Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation-Chapter 223 - 194 Dreams Illuminate Reality

Chapter 223: Chapter 194: Dreams Illuminate Reality

Chapter 223 -194: Dreams Illuminate Reality

Blue Horse Shopping Mall Phase One, Skating Rink.

Meng Gui asked Jiang Yanan, “Where’s your bestie?”

“She’s already here.” Jiang Yanan sat on the bench, putting on her skates.

On the opposite bench, sat their classmates Yu Wen, Lu Qiqi, and Lu Qiqi’s handsome high school junior boyfriend.

Of course, in the presence of the most handsome boy from Fourth Middle School, Huang Zhongfei, all others paled in comparison.

At the moment, at the skating rink’s reception, Huang Zhongfei handed a ten-yuan bill to the female owner.

The female owner dressed youthfully and looked to be in her mid-twenties.

She swore she had never seen such a handsome young man.

“Damn it, how could someone be so handsome!”

The female owner was a sucker for good looks; to her, money was nothing compared to true handsomeness.

She waved her hands generously and said, “It’s your first time here, let’s be friends, this one’s on me.”

Huang Zhongfei smiled. He had encountered such situations many times, and he leaned on the counter as he said,

“Since we’re becoming friends, I don’t like to owe favors. Keep the money.”

Overwhelmed by his smile, nearly blinded, her heart racing, she took the money, flashing her most sincere smile ever:

“We’re friends now. Do you mind if I give you some skating tips?”

Huang Zhongfei replied, “I wouldn’t want to trouble you.”

“It’s no trouble, I love teaching people to skate, it’s why I opened this rink,” the female owner said.

Cui Yu looked over with a cold gaze, disdain in his heart:

“Women’s mouths, deceiving ghosts.”

He had been there a few times before; people had tried to get the owner to teach them due to a lack of skill, but the owner never bothered, unlike now, where she fawned over him as if seeing treasure.

According to the regulars, the owner came from a well-off family, was quite arrogant, and opened the rink just for fun, acting very capriciously.

Yet, because she was attractive, business at the skating rink was surprisingly good.

Cui Yu scoffed, what did it matter if she was capricious? When faced with their class president, Huang Zhongfei, she still played up to him eagerly.

Thinking this, he sighed. At first, when he asked Jiang Yanan out, she declined, even when Cui Yu insisted on treating; she still wasn’t willing.

Cui Yu had no choice but to ask the class president, Huang Zhongfei, and then Jiang Yanan immediately agreed.

It was such irony.

Beside Jiang Yanan, Meng Gui looked around; he didn’t see her friend anywhere and asked in puzzlement,

“Where’s your bestie? I don’t see her, tell me how many you are so I can go buy milk tea for you all.”

“She’s here, but only halfway here,” Jiang Yanan joked.

Meng Gui was stunned and asked, “What do you mean by halfway?”

Jiang Yanan explained, “I mean, she’s in the Blue Horse Mall, but she’s tied up right now and can’t come over until later.”

“Oh, okay then.” Meng Gui was disappointed, sitting motionless on the bench.

Seeing that he didn’t move, Jiang Yanan urged,

“Go get the milk tea.”

“I’ll wait until your bestie arrives,” replied Meng Gui.

Jiang Yanan smiled outwardly but cursed inwardly.

She was a high school student, not some naive child. She felt Meng Gui’s intense love previously, but she also felt Cui Yu’s strong affection.

The feeling of being carefully cherished by two boys was actually quite nice.

Jiang Yanan really enjoyed that feeling, even became addicted to it, until one day Meng Gui met her friend and transferred his affections…

From then on, he was cool and distant towards her, no longer acting like before.

Jiang Yanan was upset, even a bit aggrieved. How could he just stop liking her like that?

How could he be so fickle?

What did he take her for?

She had never seen a man change his face so quickly.

Now, Jiang Yanan had given up on Meng Gui. Let him go then, she still had Cui Yu!

Jiang Yanan finished putting on her skates and went onto the rink to skate. Meng Gui didn’t even enter the rink.

He was a pure-hearted high school student who loved only one person at a time. Meng Gui stood by the railing in the outside corridor.

