266: When others apply double standards to you, it means you're not important enough.

"We'll talk about this after dinner when we finish playing mahjong."

Lin Yue didn't want to deal with other matters during the precious mahjong time they had managed to arrange, so she didn't handle it immediately.

To He Xin, this sounded more like an excuse.

Typically, this indicated that what these people had said earlier might just be polite talk, essentially boasting.

He Xin had seen many such people at social gatherings, who boasted extravagantly, especially in front of strangers, to build an impressive image of themselves.

But when it actually came to asking them for help, they would play dumb and brush you off.

He Xin was used to this and didn't think much of it.

In her view, perhaps she had caused the ladies some pressure by revealing her background earlier in an attempt to engage in conversation with them, fearing they didn't want to be outdone, which led them to sing praises of each other commercially.

Fortunately, He Xin thought these three ladies were quite nice.