Chapter 45 Love-Struck

Chapter 45: Love-Struck

Chen Shu frantically asked the scrap yard owner who had bought the dressing table.

Chen Shu knew the heroine had bought a bed and a dressing table at the scrap yard, and there was something hidden inside the dressing table. But there were too many beds and dressers at the yard, and Chen Shu didn't know which one it was. Her only option was to work at the scrap yard.

She wasn't worried about the heroine buying these things. The first time she came, she thought the owner was a rip-off artist who overcharged, and she even had a conflict with him. When the hero found out, he came and bought the bed and dressing table at a high price, telling the heroine he'd gotten them for thirty yuan.

The heroine became even more convinced the owner was a crook, and she treated the hero differently than she treated herself.

Chen Shu just had to wait for the heroine to buy the bed and dresser, but the hero beat her to it. She planned to find the items and then sell them to the hero at a high price. Everyone knew he'd pay anything for the heroine—whether it was thirty yuan or five hundred or a thousand, he'd surely agree.

The scrap yard owner sneered at the mention of Sun Chun. He'd never met anyone like her. He said, "Thirty yuan—how could she even say that without blushing? That bed and dresser, if I priced them high and someone genuinely wanted them, would go for at least two hundred. They may look old, but the materials are top-notch! I paid over fifty yuan to buy them as scrap! She offered thirty, acting like I was screwing her over. I'm the crook?"

The owner still got pissed just thinking about Sun Chun's look. Too pissed—it was the kind of look you'd give garbage!

The owner said, "There was some bystander watching the whole thing, and I got so pissed I sold them to her for thirty. And I gave her the same trash look back. She was furious too."

He lost twenty yuan on the deal. Twenty! If he'd made a profit, it could've been even more—all that woman's fault! But remembering how pissed she looked made him feel a little better.

Chen Shu almost passed out. She'd waited at the scrap yard forever, and someone had swooped in and snagged the deal. Who was it? Who?! Did she know something was hidden in that dresser?

The scrap yard owner had also asked Chen Shu to grab him some buns. His stomach was growling, so he asked her for them. Chen Shu scolded him, "You paid for them, and you still want buns? What buns? Eat air!"

The owner was still moved. "It's fine. When I think about it, it's only twenty yuan. But is it just twenty yuan? No—this is something the hero's woman used, and there's something hidden inside!"

Chen Shu said, "I quit!"

He was way too self-serving—she was so pissed she didn't even want to work anymore!

Chen Shu couldn't get what she wanted here, so why stick around? She quit on the spot, and the owner chased after her, begging her to reconsider!

Chen Shu went home feeling miserable and waited for Jiang Xiangqian to come back.

Ever since Jiang Xiangqian met Lu Yun, he'd been ice-cold toward Chen Shu. He'd been making money lately, but Chen Shu had no energy to sweet-talk him anymore. She wanted to be with Jiang Xiangqian, not to date him. Of course, if he wanted a romance, she'd be all lovey-dovey and might even see it as a real relationship. But he didn't, so Chen Shu knew all the more clearly what she had to do.

She wanted to marry into money. She wanted to live well—better than Lu Yun!

Jiang Xiangqian said, "You don't have to wait up for me. You can go to bed early."

Was it really about going to bed early, or was he just avoiding her?

Chen Shu swallowed her anger. She still needed the scrap yard job, and it gave her a backup plan.

Jiang Xiangqian gave Chen Shu money for the household. The amount kept growing. Chen Shu didn't spend much—the scrap yard covered one meal, and cooking at home for the two of them was cheap. With that thought, she swallowed her anger again.

Chen Shu said, "It's fine. I'll wait for you. I can't sleep well until you're home."

This bastard—he was definitely thinking about dumping her right now. She needed to play the victim, make him feel sorry for her, make him too ashamed to say it. Was everything back then her fault? No—they'd both betrayed Lu Yun together, hadn't they?

The next day, Lu Yun dropped the bed off at Lu Cheng's place.

Lu Cheng and his wife lived in factory housing. The place was only about forty square meters and looked tiny, though it was still a two-bedroom. Lu Yun went into Lu Cheng's room and saw it was still that same single bed.

Lu Cheng said, "Sis."

Love-struck idiot!

Lu Yun swapped the single bed for a double. The room looked even smaller, but at least he could sleep well. Lu Yun looked around—it was spotless. She didn't have to guess who'd cleaned it. Lu Yun didn't say anything to Lu Cheng.

