Han Shen didn’t say what the matter was.
After breakfast, he took Han Ting out.
The father and son argued as they walked.
To be precise, Han Ting kept nagging the whole time while Han Shen maintained the cold dignity of a father.
At ten in the morning, Xie Dingyuan called Jiang Fuyue: “I’m here. Come out.”
“So fast?”
“If you’re not enthusiastic about a date, there’s something wrong with your thinking.”
“…Tsk.”
Jiang Fuyue checked herself in the full-length mirror from front, back, left, and right. After confirming there were no problems, she fastened her waist bag, grabbed her sunglasses and sun hat, and went downstairs.
When she stepped out of the villa gate, a blue convertible appeared before her eyes. Xie Dingyuan sat in the driver’s seat wearing sunglasses, turning his head to give her a smile.
Honestly, Jiang Fuyue was stunned for a moment.
First, there was this flashy blue McLaren, the iconic vehicle of a playboy rich second-generation.
Didn’t Xie Dingyuan like black Mercedes cars?
Second, there was his outfit.
She couldn’t see the pants clearly, so it was hard to judge. But the shirt he usually wore had been replaced with a black T-shirt. His hair was combed upward and styled, making him look at least ten years younger.
Mm. The very definition of a cool boy.
Jiang Fuyue opened the scissor door on the passenger side. With her legs together, she leaned back and sat down. She should be thankful she wasn’t wearing a skirt today but tight jeans with studded boots, otherwise this sports-car sitting posture would have looked overly affected.
The moment she fastened her seatbelt, the man impatiently slammed the accelerator.
The roar of the engine suddenly sounded, and the car shot forward like an arrow released from the bow.
Only a fleeting shadow was left on the wide street.
This man was a bit wild today!
Jiang Fuyue sat in the car, tilting her head as she sized him up with a half-smile.
“Cough!”
Xie Dingyuan lost his composure first. “What are you looking at?”
“Watching Professor drive a supercar and race through the streets.”
The man blushed. His expression looked slightly embarrassed, and his eyes showed a trace of uncertain nervousness.
“Do I… look strange like this?”
But hadn’t his mother said: “Girls, especially young, beautiful girls, mostly like sunny, handsome boys. You walk around all day in a shirt and dress pants driving a black Mercedes, looking exactly like an old man. Aren’t you afraid people will notice the age difference between you and Yueyue?”
At that moment, Xie Dingyuan had been stunned, full of confusion and bewilderment.
Was there something wrong with the way he dressed? But Yueyue had never said anything!
“Alright, leave it to Mom!” The old lady patted her chest and began fixing him up.
Fifteen minutes later, Xie Dingyuan put on a new T-shirt dug out from Zhong Ziang’s wardrobe, wore the sunglasses his mother matched for him, had his hair restyled, and got into the McLaren that had been parked in the garage for a long time but was still shiny and new.
Before he left, the old lady guaranteed: “My son looks ridiculously handsome! Yueyue will definitely like it!”
But judging from the current situation, it seemed…
Jiang Fuyue: “It is a bit strange.”
His lips tightened.
“But,” the girl suddenly changed her tone in the next second, “handsome is also handsome. Like a college student who just graduated.”
“Really?” The man’s eyes lit up. Visible joy spread across his dark pupils, and the corners of his eyes and brows relaxed.
Jiang Fuyue: “When you were just in your early twenties, was this your style?”
“What kind of style is that?”
“En… a chuunibyou playboy, a flirtatious rich young master.”
Xie Dingyuan: “……”
Wasn’t she praising me just now? Why did it change?
Jiang Fuyue seemed to know what he was muttering and smiled faintly. “Being handsome and being a chuunibyou flirt aren’t contradictory.”
“…I’m not flirtatious.” The honest man squeezed out the sentence with red ears.
“Mm, you’re not flirtatious. You’re also very devoted.”
This, she praised him again?
Xie Dingyuan only felt his heart rising and falling, heavy then light.
He discovered that trying to understand what women say is really difficult!
“Anyway, just tell me, do you like me like this or not?” Xie Dingyuan finally couldn’t hold back and threw a straight ball.
“I like it! I especially like it!” Jiang Fuyue blurted out without the slightest hesitation.
The man couldn’t stop the corners of his mouth from rising.
Cough… actually sometimes what women say isn’t that hard to understand.
Jiang Fuyue: “Where are we going now?”
Xie Dingyuan: “Where do you want to go?”
“It would be a pity to drive a supercar and not take a spin along Binjiang Avenue.”
“Alright, then we’ll go to Binjiang Avenue first.”
…
It was late autumn. The sunlight wasn’t scorching, and a gentle breeze blew.
Binjiang Avenue, facing the moist river wind, felt even cooler.
The McLaren sped past as Jiang Fuyue’s long hair fluttered in the wind.
After one lap, her hands started itching.
Who said only men like good cars? Women like them too!
