Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

The afternoon sun shone through the carved window lattices, slanting onto the mirror-like terrazzo floor in the lobby of the silver shop, reflecting a few dazzling spots of light.

Inside the huge glass counter, there are rows of exquisite gold and silver jewelry, including golden bracelets, white silver rings, and sparkling jade pendants. Under the light of the counter, they reflect a slightly cold yet extremely attractive luster, making people want to hold these exquisite little gadgets in their hands and play with them carefully.

In front of the counter, a clerk in a navy blue gown with a big smile on his face was diligently selling a pile of glittering gold jewelry neatly arranged on red velvet to the three wealthy ladies in front of him, all decked out in jewels.

"These are the latest styles in the building. The ladies love them very much..."

"This pair of pendants is not bad." Song Yunfeng followed the clerk's words, picked up a gold ring inlaid with a ruby and tried it, curled her lips, put it down, picked up a small earring, moved it to Lin Xi's earlobe next to her, compared it, and asked.

"Xixi, what have you been busy with at home these days? You haven't come out to meet us for a few days. Aren't you bored by yourself?"

"Nothing." Lin Xi took the earring from her hand and looked at it. She didn't say whether she liked it or not, but she handed it to the clerk and said lightly, "Pack this one too."

"Okay!" The guy agreed quickly, stretched out his hands to hold the pair of earrings, and carefully placed them on the red velvet cloth on the other side.

"Oh, do you even need to ask?" Zhou Peishan, who was standing next to them, turned around and gently waved the small sandalwood fan in her hand with a mischievous smile on her face. "The sun is getting stronger these days. Who would be willing to brave the scorching sun like you to be a female warrior?"

She winked at Lin Xi deliberately as she spoke, "Xixi is so smart, of course she's staying comfortably at home to 'regain her energy', oh no, to 'keep warm'!"

"Cover it up?" Li Yunfeng heard this and turned to look at Lin Xi. He quickly glanced at her rosy cheeks and snow-white neck, then glanced at their arms linked together. He wrinkled his nose in a sour way, "She's already so white, and she's still covering it up?"

"What do you know?" Zhou Peishan glanced at her sideways, holding up a fan to cover most of her face, revealing only a pair of eyes with an inscrutable smile. "I'm just biding my time, waiting for my birthday party next month, when I'll make a stunning appearance with skin as radiant as snow and knock Xu Yucheng unconscious!"

As she spoke, she made an exaggerated prostrating gesture, imitating those frivolous young men, and cast a coquettish glance at Li Yunfeng.

"Puff!" Li Yunfeng burst out laughing, covering her mouth with her hands as she laughed out loud. She nodded with some amusement, "Then it really needs to be taken care of."

Li Yunfeng and Zhou Peishan laughed and joked with each other about Lin Xi's "big plan", but when they turned around, they found that the person involved was unusually quiet. They couldn't help but stop laughing and exchanged a puzzled look.

In the past, when they were joking around, they often teased Lin Xi and Xu Yucheng about their childhood engagement. In the face of these jokes, Lin Xi always behaved calmly, with a bit of the arrogance and complacency that was unique to Miss Lin.

She would either raise her chin slightly and half-jokingly retort, "Who cares?", or she would chat and laugh with them calmly, and occasionally even turn the conversation around to make everyone laugh even more, rarely showing any shyness.

Therefore, compared with her usual calmness and ease, her quietness at this moment seemed a little unusual.

"Xixi?" Li Yunfeng gently nudged Lin Xi's elbow, her voice softening. "What's wrong? Are you really embarrassed by what Pei Shan said? This isn't like you."

Zhou Peishan also put away her fan, moved closer, and carefully examined Lin Xi's face. "Yeah, we were just joking. What's wrong with you? You look absent-minded."

Lin Xi was staring at a hollow gold bracelet in a daze. When she heard the two people calling her, she seemed to be suddenly awakened. She suddenly came back to her senses, pulled the corners of her mouth, and revealed an unpredictable smile, "...It's okay."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her eyelashes and looked at the row of glittering, intricate and heavy jewelry on the red velvet. She felt that the brilliance made her heart feel a little blocked.

She really didn't know what was wrong. It seemed as if just a few days ago, when Xu Yucheng, the upcoming birthday party, and the news of their formal engagement were mentioned, a secret ripple of expectation would arise in her heart.

But ever since I received that letter from Xu Yucheng... everything seems different.

Now when she thinks of Xu Yucheng's face that once fascinated her, and the affection they had growing up together, the lake in her heart that was once called "Spring Heart" seems to have frozen, and can no longer produce a ripple.

Even at this moment, when she heard Li Yunfeng and Zhou Peishan mention his name again, and mentioned the marriage she had dreamed of, what rose in her heart was not longing, but an indescribable irritation.

"You don't look like you're okay." Li Yunfeng and Zhou Peishan looked at each other and winked at the waiter, who tactfully stepped back.

"It's really nothing..." Lin Xi shook her head and hesitated for a moment, but in the end she couldn't help but express her doubts to the two of them, "Actually, I don't know what's wrong. There's something that's been stuck in my heart for the past few days, and I haven't told you guys yet, that is..."

She briefly recounted Xu Yucheng's letter and the Xu family's promise, then bit her lip, frowned and thought for a moment before speaking hesitantly.

"I feel like I don't like him that much anymore. I get annoyed whenever he's mentioned..."

"Ah?" The two had not yet recovered from the anger that Xu Yucheng actually wanted to miss Lin Xi's birthday party when they heard Lin Xi suddenly say this. They immediately widened their eyes and exchanged surprised glances with each other.

"How could it be..." Li Yunfeng looked at Lin Xi, then at Zhou Peishan, his lips moved for a moment, and he seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"I don't know either." Lin Xi snatched the fan from Zhou Peishan's hand irritably, and shook it violently a few times, as if to suppress the anger in her heart, and said a little depressedly.

No one spoke anymore and the scene became quiet for a while. After a while, Zhou Peishan, who was more calm, spoke first and broke the silence.

"This isn't the place to talk." She looked around and said, "I know there's a new cafe on the next street. Let's go sit there and talk."

After saying that, she took back her fan from Lin Xi's hand and said helplessly, "Okay, little aunt, don't fan yourself and catch a cold. Ask the waiter to send the things home. I'll treat you to coffee, and Yunfeng and I will help you sort it out."

"Stingy." Lin Xi couldn't help but mutter when she saw her putting the fan away lovingly, but she still obediently took the hand she extended, took Li Yunfeng's hand, and the three of them left the jewelry store together.

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