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Ji Yan stood there dumbfounded for several seconds. If Shi Jie cut ties with her, how would she buy luxury brands and mooch off meals in the future?
Thinking of this, she quickly chased after her.
“Shi Jie, let me explain…”
“I saw it with my own eyes. What else is there to explain?”
“Well…” Ji Yan’s eyes darted around anxiously. “This must be a misunderstanding!”
As Yun Li followed Fu Qingheng into the store, a saleswoman warmly approached them. “Hello, sir and madam. What style of wedding dress are you looking for?”
She had clearly mistaken their relationship, assuming they were a married couple.
“She is not my wife,” Fu Qingheng corrected.
The saleswoman was taken aback for a moment, then quickly recovered. “Sir, what style of wedding dress would you like to pick out for your girlfriend?”
“She is not my girlfriend either!” Fu Qingheng clarified again.
Now the saleswoman was even more confused.
Listening to Fu Qingheng, it felt like a lot of information was being dropped.
Neither wife nor girlfriend, then why bring her to a wedding dress shop?
And what exactly was their relationship?
Explaining it would indeed be a bit complicated at the moment.
Fu Qingheng didn’t say anything more. He turned to Yun Li and said, “Pick one you like and go try it on.”
Choosing a wedding dress was a lengthy process.
The saleswoman first looked at their attire, deduced they were wealthy and influential, and enthusiastically introduced Yun Li to the latest, most expensive wedding dresses.
Yun Li had never worn a wedding dress before. With the saleswoman’s help, she put on a pristine white gown.
The saleswoman sincerely complimented her, “Miss, you have a fantastic figure. This wedding dress suits you perfectly. You look beautiful in it.”
Yun Li looked at herself in the mirror, liking what she saw more and more. She twirled around, and the hem of the dress floated up.
“Can I show Brother Fu?”
The saleswoman nodded and then led Yun Li to stand on a platform behind her.
It was a semi-circular stage with a large mirror behind it. The overhead lights enveloped Yun Li. In her wedding dress, she looked beautiful and almost sacred.
The saleswoman genuinely thought she had never seen anyone look so good in a wedding dress.
Yun Li, however, looked puzzled. “Where’s Brother Fu?”
A curtain blocked her view, and she couldn’t see her “poop scooper.”
Yun Li took a step forward, but the saleswoman stopped her and placed a bouquet in her hands. “Miss, wait here. You’ll see him in a moment!”
Outside, Fu Qingheng was on the phone with Yang Qing, who was asking why they hadn’t come out yet.
If it weren’t for someone being held up by a wedding dress, they would already be on their way home.
He hung up the phone, and the saleswoman walked over. “Sir, Miss Yun has changed into the wedding dress. Please come this way.”
Fu Qingheng grunted in acknowledgment, his expression a bit impatient.
He stood below the platform, didn’t see Yun Li, and was about to ask where she was when the curtain in front of him opened.
Yun Li, in her white wedding dress, appeared before his eyes.
In that instant, it was as if an arrow shot towards him, piercing his heart. His heart pounded wildly in his chest, his dark pupils fixated on the person on the platform.
There was no doubt that Yun Li was a strikingly beautiful woman. The way she looked at people always carried a hint of seduction.
But at this moment, in her wedding dress, Yun Li was breathtakingly beautiful, like a fairy descending from the heavens – awe-inspiring yet unapproachable.
The next second, this fairy joyfully ran towards him.
Feeling utterly vain and pleased with herself, Yun Li couldn’t contain her excitement. She called out “Brother Fu” and, lifting the hem of her dress, ran towards him.
Unable to stop her momentum, she tumbled straight into Fu Qingheng’s arms.
Yun Li looked up. “Brother Fu, do I look good?”
This was the very dress from the store window.
Yun Li had fallen in love with it the moment she saw it.
Fu Qingheng stared at her, momentarily entranced, forgetting to step back. He let her fall into his arms. A faint scent of a young girl reached his nose, and his breath grew hot.
Instinctively, he reached out and wrapped his arm around her slender waist. Even though she ate so much at every meal, her waist was still incredibly slim, as if it could be encircled by a single hand.
The man’s eyes darkened. He slowly uttered two words: “You look… beautiful.”
She was captivatingly beautiful, making it impossible to say anything insincere.
Receiving the man’s praise, Yun Li was so happy she could have jumped for joy. Her cherry lips parted. “I think it looks really beautiful too!”
