At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

The sky was growing dark.

Most matters regarding the new game had already been discussed.

Gu Yu and Kang Jia stood up, holding empty cups of lemon yogurt drink in their hands.

As he took out his phone to scan the payment code and pay, a hand wearing a sanitary glove blocked him.

"There's no need for you to pay! You and your friend can enjoy all our products at our store!"

The store manager said with a beaming smile.

"It's not much money, I'd rather pay it, so don't block me."

Gu Yu said with a slight smile, not intending to take advantage of the so-called VIP benefits.

The membership was a gift from Jiang Yuxin, but he hadn't actually done anything for Honey Jar Ice City.

Although he agreed to become Honey Jar Ice City's platform spokesperson, the contract hadn't officially started yet!

"Ah... this..."

The female clerk looked troubled because her training hadn't covered how to handle such cases where high-tier members insisted on paying.

"It's proper to pay what's owed, twenty-four yuan in total, right? Here, take a look."

Gu Yu gently pushed the store manager's hand away, glanced at the beverage price list in front of him, and paid.

"Alipay has received twenty-four yuan~"

The in-store payment voice notification broadcasted.

Having reached the store's entrance, Gu Yu suddenly stopped in his tracks and turned back to the store manager.

The store manager got startled by his sudden return, thinking if they did something wrong.

"What's the matter? Was there somewhere my service wasn't good enough? Please point it out, and don't complain about me..."

The female clerk was already getting anxious.

A complaint from this customer could mean instant dismissal for her!

"No, it's just that I want to ask where can I turn off the membership voice notification?"

Gu Yu reopened the Honey Jar mini-program and asked the store manager how to turn off the voice notification.

But the female store manager was also confused after taking the phone; this wasn't something they were taught during training either!

However, she noticed a manager complaint feature at the bottom of the personal main interface...

With that realization, she felt even more panicked.

"I'm not sure either, sir!" the store manager said apologetically, handing the phone back to Gu Yu.

"Oh, well!" Gu Yu could only nod, mentally vowing never to use this Fetion account again when buying milk tea at Honey Jar.

It would be too embarrassing to have it broadcast every time!

Watching Gu Yu walk away, the store manager finally let out a sigh of relief.

She resolved to thoroughly review the employee service guidelines tonight.

So as not to be caught unprepared if such a situation arose again.

Lifetime VIP members were rare, and she had encountered one today!

...

"Do you have plans tonight?"

"Yeah, I won't be having dinner with you!"

Gu Yu had originally planned to find a casual eatery for dinner with Kang Jia since Lin Xinyue and the others hadn't come back yet.

But Kang Jia also told him he had plans, leaving them no choice but to go their separate ways.

Kang Jia headed towards the school, while Gu Yu walked deeper into Snack Street.

There was a residential area inside, but a potsticker shop operating out of a garage was particularly good—cheap, tasty, and generous with portions.

It was one of his treasured hidden gems.

Behind Snack Street was an old residential area and several street lights were broken due to years of disrepair. Since the potsticker shop was in a quiet corner, not many people came by.

Therefore, the road was somewhat dark, but he could still see the glowing sign of the potsticker shop in the distance.

Gu Yu pulled earphones out of his pocket, ready to listen to some music, when suddenly someone collided with him from the side.

The backlight obscured the person's face, so Gu Yu couldn't see clearly, but he knew it was a man and quickly dodged out of the way.

As soon as the man saw Gu Yu's face, he started shouting at the top of his lungs, "Help! Help! Boss, save me!"

With that, he latched onto Gu Yu.

Gu Yu furrowed his brow deeply, the voice was so familiar to him, yet he had no underlings at all!

Why would the man call him boss?

With an agile sidestep, he easily dodged, causing the other to fall flat on his face.

"Ouch…"

Gu Yu turned around and, aided by the dim light of the signboard, barely made out the man's face.

"Well, look who it is, Liu Ermao! What are you doing here?" asked Gu Yu, surprised, because it was none other than Liu Ermao who had fallen!

No wonder he called him boss—Liu Ermao had always been keen on recognizing him as his boss!

"Boss, save me! Some crazy woman with a knife has been chasing me!"

"Ah! Boss, watch out!!"

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Liu Ermao scrambled up and ran to Gu Yu's front. Before he could finish his sentence, he pointed behind Gu Yu with a face full of horror.

A sharp gust of wind blew past the back of his head. The alarm bells in Gu Yu's mind rang loudly, and fortunately, his reflexes were quick, allowing him to dodge to the right.

His eyes were fierce as he watched a watermelon slicing knife with a handle as long as a small forearm swipe down from his left.

Once he steadied himself, he immediately spotted the assailant.

"Shu Yinyin!"

"Damn, you crazy woman! Just because I casually asked a question and gave you a couple of looks, did you really need to chase me down the street with a watermelon knife?"

Liu Ermao exclaimed angrily, pointing at Shu Yinyin.

He had just come out from the Economic Investigation Bureau on the other side of the neighborhood and took a shortcut through the residential area to get to the snack street.

But on the way, he unexpectedly came upon a girl sitting on a roadside flowerbed, crying.

Seeing a lone, heartbroken girl, he let his rare good side show and approached her to ask, "What's wrong, little sister? Did someone dump you? Why don't you go have barbecue with me?"

Before he even reached her side, the woman suddenly lifted her head and pulled a watermelon knife that looked "long premeditated" from the flowerbed and charged at him.

Luckily, he was quick enough on his feet to avoid being hit.

But that crazy woman kept on chasing him relentlessly, shouting things like, "All men are bastards," and the like.

Today was really Liu Ermao's unlucky day, coming across this kind of person!

"Boss, let's run together! This woman has a knife, and as they say, 'It's hard to beat a knife with bare hands.' When fighting, if it gets slippery, we run; we can't take this risk!"

Liu Ermao urged as he saw Gu Yu confronting the mad woman.

He knew Gu Yu could fight; after all, he had experienced it firsthand. But even a strong fighter fears a knife-wielder!

This woman looked insane and when she swung the knife she would have no sense of control, no technique!

Being hit by the knife might not kill you, but it would certainly maim you!

They had no need to be heroes for this or for that.

Liu Ermao was genuinely afraid! He hadn't even used a watermelon knife that often when he used to do violent debt collection in Lianyun Port!

After all, if someone died, there was no debt left to collect; such a weapon was just for intimidating deadbeats.

True intimidation had to come from fists—punch to the flesh, not deadly but sufficiently painful.

"Shu Yinyin, calm down! Do you realize you're committing a crime? And it's one crime piled on top of another!?"

Gu Yu reached out his hand, trying to calm Shu Yinyin down while preparing to disarm her at any moment.

It wasn't that he still hoped to convince Shu Yinyin to turn back, but rather he feared she might really use the watermelon knife recklessly.

The street outside was crowded with people; if something went wrong, it would be a disaster.

"Eh, you two know each other?" Liu Ermao looked between them curiously.

But in the next second, Shu Yinyin charged at Gu Yu, knife in hand, her expression twisted into that of a ferocious ghost, and slashed her second strike at him:

"Gu Yu!!! The person I hate the most is you! Today I've run into you, so you're going to die!!"