CHAPTER 289: CHAPTER 289: IF I WERE YOU

When Rong Qingqing said she wanted it, the look on her face wasn’t fake; it was full of longing.

Shen Jue curled his lips.

Just because the booklet here had his photo in it, did she want it?

Did she want to secretly look at his picture?

Shen Jue watched Rong Qingqing, seeing her hugging it tightly, unwilling to let go, raised his eyebrows, and agreed.

"Alright, I’ll give it to you."

Rong Qingqing was taken aback for a moment.

She knew her request was quite shameless, but she didn’t expect Shen Jue to actually agree?

"You’re really a great person." Rong Qingqing gave Shen Jue a thumbs-up in praise.

Shen Jue was much more generous than she thought.

"Shen Jue, we agreed, we’re adults now, and you can’t go back on what you promised." Rong Qingqing patted Shen Jue’s shoulder, "Since you’ve agreed, I’ll take it then?"

"Do you think I’m like you?" Shen Jue still remembered Rong Qingqing unapologetically reaching out to Zhao Junxi to get back the ten yuan.

"Hmph." Rong Qingqing made a face at Shen Jue, hugging the booklet happily and sitting down to carefully flip through it.

To be honest, Rong Qingqing really hadn’t had the time to go through these things before. Whenever she participated in competitions, it was always aimed at scholarships and the title of champion.

She spent a lot of time and money on these aspects, naturally expecting some returns.

Winning this prize not only meant a cash reward, but mainly because having this title meant that when Rong Qingqing tutored, the prices would soar.

In her first year, Rong Qingqing’s hourly tutoring rate went from 50 yuan to 80 yuan.

By the time she graduated high school, with the honor of being the top scorer, Rong Qingqing earned over ten thousand yuan in tutoring fees during the summer before college.

Now with some free time, Rong Qingqing looked through the booklet, almost recalling the feeling of holding the trophy and going home to ask her brother for something to eat. At that time, she and her brother were really poor, working part-time every day, and their three meals were basically about finding the cheapest option or going somewhere to get a free meal.

The first time she won the math competition, her brother bought her a bag of fruit candies as a reward.

Eating a piece, that sweetness seemed never to fade from her heart.

Shen Qiao came home around six after finishing school at five ten.

Entering the house, he noticed an extra fish tank in the living room, exclaimed with interest, and walked over.

"Who’s raising fish?" Shen Qiao glanced around and turned to ask the housekeeper, "Why is there only a fish tank and no fish?"

"What kind of eyesight do you have?" Rong Qingqing walked over, pointed near the water plants, "Open your eyes wider and look carefully, is there a white one here, and is there a black striped one lying over there by the stone?"

"Where?" Shen Qiao pressed his face against the tank, stared intently to see the two fish Rong Qingqing mentioned.

He suddenly recognized them as the fish from the stream behind Shen Manor’s lotus pond.

"Sister Qingqing, did you go to the stream behind to catch fish this afternoon?" Shen Qiao pouted a bit unhappily, "Why didn’t you wait for me to go together over the weekend?"

"You want to go? Then we’ll go again over the weekend. Lin Bufan said there are also small shrimp and little stone crabs in the stream, and I’m quite curious." Rong Qingqing said, "You don’t have class on Saturday, let’s go on Saturday afternoon."