The two of them didn’t go to the pedestrian street to meet up with the other four people.
Because Jiang Yumo had to buy something she didn’t want others to know about, so she took Duan Ye to a department store outside the pedestrian street based on her feeling.
They found the counter of a watch brand in this department store.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, she had secretly searched for many guides online before, and only then did she realize that there are so many brands of watches, not just the ones that cost 30-40 yuan in the boutique shops… There are high-end brands and affordable brands, making it difficult for people to choose. She really liked the name of a brand called Patek Philippe, and she looked up the price online. Her breath held for a few seconds, afraid that the page would cost her money, and she quickly closed it.
What a robber! One watch is even more expensive than a house, it’s simply out of the question! She could never afford it in her lifetime!
After choosing and selecting, she chose a brand.
It was very affordable, with prices generally ranging from a few hundred to over a thousand, which she could afford. Duan Ye’s birthday is next month, and she decided to give him a watch as a gift. She thought it should be good, right? Yan Qing’s cousin said that men should wear watches, which is very stylish.
Of course, Jiang Yumo automatically ignored what Yan Qing’s cousin said afterwards—
“There is a saying in the world of novels, that is, the poor play with cars, the rich play with watches, which means this. Driving a Mercedes-Benz or BMW to show off wealth is ridiculous, now the male lead’s watch has to be inflated to the level of tens of millions before it can match his status!”
Duan Ye was surprised that Jiang Yumo came to the watch counter.
This brand had both men’s and women’s watches.
He thought she wanted to buy a watch for herself.
But she dragged him directly to the men’s watch section and asked him, “Which one do you think looks good, suitable for…,” she paused for a moment, “…suitable for someone who is eighteen or nineteen years old?”
Duan Ye furrowed his brow, “Men’s…watch?”
Eighteen or nineteen years old. Who was she buying it for?
Jiang Yumo put her hand behind her back and gave a sly smile, “Yeah, you know my cousin, right? I’m planning to give him a watch, but I don’t know what kind of watch you guys like.”
She was more direct.
For a gift, it would be better to give something that the recipient would like, so she brought Duan Ye to help her choose.
She wasn’t buying it for her cousin; for his birthday, she would go to a boutique and buy him a pen at most.
Duan Ye didn’t doubt the truth of Jiang Yumo’s words, nodded slightly, but breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly. As long as it wasn’t for someone he didn’t know, it was fine.
“Come on, help me pick one,” Jiang Yumo emphasized, “My cousin is over half a year older than you, so your taste should be similar. Which one do you like?”
He always cared about her affairs.
Even if this watch was for her cousin, he picked it carefully.
In the end, he chose a black watch.
Jiang Yumo lowered her eyes, her eyelashes curled up like a fan, and she helped him put on the watch.
Duan Ye stared blankly at her hairline.
At this moment, all the noisy sounds of the mall seemed to be shielded, as if the whole world, no, the whole universe, only had him and her. The surroundings were so quiet that he could even hear his own heartbeat.
Jiang Yumo’s fingertips occasionally touched his wrist bone.
She looked up at him in surprise, “It looks pretty good, doesn’t it?”
Duan Ye finally had the chance to notice the watch on his wrist.
He made a low sound of agreement.
“Do guys like it?” Jiang Yumo asked again.
Duan Ye nodded, “Like.”
—Always like you.
Jiang Yumo also exclaimed excitedly, “I like it too!”
The only problem was the price… it was a bit beyond her budget, but it didn’t matter, because Duan Ye liked it! Since he liked it, she would buy it and give it to him. She would just have to continue eating corn and eggs for lunch for the next month. Jiang Yumo pretended to go to the bathroom and secretly opened her wallet, counting all the coins in her purse, but she was still short of two hundred yuan.
Whatever, she would just borrow two hundred from Yan Qing later and then pay her back.
Anyway, she had to buy this watch, it was Duan Ye’s 18th birthday present.
Everyone says that 18 is important.
Duan Ye thought Jiang Yumo was going to buy it, but to his surprise, she turned back and looked at the counter several times before reluctantly preparing to leave. He asked her in a low voice, “Didn’t you want to buy it for your cousin? Why didn’t you buy it?”
