“Help her pick out a few outfits that suit her…” Jiang Che gestured toward Xiao Yi beside him.
“Understood, Young Master… This way, Miss.” The sales assistant gave a sweet smile, casting a look of envy at Xiao Yi before leading her toward the clothing section.
Before leaving, Xiao Yi glanced at Jiang Che. She didn’t say anything, yet it felt like she said everything.
“Don’t worry, I’ll wait right here. I won’t go anywhere…” Jiang Che understood what her eyes were saying. He gently patted the little girl’s head and smiled.
He didn’t expect that this cold assassin loli had such a side to her. She really was… adorable.
With Jiang Che’s reassurance, Xiao Yi followed the sales assistant to the racks ahead.
Once she was gone, Jiang Che brushed off a few women who tried to strike up a conversation and ask for his WeChat, then began lazily scanning his surroundings.
Just as he was about to turn away out of boredom, a scene not far off caught his attention.
“Lin Ming, let’s break up!”
A pretty woman with heavy makeup nestled sweetly in the arms of a man dressed in an Armani suit as she spoke coldly to a food delivery guy wearing a yellow uniform not far away.
“Yueyue, why? Please don’t do this… Tell me what I did wrong, just say it! How am I supposed to live without you?” Lin Ming’s expression was frozen with disbelief. He looked panicked as he pleaded with her.
Lin Ming was a junior in the computer science department at Linjiang University. Coming from a poor rural background, he had developed a strong crush on his classmate Li Yue after entering college. He then started a fierce pursuit.
He’d simped for three years—finally winning the heart of his goddess.
But before he could even hold her hand, she turned and fell into another man’s arms. Who could accept that?
Even if they had to break up, couldn’t she at least let him experience something once, damn it?
Otherwise, what had the past three years even meant?
A joke?
“Why?” Li Yue sneered. “Can you give me the happiness I want?”
“I want LV bags, Chanel purses. Can you afford them?”
“I want the new iPhone 16 Pro Max. Can you buy that for me?”
“You can’t give me any of these things. So why should I be with you?”
Her voice was full of contempt. Then her expression softened as she leaned deeper into the Armani-suited man’s arms, her voice becoming soft and affectionate.
“The only one who can give me these things is Young Master Sun.”
“Lin Ming, we’re from two different worlds. Let’s just end this cleanly… The only one I love has always been Young Master Sun.”
“You’re breaking up with me… just because of money?”
“Li Yue, don’t you know this guy’s a known playboy, a typical rich scumbag?” Lin Ming’s voice trembled with disbelief. He pointed furiously at the man beside her—Sun Zi—his face twisted in rage.
“And so what?” Li Yue snapped. “You’re just a pathetic simp who deserves to die alone!”
She didn’t hold back at all.
Being able to string Lin Ming along like a monkey for three years—Li Yue clearly wasn’t some sweet innocent girl.
Morals?
She didn’t have any of those.
“You…” Lin Ming’s face turned red and his voice shook violently. In the past, Li Yue always acted like a shy college girl in front of him. When had she ever shown such a nasty side?
It was his own fault for being blind—chasing after someone like her for three whole years!
If he’d known this earlier, he would’ve just gone to simp for Campus Belle Shao Wanwan instead.
At least Shao Wanwan’s looks were ten times better than Li Yue’s. Just looking at her was already a joy.
“You what?”
“Kid, Yueyue is my woman now!”
“If you know what’s good for you, get lost now—unless you want me to teach you a lesson!” Sun Zi stepped forward, nostrils flared arrogantly. He didn’t even bother to look Lin Ming in the eye. This was textbook villain behavior.
He didn’t care much about Li Yue, but she was still his woman now—there was no way he’d allow some poor delivery boy to lust after her.
He and Li Yue had met at a campus exchange event.
Sun Zi was one of the wealthier second-generation students at Linjiang University. His family owned a few hundred million yuan in assets, and he’d already dated more than a few freshman girls over the years.
The first time he saw Li Yue, he’d liked her. He made up his mind to have her.
He spent a few tens of thousands of yuan to buy her a Chanel purse—and slept with her that same night.
He had known from the start that Li Yue had a boyfriend.
In fact, he had originally intended for her to keep stringing along that loser simp Lin Ming—it gave him a certain twisted satisfaction.
But now that Lin Ming had found out, he couldn’t be bothered to keep hiding it.
He’d stolen girls from losers like this plenty of times before.
Honestly, with a name like Lin Ming, he really was a “lin ming” (weakling)!
He never did anything like a real man.
…
“You…” Lin Ming exploded, “You dare humiliate me like this today—one day I’ll return it a hundredfold!”
“Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—don’t underestimate a poor young man!”
Seeing Sun Zi act so arrogantly—like Lin Ming wasn’t even human—he couldn’t hold back anymore. He went straight for the dramatic line.
“Hahaha!”
“You’re killing me here!” Sun Zi burst into wild laughter. “A poor delivery punk like you thinks he’s going to get revenge?”
“What, you planning to make me die of laughter and inherit my bank balance?”
He laughed so hard he nearly cried.
What a joke!
A delivery guy from the countryside wants to get back at him?
Even if Lin Ming delivered food for ten lifetimes, he’d never have what Sun Zi had now.
“Utterly delusional…”
“Exactly. These kids today haven’t been smacked around by society enough. They really think they can say anything.”
“God, can you believe this? I’m just out shopping and ran into a delusional simp boy.”
“Seriously? ‘Thirty years east, thirty years west’? This guy’s read too many novels, hasn’t he?”
The nearby crowd began to whisper, mocking Lin Ming with nothing but scorn and disdain.
“Hmph, we’ll see!” Lin Ming gritted his teeth and forced out a cold snort. His face burned with shame as he quickly slipped away from everyone’s gaze.
Not far away, Jiang Che had been silently watching everything from start to finish—and now fell into deep thought…
He already had a strange sense of familiarity with this dramatic scene, but when Lin Ming shouted that famous line, he knew for sure—
Three years as a simp, only for the goddess to fall into the arms of a rich playboy?
Wasn’t this the classic setup of a natural-born protagonist physique?
…