Chapter 7 What Kind of Ill Fated Connection Is This
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 7
Chapter Title: What Kind of Ill-Fated Connection Is This?
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Su Yi didn't go to any high-end shopping malls like SKP*. He just found a nearby Qianda Plaza*.
It was pretty much as he had guessed before they arrived.
The moment he and Yue Ling walked out of the parking lot, she became the focus of the crowd in the mall.
There was no helping it. The elf girl was just too beautiful.
Moreover, he didn't know if her dress had some other kind of magical enchantment apart from the self-cleaning one. Not only was it unbelievably gorgeous, but the dress itself seemed to have its own built-in lighting.
When they reached a dimly lit area, everyone else's style was like they had walked into a black-and-white photograph, while she was like the only person in that photograph who had color.
Flowing with light and color, she was dazzlingly brilliant.
Like that, it was hard for her to not attract attention.
After a short while, a man holding a camera approached them.
"Hello, beautiful. I'm a street-style blogger on a certain app. You’re just too beautiful, and your aura’s the best among all of the girls I've ever seen. I was wondering if I could take a few photos of you? It'll just take a little bit of your time, and it'll be quick."
As he spoke, he looked at Yue Ling with an expectant face.
With the image of the beauty before him, he didn't even need to take a picture to know that after the photos were finished and uploaded on the internet, they would definitely go viral.
That was all money!
As for the possibility of being rejected, he hadn't even considered it.
In his eyes, Yue Ling's attire was for playing cosplay.
When people like this encountered a professional photographer on the street wanting to take their picture, they would be overjoyed. How could they possibly refuse?
If she was satisfied with the photos he had taken, he might even be able to add her on WeChat.
Although adding her might not necessarily lead to anything, just having the contact information of such a great beauty was, at the very least, capital for him to brag about when hanging out with friends.
It might even be possible for them to cooperate again in the future, produce more photos, and drive traffic to his video channel.
As for Su Yi, who was walking with Yue Ling, the photographer didn't even spare him a glance.
He was indeed quite handsome, no worse than the readers of this novel**, but his dressing style was that of an ordinary person with nothing eye-catching about it.
He was indeed a naturally handsome guy.
But on the internet, as long as one's looks didn't reach the exaggerated level of Yue Ling, with a bit of makeup and photo editing, the gap between everyone wasn't actually that big.
Besides, his street-style account primarily featured beautiful women. No one would watch if he filmed men instead.
As for whether Su Yi would agree to him photographing Yue Ling... What a joke. What era was this? Was there still a woman who needed her male companion's permission to take a photo?
However, under the photographer's expectant gaze…
Yue Ling's large eyes looked at him with some confusion, then she turned to Su Yi, seemingly waiting for him to make the decision.
Su Yi said without even thinking:
"I'm sorry, but we have things to do. It's not convenient right now."
If this guy in front of him was really a street-style blogger with a certain number of fans, with Yue Ling's image and aura, a photoshoot would definitely go viral.
But the problem was that Yue Ling was undocumented.
Su Yi had no desire to let her show her face on the internet.
"Not even for a little while? I'll just take a few shots, it'll be quick."
The photographer became a bit anxious upon hearing this.
He had been squatting here for an entire afternoon and had finally found someone so beautiful. Naturally, he was unwilling to let her go.
"I'm sorry, we don't have time. She's rather introverted and doesn't like being photographed, and she especially doesn't like her image being posted online."
Su Yi smiled, paid him no more mind, and led Yue Ling towards the mall.
Having already been rejected to this extent, even if the photographer was still a bit unwilling, he could only give up.
Although he had intended to secretly take a few shots, when he remembered the warning tone in Su Yi's words just now, he gave up on this dangerous idea.
Yue Ling was so beautiful. If photos of her were taken and posted online, they would definitely go viral.
To do so when the person had clearly refused to be photographed, if the other party took it seriously, there was a chance that he would face a lawsuit.
He didn't want to take the risk.
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Shopping in the mall actually didn't take long.
Although Yue Ling was curious about everything here, she had a reserved personality, and her main approach was to look more and speak less.
From beginning to end, what clothes to buy and even what style of underwear to get were all decided by Su Yi.
Sometimes, when they encountered some shop assistants who wanted to say a few words to her or take a photo with her because she was so beautiful, Su Yi would also step forward to refuse for her.
‘Don't ask. If you ask, she's deaf and mute, and she’s also introverted. She can't understand what you're saying, and she doesn't want to communicate with you.’
