Chapter 30: Business Trip 2

Qin Ruyan and Qin Shi, siblings, chatted for a while.

A knock came from outside the door.

Qin Shi was closer, so he got up and opened the door.

Outside, Shen Meng walked in with a bunch of bags in her hands.

Qin Shi raised an eyebrow, looking at his mother.

After they left the Lu Group, she said she was going shopping. Now, seeing her carrying so many bags with both hands, and still smiling without feeling burdened, Qin Shi felt a bit helpless.

Qin Ruyan saw this scene and walked over.

“Auntie, let me help you carry them.” She reached out to help, but Shen Meng shook her head.

“Let your brother carry them. These are gifts I bought for you while shopping.”

Shen Meng shoved all the bags into Qin Shi’s arms, grabbed Qin Ruyan’s hand, and walked towards the sofa.

Qin Ruyan poured her a glass of water and handed it to her.

“Auntie, have some water first. It’s so hot, you’re carrying so many things. Aren’t they heavy?”

Shen Meng had fair skin and had been taking good care of herself these years. She didn’t look like someone who was almost fifty.

She took the water from Qin Ruyan, took a sip, put it back on the table, then turned around, holding Qin Ruyan’s hand. She spoke with a hint of excitement,

“Ruyan, I went shopping just now and bought you a lot of gifts. You wouldn’t believe it, I saw something and thought it would suit you, so I bought it. Before I knew it, I bought so much.”

Shen Meng was a bit excited. She only had Qin Shi, no daughter. She had always wanted a daughter to accompany her shopping, but unfortunately, she only had a son.

“I bought many beautiful dresses for our Ruyan. I asked your brother to carry them. Let’s try them on later, Ruyan? See if Auntie’s taste is good.”

Qin Ruyan was stunned for a while before she reacted.

She looked at Shen Meng, her forehead was sweating, and her palms were a bit red, probably from carrying the bags.

She couldn’t help but lower her head, calming her emotions.

“Auntie’s taste is definitely good. Whatever you buy me will be the best-looking.”

When she looked up again, she had already calmed down, and now she was looking at Shen Meng with a smile.

“Good, good, good.”

Shen Meng said as she pulled her hand and walked upstairs.

“Let’s go try them on now. By the time we’re done, your uncle will have finished dinner.”

Qin Ruyan felt a bit helpless, but Shen Meng was in high spirits now, and she didn’t want to dampen her mood.

They reached the second floor, at the door of Qin Ruyan’s room. Qin Shi stood there for a while. Qin Ruyan wasn’t there, and he didn’t dare to go in rashly. After all, it was a girl’s room, and he wasn’t supposed to go in.

“Thanks, brother.”

Qin Ruyan went forward and opened the door. After Qin Shi took the bags inside, he turned around and left the room.

Qin Ruyan opened the bags and looked inside, then looked up at Shen Meng in surprise.

This… was too much…

Shen Meng took a bag out of a packaging bag.

It was the latest Hermès Birkin.

She handed it to Qin Ruyan and smiled.

“Our little princess of the Qin family deserves the best. Uncle, Auntie, and your brother, we all earn money for you to spend.”

Qin Ruyan looked at the bag in her hand, smiled, and took it.

“Thank you, Auntie.”

She didn’t really care about these things, but since Shen Meng gave them to her, she accepted her kindness.

Shen Meng then let her look at the other things in the bags.

Qin Ruyan took them out one by one, and the bedroom floor was filled with…

Various bags, lipsticks…

There was also a delicate box. She opened it and saw a blue and white cheongsam inside.

Qin Ruyan’s eyes, which had been calm when looking at the bags, lit up.

Shen Meng noticed her expression and chuckled.

“This was made by a master tailor from an old alley in Beijing. I ordered it for you the day you said you were coming back to China. Ruyan, try it on? If it doesn’t fit, I’ll go and have it altered.”

Qin Ruyan nodded. She picked up the cheongsam and looked at it, then turned and walked towards the bathroom. Shen Meng was there, and she was a little embarrassed to change in front of her.

Two minutes later, Qin Ruyan came out of the bathroom.

Shen Meng looked up, her eyes filled with amazement.

Qin Ruyan was 168 cm tall, but weighed only 92 pounds, a typical example of fair skin, beautiful features, and long legs.

Her skin was fair, her neck slender, her limbs thin but not skinny, her lips red and teeth white, and her waist very, very thin.

Shen Meng had seen many people wear cheongsams, but none could wear them as beautifully as Qin Ruyan.

She walked over and circled Qin Ruyan.

“I didn’t expect our Ruyan to have such a good figure. If you wear this out, you’ll surely captivate a lot of boys.”

Qin Ruyan pursed her lips, a little embarrassed.

“Auntie, you’re just teasing me.”

Shen Meng took her hand and patted it. “Auntie is telling the truth. Our Ruyan is truly beautiful, and the size seems to fit perfectly?”

Qin Ruyan looked down and it seemed to fit perfectly.

“That’s also because Auntie has good taste and chose a beautiful dress.”

Shen Meng didn’t say anything, just smiled at her.

Qin Ruyan chatted with her casually, “Auntie, wait for me. I’ll go in and change out of it. Don’t let the cheongsam Auntie bought me get wrinkled. I’ll wear it on a suitable occasion.”

Shen Meng nodded. “Auntie won’t bother you anymore. Should I help you put these things away? Get some rest early. If you like anything else, tell Auntie, I’ll buy it for you.”

She couldn’t help but pinch Qin Ruyan’s face and sighed, “Youth is good. Qin Ruyan’s skin is flawless, like porcelain.”

Qin Ruyan smiled. “I’ll tidy up myself. I need to put everything away slowly, these are all gifts from Auntie.”

She declined Shen Meng’s offer to help her tidy up. It was getting late, and she didn’t want to keep Shen Meng up.

“Okay, okay.”

Shen Meng smiled and turned to leave, closing the door behind her.

Qin Ruyan went into the bathroom and changed out of the cheongsam, coming out in her pajamas.

She looked at the bags and lipsticks scattered on the floor, sighed, and squatted down to slowly tidy up.

By the time Qin Ruyan finished tidying up, it was almost ten o’clock. She went into the bathroom, took a shower, and applied her skincare before coming out.

The phone screen on the nightstand flickered on and off.

She walked and dried her hair, went to the bed, picked up the phone, and unlocked it.

There were 99+ unread WeChat messages.

Yaoyao: Yanyan, are you asleep? I’ll come pick you up tomorrow at the agreed time.

A Head of Cabbage: I was just about to sleep, okay, okay, I’ll wait for you at home.

Qin Ruyan replied and scrolled down. Lu Jingchen had sent her several messages, and she saw that it had been half an hour.

LJC: Asleep?

LJC: I’m going on a business trip tomorrow, so I might not be able to reply to you in time for the next two days. Will you be angry?

LJC: Are you asleep because you’re not replying?

Qin Ruyan sighed, was Lu Jingchen this… idle?

She pressed the phone and replied to him one by one.

“Not yet asleep.”

“I’m going on a business trip tomorrow too, to look at fabric. I might be busy for the next two days as well.”

“Not angry.”

She replied one by one, and finally added another sentence.

“Tomorrow’s flight, I’m going to sleep now. Lu Dage, you rest early too, good night.”

After Qin Ruyan sent the message, she turned off the phone, put it on the nightstand, lifted the blanket and got into bed, closed her eyes, and fell asleep soon after.