On the National Day weekend, the carriage was crowded with people as soon as they entered the underground.
Good-looking people were particularly eye-catching wherever they went. The doors of the compartment opened, and Chen Jiashu and Chen Du walked in with eyes cast in all directions.
Beautiful girls were even more eye-catching than handsome boys. Many people’s thoughts were in their eyes, glancing at them in amazement and curiosity. The level of greasiness and lewdness in a public place was several times higher than in a school.
Chen Jiashu stood with her back against a steel pillar. Chen Du was next to her and his aura of “Do not approach” was so strong that several young people around him who tried to accost him were stopped in their tracks by the fury in his eyes. Chen Jiashu looked down and played with her phone.
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Chen Jiashu lowered her eyes, coolly hooked the corners of her mouth, and smiled without any sense of morality.
When the underground arrived at the next station, there was an extra seat available in the next row of seats. Chen Du pulled Chen Jiashu over to take it.
“What are you doing?”
Chen Jiashu was looking at her mobile phone, and when he pulled her, she almost dropped it on the ground. She hastily held it in her arms, hobbled a few steps to follow him, and sat down on the empty seat.
Chen Jiashu looked at her aunt, who was sitting on her right, with a glass fender on her left and no extra space around her. Chen Du was standing in front of her, and behind him were crowds of people. The young man’s slender arms supported her. On the wall of the car overhead, a small space was opened up for her in the crowded enclosed car.
Chen Du used his height to his advantage, blocking most people’s eyes from behind him.
He hated it when people looked at Chen Jiashu in that way. If he had known this earlier, he would have taken a taxi when he left home.
The tennis club was on the seventh floor of the mall. This floor was basically a sports club with a gym, a swimming pool and other competitive clubs. None of which had anything to do with Chen Jiashu. The places she was going to were on the first, second, third, and fourth floors, for snacks, clothes, bags, and shoes.
Chen Jiashu did not have a specific purchase purpose. She came here today with a half-initiative and half-drive to get things done. She still had a few pieces of school clothes, and in the bag lay a few thousand yuan that Chen Jinan and Wen Yun stuffed her with.
A few thousand dollars was not a small amount for a high school student, but it was not enough in this high-end mall.
Chen Jiashu passed by a boutique with an exquisitely shaped teddy doll in the window, with a cute pink hairpin and a red checkered dress. She couldn’t help but glance at it, and then she glanced at the price tag below. The little interest she had just raised was instantly drowned in a row of zeros.
She turned her head and walked forward, but Chen Du pulled her into the shop, pointed at the doll, and said to the shop assistant, “Please wrap it up for me.”
Chen Jiashu was caught off guard and froze for a moment, “What are you doing?”
“Hmm? Just now, you kept looking at this doll. I thought you liked it. ” Chen Du gave her a look and asked, “Do you like it?”
‘Of course, I liked it, but there was no need to.’
Chen Jiashu wanted to ask how he could have so much money for a little kid, but then she thought that he was holding Wen Yun’s secondary card. So not only was he rich, he was super-rich. Not to mention the teddy doll with the pink diamond hairpin, he could afford to buy the whole pink diamond.
‘I wonder if Wen Yun will check the side card and how she will react if she finds out that her good son has spent a few thousand dollars on a little doll for his money-losing sister.
It was fun to think about. ‘
The look of surprise on Chen Jiashu’s face dissipated as she hooked the corners of her mouth and slowly rippled into a smile, saying, “I like it.”
Chen Du let out a sigh of relief and also smiled slightly.
‘If you like it, buy it.’
The shop assistant was very fast, packing and entering the order in one go. In the blink of an eye, the po-colour machine light came on and it was time to swipe the card.
But Chen Du pulled out an ordinary UnionPay savings card from his wallet and signed his name on the ticket stub after the bill was successfully deducted. Closing the pen cap, he neatly and beautifully returned it to the clerk.
The clerk gave him the wrapped gift box, “Looking forward to the next visit, you two.”
After leaving the boutique, Chen Du wanted to give the doll to Chen Jiashu. She clasped her hands to her chest and didn’t take it, looking at him and asking, “Is that your card? Where did you get the money?”
Chen Jinan had a strict wife. The money he earned was handed over as much as he could. Wen Yun didn’t always give money to the children, usually, she would just buy whatever Chen Du wanted. Chen Du also had her secondary credit card in his hand. In this condition, cash was basically useless.
This was exactly what Wen Yun was about. She was a woman with a strong desire to control, not only her husband but also her son. Not limiting the amount of money Chen Du spent, but caring about where he spent every penny.
“I won a national prize in the Mathematical Olympiad competition and got a bonus. Over the summer, I worked as a teaching assistant at a summer camp. I tutored the students for the next competition, so I got paid a bit, and made some money selling programmes to a few seniors from the training team.”
“Okay, okay, I know you’re good. You’re super good at making money, okay?”
Chen Jiashu raised her hand to stop his payroll card-like ramblings and took the doll, “Thanks.”
As she walked forward aimlessly, accompanied by Chen Du, she stopped in her tracks. He stumbled forward and back to see her wrinkling her two chiselled brows.
“Why do you keep following me? Don’t you have to go to class?”
“It’s early. Let’s walk a bit more.”
The class was at half-past nine, and it was now twenty-five past nine, so that was early. It was early only if he could flash and fly up to the seventh floor.
Chen Jiashu’s eyebrows soothed a few points, and she looked at him with interest, her dark eyes carrying a bit of temptation: “You don’t want to go to class and you want to go shopping with me?”
Under her gaze, Chen Du averted his gaze with some embarrassment, his knuckles tightening as he carried his training bag. His earlobes flushed red as he nodded softly, “Mm.”
“Mmmm your head!”