The truth was, Yun Li’s voice was very pleasant, especially when she was being coy – soft and adorable, impossible to refuse.
Fu Qingheng was immersed in her voice, his dark gaze falling on her pink lips. A strange longing rose in the depths of his heart.
Yun Li had said so much, but her “poop scooper” wasn’t saying anything. She gave him a little push. “Brother Fu?”
Could it be that her “poop scooper” also thought she looked exceptionally beautiful and was captivated by her?
The little fox was overjoyed and her non-existent tail swayed smugly.
She knew she was pretty and cute. No one could resist her.
Just as Yun Li was getting carried away with her smugness, her “poop scooper” poked her cheek with his finger the next second and pushed her away.
Yun Li looked confused. “Brother Fu?”
“Stay away from me.”
“…QAQ~”
Had she been rejected by her “poop scooper” again?
Pushed away, Yun Li felt very hurt. Her voice drooped, and she called out “Brother Fu” again, sounding wronged.
“I don’t like it when you call me ‘Brother Fu’.”
“…”
She couldn’t even call him “Brother Fu” anymore. She was being completely and utterly rejected.
Why was her “poop scooper” so moody?
Just as Yun Li was about to speak, she heard Fu Qingheng say to the saleswoman nearby, “We’ll take this wedding dress.”
The saleswoman had been watching the whole scene. Honestly, she didn’t understand why the gentleman had suddenly changed his expression. The young lady looked absolutely stunning in that wedding dress.
But hearing that he wanted to buy it, the saleswoman breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, said “Certainly,” and led Fu Qingheng to the register to pay.
This wedding dress was a new arrival for the fall/winter season. The store had only received it recently and put it on display.
The design was innovative, and the embroidery on the skirt was all handcrafted, using expensive materials. The dress cost just over eight million yuan.
Fu Qingheng didn’t say a word and directly swiped his card to pay.
Yun Li didn’t have a good understanding of human currency but instinctively felt the dress was very expensive.
She quietly asked the saleswoman, “Is eight million a lot of money?”
The saleswoman was secretly astonished. There were people who didn’t know how much eight million was?
“Very expensive.” Ordinary people couldn’t afford it at all. The saleswoman looked envious. “Miss, it seems your husband is very good to you!”
Buying a wedding dress just like that, wasn’t that indulgent enough?
Hearing this, Yun Li felt very proud. “Of course! Brother Fu is really good to me. He even took me to eat a family bucket today.”
On the other side, Shi Jie and Ji Yan hadn’t left. They were waiting not far away.
Watching Fu Qingheng come out with Yun Li, Shi Jie’s gaze towards Yun Li grew even more jealous.
Ji Yan secretly gauged her expression and quickly comforted her, “Don’t worry. Just wait for my good news. I will definitely drive her out of the Fu family!”
Shi Jie dug her nails into her palm. “Are you sure?”
“Just you wait!”
Yun Li had gotten the dress she wanted and was happily humming little tunes all the way home.
Yang Qing was puzzled. “What happened? Why are you so happy?”
Just as Yun Li was about to answer, Fu Qingheng, sitting beside her, opened his eyes and gave her a warning look not to say anything.
Before coming home, her “poop scooper” had told her not to tell Yang Qing about buying the dress.
Although she didn’t know why, her “poop scooper” said that if she told Uncle Yang, he would confiscate the dress.
She had almost let it slip.
Yun Li cleverly changed her answer. “Brother Fu took me to eat a family bucket and drink cola.”
Yang Qing was speechless. She was this happy just because of some food?
The old man couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. He resented that Fu Qingheng wasn’t more proactive.
Since he had taken the young lady to the mall anyway, why not buy her some clothes or a bag to win her over?
Even an old man like him understood this, but this young man just couldn’t figure it out.
He would have to give him some pointers later.
When Yang Qing wasn’t around, Yun Li secretly asked, “Was that dress very expensive?”
“It was alright.”
Alright?
Then why had the saleswoman said it was very expensive?
Yun Li looked confused. So, was the dress expensive or not?
Bothered by this question, Yun Li had trouble sleeping for once.
She opened her little bundle and spread out her treasures again, planning to pick one to give to her “poop scooper” as a gift.
What should she give him?
But the luminous pearl she had given him last time was already the most valuable thing among all her treasures. What was left were some jewelry pieces and some other trinkets of little value, all birthday gifts from her family members.
