Chapter 72
It had been a long time since she had come to this mall. It still looked the same. Large and small main doors and side doors. There were always people waiting for their late friends at the Starbucks entrance.
Fang Yi sent a message to Lin Shuxing saying she had arrived. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the milk tea in a passing girl’s hand and added, “How many of you are there?”
Lin Shuxing didn’t reply, probably because she wasn’t looking at her phone. Fang Yi could only stand at the agreed-upon place and wait for her, first opening the mini-program to find her favorite shop.
The young lady was very picky with her taste, only liking a few specific types, and had strict requirements for the sweetness. Even if there was only a slight deviation in taste, she would frown, take a sip, and then throw it away.
In the past, Fang Yi hadn’t known and had ordered the wrong thing. In the end, those few cups had all gone into her own stomach.
Lin Shuxing always felt that she was too frugal, forcing herself to eat things that didn’t suit her taste. But Fang Yi had turned the cup, and her gaze had fallen on the lipstick mark on the side of the straw.
No, it’s quite sweet.
So Lin Shuxing had also discovered that Fang Yi was like a little raccoon. She would take whatever you gave her, sniff it, bite it, and when she encountered something she liked to eat, she would squint her eyes slightly. She was very easy to raise.
Fang Yi stood by the roadside, a slight curve on her lips, not knowing what she was thinking of.
She had just changed the quantity from one to four, thought for a moment, and then clicked back, changing to a few other signature recommendations. Just as she was about to place the order, a gust of wind suddenly came from behind.
She subconsciously wanted to dodge, and her left hand, hanging by her side, clenched into a fist. But when she smelled the familiar fragrance that came with the wind, her shifted steps came to a halt. She didn’t move, and let that soft hand fall.
Her right shoulder was patted.
Fang Yi looked back and accurately looked at the young lady with a wicked smile on her left.
Standing on the left, patting the right shoulder, and then suddenly jumping out when the person was looking around in a daze.
A cute little trick of a young person.
But her body’s keenness was a step faster than her brain. She had subconsciously locked onto Lin Shuxing’s position and had directly skipped the “confused searching” step.
But she was still stunned, and for a moment, she forgot to breathe.
Lin Shuxing had dyed her hair.
She was originally like a small, leaping flame. An occasional brilliant smile would set off fireworks, and with a boom, her heart and eyes would bloom with splendor.
At this moment, the “flame” was materialized in her lingering hair. With her cute little movements, it swayed lightly. That face, which was glowing white against her wine-red curly hair, suddenly came closer and gave Fang Yi a peck on the cheek.
Her heart was held in her palm, and only after the young lady had pulled away did it belatedly start to pound violently.
She, she had been ambushed!!
Fang Yi suddenly felt that all the injuries she had suffered in this life were not as serious as this one. It was as if alcohol had been injected into her veins through her cheek. Her whole body became dizzy, and the place that had been kissed began to burn.
Although it wasn’t their first kiss, it was the first time in public, such a sudden kiss.
The first time she gave was always a surprise.
Fang Yi’s cool expression was visibly covered with a thin layer of red.
Lin Shuxing was overjoyed. She wrapped her arms around Fang Yi’s neck and generously introduced her to her friends, “This is Fang Yi, my fiancée.”
Her proud tone was as if she wanted to lift Fang Yi up like the coronation of the little lion king, Simba.
Under Lin Shuxing’s grand introduction, Fang Yi, who was half a head taller than the young ladies, rarely felt a little awkward.
“Hello.” She raised her hand, waved, and was as solemn as if she were taking an oath in the Great Hall of the People.
After dyeing her hair, Lin Shuxing had also gotten a hairstyle. Two wheat braids were braided into the ends of her hair and were wrapped around the back of her head into a half-tied bow, hanging down lightly. All the dazzling brilliance undulated in the wine-red waves.
Lin Shuxing was an arrogant princess, and Fang Yi, standing by her side, her tall and straight figure was like a simple sword.
She was wearing an outdated white shirt, with a simple high ponytail. The slightly rolled-up cuffs revealed her well-defined hands. She very naturally took the card case for the young lady and casually slung it over her shoulder.
The combination of a princess and a knight was always a popular topic of conversation, but when this princess was one’s own friend, everyone would always have a subtle sense of difference.
The young lady’s fiancée… was not quite what they had imagined.
Five years older, a master’s degree from a prestigious university, and a genius engineer who had started her own business with a friend.
