"Why is he here?"
Hou Jun couldn't help but mutter. He had heard Zhou Wanting mention that Shen Yuan's family had gone bankrupt and owed a lot of debt.
Logically, someone like Shen Yuan, without his parents' protection, should just be a poor student. Why would he dare to come to a place like Guo Jin Center to spend money?
When Hou Jun saw the girl next to Shen Yuan paying for the taxi, his heart immediately felt unbalanced.
What the hell? He's bankrupt and still spending a woman's money?
Meanwhile, Zhou Wanting in the passenger seat watched as the two paid the fare and walked shoulder to shoulder into Guo Jin Center, her face slowly darkening.
They just broke up yesterday, and today he's already out on a date with another girl.
Shen Yuan, you really are something!
On the other side, Shen Yuan didn't notice Hou Jun and Zhou Wanting at all. They arrived on the first floor of the mall and saw a tea shop, so they each ordered a milk tea, sat down to slowly finish them, and then started browsing.
The first floor of Guo Jin Center is basically clothes, gold and silver jewelry, and cosmetics. Luxury goods are mostly on the second floor.
Shen Yuan wasn't interested in these, so he directly led Fang Minhui to the second floor, intending to look at bags.
He had already bought an LV last time, so Shen Yuan wanted to look at Prada or Chanel this time.
However, just as they reached the entrance of Prada, he surprisingly found Zhou Wanting and that greasy middle-aged man inside as well.
What a small world!
Shen Yuan didn't want to run into them, so he turned around and said, "Let's go to other stores first."
"Okay."
Fang Minhui had no objections. In fact, she was already very satisfied just being able to come out and have a top-tier Japanese meal with Shen Yuan today.
She hadn't had many opportunities to interact with Shen Yuan before, but through tonight, Fang Minhui's impression of Shen Yuan had changed somewhat.
The feeling of being with him was completely different from being with Li Zhanpeng.
Li Zhanpeng always spoke with a boastful tone, as if he couldn't wait to show off all the qualities he thought he possessed.
For example, "My family paid in full for a house in Xing City's Tianjiao Haoting last year. It's not big, only 120 square meters, but I think it's enough. Too big is hard to clean."
Or, "A car is just a means of transportation, it doesn't need to be too good, as long as it can get around. My mom always wants to get me a BMW, but I refused. After all, our parents' money doesn't come out of nowhere; we need to learn to be considerate of them."
And many other similar remarks that Fang Minhui found very annoying.
Shen Yuan was different; what he displayed from beginning to end tonight was a sense of calm and composure.
He didn't deliberately show off or boast about his family background. Their conversations were about interesting school anecdotes or embarrassing childhood stories.
So the whole process was very pleasant, and Fang Minhui was quite enjoying herself, already subtly looking forward to their next date.
"Shen Yuan!"
A male voice appeared behind Shen Yuan. Shen Yuan frowned, already guessing who it was, but he was in a good mood today and didn't want it ruined by that couple, so he pretended not to hear.
Fang Minhui instinctively looked back and found a strange middle-aged man, but seeing Shen Yuan's unresponsiveness, she thought he hadn't heard and reminded him, "Shen Yuan, someone's calling you."
"I don't know him, no need to pay attention to him." Shen Yuan quickened his pace.
"Shen Yuan, since you're already at the door, come in and browse. It doesn't cost anything to look anyway."
Hou Jun took a few steps forward, looking at Shen Yuan's retreating back with a condescending air.
Hou Jun's mindset had been messed up by Shen Yuan yesterday, and he was just looking for an opportunity to get even, thinking, 'I haven't even experienced those projects myself, and you, this piece of trash, enjoyed them all!'
He initially thought that a poor student like Shen Yuan would only browse on the first floor, but he didn't expect him to actually dare to come to the second floor.
You even made a woman pay for your taxi fare, and you still come to browse Prada?
Can you even afford it?
Of course, at the same time, he could also leave a deep impression on the beautiful woman next to him.
To make this girl open her eyes and see clearly that there's no future with such a pauper. What's the point of just looking and not being able to buy?
Zhou Wanting was focused on looking at bags. Hearing Hou Jun's voice, she instinctively looked in that direction and immediately put down her bag and walked over.
"Shen Yuan, why are you here?"
Zhou Wanting called out to Shen Yuan in an unfriendly tone.
Shen Yuan couldn't help but curse a few national essences in his heart. Now that he couldn't leave, he simply turned around and said, "What a coincidence, you're here too?"
Fang Minhui turned to look at the two. She didn't recognize the middle-aged man, but she had seen senior Zhou Wanting before, as she often used to be with Shen Yuan.
Zhou Wanting, on the other hand, was sizing up Fang Minhui, who looked somewhat familiar, likely also from Overseas Affairs.
She subconsciously compared the other person to herself; not only was her appearance superior, but even her figure...
Her bust and hips were noticeably fuller than her own.
Zhou Wanting became even more displeased. Yesterday, Shen Yuan had almost exposed all her secrets, and now he had found a girl even better than herself to go shopping with. What did this mean?
If Shen Yuan had found a girl who was inferior to her in all aspects, she wouldn't have said anything and might even have felt a secret satisfaction, but now he had found a beautiful girl with a better figure?
Zhou Wanting even suspected that Shen Yuan had deliberately appeared here at this time, intentionally trying to provoke her!
"I'm here to shop and pick out a gift for my younger sister."
Shen Yuan replied indifferently.
"Pfft."
Hou Jun couldn't help but laugh out loud: "To buy a gift for your younger sister, you should go to a toy wholesale market or Pinduoduo. What are you doing here?"
The commotion of the four was considerable. The sales associates at Prada, seeing this scene, also exclaimed, "Well, well."
Mr. Shen was a regular customer; although he hadn't been here in a few months, they remembered him.
They also knew that Ms. Zhou was Mr. Shen's girlfriend.
But the current situation seemed to be that Shen Yuan was out shopping with a new companion, who had a better figure than Ms. Zhou, and then coincidentally ran into Ms. Zhou and her "new" companion—a middle-aged man at least forty years old.
And judging by Ms. Zhou's attitude and tone, it seemed that Mr. Shen had dumped Ms. Zhou?
But since the two broke up yesterday, putting aside Mr. Shen's fault, why did Ms. Zhou find an old man so quickly to buy her a bag?
Just now, when Ms. Zhou and the old man entered the store, Julia, one of the sales associates who often served them, even thought he was Ms. Zhou's father.
After all, in her subjective impression, Ms. Zhou had always been Mr. Shen's girlfriend.
However, with years of experience selling luxury goods, Julia noticed something unusual in their eyes and decisively changed the "uncle" that was about to come out of her mouth to "big brother."
Julia was very glad for her quick reaction, as this kind of thing is no longer new these days.
After all, last time, there was even a seventy-something-year-old grandfather who brought a twenty-something-year-old young woman to spend money.
The two in front of them are only twenty years apart; what's the big deal?