Of course, there were even more valuable things, but they were at home. She hadn’t brought them with her.
Yun Li felt very melancholy, unsure what to give.
After hesitating for a long time, unable to make a decision, she simply scooped up all her treasures and rushed to the next door.
This time, Fu Qingheng had learned his lesson and finally remembered to lock the door.
Hearing Yun Li’s voice from outside, he unhurriedly put on his robe and slowly walked over to open the door.
“What is it?”
Yun Li held out her treasures. “Brother Fu, you can pick whichever one you want?”
“Hmm?”
“To repay you for buying me the dress.” Yun Li said insistently, “I don’t have anything valuable left except these. Which one do you like, Brother Fu? Or I could give you all of them.”
Before Fu Qingheng could react, a bundle was thrust into his hands.
He opened it and was immediately stunned by what he saw inside.
He picked up a blood-red pearl necklace. “Where did you get all of these?”
Pearls come in many colors, but blood-red ones were unheard of.
If this wasn’t artificially dyed but genuinely natural blood-red, then such a pearl necklace would be priceless.
A single blood-red pearl was already rare, but this necklace had at least a hundred pearls, each round, plump, and uniform in size.
Yun Li looked at the blood-red pearl necklace, scratched her head, and said, “I don’t remember!”
It seemed like it was from a birthday celebration sometime. A relative had given it to her.
Fu Qingheng frowned. He had forgotten that Yun Li had amnesia and didn’t remember the past.
Besides this blood pearl necklace, there was also a translucent jade pendant, and other items…
He remembered the luminous pearl Yun Li had given him before. Looking down at the things in his arms, ninety-nine percent of them appeared to be real.
What he was holding wasn’t a pile of worthless trinkets, but priceless, rare treasures.
This made Fu Qingheng even more interested in Yun Li’s identity. Who was she, and where did she come from?
Fu Qingheng took the blood pearl necklace. “This is enough!”
He would need to give it to Lu Zhen to authenticate its authenticity.
Yun Li didn’t know what Fu Qingheng was thinking. Seeing that her “poop scooper” had accepted the gift, she happily went back to her room to sleep.
The next day was the weekend. Yun Li didn’t have to wake up early for school, so she slept in.
Yun Li didn’t know how to use a cell phone.
Her father had said that with a phone, she could contact her brothers. But the problem was, Yun Li had been studying the phone for a long time, and nothing was happening.
Strange. How was she supposed to contact her brothers?
Yun Li sighed in frustration and went downstairs to find Yang Qing.
Yang Qing was tending to the flowers and plants in the yard. Yun Li chattered away beside him, holding out her phone, asking questions about this and that.
Yang Qing was old and farsighted. Without his glasses, he couldn’t see clearly at all.
“Go upstairs and ask the Young Master. He knows much more than I do!”
Yun Li said “Oh” and ran off to find Fu Qingheng.
Fu Qingheng patiently taught her how to use the phone, and Yun Li listened attentively like an obedient student.
After downloading all the apps, Yun Li asked curiously, “Then how do I use this to call someone?”
Why was it that even with a phone, she still couldn’t contact her brothers?
Fu Qingheng explained, “You need to know the other person’s phone number first before you can call them.”
What was a phone number?
Yun Li lay on the desk, tilted her little head up to look at him, and asked, “Then what’s your phone number?”
Fu Qingheng took her phone, entered a series of digits into the contacts interface, saved his name, and then handed the phone back to her. “This is my number.”
Yun Li glanced at the number on the screen, looking completely baffled.
She didn’t even understand how to make a call?
Fu Qingheng sighed inwardly and taught her again, “Just tap the green call button, and you can call me!”
Following her “poop scooper’s” instructions, Yun Li pressed the button. She stared blankly at him. The next second, the other phone on the desk started ringing.
Fu Qingheng answered the call, put the phone to his ear, and at the same time, motioned for Yun Li to do the same.
Yun Li put the phone to her ear, her eyes fixed unblinkingly on the man in front of her.
“This is what making a call is like.”
Her pupils dilated in shock. Her “poop scooper’s” voice was actually coming out of the phone!
“No matter where you are, you can call me.”
“Even if we’re a thousand miles apart?”
“Yes.”
That was exactly the same as the sound transmission bell in their demon realm! However, the sound transmission bell was much simpler than a phone. You just needed to use a little magic to contact someone.
Unlike a human phone, which required such a long number.
