From the top floor of the G City Hotel, there was a magnificent view of a bustling city night scene: tall buildings, neon lights, the rushing traffic—but at the moment, the guest in the suite was not in the mood to appreciate it.

The only sound in the room was the rapid typing of fingers on a keyboard.

The person sitting at the suite’s desk tilted her head slightly and said to the earphone, “These two algorithms don’t work. If they run for a long time, they will drag down the main system. They need to be reworked.” 

She was dressed simply with a round-neck, white T-shirt, gray sweatpants, and a pair of hotel slippers on her feet; her hair was messed up and her face was fair and pale. At first glance, she looked like an ordinary college student, and her identity couldn’t be recognized at all.

The laptop backpack—black, obviously well-used, and casually thrown on the desk—was also out of place in the luxurious and spacious room.

… …

An hour later.

After finishing all the work, Cheng Liu leaned back heavily. She raised her hand and threw the earphones on the table, closed her eyes and pressed the center of her brows hard.

She’s been staring at the computer all day, and her eyes are almost blurred.

At this time, there was a ‘buzzing’ vibration from the backpack.

Cheng Liu opened her eyes and subconsciously looked at the mobile phone on the right side of the computer. The screen was dark. Only then did she remember that she still had a personal mobile phone.

She reached over to get the backpack.

Cheng Liu took out another white mobile phone from inside and saw that someone was calling.

Name: [Wang Haiyang]

After staring at the name for more than ten seconds, Cheng Liu finally managed to sift through the programs still running in her head and remembered who the other party was.

It was the boyfriend she made half a year ago.

Cheng Liu swiped her thumb to the right and picked up his call, “Hello.”

“It’s been twenty-three days. If I don’t contact you, are you really not going to contact me?” asked a male voice on the side of the call, the voice was low and magnetic.

Cheng Liu opened her mouth and said, “I’ve just been too busy recently, but I was thinking about you just now. Really.” She was wondering who he was.

“You obviously forgot that you still had a boyfriend?” The other party was very angry.

Cheng Liu felt guilty for a moment—she really forgot the existence of such a person!

At a banquet half a year ago, she fell in love with this boyfriend at first sight, and she walked over to him and asked him bluntly if he wanted to date her.

Cheng Liu was tall, long-legged, and good-looking. Although she was dressed like someone who had accidentally strayed into the banquet at the time, the other party only held back for a day before agreeing to date her.

But after Cheng Liu succeeded, for some reason, she suddenly couldn’t find the feeling that made her swoon and all excited before, and quickly lost interest in this boyfriend.

In addition, some time ago, in order to deal with the company’s problems, she needed to run around, and they haven’t seen each other for almost three months. It’s a sad fact that Cheng Liu had long forgotten about this boyfriend.

Cheng Liu managed to pull out from her memories the scene of the two of them getting along, and she changed the subject, “Have you eaten yet? I’ll order food to be delivered for you.”

She was far away in City G and ordered food delivery for her boyfriend in City S.

Cheng Liu felt very caring after thinking about it.

This trick was learned from her business partners in her early years.

In the past, Cheng Liu often dealt with various business partners in order to promote her artificial intelligence system.

Through their subtle influence, she learned a lot of ways of doing things from those middle-aged men.

For example, you must give gifts when chasing someone, and when coaxing someone, you must pay attention to the basics.

So on the first day of chasing this boyfriend, she gave him an expensive tie.

Sure enough, after holding back for a while, he agreed to date.

But today’s thoughtful method of getting some takeaways didn’t seem to work well.

“It’s 11:30pm now, and I never eat dinner at night!” The other party became even angrier after hearing this, “I need to keep fit.”

Only then did Cheng Liu vaguely recall that the other party was a model, so she had no choice but to say, “Ah? Then go to bed early, I’ll order food to eat by myself. I’m hungry.” 

The person on the other end of the phone: “…”

Cheng Liu pressed the speakerphone, switched to another interface, and quickly ordered food delivery for herself.

At this time, the voice on the other side suddenly became husky, “Has the relationship between us faded?”

Cheng Liu swiped the phone screen while distractedly thinking, They don’t seem to have a deep relationship at all?

Although they started dating half a year ago, Cheng Liu has been too busy, and the number of times the two got together could be counted on one hand.

“I still remember the scene of our first meeting that night.” The person on the other end of the phone said sadly, “Are you annoyed with me now?”

