Chapter 15 Did He See It?

He didn't exactly see it, but he heard a rough outline…

[Was my expression strange just now?]

Strange isn't the word. It's too outrageous to describe your awesome looks with a word like "strange."

[What will he think?]

I think…

I think I want to say, your point of shyness is a bit tricky, isn’t it?

In student days, everyone likes to randomly pair people up, saying XX is your wife, your husband XX is here. Most people don’t take this kind of talk too seriously, unless it actually hits the mark…

"The sun is a bit dazzling, I can't even sleep well. I'll pull the curtain."

Chen Yuan calmly pulled the curtains shut, and continued to pretend to be resting with his eyes closed.

Xia Xinyu, who was beside him, carefully observed Chen Yuan with his eyes closed, trying to see some flaws in his expression to find out if he had seen her chat history. Then, she saw Chen Yuan's originally indifferent expression, perhaps sensing her gaze, suddenly frown and turn towards the window…

He's pretending to be asleep!

Doesn't he understand the value of playing dumb?

Can't he give me a way out?

[Ugh… Ah, this… what should I do…]

Is it necessary to emit such a cute inner voice?

[Forget it, whatever.]

[Since it’s something that doesn’t exist at all, I don’t need to refute it.]

Indeed, Chen Yuan never got anxious when people used to say XX was his wife.

On the contrary, he could calmly reply: Isn't your XX your mother?

Just like having a virtual mother on the internet, it’s normal to have a virtual wife or a virtual boyfriend in school.

It seems Xia Xinyu has figured it out.

[Let it be.]

"…"

Chen Yuan could barely understand the inner voice from just now, but that sentence “Let it be” abruptly stopped his retort. The tiger in his heart also delicately sniffed the rose.

What kind of relationship… needs to be allowed to take its course…

"Do you think there's anything special about that girl in your eyes?"

After 'naturally' turning the page on what happened just now, Xia Xinyu suddenly spoke.

After all, that girl really has a lot… or rather, topics for conversation.

"Well, this is a bit offensive to say," Chen Yuan said with slight hesitation.

"I won't tell anyone."

Faced with Xia Xinyu's interested gaze, Chen Yuan said frankly, "Okay, you should have seen it too."

"This… most people can see it, right?"

"She's a fujoshi."

"Her figure is quite… ah?"

Xia Xinyu typed out a question mark, and then asked, "Fujoshi? What does that mean?"

"You don't know what a fujoshi is?"

"I know, it's a girl who reads danmei novels… I mean, how do you know she's a fujoshi?" There were some fujoshi in Xia Xinyu's class, but they were the 'Ye Gong likes dragons' type, only reading a little anime and novels, shipping some CPs, and not really affecting their orientation.

But this kind of thing is also normal. Girls will have some of it, more or less. Although she isn't, she knows how to respect other people's hobbies.

"She's a very serious fujoshi, and she's even a bit… like that towards the boys in the class. Let's just say, when I was collecting homework today, I accidentally saw her writing fanfiction about Tang Jian and Zhou Yu. It really scared me."

As he said this, Chen Yuan suddenly felt a pang of sadness.

I wish the person she was imagining was really Tang Jian.

If it were from a troublemaker's perspective, Chen Yuan would probably be happier than anyone else, and would think Zhou Fu was a real talent.

But when it comes to himself?

Zhou Fu, you're such a bastard, you motherfucker.

"That's… a bit too serious." Xia Xinyu didn't understand, but was very shocked.

If a fujoshi is at this level, then she must be full of this kind of thing, and not interested in boys at all…

Hmm? Is there such a saying?

Not sure.

"However, I'm not talking about the fujoshi thing." Xia Xinyu didn't get the answer she wanted, and didn't give up.

"Ah? Then what is it?" Chen Yuan looked completely innocent.

"Figure, didn't you pay attention to her figure? It's very good," Xia Xinyu reminded him.

"Ah? I don't know, I didn't pay attention at all."

Shaking his head, Chen Yuan seemed to have entered saint mode, Naya-ko, Big Mamas, whatever, he wasn't interested at all.

Seeing Chen Yuan's nonchalant expression, Xia Xinyu pursed her lips, and glanced at the boy out of the corner of her eye, with a subtle 'judgment'.

Chen Yuan is a pretty good person.

But it's really hard to get a truthful word out of his mouth.

However, for someone who carries himself so high, his true colors will eventually be revealed after a long time of getting along, and his persona will always be exposed. When that time comes, I'll bring up these interesting old stories again, and he'll definitely be embarrassed and beg me to stop talking, hehe.

No, are you a devil?

Hehe indeed!

Supporting his face with his hand, quietly watching the quiet and beautiful high ponytail girl beside him, Chen Yuan realized that even listening to her inner voice didn't require him to be as scheming as when facing other people. All that was needed was constant vigilance—a battle of wits with his neighbor.

The second-to-last stop of the 737 bus was Sunshine Community Station. At this time, there were only some elderly people left on the bus.

After getting off the bus with Xia Xinyu, they followed their plan and first bought 20 yuan worth of discounted eggs, 30 in total, which would be the main source of protein. The rice at home should be enough to eat for about ten days, so they saved money on rice. Then, there was the expense of noodles. A large bag of 2.5kg egg noodles cost 13.9 yuan, which would be the source of their staple food.

Originally, Chen Yuan had 167 yuan today. After deducting the 6 yuan for the round-trip bus fare for the two of them, the 8 yuan for his lunch, and the money for groceries, he had 153 yuan left. Now it's…

"If we have 120 yuan left…"

"It's 119," Xia Xinyu corrected him, and then explained seriously, "If you automatically round down like this every time you calculate, you'll be surprised by the accumulated change when you check out."