Fu Qingheng added, “Remember to keep the phone charged at all times.”
She didn’t seem to understand anything at all.
He pointed to the battery icon in the top right corner. “Watch this area. Once it turns red, it means you need to charge it.”
“I understand!”
To make communication easier, Fu Qingheng simply added her on WeChat as well.
“If anything comes up, you can contact me on WeChat!”
Yun Li nodded. So, this was the WeChat everyone was talking about.
After fully figuring out the phone, Yun Li said happily, “I’m going to go add Ouyang and the others.”
Ouyang? That name sounded very masculine. It immediately brought to mind that pretty boy she had met before.
Dressed in that alternative style, trying to seduce Yun Li – did he even look at himself to see if he was worthy?
Fu Qingheng grabbed the back of Yun Li’s collar. She looked back at him, completely confused.
“Didn’t your teacher assign any holiday homework?”
Was homework the same as schoolwork?
Yun Li firmly shook her head. “No!”
Seeing her guilty expression, Fu Qingheng knew exactly what was going on.
“Go get your books.”
“Brother Fu…” Yun Li tried to act cute with her “poop scooper,” hoping he would let her off the hook.
She hated studying the most, and she hated doing schoolwork the most.
But Fu Qingheng didn’t even look at her. “Go get them.”
Yun Li had no choice but to go get all her books.
After two days of school, all her books were still brand new, without even a mark of having been opened.
“How are your classes? How are the teachers?”
“Pr-pretty good!” Yun Li answered in a small voice.
The teachers taught pretty well, but their voices were a bit hypnotic, so she fell asleep. Of course, she wouldn’t dare say that to her “poop scooper.”
Fu Qingheng randomly flipped open a math workbook. “Then do these problems first.”
“Oh.”
Yun Li obediently sat next to Fu Qingheng to do her homework, while Fu Qingheng busied himself with work.
Studying was always boring and tedious and made Yun Li yawned. At first, she pretended to scribble and draw on the paper, but then she started observing her “poop scooper.”
Her “poop scooper” looked really handsome when he was focused on work. She could watch him forever!
Fu Qingheng sensed someone staring at him. He turned his head and met a pair of clear, bright eyes.
Caught staring, Yun Li’s little heart started pounding wildly again, and heat quickly rushed to her face.
Seeing the young girl’s shy, flushed cheeks made Fu Qingheng’s own heart flutter. This woman, why was she throwing around such enticing looks for no reason?
He cleared his throat and pretended to be cold. “What are you looking at me for? Is there an answer on my face? Hurry up and write. If you don’t finish today, no chicken wings.”
Yun Li was startled and quickly picked up her pen to write seriously.
But the homework was too hard. She couldn’t understand it; it was like reading a heavenly script. Sleepiness washed over her.
Unknowingly, an hour passed. Fu Qingheng drank a glass of water because he was thirsty and remembered Yun Li was still beside him. He took a moment to glance at her.
A book was propped up high, hiding Yun Li’s fair, clean face. Fu Qingheng casually moved it aside, only to see Yun Li sleeping soundly on the desk.
He could probably imagine what Yun Li was like in class.
She could even slack off and sleep right under his nose, let alone in a classroom.
Yun Li slept very comfortably, but when she woke up, her limbs were numb and her whole body felt uncomfortable.
Her first reaction upon waking was to look for her “poop scooper,” but Fu Qingheng was nowhere to be found.
Where had her “poop scooper” gone?
Just as Yun Li was about to go look for Fu Qingheng, she heard the door open and Fu Qingheng said, “You’re awake?”
Oh no!
Those three words popped into her head. Her “poop scooper” had told her to do her schoolwork, but she had accidentally fallen asleep. Her “poop scooper” would definitely be very angry and yell at her.
Yun Li immediately stood up straight, bracing herself for Fu Qingheng’s scolding.
However, Fu Qingheng just glanced at her casually. “Come downstairs and eat.”
Yun Li couldn’t believe it. Not only did her “poop scooper” not yell at her, he told her to go eat.
Her “poop scooper” was truly the best!
Happily, she followed Fu Qingheng to the dining room and cheerfully greeted Uncle Yang.
Yun Li sat down next to Fu Qingheng and looked at the dishes on the table. They were all green, leafy vegetables.
This… how was she supposed to eat this!
Yun Li turned her head to look at Yang Qing. “Uncle Yang, where are my chicken wings?”
Where had her beloved chicken wings gone?