Cheng Liu reached out and stuffed the laptop back into the backpack, got up and walked out of the study, keeping one ear to the conversation on the phone. As he kept complaining, that first glimpse she had of him that night at the banquet involuntarily appeared in her heart.

It’s true they didn’t have a deep relationship from the beginning of dating, but…

Cheng Liu had to admit that her boyfriend’s face was still pretty, especially the profile, so she was reluctant to break up for the time being.

What’s more… Just a few days ago, several business partners were gossiping about her love life, trying to introduce the sons of relatives and friends to her.

It’s better to have a boyfriend.

Cheng Liu once again recalled the feeling of falling in love with her boyfriend at first sight at the banquet, and her interest heightened again, so she decided to maintain this relationship.

“Why do you say our relationship has faded? I’ve just been too busy.” Cheng Liu coaxed again, while clicking on WeChat, “I sent you a red envelope by transfer, don’t think about it anymore, go to bed early, I will be back in a few days.”

“Why do you still send red envelopes…” The voice on the other end of the phone was a little gentle at first, and then became a little far away—probably taking the phone off his ear and looking at WeChat.

Cheng Liu pressed the hands-free button, looked down at WeChat, and sure enough, the transfer was received in the next second.

She saw ‘typing’ displayed under the other party’s name several times, and finally the voice came from other end of the phone, sounding a little unhappy, “What do you want me to do with this little money? I have more than this amount as pocket money a day.” 

Cheng Liu frowned immediately when she heard this. “You are still young, save some money, and you can buy a house in the future.” 

“…The house price in city S, how can a small model like me afford it.”

Cheng Liu didn’t recognize the implied meaning in the other person’s words, instead she responded, “Young people have to have dreams. Like me, I have a house in S City at a young age.”

“Not everyone is as powerful as you,” the person at the other end of the phone could be heard to say faintly through gritted teeth. 

“That’s true.” Cheng Liu continued to persuade, “However, you still have to save money. You need to walk around more and earn money while you are young.

When the other person heard this, his face twisted. ‘Walk around’¹? Was she comparing a commercial model like him to those pretty, little faces in the wild?!

She actually used such a demeaning word to describe him!

“Okay, you go to bed early, my food delivery is here.” Cheng Liu hung up the phone after saying good night, and opened the door to get the delivery.

She tend to forget everything around her when she was working, and she only drank a bottle of water all day today.

Cheng Liu came in after receiving the food delivery, searched for a plane ticket back home, and sent a screenshot to her boyfriend.

The return time was clearly marked on the screenshot: April 1st, just three days later.

Cheng Liu thought that the other party would definitely pay attention, and would come to pick her up when the time came.

In the first three months of their relationship, she also went on several business trips, and the other party would take the initiative to pick her up at the airport after asking about the return time.

It’s just that Cheng Liu didn’t like the other party to pick her up. She felt that he would be invading her work field, so she didn’t reveal her ETA from her business trips.

This time she directly told him her return time and expressed that she was willing to let the other party come and pick her up. Cheng Liu felt that in order to maintain this relationship, she sacrificed a lot.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

However, as soon as the person on the other end hung up the phone, the man immediately threw the phone on the sofa, his face very unsightly, and he didn’t pay attention anymore to the picture Cheng Liu sent.

Nine hundred ninety-nine!

Cheng Liu, this stingy girl, only sent a red envelope of 999 yuan. She thought she was being romantic?

Who would have thought that the founder of Shenyin Technology would not even be willing to send 9999 to her boyfriend!

The man on the sofa thought about it carefully, and suddenly found that among the gifts from Cheng Liu, only that tie from the first day was worth more than a thousand yuan.

His face suddenly turned black.

How could there be such a stingy woman?

If It’s Wrong Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: This is pure rom-com. The author was having fun with all the ‘how to woo a beauty‘ tropes and you can tell. We have a domineering, love-struck CEO (who has a bit of an eyesight problem) and an Ice Beauty—except the genders are reversed. FL Cheng Liu’s internal monologues are so frickin’ hilarious I snort-giggled my way through this series. I can easily see this playing out, scene by scene, as a k-drama/c-drama romcom on TV. So buckle up and enjoy the fun ride.

FOOTNOTE:

¹I don’t know if Cheng Liu meant to be derogatory here (probably not!) or the boyfriend was just sensitive to the implication; the term she used refers to performers who go around different venues to earn money, like an acting troupe. He’s supposed to be a commercial model—not super famous, but not unknown either ↩︎