20demayo Chapter 622 - 221: A Chance Encounter with Qi Siyu, Advice from a Best Friend_2
Chapter 622 - 221: A Chance Encounter with Qi Siyu, Advice from a Best Friend_2
"Senior, are you feeling unwell?"
Li Yuan immediately regained his cheerful smile, shrugged, and replied, "No, let’s head inside!"
Zhong Tingyue let out a soft "Oh," and laughed. "I thought you were tired from shopping, Senior."
Li Yuan immediately retorted, "We’ve only been shopping for an hour. How could I be tired? Hehe, you know how much stamina I have. When have we ever gone for less than an hour to start?"
Hearing Li Yuan’s suggestive words, Zhong Tingyue instantly understood. She rolled her eyes at him, her cheeks flushing slightly as she huffed, "You shameless Senior! Since you’re not tired, let’s keep shopping."
"Humph, I don’t believe you can out-shop me. My mom always says that as soon as men start shopping, they get exhausted. They’ll always choose to sit if they can avoid standing..."
Her mom is right, I really do want to sit down and rest. We’ve just been walking and trying on clothes, but I feel more exhausted than after an hour of high-intensity poker. It’s so strange...
Inside the Hermès store, Zhong Tingyue picked out a casual jacket for Li Yuan. She held it up against him to size it, looking every bit the part of a doting girlfriend.
"Senior, autumn is almost here, so it’s time for fall clothes. I think this outfit looks great. Do you want to try it on?"
Before Li Yuan could respond, a saleswoman from Hermès eagerly chimed in, "Sir, your girlfriend has excellent taste. This jacket is our new autumn arrival, and it perfectly suits your style..."
Li Yuan was already used to the saleswoman’s flattery. He had heard similar lines at least a hundred times in the past hour.
"Alright, I’ll go try it on."
...
「On the pedestrian street.」
Qi Siyu and Liang Jingjing were shopping, whispering secrets to each other.
"Siyu, why have you been in such a bad mood these past few days? You don’t even have the energy for shopping anymore. Didn’t you used to love it most?"
Qi Siyu shook her head, her eyes dimming as a wave of irritation washed over her.
Lately, she’d found herself becoming infatuated with someone she shouldn’t love. She thought about him constantly, missing the scent of his body and his talent, and desperately wanted to hear the rest of that song... But he hadn’t reached out to her at all, acting as if she meant nothing to him. Before coming out to shop with her best friend this evening, she’d even mustered the courage to send him a message, but he never replied, which made her heart ache... That womanizer seemed to have no interest in her at all! And yet, her own interest in him had only grown.
Seeing the look on her friend’s face, Liang Jingjing—who was both her roommate and coworker—immediately understood what was on Qi Siyu’s mind.
"Siyu, you’re not still thinking about your student, are you?"
Her friend having hit the nail on the head, Qi Siyu quickly shook her head in denial. "Of course not. I’m thinking about work."
Liang Jingjing pursed her lips. "Cut it out. We’ve been sharing a roof for over a year now; do you really think I don’t know you? You’re definitely thinking about that student of yours."
"Siyu, I really don’t get it. What’s so great about that boy that you’re so hung up on him? Or do you just have a thing for forbidden teacher-student romances?"
Hearing the phrase "teacher-student romance," Qi Siyu’s face flushed as a complicated feeling washed over her.
Her best friend, Liang Jingjing, had no idea what had actually happened between her and that student. She still thought Siyu was just using him as an excuse to reject Peng Cheng.
"Jingjing, I already told you it’s not like that!"
"It’s already ten o’clock. I don’t feel like shopping anymore. Let’s go home."
Hearing Qi Siyu wanted to go home, Liang Jingjing quickly grabbed her hand, pointed at a store ahead, and pleaded, "Come on, Siyu. It’s the weekend, and we have to work tomorrow. Just shop with me a little longer."
Qi Siyu answered, exasperated, "Jingjing, we’ve already been shopping for three hours."
"Besides, you’re just window shopping. I feel like the sales clerks are starting to give us funny looks."
Liang Jingjing huffed righteously, "Who says you have to buy anything? Can’t I just enjoy browsing? I’m bringing them foot traffic!"
Qi Siyu chuckled, glancing at her spendthrift best friend. "Jingjing, I’ll bet you don’t even have two hundred yuan on you right now."
Liang Jingjing’s face instantly flushed red, and she answered with less conviction, "Who says? I just checked. I still have 250."
Qi Siyu shook her head helplessly and reminded her, "Jingjing, you should really stop buying so many clothes and bags. You need to save some money."
Liang Jingjing retorted dismissively, "Why should we girls have to save money? We don’t need to support a family. If we don’t make ourselves beautiful, how are we supposed to find a good man?"
Qi Siyu asked, "Um, what about when you get married and have kids?"
Liang Jingjing replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "That’s what men are for! They’re the ones who earn money and support the family. We’ll just marry some rich guy, and our only job will be to look beautiful."
She then looked at her best friend’s perfect, curvaceous figure and charmingly sexy face, teasing, "Siyu, you’re so gorgeous, you’ll definitely marry a super-rich husband someday. Your husband can support you, and you can support me! Then we can be together happily forever and never be apart.
"Hehe, that rumored boyfriend from your class is a great prospect. Even though he’s just a freshman, he seems pretty wealthy. He also has a great body and is so manly."