A Young Woman's Heart

"Where are you planning to go shopping?" Mo Xueyao ignored her and continued to ask Wang Jiale.

“Yinshan, the commercial street!” Sanhua Tongjue, sitting behind her, blinked. “Xiaoxi and I agreed.”

"Then how will he get home tonight?"

"Call his brother to pick him up."

"Ugh... Lele shouldn't have gone. She'd just be a third wheel," Mo Xueyao teased.

"Little Yaoyao—Little Yaoyao—!" Hua Yinyin rushed over with her schoolbag and slammed her hand on her desk.

"What do you mean 'third wheel'? I'm just... umm... in a supporting role, okay?"

"The kind of job where you have to press their heads together?"

"Little Yao Yao!!!"

"Hey, it's fine to do that if you really need to."

"Tsk tsk..."

"Little Yao Yao Little Yao ...

"Since none of you are going to the band room today, I don't want to go either." Mo Xueyao's gaze bypassed the noisy Hua Yinyin next to her and landed on the blackboard. She copied the math homework on it into the home-school communication book. Actually, if she didn't know what homework to do, she could just ask Li Wanyan, but she would still do it. In the end, it was just a habit.

"Want to go shopping together?" Wang Jiale invited.

What about dinner?

"It's okay, we'll just eat in the shopping street!"

"Hmm..." Mo Xueyao doesn't really like shopping, but she has basically finished her homework today, with only math left. She can finish it in about half an hour tonight, so going shopping seems like a good idea. Most importantly, it's lively with lots of people, which can also help strengthen relationships.

People always need friends.

And friends often accommodate each other and join in the fun.

Wang Jiale is now her deskmate again, and Mo Xueyao spends more time talking with her than with Li Wanyan, and their relationship is much closer than before.

"Xiaoyao probably hasn't been shopping much, has she? Shopping in a supermarket and shopping in a mall are completely different experiences!"

"Eeya wa ooh ooh ooh ooh!" Hua Yinyin had already started baring her teeth and claws, trying to make her presence known.

"What's wrong?" Mo Xueyao finally acknowledged her.

"Let's go to the band room!"

"Hmm, I'm not going. There aren't many people around today anyway. I'm planning to go shopping with Lele later," Mo Xueyao replied calmly, as if she were simply declining an invitation from someone insignificant.

"Ugh! What's the point of shopping?!"

"It's nice to go shopping once in a while," Mo Xueyao replied, putting the last contact book into her bag.

"I want to go too!"

"Weren't you going to the band practice room?" Mo Xueyao slung her backpack over her shoulder. "Okay, Lele, let's go."

"Okay, let's go!"

"Wanyan, I'm going shopping with Lele and the others first. You can put your schoolbag down and come straight to Yinshan Commercial Street later." Mo Xueyao knew that Li Wanyan could only come out after the classroom cleaning was finished, so she called out like this.

“Okay.” Li Wanyan nodded lightly, then turned around and grabbed Lü Bolun, who was about to run away with Liu Xiaowei. “Lü Bolun, how could you join them in their evil ways?”

"Uh, what...we're just going the same way..."

"I saw you two together in the game room last time."

"Ha, hahaha..." Lu Bolun scratched his head and laughed awkwardly twice.

"Your grades have dropped a lot recently."

"cough……"

"Don't let yourself continue down this path of self-degradation."

"No... it's just that studying has become harder lately, that's why I'm not doing well."

"Clean up first." Li Wanyan stared at him with her calm, unwavering eyes.

"Okay, okay... I'll clean up..." Lu Bolun could only nod helplessly.

Wang Jiale had just reached the door when he heard what Li Wanyan had just said and couldn't help but turn around and look at him.

After all, we've spent so much time together, and we even went to a water park in Shanghai together.

They even slept in the same room—although it was a room with two beds—and did nothing.

But no matter what, there were still some feelings involved. Hearing that he hadn't been doing well in his studies recently made Wang Jiale a little concerned.

Has he not gotten over that incident yet?

She couldn't help but wonder if she had done something wrong.

But there is no answer to this.

Sanhua Tongjue and Huang Yuxi walked out of the classroom side by side. Their relationship has been getting closer lately, and perhaps they are only one step away from breaking through the barrier.

Although they haven't officially established a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, to outsiders, they're practically already...

Hua Yinyin stood there, staring blankly as Mo Xueyao and her group walked away, her cheeks puffing out like balloons.

"Ugh—!!!"

"What's wrong?" Mr. Xue asked, knowing the answer already.

"Little Yaoyao is ignoring me!"

"Didn't she respond to you?"

