What About the Love-Token Fish?
Jun Yueyue wiped her tears and took the initiative to walk over to Fang Anyu. She sat on his lap, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed his eyes, which were filled with gentleness. Then she took her phone and typed:
I’ll take you to buy fish. The kind with bulging eyes and round bellies.
Fang Anyu held Jun Yueyue’s legs with both hands and actually stood up from the sofa just like that. Jun Yueyue cried out in surprise and quickly tightened her arms around his neck, caught between laughter and helplessness.
She always felt that Fang Anyu was soft and limp, but she kept making the same mistake as Fang Anyan. Because of Fang Anyu’s personality and reactions, she mistakenly thought he was a weak little chicken who could not lift anything. But in reality, even if he did not know how to fight, he was still a proper man over 1.8 metres tall…
Fang Anyu carried Jun Yueyue into the bedroom and put her down by their wardrobe. His eyes were bright and sparkling. Clearly, he could not wait to buy fish. He opened the wardrobe. Inside were all the clothes the two of them had bought last time at the mall. Fang Anyan must have had someone put them here, and they had already been organised.
A smile hung on Jun Yueyue’s lips as she searched for clothes and muttered to herself, laughing under her breath, “When you like someone, you call them little sweetie. The moment fish are mentioned, your face changes immediately. Men are all no good… Wear this.”
The two of them wore casual outfits in the same colour scheme. They looked almost like couple clothes. Jun Yueyue’s curls had been rubbed into an impossible mess by Fang Anyu earlier, so she found an elastic band, tied her hair at the top of her head, and casually twisted it into a bun.
It was already past seven in the evening. Jun Yueyue did not even know where the flower, bird, and fish market was, or whether it was already closed…
After the two of them changed clothes, they went downstairs hand in hand. The servants had just prepared more food for them, but they did not eat. They asked the servants to arrange a driver and headed straight for the flower, bird, and fish market.
However, reality was always cruel. The driver knew Qiuhai City very well, and the flower, bird, and fish market was already closed at this hour.
“But I know there’s a big hotel with two shops opposite it that sell those little things. They also have small turtles and such. They stay open pretty late. You can try your luck there at this hour.”
The driver was a middle-aged man in his forties. He did not talk much and had a cold expression, so it was rare for him to say so much in one breath.
Of course Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu agreed. The car quickly split through the night, driving toward the place the driver had mentioned.
In the car, the two of them held hands tightly the whole time. Their fingers were interlaced. Their palms were sweaty, but they did not separate even for a moment. Actually, it did not really matter whether they bought any fish. This was Jun Yueyue’s first time falling in love across two lifetimes, and Fang Anyu had only just had this part of himself awakened in his twenties. The two little rookies were far too flustered.
How exactly was dating supposed to be done?
They were already married, and because of a strange combination of circumstances, they had even done the most intimate thing already. Now, on the contrary, they were looking forward to doing something special so that this day would leave a deep memory.
The car drove quickly along the road. After entering the city, the driver glanced back and saw the two people in the back with their heads pressed together, like two puppies being let out of the house for the first time. Their eyes shone as they stuck close to one side of the car window and looked outside.
Of course, it was not their first time out, nor were they amazed by any special scenery. It was just that tonight was especially different for them. They wished they could remember every colour of the neon lights tonight.
When they arrived, the driver parked the car at the entrance of that hotel because there were no parking spaces opposite. Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu got out of the car. At the entrance was an extremely exaggerated large balloon arch. Many balloons floated above the arch, and roses of all colours filled the entrance. At first glance, Jun Yueyue thought some family was holding a wedding here. But when she raised her head, the big balloon arch read: Engagement Banquet of Miss Ming Zhen and Mr Wu Zhenfei.
Jun Yueyue did not know why those two names felt a little familiar, but she did not think too much about it. The hotel entrance was very large, and there was also an underground parking lot, but apparently there were not many spaces left. She only glanced a few times before following Fang Anyu toward the two shops opposite that supposedly sold fish.
