Chapter 4: CH 4

You Ning watched the young master boss Shu Yu around, asking him to bring him one set after another and telling him to serve his girlfriend tea. Shu Yu was calmly serving tea to the young master’s girlfriend when Mother Lu finished picking out her clothes.

Mother Lu saw You Ning’s happy face and thought the latter was happy she was finally done shopping, and she helplessly said, “Look at you, didn’t we just shop for an hour? There’s a nice sweet shop on this floor, go and wait for mom there.”

You Ning couldn’t wait to get up, this viewing spot really wasn’t the best.

Mother Lu watched her son disappear in the blink of an eye and complained to the shop manager, “Young people nowadays. ……”

The shop manager naturally had to flatter the big customer. “Boys are like this, the one in my family refuses to come along the moment he hears that I want to go shopping. It’s a surprise that your boy could accompany you for a full hour of shopping. ”

Mother Lu, who was complaining a moment ago, now had a smile on her face, and she happily bought two more sets, and the shop manager also had a smile.

The dessert shop was quite crowded, aside from men like You Ning, who came to rest after accompanying women shopping, most of the people inside were couples. Fortunately, there were some empty seats, and You Ning chose one with a particularly good view of Shu Yu’s shop. He had just sat down when he saw a hooded man sneaking around the table in front of him: “Heh, Wang Jie is at the shop Shu Yu works at and is making him serve tea at the moment. Let me tell you, you haven’t seen his calm face even when being humiliated… ah? That is a compliment? Well, he has a dead face then.”

“Ugh? What the fuck? The little girls in the shop have heartbroken expressions, I……”

“Brother Yang, don’t you think this guy is so good at pretending?! Brother Yang, it was not an injustice for you to lose, really, look at his situation. And little An An… alright, only you can call him little An An, anyway, he is just a little fool ……”

“Lin Yuan,” You Ning’s finger tapped his table, “who are you calling a little fool?”

The hooded man had just taken a sip of his milk tea to moisten his throat when he suddenly heard You Ning’s voice. He looked up to see You Ning’s face, and with a “pfft,” he sputtered everything out and coughed loudly, attracting glances from the people around.

“That……” Lin Yuan pressed the phone screen in a frenzy, then stuffed it into his trouser pocket and acted as if he wasn’t on the phone moments ago. “Haha, it’s An Lan, what a coincidence! Haha…ha……”

He couldn’t go on!!!

You Ning sat down across from him expressionlessly, pursed his lips, and looked at him, saying, “I’m accompanying my mother shopping.”

Lin Yuan felt guilty and didn’t dare to meet his gaze. He pulled off his hood and quickly fanned himself with one hand, his eyes darting about, “Auntie… Auntie is here too, where is she? How come I don’t see her?”

At that moment, the waiter came over and asked what You Ning wanted. You Ning ordered a cupcake and a cup of milk tea; he was a demon with a sweet tooth.

Lin Yuan saw that You Ning was calm and guessed that he most likely heard him say that he was a fool behind his back, so he spoke up hesitantly, “Um, An Lan……”

You Ning still stared at him with no expression and asked, “Are you stalking Senior?”

Lin Yuan’s heart thumped, and he hastily waved his hands to deny it, “No, no, no, I just, I just happened to see ……”

You Ning looked at his frazzled appearance and did not say anything else.

It was the same time and place as in Lu Anlan’s previous life. Lu Anlan was very angry when he heard Lin Yuan talking about Shu Yu behind his back and suspected that he was stalking Shu Yu. He was heartbroken when he saw Shu Yu being bullied by his rich, second-generation classmate and was dismissed from his job even though he had done nothing wrong. His senior was so good, but they had to target him like that!

Later, Lin Yuan chased after him to apologize, but he ignored the latter, and since then, the relationship between them fell apart.

Later, at Lu Anlan’s funeral, Lin Yuan followed Xiang Yang and punched Shu Yu the moment he saw him.

You Ning lowered his eyes, as if he believed Lin Yuan’s poor excuse, and sighed, “I know you guys don’t like Senior.”

“Uh ……” Lin Yuan didn’t know how to answer for a moment.

You Ning added, “But, he is my boyfriend, you guys can just accept him for my sake ……”

Lin Yuan couldn’t help but say, “Haven’t you ever thought about Brother Yang?”

“Huh?” You Ning looked confused and asked, “What’s wrong with him?”

“……” Lin Yuan wanted to say something, but finally wiped his face and didn’t say to continue, but said, “Okay, it’s my fault for talking about people behind their backs, I apologize.”

In his last life, Lu Anlan didn’t accept Yuan’s apology, but now You Ning’s face took on the melancholy expression of “my friends can’t accept my lover.” He sighed, then lowered his head and stirred the milk tea the waiter had just served. “In fact, the senior is quite nice; you will see it when you get along with each other ……”

“……” Lin Yuan couldn’t help but roll his eyes when he heard the first half of the sentence, but then he thought that since You Ning had said that, it meant that what had just happened would be dismissed, so he said “fine, fine” with his mouth, looking like So he said, “Fine, fine,” looking as if he was helpless.

