Chapter 44: Really Pulling at the Strings

After Chen Lu stopped the car, he reached out to help her unbuckle her seatbelt. Liang Zhirou blushed and shook her head, signaling that she could do it herself.

He didn’t insist, instead, he opened the door with a satisfied smile and got out of the car.

He knew Liang Zhirou was definitely embarrassed.

The reason he knew this would happen and still offered to help was to interrupt her thoughts.

This silly girl was slow to react, and Chen Lu wouldn’t give her a chance to think too much.

A few seconds later, the girl timidly got out of the car, her eyes looking at Chen Lu with a strange sense of guilt.

She actually didn’t like refusing Chen Lu’s requests, but she was just too nervous just now.

Although she felt she had done nothing wrong, she still regretted it a little.

Chen Lu didn’t care, he smiled and said, “Let’s go.”

Today wasn’t a weekend or holiday, so there weren’t many people in the mall at this time, most of them were concentrated in the various restaurants inside the mall.

The two walked side by side, looking for the elevator.

From time to time, people handing out flyers would come up to them. Liang Zhirou, having handed out flyers herself, knew these people weren’t easy, so she always carefully took them.

Chen Lu, having seen Liang Zhirou hand them out, also changed his usual habit of taking them based on his mood and started taking them without refusal.

Soon, their hands were filled with flyers from various restaurants, and they had no choice but to turn around and find a trash can to throw them away.

“I’ll buy you one too?”

On the ascending elevator, Liang Zhirou turned her head and said softly.

She was standing one step ahead of Chen Lu, and at that moment, she was exactly the same height as him.

She could just look into Chen Lu’s eyes.

Chen Lu smiled.

“We’ll talk about it when you get your next class’s pay.”

He didn’t refuse.

After all, by then, she would have a clear understanding of how much she earned from her last class.

Chen Lu wanted to cultivate this concept in her early on, that money couldn’t be saved. Instead of spending all your time thinking about how to save every penny, it’s better to use it to improve yourself and earn more money.

Also, mental labor is far more rewarding than working as a waiter or handing out flyers in a hotpot restaurant, and it’s also less physically demanding.

Liang Zhirou would be exhausted after handing out flyers all day, definitely not as much as she could earn by tutoring for an hour.

Once this was started, once this silly girl got paid a few hundred yuan per hour, she would understand that she should develop in this direction.

Some things couldn’t be understood by this naive girl all at once, she needed to be gradually enlightened.

She would understand more thoroughly then.

Liang Zhirou stared blankly at the smiling Chen Lu, naturally, she didn’t think he was thinking so much.

She just didn’t expect Chen Lu to agree so easily, she was a little happy and started recalling Chen Lu’s usual clothing style.

Because she was thinking too intently, she didn’t notice that the elevator was pushing her to the end, she only felt her feet slip, and she panicked without reacting, directly falling backwards.

Chen Lu stretched out his arm with a look of helplessness, stopping her and gently pushing her back to the ground.

“Pay attention.” He said softly.

Actually, even if you stood still and let the elevator push you to the ground, you wouldn’t fall, but panicking would make you lose your balance.

Chen Lu knew this very well, of course, because he had experimented with it as a child.

At first, he thought it was fun to wait for the elevator to push him up, but later he was beaten up badly and no longer found it fun.

“Oh…”

Liang Zhirou was a little scared, for a moment she didn’t know whether she should be scared first or feel ashamed first.

She increasingly felt that being around Chen Lu was very reassuring.

Chen Lu seemed to be able to solve anything, and he would always walk slightly behind, paying attention to her and any unexpected situations.

Thinking about this, the girl quietly looked up at Chen Lu’s profile.

At this moment, Chen Lu was intently looking at the clothes around him, he had some experience with shopping malls, but not much.

He had been dragged here by his mother and Chen Mo.

Chen Lu was a little worried.

The expensive ones, this silly girl wouldn’t want them, and the cheap ones might not look good.

It would take a long time to find something that was both price and style satisfactory.