Jiang Yumo honestly revealed, “It’s too expensive. I don’t think my cousin deserves it, hahaha.”
As if knowing what Duan Ye was about to say or do, she spoke firmly, “Don’t buy it, and don’t buy it behind my back either. I don’t like that kind of thing, you know?”
Duan Ye could only nod helplessly and ask, “Then what do you want to give him?”
Jiang Yumo blinked, “He’s a bookworm, so I’ll just give him a pen. He’s not picky.”
Duan Ye : “…”
Sometimes he really couldn’t understand girls. If they didn’t plan to buy anything expensive, why bother coming to browse?
The two walked back to the pedestrian street and easily found the other four.
Guo Shichao and Zhao Zheng were sleeping on the steps.
Yan Qing and Sun Mengting were shopping with high spirits, as if they would never get tired.
So sometimes in terms of physical strength, girls can completely, completely beat boys, and the boys are just a group of losers.
Duan Ye walked up the steps and kicked Zhao Zheng. Zhao Zheng woke up in one second and asked groggily, “Ah, are we done shopping again??”
Upon taking a closer look, it was Brother Duan. Zhao Zheng felt like crying, “Brother Duan, this is no way to live. They don’t treat us like humans, but like animals. We can’t go on like this.”
Duan Ye smiled and scolded him, “Know some shame.”
On the other side, Jiang Yumo whispered to Yan Qing and Sun Mengting, “Emergency! Emergency! I took him to the watch shop, I found one that’s perfect, but it’s two hundred yuan over my budget! I didn’t bring enough money!”
Yan Qing confidently took out her wallet and gave her two bills, “Take it! Take it!”
Jiang Yumo said, “Awww, my dear, I love you!”
“Get lost!”
Sun Mengting asked, “Are you going to buy it now?”
“Of course! His birthday is next month, and I won’t have time to come back to the provincial capital again. By the way, I’ll go buy it now. Can you guys keep him busy for a while? Just don’t let him find out I’m gone.”
Yan Qing : “Rest assured!”
The store they were in was even bigger than the one they had visited in the morning, with stairs and elevators. Sun Mengting went to investigate and found that all three of them were by the stairs. Jiang Yumo snuck away unnoticed by taking the elevator down and then quickly ran to the department store to buy the watch.
She felt like there was a rabbit in her heart1.
She was incredibly excited, as if she were about to do something really amazing.
After buying the watch and having it wrapped by the purchasing agent, Jiang Yumo carefully hid the square box in the innermost part of her shopping bag, making sure no one could see it.
There were also discount counters in the department store, with all kinds of woolen sweaters and coats displayed on the side, and many people were shopping, almost as crowded as in a supermarket. Jiang Yumo didn’t notice that someone was secretly following her, just thinking happily about the watch.
Just then, a hand was placed on her shoulder. She turned her head and looked at the person in confusion.
It was a boy about the same age as her.
The boy had a gentle and clean temperament, dressed simply in white and black, with a refreshing look.
Before she could even ask what was going on, the boy seemed to be staring in another direction. After a few seconds, he breathed a sigh of relief and then looked back at her, his voice clear and gentle as he said, “I’m sorry, I just saw someone following you, seems like a pickpocket. You better check if you lost anything.”
Jiang Yumo was startled by his words.
She knew there were thieves and pickpockets, but she never thought she would encounter one herself.
She panicked and began to search her shopping bag. When she saw that the watch box wrapped in clothes and accessories was still there, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, “Nothing’s missing, I was scared.”
The boy chuckled, “Don’t you want to check your wallet?”
Jiang Yumo then unzipped the zipper of her shoulder bag.
It’s also her lack of common sense. She actually wore the shoulder bag behind her back in such a crowded place, instead of in front of her for protection.
“No.” Jiang Yumo said gleefully, “In fact, even if the pickpocket went to great lengths to open the zipper of my bag and took my wallet—”
When she laughed, her eyes curved like the moon. “He will be so angry to find out that there are only ten yuan inside.”
Thinking of a joke she read in a book before, where someone was walking their dog and using a newspaper to pick up the dog’s poop, someone thought it was money and quickly snatched it away. She laughed so hard at the time, just imagining the scene made her laugh like crazy.
