Upon returning home, Jiang Yue couldn’t help but stare at Jiang Tan.
Suddenly being stared at so directly and silently made Jiang Tan feel a bit strange. She looked back at her and asked, “What’s wrong with you?”
Jiang Yue shook her head and simply said, “This matter is resolved; you can rest easy now.”
Although she was curious whether Jiang Tan knew what was on the other person’s mind, she certainly wouldn’t ask so bluntly.
“Yes, I’m relieved,” Jiang Tan said with deep conviction. At the very least, this way, the two of them wouldn’t be in the same space, and no accidents would happen.
Jiang Yue watched her silently.
She had the distinct feeling that this Alpha was even more afraid of something happening between them than she, the Omega, was.
“I’m going to work now.” Now that the matter was settled, Jiang Tan didn’t want to dawdle; work still had to be done.
“I’ll go with you,” Jiang Yue said. “After I go to the construction site with you, I’ll take your bike to deliver food, and then I’ll come back to pick you up when it’s time for you to finish work.”
Hearing this, Jiang Tan couldn’t help but keep glancing at her. “Are you going to deliver them alone? Aren’t you afraid?”
“I am,” Jiang Yue said expressionlessly.
Jiang Tan: “?” You know you’re not following the script, right?
Seeing Jiang Tan’s face full of question marks, Jiang Yue’s composure broke, and her eyes curved into a faint, shallow smile. “But it’s alright. I’ll just take it slow.”
She wouldn’t take too many orders at once, so she should be able to manage.
Jiang Tan thought about it. “Alright then, just be careful of danger.”
On second thought, they only had one phone. Realizing that if Jiang Yue were outside and something actually happened, she wouldn’t be able to contact her, Jiang Tan realized that buying a phone for Jiang Yue needed to be put on the agenda.
Jiang Tan: “…”
Why is it so easy for money to be spent!
Jiang Tan rode the bike to the construction site and handed both the bike and her phone to Jiang Yue, saying, “There’s a contact in the phone named Sister Zhou—she’s our foreman. If you need to find me for anything, call this number. Also, I’ve saved the address of this location in the map. If you don’t remember the way for a moment, just use the navigation to get here.”
Jiang Tan felt she had finished explaining everything she needed to, but watching Jiang Yue ride away alone, she still felt a bit worried.
Sigh.
Ever since she brought Jiang Yue back, she felt like she had become a mother.
Jiang Yue hadn’t even traveled a thousand miles yet, and she was already worrying.
Because this happened to be the time when everyone was arriving for work, naturally many people saw Jiang Tan’s situation. After Jiang Yue left, someone couldn’t help but say, “I knew you’ve been acting a bit strange lately, running home the moment work ends. Turns out you have a pretty lady waiting for you at home!”
“Exactly! When we said you were acting strange back then, you wouldn’t even admit it.”
People who had a good relationship with Jiang Tan began to tease her.
“Aiyay, our little Jiang finally knows how to enlighten herself.”
“That girl looks good; she’s a great match for you. You have to treat her well.”
Someone patted Jiang Tan on the shoulder. Even though they knew her character wasn’t bad, they couldn’t help but chime in at a time like this. Because they liked Jiang Tan, they hoped she would live well.
“No, I…” However, before she could get the words out, her coworkers all began to talk at once about what one should do when dating to increase favorability—acting as if they were teaching Jiang Tan how to date. She couldn’t even get a word in.
Jiang Tan: “…”
What’s with that look on their faces, like they’re terrified I won’t be able to hold onto her?
They weren’t giving her a chance to explain at all!
Whatever, she thought. It also saved them from constantly nagging her about finding a partner.
Thinking this way, Jiang Tan didn’t bother to explain further. However, later on, she didn’t know if it was just her imagination, but she felt that Sister Zhou’s gaze toward her was a bit complicated. When she asked, the other wouldn’t say, leaving Jiang Tan completely baffled.
In the intervals of her busy work, she would also worry about Jiang Yue’s situation from time to time. This caused her to be in a daze the entire afternoon. When it was finally time to get off work, she rushed out. She originally thought Jiang Yue might not appear exactly on time, but to her surprise, when she reached the gate, Jiang Yue was already there waiting.
“You got here so fast.” Jiang Tan hurried over to Jiang Yue’s side, her eyes scanning her from top to bottom. After confirming there were no problems, she asked, “How was it? Was running the orders by yourself smooth?”
Jiang Yue got off the bike, handed it over to Jiang Tan to drive, and replied, “It was fairly smooth. Looking at the records on the platform, I earned over fifty yuan this time.”
Since she was just starting out, she chose to take orders one by one. She wasn’t sure if this income was considered good.
Jiang Tan was surprised. “You ran that many orders?”
Even at a unit price of 4 yuan per order, she had run about a dozen. For a novice just starting out, Jiang Tan felt it was already very impressive.
“It was still slow.” Jiang Yue slowly shook her head. Although she hadn’t timed out, she wasn’t very familiar with some business districts, which resulted in spending a lot of time finding shops and customer addresses.
“It’s already very impressive!” Jiang Tan didn’t hold back her praise. “It’s better than I was when I started.”
When Jiang Tan first started delivering, she was either timing out or couldn’t find the entrance to the customers’ residential areas and had to call them to ask.
Jiang Yue’s lips curled into a slight smile, feeling a bit more lighthearted.
“Get on, let’s go buy groceries together!” Jiang Tan patted the back seat to signal Jiang Yue.
“Mm.” Jiang Yue’s voice was a bit soft. After getting on the bike, she smelled the faint scent of licorice coming from Jiang Tan and felt a sense of peace.
In this strange city, because of this one person, it wasn’t so terrifyingly lonely after all.
Jiang Tan led Jiang Yue into the vegetable market with practiced ease. This was the time when many people were out buying food. Even in such a crowded situation, Jiang Yue’s presence in a place like a vegetable market still attracted many eyes.
It was mainly because people sensed a temperament in her that was incompatible with this place. Even though she was wearing very cheap clothes, it didn’t hide her personal radiance; instead, it made those clothes look much more high-end.
Jiang Tan turned her head to look at her and couldn’t help laughing. “Sure enough, the public prefers your type. When I come here usually, not nearly this many people are looking.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yue’s gaze landed on Jiang Tan’s face. “Clearly, you are the one who catches the eye more.”
Moreover, in a place like a vegetable market, everyone has their own business to attend to. People only stole quick glances, which didn’t make Jiang Yue feel offended.
Jiang Yue always felt that with Jiang Tan’s looks and figure, she was fully capable of being a model.
Jiang Tan laughed twice and asked, “What do you want to eat tonight?”
Jiang Yue looked at the items displayed on the stalls. The first thing they saw upon entering was the butcher shop. Looking at the meat, she was momentarily at a loss.
“I don’t know.”
In her instinctive memory, it seemed she mostly saw meat after it was already cooked. Seeing it like this now, she couldn’t imagine what dishes could be made from them.
Jiang Tan pondered. “Then how about fish? We’ll do a steamed fish and add some stir-fried pork with green beans?”
Jiang Yue nodded. “Okay.”
She didn’t know herself, so since Jiang Tan had already given choices, she naturally wouldn’t object.
“Then let’s go buy the fish first!” Jiang Tan immediately took her toward the aquatic products area.
After the two finished buying groceries, they rode through the refreshing evening breeze back home and tinkered with dinner together in the kitchen.
This originally old and cold rental house…
Suddenly seemed to have the taste of home.