Who Would Fall in Love After Being Reborn?

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Jiang Qin looked at Feng Nanshu solemnly, thinking to himself that she might be able to deceive herself, but could she deceive others? He wondered if she could truly say what kind of cup this was with a clear conscience.

But Feng Nanshu, clutching the cup, refused to let go.

She was wearing a white down jacket, its hood trimmed with light pink fluff, making her look exceptionally lively and pure. Under the orange supermarket lights, her aloof and beautiful face carried a hint of stubbornness, her teeth lightly biting her red lips, and her eyes brimming with determination.

“I’m out of money. I’ve been burning through cash for promotions lately and even have to scrounge for meals.”

Jiang Qin put on a poor face, pretending to be broke.

“I have money, I’ll buy it for you.”

She was rich enough to spend without blinking an eye.

Before he could say “don’t buy it,” Jiang Qin suddenly thought, what if she calls me ‘big brother’? How would I respond?

I’m defenseless against that.

In the end, the couple’s cup would be bought, and just one ‘big brother’ would shatter another piece of concrete, losing both his wife and his soldiers.

Ah, a young girl’s money is so easy to earn, especially those like her, trapped in a friendship.

She just wanted to collect more things related to him, desperately incorporating traces of him into her life, as if that would make him impossible to lose or forget. She didn’t care whether it was worth it or not.

So, in the end, what she was buying wasn’t just a cup, but rather that pure and beautiful connection.

She was still worried about whether a best friend could last a lifetime, so she wanted to keep everything related to him in her life.

“Boss Jiang, how much for these two cups?”

“Thank you for your patronage, 99 yuan. I’ll round it down to 90 for you.”

“No need to round it down. I don’t like being short one yuan. Here’s a hundred, keep the change!”

Jiang Zhihua, with a beaming smile, received the hundred yuan note, thinking to himself that if she had known Jiang’s biggest weakness was this stunningly beautiful girl, she wouldn’t have bothered making the ‘Star of Learning’ contest.

I should have just written your name on every product, like those milk tea cups, and made a fortune off your family!

After watching the pair leave, Boss Jiang came out from behind the counter, set up a new pair of couple’s cups, and replaced the old price tag with a new one priced at 100 yuan.

She hadn’t noticed the price issue at first, but Jiang Qin’s reminder made her realize.

Who would want to buy an incomplete love? It’s simply inauspicious.

Changing the price from 99 to 100 yuan, making it complete, was more in line with what couples would desire.

No wonder he made money, the attention to detail was unbeatable.

“Jiang Qin, I’m hungry.”

“Me too, let’s go to the cafeteria for a meal.”

Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu, holding hands and each carrying a cup, headed to the cafeteria for a meal.

The rabbit might not have been saved, but they still needed to eat. Jiang Qin ordered several dishes: crispy fried yellow fish, boiled shrimp, cold shredded pork ears, and a small stir-fried lotus pond dish, with a bowl of rice each.

He was genuinely starving, wolfing down his meal as soon as he sat down, feeling slightly better only after filling his stomach a bit.

Then he noticed the little rich lady pulling out her wallet from her pocket and silently pushing it towards him.

“What’s this? Do you want to keep me?”

Feng Nanshu pursed her lips slightly, “I can’t spend all my living expenses. You spend it for me.”

Jiang Qin didn’t expect to be actually kept, “Is it all here?”

“I lent fifty to Gao Wenhui. I’ll get it back for you tomorrow.”

Jiang Qin opened the wallet and saw it was filled with crisp hundred yuan notes, two bank cards, a milk tea card – the entirety of the little rich lady’s wealth minus fifty.

“If you give me your money, what will you do? Have you thought about it? From now on, you’ll have to eat with me, ask me for money for snacks, go shopping with me, and even for outings…”

“?”

As Jiang Qin spoke, he increasingly felt something was off, while Feng Nanshu seemed to be getting excited.

“I don’t want it. Keep your wallet safe, don’t lose it. Actually, I’m not really poor, crying poor is just a hobby of mine.”

Hearing this, Feng Nanshu stretched out her hand and pushed the wallet back towards Jiang Qin again, her expression serious and earnest.

Jiang Qin temporarily set aside the wallet and fed her a peanut. He saw the little rich lady’s seriousness dissolve in an instant, obediently opening her mouth to eat, her lips looking shiny and moist.

Just then, a sneaky figure was caught by Jiang Qin’s gaze.

The person, realizing they’d been spotted, stopped hiding and swaggered over, sitting beside Feng Nanshu. They even took a pair of chopsticks from the sterilizer cabinet and started eating the cold shredded pork ear, which was oily, crisp, and wrapped in sauce, delicious and tender.

“Classmate Gao.”

“Hmm?”

“You’ve really got guts. You lied to me and now you’re brazenly eating my food? Why don’t you show some more audacity and just sit on my lap?”

“That’s Feng Nanshu’s spot. If I sat there, she would cry.” Gao Wenhui mimicked the little rich lady’s expression, feigning aloofness.

Jiang Qin’s face darkened: “You must be related to the God of Matchmaking, right?”

Gao Wenhui took a deep breath and spoke righteously, “I didn’t plan on coming at first, but then I thought, the candy I snagged with my skills, why shouldn’t I enjoy it? Wouldn’t I be at a loss?”

