Chapter 100: Soulmate fairy tale is not without any...
Xu Sirui narrowed his eyes, tormenting her with his gaze for a moment before saying, as if granting amnesty to the world, "...you'd better."
"Of course, of course." She nodded quickly, and slid into her room like a loach, following the wall.
**
The next day was Sunday, and Zhu Yingning went to Zhu Zhiwei's store to help as usual.
Someone was handing out flyers for pharmaceutical products at the entrance of the department store, but Zhu Yingning paid no attention and went straight to work after entering the building. She worked until after lunch, when she and Emily strolled outside to digest their food. She took a flyer handed to her and found out it was an advertisement for slimming drugs.
One will make you have slender thighs, two will make you have a butterfly back, and three will make you have a slim waist.
Detoxification and slimming, long-lasting effect, keep you slim forever.
Emily looked at the ad and shook her head, saying, "What a scam." Then she gave a serious warning, "Yingning, girls your age shouldn't fall for these things just for the sake of weight loss. They're all scams. They're called diet pills, but in reality, they're just like laxatives. They'll just make you lose weight, won't they? They might work in the short term, but in the long run, they'll ruin your stomach and intestines, and that's not worth it."
She nodded repeatedly, worried about Wu Bo, hoping that she would not be misled by these things in order to take shortcuts.
However, the more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen. Just as I finished thinking about it, I looked up and saw a familiar figure standing in front of the building. He lowered his head and carefully studied the flyer. A can of medicine had been stuffed into the crook of his right arm by the salesman.
"Wu Bo?" she cried out in disbelief.
Wu Bo looked up when he heard the voice, and when he saw that it was her, his face changed drastically, and he ran away with the bottle of medicine.
"Stop!" She immediately ran after him.
Wu Bo, who had neglected exercise, was naturally no match for Zhu Yingning. He was caught by her on the spot after running only a hundred meters.
Zhu Yingning not only took the jar from her hand, but also took away the flyer.
Wu Bo got anxious and said, "Give it back to me!" He reached out to grab it.
"Why did you buy these things?" Zhu Yingning refused to return them. She held the medicine jar tightly in her arms. "These medicines are harmful. I can't give them to you."
"You are biased! Could you please stop interfering in my decision so self-righteously?!"
Wu Bo was so angry that she joined a QQ group for weight loss and saw someone recommending this medicine. She finally waited for the merchant to have a promotion and discount, but she didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin would appear out of nowhere.
Cheng Yaojin held the medicine jar in his hand and refused to let go. Wu Bo tried to grab it but failed. He became even more angry and pried Zhu Yingning's arm. The two of them were fighting with each other.
On the other side, Emily, who was left behind by Zhu Yingning, finally rushed over. Although she didn't understand what was going on, she still kindly tried to dissuade them: "Hey, hey, don't be like this, talk it over, don't fight——"
Persuasion was fruitless, so he had no choice but to call Zhu Zhiwei for help, "Manager, come to the main entrance on the first floor quickly, Yingning is fighting with someone!"
It was not until Zhu Zhiwei arrived at the scene that the two children were reluctantly separated.
To say that they fought was a bit of an exaggeration. Zhu Yingning didn't fight. She just kept holding the medicine jar. Wu Bo tried to snatch it away but failed. He pinched her hands a few times, but he restrained his strength. No bleeding occurred, only a few white nail marks.
There was a loud thunder, but little rain. Neither of them was seriously injured, but their hair was a mess.
Zhu Zhiwei drove them into the store, threw them on the sofa, and stood in front of them with her hands on her hips: "What's going on? Can someone explain it?"
Arriving in an unfamiliar environment, Wu Bo was timid and kept looking at his fingers, refusing to speak. Zhu Yingning spoke briefly about the whole situation and their relationship.
Zhu Zhiwei wanted to sigh after hearing this: "To lose weight?"
She first asked Yi Yi to pour two glasses of water, handed one to each of them, and repeated Emily's previous point, concluding: "There are many healthy ways to become beautiful. Why choose a way that hurts yourself?"
After hearing such a profound truth, Wu Bo's reservedness disappeared, replaced by annoyance and anger. She knew that the other person was a relative of Zhu Yingning, and she shouldn't be shouting so rudely, but she still couldn't control herself: "Don't be so careless! You are all so thin, how can you understand the pain of fat people?! What right do you have to lecture me? To be beautiful, you must use healthy methods. I'm not an idiot, don't I know this? If healthy methods can work immediately, I would also like to use them! But the key is, can they? Every day I gain weight, I have to endure the ridicule of others. You people who have never been ugly, what do you know?!"
Zhu Yingning rarely heard her roar, and she couldn't help but shrink her shoulders when she yelled.
