Chapter 143
Jiang Yunu said, "It's not that exaggerated."
She felt that she didn't need to buy clothes so frequently. She had previously chosen to buy loose styles, perhaps because she thought that loose styles could be worn longer and could reduce the frequency of clothes purchases.
Who would have thought that she would grow so fast that after only about two months, the clothes I bought before the summer vacation were in danger of not fitting her again.
"Why don't you just go two sizes up this time?"
The white-haired girl thought about it and tried to suggest this to Aunt Daisy.
She was eager to try it out and said, "This way, the clothes should last longer and I won't have to buy more during the school term."
However, Qiao Daisi did not agree to her immediately, but just looked at her back and forth with an ambiguous look.
Jiang Yunu asked curiously, "What's wrong, Aunt Daisy?"
Qiao Daisi extended her slender finger and tapped Jiang Yunu's forehead. "You've grown taller and older, but you still don't seem to care about your image. You don't seem to be interested in dressing up just because you've grown up."
Generally speaking, children begin to care about their image as they grow into teenagers, and their focus on appearance may reach a small peak during adolescence. The awareness of "beauty" is enlightened and grows rapidly during this stage.
This applies to both men and women.
At least not in today's era.
"You know what?" Aunt Daisy shared with Jiang Yunu, "Joyson had an idea for his new back-to-school outfit a few days ago. He came to me coyly and asked if I could get him a new haircut before school starts and buy him a black printed sweatshirt he liked."
Jiang Yunu's eyes lit up. "That's great. The black sweatshirt matches his red hair very well. Maybe next semester, some people in school will start to think of him as a cool red-haired boy."
Qiao Daisi looked at Jiang Yunu with a mysterious look for a while.
"Look," the red-haired woman said, "you're quite admiring of others, even commenting on your brother's hair and clothes—but what about you?"
Obviously, the white-haired girl is not without aesthetic enlightenment at all, but she really doesn't care much about herself.
"I prefer to admire others dressing up rather than myself," Jiang Yunu said with a smile. "And there's nothing wrong with that. I keep it comfortable and simple so it doesn't affect my mobility. Besides, there are plenty of people in this world who enjoy dressing up and might need the appreciation and affirmation of others."
The white-haired girl raised her index finger, with the tip of her finger bent towards herself.
"I am here to appreciate these people," she said confidently.
Qiao Daisi felt that she was making a crooked argument, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that what Jiang Yunu said seemed to make sense. In the end, she could only sigh and compromise in front of the little girl who obviously didn't like to dress up: "Okay."
Aunt Daisy is most likely the kind of person who likes to dress up and admire others, but she cannot show her interest in Jiang Yunu yet.
She settled for the next best thing: "It's okay to buy loose-fitting clothes, but not two sizes bigger."
If it's too loose, it can easily make you look sloppy or even sloppy. Jiang Yunu was about to go to school in District 2, and Qiao Daisi wouldn't let her debut in District 2 with such a bad image.
At the end of the summer vacation, Qiao Daisi bought clothes for Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen, and took them both to get their hair cut.
Joyson got the new hairstyle he wanted, which made him look taller and more like a teenager, rather than just a little boy.
Jiang Yunu originally thought that she didn't need a new hairstyle, but Aunt Daisy and Joyson held her down at the same time and made her sit on the chair in the barber shop.
"At least fix it," said Jodaith.
"And don't you like shoulder-length hair?" Qiao Yisen, knowing Jiang Yunu's preferences better, offered a very practical suggestion. "Let me trim it for you. You won't have to worry about it for at least two or three months after school starts. When it grows longer, you can tie it up. The braid won't be too long. It's very convenient."
Jiang Yunu was convinced.
This is the best barber shop in Chat City. The barber is a young man who is hard to tell how old he is. He is dressed in a trendy style.
"It's definitely more convenient to get a haircut before going to school." The barber said with a smile as he cut Jiang Yunu's hair. "In the front-line star zone, labor service fees are very expensive."
Jiang Yunu asked curiously, "How do they usually get their hair cut?"
The barber had reportedly trained in the Front Row Star District, and he still had some memories of life there: "Students from well-off families, of course, don't mind the low labor costs and can easily go into shops that advertise 'high-end manual service.' As for those with more modest means, or those who don't want to spend too much on grooming, they can opt for self-service robots to cut their hair—though robots also charge a certain level of service. The best robots can cost as much as a high-end manual haircut."
Talking about the past, the barber's tone was quite nostalgic. He had only been to the third district at most, and he didn't know the specific situation of the second district that Jiang Yunu was going to.