Shouldn’t she be in a suit and leather shoes, with a mechanical watch on one hand, pushing up her glasses and saying, “The weather is getting cold. Let humanity be destroyed”?
Oh, wrong channel. That one seems to be a domineering president.
A little smile appeared on Fang Yi’s cool face, and her gentle temperament diluted the arrogance that a genius should have even more.
Besides her good figure and pretty face, what else about her had attracted the young lady? She always felt that she would be a very wooden and boring adult…
They had just come of age, and the word “marriage” seemed very distant. But Lin Shuxing had suddenly brought a real fiancée, which made the young ladies couldn’t help but judge her with the strictest eyes.
Or, they just simply felt that no one was good enough for their good friend.
Under Lin Shuxing’s introduction, the young ladies also smiled and greeted Fang Yi, so that the scene would not be cold.
Fang Yi had wanted to treat them to milk tea, but at this time, the girls all had a cup in their hands. Lin Shuxing’s cup was held by another tall girl. Fang Yi vaguely sensed that that person’s gaze towards her seemed to carry a hint of hostility.
But when she looked carefully, that girl lowered her head and silently walked to the side furthest from her.
This was the first time Fang Yi had come into contact with Lin Shuxing’s friends.
Her long-term illness and a little bit of a bad temper had not affected Lin Shuxing’s good popularity. When everyone was together, they took good care of her, and could even be said to be a little doting.
If the young lady said to go east, they would never go west. If the young lady bought clothes, they would help her to match them. Wherever they went, there was a harmonious and cheerful atmosphere.
The book called this group of people the young lady’s bad friends.
Bad friends, and their cat captain, quite cute.
“Aren’t you going to a meeting? Why didn’t you change into the set I got for you?”
Lin Shuxing gestured at Fang Yi’s body, not seeing the little thoughts she had hidden in the dirt.
It had been several years since their first meeting.
But it was also true. Fang Yi’s clothes all looked about the same. As soon as you opened her wardrobe, the nerdy aura would overflow. It was a good thing she wasn’t wearing the classic plaid shirt.
“I thought you would change into that set to go out. I just bought a ruby tie clip that would suit you very well.”
Fang Yi didn’t point out her little bit of disappointment. There were many people around. If she acted too intimately, it would seem inappropriate, so she just nodded. “Yes. It wasn’t a meeting. The leaders just came to chat.”
The young lady waved her hand, and the tall girl on the side handed over a gift bag and opened it.
“It’s one of a kind. Do you like it? It was almost snatched by someone else just now,” Lin Shuxing snorted and held it against Fang Yi’s chest. She tilted her head and admired it for a while, and the more she looked, the more satisfied she became.
The designs of the other styles were also not bad, but only this one was noble without losing its elegance, and it matched her new hair color the best.
This way, when they walked together, everyone would know that she was her exclusive property~
Most of the time, Lin Shuxing’s smile was very faint, with a little bit of arrogance from a high position. Paired with those amber eyes, she was so proud that she didn’t seem to care about anything.
But in front of Fang Yi, she deliberately restrained the contempt at the corners of her eyes, hooked her arm, and shook it coquettishly. “Where’s my gift?”
The young lady’s original voice was very crisp. At this moment, it was as if it were coated with a layer of crystal clear syrup, so sweet it was out of character.
The bad friends all looked over, a little in disbelief. In the past, if Lin Shuxing had made this kind of sound, it was most likely that someone was about to have a great misfortune.
But after listening and looking, she really didn’t have any sarcastic meaning at all.
Lin Shuxing was born with a superior appearance. At this moment, she was smiling brightly under the praise of the stars. Many passersby secretly glanced at her, and besides being amazed, they were also a little eager to try.
They are all human. How can someone be so beautiful? So exquisite and cute that she seems to have been personally kneaded by the goddess Nuwa. When her sharpness and contempt are reduced, and her feigned obedience leaps to her brow, as long as she smiles, the whole world seems to be filled with petals.
Fang Yi took a step forward to block many prying eyes, bent down to tidy up the stray hairs on the young lady’s forehead, placed the small gift box in her hand, and whispered close to her ear, “Look at it when we get home, okay?”
Such an intimate gesture was undoubtedly a declaration of sovereignty.
Many people sadly withdrew their gazes, but some were even happier to see it.
“This world is really small,” the woman in a light gray coat on the second floor said with great interest, resting her chin on one hand, and staring at the two people downstairs.
