Chapter 55

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Translator: Cheese

Ignored me

News of Didu City Police Department coming to Luocheng to film a special report quickly spread through the entire town. Just as He Qingwan opened the door, her neighbors came over and asked whether they would take photos of the dessert shop.

He Qingwan smiled and said she didn’t know.

The neighbors were extremely envious, saying that if they really did, she and Su Tian would be on TV.

He Qingwan just laughed, as though she didn’t care whether or not they could be on TV.

The customers who came to the store also congratulated her. After all, to ordinary people, it didn’t matter why; being able to be on TV was something to be very proud of.

The police department was indeed quite fast. As soon as they arrived, the media came in and began to prepare for the shooting. The townspeople had only ever watched TV, and they’d never seen how TV was filmed, so everyone rushed over to watch.

On this day, business at the dessert shop was unusually slow.

After sending off the last customer, He Qingwan saw a tall young man walk in. The youth wore a cap and carried a large backpack. Though she didn’t know what was inside, it looked quite heavy. He stood by the door, peering inside.

He Qingwan thought the youth seemed familiar, but for a while, she couldn’t remember where she’d seen him.

Unsure of the youth’s intentions, she didn’t greet him and worked on her store’s new product.

A few days ago, Xi Yun had begged her to make Nemo cakes after seeing Liu Kaiyan’s manuscript, so she was giving it a try.

The youth stood by the door and watched for a while before walking in and asking, “Excuse me, do you have any Kaka cakes?”

He’d heard that Kaka cakes were a flagship product of the store and that many people lined up for it.

He Qingwan answered apologetically, “I’m sorry, Kaka cakes need to be preordered. We have regular cheesecakes, is that okay?”

The boy gave it some thought and nodded. “Then I’d like a cheesecake, please.”

The youth checked out and picked up the cheesecake He Qingwan brought out. Then he casually found a place to sit down.

He Qingwan couldn’t help but give him another glance.

The young man had an elegant bearing, modest and polite. In this small town, he really shined.

But He Qingwan didn’t give it much thought. Liu Kaiyan, Xi Yun, and You Pinyan were enough to make people’s eyes light up. Her eyes had been dazzled many times; any more was just superfluous.

The youth sat in the corner and placed down his backpack. He quietly unpacked the fork and knife and began eating.

He ate slowly, as though savoring the taste. After two bites he opened his backpack and took out a laptop.

He Qingwan couldn’t help giving him a second look after this.

These days, laptops were still a rare sight. There were a few personal computers in Luocheng, but much fewer laptops. In the entire town, there were probably only a few.

Not only that, there was the brand of the one the youth took out–if she remembered correctly, it wasn’t that of an ordinary civilian laptop. It was simply not available on the market.

The youth took out his laptop and got to work. Tapping at the keyboard, then taking a bite of cake, he sat like that until noon, with half the cake left uneaten.

Finally, past twelve, there was the sound of a girl’s voice. And then, the door swung open, blowing in the cold wind.

Two girls walked in together.

He Qingwan: “Xiao Xue, Tiantian, have you eaten? Where’s Kaiyan?”

Su Tian: “He didn’t come. Liu Kaiyan is eating out today.”

Wang Haoxue ran over to He Qingwan. “Auntie, there’s a new skewer place outside the school gates. They’re super, super delicious. Can you let Tiantian come with me to eat some?”

He Qingwan: “…”

She turned her head to look at Su Tian, who was eagerly staring back at her.

Wang Haoxue saw that she didn’t speak and swung her arm back and forth. “Please, Auntie? We’ve been craving it for a few days.”

He Qingwan was helpless. “Alright, alright, you’re the boss1. Go on and eat.”

“Yay~!”

Su Tian and Wang Haoxue happily high-fived, sweet words freely tumbling from their mouths.

Under a barrage of compliments like “Thank you Auntie, Auntie’s the best” and “Thanks Mom, you’re the best,” the two girls ran out the store like the wind.

From beginning to end, they never spotted the customer still in the store.

The youth: “…”

He silently packed up his laptop, slung on his backpack, and followed the two girls out of the stop.

Su Tian and Wang Haoxue walked hand in hand to the Wang family’s home. This time, they swapped names and said that Su Tian wanted to eat the skewers in front of the school gates and asked to let Wang Haoxue come with her.

Uncle Wang didn’t last as long as He Qingwan and agreed in the blink of an eye.

After settling things with both parents, Su Tian and Wang Haoxue happily left to eat junk food.

This was their little trick. Every time they wanted to eat unhealthy food, they would come here.

After all, someone else’s child was going; who wouldn’t be embarrassed to say no?