But he felt quite fresh, going grocery shopping together before, and now shopping for clothes together.

He had seen many couples shopping together along the way, and to outsiders, he and Liang Zhirou might be one of them.

Chen Lu walked to a white French long dress and asked Liang Zhirou, “What about this one? Do you like it?”

He knew Liang Zhirou’s personality, she wouldn’t consider clothes that were too revealing.

If he coaxed her a little, Liang Zhirou might wear it just for him, but that would go against his original intention of buying her clothes.

Liang Zhirou slowly walked over, she didn’t look at the dress first, but quietly looked at the price.

588……

“It’s not pretty.” The girl shook her head.

Chen Lu sighed lightly, “Let’s go look at something else.”

Then he took Liang Zhirou to browse slowly, if it was Chen Mo, he would have been crying for his mother by now, but for some reason, he didn’t feel tired at all today.

But no matter how many pieces he picked, Liang Zhirou thought they were “not pretty”, whether it was a T-shirt or a dress.

Chen Lu patiently accompanied her for a while longer, walking to a light green long dress, this one wasn’t as flashy, but it was clearly made of better fabric and craftsmanship.

The saleswoman in this shop was very enthusiastic and quickly came over.

“For your girlfriend? Sir, you have good taste. This one really suits your girlfriend’s figure.”

The saleswoman was young, with a gentle smile, and she was quite good at talking.

Chen Lu turned to look at the girl beside him, “This one isn’t very eye-catching.”

Liang Zhirou continued to pretend to look at the dress, secretly glancing at the price.

Why is this one over six hundred……

It’s enough to eat a lot and lot of ribs.

Although it’s pretty……

The girl looked at it carefully for a while, but eventually reluctantly looked away.

“It’s not pretty, let’s look at something else.” Liang Zhirou said with a hint of disdain.

Chen Lu smiled wryly, “Try it on.”

“Huh?” Liang Zhirou looked at him, her expression a little confused.

“We’ve been browsing for so long, maybe you think it’s not pretty because you haven’t tried it on.” Chen Lu said seriously, “Trying it on doesn’t cost anything, if you still think it’s not pretty, we can change it later.”

Liang Zhirou couldn’t resist Chen Lu, so she nodded.

Chen Lu watched the girl walk into the fitting room, he turned around and left quickly, leaving the saleswoman confused.

She thought of the scumbag boyfriends in TV dramas who would leave their girlfriends like this.

But soon, Chen Lu came back, holding a shopping bag in his hand.

He put the receipt in his pocket, handed the clothes to the saleswoman, and said softly, “This T-shirt, please tell her it’s buy one get one free later.”

The saleswoman was stunned for a moment, then she seemed to understand something and nodded dumbly.

Soon, the girl timidly walked out.

She was wearing a light green waist-cinching long dress, her cascading long hair flowed down her back, her slender waist and slim figure were perfectly displayed.

Even though the girl was looking down deeply, she was still beautiful enough to be captivating, her towering mountains were even more impossible to take your eyes off.

Chen Lu had always known that Liang Zhirou had a good figure, but he never imagined that she hid such a graceful figure under her usual loose white T-shirt.

“Isn’t it pretty?” Chen Lu said with a smile.

Liang Zhirou felt her cheeks flush, she mumbled, “No…not pretty.”

She didn’t know whether Chen Lu was complimenting her or the dress.

Although she liked the dress more and more after putting it on, the price was still beyond her budget.

She slowly raised her head, hoping that Chen Lu would finish looking quickly so she could go change.

But then Chen Lu suddenly said, “Let’s get this one.”

??

The girl was stunned.

This wasn’t what was agreed upon……

Chen Lu was lying to me again……

Liang Zhirou looked up at him, her lips slightly pouted, a little aggrieved.

Chen Lu smiled at her, thinking to himself, you think I don’t know you like it, but he still said honestly, “It’s a good deal, this shop is having a promotion, buy one get one free.”

Liang Zhirou blinked her bright eyes, she didn’t react for a moment.

At this time, the saleswoman quickly came over to smooth things over.