While their side was quiet, Shu Yu’s side had developed to the point where the young master was not satisfied with Shu Yu’s service and asked the shop manager to dismiss him.

Because the young master was deliberately trying to embarrass Shu Yu, his voice was raised, causing many people to stop and look.

This also included the dessert shop where You Ning was. Most of the people who came there had nothing to do, and hearing the action over there, they stretched their necks, asking the people around them about what was going on in order to satisfy their gossiping hearts.

“What’s going on?”

“I’m not sure, I heard him say he wanted an employee dismissed.”

“Ugh? I know that little brother, he’s a student at A University and works there part-time. He’s very handsome!”

“What’s the point of being handsome? Won’t he still get dismissed by the rich man because he is dissatisfied?”

“You’re so annoying! I think that person is deliberately making things difficult, I really feel bad for that student ……”

As it turned out, being rich was still remarkable, and when faced with a temporary worker who could only partially increase sales and the prince of the head office, the shop manager’s choice did not exceed the expectations of the people eating melons. He spoke to Shu Yu in a low voice, urging him not to take it too hard and promising to introduce him to a friend’s shop when the opportunity arose so that he could continue working. The girls in the shop felt angry but they didn’t dare to confront the young master for fear of losing their jobs too, so they could only glare at him secretly.

If this were in a novel or a TV series, the young master would be cannon fodder and would get slapped in the face in minutes.

But the reality was that Shu Yu left the shop under the young master’s smug gaze, his back straight and his stride unruffled, as if he were always so resilient and invulnerable to the elements. It made the people who were watching feel favorable towards him.

Lin Yuan kept as quiet as a chicken from the moment someone in the dessert shop talked about the situation on Shu Yu’s side, and watched all of You Ning’s expressions in passing.

You Ning, of course, duly enacted his anger at the injustice that had befallen Shu Yu and his heartache when Shu Yu left without saying a word, but his butt never left his chair, and he ate all the cake he ordered.

Lin Yuan: ‘……I’m confused!’

Although Lin Yuan thought it was a bit strange that You Ning hadn’t stepped in to help Shu Yu, he didn’t ask You Ning why, he didn’t want their conversation to go back to that Shu Yu again.

You Ning looked at the empty plate, his gaze was lax, and his mood was low—this portion was too small!

He said softly to Lin Yuan, “If you have something to do, go ahead; I’ll wait for my mom from here, it might take a while.”

“Oh ……” Lin Yuan then remembered that You Ning was accompanying his mother to shop, so he probably didn’t step in because he didn’t want his mother to find out about his relationship with Shu Yu. Lin Yuan’s thought for awhile, and then he simply got up and said, “Okay, I also have to buy movie tickets to give to my goddess, so I’ll leave first.”

“Mm.” You Ning watched him leave. Watching his boyfriend being bullied had put him in a good mood, so he ordered several more desserts that he hadn’t tried yet, looking very eager to try them.

Once Lin Yuan left You Ning’s range of vision, he immediately took out his mobile phone and called Xiang Yang, excitedly saying, “Brother Yang, you may still have a chance ……”

As Shu Yu took the elevator downstairs, he did not take today’s dismissal to heart, or, in other words, he was not surprised by what happened today, he had experienced it back in his previous life.

And the only reason he let the incident repeat itself was because of Lu Anlan. He knew that Lu Anlan was in this shopping center today and would see him getting dismissed. In his last life, it was from that moment that Lu Anlan had less contact with Xiang Yang’s group.

Furthermore, a small men’s clothing shop was not a place he would stay for long.

When the elevator reached the ground floor, Shu Yu got out and looked at the salary the shop manager had transferred to him on his mobile phone, and then left the shopping center building.

Outside Yuncheng Shopping Center was a large square. Not far away was a movie theater, and Shu Yu soon arrived. He bought two tickets for tomorrow’s movie; the main character of the movie was played by an actor that Lu Anlan liked.

After buying the tickets, he flipped to the chat screen with his boyfriend, thought about it, and put his phone back in his pocket.

Because he remembered that tomorrow was Xiang Yang’s twentieth birthday, and Xiang Yang would definitely invite You Ning to attend it; before today, You Ning had not mentioned having plans or anything like that for tomorrow.

Although he hadn’t seen You Ning today, he had noticed that Lin Yuan was following him. He guessed that in his last life, Lu Anlan, who was also in the shopping center, had discovered Lin Yuan stalking him. Lin Yuan had probably badmouthed him, and Lu An Lan decided to leave their circle.

He remembered very clearly that in his last life, Lu Anlan did not go to any party, but had spent the whole day working with him.

He wondered if Xiang Yang had invited his little boyfriend yet.

Shu Yu put the movie tickets away, the corners of his mouth curling up into a pleasant smile. He was looking forward to Xiang Yang’s party because he was confident that his little boyfriend would cancel the party that he had originally promised to attend, all for him.