You’ve really been lucky in love recently

【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: Really????

Seeing her surprised expression, Gu Xun copied the address.

“No. 89 Hua’an Street, Tongjing District, Qing’an City.”

This line of words, just like the photo of her holding a cup of milk tea back then, invisibly shortened the distance between them a little closer.

Before, she didn’t even want to meet him in the same city, but now she was at least willing to give him her address.

Gu Xun’s smile spread to the corners of his eyes and finally broke out on his lips. He washed his hands and was about to type when he received another message from the other side.

【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: The second item is really half price!!!

【Is it illegal to be bad at something, sir】: .

Yue Qianling’s first reaction was indeed to check if the second item was really half-price on Taobao.

Seeing the big red label, she was overjoyed. She quickly started to calculate in her mind, thinking that if they bought two together, they would both benefit from the discount.

But a keyboard costing nearly 3,000 yuan, even with the second one was half the price, it still amounted to over 2,000 yuan. It didn’t seem like much of a discount after all.

Yue Qianling bit her finger, gradually dispelling the idea.

If it were before, asking her parents for money to buy a keyboard for over two thousand wouldn’t have made her bat an eye.

But since her internship, she had been lamenting every day how hard it was to earn money. Supporting herself came with countless expenses, and she never knew exactly where her salary went.

She also felt how extravagant she used to be with money. Just thinking about it made her feel heartbroken for her parents.

So she started deliberately cutting unnecessary expenses. To this day, she was still using the black-axis keyboard she bought at the beginning of her junior year, and she hadn’t upgraded her graphics card either.

But this keyboard…

She really likes it.

Yue Qianling looked at her salary card again, feeling discouraged.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Dad appreciates your filial piety, but there’s no need for a gift.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Keep the money for yourself.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Dad loves you =3=

【School Grass】: Shut up and go to sleep.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Okay.

【School Grass】: Good night.

***

Starting from the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Yue Qianling was taken by her parents to visit relatives, or to entertain guests at home. She was constantly being ordered to clean, and she felt busier than she did at work.

This was a good thing, as she almost had no time to sit and daydream. During the day, she was busy, and at night, she went out for dinners and karaoke with her high school friends. There was always noise around her.

As long as she didn’t think about the matter of Gu Xun having a girlfriend, she was still happy.

In the blink of an eye, it was already noon on the sixth day of the lunar new year.

The statutory Spring Festival holiday was over, and Yue Qianling’s high-speed rail ticket back to Jiangcheng was in the afternoon. At this moment, she was packing her bags.

But as soon as she thought about returning to Jiangcheng, where Gu Xun’s presence was everywhere, whether at work or school, her mood instantly plummeted.

The things she had once longed for, to be able to get closer to him, had now become her shackles.

Thinking of this, Yue Qianling’s movements in packing her luggage became particularly slow.

She didn’t want to go back to Jiangcheng at all now.

Twenty minutes later, Yue Qianling put her suitcase in the corner of the room, sighed, and went to the kitchen to cut some fruit.

The TV in the living room was rebroadcasting the Spring Festival Gala as background sound, while Ju Yunzhen was sitting on the sofa chatting on WeChat.

Yue Qianling stuck her head out and shouted, “Mom! Do you want apples or bananas? Do you want juice?”

This sentence happened to be recorded in the voice message she had just sent. She turned to look at Yue Qianling and said, “Just two oranges will be enough.”

Yue Qianling soon cut the apples and brought out two oranges.

As she passed by Ju Yunzhen, who was just opening a voice message on WeChat.

”Daughters are good, so thoughtful, unlike my son, sigh…”

Mothers don’t like typing on WeChat, and voice messages are usually played out loud. Yue Qianling had already heard quite a bit of gossip from Ju Yunzhen’s WeChat in the past few days.

This aunt’s voice sounded a bit familiar to Yue Qianling. She peeled the orange and handed it to her, and casually asked, “Who is it?”

Ju Yunzhen took the orange and casually said, “Aunt Gu,” then pressed the voice message button.

But Yue Qianling suddenly felt a jolt, forgetting to chew the apple in her mouth. She pricked up her ears to listen to her mother.

“Thoughtful? Sons and daughters are equally troublesome.”

Ju Yunzhen chewed on the orange peeled by her troublesome daughter and continued, “Your son is so outstanding and talented, and his grades are so good. If our Lingling’s grades were half as good as your son’s, we wouldn’t have had to spend so much money to send her to study art.”

Yue Qianling: “…”

She frowned and grumbled discontentedly, “I didn’t study art because I wasn’t good at studying. I love art. Don’t talk nonsense.”

Ju Yunzhen glanced at her, ignored her, and opened the new voice message.

“You don’t know. What’s the use of good grades? He liked to play games since he was a child, and he didn’t even go to a decent company after starting to work. He didn’t even come home for the New Year.”

Gu Xun didn’t go home for the New Year?!

Yue Qianling’s nerves, which had already subsided, were stirred again. She subconsciously moved closer to her mother, as if this could help her hear more news.

Unexpectedly, Ju Yunzhen stabbed a knife into her own daughter’s heart as soon as she spoke.

“Which company doesn’t have a holiday for the New Year? Did your son get a girlfriend?”

A quick response came from the other side.

“I haven’t heard him mention it. I’ll have to ask him. If he really has a girlfriend, then why wouldn’t he come home?”

Yue Qianling’s scalp tightened and her mind buzzed. Unfortunately, after hearing this sentence, Ju Yunzhen put down her phone and went to the bathroom.