Zong Heng stood by her side, her brow slightly furrowed. “You know that girl?”
Li Xianqing looked back, smiled at Zong Heng, and spread her hand. In her palm lay a violet brooch.
“We met by chance. She gave it to me.”
“…” Zong Heng looked at it a few more times, and a sense of absurdity rose from the bottom of her heart.
How could it be so coincidental?
One could casually strike up a conversation with Li Xianqing at a masquerade ball, and the other would so inexplicably give a stranger a priceless gem brooch?
If everything was not a coincidence, what a terrifying scheme and ambition… is her goal really still Yanjing?
Li Xianqing glanced at Zong Heng’s sunken face and lightly flicked the brooch in her palm. “She snatched what I had my eye on and sent me off with this.”
Lin Shuxing followed the principle that if she liked something, she had to have it. This was true for both people and things, let alone a mere tie clip. A problem that could be solved with money was not a problem.
Coincidentally, so was Li Xianqing.
Since she was a child, there was nothing she couldn’t get. If there was, then she would destroy it.
She had come to Z City for an unannounced visit, and was just casually strolling around and had picked out a small gift. But before the SA could wrap it, it had been intercepted by Lin Shuxing.
She didn’t know how this spoiled little thing could be so righteous, completely ignoring the principle of first come, first served.
It was even a gang crime.
One swiped the card, one apologized, one thanked. The group of girls had a very clear division of labor, and their tacit understanding made even Li Xianqing laugh in anger.
The last person who had been blind and had snatched her things had later really lost their useless eyes. The arrogant young lady, surrounded by the crowd, was clearly also used to being domineering.
Li Xianqing narrowed her eyes and remembered this slightly provocative face.
But in the moment she raised her hand, the red-haired young lady spun around in front of her, held a violet brooch in front of her, and her long, narrow eyes narrowed into a crescent moon.
“Sister, this is for you. Has anyone ever told you that your eyes are like violets?”
When she had said this, at first glance, her beautiful eyes even seemed very affectionate. Her lingering eyelashes held a layer of an indescribable, hazy white mist, and the beauty mark at the corner of her eye also rose.
Although it was unknown whether it was a sincere compliment or to make her give up that ruby tie clip.
After the young lady finished, she had taken advantage of the fact that she hadn’t reacted and had left with a swagger.
Such a beautiful little devil should be very good at telling sweet lies.
As long as she could achieve her goal, she could be unscrupulous.
Li Xianqing narrowed her eyes. Look, the pitiful Fang Yi is completely being played with in her palm. The wicked smile on the young lady’s lips…
It looked a little familiar.
But Li Xianqing’s attention was soon completely attracted by another thing.
After Fang Yi got close, the few young ladies, for some reason, started to jeer, so Lin Shuxing opened the box.
It was an ordinary little gashapon toy, which looked very much like a Tamagotchi that children in the last century played with.
Such an old and rough thing looked out of place with the young lady’s noble air. The huge contrast made the others show some contemptuous looks. After all, Fang Yi was not of the same class as them.
But to give your fiancée this kind of thing, isn’t it a little too cheap?
The next second, a palm-sized, Q-version, round, black-faced polar bear appeared in Lin Shuxing’s arms and nuzzled her affectionately.
Rather than a bear, its small size was actually more like a cat, but its tail was short, like a small fur ball, so cute it was a bit much.
As a “projected” thing, the wrinkles it pressed down were so real, and there was even a small shadow.
The little bear twisted restlessly a couple of times, stepped on the young lady’s chest, and was immediately lifted from the young lady’s arms by a cold-faced Fang Yi. With a pinch of two fingers, it shrank and was ruthlessly stuffed into the phone screen.
Before it was stuffed in, the little thing was still unwillingly pawing at the screen, looking up at Lin Shuxing pitifully.
Li Xianqing’s pupils trembled. “What is that?”
Zong Heng coldly pinched her thumb, feeling more and more that Fang Yi was a lunatic, to actually demonstrate this kind of thing in public. Her brain had been damaged by love.
Some people around had already secretly taken pictures and videos with their phones, all finding it very novel.
Zong Heng pressed her throbbing brow and replied coldly, “A polar bear cub, a colorpoint American shorthair? There must be a problem with the model rendering.”
Li Xianqing stood up, narrowed her eyes, and fixed her gaze on Fang Yi’s face. Her elegant tone suddenly carried a pressure. “Is this what you call a little game?”