Beside Meng Gui was Cui Yu, both of them leaning on the railing, looking down at the people in the hall from the third floor.

“It’s really nice,” Cui Yu sighed.

“What’s nice?” Meng Gui asked.

“This mall,” Cui Yu said. “This is only Phase One, Phase Two over there is even busier.”

“It’s busy for sure, but the rent for the shops inside is expensive, and so are the things they sell,” Meng Gui said.

His family was from the countryside. His parents had worked and saved money to buy him a house in the city. Usually, his parents still worked in the coastal cities, and he lived alone.

His living expenses amounted to about one thousand two hundred yuan a month, which was better than many of his classmates. Still, it was nowhere near enough to afford the luxuries at Blue Horse Mall.

Cui Yu cursed, “It’s so damn expensive. I came here last time to look at a pair of shoes, and they were selling them for over five hundred yuan. Such a rip-off.”

The shoes he usually wore cost just over one hundred yuan.

Although Cui Yu was a city kid, his family’s financial situation couldn’t compete with Meng Gui’s—they were about even.

Meng Gui touched his ten-centimeter hairstyle: “Jiang Yanan is skating; aren’t you going?”

Cui Yu sighed and said nothing.

Just now, he had seen a couple go into a shoe store on the second floor—the very same one that sold shoes for five hundred yuan a pair, where the cheapest shoes cost five hundred yuan.

The result was that when the couple came out, they were carrying two bags.

Thinking about them being in a relationship and then thinking about himself…

“I’ll take a break before going.”

Inside the skating rink, the female owner held Huang Zhongfei’s hand, leading him to skate, fearing he might fall.

Lu Qiqi and her high school boyfriend were also skating hand in hand.

Jiang Yanan was leaning on the railing of the skating rink. It was really strange—Meng Gui had run away, and even Cui Yu didn’t show up.

Cui Yu looked down at the crowd below, his heart suddenly filled with ambitious aspirations, and he solemnly said,

“One day, I will buy this place.”

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Meng Gui was incredulous, “Huh?”

Cui Yu laughed, his eyes filled with fighting spirit: “I’m not kidding. If I work hard in the future, I can definitely buy Lanma Mall, whether it’s Phase One or Phase Two.”

Meng Gui initially found it hard to believe. Lanma Shopping Mall, with its investment counted in billions, how could it be possible to buy it!

He looked into Cui Yu’s eyes and joked, “If President Cui buys Lanma Shopping Mall in the future, could you let me be the head of security?”

Cui Yu seriously said, “I’ll just make you the security manager.”

“Good brother,” Meng Gui laughed.

After their boastful talk, they got thirsty and decided to buy milk tea.

There was a milk tea shop on the third floor, so they walked along the corridor. As they did so, a pile of plush dolls emerged from the arcade on the right.

To be exact, it was a little girl hugging a pile of plush dolls.

“Xue Yuantong?” Cui Yu exclaimed, hurriedly looking around—indeed, Jiang Ning was there.

“Are you guys grabbing dolls?” he asked. There were so many!

That’s right, Xue Yuantong boasted, “Jiang Ning grabbed them all.”

Behind Jiang Ning, Xue Chuchu came out holding three dolls, and even Mu Ying was holding a pink rabbit.

“Mu Ying, you’re here!” Meng Gui exclaimed with joy.

Mu Ying was Jiang Yanan’s best friend, the girl who had captured Meng Gui’s heart at first sight.

Mu Ying looked at Meng Gui’s commanding hairstyle, and her eyelids twitched.

“I’m going to have a feast with Jiang Ning,” Xue Yuantong told Xue Chuchu.

“Mm-hmm, go ahead.”

Tao Zhi, with a plush tiger in his hand, kindly said to them, “I’ll come to play with you when I get a chance.”

After exchanging greetings, Xue Yuantong left with the plush toys.

She got to the escalator and said,

“Jiang Ning, holding these is so tiring; can you do some magic to pack them up?”

“If you can do it, I won’t be your boss anymore; we’ll be equals.”

Jiang Ning flipped his hand, and a plastic bag appeared in his palm:

“Pack them up.”