Jiang Qin lowered his voice and spoke seriously, “Don’t play these games again. I thought she was being bullied, I almost ran a red light on the way back.”

“Ah? I… I didn’t know!”

“Now you know?”

Gao Wenhui pondered for a moment: “Doesn’t that just show how important Feng Nanshu is to you? The moment she acts out of the ordinary, you get all flustered. That’s love, indescribable.”

Jiang Qin glanced at Feng Nanshu, who was intently twisting the cap of her cup, and felt a bit more at ease: “Eat your food. Do you really need to worry about us?”

“Sulfur dioxide and oxygen also need vanadium pentoxide as a catalyst to form sulfur trioxide.”

“You know I don’t study, are you deliberately provoking me?” Jiang Qin’s cold smile was colder than a winter night.

Gao Wenhui raised her hand: “You two continue your show, I’ll keep quiet and just eat.”

“…”

Jiang Qin turned to look at Feng Nanshu, noticing her staring blankly at the bottom of the cup, her long, curled eyelashes fluttering, her cheeks noticeably redder than before, as if she was lost in thought.

“What are you looking at?”

Jiang Qin was curious. He and Gao Wenhui had been talking for so long, and the little rich lady seemed to have been staring at the cup the whole time.

Was there something inside? Something so captivating.

“I’m not looking at anything.”

Feng Nanshu seemed a bit guilty but still defiantly shook her head.

“There must be something in the cup, right? Let me see.”

Jiang Qin reached out to her for the cup.

“Jiang Qin, there’s nothing in the cup. Just focus on feeding me.”

The little rich lady opened her mouth slightly, cutely pleading for him to feed her.

“The more you say that, the more I want to see. There’s definitely a secret in there, right?”

Feng Nanshu was silent for a moment, then coldly handed over the cup.

Jiang Qin wasn’t thinking too much, just curious. But when he looked into the cup, his expression gradually became serious.

Inside the stainless steel cup were five embossed characters saying “My wife, drink more water.”

Jiang Qin was stunned for a long time. He opened his own cup and saw five similar characters, reading “My husband, drink more water.”

“Whose brilliant idea was this, anyway?”

When he had received the cups from Jiang Zhihua, he had carefully examined them. Although the two cups were color-coordinated and identical in shape, they had no explicit messages.

Sure, they were couple’s cups, but it wasn’t necessary for them to be identical.

Just like the couple’s shirts they had bought at the Wanzhong Mall, there were no blatant phrases like ‘I love you’, ‘you love me’, ‘husband’, ‘wife’, which made wearing them more comfortable.

But who knew there was a hidden trick inside the cups?

“Give it back to me after you’re done looking…”

Feng Nanshu, though appearing aloof, was actually a bit panicked, afraid he wouldn’t give it back after seeing the words.

“Use hot water to clean it several times, preferably fill it up and leave it overnight. I smell a bit of an odor, but the certification looks legitimate, so it should be fine.”

Pretending not to have seen anything, Jiang Qin nonchalantly handed the cup back to her.

“I got it.”

Feng Nanshu hugged the cup to her chest, treasuring it dearly.

Jiang Qin turned to Gao Wenhui: “I heard you borrowed fifty yuan from the little rich lady?”

Gao Wenhui looked up: “It’s the end of the month, I was a bit short on living expenses. But you two are still good friends, why start managing money now?”

“My point is, if you’re short on living expenses, you can work part-time at the little rich lady’s milk tea shop instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

“Isn’t the milk tea shop fully staffed?” Gao Wenhui was surprised.

Jiang Qin spoke after eating a few bites: “We’re opening milk tea shops in the University of Science of Technology and the Teachers’ University. We definitely need to send experienced staff there first, so this shop will be short-staffed. You’re Feng Nanshu’s best friend, so working part-time at the front plaza for a while, and maybe later as a manager, would reassure me.”

“Of course, it’s reassuring with family. I’ll go tomorrow.”

“What family? You’re really a treasure, Gao. You haven’t even started working, and I already feel like docking your pay!”

“??????”

“Let’s settle on that, then. I’ll inform Hu Xin, and you can learn from her.”

After finishing his meal and feeding Feng Nanshu a few bites, Jiang Qin picked up his cup, glanced at the words inside, and walked out of the cafeteria.

“Nanshu, you must take control of your family’s finances in the future. Don’t hand them over to Jiang Qin. A woman only has a say when she controls the family’s wealth.”

Feng Nanshu looked at her, bewildered: “Wenhui, I forgot to ask, wasn’t your leg hurting?”

Gao Wenhui was speechless for a moment: “Suddenly, it got better.”

“Wenhui, you’re bad, I won’t listen to you.”

Actually, Jiang Qin’s decision to have Gao Wenhui work part-time at Xi Tian was calculated.

This woman was unpredictable, a wildcard within the uncontrollable spectrum. But once Gao joined Xi Tian, whether or not her salary got docked would be up to him.

Jiang Qin walked contentedly to the dormitory building and saw Cao Guangyu also returning. The cup in his hand looked like the same model as his, still wrapped in plastic film.

“Yo!”

“What yo? Get lost!”

…

Keeping someone means being their sugar mommy/daddy, but in a less crude way.

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