Peninsula: The young master is poor and doesn't want to date.

Chapter 38 Yes, I am her boyfriend.

Li Zheng turned around and walked towards the Hyundai SUV.

Yoona had just filled up the gas tank and was standing next to the car looking at her phone.

She heard footsteps and looked up.

The sunglasses were pointed at the man walking towards them.

Convenience store uniform, jeans, barefoot, covered in mud, and with messy hair.

She instinctively took a half step back, her fingers already on the car door handle.

It's not disdain, it's the vigilance of a public figure.

Being approached by strangers in such a high-speed rest area is usually not a good thing.

Li Zhengyi stopped two steps away from her.

Then he said something.

Just one sentence.

Yoona's expression changed.

It wasn't disdain, nor was it wariness; it was the kind of expression you get when you hear your colleagues gossiping in the office.

The sunglasses covered her eyes, but they couldn't hide her sudden interest.

She asked something, and Lee Jung-il nodded, then waved to Lee Woo-bin.

Lee Woo-bin stood next to the trash can, his mouth open.

Li Zhengyi made a gesture to him.

The general meaning of this gesture is: It's done.

By the way, the whole process took about three seconds.

If we exclude the time it took for Yoona to react, the sentence he said did indeed take less than a second.

Lee Woo-bin walked over, his feet practically floating.

He opened the back door of the car and sat in the back seat with Li Zhengyi.

The car was clean, with a faint scent of air freshener, and a Bichon Frise plush toy was hanging on the rearview mirror.

Yoona started the car and drove out of the rest area.

In the back seat, two men, looking like mud monkeys, sat side by side.

Lee Woo-bin stared intently at the man next to him, dressed in a convenience store uniform, swaying his head to jazz music.

He just said something.

Just one sentence.

Then Yoona opened the car door for him.

"Call me brother," Li Zhengyi said.

Lee Woo-bin's facial features contorted in pain.

suffocated.

I want to refute it, but I can't find any angle to do so.

He opened his mouth, closed it, and then opened it again.

"Tell me first, what exactly did you say to her? Why did she agree so immediately? I asked her out to dinner eight times before, and she wouldn't even reply to my Kakao Talk messages. And you just opened the car door for her with a single sentence?"

Lim Yoona was in the driver's seat, not even turning her head.

"What bet are you using me for this time?"

Although we couldn't see Yoona's expression, it probably conveyed a sense of coldness, like, "I'm used to you chaebol heirs using me as a topic of conversation, but I don't like it."

"Especially you, Lee Woo-bin, if my teammates find out that I gave you a ride, they will all look down on me."

Lee Woo-bin's body suddenly lurched forward.

"Yoona, what do you mean? I did pursue you back then, but it didn't work out. We were still friends. Why is it like I'm dirtying your car just because you gave me a ride?"

"Li Yubin, don't you know what your reputation is like in our circle right now?"

Lee Woo-bin remained silent.

Im Yoon-a continues to deliver.

"You think we wouldn't hear about the things you've done and how you treat those girls like toys? If it weren't for the fact that you're the second young master of CJ, do you think anyone in this industry would even bother with you?"

Lee Woo-bin's face turned red.

He was about to unleash his most proficient "Do you even know who you're talking to?" tone...

"Tsk tsk."

Li Zhengyi smacked his lips.

Lee Woo-bin's enthusiasm instantly vanished.

Then came anger.

I don't know when it started, but his aura has automatically halved when he's facing Li Zhengyi.

No, it's at least 30% off.

He leaned back in his seat, crossed his arms, and turned his face toward the window.

"A magnanimous person doesn't stoop to a woman's level."

Im Yoona rolled her eyes in front of her.

The car was quiet for a few seconds.

The sound barriers on both sides of the highway rushed past, and the jazz music on the radio changed to a softer, slower piano piece.

Then Lim Yoona adjusted the angle of the rearview mirror, framing the man in the convenience store uniform in the back seat within the mirror.

"You're Li Zhengyi? The third young master of the CJ family who was kicked out of the house?"

Li Zheng raised his chin a few degrees.

"A true hero doesn't dwell on past glories. A little fleeting fame is best left unmentioned. Now I'm just an ordinary convenience store clerk."

Lee Woo-bin let out a loud snort.

"You call yourself a hero? You're utterly filthy."

Li Zhengyi instantly and ruthlessly retorted: "He's a bit better than some guys who've been blacklisted by all the female celebrities in the entertainment industry."

Lee Woo-bin forcefully exhaled through his nose.

He turned and glared at Li Zhengyi, who smiled slightly at him.

See, you lost again.

Lee Woo-bin turned his head to look out the window again.

How come he never noticed how annoying his third brother was before?

He's practically my nemesis.

Outside the window are endless soundproofing panels, with the occasional GG sign flashing by.

Fried Chicken Guy, Insurance Guy, How many kilometers to Seoul next stop?

There was silence for a few seconds.

Then Lee Woo-bin seemed to suddenly remember that he still had a question that he hadn't answered.

"You still haven't answered me. What exactly did you say to Yoona that made her agree so quickly?"

Li Zheng crossed his hands behind his head and slid his body into the seat, looking like a high school student who had just finished his final exams and was enjoying his summer vacation.

Let Yoona and Noona answer it themselves.

Yoona glanced at the back seat through the rearview mirror.

"Zhengyi".

"Um?"

"Are you really dating Irene?"

Lee Jung-il gestured with his thumb towards Lee Woo-bin.

"I only said one sentence to Yoona and Noona, 'I am Irene's boyfriend.'"

Lee Woo-bin suddenly turned around.

His eyes were wide open.

"Liar!! Irene was just putting on an act to avoid me!!"

Li Zhengyi shrugged.

"Anyway, Irene confessed to me, and I said yes, so we're officially dating now. Oh, by the way, didn't you see her last night? She was wearing black stockings at my house. If your bodyguard hadn't come and kicked the door down, we almost..."

"Shut up!"

Lee Woo-bin's voice boomed through the carriage.

Im Yoona frowned as she stood in front.

"Alright, I'm not here to listen to you two brothers making a movie over a woman. Get off the bus when we get to Seoul."

"Okay, Yoona and Noona."

Li Zhengyi immediately switched to convenience store clerk mode.

"There's one more thing I'd like to ask you. It's best not to mention seeing us today to anyone. It involves some family matters, nothing complicated, but I don't want to cause you any trouble. So, after you get off the train in Seoul, just pretend you never saw us. Is that alright?"

Lim Yoona remained silent for a few seconds.

She mentally went over those words several times, making sure that this man she had just met wasn't playing any tricks on her.

Then she realized that he really wasn't playing tricks.

His tone was perfectly normal.

"...I knew you guys were all trouble. Oh well, I've already given you a ride. Once we get off in Seoul, just pretend I never saw you."

"Thank you, Noona."

Lee Woo-bin interrupted, "What do you mean? You're not thinking of doing anything to the eldest brother...?"

Li Zheng put his index finger between his lips.

He glanced slightly toward the driver's seat.

Lee Woo-bin was instantly put on the defensive.

Yes, how could you say that in front of outsiders?

He confessed in the field that it was his elder brother who framed Zhengyi two years ago.

Given his petty and narrow-minded nature, his third brother would definitely retaliate.

But these are family matters; how can we discuss them in front of an outsider?

I was being rash just now.

But why do I feel inexplicably frustrated when my younger brother lectures me like a child?

Can spending two years gaining experience at the grassroots level really transform a person completely?

Or should I go and gain experience at the grassroots level for a couple of years?

impossible.

I would never give up this life of extravagance and debauchery.

Not even for a day.