Chapter 45 The conflict is not in the present.
After dinner, Mei Ying didn't really want to go home, and Jing Ge also needed to buy some new clothes and daily necessities for the changing season, so the two of them went to a nearby shopping mall together.
As a result, they ran into Li Mushi and Lin Mi at the entrance of the mall.
Mei Ying lowered her voice and said, "Your uncle and this lady are quite a good match."
“...Sister Lin already has a daughter,” Jing Ge was impressed by her ability to pair up anyone. “Once you get to know my uncle, you’ll find that he has no chemistry with anyone. It’s all just work.”
Mei Ying disagreed: "That's because you treat him like an elder, just like I treat my brother. I can't even imagine that he would like a girl."
Jingge casually remarked, "Sister Lin's daughter looks like a porcelain doll, she's so cute."
Mei Ying: "You'll have children too."
"Is it something you can just have whenever you want?" Jing Ge was speechless. "If I could choose, I probably wouldn't even have the chance to be born."
Mei Ying: "Find someone smarter than you. Didn't they say that if the father is smarter than the mother, they'll have a daughter; if the mother is smarter than the father, they'll have a son..."
At this point, Mei Ying suddenly remembered her engagement: "Is your fiancé smarter or dumber than you?"
Li Zhan is a person and topic that Jing Ge has deliberately avoided in the past six months.
Mentioning him suddenly feels like a lifetime ago.
Jingge lost all interest in shopping.
Lin Mi spotted her with sharp eyes, smiled and waved to her: "I should have come along. What do you want to buy?"
“We’re just strolling around,” Jingge said. “Sister Lin, are you and your uncle here for work?”
“No, I’m here to help my daughter pick out a birthday present,” Lin Mi explained. “President Li is here to run errands for the old man and the old lady.”
The massage equipment that Grandpa Li and Grandma Li ordered has arrived, so they asked Li Mushi to make a trip to bring it back for them.
Since they had run into each other, the four of them walked in together.
Mei Ying didn't dare to speak.
Jingge was still feeling heavy-hearted and didn't want to talk.
Li Mushi was not a talkative person.
Lin Mi was both amused and exasperated. She made small talk, pinching Jing Ge's hand and touching her arm, saying, "Why have you lost so much weight? Is it because you're not used to the food abroad? You have dark circles under your eyes. You need to adjust to the time difference."
“Hmm,” Jingge said, clearly tired. “I’ll go to sleep when I get back.”
At this point, Jing Ge, in a daze and with almost no thought, called out, "Uncle."
Li Mushi turned his face away.
Jingge suddenly got stuck.
What about my uncle?
I called out to him for no reason, but forgot what I said after that.
Jing Ge roughly rubbed his face: "I forgot, I'll tell you when I remember."
Li Mushi's Adam's apple slid, and he made an "um" sound.
When they got to the second floor, Mei Ying needed to use the restroom, so she asked Jing Ge to go with her. Lin Mi followed, saying, "Let's keep the three of us company."
All three of them carried bags and shopping bags. Jing Ge took the shopping bags and then habitually stuffed them into Li Mushi's arms: "Uncle, wait for us here."
Lin Mi's lips twitched.
What makes her so special that she has the ability to get the boss to fetch things for her?
She always gets things for the boss.
Li Mushi remained expressionless and responded naturally.
Perhaps due to the crowds in the mall, Jingge felt dizzy and lightheaded, with a buzzing sound in her ears, and her vision was slightly blurry.
While waiting for Mei Ying and Lin Mi, Jing Ge washed his face with cold water and hesitated between taking his medicine and not.
The body's reaction suddenly occurred at this time, appearing out of nowhere and inexplicably.
Afraid of being discovered by Li Mushi and Mei Ying, I'd better take some medicine to suppress it.
Just as the medicine bottle was taken out, several giggles suddenly came from the bathroom doorway, and three young women walked in hand in hand.
Jingge twisted the bottle cap and poured a pill into his palm.
