I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Chapter 81 My Legs Have Their Own Thoughts

Night. In Room 501, Unit A, Building 2, Dormitory Management Station No. 5, Xia Meng sat on the wooden sofa in the living room, watching the TV in front of her. The doors of the three small dormitories next to her were all closed.

A TV drama was playing on TV. Two boys met in the rain, and before they knew it, they yelled at each other and started dancing.

The female lead cried out helplessly from the sidelines, "Stop! Stop it! Don't fight anymore!"

This wasn't the first time Xia Meng had watched "The Forbidden City." She always laughed at this scene every time she watched it before, but today she was expressionless and somewhat dejected.

The door to room 501 opened, and Du Nanxin walked in, carrying a small bag in her hand.

Seeing Xia Meng sitting in the living room, she walked over and sat down next to her. "Watching TV?"

Then he held the small bag in his hand and presented it to Xia Meng, his expression somewhat helpless.

"This was given to you by senior Zhou Wenjie."

It's fine to bring up who likes whom when you're bored, but Du Nanxin really doesn't want to be a matchmaker. However, she's soft-hearted and couldn't resist the persistent pestering of that senior Zhou, so she reluctantly agreed this time.

Xia Mengdong didn't even move. "I don't know him at all. You should return this to him."

"He said you're adorable, and this is something he carefully selected that suits you perfectly. If you don't want it, he told me to just throw it away. Pretty domineering CEO, huh? Since I'm going to throw it away anyway, let's take it out and see what it is."

As Du Nanxin spoke, she took the item out of the bag and found it was a Dior lipstick box. Upon opening it, she saw that it was Dior shade 688, also known as the "deathly Barbie pink".

"—Just throw it away."

Du Nanxin silently put the lipstick back in.

Xia Meng watched, thinking, "Why can't that scoundrel be like Zhou Wenjie?" Sigh—

Just as she was sighing, the door to room 5013 opened, and Fu Rong came out, closed the door behind her, and sat down on the sofa, looking somewhat excited.

"He Qiuzhu is playing a game called 'Luwei Weiwei'! There's also Yixiao Naihe in the team, probably Shen Kang. I didn't expect Shen Kang to be so romantic; he even did a real-life cosplay!"

The three girls in their dorm had previously had a lot of complaints about He Qiuzhu's boyfriend, thinking he was unreliable. After the laundry room incident, their impression of Shen Kang improved somewhat, and seeing the two of them cosplaying as characters from "Love O2O" this time, Fu Rong's impression of Shen Kang improved even more.

Du Nanxin was also somewhat surprised, and she and Fu Rong started chatting animatedly.

Xia Meng then suddenly interjected, "Maybe it was He Qiuzhu's idea?"

Du Nanxin scoffed, "Don't be ridiculous. Do you think someone like Qiu Zhu could come up with such a trick?"

When school started, they all thought He Qiuzhu was an arrogant rich girl, but as they spent more time with her, they realized that He Qiuzhu was quite innocent, the kind of innocent who was a little silly.

This is also why they like He Qiuzhu. Of course, their liking for He Qiuzhu is also partly due to her generosity and the fact that she often buys fruits and snacks to share with everyone.

Xia Meng snorted and fell silent, thinking to herself, "My sister is just naive, not stupid. On the contrary, she's incredibly clever; this might actually be her idea."

Thinking about it this way, she felt even more pained, wishing she could slap herself twice for her stupid educational behavior today.

Around 8 p.m., Xiao Bonian also created an account and logged in to the game, still using his name "Unknown Box". The family of four played until around 10 p.m. before logging off to rest.

The next morning, the Nokia phone alarm went off in the dormitory. Wang Pan and the others cursed loudly, while Shen Kang silently turned off the alarm and got up.

After two days of adjustment, Wang Pan and his friends finally managed to get their regular routine back to its chaotic state. After the alarm clock stopped, they happily went back to sleep.

Shen Kang got out of bed, washed up, and then went out.

He has appointments today, and he's busy all morning and afternoon, even busier than the UN Secretary-General, so he plans to have breakfast at the cafeteria and then head to Xiaodong Street.

But as he walked, he somehow ended up at the entrance of Dormitory Station No. 5. Then he looked down and stared at his legs for a long time.

His legs seemed to have a mind of their own.

But as the old saying goes, since we're already here...

So Shen Kang took out his phone and called He Qiuzhu: "Are you up yet?"

"Just woke up~" He Qiuzhu's voice was groggy and languid, still in a hazy, superimposed state, like a lazy kitten.

"The boss is up, how can you still be sleeping? Time to work, photographer! Get ready and come downstairs with your digital camera."

He Qiuzhu on the other end seemed to have regained some consciousness. "Received!"

Shen Kang then hung up the phone and squatted down at the entrance of dormitory management station No. 5 to wait.

