Chapter 223: Chapter 194: Dreams Illuminate Reality Chapter 223: Chapter 194: Dreams Illuminate Reality Blue Horse Shopping Mall Phase One, Skating Rink.
ng Gui asked Jiang Yanan, “Where’s your bestie?”
“She’s already here.” Jiang Yanan sat on the bench, putting on her skates.
On the opposite bench, sat their classmates Yu Wen, Lu Qiqi, and Lu Qiqi’s handso high school junior boyfriend.
Of course, in the presence of the most handso boy from Fourth Middle School, Huang Zhongfei, all others paled in comparison.
At the mont, at the skating rink’s reception, Huang Zhongfei handed a ten-yuan bill to the female owner.
The female owner dressed youthfully and looked to be in her mid-twenties.
She swore she had never seen such a handso young man.
“Damn it, how could soone be so handso!”
The female owner was a sucker for good looks; to her, money was nothing compared to true handsoness.
She waved her hands generously and said, “It’s your first ti here, let’s be friends, this one’s on .”
Huang Zhongfei smiled. He had encountered such situations many tis, and he leaned on the counter as he said,
“Since we’re becoming friends, I don’t like to owe favors. Keep the money.”
Overwheld by his smile, nearly blinded, her heart racing, she took the money, flashing her most sincere smile ever:
“We’re friends now. Do you mind if I give you so skating tips?”
Huang Zhongfei replied, “I wouldn’t want to trouble you.”
“It’s no trouble, I love teaching people to skate, it’s why I opened this rink,” the female owner said.
Cui Yu looked over with a cold gaze, disdain in his heart:
“Won’s mouths, deceiving ghosts.”
He had been there a few tis before; people had tried to get the owner to teach them due to a lack of skill, but the owner never bothered, unlike now, where she fawned over him as if seeing treasure.
According to the regulars, the owner ca from a well-off family, was quite arrogant, and opened the rink just for fun, acting very capriciously.
Yet, because she was attractive, business at the skating rink was surprisingly good.
Cui Yu scoffed, what did it matter if she was capricious? When faced with their class president, Huang Zhongfei, she still played up to him eagerly.
Thinking this, he sighed. At first, when he asked Jiang Yanan out, she declined, even when Cui Yu insisted on treating; she still wasn’t willing.
Cui Yu had no choice but to ask the class president, Huang Zhongfei, and then Jiang Yanan imdiately agreed.
It was such irony.
Beside Jiang Yanan, ng Gui looked around; he didn’t see her friend anywhere and asked in puzzlent,
“Where’s your bestie? I don’t see her, tell how many you are so I can go buy milk tea for you all.”
“She’s here, but only halfway here,” Jiang Yanan joked.
ng Gui was stunned and asked, “What do you an by halfway?”
Jiang Yanan explained, “I an, she’s in the Blue Horse Mall, but she’s tied up right now and can’t co over until later.”
“Oh, okay then.” ng Gui was disappointed, sitting motionless on the bench.
Seeing that he didn’t move, Jiang Yanan urged,
“Go get the milk tea.”
“I’ll wait until your bestie arrives,” replied ng Gui.
Jiang Yanan smiled outwardly but cursed inwardly.
She was a high school student, not so naive child. She felt ng Gui’s intense love previously, but she also felt Cui Yu’s strong affection.
The feeling of being carefully cherished by two boys was actually quite nice.
Jiang Yanan really enjoyed that feeling, even beca addicted to it, until one day ng Gui t her friend and transferred his affections…
From then on, he was cool and distant towards her, no longer acting like before.
Jiang Yanan was upset, even a bit aggrieved. How could he just stop liking her like that?
How could he be so fickle?
What did he take her for?
She had never seen a man change his face so quickly.
Now, Jiang Yanan had given up on ng Gui. Let him go then, she still had Cui Yu!
Jiang Yanan finished putting on her skates and went onto the rink to skate. ng Gui didn’t even enter the rink.
He was a pure-hearted high school student who loved only one person at a ti. ng Gui stood by the railing in the outside corridor.