The next moment: "Jing Ge?"
Jingge was extremely sensitive to this sound, so sensitive that he would freeze upon hearing it.
“Look,” Zhuo Yueyue said with a smile, “she’s the girl Li Zhan was betrothed to as a child, isn’t that a coincidence?”
The other two girls exclaimed in surprise, "Jing Ge, don't you recognize us? I'm Liu Sisi, and this is Meng Shi."
Jingge didn't look up; his hands were somewhat out of control as he hurriedly and haphazardly stuffed the medicine bottle and pills into his bag.
She heard the sound of medicine granules gurgling and falling from the bottle into the bottom of the bag.
Zhuo Yueyue leaned against the sink, with Liu Sisi and Meng Shi on either side, forming a circle that unwittingly blocked Jing Ge in the middle.
"I haven't seen you for almost half a year," Zhuo Yueyue said, crossing her arms and looking her up and down with ill intent. "Why do you hide as soon as I appear? I'm not that scary, am I?"
Liu Sisi: "Yeah, you were like this back in school, and you're still like this now that you're working. People who don't know better would think we've done something to you. Aren't we good classmates?"
Zhuo Yueyue smiled and said, "I genuinely want to be friends with you. Let's get along well. Please don't make things difficult for me, okay?"
Jingge felt a pang of sadness. She couldn't do it. She still couldn't do it.
She didn't even dare to speak, not knowing which of her words would be used as a weapon by these three men to retaliate against her.
The fear that took root in her in the first year of junior high school is something she still feels powerless to resist when she encounters it again, even now that she is 21.
Zhuo Yueyue reached out her hand, seemingly wanting to shake hands with her.
That cool, damp touch felt like a venomous snake crawling up on her, and Jingge instinctively told her to get away!
Zhuo Yueyue cried out in pain.
A bloody scratch appeared on the back of my hand.
It all started with the studded jewelry on her wrist.
The other two paused for a moment, then stood up straight: "What do you mean? It's just an old classmate greeting each other, is it really that big of a deal?"
Jing Ge held his breath and enunciated, "Get out of the way."
Zhuo Yueyue kept smiling, but there was no smile in her eyes: "I'm the one who's injured, why are you angry..."
"She told you to move aside, didn't you understand?!"
Lin Mi was standing two meters away at some point.
And Mei Ying.
Perhaps surprised that Jing Ge had a companion, Zhuo Yueyue said politely, "We didn't stop her, but she made me bleed..."
Lin Mi asked maturely and directly, "How much do you want?"
"......"
Mei Ying pushed Liu Sisi and Meng Shi aside and pulled Jing Ge to her side.
“Young lady,” Lin Mi said calmly, “men might fall for your act, but we older women don’t. Put away your pretentious airs. I don’t mind bringing a lawyer to talk to your parents.”
Zhuo Yueyue asked innocently, "Who are you?"
Mei Ying pouted: "Loading the goods."
The other two objected: "Like attracts like..."
Mei Ying: "Just say what you want to say, why are you categorizing yourself like this!"
"Princess," Lin Mi extended her hand, "Let's go."
As soon as the words fell, a soft yet distinct laugh echoed in the brightly lit restroom.
It's inexplicable.
Liu Sisi, Meng Shi, and Zhuo Yueyue exchanged glances, their unspoken understanding punctuated by a knowing, meaningful chuckle.
Jingge's body looked as if it were crawling with ants.
Lin Mi frowned, sensing that something was amiss. The three people's reactions were unsettling; they were making many subtle moves, like thorns in his side, yet he couldn't pinpoint any faults.
It was as if her and Mei Ying's appearance was of no use; there was an untold story between the three people opposite and Jing Ge.
The three men, using their eyes and words, bypassed her and Mei Ying's defenses and launched a precise and sharp mental attack on Jing Ge.
The conflict is not happening now.
It originates from Jing Ge's long, adolescence when she was awakened.
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