Jiang Shiyan and Ye Zhaozhao came walking over with a basket on her arm, talking and laughing.
Truly she’d gone out without checking the almanac, and ran into nothing but bad-luck articles.
Shen Jiaqi quickly lowered her head, meaning to pretend she hadn’t seen them and avoid this pair of scourges, the male and female leads.
Unexpectedly, because of her conspicuous outfit, Jiang Shiyan spotted her at a glance, and even with a headscarf over her face his sharp eyes still recognized her.
“Shen Jiaqi?”
Jiang Shiyan adjusted his glasses frames, thinking his eyes were playing tricks.
By right, his eyes were full of Ye Zhaozhao and he couldn’t possibly look at another woman.
It was simply that Shen Jiaqi was too eye-catching.
She was tall and slender, her skin fair, and the simple, elegant gray checked skirt outlined her figure beautifully, it was hard to ignore her even if one wanted to.
Even with the headscarf over her, leaving only a pair of peach-blossom eyes showing, her beauty couldn’t be hidden, anyone who knew her would recognize her at a glance.
He had thought her pretty before, but he didn’t expect that in a skirt, with a little dressing up, she could be this beautiful. Standing in a crowd, she was simply a crane among chickens.
By comparison Ye Zhaozhao, also in a long skirt, seemed considerably plainer and rather petty, and couldn’t carry that little-floral-print skirt at all.
It was only a hurried glance, and yet Jiang Shiyan’s gaze stuck to Shen Jiaqi.
As he went on looking, his lower belly suddenly tightened. The spot she’d kicked and injured yesterday seemed to be aching faintly still…
Ye Zhaozhao followed his gaze and was at once struck dumb by what she saw.
Was this… Shen Jiaqi?!
She looked her over without changing expression. So she’d actually copied her in wearing a skirt and plaiting her hair.
And she’d copied it badly, she just looked seductive and improper.
A gray long skirt with a shirt collar and half sleeves, and Shen Jiaqi had somehow managed to wear it with a trace of allure.
She really was a born fox-charmer!
She’d charmed Jiang Shiyan’s soul right out of him!
Ye Zhaozhao’s expression turned unfriendly, thick jealousy wrapped in her eyes.
She tugged at Jiang Shiyan’s cuff and rose on her toes to put her mouth to his ear.
“Brother Yan, how can she be here?”
Jiang Shiyan snorted coldly. “She must have known I was coming and come here specially to head me off!”
Sensing Ye Zhaozhao’s jealousy, he took her hand in return and declared himself hastily. “Zhaozhao, wait here, I’ll go make it clear to her and tell her to stop pestering me.”
Ye Zhaozhao hooked a finger at him. “Say it nicely, don’t lose your temper. Girl Shen only can’t let go because she likes you too much.”
“I know my limits…”
Shen Jiaqi saw the two of them staring at her and muttering for ages, they certainly weren’t holding in anything good.
She was seething inside, and Jiang Shiyan walked right into the gun barrel of his own accord.
“Shen Jiaqi… I’ve already broken off the engagement with you. Is there any point in you deliberately waiting for me here?”
She was stunned. What nonsense was this?
She was deliberately waiting for him?
Shen Jiaqi was so angry she laughed. With that IQ of his, how had he become the male lead of the book, on the strength of a head full of paste?
“You… what are you laughing at?”
“Let me tell you, however beautifully you smile, however brilliantly you dress up, I won’t spare you another glance.”
Look or not look, hadn’t he already looked?
Daring to look but not to admit it. Truly disgusting…
Shen Jiaqi wasn’t about to indulge him. She put her hands on her hips. “Jiang Shiyan, if you weren’t looking at me, how would you know I was looking at you?”
“You…”
“Me what? Can’t you see I got here before you? I’m the one who should ask you, you followed me here, didn’t you…”
She covered her mouth in feigned shock. “You pervert!”
Jiang Shiyan ground his teeth in anger. “Who followed you? I’ve been with Comrade Ye all morning.”
“Is that so… then did the two of you go to the outhouse and eat filth? Your mouths stink this early in the morning…”
“If you know what’s good for you, get lost now and stop disturbing my stall.”
Jiang Shiyan was cursed so thoroughly his face turned purple.
