Chapter 1026: Chapter 588: Reminiscence (Part 2)

Shen Qing’e clearly saw Lu Qiqi wearing a gold ring on her finger.

“Swipe the card,” said the young man briskly.

The server swiped away twelve hundred yuan.

Upon hearing the price, Shen Qing’e clicked her tongue silently.

After buying the gold ring, Lu Qiqi came over with a smile, extending her finger to show her friends, “Oh, I bought it too quickly, help me see if it looks good?”

Gold is something humans naturally like, especially when worn on a young girl’s finger; naturally, it looks good.

Yu Wen and Jiang Yanan both voiced their praises.

Shen Qing’e, unlike the two girls, was perceptive and easily saw through Lu Qiqi’s intentions.

Lu Qiqi asked for their opinions only after purchasing the ring, just to show off.

Shen Qing’e forced a smile and said seemingly sincerely, “Qiqi, your fingers are already pretty, this simple band looks great on you, it’s particularly fitting.”

Lu Qiqi’s face was full of pride.

The man beside her also wore a satisfied smile, manifesting his financial prowess and gaining recognition from the girl’s friends, which made him feel quite elated.

Yu Wen touched Lu Qiqi’s finger, looked for a while, and suddenly said, “The gold ring is nice, but your wrist is even prettier, fair and clean, if you wore a bracelet, it’d definitely look even better.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Qiqi hadn’t reacted yet, but the man beside her seemed a bit uneasy.

A gold ring isn’t expensive, solved with a thousand yuan, but a gold bracelet, that’s over ten thousand.

Lu Qiqi knew he wouldn’t buy it for her, she maintained her smile, “I want to wait until I get married to buy a gold bracelet anyway, plus, why would a high schooler wear a gold bracelet.”

Jiang Yanan, less direct than Yu Wen, offered a way out, “Actually, the jade pendant on the wrist looks good too, Chen Siyu and Geng Lu’s are nice.”

Chatting and talking, they walked to the fourth floor’s food area, with the treat being by friends, naturally not a small eatery, but a Chaoshan beef hotpot restaurant.

At the dining table, while Lu Qiqi and others chatted, Shen Qing’e wasn’t speaking much today.

She took out her phone, planning to check QQ space.

Shen Qing’e’s phone was still the Oppo dual-core she bought after graduating junior high, an Oppo R821t, dual-core CPU, 512m RAM, 4g storage, an outdated configuration.

The years around 2014 were when mobile CPU development was at its peak, new Android flagship phones would lag after a year, resulting in the stereotype that Android phones lag after years of use, quite inferior to Apple.

Though it was true back then, by 2017, with Qualcomm’s legendary Snapdragon 835 appearing and the legendary Xiaomi 6 debuting, Android phones could now last three years.

Lu Qiqi seeing her friend’s phone, pulled out her newly bought iPhone 6, placing it on the table and displaying the evident logo.

Jiang Yanan: “Qiqi, you got a new phone?”

Lu Qiqi gracefully smiled, “The previous one was too laggy.”

“That one lags? I remember that phone could rotate the camera, costing over three thousand,” Yu Wen said surprised.

Lu Qiqi: “I still prefer Apple, the photos look great.”

Saying this, she confidently displayed the phone for her friends to see.

Yu Wen and Jiang Yanan fiddled with it for a while, surprised, “The pixels are amazing, the screen looks so comfortable, not many in our class use one, right?”

“Quite a few, the class monitor, Dong Qingfeng, Bai Yuxia, Jiang Ning, all using them,” Lu Qiqi explained.

She perceived owning a new iPhone, as elevating her status to the top layer of Class 8.

“Jiang Ning has a 6 plus, rumored to be the top configuration,” Lu Qiqi added.

“He won the marathon prize last time, an Apple is nothing to him,” Yu Wen said enviously, regretting not having the capability to earn that money.

Shen Qing’e also touched the iPhone 6, somewhat envious, as she always found Apple’s design appealing, if only she could own such a phone…

But this remained just a fantasy.

“Even without the marathon, Jiang Ning could surely buy one, his grades are excellent, he’s received scholarships too,” the three girls began discussing Jiang Ning.

