leaned on the door, “What are you waiting for, still not picking it up.”

Even his joking sounds are disgusting.

Zhinan raised her eyelids and stared at him, endured, and lowered her body to pick it up.

Don’t act on the spur of the moment when you are powerless.

She just wanted to get away, hence she didn’t notice the man’s eyes stuck to her when she bent over.

The ironed shirt slid down a bit due to the squatting position. The delicate and sexy collarbone, the half-concealed cle*vage, adding to that perky b*ttocks, and the slender legs.

Everything screamed t*mptation.

Not to mention that when the girl lowered her head, her side profile and red lips that incites unlimited fant*sy.

Song Lei stepped forward silently, and Zhi Nan almost bumped into him when she got up.

She immediately backed away, but Song Lei grabbed her waist, slid down the curves, and grabbed a handful of her a*s.

“What are you doing?!” Lin Zhinan pushed him away and rebuked scathingly, “Who allowed you to touch me?”

“I really wanted to help you, who knew I’d touched the wrong place.” Song Lei shrugged and explained.

“Who helps others like you?” Zhinan was mad, “What qualified you to touch me, just because you are a customer you can behave like a hoodlum? Do you know that I can sue you for s*xual har*ssment?!”

Body and verbal insults are her big taboos, and she didn’t care about the severity of her voice.

The other party did not expect a waiter to be so rigid. People passing by outside cast their eyes over.

Song Lei’s facial expression was ugly, “Do you have delusions? I was just helping you, and now you’re on my toes.”

He sneered: “What kind of good person would be working in this business? Isn’t it just that you have no education and no money, that you want to rely on your body to find a man in order to climb up to the upper class?”

“But types like you, I wouldn’t want even if you lie on my bed n*ked.” He wanted to return to the room immediately after speaking.

These words were extremely humiliating, and Zhinan couldn’t believe her ears, her whole body couldn’t resist trembling in her anger.

Why can he speak of me that way, why?!

She has no education nor background, but she wanted so badly to get rid of the past, trying so hard to live anew.

Why can he!

Lin Zhinan shivered, she could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes.

Staring at Song Lei who was about to close the door, she was mad with anger and exploding in rage. She was so angry that her mind was confused and irrational.

So while the cleaning cart was pushing by, Zhinan picked up a half bucket of water and dumped it towards him.

With the shout that resounded throughout the corridor and the light yellow carpet’s submerge in the vast ocean, the vortex started surging*.

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Airborne student* – referred to someone who for e.g. would have a place in a school without having passed admission requirements and was in because of authority power.

Vortex surging*- meant that something big was going to happen soon.

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