Jiang Yumao laughed heartily, without any fear from before.
What a big-hearted girl.
The boy was amused by her, “Maybe.”
Jiang Yumao said again, “But thank you very much! You are really brave and courageous. If it were me, I might not dare to go forward and remind others.”
She’s super cowardly.
She wouldn’t dare to do something as courageous as what he did.
The boy was a bit stunned when he heard her blunt compliment, then replied, “You’re welcome.”
They didn’t know each other well, so they exchanged thanks and said goodbye.
Jiang Yumo turned around and saw only his back.
He was tall and thin.
But she felt that this person was a bit familiar, as if she had seen him somewhere before.
She was extra careful on the way back to the pedestrian street, and when she returned to the store, she breathed a sigh of relief as if she had just stolen something, “Did they notice anything?”
Yan Qing patted her chest, “No, they didn’t. But Brother Duan really cares about you. He has come twice to see what you are doing and whether you are going to pay… You don’t know how nervous I felt when I had to lie to him while he was looking at me. I was afraid he would see through my lie and find out that I lost his little treasure. He would have killed me!”
Jiang Yumo pinched her, “Nonsense, he wouldn’t lay a hand on a girl.”
Sun Mengting added, “Have you ever thought that in his eyes, he might only see you as a girl?”
Jiang Yumo: “?”
Yan Qing clapped her hands and laughed, “Yes, yes, yes! But they’ve been shopping with us for so long, why don’t we just accompany them and go play over there? Look at Zhao Zheng, he’s so bored that he’s pretending to shoot hoops in mid-air. Are these guys childish or what? They don’t even have a basketball in their hands or a hoop in front of them, but they still have to jump up and pretend to shoot. They think they’re cool, but they’re actually lame. Luckily, Brother Duan doesn’t do that.”
Jiang Yumo was originally laughing, but suddenly exclaimed in a low voice, “Ah, I remember now! No wonder I felt like I knew him! “
Yan Qing and Sun Mengting asked, “?”
“I just ran into a pickpocket and almost had my wallet stolen. A boy warned me, he was so kind, and I felt like I knew him, but I couldn’t remember who he was. Just now when you mentioned basketball, I remembered. Do you guys remember when we had a friendly basketball game with the students from First High School at the beginning of our freshman year? That tall and skinny guy from First High who played so well, that’s him!”
At the beginning of their first year in high school, they didn’t have much academic pressure.
The relationship between Fifth High School and First High School was also good, and they had a friendly basketball game.
At that time, Duan Ye also participated and was the main player of the basketball team.
First High School also had a player who played basketball very well and was almost as good as Duan Ye, but in the end, they lost to Duan Ye’s three-pointer.
At that time, everyone was excited.
In short, it left a deep impression on her because after the game, many girls in the class were discussing the tall and handsome boy from First High’s basketball team.
Yan Qing was especially impressed with handsome guys.
She widened her eyes in disbelief and asked, “The person you met wouldn’t happen to be Ye Wenxu, right??”
Jiang Yumo nodded, “Yes, yes, his surname is Ye, but I forgot his name.”
It had been too long since then. She only remembered him because of Duan Ye. After all, in that basketball game, that person was Duan Ye’s strong rival.
Yan Qing and Sun Mengting exchanged a glance, both with regret in their eyes, especially Yan Qing, who almost wailed, “Why did the heavens have to be so blind? If I had known, I would have gone with you to buy the watch!”
“Are you exaggerating a bit?” Jiang Yumo couldn’t help but laugh.
Sun Mengting explained to Jiang Yumo, “Ye Wenxu, he’s almost the learning God of First High, ranking first in the entire grade, and he has participated in competitions and won medals.”
Jiang Yumo: “…Oh.”
“It’s not fair, it’s not fair!” Yan Qing lamented, “What kind of encounter is this for a married woman like you? It’s a waste, the opportunity should be left for us, don’t ruin a good thing!”
Is that how you use the idiom “ruin a good thing”?
And what’s with the married woman comment?
Jiang Yumo : “? Yan Qing, you’re dead, you’re dead!”
- uneasy/anxious ↩︎
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