Chapter 02. Don't get close or you will become unhappy
There is nothing wrong with pursuing beauty, but it should not be used as a bargaining chip to please the other person in a relationship. When Jiang Taigong was fishing, he would not think about pleasing the fish.
Ruan Tang removed her makeup and prepared to apply the anesthetic. She sent another message to Xu Wei, asking her where she was for the third time, but she didn't reply.
That inexplicable feeling of unhappiness came over me again.
Was she talking to Jia Yingjun? Had they already met? Had he confessed his feelings for her? Aren't they sworn enemies? Countless questions flooded her mind.
Ever since Jia Yingjun came to ask her about Xu Wei's preferences, she couldn't help but think of all the possibilities between them.
Ruan Tang gasped a few times, not knowing whether it was pain or unwillingness. It seemed that the needles were not piercing her face, but her heart that wanted to change her fate. Thinking of this, tears seeped out from the corners of her eyes.
Xu Wei only appeared after Ruan Tang finished the injection.
Seeing her face covered in blood, Xu Wei shook her head and sighed, "You really are willing to do this to yourself."
"Compared to the sense of urgency brought by age, this little pain is nothing?!" Although Ruan Tang said this, she still turned her head away and stopped looking at herself in the mirror.
Xu Wei seemed to be in a good mood today, and continued to argue with her, asking back: Is the pressure brought by being 27 years old more than the numbers on the credit card bill?
Ruan Tang scoffed, "When people look back, they always think their past was peaceful and tranquil. Maybe you were even more anxious than I was at 27." She turned to Xu Wei and looked at her, blinking earnestly. "Now that you've become beautiful, are you still worried about no one paying for the anxiety caused by your credit card bill?"
Xu Wei said seriously: I told you to invest in yourself, but beauty has never been a scarce resource. When men with real wealth choose their life partners, beauty is the quality they value least.
That's it! In her eyes, Xu Wei seemed to become her mother's alter ego from time to time, pouring a bucket of cold water on her face. Ruan Tang muttered: That person Wendi Deng...
Before she could finish, Xu Wei retorted: Do you have the skills of Wendi Deng?
Ruan Tang's voice lowered. Turning to leave, she whispered, "If I weren't in good health, I would have been drowned by your cold water."
Xu Wei chased after her and pressed a card into Ruan Tang's hand. Ruan Tang glanced down at the number on the card and couldn't help but want to pinch her philtrum. She turned around and hugged Xu Wei's neck tightly.
In fact, Xu Wei had to admit that paying for beauty was not just a man's hobby. If her appearance was a 7, then Ruan Tang would at least be 8.5. Even if her condition reduced it by 1 point, she would still be better than herself.
She gently patted Ruan Tang's shoulder. "There's nothing wrong with pursuing beauty, but it shouldn't be used as a bargaining chip to please someone in a relationship. Just like Jiang Taigong fishing, he wouldn't try to please the fish."
Ruan Tang knew that she couldn't win the argument with reason, so she simply stopped arguing and hid behind Xu Wei as a human shield, covering her face with her hands.
Xu Wei felt both angry and amused. She said helplessly, "Except for the male doctors here, even the microorganisms are female. Why are you so nervous?"
"You don't understand, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared!"
Just as she finished speaking, a well-dressed boy in a dust-proof coat walked out of the beauty salon. He walked past them with red eyes and complained into the phone, "Oh my god, I'm dying. The microneedles pricking my face felt like ten thousand sewing machines running at once. I almost died from the pain."
This "sister" completely shattered Ruan Tang's last shred of fantasy. She sighed, then seemed to remember something and asked, "By the way, where were you just now? You came so late, you don't know, I was so scared when I got the injection."
"I went to see my ex-boyfriend." Xu Wei was particularly calm when talking about her ex-boyfriend, and Ruan Tang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then she felt sorry for Xu Wei.
In her opinion, Lin Shen was just a smart, studious, gigolo who was more likely to let women pay for him. He was not much better than the man she had dated before, who stole bags from rich women to make a living. Xu Wei, on the other hand, was beautiful and a moneymaker, so she deserved to be with a better man, except for the man she had her eye on, such as Jia Yingjun.
Speaking of Lin Shen, seeing Ruan Tang's disdainful complaints, Xu Wei felt somewhat relieved. After all, girls' friendships often deepened out of dislike for one another.
Now Xu Wei felt that the two of them seemed to have grown closer, and this was the first time she mentioned their past to Ruan Tang.