In the skewer shop, Liu Kaiyan had already ordered and was waiting for the shop owner to start.

The two girls came in and sat down. Wang Haoxue said, “At times like these I’m so envious you have no parents to control you.”

Liu Kaiyan laughed. He didn’t think that Wang Haoxue’s words were offensive. In fact, as soon as he separated from them, he played basketball with the guys in his class. Everyone was so happy they wanted to go out and celebrate.

But when Wang Haoxue mentioned Lin Xiuping and Liu Chaoyang, Su Tian recalled something not all that wonderful.

Kaka was already published, and Fangyuan Technology had also begun to produce the animation film. If the film received an award and the manhua became popular, would his parents tear up that agreement and come look for Liu Kaiyan?

After all, when it came to Liu Kaiyan, 180,000 was just a small number.

Su Tian thought this with a slight smile still on her face.

Just then, the owner set down a large plate of fried skewers, sprinkled with a layer of pepper, cumin, and white sesame. It looked super delicious.

Forget it, think about these annoying things later. Right now, eating was more important.

Su Tian picked up a skewer of chicken hearts and bit down. It was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and thick juice seeped out, stimulating the taste buds.

Her mood immediately cleared up.

Sure enough, good food could make people forget all things unpleasant.

Everyone ate while discussing today’s big event.

Wang Haoxue: “Tiantian, will you and Auntie be on TV?”

Su Tian: “I don’t know, maybe.”

Wang Haoxue: “Ai, so jealous. I want to be on TV too. Have you seen those stars? They all shine and sparkle.”

Su Tian laughed. “Lose weight, and maybe you can become a star in the future.”

Wang Haoxue was very pretty; it was just that her chubbiness toned down her beauty. If she lost weight, she would be a great beauty.

The intoxication on Wang Haoxue’s face instantly froze. She stared at the skewers, wanting to cry but lacking the tears. “Tiantian, how can you talk about losing weight right now.”

Su Tian giggled. “That way you can lose weight and I can eat more.”

Wang Haoxue’s mouth gaped open.

Liu Kaiyan coughed, turning his head to the side with a smile.

When he turned his head, he saw a youth who had sat down at a table next to them at some point. The youth looked to be around their age and wore a hat, staring intently at Su Tian.

Noticing Liu Kaiyan’s gaze, the youth also looked over. Two pairs of eyes locked together, and the youth’s mouth curved into a strange arc, smiling at him.

Liu Kaiyan frowned, finding it a little strange. His hand stopped moving.

Su Tian saw this and asked softly, “What’s wrong?”

Liu Kaiyan retracted his gaze and replied in a low voice, “There’s someone staring at you.”

Su Tian smiled. “I know. No need to worry about strange people.”

Since her last life, she’d grown used to the attention of other people. And in this world, this sort of attention hadn’t diminished. Su Tian had long grown numb to others’ gazes.

If you want to look then look; she wouldn’t lose any meat from it.

Wang Haoxue also noticed. She turned her head back and exclaimed quietly, “Wow! Tiantian, he’s so handsome.”

Although the hat hid the upper half of his features, what was revealed was sufficiently good looking.

And seeing that she was looking over, the other party hooked his lips. The chubby girl nearly flushed red at the smile.

Wang Haoxue said in her heart, if that youth came over to talk–no no, no matter how handsome he was, he couldn’t snatch Tiantian from her. She couldn’t even count how many love rivals she had, okay!

When they finished off the skewers, and the three stood up to go back to school and continue class, the youth finally came over with a backpack slung behind him.

Before he’d thought of what to day, Su Tian had already brushed past him, talking and laughing with the others.

The youth: “…”

He stood in place, watching the three enter school, and silently returned to his temporary residence with his backpack.

He didn’t bother to greet the guards and staff outside before pushing open the door and walking in.

There was no one in the room, only a huge fish tank in the center, thickly packed with coral and fish swimming about.

The cute clownfish was burrowing within the anemones.

The youth walked over to the fish tank and tapped on the glass. Nemo wagged its head and swam over, kissing the youth’s fingers through the glass.

After a while, the youth’s slightly aggrieved voice floated throughout the room:

“Nemo, your mom ignored me.”

[1] What He Qingwan actually said was 怕了你们了, which literally is like, “I can’t handle you two” or “I can’t win against you two.” I think.

Cheese: how did they bring the fish tank over??

Also apologies in advance bc i’ve run out of my stockpile for this series and the next chapter is about twice as long as the average. so i may either release the next chapter in 2 parts or skip the usual release in two weeks from now and release chapter 56 in its entirety for the next scheduled update ;A; i’ll do my best to finish the whole darn thing, but no guarantees……..

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