Shen Qing’e listened to them talk about that familiar yet distant name and quietly withdrew from the topic, becoming a spectator.

Before, at the town school, she thought Jiang Ning was average, not tall, with slightly better grades, but compared to those students who liked causing a scene or had talents, he was far behind.

Now unknowingly, he had become a boy discussed among girls.

Especially Yu Wen, who used to be hostile towards him, had changed her attitude, let alone Jiang Yanan, even catching toys brought him up.

Even the self-important Lu Qiqi, according to Ma Shicheng, often threw boyfriends out like Pocket Monsters for battles, and collected all ex-boyfriends’ merits to synthesize a super-perfect boyfriend, Lu Qiqi was no exception.

Good grades, marathon champion, magician, toy-grabbing expert, having these merits, Jiang Ning seemed to be someone she had missed…

That day, she got hurt, while recuperating in the infirmary, Jiang Ning went to mock her, almost driving Shen Qing’e to collapse.

She harbored resentment towards Jiang Ning.

In hindsight, she realized she may have done worse to Jiang Ning.

She remembers the winter of her first year, Jiang Ning rode his bike to find her, but due to heavy snow, accidentally fell and hurt his leg, went to the village’s old doctor for ointment, who even lent him a cane to walk.

On the way back, she saw him hobbling humorously, deliberately hanging her heavy school bag on his cane, watching him walk awkwardly…

At this moment, Shen Qing’e even blamed her past self, if only she had been nicer to Jiang Ning…

However, this mindset didn’t linger long.

She shouldn’t blame her past self, blaming the past equals denying the present, as her present self might be blamed by the future.

Taking advantage of the others chatting, Shen Qing’e found Xue Yuantong’s QQ number from her friend list.

Shen Qing’e initially wanted to enter Xue Yuantong’s space directly but that would leave a mark, if Xue Yuantong were attentive, he’d surely notice her visit record.

Xue Yuantong was quite close with Jiang Ning, if he shared with Jiang Ning, they might guess something.

Imagining those consequences, Shen Qing’e felt her forehead go numb.

But wanting more information, especially about grabbing toys, she had to enter Xue Yuantong’s space.

Shen Qing’e’s Yellow Diamond membership was expired, she opened Yellow Diamond last time to peek into Jiang Ning’s space, and now she was doing it again for Xue Yuantong.

Feeling like a thief, Shen Qing’e glanced around, seeing Lu Qiqi and others still chatting, unnoticed, she felt relieved.

Disregarding her guilty thoughts, she financed another Yellow Diamond renewal, feeling much relieved.

At last, she didn’t need to hesitate anymore.

Shen Qing’e took a deep breath, calming her trembling heart.

Her finger tapped suddenly, now she was probing into Xue Yuantong’s updates.

The next second, seven big characters appeared: [Owner has set permission].

Shen Qing’e’s heart stopped trembling, but her hand trembled.

…

River dam.

Yan Bo purposely drove back at half past eleven.

He hadn’t caught any fish, so he went to the market and bought two fine black fish, intending to claim he caught them by luck.

Yan Bo got out of his car, headed straight for rural tourism, seeing Boss Yang sitting in the sunny spot at the entrance, chatting with an old man while munching on sunflower seeds, looking leisurely.

Yan Bo craned his neck to look inside the yard, the two young women who fished in the morning and the middle-aged man were all there, except for the brother and sister.

Feeling uneasy inside, he hurriedly asked, “Boss, where are the brother and sister who were fishing just now?”

Boss Yang didn’t quite understand his intention, puzzled, “No siblings came to fish?”

Yan Bo, thinking the other might not recognize them, described, “The boy who caught several big crucian carp and a girl, they are siblings, oh, and a short girl.”

Upon this description, Boss Yang understood, then didn’t understand.

He was baffled, “You say siblings, they’re not siblings.”

Yan Bo froze, pressing on, “Not siblings?”

Boss Yang: “They’re neighbors, what siblings, who told you?”

Yan Bo replaying the memories, realizing they didn’t resemble siblings, finally understood, he was fooled, inwardly cursing:

‘Damn, I got played!’