Beside ng Gui was Cui Yu, both of them leaning on the railing, looking down at the people in the hall from the third floor.
“It’s really nice,” Cui Yu sighed.
“What’s nice?” ng Gui asked.
“This mall,” Cui Yu said. “This is only Phase One, Phase Two over there is even busier.”
“It’s busy for sure, but the rent for the shops inside is expensive, and so are the things they sell,” ng Gui said.
His family was from the countryside. His parents had worked and saved money to buy him a house in the city. Usually, his parents still worked in the coastal cities, and he lived alone.
His living expenses amounted to about one thousand two hundred yuan a month, which was better than many of his classmates. Still, it was nowhere near enough to afford the luxuries at Blue Horse Mall.
Cui Yu cursed, “It’s so damn expensive. I ca here last ti to look at a pair of shoes, and they were selling them for over five hundred yuan. Such a rip-off.”
The shoes he usually wore cost just over one hundred yuan.
Although Cui Yu was a city kid, his family’s financial situation couldn’t compete with ng Gui’s—they were about even.
ng Gui touched his ten-centiter hairstyle: “Jiang Yanan is skating; aren’t you going?”
Cui Yu sighed and said nothing.
Just now, he had seen a couple go into a shoe store on the second floor—the very sa one that sold shoes for five hundred yuan a pair, where the cheapest shoes cost five hundred yuan.
The result was that when the couple ca out, they were carrying two bags.
Thinking about them being in a relationship and then thinking about himself…
“I’ll take a break before going.”
Inside the skating rink, the female owner held Huang Zhongfei’s hand, leading him to skate, fearing he might fall.
Lu Qiqi and her high school boyfriend were also skating hand in hand.
Jiang Yanan was leaning on the railing of the skating rink. It was really strange—ng Gui had run away, and even Cui Yu didn’t show up.
Cui Yu looked down at the crowd below, his heart suddenly filled with ambitious aspirations, and he solemnly said,
“One day, I will buy this place.”
ng Gui was incredulous, “Huh?”
Cui Yu laughed, his eyes filled with fighting spirit: “I’m not kidding. If I work hard in the future, I can definitely buy Lanma Mall, whether it’s Phase One or Phase Two.”
ng Gui initially found it hard to believe. Lanma Shopping Mall, with its investnt counted in billions, how could it be possible to buy it!
He looked into Cui Yu’s eyes and joked, “If President Cui buys Lanma Shopping Mall in the future, could you let be the head of security?”
Cui Yu seriously said, “I’ll just make you the security manager.”
“Good brother,” ng Gui laughed.
After their boastful talk, they got thirsty and decided to buy milk tea.
There was a milk tea shop on the third floor, so they walked along the corridor. As they did so, a pile of plush dolls erged from the arcade on the right.
To be exact, it was a little girl hugging a pile of plush dolls.
“Xue Yuantong?” Cui Yu exclaid, hurriedly looking around—indeed, Jiang Ning was there.
“Are you guys grabbing dolls?” he asked. There were so many!
That’s right, Xue Yuantong boasted, “Jiang Ning grabbed them all.”
Behind Jiang Ning, Xue Chuchu ca out holding three dolls, and even Mu Ying was holding a pink rabbit.
“Mu Ying, you’re here!” ng Gui exclaid with joy.
Mu Ying was Jiang Yanan’s best friend, the girl who had captured ng Gui’s heart at first sight.
Mu Ying looked at ng Gui’s commanding hairstyle, and her eyelids twitched.
“I’m going to have a feast with Jiang Ning,” Xue Yuantong told Xue Chuchu.
“Mm-hmm, go ahead.”
Tao Zhi, with a plush tiger in his hand, kindly said to them, “I’ll co to play with you when I get a chance.”
After exchanging greetings, Xue Yuantong left with the plush toys.
She got to the escalator and said,
“Jiang Ning, holding these is so tiring; can you do so magic to pack them up?”
“If you can do it, I won’t be your boss anymore; we’ll be equals.”
Jiang Ning flipped his hand, and a plastic bag appeared in his palm:
“Pack them up.”
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