"Indeed, every time I think I'm only buying something for a few yuan or a dozen yuan, it shouldn't be too much, but when I check out, it's more than a hundred," Chen Yuan admired Xia Xinyu's keen observation of life.

As a commuting student living alone, he didn't have much achievement in terms of life skills.

"Lettuce leaves, two yuan and eighty cents." After weighing them, Chen Yuan asked Xia Xinyu for her opinion.

"Okay," Xia Xinyu nodded, and then looked at the green onions, falling into serious hesitation, "Cong You Mian (scallion oil noodles) doesn't need many green onions, but without them, the taste is much worse. The refrigerator in the apartment has poor preservation, and if we buy too much…"

[What a lovely young girl, still wearing her school uniform. Are these two kids dating?]

[They're from the same school, right?]

[How cute, they're learning to live life at such a young age.]

Suddenly, Chen Yuan heard an inner voice uttered in a maternal tone.

Turning his head, he indeed saw a middle-aged woman.

The cashier aunt looked at her with a loving expression, and also glanced at him from time to time, her eyes full of 'interesting, very interesting'.

"I'll give you a few green onions."

The aunt directly pulled out three green onions and put them into the plastic bag with the lettuce leaves, and re-printed the receipt.

"Eh? Really?"

"It's nothing."

"Thank you." Xia Xinyu gratefully took the lettuce and green onions in a bag with both hands, and then looked at Chen Yuan with considerable joy—look, free stuff.

It's just a few green onions, if I were a butcher, and you begged me with that expression, I'd give you half a pig directly.

《Beauty Economics》

"The pork belly is on sale so early today, it's still eight yuan a jin, so let's get one and a half jin."

After resolving the last meat dish, today's shopping was over.

20 yuan for eggs, 13.9 yuan for noodles, 2.4 yuan for lettuce leaves, 12.8 yuan for discounted pork belly, a total of 49.1 yuan, a small plastic bag costs three mao, which is 49.4 yuan.

"You can enter a lottery when you spend more than fifty, do you want to get something else?" The cashier asked with a smile when paying.

"…" Xia Xinyu, who was asked, began to search on the checkout counter, but after her gaze glanced at something like Linggan ultra-thin condoms, she quickly corrected her gaze, "Or… never mind."

Anyway, she can only win tissues in the lottery.

"Get this." Chen Yuan picked up a package of spicy small fish for one yuan and put it on the checkout counter.

Xia Xinyu, who is from Jingnan, seems to like to eat spicy food.

Unlike Chen Yuan, a coastal boy from Haidong Province—Five-spice is considered mildly spicy, Xiangla (fragrant spicy) is considered mala (numbingly spicy), and Mala is considered 'are you trying to kill me with spice?'

"Why don't you do the lottery… I always win fourth prize tissues, I have bad luck."

"It's not bad luck, it's that ninety-five percent of the prizes in the prize pool are tissues."

"Then you do it, I haven't even won the remaining five percent…"

"Okay."

Chen Yuan handed the receipt to the red-vested lottery girl, and then casually reached into the glass box to grab a ball.

Anyway, it's fourth prize, it doesn't matter.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a voice.

[He's reaching to the bottom, there's a chance he'll touch a third prize.]

Is that the voice of the lottery girl?

So, they put all the good prizes at the bottom?

"The third prize is a cheese stick, it would be nice to win the third prize…" Seeing Chen Yuan's serious expression, Xia Xinyu couldn't help but feel expectant. Looking at the prizes placed on the table, she was especially envious of one bag of ribs, "But it would be best to win the second prize."

Fourth prize, tissues.

Third prize, expiring cheese sticks.

Second prize, a jin of ribs.

First prize, a large cute bear.

[The third prize is okay too, the expiring products are cheap.]

[The key is that each box has three second prizes and one first prize.]

[Moreover, the boss specially put some oil on the first prize, so when customers touch it, they will subconsciously feel it's dirty and move their hands away, thus missing it.]

[You know, this bear has even been here longer than many interns!]

[But this boy… why is he looking at me?]

Under the nervous gaze of the lottery girl, Chen Yuan 'swam' in the glass box for half a minute, took out a ball, and placed it in front of the lottery girl.

Then, he wiped his hands on the lottery tablecloth.

"First prize… Cute Bear."

Opening the lottery ball and taking out the lottery ticket inside, the lottery girl announced in a trembling voice.

It's normal for this boy to win the prize…

But, why did he look at me just now?

As if his heart had been pierced through… seen through!

Chen Yuan expressionlessly picked up the cute bear and placed it in Xia Xinyu's arms, who was a little surprised and stunned, and then turned around and left with the groceries, concealing his name and deeds.

To be honest, it was a bit handsome.

But I really didn't expect that even lottery draws have tricks.

It can only be said that he underestimated the esper!

But using his superpowers in this place, just to make Xinyu smile, is also a bit of an underestimation of superpowers.

Never mind, a smile is fine too.

"I didn't expect the first prize to be so easy to win."

When Chen Yuan turned his head and smiled to talk to Xia Xinyu, he found that her bear had turned into a bag of ribs at some point.

And Xia Xinyu, carrying the ribs, also gave him a look of admiration, 'You're so amazing,' and was quite happy.

However, Chen Yuan felt a little dazed…

"Isn't the first prize a bear?"

Xia Xinyu glanced back at the pink cute bear wearing a hat that few girls didn't love, then looked at Chen Yuan, shook her head, raised her eyebrows, and said with a smile, "It's a bit of a pity, I don't like dolls."