Chapter 396: High and Mighty

The guy is Ma Chuang, a worker in the repair workshop.

At this moment, seeing Gu Lingling looking over, he grinned, blew at his bangs on his forehead, and thinking he made a cool gesture, approached Gu Lingling with a bouquet of flowers.

Gu Lingling simply looked at Ma Chuang approaching her with a cold gaze.

Beside her, Zhao Jingmiao and Hao Lianlian were getting anxious. What was this guy up to? Was he going to ruin Lingling’s reputation in front of so many people?

Ma Chuang saw her like this, and his smile grew even wider.

Girls, don’t they all have a bit of vanity? And who doesn’t like flowers?

Being confessed to in public, her vanity must be swelling through the roof, and with this bouquet of flowers he was giving, Ma Chuang couldn’t believe he couldn’t win over Gu Lingling.

"Ma Chuang, what do you think you’re doing?" Just as Ma Chuang was smugly walking towards Gu Lingling, he was suddenly stopped by someone—Gu Lingling’s aunt, Gu Chunmei.

"Auntie, I genuinely like Lingling." Ma Chuang naturally knew who Gu Chunmei was and said with a smile.

"Pfft..." Gu Chunmei unhesitatingly sprayed Ma Chuang in the face, "Don’t act like a big shot in front of me. Get lost and cool off somewhere else."

"Auntie, you’re the one who’s wrong here. I’m confessing to Lingling, not you." Ma Chuang said indifferently.

"Auntie." Gu Lingling held onto Gu Chunmei, smiling faintly as she glanced at Ma Chuang, "Your name is Ma Chuang?"

"Yes." Ma Chuang said with a smile, "Looks like you already know me, so we..."

"You just said you like me?" Gu Lingling interrupted him, "May I ask what you like about me?"

"I..." Ma Chuang didn’t expect a girl to turn the question back on him in front of so many people, especially with a question like this. For a moment, he was at a loss for words.

Like her?

"I like that you’re pretty." Ma Chuang’s eyes darted around. Initially, when he agreed to do this for Zheng Peng, it was partly because Gu Lingling was pretty.

After all, having such a pretty girlfriend to show off would make him look good too.

"But I don’t like you at all. Whether it’s your looks, your hairstyle, your tone of speech, or your indifferent attitude, they’re all extremely detestable."

"Pretty? There are countless pretty girls in this world, not to mention, aren’t all the girls at our factory pretty? Can you possibly like all of them?"

"You’re not going to like one today and another tomorrow, are you? What do you take the factory girls for?"

"Are we cabbages for you to pick and choose, Ma Chuang?"

"Women hold up half the sky too. Who do you think you are to casually insult us female comrades?"

Gu Lingling cleverly included all the female comrades at the factory, making Ma Chuang’s confession problematic.

Thinking back, wasn’t it always like this?

The few girlfriends Ma Chuang had dated were all the pretty ones from the factory, weren’t they?

"Pfft... Who do you think you are?" one of the older ladies spat at Ma Chuang, saying, "Way to go, Lingling, we all support you."

"Yeah, don’t bother with someone who’s all talk and no action."

"Where’s the factory manager? Ma Chuang’s obviously up to no good, trying to disrupt our study group. Isn’t this punishable? We all agree." said the middle-aged man Zhou Guangli.

He’s currently learning English from Gu Lingling, and he can even tutor his kids at home, so he’s extremely grateful to her.

That’s why whenever there’s any bad behavior toward her, he’s the first to stand up to defend her, "People like him should be kicked out of our transformer factory."

"Right, we can’t let him harm other sisters." Immediately, someone echoed Zhou Guangli.

When Yang Yunhai arrived, he happened to see this scene.