You are all bad women! Don't come over!-Chapter 41 - 39: Can the Two of Us Sleep in the Same Bed?
"Let’s talk about it when the time comes," Shen Mochen avoided Catherine’s eyes, his tone vague.
Catherine shrugged, "We could also invite your sister along, but each room only has one bed, so you would have to sleep on the floor. Of course, there is a wool carpet on the floor, so it shouldn’t be too uncomfortable."
What, so you’re saying if it’s just the two of us, we can sleep on the same bed? While it might not seem to be a problem given our status as a couple, aren’t you thinking a bit too far ahead about sleeping? At the end of the day, you’re just scheming to get in bed with me!
I didn’t expect you to be like that, Kajiena!
Shen Mochen’s mind was racing with wild thoughts, and he couldn’t help but smirk. Catherine seemed to sense the teasing in his mind and shot him a cold, slanting glance, "Are you thinking about something rude?"
"Cough cough cough, no, nothing at all!"
Shen Mochen quickly denied it, and Catherine withdrew her gaze, too lazy to expose him.
After another two stops, Shen Mochen saw his chance and briskly snagged a seat among a crowd, offering it to the Princess. However, Catherine had barely sat down for two seconds before she stood up to offer her seat to an elderly man wearing glasses.
The old man kept praising her for being kind and polite, and Catherine looked quite pleased with herself. Shen Mochen thought she probably just wanted to experience the act of "giving up her seat on the subway."
More than half an hour later, Shen Mochen and Catherine left the subway station.
First Middle School’s anniversary celebration lasted for three days; the first day consisted of various classes performing talent shows in the school auditorium, while the next two days featured class activities.
After class voting, the talent show for class 3A was decided to be a play performed entirely in a foreign language. However, class 3A was learning Huaqi, while the play decided to be performed was a traditional story from Romany.
Rehearsing a Romany story in Huaqi, Shen Mochen reasonably suspected that the class was trying to please Catherine by making such a mismatched decision—after all, they had also nominated Catherine to play the female lead.
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For their class activity in the following two days, class 3A decided to run a board game shop and also decided that everyone should order a set of waiter uniforms.
You’re only going to wear it once—wouldn’t the school uniform suffice... Shen Mochen’s internal complaint towards their extravagant waste surfaced when he heard the decision.
Anyway, today’s mission for Shen Mochen and Catherine was to go to a clothing shop to have clothes tailored. After all, it was for the school celebration event, and it was more reliable to find a shop offline than to risk errors online.
As Shen Mochen had called ahead of time, upon arriving at the shop, they simply stated their requirements and examined the materials and workmanship of the shop without any problems. Still, to tailor the lead actress’s costume, Catherine had the shop-owner take her measurements in the back room.
Although Shen Mochen couldn’t watch, just by seeing the shop-owner’s astonished expression when she emerged, he knew how shocked she was by Catherine’s perfect figure... Ah, he really wanted to take those measurements himself!
In any case, the whole process took no more than an hour. However, in the end, Shen Mochen and the shop-owner argued for over twenty minutes about the price.
It was finally resolved by the shop-owner giving a 30% discount on the original price at Shen Mochen’s behest, which, upon his insistence, was rounded down even further.
"You really don’t seem like you’re from First Middle School," the shop-owner said, taking the deposit and looking at Shen Mochen’s school uniform with a mixture of laughter and helplessness as she started to write the receipt.
"I’m really sorry, I’m just a pauper who’s recently come into wealth and haven’t seen much of the world," Shen Mochen chuckled nonchalantly.
Haven’t seen much of the world? I think you’ve seen too much of it! You’re just like an old slick operator! the shop-owner thought to herself.
After getting the receipt, Shen Mochen turned to Catherine and said, "All set, let’s go home!"
Catherine slightly frowned, "Is that all for today?"
Shen Mochen nodded, "Yeah, I came out late today, so I just settled for this one. I haven’t done my homework yet. Let’s come out earlier tomorrow to choose some wallpaper and furniture!"
Catherine glanced at the time on her watch and didn’t say anything more.
Leaving the clothing store, Shen Mochen gave Catherine a quick look. She had remained silent while he was haggling, and that attitude took him by surprise.
He had argued with the shopkeeper not really to save money. Even though he came from a poor background and haggling was a daily routine, he wasn’t in the habit of trying to save public funds; the saved money wouldn’t be his anyway.
The reason he deliberately wasted his breath arguing was that, in his view, no girl likes a penny-pinching loser, especially a rich and dripping-in-wealth noble lady like Catherine.
As long as he wasted time over a small amount of money with the shopkeeper, she would surely look down on him, definitely reducing her favorability towards him.
As it seemed now, that plan appeared to have failed.
Little did he know, not only had Catherine not shown any signs of dissatisfaction, but she had even allowed him to waste time on such a trivial matter without urging him on. Silently watching their petty haggling, she actually seemed quite interested.
Shen Mochen sighed internally, feeling that tonight he not only failed to lower her good opinion of him, it seemed to have increased slightly... What a disaster!
The two walked the streets, encapsulated by the night sky, with bright lights shining on either side of the road where people passed by, casting intersecting shadows.
Shen Mochen was planning to head back to the subway station when he suddenly noticed Catherine looking at a fried skewer stall at the roadside.
Shen Mochen asked, "Do you want to eat grilled skewers?"
Catherine shook her head slightly, saying indifferently, "I just feel hungry."
"Hungry? You didn’t..."
Shen Mochen wanted to ask if she hadn’t had dinner, but then he thought that since she had arrived at the apartment complex by 5:30 p.m., she probably hadn’t eaten dinner.
"I’m really sorry for making you wait so long..." Shen Mochen immediately apologized with a forced smile, "Let me treat you to dinner!"
"Are you planning to dine out on public funds since you didn’t bring any money?"
"Uh, that’s a harsh way to put it. We’re just having a meal outside because of work, right? It’s quite normal to get reimbursed from the class fund... Okay, okay, if you don’t like it, I’ll pay it back with my own money when I get back, how about that!"
Shen Mochen, already feeling guilty, didn’t mind it too much. He let Catherine choose wherever she wanted, but with a quick glance, he added that she couldn’t choose anything too expensive.
Catherine still didn’t care, and she chose the fried skewer spot on the street.
Shen Mochen teased her with a grin, "I thought you hated unhygienic places? Actually, these fried skewers aren’t very sanitary either!"
Catherine gave him a sideways look, and he immediately knew to keep his mouth shut, hurriedly trotting to the entrance of the skewer shop, "What do you want to eat, come and choose yourself!"
After choosing the skewers, Shen Mochen, feeling somewhat remorseful, took the initiative to suggest, "Wait here for me for a bit, I’ll go buy you a drink. Just eating skewers might be a bit salty."
Catherine nodded slightly.
"What would you like to drink?"
"Plain water is fine."
Shen Mochen nodded and headed to a nearby convenience store where he bought two bottles of mineral water, then slowly wandered back.
But in that brief moment, he could see from a distance that Catherine had been surrounded by a few people.
So he picked up a brick and hid it behind his back.
