Rong Qingqing had no choice but to resign herself to her fate and follow.
As she was leaving, she bumped into Xie Jingrun, who was also heading out.
Upon seeing him, Shangguan Yanran immediately clenched the silver notes in her hand and stood calmly beside Rong Qingqing.
However, Xie Jingrun's gaze did not fall on her. He looked at Rong Qingqing and asked, "Are you going out?"
"Yes, Yanran said she'd treat me to something," Rong Qingqing explained instinctively.
Upon hearing this, Xie Jingrun glanced at Shangguan Yanran, frowned slightly, but said nothing, only saying, "Don't stay out too late, come back early."
"Oh," Rong Qingqing replied reluctantly. This guy was just too nosy.
Xie Jingrun rode away on horseback.
Once he left, Shangguan Yanran breathed a sigh of relief. Remembering something, she nudged Rong Qingqing's arm and then mimicked Xie Jingrun's tone, "Don't stay out too late, come back early." She then laughed heartily, "Why does it sound like a husband nagging his wife?"
Rong Qingqing rolled her eyes at her, "Do you still want to go shopping?"
"Yes, yes, let's go." Shangguan Yanran suppressed her smile.
But after taking only a few steps, she couldn't help but laugh again. "Sigh, I didn't expect Xie Jingrun to care about you so much. He has to give you all sorts of instructions every time you go out. People who don't know better would think you're an old married couple."
Rong Qingqing said helplessly, "Can you please stop mentioning him? I haven't even mentioned you yet. Where did you get those silver notes?"
"Can't I have my own savings?" Shangguan Yanran pouted, somewhat unconvinced.
Rong Qingqing glanced at her and suddenly said, "Did you reach an agreement with the study so quickly about your storybook?"
“I’m not selling it to the study,” Shangguan Yanran said.
"Why?" Rong Qingqing was extremely surprised.
"Just as you said, if Xie Jingrun finds out, I'll be dead. So, for the sake of my life, I've changed my mind," Shangguan Yanran said lightly.
"It's good that you understand. Don't write about that kind of subject matter again next time." Rong Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this and offered her advice.
“You’re right.” Shangguan Yanran nodded, then glanced at her face and said something surprising, “So I sold the book to Xie Jingrun.”
"What did you say?" Rong Qingqing thought she had misheard and looked at her in astonishment.
"I sold the book to Xie Jingrun," Shangguan Yanran repeated.
Rong Qingqing looked at her in surprise, "You actually dared to make a deal with Xie Jingrun?"
“Normally, I wouldn’t dare, but now, don’t I have you as my protector?” Shangguan Yanran said nonchalantly.
"How did you talk to him?" Rong Qingqing suddenly had a bad feeling.
“I spoke to him in your name,” Shangguan Yanran blinked. “Actually, I didn’t say much. I just said that you were short of money and wanted to sell that storybook to a bookstore to raise funds. Then, without saying a word, he gave me a thousand taels. Wow, Xie Jingrun is really generous. But don’t worry, although I wrote the storybook, I got the money in your name, so we split the thousand taels.”
Rong Qingqing: "..."
No wonder Xie Jingrun looked at her strangely when she left the house.
Xie Jingrun knew how much money she had, but Shangguan Yanran went to him under the pretext that she was short of money, which would surely make him overthink things.
Rong Qingqing wanted to cry but had no tears.
"Shangguan Yanran, can you please stop messing with me?" she said through gritted teeth.
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