But after crossing the road, the two of them walked over excitedly only to discover that those two little shops were also closed. Jun Yueyue pressed herself against the window and looked inside. There was not a single light on. At this hour, it was impossible for the owner to be sleeping. It could only mean the owner did not live there.
She spread her hands toward Fang Anyu and shook her head regretfully. Fang Anyu basically did not know how to hide his emotions. His disappointment was very obvious, and he slowly bit his lip.
Actually, they could buy fish tomorrow. She had promised him the fish for several days already. There was no need to rush at this exact moment.
But today’s meaning really was different. Forget Fang Anyu—even Jun Yueyue was especially disappointed.
When the two of them held hands and crossed the road, both of their mouths were pouted higher than the other’s. They dawdled along. When Jun Yueyue reached the side of the balloon arch, she reached out and pulled down a red heart-shaped balloon. She wanted to snap the string and present it to Fang Anyu as a borrowed flower offering.
But no matter how she tugged, the string would not break. Instead, it rubbed her hand red. Everything was going wrong!
Jun Yueyue refused to believe it. She was about to return to the car and ask the driver for something sharp to cut the string when a doorman suddenly called out from the hotel behind her, “Take care, sir.”
She turned her head and saw that the two layers of automatic doors in the hotel lobby had opened. This hotel was quite distinctive. It did not have one of those revolving doors, and the lobby was not an empty open space. Instead, in the centre of the lobby stood a huge pillar. This layout itself was not particularly unusual, but the outer layer of the pillar was glass, and the inside was hollow. The moment the doors opened, Jun Yueyue watched with her own eyes as something red flowed inside that pillar. Looking more closely—
Truly, it was like wearing out iron shoes in a fruitless search, only to find it effortlessly!
Swimming back and forth inside that hollow pillar were fish!
Jun Yueyue hesitated in place for two seconds, then decided to take Fang Anyu into the hotel. Mainly, if she were an ordinary girl from average circumstances dating an ordinary young man whose circumstances were also not very good, then fine.
If they could not buy fish today, they could buy them tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow would work too. If their circumstances limited them, bowing to the great father that was money and life was nothing shameful. But!
She was the eldest miss of the Jun family! Fang Anyu was, at any rate, the eldest young master of the Fang family! Even if both families were currently having problems, no matter what, they were not ordinary at all!
Forget simply entering a hotel to buy the fish inside a pillar. Even buying the whole hotel would not be a dream!
So Jun Yueyue touched the small bag she carried with her. The string of cards inside gave her confidence. She pulled Fang Anyu along and marched grandly and proudly through the hotel entrance—
Then she was stopped by the doorman…
“I’m sorry, sir and miss. Please show your invitation.” The doorman was dressed in a suit, his smile standard and polished. If not for his hand gesture and what he said, Jun Yueyue would have thought he was some company elite.
“What invitation?” Jun Yueyue thought of the balloon arch at the entrance and suddenly understood. “Oh! That. We’re not here to attend the engagement banquet.”
The doorman smiled and nodded. He could tell. Everyone attending the engagement banquet was dressed in suits and formal gowns. These two were dressed wrong!
“I just want to buy that.” Jun Yueyue’s attitude was still quite good. She pointed at the pillar in the hotel lobby and said, “The fish inside that! I want to buy two!”
The doorman froze for a moment, then turned back to look. He was a little shocked. He had never encountered such a request before.
“But those are ornamental fish. We don’t sell them,” he said. “We’re also not open to the public today. All seven floors have been booked. A gentleman and a lady are holding their engagement banquet here.”
“I know, it’s written outside. I just want to buy two fish!” Jun Yueyue anxiously pointed at the large pillar in the lobby. “I want to buy two red ones. Can you help me find the person in charge here?”
The doorman was actually very easy to talk to. But when Jun Yueyue mentioned asking him to help find the person in charge, he said apologetically, “I’m sorry, miss. The one holding the engagement banquet is this hotel’s owner. Besides, the ornamental fish in that pillar really aren’t for sale. They were all air-shipped here, and each one is very expensive…”
The doorman was not looking down on Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu’s clothes or appearance. It was just that the fish really were expensive, and they really were not for sale…
His expression was very troubled. Jun Yueyue also did not want to make things difficult for a doorman, so she only said to him, “Since your boss is getting engaged, there must be a manager in charge of the banquet. Just help me find them. I know the fish are very expensive.”