At noon, Lu Cheng and Lu Yun went out to eat, ordering the dry-pot shrimp Lu Yun loved.

Lu Cheng asked Lu Yun about her blind date, Zhou Yanze. He worried about her a lot.

Lu Yun said, "Get your own life in order before worrying about mine."

Lu Yun was gorgeous, and Lu Cheng, her younger brother, was just as handsome—fair-skinned, sincere, with striking features. He treated his wife great, yet she didn't like him one bit.

Telling Lu Cheng to stop loving his wife was pointless. Better to advise him on how to win her heart.

Lu Yun asked, "Have you ever thought that maybe your wife doesn't like who you are right now? You could try being a different version of yourself around her."

Lu Cheng asked, "Like what?"

Lu Yun said, "Hmm, like, think about it yourself."

Lu Yun had no experience herself, so how could she give advice? Anyway, Lu Cheng's current approach clearly wasn't working. He might as well try something new.

After eating, Lu Yun skipped work and went to her courtyard house. The dresser was there, and she wiped it down. She loved things clean so much that she cleaned it extra carefully.

The bed she'd given Lu Cheng—Lu Yun had already searched it several times yesterday and found nothing. She did all this purely because of Chen Shu. If Chen Shu was at the scrap yard, she was definitely after something.

After wiping the dresser clean, Lu Yun searched again. This time she found it—the top of the dresser was hollow, just like when she'd found gold bars in that broken chair.

From the hollow top of the dresser, Lu Yun pulled out a pair of earrings, a jade bracelet, and two hairpins!

These things looked priceless. Lu Yun fixed the dresser, then took the items home and hid them. She'd have liked to keep them at the courtyard house, but with Chen Shu and that other guy before, she just couldn't feel safe leaving them there!

Chen Shu was fuming at the scrap yard. When she saw Zhou Jun come looking for the bed and dresser, she tore into him!

Lu Yun wanted to take a detour around the scrap yard to get home, but Chen Shu's voice was too loud. She couldn't help but listen in on the drama.

Chen Shu asked, "You're that chick's boyfriend from yesterday?"

Zhou Jun was kind of pleased to be called that, thinking Chen Shu had good taste. He wasn't Sun Chun's boyfriend yet, but he would be soon enough!

Zhou Jun said, "That's right, I'm her man!"

Lu Yun crept closer and watched the two from a distance. Chen Shu looked a lot more put-together after moving to the city. As for Zhou Jun next to her—the guy who was supposed to be Lu Yun's blind date—he was indeed very handsome, just like Zhao Meipo said.

Zhou Jun was handsome, sure, but something was off. Then again, others might like him at first sight—everyone's got different taste.

Chen Shu cursed at Zhou Jun, "Your girlfriend's lost her mind! She came in here and offered thirty yuan for the stuff. Do you know what we paid for it? And she had the nerve to act like we were scamming her! You like her—are you as brain-dead as she is?"

Zhou Jun said, "Is this how you treat your customers?"

The scrap yard owner was deeply touched. This employee was a great hire—she was standing up for him.

The owner stepped up and said, "Our attitude? Your girlfriend's attitude is the problem, and that's why we're like this! You here to defend your girlfriend?"

Zhou Jun said, "A thousand yuan. Find me that bed and dresser!"

The owner got excited the second he heard a thousand yuan. A thousand!

Now that's what you call real money!

Chen Shu: "Find the bed and the dressing table? You've got water in your brain—where the hell am I supposed to find them? Huh? Tell me, where!"

If nobody finds the dressing table's secret, fine. But if someone did, they'd have already swiped whatever was inside. And if the stuff inside is gone, what's the point of even having the dressing table?

Lu Yun decided to steer clear of the scrap yard as much as she could for a while.

Lu Yun had given Matchmaker Zhao quite a few gifts, and Zhao was really on the ball when it came to digging up info on Zhou Yanze. As soon as she dug up something useful, she'd go straight to Lu Yun.

A guy pointed Matchmaker Zhao out to Zhou Yanze and said, "It's this person. She's been asking about you lately. And she's a matchmaker—what the heck does she want with you?"

Zhou Yanze grinned. "Maybe she's trying to get to know me better."

The guy teased, "Man, you're grinning like you're lovestruck!"

Zhou Yanze replied, "It'd be strange if I weren't."

The guy: "..........."

Is this really Zhou Yanze?

Holy crap!

Author's note:

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