Chen Jiashu slapped him on the back of the head, “Go to class!”
Chen Du was slapped into the lift. Chen Jiashu pressed the button for the seventh floor and turned around to leave. Her slender back swayed a modest bundle in his line of sight, and any hair tossed and raised was full of seductive style. Her slender shoulders and small waist, the calves under the hem of her skirt that were so white that they absorbed light, last night he held them in his hands and kissed them inch by inch.
When the lift doors closed, knowing that she was in the mall, Chen Du suddenly felt a sense of longing and reluctance. He hadn’t felt such strong emotions in a long time, or ever. It was an uncontrollable obsession, an addictive need for a woman, and he knew exactly what it meant.
He was in love with his half-sister.
Half-blood, half kinship, and double the guilt.
Chen Jiashu sat on a bench in the lounge area, the gift box containing the doll resting on her lap.
The box alone was beautiful, with a very textured tone. She opened it and took out the Munchkin and held it in her hand, running her fingers around its ebony round eyes a few times.
Instead of buying clothes and shoes, she went to get a haircut first. Her hair had grown long again, and her fringes at the front almost covered her eyes. They could only be lifted to the sides, and when the wind blew, they were covered back up again.
In addition to this, her hair was too long and there was also the problem that it was tugged easily. Chen Du, who didn’t know what was important, pulled her hair many times last night.
Her hair was in good condition, so good that the hairdresser repeatedly praised her during the washing process. She said a lot of beautiful things and sincerely recommended their annual treatment card, which was recently on special offer. The original price of 3,000 was now half price at 1,500.
Chen Jiashu did not understand things like nano-wave water molecules, but whether she did or not, she had only one answer.
“Sorry, I have no money.”
Chen Jiashu lay back in the shampoo chair, her eyes upside down, staring at the wide-eyed hairdresser above her.
She was telling the truth. She had little money. She couldn’t run commercial shows as a student, and the few part-time jobs she had at school were later forced to stop one after another for various reasons, and she didn’t have time to look for part-time jobs off-campus. Apart from Chen Jinan, who occasionally thought of sneaking her some money, she had almost no financial resources and was often strapped for cash.
The good thing was that although Chen Jinan didn’t think of her very often, he gave her a considerable amount of money every time. Since she didn’t have any expenses of her own, she still had no problem feeding herself. Unless she couldn’t even eat, then she could only call Chen Jinan and receive a few bills under Wen Yun’s blank stare.
“Huh?” The hairdresser was stunned. This was the first time in her career that she had met such a blunt customer. She was so blunt that it was not at all like what she could say from her appearance.
It was generally assumed that beautiful girls generally had good economic conditions. Chen Jiashu obviously had the face of a rich lady, the body of a celebrity model, and the aura that naturally flowed from the way she moved her hands.
She was holding a limited edition doll worth more than three thousand dollars, and the hairdresser’s eyes were on it just now, not even noticing that she was dressed plainly.
It turned out that her dress wasn’t intentionally old, but was really old, with some piling around the edges of the flat collar. The black leather shoes were clean, neatly polished, and looked high class on her feet, but if you looked closely, you could see that they were ordinary, big-ticket items.
“The water temperature is a bit high. Please turn it down a bit. Thank you. ” Chen Jiashu spoke out to remind her.
After saying that, she did not care about the face of the person above her. She closed her eyes to fake sleep.
She did not care what others thought of her.
There were a thousand ways to deal with such cards, but nothing could be more decisive or genuine than saying, “I don’t have any money.”
‘In fact, I have no money. What can you do? If you really think about me, why don’t you give it to me?’
The hairdresser looked resentful and turned down the water temperature. After that, she did not feel comfortable talking to Chen Jiashu, just as she had wanted her to. She also did not like talking to strangers.
The haircut experience was not very harmonious, but Chen Jiashu was satisfied with the results of the cut. The bangs were thinned out a bit, and the sides and back of the head were cut into layers. After the hairdryer was finished blowing it out, the hair fell to the length of her mouth, draped out in longer layers smoothly.
She had more than the usual amount of hair, so this cut came out clean and fresh, with bangs fluffed up over her eyebrows, looking very student-like.
Chen Jiashu paid and left, leaving the hair salon. She bought a sundae at the dessert station, digging into it with a small spoon as she wandered along the road.
She was picking out a nightgown when Chen Du messaged her.
“Still at the mall? What did you buy?”
“Nothing yet, just got my hair cut.”
“What kind of haircut? Does it look good?”
“Just a shorter cut.”
“Oh.” Chen Du typed the word “oh” and then deleted it, “My teacher suddenly had to leave on short notice. There’s no class right now.”
“You want to come to me?” Chen Jia Shu raised an eyebrow.
“Is that okay?”
She didn’t know what kind of tennis lessons Wen Yun had enrolled Chen Du in, a one-on-one private lesson or an open class for training, but either way, suddenly leaving a student and walking away wasn’t something that could happen in a hobby class. It was only about two hours. What could be more important than a customer? It was not right.
The explanation Chen Du gave her was that the instructor’s son had appendicitis. He was in such a hurry that he dropped the phone and left, so the class had to be rescheduled for another day.
Chen Jiashu didn’t believe him, but Chen Du didn’t seem like someone who would skip class.
Maybe it was just a coincidence. Who could tell with appendicitis?
“You can come over.”
“Okay, where are you?” Chen Du flew back.
Chen Jiashu hung the nightgown back on the shelf and headed out to the front of the shop, looking up to lose a flurry of brands.
The French brand was a bunch of messy characters that she couldn’t type out, so she simply stopped typing and took a picture, and sent it straight over.
“Lingerie shop.”
TLN: Things are gonna heat up soon… (^o^)
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