"That was such a perfunctory excuse! Humph... No way, I want to go shopping with them too!"

"Haha." Mr. Xue was amused. "Then you should hurry up and follow them."

"Xiaoxue, want to come along? Whew..."

"Let's go." Mr. Xue didn't mind lingering outside the school a little longer after school.

Hua Yinyin and Mr. Xue formed a subtle pair. The former cautiously followed behind Mo Xueyao and the others, like a spy tailing a target, while Mr. Xue followed suit, seemingly finding it quite amusing.

Mo Xueyao and her group of four were chatting happily.

Although Huang Yuxi cannot speak, he is actually a very lively child. At this moment, he is writing on the whiteboard while walking, joining in the conversation.

“When we were in Japan, boys would often accompany girls to shopping streets—and speaking of which, Japan really is full of shopping streets and pedestrian streets.”

"Really?" Mo Xueyao's hand was linked with Wang Jiale's. She didn't find it strange and used her other free hand to brush her bangs away. "In China, it seems that there are more shopping malls or small roadside shops."

"Hmm, it feels fragmented and not integrated."

"But I think it's very convenient. You can buy whatever you want nearby without having to go to the shopping street."

“But commercial streets are also a kind of culture.” Mika Hitomi’s Chinese was already very fluent. As for her accent, everyone was used to it and would automatically analyze it into the correct pronunciation in their minds after hearing it.

For words or phrases that you don't understand, you can use the context to fill in the missing information.

"The shopping street is not just for shopping, but also for entertainment."

"Mmm, almost there!" Sanhua Tongjue nodded vigorously. She tentatively reached out to grab Huang Yuxi's small hand, but the latter dodged it, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

"I don't think I've ever been to a pedestrian street before."

“A pedestrian street is a street where only people can walk in. In some places, you can’t even ride a bicycle in,” Wang Jiale explained to Huang Yuxi on behalf of Sanhua Tongjue. “Haven’t you been there, Xiaoxi? It’s similar to the Yinshan Commercial Street we went to last time. However, some are fenced off like there, while others are open. From the outside, they look no different from ordinary streets, except that there are obstacles to prevent cars from driving in.”

"Oh—" Huang Yuxi nodded and erased the words on the whiteboard.

“Pedestrian streets are much more interesting than shopping malls.” Sanhua Tongjue tilted her head and approached Mo Xueyao, walking alongside her. “Shopping malls are basically like big supermarkets, but pedestrian streets have many service shops, like manicures, hair salons, and massage parlors…”

"Uh... massage..." Mo Xueyao's mind went astray without her realizing it.

Near the old home of the Mo Zhuyou sisters, there were those hair salons with pink lights that offered special massage services...

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Chapter 194 Hua Yinyin's Stubborn Tiffany's (Part 2)

Yinshan Commercial Street.

Mo Xueyao knew that this was a commercial street invested in by Grandma Jin.

She and another boss each owned half of the shares.

This is a semi-enclosed commercial street, somewhat like an extra layer of buildings built on top of an ordinary street.

It's easy to imagine that building such a commercial street would cost a lot of money. Even if the land were free, the cost of the building materials would be astronomical.

Every time Mo Xueyao thought about this, she found it increasingly difficult to imagine just how rich Grandma Jin really was.

No wonder she rented the shop to her father at a very low price just because she liked it; after all, the rent for such a shop was nothing to her.

Although it's only early December, the shopping street already has a Christmas atmosphere.

Various Christmas posters are hanging high on the dome, already creating an atmosphere for this foreign holiday.

Two tall artificial Christmas trees stood at the entrance, covered with all sorts of gift boxes, looking quite beautiful.

A passing child secretly picked up a beautiful gift box, opened it, and found it was filled with foam. He was very disappointed, and his dejected expression was written all over his face.

Mo Xueyao couldn't help but laugh out loud, which puzzled Wang Jiale, who was standing next to her.

"What's wrong, Xiaoyao? What are you laughing at?"

"Yeah, I just saw that kid unwrap the presents on the Christmas tree, and there was just a piece of foam inside. It reminded me of when I was little."

Although there weren't many businesses holding Christmas events back then, some shopping malls from outside the area did have Christmas activities. Even after more than ten years, the filling inside the gift boxes remained unchanged—it was still a solid block of foam.

"Hey, I took those apart when I was little too..." Wang Jiale chuckled. "Pfft, back then I thought there would be something good inside!"

"The result is actually just decorations, which is just as disheartening as the fact that 'Santa Claus is fake'!"

"That's it!"

The adult world always seems boring.

After all, the adult world is more 'realistic'.