Jun Yueyue had originally wanted to domineeringly spend money on her newly promoted little lover for once, but now she had no choice but to explain helplessly to the doorman. “I can afford them. Believe me.”
The doorman smiled helplessly too. “I’m truly sorry, miss. Our boss is also our manager…”
Jun Yueyue: “…”
She was silent for a moment and was just about to speak again when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind her.
“Why are you two here?!”
Jun Yueyue turned around. After freezing for a second, she smiled. Never before had there been a moment when seeing Fang Anyan felt as friendly as it did now.
“Why did you bring my brother out again?” Fang Anyan was dressed in a sharp suit and walking hurriedly toward the hotel. He had also been invited today, but because there had been many days’ worth of company matters piled up, he had come late.
The moment he saw the two of them here, Fang Anyan’s originally handsome face twisted for an instant, and his brows almost knotted into a twist.
“It’s already so late. Instead of properly staying at home, you two…” Fang Anyan suddenly changed his words and asked Jun Yueyue, “Were you invited too?”
Jun Yueyue went, “Ah?” Fang Anyan’s expression immediately worsened. “Wu Zhenfei sent you an invitation?”
Jun Yueyue had originally been stopped and could not get in. When Fang Anyan asked this, her eyes rolled, and she simply followed along and nodded. Since the doorman would not find someone for her, she could just go inside and find someone herself.
“He sent you an invitation, and you actually dared to come?”
Fang Anyan was simply shocked by this woman’s shamelessness. “And you even dared to bring my brother! Who in Qiuhai City doesn’t know Wu Zhenfei likes you? When you got married, he almost drank himself to death. Today, you brought my brother here—are you trying to show off, or are you bringing my brother here to be looked down on?”
Jun Yueyue truly had not known about this part. It did not seem to be in the plot either… Fuck, she remembered now!
In the plot, the adulterer the original body eventually cheated with was called Wu Zhenfei, wasn’t he?
It was just that the author often called him “the adulterer” and rarely used his name, so when Jun Yueyue first saw it, she had not immediately remembered!
Holy shit, shit, shit!
This was fucking awkward. Jun Yueyue’s expression changed. Seeing her guilty look, Fang Anyan immediately felt he had seen through her intentions. Through gritted teeth, he said, “Jun Yue, what exactly are you planning? What exactly do you want to do to my brother? The things you said to Old Master Jun might deceive others, but don’t even think about deceiving me.”
If Fang Anyan had not mentioned that, it would have been fine. The moment he mentioned it, Jun Yueyue glared at him. “You still have the nerve to say that? You secretly listened to those words. Fine, you secretly listened, but then you went and told your brother. You’re a grown man. Do you have any shame?”
Fang Anyu stood beside the two of them. Seeing that both of their expressions were not quite right, he wanted to move between them and separate them, but Jun Yueyue pulled him back behind her.
At this point, Fang Anyan no longer cared that he had arrived late and needed to hurry inside to apologise to Wu Zhenfei. He shook the watch on his wrist and said, “So what if I told my brother? I just wanted him to know your true face so he won’t be fooled by you!”
“How did I fool him?!” Jun Yueyue was also feeling wronged. Not long ago, she had already gritted her teeth and gotten together with Fang Anyu. How was she deceiving him?
Of course Fang Anyan would not believe her, because from his perspective, Jun Yueyue’s change had been far too quick. A few days ago, she had loved him desperately. Then she turned around and became deeply devoted to his brother? Even dramas did not dare act like this.
“Could it be that everything you said is true? Then hold firm and don’t divorce my brother,” Fang Anyan said. Then he reached out to pull Fang Anyu from behind Jun Yueyue. “Don’t even think about bringing my brother inside. You clearly know my brother’s condition.”
