Chapter 11: What Are You Doing Here?

Chapter 11: What Are You Doing Here?

"What is he doing here?" Hou Jun couldn't help but mutter. He had heard from Zhou Wanting that Shen Yuan's family had gone bankrupt and owed a lot of debt outside.

Logically, someone like Shen Yuan, without his parents' protection, should just be a poor student. How could he dare to come to a place like Guojin Center to spend money?

When Hou Jun saw the girl beside Shen Yuan paying for the taxi fare, he immediately felt unbalanced.

What the hell? He's bankrupt but still spending a woman's money?

Meanwhile, Zhou Wanting in the passenger seat watched the two of them pay for the taxi and walk shoulder to shoulder into the Guojin Center. Her expression gradually darkened.

They had just broken up yesterday, and today he was already taking a girl out on a date.

Shen Yuan, you've really outdone yourself!

On the other side, Shen Yuan hadn't noticed Hou Jun and Zhou Wanting at all. He and the girl arrived at the first floor of the mall and spotted a tea shop. They each ordered a milk tea, sat down to drink it slowly, and then began to browse around.

The first floor of Guojin was mostly clothes, jewelry, and cosmetics, with luxury goods primarily on the second floor.

Shen Yuan had no interest in these things and directly led Fang Minhui up to the second floor, intending to look at handbags.

He had already bought an LV last time, so this time Shen Yuan wanted to check out Prada or Chanel.

However, just as they reached the entrance of Prada, he discovered that Zhou Wanting and her greasy middle-aged man were also inside.

What a damn coincidence!

Shen Yuan didn't want to face them, so he turned around and said, "Let's go browse other stores first."

"Okay," Fang Minhui had no objections. Actually, she was already very satisfied just being able to go out with Shen Yuan and eat top-tier Japanese food today.

She hadn't had many opportunities to interact with Shen Yuan before, but through tonight, Fang Minhui's impression of him had somewhat improved.

Being with him felt completely different from being with Li Zhanpeng.

Li Zhanpeng always spoke with a boastful tone, eager to show off all his perceived advantages at every opportunity.

For instance, he would say things like, "My family paid in full for an apartment for me in Tianjiao Garden in Xingcheng last year. It's not big, only 120 square meters, but I think it's enough. Too big is hard to clean."

Or, "A car is just a means of transportation, it doesn't need to be too good, just functional. My mom always wants to get me a BMW, but I refused. After all, my parents' money doesn't grow on trees. We need to consider our parents."

There were many similar remarks that Fang Minhui found quite annoying.

Shen Yuan was different. Throughout the evening, he had displayed a sense of ease and calmness.

He didn't deliberately show off or boast about his family background. Their conversation topics were all about interesting school events or childhood embarrassments.

So the whole process was very pleasant. Fang Minhui was enjoying herself and was already subtly looking forward to their next date.

"Shen Yuan!" A male voice appeared behind Shen Yuan. He frowned, already guessing who it was, but he was in a good mood today and didn't want it to be ruined by this couple, so he pretended not to hear.

Fang Minhui instinctively looked back and saw an unfamiliar middle-aged man. Seeing Shen Yuan's indifferent reaction, she thought he hadn't heard and reminded him, "Shen Yuan, someone's calling you."

"Don't know him, just ignore it," Shen Yuan quickened his pace.

"Shen Yuan, since you're already at the entrance, why not come in and take a look? It doesn't cost anything to browse."

Hou Jun took a few steps forward, looking at Shen Yuan's retreating figure with a sense of superiority.

Hou Jun had been upset by Shen Yuan yesterday and was looking for a chance to get even. He thought to himself, "I haven't experienced any of those things, yet you got to enjoy them all!"

At first, he thought a poor student like Shen Yuan would only browse the first floor, but he didn't expect him to dare come to the second floor.

You can't even pay for your own taxi fare and you're here browsing Prada? Can you even afford it?

Of course, it was also an opportunity to leave a deep impression on the beautiful girl beside Shen Yuan.

To let her see clearly that following a poor guy with no future was useless, what good is it to only look but not buy?

Zhou Wanting, who had been intently examining handbags, instinctively looked in this direction when she heard Hou Jun's voice and immediately put down the bag and walked over.

"Shen Yuan, what are you doing here?" Zhou Wanting called out to Shen Yuan in an unfriendly tone.

Shen Yuan couldn't help but curse inwardly. Now that he couldn't leave, he simply turned around and said, "What a coincidence, you're here too?"

Fang Minhui turned to look at the two. She didn't recognize the middle-aged man, but she had seen senior Zhou Wanting before, as she used to be with Shen Yuan often.

Zhou Wanting was sizing up Fang Minhui, who looked somewhat familiar, likely also from the Foreign Studies department.

She instinctively compared the other woman to herself and found that not only was Fang Minhui's appearance superior, but her figure was also more voluptuous in terms of bust and hips.

Zhou Wanting became even more displeased. Yesterday, Shen Yuan had practically exposed all her secrets, and now he was out shopping with a girl who was better than her in every way. What was he trying to do?

If Shen Yuan had found a girl who was inferior to her in all aspects, she wouldn't have said anything and might have even felt some secret satisfaction. But now he had found a beautiful girl with a better figure than hers?

Zhou Wanting suspected that Shen Yuan had deliberately appeared here at this time just to upset her!

"I'm just browsing, looking for a gift for my sister," Shen Yuan replied calmly.

"Pfft..." Hou Jun couldn't hold back his laughter. "If you're buying a gift for your sister, you should go to a toy wholesale market or check Pinduoduo. What are you doing here?"

The commotion between the four of them was not small, and the Prada sales associates watching this scene were quite amused.

Mr. Shen was a regular customer, and although he hadn't visited in the past few months, they remembered him.

Ms. Zhou was Mr. Shen's girlfriend, which they also knew.

But the current situation seemed to be that Shen Yuan was shopping with a new love interest who had a better figure than Ms. Zhou, and they had coincidentally encountered Ms. Zhou and her "new" love interest, a middle-aged man of at least forty.

And judging by Ms. Zhou's attitude and tone, it seemed that Mr. Shen had dumped Ms. Zhou?

But if they had just broken up yesterday, regardless of Mr. Shen's fault, why had Ms. Zhou so quickly found an older man to buy her bags?

When Ms. Zhou and the older man had entered the store earlier, one of the sales associates who often served them, Julia, had initially thought he was Ms. Zhou's father.

After all, in her subjective impression, Ms. Zhou had always been Mr. Shen's girlfriend.

But based on years of experience selling luxury goods, Julia had detected something unusual in their eyes and promptly changed the "uncle" that was about to come out of her mouth to "big brother."

Julia was very grateful for her quick reaction, as these days, such things were no longer uncommon.

After all, the last time, there had been a seventy-something-year-old grandfather who brought a young woman in her twenties to shop.

Compared to that, these two with only a twenty-year age gap were nothing special.