The atmosphere froze instantly.
After The three women noticed Jiang Cheng's gaze, they all looked over in unison.
They saw Jiang Cheng staring at a girl with a clear and pretty face.
The three women couldn't help but glance at each other, each seeing a hint of a sense of crisis in the others' eyes.
Mainly because this girl looked like a female college student.
So, could this be Jiang Cheng's girlfriend from school...
Seeing that the look in Jiang Cheng's eyes was only surprise and not panic,
Zhong Chuxi slowly took the grilled sausage out of her mouth, her lips moved, and her voice was a bit dry: "Jiang Cheng?"
Jiang Cheng really didn't expect to run into Zhong Chuxi here.
Although Fang Yuan lived near Taikoo Li, she was currently at work at the company.
So even staying at a hotel in Taikoo Li, Jiang Cheng felt very safe.
But he never expected that Zhong Chuxi attended university locally in Chengdu, and today just happened to be Sunday.
Taikoo Li is a famous business district in Chengdu, so it was understandable for her to appear here.
Jiang Cheng was silent for a second, then tilted his head slightly and said to The three women beside him, "You guys go ahead first and see which shops you like; I'll head over in a bit."
Jiaxue glanced at him, then at the girl in the blue dress not far away. She didn't ask anything and just nodded obediently: "Okay."
Zhao Yihan also nodded and gently pulled Chloe's hand.
Chloe didn't understand, but she sensed something from the atmosphere.
She looked at Jiang Cheng, then at Zhong Chuxi, and then silently followed the two women forward.
The three women walked a certain distance away but didn't go far, stopping at a shop entrance about a dozen meters away, pretending to look at the window display.
Zhong Chuxi watched their retreating backs, then looked at the grilled sausage in Jiang Cheng's hand.
She was silent for a few seconds before speaking:
"They... the three of them, ate your sausage?"
When she asked this, Jiang Cheng felt a small prompt from his Danger Perception Skill.
This prompt was naturally related to Zhou Ying.
After all, although the two of them had accidentally had an 'intersection' in the villa's storage room last time,
at that time, this intersection hadn't 'pushed' into the territory.
Friction only occurred at the edge approaching the entrance.
In the end, it even forced Zhong Chuxi to spray water all over Jiang Cheng.
Of course, to stop her, Jiang Cheng gave as good as he got and sealed her with white cement.
Jiang Cheng looked at her and didn't speak.
Zhong Chuxi lowered her head and looked at the whole grilled sausage in her own hand.
She looked up again at Jiang Cheng, her eyes a bit red:
"I'm alone, eating one sausage."
Jiang Cheng still didn't speak.
"The three of them are eating your sausage by yourself."
Jiang Cheng was silent for a while, then nodded.
Zhong Chuxi stared at him: "Don't you have anything you want to say to me?"
Jiang Cheng looked at her, and for a moment, there was a flash of complexity in his eyes.
Then he frowned, his voice very flat: "Do you mean you don't want to eat alone? Then how about... you eat together too?"
Seeing Jiang Cheng hand his sausage to her, Zhong Chuxi couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
Having not seen Jiang Cheng for so long, with Jiang Cheng staring at her like this, Zhong Chuxi only felt he was so handsome.
Before, she had always been envious that Zhou Ying could find such a handsome boyfriend as Jiang Cheng.
Plus, having accidentally had that intersection with Jiang Cheng last time, she hadn't been without fantasies whenever it was late and quiet at night since then.
She opened her mouth and then realized she almost wanted to eat it, which scared her into immediately closing her mouth.
With a slightly angry expression, she spoke: "You know that's not what I meant. I mean, why are the three of them eating one of your grilled sausages?"
"I didn't make them eat one, but they insisted on eating together..."
Seeing Jiang Cheng still giving an irrelevant answer, Zhong Chuxi spat: "You scumbag, so are they all your girlfriends?"
Hearing this, Jiang Cheng frowned again: "Um, sort of, but also not really..."