Yang Qing secretly sighed. It was the Young Master who had said to remove the chicken wings and eat vegetarian today.
He couldn’t do anything about it.
Yun Li looked at Fu Qingheng with pleading eyes, but the man’s expression was impassive. “You slept all afternoon, and you still want chicken wings?”
If it weren’t for the fact that she was still growing, he wouldn’t have given her any dinner at all.
Hearing this, Yun Li burst into tears with a loud “Waaah!”
This was just too cruel.
That night, unable to eat any chicken wings, Yun Li couldn’t fall asleep.
Every time she closed her eyes, her mind filled with images of fragrant, roasted chicken, making her mouth water.
At her wit’s end, she had no choice but to sneak downstairs to find some chicken wings or something to fill her stomach.
However, Fu Qingheng had anticipated she would sneak a snack and had instructed Yang Qing to put away all the chicken.
She searched the entire kitchen but couldn’t find the chicken she craved. With tears in her eyes, she had to settle for a little milk and bread.
The next day, Yun Li didn’t dare fall asleep while doing her homework. Instead, she wrote very seriously.
If she didn’t understand something, she just wrote something down randomly. After all, her “poop scooper” never looked at it.
But she was being naive again.
Fu Qingheng didn’t have much to do that day. Seeing Yun Li with her head down, writing diligently, he got curious about how she was doing.
He casually glanced at her paper and felt his blood pressure shoot up. What on earth was she writing?
Yun Li felt very wronged. “I really don’t understand.”
Fu Qingheng’s mouth twitched in exasperation, but in the end, he resigned himself to teaching her.
The truth was, Yun Li had absolutely no talent for studying.
A simple trigonometric function – he started with the most basic concepts, using the most straightforward methods but Yun Li only grasped about half of it.
In the blink of an eye, the whole afternoon was gone.
Fu Qingheng couldn’t understand why he had wasted his precious time teaching her!
Forget it. He should just find her family as soon as possible and send her home.
“Never mind. Take a break.”
Finally, no more lectures! Yun Li breathed a sigh of relief. After studying for so long, her stomach was growling.
“Have you remembered anything lately?”
Fu Qingheng caught Yun Li as she tried to head downstairs. His dark eyes fixed on her face. “Like where your home is, or your family?”
Yun Li had originally thought that with a phone, she could contact her brothers, but she realized she needed their phone numbers.
Until then, she would have to shamelessly stay here.
She shook her head. “I can’t remember anything.”
The next day, Yun Li took her phone to school. She happily added Ouyang Mengyao and the others as WeChat friends and even played games with them.
A week later, school was preparing for the monthly exams.
Before the exams, Yun Li ate, drank, and slept as usual. The next day, she went to school bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for the test.
In contrast, Ouyang Mengyao and the others looked haggard and drained.
“You guys didn’t stay up all night playing games, did you?”
Ouyang Mengyao lay weakly on her desk. “We stayed up all night cramming!”
“My mom said if I’m still at the bottom of the class this time, she’ll break my legs!”
This was the classic case of “no pain during the semester, panic before the exam.”
Compared to Ouyang Mengyao and the others’ listlessness, Yun Li was full of energy.
Ouyang Mengyao yawned. “Didn’t you stay up late studying last night?”
“No, I didn’t!” Yun Li shook her head and proceeded to list everything she had done last night: ate fried chicken, drank Happy Cola, and watched a great TV show.
Ouyang Mengyao and Zhang Zihan exchanged a look, grabbed Yun Li’s shoulders, and said with serious expressions, “Yun Li, be honest with us. Are you a genius? The kind who doesn’t need to study and still gets perfect scores?”
“No!”
“Then why didn’t you study last night?”
She usually slept in class with them and played games after school.
“I don’t like studying.”
Being forced to study by her “poop scooper” a couple of days ago had given her a terrible headache.
Ouyang Mengyao slowly gave her a thumbs up. “Sister, you’re a badass.”
The monthly exams lasted three days, covering all subjects.
Yun Li was probably the most relaxed person in the entire school.
When the three days were over, Ouyang Mengyao finally breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh my god, this exam was way too hard. The teachers who wrote the test papers must be devils!”
“Tell me about it. I didn’t even know what to write!”
“At least you filled the page. I left a huge blank section!”
“Yeah, hey, Yun Li, how did you do?”
Yun Li was sucking on a lemon-flavored lollipop. “It was okay, I guess.”
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