Chapter 384 - Retaliate (2/2)
As much as she tried to suppress it, Shen Qingyan’s expression changed instantly. If she had a word to describe him, it would be—despicable! How could he even imply that Su Li had spoken to her? What kind of a man was he to even say such a thing?
Xiao Luo continued, “You and she are the best of friends, and you will do whatever you can to help her. Undoubtedly, I am to be one of your company’s sales consultants. Miss Shen, I don’t think there’s a need to continue this charade, what do you say?”
“Marche à l’ombre! (Walk in the shade!)”
Shen Qingyan jumped to her feet, pounding the table and rebuked Xiao Luo in French, angrily pointing her finger at him. She had alluded to Xiao Luo not to get too cocky and to stay out of the limelight. She couldn’t contain herself and had never known such a shameless man before.
Playing on her phrase, Xiao Luo replied in French, “Je suis désolé, il n’y a pas d’arbres ici (I’m sorry, there are no trees here!)”
Huh?”
Shen Qingyan was taken aback as she didn’t expect that Xiao Luo could speak French.
Not to be outdone, she continued speaking in French, “It is regrettable when a man lacks knowledge and knows not self-restraint, and you, Sir, fit the description of such a miserable man.”
“I know not if I can be considered to be such a miserable man, but I do know that I’m a person who loves to think. Honoré de Balzac once said that ‘men of thought believe in a divine providence,’ therefore I’d surmise that a person who can think is a person with limitless strength,” Xiao Luo responded.
Shen Qingyan was stunned after hearing Xiao Luo’s articulate riposte in French. She had studied for more than two years to have acquired such proficiency in the French language, yet, Xiao Luo, a country bumpkin as far as she knew, had just conversed with her like he was a native speaker.
She wouldn’t have been so surprised if he had just spoken English, but French? Was French the foreign language that he studied during university?
Shen Qingyan refused to accept defeat. She uttered in Russian, “пошелнахуй, сыншлюхи!”
Xiao Luo’s eyebrows furrowed deeply because the sentence meant: f**k you, son of a wh*re.
He thought that it was unbecoming of a woman of culture to utter such that such obscenities.
“Miss Shen, please respect yourself,” Xiao Luo responded in fluent Russian.
What, he knows Russian as well?!
Shen Qingyan was speechless. She was already surprised that Xiao Luo could speak French, but now, she was aghast that he knew what she had said in Russian. Exactly who was this man?
Shen Qingyan blushed a bright crimson, and as strong-minded as she was, right now, all she wanted to do was find a hole and stick her head in it. Fortunately, only Xiao Luo understood what she had said, and that was a slight relief.
The tall lady and Guan Tong were dumbfounded. Although they could not understand the banter between Xiao Luo and Shen Qingyan, they knew enough to recognize that two foreign languages had been spoken, and the speakers both seemed very fluent in them; even their accent sounded like foreigners.
Guan Tong gawked as he wondered how much more talents Xiao Luo still had hidden in the closet.
CLAP… CLAP… CLAP
Shen Qingyan stood up and applauded, looking at Xiao Luo with admiration. “A talent… what a talent, I’ve wholly misjudged you!”
Oh no, that’s the same thing she said to me!
Guan Tong’s heart thumped rapidly.
As he had expected, Shen Qingyan’s tone changed, and she said, “However, even though you’re very talented in languages, you still did not impress me.”
“At times, it pays to humble oneself, for bountiful is the inheritance of the meek. Hence, never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you,” Xiao Luo replied, this time he spoke in the Queen’s English.
Shen Qingyan was startled as she immediately knew that Xiao Luo was referring to Su Li. Xiao Luo was insinuating that if she went overboard, he would no longer play along, and she would be hard-pressed to answer to Su Li.
What a shameless guy!
Shen Qingyan was exasperated and once again felt a tightness to her chest. Xiao Luo had run circles around her leaving her no room to articulate a suitable response.
BAM!
Suddenly, the office door swung open loudly, jolting everyone in the room, except Xiao Luo.
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