There were several devoted boyfriends around, carrying breakfasts they bought from the second canteen and waiting. One of them, a guy wearing glasses, was the most outrageous. Judging from the bag he was carrying, it turned out that he bought the breakfast from a pancake shop on the commercial street!

Among the group, Shen Kang stood out because his hands were empty.

A guy standing relatively close to Shen Kang, bored, came over and struck up a conversation, "Dude, why didn't you bring breakfast when you came to pick up your girlfriend at this hour?"

Shen Kang corrected the misunderstanding in his words: "I'm here to pick up my employees."

The boy was taken aback: "Employee? What kind of novel way is this?"

But soon, a new image popped into the young man's mind: Heh heh, little employee, you don't want to lose your job, do you? ————

"Damn!" The boy wiped his drool, suppressed his lewd grin, and patted Shen Kang on the shoulder. "Dude, you really know how to play."

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Shen Kang felt completely bewildered.

After waiting for a while, He Qiuzhu came out first, while the girlfriends of the boys next to her had not yet arrived.

She wasn't wearing a skirt today; instead, she wore a layered embroidered shirt and brown wide-leg pants, carrying a small shoulder bag. Her face was bright and beautiful, and her steps were light and quick. Although her expression remained aloof, she gave off the feeling of a fluttering butterfly.

Several guys nearby who had bought breakfast and were waiting for their girlfriends were initially stunned by her beauty. Only after Shen Kang and He Qiuzhu had walked away did they come to their senses, and then it dawned on them: Wait a minute, that guy was clearly the last to arrive, so how come his girlfriend came down first? ————

On Xiaodong Street, next to Jiahe Laundry Chain, Guo Pinyan's coffee shop is under renovation, and the construction team has already started work today.

Judging from the current situation, the floor paving, wall treatment, and ceiling installation are mostly finished. Most importantly, the large glass window facing the street that Guo Pinyan has been longing for has been installed.

Guo Pinyan stood outside the store, talking to a man beside her: "—The hard decoration isn't finished yet, and the soft decoration hasn't even started, so Manager Chen, if I join the franchise now, it's still not too late—"

This "Manager Chen" was a man in his thirties, dressed in a suit. Even with his slicked-back hair, he looked somewhat scholarly. He was holding a handkerchief in his hand, occasionally covering his mouth and nose, seemingly to block the dust that was splashed out during the store's renovation.

"—Besides, your brand targets the university student market, and my store is located inside a university campus, so it couldn't be more perfect!—"

Guo Pinyan kept talking, and her gaze toward Manager Chen was somewhat warm.

This Manager Chen's full name is Chen Ketong, and he is the expansion manager of the Sculpting Time Coffee chain.

Guo Pinyan herself was going to run a coffee shop, and she had done a lot of research on the coffee industry before, so she naturally knew about the Sculpting Time Coffee chain.

Like "Shangdao Coffee," Sculpting Time originated from Taiwan and opened its first store in mainland China in 1997. However, its positioning differs from Shangdao Coffee. Shangdao targets urban middle-to-high-income groups, while Sculpting Time caters to a literary and artistic vibe, primarily serving university students. Sculpting Time's first store was located next to Peking University.

Both opened in the same year and were from Taiwan, but their fates were completely opposite: Shangdao was on a roll from the beginning and enjoyed unparalleled success, but in 03, due to internal equity disputes, it was severely damaged and subsequently went bankrupt and declined rapidly; Sculpting Time, on the other hand, took a niche artistic style and remained lukewarm, but in the last two years it has been doing better and better and has started to open stores all over the country.

Guo Pinyan had inquired and found out that Sculpting Time intended to open several stores in Yangcheng. Based on Sculpting Time's market positioning, it would naturally choose to open stores in the University Town.

I heard that the store in the University Town of the High-tech Zone has been decided, but the store in the Beilu University Town has not been decided yet. Guo Pinyan now wants to obtain the franchise qualification of Sculpting Time.

After all, this brand is now touting itself as "China's Starbucks." If I successfully join the franchise, the added prestige of this brand will make my store even more secure.

"——Finally, compared to other campus stores, my store has another big advantage."

As Guo Pinyan spoke, she gestured for Chen Ketong to look at the Jiahe Laundry Chain store next door.

Chen Ketong also looked over.

At this time, students who had classes in the morning were already passing by with basins, entering the laundry shop in twos and threes.

Guo Pinyan started praising Shen Kang: "This is the only laundry room in our school. It's only been open for two days and business is already booming, packed every day! Manager Chen, don't be fooled by the fact that there aren't many customers now. Come back after 5 pm, and you won't be able to squeeze in!"

"With such a large flow of people attracted by this laundry room, my shop is right next to it, so business is bound to be good! You definitely won't find such a high-traffic hub in other schools —"

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao.

Guo Pinyan was praising Shen Kang when she saw Shen Kang walking over from the other side of the street, accompanied by his nuclear-weapon-level girlfriend.

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