After leaving the restaurant, Li Susu found a secluded place and took a bottle of mineral water and a fake-pregnancy pill out of her space. She swallowed the pill with the water.
Only after taking the fake-pregnancy pill did Li Susu finally feel completely at ease.
When she approached the state-run restaurant again, she unexpectedly saw a woman sitting across from Lu Yuanxing.
She took a closer look and was surprised to find that it was Wang Yanan.
What was Wang Yanan doing in Shankou Town?
And how had she happened to run into Lu Yuanxing while he was eating at the state-run restaurant?
Wasn’t this too much of a coincidence?
With a calm expression, Li Susu walked over to Wang Yanan’s seat.
“Comrade Wang, this is my seat. Please move.”
Wang Yanan turned around and looked at Li Susu impatiently.
“Who are you? I don’t know you!”
Li Susu found it rather amusing.
“We saw each other this morning, and you’ve already forgotten me, Comrade Wang?”
At those words, Wang Yanan was stunned.
She had only seen Li Susu that morning.
Could it be that the beautiful woman standing before her was actually Li Susu?
Impossible!
Wang Yanan carefully looked Li Susu up and down.
Li Susu was wearing the same clothes she had worn that morning—a white short-sleeved shirt and a pair of black cotton trousers.
But if Li Susu really looked like this, why would she have made herself look like that earlier?
Wang Yanan had originally never regarded Li Susu as a threat.
But after seeing her true appearance, she was shocked. An intense sense of crisis immediately rose in her heart.
“You’re Li Susu?”
Li Susu nodded.
Wang Yanan’s face instantly turned pale.
Just then, someone at the serving window called out,
“Two bowls of egg noodles!”
Lu Yuanxing stood up and went to the window to collect the noodles.
Li Susu stood to the side and calmly said, “Comrade Wang, this is my seat. Please stand up.”
Wang Yanan had no intention of giving up her seat.
“You’re a shameless woman who has improper relations with men! What right do you have to tell me to move? I’m going to sit right here!”
Li Susu rolled her eyes speechlessly. She reached out and grabbed Wang Yanan, trying to pull her up.
Unfortunately, the original owner’s body was far too weak. Even after using all her strength, she still couldn’t lift Wang Yanan.
She sighed helplessly.
Compared with the body she had possessed in the apocalypse, this body was far too weak.
She absolutely had to exercise. She needed to train properly.
Wang Yanan looked at her contemptuously.
“With a skinny body like yours, you still think you can lift me? You really don’t know your own limits!”
Li Susu became irritated. She hated it when people said she was weak.
“Wang Yanan, watch your mouth. If I’m having an improper relationship with a man, then what about Lu Yuanxing, who’s here with me? Wouldn’t he also be having an improper relationship with a woman?”
Wang Yanan was momentarily stunned before hurriedly arguing, “Yuanxing is different! You’re the one who set him up, you shameless woman!”
Li Susu was completely enraged.
Wang Yanan kept calling her a shameless woman as though she were made of mud and could simply be trampled on.
“Oh, so you’re the respectable one? Then why are you still shamelessly sitting here eating my noodles?”
Wang Yanan’s face flushed bright red.
“That’s because Yuanxing asked me to eat noodles!”
Just as she finished speaking, Lu Yuanxing returned with two bowls of noodles.
Li Susu couldn’t be bothered to argue with Wang Yanan anymore. She simply brought over another stool, took one of the bowls from Lu Yuanxing, and began eating.
Wang Yanan stared at her in disbelief.
“Yuanxing, weren’t those noodles for me?”
Lu Yuanxing looked somewhat embarrassed.
He hadn’t expected to run into Wang Yanan at the state-run restaurant. He hadn’t ordered anything for her at all.
“These are for Li Susu. I’ll order another bowl for you.”
Hearing this, Li Susu looked up at Lu Yuanxing.
“I suggest you don’t order one for her. She just accused me of having an improper relationship with you. If someone else overhears that, it could cause serious trouble.”
Lu Yuanxing’s expression immediately changed.
He glared at Wang Yanan.
Wang Yanan knew nothing about what had actually happened between him and Li Susu.
Yet, in a public place like this, she had openly accused both of them of having an improper relationship.
That wasn’t just an attempt to ruin Li Susu’s reputation—it could ruin his reputation as well.
Wang Yanan hurriedly explained, “No, Yuanxing! Don’t listen to this shameless woman’s nonsense. That’s not what I meant! She was the one who seduced you!”
The more Lu Yuanxing listened, the darker his expression became.
“Comrade Wang, this is a public place. Please watch your language.”
Wang Yanan couldn’t believe that Lu Yuanxing was actually scolding her for Li Susu’s sake.
She could no longer hold back and burst into tears.
“Yuanxing, you’re actually defending Li Susu? She’s the one who got you into this mess, and you’re actually defending her?”
Wang Yanan’s crying immediately attracted the attention of the other customers in the restaurant.
Everyone stretched their necks and looked over.
Li Susu had lived through the apocalypse in the twenty-second century, so she had already seen all kinds of situations like this and wasn’t particularly bothered.
Lu Yuanxing, however, felt uncomfortable under everyone’s gazes.
He said unhappily, “Enough. Stop crying. You can have my bowl of noodles. Eat your fill, then go back to the city.”
Wang Yanan unwillingly glanced at Li Susu.
“Yuanxing, you eat. I’ll just buy a couple of steamed buns later to fill my stomach.”
That morning, she had run out of Li Susu’s place. Only after leaving did she realize that she had nowhere to go.
But as an unmarried young woman, she couldn’t very well stay at Lu Yuanxing’s home.
Besides, Lu Yuanxing’s family had been sent down for reeducation and were living in a cowshed. The conditions were extremely crude, and she wasn’t accustomed to living there.
As she walked along, she suddenly remembered that her maternal uncle lived in Shankou Town.
Why not stay at her uncle’s house for a few days?
Shankou Town wasn’t far from Liu Village anyway. She had to find a chance to expose Li Susu’s fake pregnancy.
Hearing this, Li Susu’s lips twitched.
Wang Yanan really was something…
She would rather eat plain steamed buns herself!
Love really was powerful!
Still, Li Susu preferred noodles.
“Oh, Comrade Wang is truly considerate and selfless, giving way to others like this. Lu Yuanxing, if you don’t appreciate it, then you’re being rather ungrateful!”
At these words, Wang Yanan glared unhappily at Li Susu.
She had only been politely refusing out of courtesy, but after Li Susu put it that way, she had no choice but to give up the noodles.
Lu Yuanxing, meanwhile, gave Li Susu a meaningful look.
He was beginning to realize that Li Susu was actually quite clever.
But Wang Yanan had been his childhood friend. It was only one bowl of noodles, and he wasn’t so stingy that he would argue over it.
“Comrade Wang, you eat the noodles. I’ll eat the steamed buns.”
Wang Yanan quickly waved her hands.
“Yuanxing, I’ll eat the steamed buns.”
The two of them went back and forth, refusing the food to each other, while Li Susu had already eaten more than half her bowl of noodles.
The food from this era was made from natural ingredients, and it tasted absolutely delicious. Before long, she had finished an entire bowl of noodles.
“Are the two of you grinding grain or something?”
Wang Yanan’s face turned awkward.
Seeing that Wang Yanan truly didn’t want the noodles, Lu Yuanxing stopped insisting. He picked up his chopsticks and began eating.
When Wang Yanan saw Lu Yuanxing actually eat the noodles, another wave of disappointment washed over her.
Why could that shameless Li Susu eat egg noodles while she could only eat plain steamed buns?
Her Yuanxing had changed before they’d even gotten married!