“Let me drive for a bit?”
Naturally, Xie Dingyuan didn’t refuse.
After pulling over, the two switched seats.
Jiang Fuyue placed a hand on the steering wheel and looked straight ahead. “Ready?”
Xie Dingyuan: “?” Ready for what?
Before he could ask, the accelerator was instantly pressed to the limit with a sharp roaring sound, and the car shot forward wildly.
Under inertia, Xie Dingyuan slammed back into the seat, the rushing wind blowing him a little dazed.
Jiang Fuyue enjoyed the thrill of speeding. Her foot never left the accelerator, the speed getting faster and faster, the smile at the corner of her lips growing wider.
“Yueyue!” Xie Dingyuan rarely sounded stern. “There’s a speed limit. Don’t mess around!”
Jiang Fuyue: “I’m not speeding~”
The man glanced at the dashboard.
She really wasn’t speeding, but she was repeatedly hovering right on the edge of it.
“Are you scared?” she shouted, laughing freely and boldly.
He gritted his teeth. “Little lunatic.”
Jiang Fuyue burst out laughing.
The speed only lasted about thirty seconds.
“Alright, alright, I know you’re a law-abiding citizen…”
As she spoke, the speed gradually slowed down.
People said Jiang Fuyue followed rules and regulations, but actually that wasn’t true. The rules she followed were her own rules, and the boundaries she kept were the ones in her heart. So compared with Xie Dingyuan’s absolute uprightness in the conventional sense, her standards of behavior were more casual and free.
At the same time, it meant unpredictability.
If she believed something was right, even if moral norms didn’t allow it, she would still do it.
But when it came to Xie Dingyuan, she didn’t mind adjusting her bottom line closer to more universal standards.
In a relationship, besides enjoying the other person’s indulgence, sometimes one also needs to give feedback.
Even if Xie Dingyuan liked her more, one-sided giving alone was not good.
Soon the speed slowed down.
Xie Dingyuan didn’t dare let her drive anymore. “Shall we switch back?”
“No.”
“Yueyue…” He looked helpless.
Jiang Fuyue pulled over, but after getting out she didn’t return to the passenger seat. Instead, she walked straight down toward the riverside.
As she walked, she turned back and said to Xie Dingyuan, “We’ve had enough wind. Come down and walk.”
After speaking, she ran toward the liveliest place.
Xie Dingyuan froze for a moment, quickly locked the car, and hurried after her.
The place was lively because a large crowd had gathered.
When they squeezed in to look, they discovered it was a shooting game stall. A group of young parents were bringing their children to shoot balloons and win plush toys.
“Tsk! How did I miss again? Boss, is your gun broken?”
A young father couldn’t help complaining.
Without saying a word, the boss took the air rifle from his hands, aimed at the balloons on the board,
Bang, bang, bang,
Three shots, all hits!
After finishing, the boss sat back down on his small stool and leisurely took two puffs of his tobacco, snorting, “If you can’t sh*t, don’t blame the latrine!”
“Pff, ” Someone nearby couldn’t help laughing.
“Hahaha…”
“The damage isn’t big, but the humiliation is strong.”
The young father angrily pulled his son out of the crowd. “We’re not playing anymore! Never again!”
The child kept insisting: “I want the bear, I want the bear…”
“We’ll buy one at the store later, okay, little ancestor?!”
“I want the big one.”
“……”
After the father and son left, someone else paid to play.
“It’s just about accuracy. I practiced darts before. I refuse to believe it’s really this hard!”
Facts proved that you shouldn’t talk too confidently, otherwise your face will hurt.
This father who had practiced darts and was full of heroic spirit performed even worse than the previous one, because he missed every shot.
“Boss, your gun really has a problem! No matter how I shoot I can’t hit anything.”
The boss took it and demonstrated again with a few shots, muttering, “Another one blaming the latrine…”
The man’s cheeks flushed red.
His five-year-old daughter held his hand and said sensibly, “It’s okay, Daddy. Teacher says participation is what matters. Winning prizes isn’t important.”
“Eh, ” The man sighed and patted his daughter’s little head. “Come on, Daddy will take you to eat a hamburger!”
“Really?!”
“Of course! Let’s go, ”
“Mom, keep up! Dad’s treating today!” The family of three also left.
But there were still people who refused to believe it and wanted to try. The boss didn’t refuse anyone. He gestured for them to scan the code to pay, then refilled the magazine and handed it to the new customer.
Xie Dingyuan and Jiang Fuyue stood in the crowd, whispering to each other,
“Clearly they can’t hit anything. Why do people still want to try?” Xie Dingyuan didn’t really understand.
He felt that a person should learn to draw lessons, not only from their own experience, but also from others’.
The corner of Jiang Fuyue’s mouth twitched. “Not everyone has self-awareness.”
Most people often fail to see their own ordinariness. Instead, they hold onto the lucky thought that “maybe I’m the exception” and participate in risky things they aren’t confident about.
