Chapter 151: Extra: Liang Ye's Love
Liang Ye felt that something was wrong with him. He could no longer focus on work, and even the juiciest gossip failed to hold his attention.
Like the homeowner whose father-in-law used a bamboo pole to steal the neighbor’s underwear, only to get himself stuck hanging between the balconies and fracture a few ribs...
Or the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had been at odds for years, until the daughter-in-law lost her temper and poured pig-fattening medicine into the family’s water tank...
He wasn’t interested. Not interested at all.
He couldn’t stop thinking about that girl from the supermarket. After dwelling on her for several days, he finally couldn’t take it anymore.
He camped out at that supermarket for two whole days before finally spotting her coming to buy discounted vegetables.
He dashed over to her. “Hi! You’re here to buy discounted vegetables too?”
The girl glanced at him. “Do we know each other?”
Liang Ye’s heart shattered at those words. She didn’t remember him at all!
“I—I’m the roast duck...”
He brought up the crucial keyword, hoping it would jog her memory.
But the girl remained completely impassive. “What roast duck? Are you the roast duck chef at the supermarket?”
“No, no...”
Liang Ye felt so wronged that he could have cried. “I’m the one who wanted to buy that roast duck set last time, and you said it wasn’t worth it...”
The girl still showed no reaction. He looked so pitiful that he was practically on the verge of tears.
“I came to apologize. I shouldn’t have judged Meili like that. She’s a really, really good person. I shouldn’t have assumed she was a bad person just because she had tattoos and dyed hair...”
He poured out his apology in one breath. Once he was done, he turned around to leave.
He had originally wanted to ask for her WeChat, but since she didn’t even remember him, asking for it would be far too abrupt.
Forget it. He’d just go home. He’d never eat roast duck again. Sob, sob...
Unexpectedly, just as he turned around, he heard the girl laugh behind him.
“So, you know you were wrong?”
His eyes instantly lit up. “You remember me! You do remember me, right?”
The girl flashed him a brilliant smile. “Of course I remember you. You’re the idiot who doesn’t know how to buy discounted vegetables.”
Liang Ye nodded foolishly. “I’m not as good at it as you. Hehe...”
And just like that, he and the girl became friends. He chatted with her about supermarket discounts, Pinduoduo deals, and everything else under the sun.
The girl seemed to know everything. Vegetables should be bought online when they were in season, and directly from their source: garlic shoots from Henan, green beans from Shandong, mangoes from Sichuan...
No matter what it was, she could always get the best quality for the lowest price.
In the short half a month since meeting her, Liang Ye had been having the time of his life shopping!
Such a great deal! So satisfying!
He felt that he had fallen in love with her!
His admiration had blossomed into love. He was attracted to her strength!
He wanted to be with her—to buy cheap goods for the rest of his life!
After spending several days thinking long and hard at home, he finally made that momentous decision.
First, he called He Huanhuan.
“Huanhuan, I’m not going to pursue you anymore. I’ve found my soulmate. She’s so much better at saving money than you...”
He Huanhuan was stunned. “When did you ever pursue me?”
Wasn’t that harassment?
Purely verbal harassment!
Liang Ye ignored her. “Anyway, from now on, we’re friends. The purest kind of friends!”
He Huanhuan wanted to tell him that her purest friends were Meili first, her second brother second, and Han Mo—who wasn’t entirely pure—third.
The line of people ahead of Liang Ye would stretch all the way down the street.
But it didn’t matter. Second Young Master Liang’s greatest talent was his confidence.
After explaining things to He Huanhuan, he felt that he was finally, completely free.
So the very next day, he went to confess to the girl.
“Gu Xue, I like you. Let’s be together!”
Gu Xue kept her head down, inspecting the discounted vegetables. She didn’t even spare him a glance.
“No.”
Liang Ye was dumbfounded. “Why not? Don’t you like me?”
Gu Xue placed the vegetables she deemed suitable into her shopping cart one by one.
“I’m not in a position to date right now. Maybe when my financial situation improves.”
She couldn’t abandon the grandparents. She needed to earn money so they could enjoy a better old age.
But she wasn’t particularly capable. She could only work ordinary jobs, using her limited income to buy as many things as possible at the lowest prices.
She simply didn’t have the means to date—not even if she...
Even if she liked Liang Ye.
Yes, she did like Liang Ye.
He was the first man willing to patiently sit with her and study every possible discount.
She wasn’t especially beautiful, but she was fairly pretty. It wasn’t as though no men had ever shown interest in her.
But those men’s intentions were always obvious: they wanted to get married, and she seemed perfectly suited to be a wife.
In their eyes, she wasn’t a woman or a beloved partner. She was a product.
A cheap, practical product that could be taken home and put to use immediately.
She found it ridiculous. Because she was good at buying cheap things, those men assumed she would make an ideal wife and pursued her.
But the moment she introduced them to the grandparents, every one of them ran away faster than the last.
Only Liang Ye stayed.
Not only did he stay, he studied discounted vegetables with her and helped her deliver food to the grandparents. He was also very good at chatting with them.
Her life was difficult. All those hardships weighed heavily on her, leaving her unsure what to talk about with the grandparents.
But Liang Ye was different. His job at the neighborhood committee was easy, and although it didn’t pay much, he was spiritually well-off.
He could chat with the grandparents about anything and everything, making them laugh and keeping them entertained.
Liang Ye had said that he, too, had been raised by his grandparents. She figured that although his circumstances were somewhat better than hers, he must have his own difficulties as well.
She liked him, but she couldn’t be with him.
Her life was truly hard. She didn’t want to become a burden to him.
So it was better to forget it.