Chapter 218: Chapter 192 Special_2 Chapter 218: Chapter 192 Special_2 The space between the first phase and the second was connected by an overhead glass walkway.
Xue Yuantong gave Jiang Ning an ugly glare, then viciously retorted. Infuriating! Did she look like soone easy to bully?
Without a word, Xue Yuantong grabbed him as if she had caught hold of an ox or horse. Thinking this way, her spirits soared once again, and she felt cheerful.
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Jiang Ning led Xue Yuantong to the first phase; compared to the bustling second phase, the foot traffic here was considerably less.
Lanma Mall had a spacious interior with an elliptical layout. Standing on the ground floor of the main hall, one could look up and see the exquisite ceiling of the fourth level.
As the two strolled along the circular path, Xue Yuantong grew more talkative:
“I asked Chuchu yesterday if she was coming to hang out, but she said she had made plans with her classmates.”
“Yeah.” Previously, Chen Siyu had also asked Jiang Ning, and it seed like both of them could make it, but they had to cancel because sothing ca up at the last minute.
So, today it was just Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong hanging out at the mall.
“Do you want to grab sothing to eat first?” Jiang Ning gestured to a nearby restaurant that specialized in porridge, available 24 hours a day.
“No thanks, I’ll just buy a small piece of bread for now; we can go eat at the buffet on the fourth level when we’re tired from walking around,” Xue Yuantong had clearly planned ahead.
The mall had a wide variety of shops, and Jiang Ning made his way to the phone stores first. For him, this was one of the few interests he had when visiting the mall, to get hands-on experience with the latest smartphones.
Actually, Jiang Ning was more interested in stores selling ga consoles, but unfortunately, such shops did not exist in a small place like Yuzhou.
Jiang Ning went into an OPPO and VIVO store, and also visited a izu phone store.
At this ti, the izu brand was still quite popular, able to compete with the likes of Xiaomi, but nobody expected they would cool off so quickly later on.
After the phone store, he accompanied Xue Yuantong to a small jewelry shop.
The decor of this jewelry shop was plain and simple. The majority of custors inside were young won. Xue Yuantong wandered among the various trinkets and eventually chose two candy-colored triangular hair clips.
Jiang Ning paid for the items; the two hair clips cost fifteen yuan.
Once they stepped out of the store, Xue Yuantong clipped the strawberry-colored barrette in her hair, adding a bright accent to her appearance.
She showed it off to Jiang Ning with a smile, “Does it look nice?”
“I think it’s pretty good,” Jiang Ning said, the hair clip made her seem more lively.
They continued on their way and passed by an open area where several custors lay on massage chairs, using their phones. They hadn’t paid to use the chairs, simply lying on them and resting their shoes on them as well.
Such scenes were common even in later tis.
Unconcerned, Jiang Ning continued to roam the mall with Xue Yuantong. At one point, they passed by a watch store, where Xue Yuantong rushed to the n’s watch counter. She was taken with a n’s watch featuring a light gold fra and a white dial.
‘It would definitely look good on Jiang Ning’s wrist,’ Xue Yuantong imagined the scene.
But the price of the watch was intimidating; she silently noted down the model of the watch.
She decided that once she had saved enough, she would buy it for him as a gift, to show her generous nature as Xue Yuantong.
Ti gradually approached half-past ten, and Xue Yuantong was starting to tire from running around.
However, Jiang Ning felt nothing of the sort. He could walk like this with another one hundred girls without any sense of fatigue. Ten days and ten nights would be no problem for him.
The two went to an open-air café, where Xue Yuantong decided to grab a bite to fill her stomach.
Jiang Ning, on the other hand, went to buy drinks.
At Lanma Mall, the second phase had a rchant event, and it seed the first phase wasn’t about to fall behind. At the milk tea store in front of him, a banner was put up announcing the second cup was half-price.
Jiang Ning ordered two cups. At that mont, a boy next to him looked over. The boy was about 1.72 ters tall, around sixteen years old, delicate, wearing old-fashioned black-rimd glasses, and exuded the aura of an academic achiever.
The boy was Tao Zhi, a student from the experintal class of first-year High School students at Yuzhou Second Middle School.
Tao Zhi had made plans with a few classmates, taking advantage of the second phase’s opening to have fun at the mall.
They agreed to et at the mall at nine-thirty. Always punctual, he arrived right on ti.
Only to find that he was early, as his classmates had not arrived yet. He had no choice but to wait there, and that wait lasted a full hour.
Recently, Tao Zhi had been reading a lot of economic books and felt he had begun to understand a bit about business.
For instance, this milk tea store’s marketing was by exploiting a weakness in human nature: offering the second cup at half-price as a marketing tactic, thereby getting custors to spend more money.
Tao Zhi firmly opposed such practices.
From a young age, he aspired to be a person who contributed to the country. To this day, he has been making waves and had moved up to Second Middle School, the best in Yuzhou, and joined the experintal class. Furthermore, he enjoyed reading various types of books, but he lacked the corresponding practical experience to support his knowledge.
People like him often take issue with many things in society; they are passionate and bold in objecting to injustices in their unique manner.
At the mont, Tao Zhi adjusted his glasses and decided to advise this lone student.
Instead of advising directly, he gave an example:
“Hello, excuse for the interruption.”
“Let ask you a question. If you were walking in a vast, unending desert, with no end in sight, and you’re both tired and thirsty, if I offered you a bottle of water, would you finish it?”
Jiang Ning was in a good mood, and since the boy was polite and non-confrontational, he didn’t mind replying:
“I would finish it.”
Seeing that he had engaged, Tao Zhi asked again, “What about if I gave you a second bottle after the first?”
“I’d finish that too,” Jiang Ning said.
“And a third bottle?”
“I’d finish it.”
“What about a fourth bottle?”
“I’d finish that one too,” Jiang Ning said, such a quantity of water wouldn’t be a burden for him.
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