Prince charming, your persona has collapsed!

So Lv Hui could freely complain to Li Qiang about how Liu Shuo was so oblivious to romance.

And how he used his 'position advantage' to dominate her.

Lv Hui told Li Qiang that she actually didn't like Liu Shuo, but she was young and naive at the time, and he got his way.

After hearing this, Li Qiang felt even more compelled to treat Lv Hui well.

Thus, Li Qiang gradually fell into the fairytale world he had woven for himself.

Actually, Lv Hui had already moved on, but Li Qiang was still trapped in his male ego, always feeling that only he could truly redeem Lv Hui.

Chang Hao told Li Qiang: "Actually, you're not ugly. With the persistence you show in pursuing Lv Hui, which girl wouldn't you be able to win over?"

However, no matter how much Chang Hao spoke, Li Qiang wasn't listening.

Until Lu Yuhang's phone rang again.

Li Qiang quickly took out his phone to check.

"Sister Xiao Hui!"

It was a message from Lv Hui, and Li Qiang was instantly happy, but he saw that Lv Hui had sent him the location of a small hotel.

Li Qiang quickly replied: "I'll be there right away, Sister Xiao Hui! Wait for me!"

"By the way, Sister Xiao Hui, please take me off the blacklist, you must!"

After sending this message, Li Qiang didn't even say goodbye before hurriedly putting on a coat and leaving.

The bustling snack street, lined on both sides with various stalls set up by small vendors, the white smoke from skewered lamb and fried squid whiskers rushing up into the night sky, cutting through the complex overhead wires.

Old multi-storey buildings from the last century, with colorful small lights hanging from the windows, displaying the word: Hotels.

This is a snack street near the University Town, where students without much money would, on Friday nights, randomly order a few tasty skewers here, and then, holding their girlfriend's hand, shyly walk into nearby small pubs.

The hygiene might be questionable.

But cheap is genuinely cheap.

Many female students had their first time in such small hotels.

And then, years later, would be married with an 188,000 yuan dowry.

At this moment, Lv Hui indeed felt somewhat lost, having lost her job and been kicked out by Liu Shuo. Life had been too smooth in the previous months, and suddenly, Lv Hui equated Zhou Yuwen's achievements with her own abilities.

In other words, Lv Hui felt that working at Zhou Yuwen's company had been smooth sailing, and she believed her abilities matched a monthly salary of four thousand yuan plus a two thousand yuan bonus.

Until she was fired by Zhou Yuwen, returning to this fifty yuan per day small hotel, Lv Hui suddenly remembered how difficult it was to find a job right after graduation.

She looked at numerous job postings online, finding that a diploma only offered a salary of over two thousand yuan, and required work experience.

Lv Hui had been used to living supported by Liu Shuo, with almost no savings awareness. Now she only had a little over three thousand yuan on hand; if she needed to rent a place, even a single room in a four hundred yuan shared house would require a three-month deposit plus one month's rent, over a thousand yuan, plus daily expenses.

Lv Hui knew these three thousand yuan wouldn't last long.

Unlikely to find a suitable job promptly.

So she was stuck in the small hotel, eating 3.5 yuan cup noodles.

26-year-old Lv Hui, full of worry, suddenly became anxious.

And it was at this time that she received Li Qiang's call.

Initially seeing the unfamiliar number, Lv Hui thought it might be a response to her resume.

But upon hearing Li Qiang's voice, Lv Hui hung up immediately without thinking.

It wasn't until she saw the sincere messages Li Qiang sent.

Lv Hui paused for a moment.

She felt that she was in this predicament because of Li Qiang.

Now that she was down on her luck, it was only natural for Li Qiang to help her.

But she was also too lazy to speak softly to Li Qiang.

So she simply sent him a location and said nothing else.

And sure enough, a dozen minutes later, Li Qiang appeared outside Lv Hui's room.

"Knock knock!"

Knocking.

The door opened.

And there stood a haggard-looking Lv Hui, expressionless, at the door.

"Sister Xiao Hui," upon seeing Lv Hui, Li Qiang felt heartache. On his way upstairs, he had seen the foot-scratching receptionist on the ground floor and heard the faint noise coming from other rooms.

Now inside Lv Hui's room, he noticed the cramped single bed of just 1.8 meters, the narrow space, and the instant noodles that had just been eaten and were not yet cleaned up.

Lv Hui still didn't show any kindness to Li Qiang, expressionless, showed him the door, and sat down at the edge of the bed on her own, coldly asking: "What are you here for?"

Li Qiang's gaze filled with pity as he looked at Lv Hui and said: "Sister Xiao Hui, how can you live here?"

Lv Hui snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "If I don't live here, where should I live?"

In fact, if Li Qiang were alone, he would probably think living here was perfectly reasonable, but for some reason, he couldn't accept Lv Hui living here. In Li Qiang's mind, he felt he needed to give Lv Hui a better life.

So without a second thought, he grabbed Lv Hui's hand: "You're coming with me!"

He said it and, ignoring Lv Hui's protests, led her out of the small hotel.

Last semester, Li Qiang had been doing part-time work persistently, and he wasn't the type to spend much, so he had quite a bit of savings, at least seven to eight thousand yuan to spare.

At that time, Li Qiang mocked Chang Hao for spending money on Zheng Yanyan.

That's because Li Qiang felt that Zheng Yanyan was already Zhou Yuwen's girlfriend, so spending money on another woman would be pure foolishness, wouldn't it?

Li Qiang thought he should save money well, then spend it on his future wife.

Li Qiang wasn't reluctant to spend money on women; he hoped to spend it on a woman who had him in her heart.

And in Li Qiang's eyes, Lv Hui was such a woman.

So he was willing to spend money on Lv Hui.

He contacted a rental agency and found a relatively decent one-bedroom apartment near the school.

The rent was fifteen hundred yuan; indeed, if one took time to search, such a one-bedroom apartment for twelve hundred yuan would suffice, but Li Qiang wanted Lv Hui to settle down quickly, so he lavishly paid for three months' rent and gave a seven hundred yuan agency fee.

Everything was done right before Lv Hui's eyes.

Li Qiang just wanted to show Lv Hui he had the ability to support her!

But Lv Hui didn't even raise an eyebrow at this.

"Sister Xiao Hui, just settle down here for now, no rush to find a job. The money I have on hand should suffice for your living expenses for a while. Later, we'll go to the hotel to get your luggage." After the agent left, Li Qiang said.

Lv Hui leaned against the balcony, looking at the dark scene outside without saying a word.

She knew the rent here wasn't worth fifteen hundred yuan, there were no facilities downstairs, and it was far from the subway station, far worse than Zhonghai Garden, but so what?

After all, she wouldn't be paying for it.

Reluctantly, she was settled down.

Lv Hui thought, since Li Qiang was willing to rent an apartment for her, let him do so, and during this period, she could look for a job, and when she was capable, she would pay him back.

"Sister Xiao Hui."

Standing behind her, looking at Lv Hui alone on the balcony, Li Qiang knew her mood must be bad, so he said nothing and silently walked over and embraced her.

He said: "Sister Xiao Hui, don't worry, I will definitely work hard in the future, and I won't let you live a hard life!"

After saying this, Li Qiang was about to lean down to kiss her.

But Lv Hui turned her head to the side and said lightly: "I'm a bit tired."

Li Qiang felt slightly awkward: "Oh, oh, alright, then, Sister Xiao Hui, you rest first, and I'll go to the hotel to get your things?"