Chapter 9: Baby, Happy Breakup
What is the reason for breaking up?
Jiang Yuan pressed her lips together, falling silent.
Fu Jinxing gazed at her, calmly waiting for her answer.
A few minutes later, Jiang Yuan looked up and met the man’s probing gaze, hesitating, “Because… you don’t like to take pictures when you eat.”
This time, it was Fu Jinxing’s turn to be silent.
Jiang Yuan lowered her head and ate.
Fu Jinxing felt that this couldn’t possibly be a reason to break up.
He looked at the girl’s lowered eyebrows and eyes, weighing things in his heart.
In terms of appearance, Jiang Yuan was pretty enough, and her figure was slender and tall.
But when they were together, Fu Jinxing could never find that feeling from five years ago.
Jiang Yuan wiped her mouth and said calmly, “Since you agree to break up, then we’ll never meet again.”
After saying that, she ignored his reaction and got up to leave on her own.
Fu Jinxing’s gaze fell on her, and he noticed that her attire today was completely different from her usual style.
A down jacket, hoodie, jeans, and sneakers.
He had never seen Jiang Yuan wear casual clothes like this; even on snowy days, she would only wear a thin skirt with a coat, and she never took off her high heels.
What was going on today?
It wasn’t that Jiang Yuan suddenly disliked wearing pretty clothes and high heels, but rather because of the relationship between Fu Jinxing and Jiang Die.
It wasn’t appropriate to dress too ostentatiously when meeting her future brother-in-law alone.
Walking out of the private room, Jiang Yuan let out a deep breath; the heavy stone in her heart had only half fallen away.
Standing in the elevator car, her fair fingers quickly typed on the phone screen, eager to share this good news with Fu Xiaoxiao.
It started to snow lightly, and pure white snowflakes fell rustlingly. Jiang Yuan jogged to catch a ride-hailing car, and Fu Xiaoxiao called just then.
“Baby, congratulations on your breakup!!!”
Jiang Yuan’s lips curved upwards, “This old lady is about to be liberated!”
“Let’s go to a hot spring to celebrate. You left early on Christmas and didn’t get to soak.” Fu Xiaoxiao suggested.
The current weather was perfect for hot springs.
Jiang Yuan smilingly agreed, “Okay, I’ll treat you.”
“Little thing,” Fu Xiaoxiao said unwillingly, “Who’s treating whom between us? If I don’t spend my money on you, who else am I supposed to spend it on, some freeloading man?”
Jiang Yuan chuckled, feeling a thousand emotions.
She had a little rich woman right beside her, and she had actually been unconcerned before, trying so hard to hook up with Fu Jinxing?
Was she bewitched or just foolish?
At ten in the morning, a red BMW stopped at the entrance of the cake shop.
Jiang Yuan got out and walked into the shop, carefully choosing a cake.
She wanted to try her best to make up for the dragon and phoenix twins; the childhood trauma caused by her vicious aunt might follow them for life, but she couldn’t do nothing.
Jiang Yuan chose two small cakes, one a pink little sheep and the other a yellow little bear.
When she was paying, a mother and daughter were behind her in line; the daughter was about Momo’s age.
Jiang Yuan overheard the little girl asking her mother for chicken wings and silently took note.
She put the cakes in the car and started looking for a shop selling chicken wings by the roadside.
There were more milk tea shops nearby, so she walked for a while before spotting a fried food shop called Old Wang’s Fried Food Shop. The counter looked tidy and clean, and the oil in the fryer was quite clear.
“Beauty, what would you like?” The fried food boss was a middle-aged man, wearing a hat and a mask.
Jiang Yuan thought it would be relatively hygienic and ordered fried chicken wings and small crispy pork from the menu.
The fried food boss said with a smile, “That will be sixty-eight yuan in total, and it will take about twenty minutes as everything is fried fresh.”
“Okay,” Jiang Yuan ordered a cup of milk tea at the milk tea shop next door and waited while warming herself.
Music was playing in the shop, and as Jiang Yuan listened, she suddenly overheard a strange conversation.
“You unconscionable jerk, what’s wrong with me eating one more piece of meat? How dare you blabber on about it?”
“Wife, I didn’t! You should eat more!”
“Hmph, that’s more like it!”
“The sky is big, the ground is big, but my wife is the biggest!”
“You absolutely shouldn’t learn from that stinky old man; it’s wrong for him to put his wife in the frying pan!”
Jiang Yuan listened with great interest at first, drinking her milk tea.
But as she listened, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Who was this stinky old man?
She put down her milk tea and got up to find the two mice who were just talking.
In the eyes of mice, humans were like giants.
Jiang Yuan’s appearance scared the mouse couple, and they scattered in all directions.
“Mr. Mouse, Mrs. Mouse, don’t be scared,” she said quickly, “I just have something to ask you, I won’t hurt you.”
The mouse couple hid in the green belt along the street.
Hearing the voice, Mrs. Mouse exclaimed in shock, “You… you can understand us?”
“Yes,” Jiang Yuan squatted beside the green belt and said in a low voice, “You just need to answer a few questions for me, and I’ll buy you food.”
Mrs. Mouse was a bit bolder and slowly poked her head out.
Mr. Mouse, not at ease, called out to stop her, “Wife, be careful! These humans really dislike us mice, they might be tricking you! Don’t fall for it, I don’t want to be a widow at such a young age!”
Jiang Yuan: “…”
These mice were quite wary.
Jiang Yuan decided not to make them come out and directly asked, “Earlier I heard you say that the stinky old man fried his wife in a frying pan. Who is this stinky old man, and is he also a mouse?”
“What! You human, don’t talk nonsense!” Mrs. Mouse said angrily, “We mice wouldn’t do that! Only you humans are so cruel!”
Jiang Yuan knitted her brows, her expression becoming more solemn, “You mean, this stinky old man is human?”
Mrs. Mouse: “Yeah! It’s that fried chicken wing boss, he’s really fierce!”
Mr. Mouse immediately chimed in, “The stinky old man is really fierce. One time, I went in to find food for my wife, and I was almost beaten to death by the stinky old man!”
Mrs. Mouse: “Thinking about it now makes my heart ache. My husband’s tail was chopped off, a whole section!”
Mr. Mouse also lamented, “My once proud long tail is gone forever…”
Although the mouse couple was funny, Jiang Yuan’s mind was entirely focused on the fried food boss frying his wife.
Just as she was about to ask for more details, her shoulder was suddenly patted.
Jiang Yuan turned her head and was caught off guard by a human face.
The fried food boss took off his mask, revealing a set of large yellow teeth, and smiled at her, “Beauty, your fried food is ready.”
Jiang Yuan’s back stiffened, and smelling the foul odor emanating from him as he spoke, she suddenly felt a bit nauseous.
She pressed her lips together and calmly said, “Thank you.”
The fried food boss handed her the bagged food, his two eyes squinting into slits as he smiled, “Beauty, if you like it, come again next time.”
Jiang Yuan suddenly felt that this smile was a bit creepy.
“Okay, I will,” she said, reaching out to take the bag.
The fried food boss returned to the shop and put his mask back on.
Jiang Yuan felt that this was not a suitable place to talk. After making several guarantees, she finally got the mouse couple to agree to move to a different location to chat.
She let the two mice crawl into the takeout bag.
Mr. Mouse said excitedly, “It smells so good!”
Jiang Yuan said as she walked, “Do you like it? I can give it to you to eat.”