Although she had already heard from Gu Xun himself that he had a girlfriend, hearing his mother say this made Yue Qianling feel like she was doing a reading comprehension exercise, trying to interpret a thousand possibilities from it. As a result, she couldn’t move her legs as she sat on the sofa.

The phone on the table vibrated.

Ju Yunzhen didn’t come out of the bathroom for a long time, and Yue Qianling looked at her phone, tempted to unlock the screen several times to listen to what Gu Xun’s mother said.

These few minutes felt like they were stretched into seconds, as if enduring several centuries.

Until Ju Yunzhen came out of the bathroom, Yue Qianling looked at her with anticipation, waiting for her to play the voice message.

But Ju Yunzhen picked up her phone and walked toward the bedroom, saying, “I’m going to change clothes. Tidy up the table, and we’ll get ready to go to the high-speed rail station.”

“Oh, okay…”

Her mother and Gu Xun’s mother had been separated by two cities since they graduated from high school. Over the years, they had met only a few times, with infrequent contact. Occasionally, they exchanged greetings and chatted briefly, but the topics didn’t last for long.

So Yue Qianling really wanted to grab her and hear what the other side replied, but she couldn’t open her mouth.

***

As she boarded the high-speed train back to Jiangcheng, Yue Qianling’s breath became heavier with each passing moment.

If she had known, she wouldn’t have cut that apple. She wouldn’t have heard the news that Gu Xun didn’t even return home for the holiday to accompany his girlfriend.

How sweet must their relationship be to make him do such a thing?

The mood she had spent more than half a month sorting out was ruined once again.

When she arrived at the university that night, Yue Qianling dragged her suitcase back to the dorm room with a listless expression. Yin Xue was drying clothes inside.

“Why are you so late?”

“There was a traffic jam on the road.”

Yue Qianling put down her suitcase, and she saw a cardboard box on Yin Xue’s desk, filled with various miscellaneous items. “What are these for?”

“Isn’t graduation approaching?”

Yin Xue said, “I joined a second-hand group for the school. I plan to sell all the things that are inconvenient to take with me.”

Yue Qianling let out an “oh,” washed her hands, and sat at her desk to check Weibo for a while to relax.

She didn’t know if her phone was being monitored, but as soon as she refreshed, an advertisement post for a group purchase at an external device store popped up.

The keyboard she had her eye on was part of the advertisement.

Yue Qianling clicked on the details and saw that she could save nearly a thousand yuan if she bought it in a group purchase, but she still needed seven people to form a group.

In addition, she didn’t expect that she would actually receive red envelopes for the Chinese New Year this year, so her suppressed desire to shop immediately surged.

She immediately sent the link to the four-person gaming group.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: Does anyone want to buy a keyboard?! Come join me in the group purchase!

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: @LuoTuo, does your wife play games? Do you want to get her one?

【School Grass】: ?

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: ?

【School Grass】: Didn’t I already buy you one?

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: ????

Yue Qianling stared at the phone screen in disbelief.

【Glutinous Rice Twist】: You really bought me one????

【School Grass】: Otherwise?

【School Grass】: After so many days, you still haven’t received it?

【School Grass】: Is the address wrong?

【Glutinous Rice Twist】:????

Yue Qianling was speechless for a long time, and wanted to say something several times, but felt that something was off.

At this time, Yin Xue was pacing back and forth in the dorm, humming a song.

“Falling in love~ happy~ the mood is like sitting on a jet plane~”

Yue Qianling looked at her phone with mixed feelings.

Right now, she indeed felt like she was on a jet plane.

“Yin Xue, stop singing. I have something to ask you.”

Yin Xue was sorting out her clothes and didn’t turn around. “Go ahead.”

Yue Qianling licked her lips, and hesitatingly spoke, “It’s about that online friend’s story. If he suddenly sends you a very expensive gift, what do you think he means?”

“Huh?”

Yin Xue suddenly turned around. “How expensive?”

Yue Qianling spoke with a pained expression, “Almost three thousand.”

“……”

Yin Xue remained silent for a while, not saying anything, but her eyes already conveyed everything.

Yue Qianling sighed, “You also think… right?”

“This should be the case.”

Actually, the first time Yue Qianling asked Yin Xue this question, Yin Xue really didn’t think much of it. After all, it was just a phone call to wish her a Happy New Year.

But after knowing about the gift, her thoughts started to change.

In this era, forming feelings by playing games for a long time was really too easy.

Yin Xue had played an online game before. In a guild of twenty or thirty people, she could easily form five or six teams on her own.

Moreover, Yue Qianling’s voice was indeed very pleasant, and it was normal for others to imagine her as a beauty based on her voice.

“Tsk.”

Yin Xue shook her head. “You’ve really been lucky in love recently.”

Seeing that the other person had no response after sending so many question marks, Gu Xun sensed that something was wrong.

He thought for a moment, copied the address the other person gave him, and pasted it into the Gaode Map app.

One second later, a small red marker indicating the location appeared on the map.

Gu Xun zoomed in on the map, and then zoomed in again, and again.

Until it clearly showed—the Qing’an City Police Station.

Gu Xun: “……?”

What the hell…

Just as he was about to type something, Yue Qianling sent him two private messages.

Gu Xun opened them and immediately laughed out loud.

[Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili has transferred 2888 yuan to you]

【Cilantro connoisseur who loves chili】: You… know I have someone I like, right?