When Xu Wei and Lin Shen were classmates in college, one year the class held a meeting to select candidates for a national scholarship. The number of applicants far exceeded the available spots, so the counselor announced that the candidates would take the stage and then vote anonymously. As the applicants took the stage one by one, Xu Wei hesitated to stand up.
Lin Shen, who was sitting in the front row, turned back several times to remind Xu Wei, but she still crumpled the application form into a ball and stuffed it into the hole in the table.
At the last minute, Lin Shen, who hadn't prepared, suddenly raised his hand to speak. He shook his head and gave a speech that went something like: "Calligraphy, painting, music, chess, poetry, wine, and flowers—back then, they were all inseparable from him. Now, everything has changed, just like the daily necessities of life—food, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea." "Actually, my parents were laid off when I was in elementary school..." His classmates roared with laughter, and he ultimately won a scholarship.
Xu Wei was forced to distribute flyers to earn a living, and Lin Shen forced most of his scholarship on her.
When they met and got to know each other in their childhood, Xu Wei felt that Lin Shen and she were the same kind of people, and felt like she had found another self in the world.
Ruan Tang suddenly felt a little sympathy for Xu Wei. This was the first time they had felt this way after knowing each other for many years. She felt that Xu Wei was such a good student, worked so hard, and even spent a lot of effort to maintain her relationship, but in the end the relationship broke down and her career also fell into a trough. In comparison, she was almost doing smoothly. Even though there were many scumbags, she could get away with it very quickly.
Ruan Tang probed: Are you considering falling in love in the near future?
Xu Wei shook her head, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Don't worry." Ruan Tang's resentment towards Xu Wei because of Jia Yingjun also disappeared. She put her arm around her shoulders and said, "Get rid of this person from your life from now on. I will definitely find you someone better."
Xu Wei looked at her with a smile and said nothing more.
The two agreed to go back to Xu Wei's house together to order some light takeout. As a result, they passed many small shops along the way. When they arrived at the gate of the community, Ruan Tang was already holding chicken skewers, spicy duck necks, braised vegetables, hot and sour noodles, and two bottles of sugar-free cola.
When they were getting on the elevator, another team of workers carrying several large boxes pressed the same floor button as them.
Ruan Tang leaned close to Xu Wei and whispered in her ear: It seems that there will be a lot of activity next door to your house in the future.
Perhaps she was too happy, and she had no idea of the crisis she was about to face.
As soon as the elevator door opened, Jia Yingjun walked out from behind the pile of storage boxes and directed the movers.
The three of them looked at each other in silence for two seconds. Ruan Tang screamed and snatched the key from Xu Wei's hand. She used her arm to cover her slightly red face after the cosmetic surgery and rushed to Xu Wei's house. Only Jia Yingjun was left looking at Xu Wei with a puzzled look.
"What's wrong with her? Am I scary?" Jia Yingjun lowered his head to check his clothes.
Xu Wei asked angrily, "Why did you move here so suddenly?"
Jia Yingjun leaned against the elevator door and directed the workers to move into his room: If I remember correctly, I am the landlord. I don’t think I need to report to you that I live here, right?
At this time, Ruan Tang was lying on the peephole looking out. Seeing Xu Wei was about to open the door, she hurried back to the living room.
Ruan Tang asked Xu Wei nervously: He shouldn't have seen my face, right?
Xu Wei shook her head and tried to dispel her idea with a serious face: You'd better not target Jia Yingjun. The men you liked in the past were like durian. Although they had many thorns, they were valuable and had a little bit of substance. Jia Yingjun was like a durian that had gone bad overnight. It still smelled bad and was also carcinogenic.
Hearing Xu Wei complain about Jia Yingjun, Ruan Tang felt inexplicably more secure.
While gnawing on the duck neck, she responded nonchalantly: It will go bad, but at least it's real durian, unlike the ones I've encountered before which also had a lot of plastic ornaments.
Xu Wei sat down next to her, picked a stalk of cilantro from the hot and sour noodles, and put it in her mouth. She asked, "Don't you believe in astrology? You should know what the most important characteristic of a Scorpio is."
Ruan Tang tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly exclaimed: Could it be that he still wants to avenge that slap?
Xu Wei declined to comment. She attended the wedding as a special guest of the newlyweds. She had provided relationship counseling to the couple before their wedding, but she hadn't anticipated the world's smallness. The bride's ex-boyfriend turned out to be Jia Yingjun. The groom happened to see the bride hugging Jia Yingjun in the lounge, causing a stir. She slapped him to appease the groom and prevent further escalation.