"But you can imagine," Joyson said from the side, "the further ahead the region is, the more expensive the services will be."
"Of course." The barber smiled, and with his hands he skillfully and neatly trimmed the ends of Jiang Yunu's white hair into layers.
Jiang Yunu's daily hairstyle is very fixed - either let her hair down casually, or tie it up with something like a rubber band or a hair tie at hand.
When the hairdresser carefully trimmed the ends of her hair, her shoulder-length white hair brushed against her shoulders, looking both natural and wild. She shook her head gently, and her white hair fell loose, like some kind of white-haired little wild animal gently shaking its fur.
The barber also felt that the little girl was inexplicably wild. He was afraid that his hairstyle would not satisfy the customer and his family, so he immediately found a hair tie and wanted to try tying up the little girl's hair.
Generally speaking, "If the girl ties her hair up, she'll look more gentle...right?"
As the barber was tying the hair, his tone became increasingly uncertain.
Because he suddenly realized - how come some little girls look wilder after tying their hair up?!
When her hair was down, the white hair fell on both sides of Jiang Yunu's cheeks, which softened her outline. When her hair was tied up, her facial features and outlines were more clearly revealed, allowing people to see her bright eyes without any obstruction.
Jiang Yunu was undoubtedly not unattractive; she could even be described as attractive. When she first arrived at Chateau over a year ago, she was rather thin and short, her features unremarkable due to near-malnutrition. However, by the end of this summer vacation, she had grown nearly 13 centimeters taller, gained a significant amount of weight, and her limbs were covered in a thin layer of firmer muscle.
Such changes in weight and height allowed her to gradually balance her body and features, and her true appearance could finally be seen - she was very pretty, with the corners of her eyes curved when she smiled, and her eyes became very round when she pretended to be good.
If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then staring into Jiang Yunu's eyes, you will feel that her heart is filled with a whole wild and free world.
She uses these eyes that carry the entire wild world to observe the outside world, and her rapidly growing agile body can be used to explore the outside world.
"Cheetah".
This word suddenly appeared in the young barber's mind.
But soon, the young man felt that using this primitive beast to describe it did not seem appropriate enough.
Jiang Yunu had no idea what the man who cut her hair was thinking in those few minutes. She only felt that after he tied her hair up, the young man next to her seemed to be stunned for a moment.
"Is it done?" she asked. "Or do I look a little weird?"
"...No." The young barber came to his senses and quickly denied the "weird" claim. He only said, "You're doing very well—show it to your family?"
Jiang Yunu stood up from the soft chair with a trimmed and groomed hairstyle and walked to the rest area to show it to Joyson and Aunt Daisy.
Joyson and Qiao Daisi were already accustomed to the subtle "wild temperament" of Jiang Yunu. They would only be amazed and then praise him directly: "Looks good!"
The red-haired boy added, "You look even more powerful now than before."
Jiang Yunu: “?”
Jiang Yunu was confused.
"Can one's ability or not be linked to appearance?" she said.
Aunt Daisy's assessment was more precise. She said, "Maybe it's because I look more capable and neat."
Walking out of the barber shop, it was located in the best and bustling commercial district of Chat City. There were several large floating advertising screens in the area. One of the screens was broadcasting the official advertisement of the top advanced supernatural school.
"Only schools in Upper Three would advertise so far away from us." Joyson looked up at the ad screen, then tugged on Jiang Yunu's arm. "Look, if you wore their uniform, which is so neat and made of obviously expensive material, you'd definitely look like them. You'd be one of those elite people who look 'high-class' at first glance."
Jiang Yunu looked up and saw that the advertisement on the screen was for a "familiar school" - Duma College, which had left a deep impression on her and had not been her preferred choice.
The combat uniforms of Duma Academy are uniform black uniforms with a very appropriate cut. The inner lining is made of close-fitting fabric, perfectly wrapping the senior students' well-trained and tight bodies, minimizing the hindrance to battlefield movements. The outer standard jacket has a straight silhouette and crisp fabric, which makes the senior students look flat-shouldered, flat-stomached, and long-legged.
Jiang Yunu's eyes swept across the senior students of Duma College in the advertisement, and she felt that the only Duma student she could call "familiar" was not in the advertisement.
She made a somewhat scathing comment: "While their uniforms emphasize combat practicality, they also focus too much on aesthetics, making them look a little less combat-ready."
Joyson didn't understand and asked, "What do they seem to be going to do?"
Jiang Yunu thought for two seconds: "...like a ceremonial team?"
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