Zhu Zhiwei listened calmly, without commenting on her loss of control. She just lowered her head silently and started fiddling with her phone.
Wu Bo yelled for a while, then gasped for breath while stroking his chest tiredly. He caught a glimpse of Zhu Zhiwei fiddling with her phone, not knowing what she was going to do. He habitually guessed negatively, wondering if she was going to call security to drag her away.
Zhu Zhiwei fiddled with it for a while, then squatted in front of them and motioned them to look at their phones.
Zhu Yingning followed Wu Bo over and saw a photo on the phone screen. It was taken several years ago. Back then, Zhu Zhiwei was still Zhu Juan, dark and thin, with a long ponytail and a slightly large, protruding forehead. She stood in front of a restaurant, wearing a waitress uniform, smiling shyly with pursed lips and making a stiff hand gesture towards the camera.
Zhu Yingning felt a little sad.
Wu Bo was confused and asked, "Who is this? Why are you showing me her photo?"
Zhu Zhiwei was silent for a moment before she said softly, "This is me."
The three light words seemed to carry a heavy weight. Wu Bo's eyes widened, he first looked at the photo carefully, then glanced at Zhu Zhiwei's face, with a look of "How is this possible?" written all over his face.
Zhu Zhi smiled and admitted frankly: "This is indeed me. I...had plastic surgery."
"What?"
This exclamation did not come from Wu Bo, but from Zhu Yingning.
Zhu Zhiwei met their gazes and explained slowly, "At first, I just had whitening injections. I felt that my skin was dark and ugly, and I envied people with naturally fair skin. I used whitening products and had many whitening injections." She pursed her lips and continued, "Later, I felt that my jaw was too square and ugly compared to girls with oval faces, so I went for bone shaving. I only shaved a little bit. It's normal that you can't see it." She smiled and looked at Zhu Yingning, who was stunned.
"There's also double eyelid surgery, nose augmentation... I've done so many projects, I can't list them all in one breath." She turned off the screen, put away her phone, and said to Wu Bo, "It's because I've taken shortcuts and know the pain of taking shortcuts, so I don't want you to make mistakes. Shortcuts inevitably come with huge risks. Businesses only emphasize the benefits, not the risks. If you rush into the benefits, you'll have to bear the risks yourself."
"You see, the vendors won't tell you that implants will start to stink if you put them in your nose for too long. For a while, I kept smelling a foul odor in my nasal cavity. I suspected I had nasal cancer, but I didn't suspect the implant until I went to the hospital for a checkup. The doctor took the implant out and said, 'Your implant is so smelly, it's amazing you've been able to put up with it until now.'"
At this point, Zhu Zhiwei patted the back of Wu Bo's hand and advised her, "Think about it carefully again, okay?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her phone rang. She took it out again, glanced at the incoming call, her face changed slightly, and she covered the caller ID with her fingers. She nodded to them and said, "I'll go outside to answer a call first."
Yi Yi and Emily, who had been listening nearby, exchanged glances and said excitedly, "He must be the store manager's boyfriend, otherwise why would he be so sneaky?"
Wu Bo looked up curiously. "Her boyfriend?"
"Yes, he's a rich man who drives a Porsche and is a diamond bachelor," said Emily.
"He's just a little ugly, and his looks aren't quite up to par. It would be better if he were a little more handsome," Yi Yi added.
The two girls burst into laughter.
Wu Bo slowly lowered his head.
Zhu Yingning sat next to her and heard her mutter softly, "So, after all, you have to be pretty to be loved..."
She quickly retorted, "No, Wu Bo, my sister isn't just beautiful. She's also very capable at running a business. I believe her boyfriend likes her, and it's definitely not just about her looks."
"Then can you guarantee that if she still looks the same as before the plastic surgery, her boyfriend will still like her?" Wu Bo said angrily.
"Why not?" Zhu Yingning was also a little angry, and his voice became a little higher.
"Can you please stop being so childish? Do you really believe in the fairy tale of soulmates? A beautiful face and figure are the basis for others to understand you. Without even your looks, who would want to get close to you and understand you? Do you think anyone is willing to understand my soul?"
Zhu Yingning wanted to say, "I'm willing to, I'm willing to get to know you," but just as she opened her mouth, she heard Wu Bo say, "Look, you're already so outstanding, yet no one likes you!"
One sentence froze the air.
As soon as he said that, Wu Bo realized that he had said the wrong thing. He bit his lower lip and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant..."
It's terrible.
She didn't dare look up at Zhu Yingning's expression, afraid of seeing the sadness, distress, or even disappointment on her face. Panicked, Wu Bo did something that made her despise herself even more in retrospect. She snatched the medicine jar from Zhu Yingning's arms and ran away without looking back.
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