However, Fang Anyan’s hand grasped empty air. Fang Anyu dodged backward, avoiding his hand. Instead, he reached out and wrapped his arm around Jun Yueyue’s neck.
Fang Anyan felt as if an arrow had been shot straight through his chest, the kind that pierced clean through. He looked at his brother in disbelief. That day, he had clearly broken everything down and explained it to his brother in detail, analysing all this woman’s schemes so thoroughly. He had not expected that his brother would still be led around by this woman!
“What kind of drug did you give my brother?” Unable to pull his brother away, Fang Anyan instead went to pull Jun Yueyue, heartbroken with frustration. “Where’s the car? The two of you go home. I’ll go inside, say hello, and come back. Tonight, we’re going to have a proper talk!”
Jun Yueyue was pulled downward by Fang Anyan tugging at her sleeve. She was indeed a little guilty. She had not remembered Wu Zhenfei from the plot right away. If the doorman had really found Wu Zhenfei just now, there would have been a whole drama to watch. Fang Anyu could not speak and could not hear, so he might have been mocked.
But Jun Yueyue would not let him be bullied. Besides, she had not bought the fish yet, and she had already promised Fang Anyu. So Jun Yueyue struggled backward while Fang Anyan pulled downward. Fang Anyu naturally helped Jun Yueyue. The three of them started tugging at one another at the entrance with absolutely no image left…
Today, Fang Anyan had originally styled his hair in a particularly neat and handsome way. Although he did not really like all kinds of social occasions, from today onward, he had to force himself to move through these kinds of events, because he needed money.
But after struggling with Jun Yueyue a couple of times, and seeing that his brother was actually helping this wild woman… no, this bad woman, he irritably reached up and rubbed his hair. His perfectly good hairstyle was rubbed into a chicken nest. Two tufts of hair stood brilliantly upright under the lights.
Seeing this, Jun Yueyue laughed mercilessly. Fang Anyu, standing behind Jun Yueyue, could not help curving his lips too.
Fang Anyan really rarely saw his brother smile. He could no longer remember how many years it had been since he last saw it… So for a moment, he actually froze and did not react for a long time.
When Jun Yueyue saw Fang Anyan’s expression, she knew what was going on. The first time she saw Fang Anyu smile, she had probably looked about the same as Fang Anyan.
She shook off Fang Anyan’s hand, which was still gripping her sleeve, and said, “I’m not here to attend any engagement banquet. Do you see that pillar? I just want to buy two fish from inside it.”
No matter who heard this, it would sound like nonsense. Especially with the background of Wu Zhenfei and the original body’s “unrequited longing” situation, plus the huge contrast between Jun Yueyue and the original body before and after, it would be strange if Fang Anyan believed her.
“You want to buy two fish…” After returning to himself from his brother’s smile, Fang Anyan had no pleasant expression for Jun Yueyue. “If you want to eat fish, go home and have the servants make it for you. Stop making trouble here. Go back quickly.”
“Why are you like this?” Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyan probably had clashing birth characters. Whether she told the truth or lied, he did not believe her. “I just want to buy fish. I have to buy them today. Don’t stop me. I’m buying them for your brother!”
They were love-token fish!
If Jun Yueyue had not said she was buying them for Fang Anyu, Fang Anyan would only have known she was messing around. But the moment she said she was buying them for Fang Anyu, Fang Anyan felt even more that she was ridiculous. “If you want to see Wu Zhenfei yourself, then go yourself. You don’t need to find this kind of excuse, and don’t drag my brother into it. Jun Yue, you—”
“Yueyue?”
Fang Anyan’s voice was interrupted by another voice coming from behind the three of them.
“Is that you, Yueyue?”
That person seemed very excited. The sound of leather shoes striking the floor was hurried, almost as if he had run over to the three of them. He grabbed Jun Yueyue’s hand at once.
“You came. I thought you wouldn’t come. I kept calling you, but you never answered…”
Jun Yueyue followed the person’s arm upward with her gaze. When she saw his face, she was so shocked that she even forgot to pull her hand back…
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