Thus, under the regretful gazes of countless shop assistants, Yue Ling followed behind Su Yi while carrying large and small bags in her hands and entered a hot pot restaurant in a daze.
The good news was that as an elf, she didn't have any dietary restrictions and could eat both meat and vegetables.
The bad news was that although Yue Ling was strong, she couldn't handle spicy food.
Seeing her sweating profusely from the spiciness of the hot pot, her small face flushed red, Su Yi could only, with some amusement, ask the waiter to change to a yuan-yang pot*** midway through.
By the time they finished dinner and came out, it was already past eight in the evening.
Su Yi took Yue Ling to the first floor of the mall, preparing to buy her a mobile phone.
His own phone had also been used by him for a long time. Now that he had money, he could conveniently replace it at the same time.
Then he would get her a phone card.
It didn't matter that Yue Ling didn't have an ID card herself. As long as Su Yi had one, it was fine. Nowadays, phone cards could have supplementary cards, so it wasn't a big problem.
He didn't play mobile games, so his requirements for a phone weren’t high. It just needed to be reliable enough and not freeze or disconnect from the internet at the drop of a hat.
On this point, the one that best met his requirements was naturally Huawei****.
So there was no hesitation when he chose a phone brand.
He went straight to the Huawei counter on the first floor.
However, what Su Yi didn't expect was that as soon as he entered the store, he ran into an acquaintance.
No, it wasn't right for him to say that she was an acquaintance. It was more like they had met once and had a meal together.
To put it bluntly, she was a blind date.
Having graduated for three years, he was already twenty-five, so his family had naturally been urging him to find a partner.
Just last month, Su Yi had been half-urged, half-pushed by his mother to go on the first blind date of his life.
The woman was some relative of the neighbor downstairs from his old home named Zhao Lulu.
She was the same age as Su Yi.
Her looks were probably at a six or seven out of ten level.
Her occupation… was staying at home and studying for the civil service exam. He had heard that she also did live streams on a certain app in her spare time, with a monthly income of about three to five thousand.
She was the type with all the “buffs” stacked.
The actual situation didn’t exceed his expectations.
As soon as this girl arrived for their blind date, she proposed a bunch of messy demands such as handing over his salary after they got together, that Su Yi needed to give her at least eight thousand a month to support her civil service exam studies, that live streaming was her hobby, and that Su Yi couldn't interfere if she was a bit flirtatious with her viewers occasionally.
And these were among the more off-putting ones.
She had many more messy demands besides those.
To this, Su Yi's answer was, of course, "Ah, yes, yes, yes."
Anyway, he had no intention of making things work out, so for him, just going along with it was enough.
Originally, he had intended to leave after the meal and never contact her again.
But he never expected that this girl, perhaps lacking some sense, actually thought Su Yi had accepted all of her conditions when she saw him keep saying "yes, yes, yes, you're right about everything."
After returning, she sent Su Yi all kinds of messages every day, and she even proactively asked him for red packets and milk tea. Even after being ignored by him countless times, she wasn’t discouraged at all.
In the end, Su Yi got so annoyed that he directly blacklisted her, and only then did he find some peace.
After telling his mother about the situation, she now knew that this girl was such a weirdo and didn't say anything more about the issue.
He had originally thought that the matter would end there.
He never expected that just by casually bringing Yue Ling out to buy a mobile phone, he would run into this person again.
What kind of ill-fated connection was this?
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*”SKP” is a real-life chain of very high-end, luxury department stores in China. As for “Qianda Plaza”, it doesn’t exist but it’s likely a play on "Wanda Plaza", which is a very common and popular chain of mid-to-high-end shopping malls found all over China.
**The original says “no worse than you esteemed readers”, and I find it hilarious. Author’s an expert bootlicker. Not that it isn’t true. You’re very handsome/beautiful, dear reader. So remember to support me. 😁
***A type of hot pot that is divided in the middle (usually by an S-shaped partition), allowing for two different soup bases in one pot— typically one spicy and one non-spicy. It's named after Mandarin ducks, which are a symbol of pairs in Chinese culture.
****Well, someone’s biased to Huawei. You guys don’t see it, but the author slightly altered the name in Chinese, probably to avoid issues. But in the end, it still translates to “Huawei” in English (from “Huáwéi” to “Huá wēi”).
T/N - Oh wow, this Zhao Lulu girl sounds… delulu! 😂 But seriously, I don’t blame the MC from getting out of dodge from this crazy girl. For only being their first blind date, those demands are insane. I can imagine what will happen in the next chapter when she sees him with Yue Ling.