Mainly Chen Jiaxue and Zhao Yihan; although Jiang Cheng was supporting these two women,
as long as they weren't having an 'intersection', Jiang Cheng wouldn't deliberately set aside time to maintain a relationship with them...
"What do you mean'sort of'... is this fair to..."
She originally wanted to say 'is this fair to me?' but paused and changed it to: "Is... is this fair to Zhou Ying?"
As soon as the words left her mouth, Zhong Chuxi felt guilty herself.
Since that incident in the storage room last time, she felt unable to hold her head up every time she thought of Zhou Ying.
But now, seeing other women standing by Jiang Cheng's side, a complex emotion actually surged in her heart.
There was both the anger of seeking justice for Zhou Ying and a secret, shameful joy.
Because she suddenly realized: it turned out she wasn't the only one letting Zhou Ying down.
The moment this thought popped up, she startled herself.
But that joy couldn't be suppressed; it was even quietly spreading.
If everyone was the same, then could she... also not have to be so self-reproachful? Maybe... she could even continue down this wrong path?
"I don't know how to explain this to you either..." Jiang Cheng's voice pulled her back to reality.
After a few seconds of silence, seeing that Zhong Chuxi wasn't speaking, Jiang Cheng asked again: "Finished asking? Then... this sausage, are you going to eat it or not?"
After staring at it for a moment, Zhong Chuxi's cheeks instantly turned red.
"I... I don't want it, it's covered in saliva..."
"That's what you said. If you don't eat it, I'll give it to them..."
Seeing Jiang Cheng finish speaking and head toward The three women not far away on his own, Zhong Chuxi was momentarily stunned.
Wait, no!
Is he really not afraid that I'll tell Zhou Ying about this?
"Jiang Cheng... wait..." Zhong Chuxi angrily took a bite of the unfinished sausage in her hand while chasing after him.
The passing pedestrians had thought there would be some big drama, but they didn't expect that the scene of a girl crying and a man coaxing her didn't appear. In an instant, Jiang Cheng was back beside The three women and handed the grilled sausage to them.
This reversal left the onlookers both confused and envious.
Among them, many girls were also looking at Jiang Cheng.
Most of them just sighed, "He's so handsome," and then that was it.
Although there are many trendy and beautiful women in Taikoo Li,
and most girls with makeup look decent,
no matter how decent, when they saw the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and long-legged Chloe, they knew they had no chance of winning against her.
But the situation on the guys' side was completely different.
Although they knew they couldn't compare to Jiang Cheng, that didn't stop them from ogling the beauties.
One man wearing glasses, in particular, stared at Chloe's legs from start to finish without any concealment.
His girlfriend beside him had been observing him for a long time.
After a few minutes, she finally couldn't take it anymore.
"What are you looking at?!"
The glasses man was startled and quickly retracted his gaze: "I'm not looking—I'm looking at that guy."
"That guy?" The girlfriend sneered. "He's got three women—no, four women with him. He's clearly not gay, so why are you looking at him?"
The glasses man got anxious: "I'm not gay either!"
"So?" The girlfriend narrowed her eyes. "You admit you were looking at those three women?"
The glasses man found it hard to defend himself: "Can you stop being so unreasonable..."
"Me, unreasonable?" The girlfriend's voice rose an octave. "Your eyeballs are about to fall out, and you say I'm being unreasonable?"
She slapped the glasses man on the back, making him stumble.
"Let's go! I'll settle the score with you when we get back!"
The glasses man clutched his back and followed her dejectedly.
Before leaving, he couldn't help but look back once more.
This time he was looking at Jiang Cheng.
His eyes were filled with envy, jealousy, and hate.
By the time Zhong Chuxi caught up, The three women had very tactfully taken a step ahead hand-in-hand, leaving some space.
The wind in Taikoo Li was light, and the mirror-like pool in the center of the plaza reflected the clouds in the sky.
Zhong Chuxi walked beside Jiang Cheng, the grilled sausage in her hand bitten into a mess.
She glanced at The three women walking ahead and asked somewhat dejectedly: "Does Zhou Ying know about them?"