Chapter 32: There Are Plenty of Men

It was bad enough that she had witnessed the first encounter between the male and female leads, but now this? Was this another scene she had ruined? Because Lin Chuyu, instead of being rescued by Meng Yuanbin, had treated him like a hooligan!

What a mess.

Jiang Ning didn’t know if it was right or wrong. Maybe this was just quantum mechanics.

If Zhou Mansha hadn’t snatched her lipstick that day, she wouldn’t have had a bad impression of her.

Without that bad impression, she wouldn’t have personally come to the theater to accompany Shuang Tao for her exam, which led to Zhou Mansha’s secret being exposed.

Then Meng Yuanbin wouldn’t have come looking for her today, wouldn’t have been all over her on the overpass, and wouldn’t have been beaten up by Lin Chuyu as a hooligan…

“Your name is Jiang Ning, which Ning?” Lin Chuyu asked her.

Jiang Ning: “The Ning of ‘gaze’.”

Lin Chuyu looked at her again. Even though her clothes were simple, they looked clean and stylish, her brows and eyes as clear and elegant as fresh snow.

She felt inexplicably a little embarrassed: “Your name is beautiful. Well, then, you should also be careful to avoid that hooligan. If he bothers you again, just call for help, or I’ll teach you a move. You can use your knee to kick him in the crotch, make him a eunuch!”

Jiang Ning: “…Okay.”

Looking at Lin Chuyu’s sincere smile, she couldn’t help but laugh: “Thank you, I’ll remember that!”

The two of them walked down the overpass together.

Lin Chuyu was going in the same direction as her. She carried two baskets on a shoulder pole, walking unsteadily but seemingly accustomed to it.

Walking off the overpass, Lin Chuyu pointed to the street next to it: “I usually set up my stall there, mostly in the afternoon, sometimes at night too.”

She usually didn’t talk about her situation to strangers, but the young girl in front of her seemed familiar, and she couldn’t help but want to talk to her more.

Jiang Ning saw that her basket had things like colorful hair flowers and asked, “What do you sell at your stall?”

“Oh, I sell everything, hahaha. Last year I was selling vegetables, this year I saw that everyone in the city is into those butterfly hair ties, so I made some myself. They were selling well for a while, but not so much lately.”

Soon, they arrived at where Lin Chuyu usually set up her stall. There were already a few small stalls there, selling things like underwear and T-shirts.

Jiang Ning thought that the female lead was indeed the female lead, even in her youth, she had a good business mind. She knew that selling pretty and fashionable headbands on the street outside the Cultural Theater, where there were many young girls coming and going, would match her customer base.

She helped Lin Chuyu set up the stall. It wasn’t really a stall, just laying out the items neatly from the basket, that’s all.

Lin Chuyu arranged the things, smiling gratefully: “Thank you.”

“I should be thanking you. If you hadn’t helped me today, I probably would have been harassed.”

Jiang Ning looked at the headbands, all different styles, with bows, roses, green silk gauze, and some with small shell pendants sewn on. It seemed that Lin Chuyu had imitated the styles of those small commodities, and they looked no worse than those.

She sincerely praised: “Your craftsmanship is really good, did you make all these yourself?”

Lin Chuyu had helped her family sew clothes since she was a child, and she was very skilled with needlework. These were all made by her staying up late, using scraps of fabric. Hearing this, she blushed: “Well, I’m actually not that good, and I haven’t had much business lately.”

Jiang Ning picked out two headbands: “Don’t be humble, you made these so beautifully, they’re no worse than those from Guangzhou. How much do you usually sell them for? I’ll choose two for my sister.”

Lin Chuyu still wanted to refuse payment, she felt very close to this girl surnamed Jiang.

Jiang Ning insisted on paying: “Are you going to be setting up your stall here in the near future? If my sister likes them, I’ll bring her to buy some.”

Lin Chuyu: “Yeah, I’m usually here.”

As they were leaving, Lin Chuyu still warned her: “Remember to avoid him, don’t let that stinky hooligan bother you again.”

She also said resentfully: “I thought that guy was quite handsome, but he actually did such a despicable thing, what a waste of that face.”

After Jiang Ning went home, she gave Shuang Tao, who lived next door, a pink headband with a silk gauze butterfly knot, and kept a green silk headband for herself.

The scene of the male and female leads meeting today still made her feel a little dazed.

Lin Chuyu’s expression towards Meng Yuanbin was quite contemptuous, after all, who would have a good impression of a man who harassed young women on the street?

In the depths of her heart, Jiang Ning felt that maybe the original love line between the male and female leads might be broken like this.

Just based on Meng Yuanbin’s self-righteous words today, there was nothing to be sad about.

Lin Chuyu was such a good female lead! There were plenty of men, who wouldn’t she be worthy of, why would she have to find someone who was a playboy with a lot of romantic debts?

Thinking about this, Jiang Ning felt relieved.

She spent the afternoon mainly thinking about how to go to the ghost market, and it was already evening before she knew it.

When Lu Dingquan came back, she was just coming out of the bathroom after showering, her black hair dripping wet, water droplets sliding down her cotton apricot-colored nightgown, vaguely revealing a bit of jade-white skin on her chest.

The man’s gaze quickly shifted away, his Adam’s apple bobbing slightly. Jiang Ning didn’t notice.

She only saw the fresh vegetables and a small piece of meat he was carrying in his hand.

She was stunned, could it be that he was going to cook at home?

Who would cook?

She raised her hand first, she couldn’t!

Lu Dingquan put the vegetables and meat on the table, then went to the bathroom to wash his hands. As soon as he went in, Jiang Ning was nervous, her change of underwear hadn’t been taken out yet, she planned to wash them together later.

Before she could hesitate, Lu Dingquan had already come out of the bathroom.

He rolled up his sleeves, revealing two sections of strong, wheat-colored forearms, and stared at her dripping long hair, his brow furrowed slightly: “Dry your hair, dinner in half an hour.”

The tone was very much like commanding a new recruit in the army.

Jiang Ning thought, it’s just drying my hair, why are you being so fierce?

She lazily dried her hair while squinting at him and asking: “Are you cooking at home tonight? Are you going to cook?”