Looking at the wild ginger in front of her and that big fat fish, he was startled too.
Could it be… she really had come to sell things?
Very quickly Jiang Shiyan shook his head.
Others might not understand, but didn’t he know Shen Jiaqi?
A pampered young miss who had never washed her own clothes or boiled a pot of hot water in her life, how could a parasite like her possibly get up early to sell things?
“Shen Jiaqi, stop saying what you don’t mean. How could someone like you come here to sell things?”
“I know it’s hard for you to accept my breaking off the engagement. You’ve hit me and you’ve cursed me, and I won’t hold any of it against you, but if you keep clinging on it will only make me detest you more!”
Truly a dung beetle yawning, a mouthful of stink.
Shen Jiaqi looked him up and down as if looking at a halfwit. “Me, pestering you?”
She laughed. “Why don’t you take a piss and look at your reflection? No money to speak of, no looks to speak of, what would I want you for?”
“Want you for being ugly? For a pocket cleaner than your face? Or for having bad teeth so you can only eat soft food off a woman?”
“You…” Jiang Shiyan’s veins bulged at once, and he nearly ground his teeth to pieces.
What was the matter with Shen Jiaqi today?
She actually dared insult him again and again, challenging his limits.
Normally, every time Shen Jiaqi saw him she wore an infatuated expression.
Whatever he did, Shen Jiaqi could praise him to the skies.
Today she hadn’t even given him a proper look, and instead attacked him with ugly words.
Could it be… she was playing hard to get?
Jiang Shiyan put on the look of a man who saw through it but wouldn’t say so, straightened his back, stuck out his neck, and lectured her from on high.
“Shen Jiaqi, there’s a limit to making trouble too. Keep being this unreasonable, with a mouth full of coarse language, and see if I don’t ignore you forever!”
“Ignore me…”
Shen Jiaqi was startled for a moment, then clapped her hands loudly in approval.
“That would be wonderful. I hope you keep your word. From now on absolutely don’t speak to me. Go around the other way when you see me, and don’t let me look down on you. Bah! Scumbag…”
“You…”
Jiang Shiyan clenched both fists and was about to lose his temper when Ye Zhaozhao stepped forward and pressed down on the back of his hand.
“Girl Shen, how can you speak like this? I know you like Brother Shiyan, but feelings go both ways, they aren’t one-sided…”
“Brother Shiyan parted from you peacefully and still treats you as a friend. Can’t you put your attitude right and speak properly to him?”
“Cursing and insulting, you really are a disgrace to us women of the new era…”
Shen Jiaqi had only been aiming at Jiang Shiyan and hadn’t thought of cursing Ye Zhaozhao, but she couldn’t help it if someone came rushing forward to be cursed.
Thinking of how Ye Zhaozhao had schemed and plotted to frame her fourth brother, Shen Jiaqi couldn’t hold her anger in.
Just as well, new grudges and old ones could be settled together!
Shen Jiaqi folded her arms and glanced at Ye Zhaozhao with contempt. “I say, where did this hen come from, clucking away here!”
Ye Zhaozhao was shamed and furious. “You, you actually cursed me!”
“So what if I cursed you? You came pushing forward brazenly asking to be cursed. Aren’t I just satisfying you?” Shen Jiaqi’s presence was fully open now, and her voice unconsciously rose too.
“I’m here cursing a pretty-boy heartbreaker, and you’re over there singing and dancing and pointing fingers, putting on a performance?”
“You two black-hearted things, telling me to put my attitude right. Who gave you the face…”
“Saying I’m a disgrace to women of the new era… tsk tsk, and here I didn’t know the standard for women of the new era was to be like you, knowingly being the third party and stealing another woman’s fiancé… so who exactly is shameless?”
The moment she said it, Ye Zhaozhao’s face went green, and tears came at once, welling up in her eyes.
“You, what nonsense are you talking? Brother Shiyan and I are perfectly clean. This is a rumor you’re spreading!”
Heh! What a picture of a pure and spotless little white flower…
Since Ye Zhaozhao came rushing forward to her death, then she wouldn’t hold back today, and would deliver her a stroke of 【a ruthless hand crushing the flower】.
She sneered. “No relationship? Whose unrelated man and woman hold hands in secret?”
“That’s indecent behavior…”