Afterwards, Xu Wei also thought that if it happened again, she would probably slap him again.
After all, Jia Yingjun is such an annoying person.
Perhaps because she was in such a complicated mood, Ruan Tang ignored the fact that she had just had an injection and stayed at Xu Wei's house eating and drinking until very late before returning home.
In the middle of the night, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She stretched out her hand to turn on the desk lamp, and tried to reach the water cup on the bedside table, but accidentally pushed the cup to the ground.
At 2:30 in the morning, Ruan Tang took out her cell phone, opened the address book and flipped through it for a while. Her finger stopped on Xu Wei's name, and she looked at the time again. Then she gave up and turned to find Jia Yingjun's WeChat, but in the end she did not press the voice call request.
Just before she was about to faint from the pain, Ruan Tang saw the name "Feng Xue" in the address book.
Feng Xue appeared faster than expected. Without saying a word, he carried Ruan Tang downstairs. He gently put Ruan Tang into the taxi and kept asking about her situation.
The Didi driver glanced at the two of them through the rearview mirror. Ruan Tang was curled up in pain with her eyes closed. Feng Xue looked at the listless Ruan Tang with a worried look on her face.
The driver, probably trying to sober up, said, "Hey, young man, you should avoid drinking too much next time. If your girlfriend gets sick and you wait until this late to go to the hospital, what if it's an emergency? Aren't you scared? These two are together, so they have to take care of each other."
Feng Xue was about to retort: I am not...
Ruan Tang interrupted him weakly: Master, please hurry up, otherwise he will be a widow.
Feng Xue looked at Ruan Tang with some surprise, his expression became very unnatural, and he turned to look out the car window.
What a pity...
Ruan Tang endured the pain in her stomach and stared blankly at Feng Xue's profile. Unlike Jia Yingjun's handsome face that exuded charm at all times, Feng Xue's appearance was more like a tough guy with a strong, defined figure. His expressionless face was even more stimulating.
But his identity and conditions are completely contrary to her own standards for choosing a partner.
Perhaps feeling Ruan Tang's gaze, Feng Xue turned around, and their eyes suddenly met. Ruan Tang suddenly felt that the abdominal pain seemed to stop for a few seconds, and of course her heartbeat.
What's wrong? he asked.
Ruan Tang didn't know how to say that she was admiring his looks, so she could only weakly joke: You accompanied me to the hospital when we just met for the second time, and this time we are going to the hospital again. Are you my nemesis?
Feng Xue scratched his head, not knowing what to say. After a long time, he finally uttered: I'm sorry.
Ruan Tang laughed out loud with genuine emotion and replied, "What's the apology? I should be thanking you, but I called you here so late..."
Feng Xue quickly waved his hands: No, no, don’t take it to heart, I just happened to be running an order nearby, it just happened to be on my way.
Speaking of delivery, Ruan Tang's curiosity suddenly piqued, and her stomach pain seemed to ease. She asked seriously, "Aren't you close to Mr. Jia? Why don't you get a job at his company? Why are you working so hard?"
However, although Feng Xue seems to have no desires and seems to no longer care about worldly affairs, perhaps it is the ability he has developed over many years of working in finance that allows him to analyze the other party's true intentions from the other party's questions in a second.
"Jia Yingjun, Wu Jiahao, and I have been good friends since childhood, but I think running errands is a good job. I look after the store during the day and take on a few orders at night. It's very fulfilling. And..." Feng Xue leaned slightly closer to Ruan Tang and continued in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Something happened to Yingjun a few years ago. Miss Ruan, I suggest you stay away from him."
When Ruan Tang tilted her head to look at him, he had already turned his face to the window again and stopped talking.
Because he was so sincere, Ruan Tang couldn't say a word to refute him. What she couldn't tell him was that even if Jia Yingjun was a weirdo, he was still the best choice she could get into right now, because she didn't expect love in the first place. Love was not something she could hope for, but the series of added values in Jia Yingjun were.
Feng Xue accompanied her after the drip was finished and then left. The next morning, Xu Wei came to pick her up from the hospital. To her surprise, Jia Yingjun was also there.
He was wearing a motorcycle suit, holding a helmet in his hand, and following Xu Wei with a smile on his face.
Ruan Tang didn't care about her haggard face at the moment. She looked at Xu Wei with a puzzled look, and glanced at Jia Yingjun a few times.
Jia Yingjun said that today was the first day he started pursuing Xu Wei.
Ruan Tang suddenly felt that the abdominal pain that had subsided was about to come back.
This was fate playing a joke on her again.
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