To put it bluntly, they’re just gambling.
What if?
Jiang Fuyue: “Of course, there’s also an objective factor.”
“What objective factor?”
“Didn’t you notice the line this boss drew is closer than the other stalls?”
Xie Dingyuan glanced at the neighboring stalls. Sure enough, the distance from the shooting line to the balloon boards was farther than at this one.
Jiang Fuyue: “Closer means the difficulty of hitting the target looks lower, and the chances seem higher.”
That’s why everyone wanted to try, it really looked easy!
Xie Dingyuan: “Is there a problem with this distance?”
“The distance itself isn’t the problem. But some things look easy, and when you actually try them, they might not be.”
The man’s brows shifted slightly. He leaned toward her ear, his breath warm. “Did you notice something?”
Jiang Fuyue: “Based on the current height of the sun, the line happens to be in a backlit refraction zone. When people stand there, the sunlight dazzles their eyes. They can’t even see clearly, how could they hit anything?”
Sure enough, another person returned in defeat.
He didn’t dare complain that the gun had a problem, afraid the boss would snap back at him…
Jiang Fuyue rolled up her sleeves. “I’ll play a round.”
She wore sunglasses and a ruffled sun hat on her head. With the occlusion it was hard to see her exact appearance, but her long legs, slender waist, tall figure, and especially fashionable clothes made her stand out.
Xie Dingyuan took out his phone and scanned the code to pay.
The boss’s smile widened. Young couples like this were usually the most willing to spend money playing.
Jiang Fuyue took the gun and stepped backward, moving away from the line.
“Huh?”
“Why are you stepping back?”
“It’s easier to hit if you stand closer!”
“And aren’t you taking off the sunglasses and hat? What if they block your view?”
“Hey? Why are you still stepping back?”
“Does she even know how to play?”
“Why not let her boyfriend shoot instead? Girls usually aren’t very good at this kind of shooting game…”
Jiang Fuyue ignored all the doubts and chatter.
Only the boss frowned slightly as he watched her movements.
After stepping back to a certain distance, Jiang Fuyue felt it was about right and stopped. She stood firmly with her legs apart, then raised the gun and aimed.
“Well damn! The technique doesn’t look great, but the posture is pretty nice.”
“It’s got the vibe.”
“Could she be some celebrity or influencer posing for photos? But I don’t see a photographer!”
“She fired! She fired!”
Only bang bang bang,
More than a dozen shots rang out in quick succession.
The balloons on the board burst one after another in response, bursting in sequence.
Everyone stared in shock.
The boss was completely dumbfounded.
Only Xie Dingyuan curled his lips slightly, revealing a faint smile.
“Holy cr*p!”
“W-what just happened?”
“My eyes aren’t playing tricks on me, right?”
Several children jumped excitedly, clapping and shouting, “Big sister is amazing!”
When all the balloons on the board were cleared, Jiang Fuyue smiled slightly. “Finished.”
Before the boss could react, she tilted her chin toward Xie Dingyuan. He immediately understood and quickly scanned the code to pay for a second round.
Jiang Fuyue still stood in the same position and used the remaining bullets to clear all the balloons on the second board.
Instantly, cheers erupted around them,
“Wow! Beautiful lady, that was awesome!”
“Th-this… hitting every shot?”
“She stepped back more than a meter and still cleared the board, awesome!”
“Do you train professionally in shooting? Provincial team or national team? Are you going to the Olympics next year?”
Since there were only two boards and no balloons left for Jiang Fuyue to shoot, she put down the gun and walked over to grab the two largest teddy bears, one in each hand.
The way she carried them showed no politeness at all, like she was taking things from her own house.
As she passed the boss, she casually tossed out a line that nearly killed him with anger: “Nice prizes. Thanks.”
“Wishing the boss prosperous business.” Xie Dingyuan also expressed his good wishes.
After saying that, the two of them just…
left?!
Only then did the boss react belatedly. But they had indeed won, so he couldn’t refuse the prizes. However… those two bears were way too big!
His heart ached like it was bleeding.
Someone joked, “Looks like it really wasn’t the latrine’s fault, it was the squatting position. You have to step back, hahaha…”
The boss rubbed his hands nervously.
Next, the players followed Jiang Fuyue’s example and stood a bit farther away. Although they still couldn’t win prizes in the end, at least they managed to hit some balloons!
…
As for Jiang Fuyue, she carried two bears in her hands. Each one was about a quarter of a person’s height, big and bulky. But since she chose them herself, she had to carry them away even if she had to crawl.
Xie Dingyuan rarely saw her in such an awkward situation. His brows moved slightly as he took out his phone and snapped a couple of photos of Jiang Fuyue.
“Help me carry one!”
“Wait a moment. Let me take two more pictures. Yueyue, you’re so cute.”
Jiang Fuyue: Cute my *ss! I really want to punch him.
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