The oddest part was that, after doing such a shocking thing, the favorability level above the head of the person standing in front of her was still set at [10]—this dangerous edge did not move at all. Gou An didn’t know whether she should praise him for his stable emotions.

[Jiaojiao: Maybe this is within his expectations of you—]

The fat cat raised his furry paws, stretching hard to separate the gap between toes to about one millimeter.

[Jiaojiao: So the fact that you could do something like this actually fits his impression of you as a willful, crazy woman.]

Gou An: “…”

The bodyguard in front of her was indeed in a very miserable state. Sticky melted ice cream was dripping down his chin, mixed with red jam, dripping all the way onto his originally spotless shoes.

That originally fair and beautiful face now looked even colder than usual…

Ye Lang stood there motionless and remained silent. Compared with the people around him who were truly stunned, the victim in question was like a stagnant pool of water, quietly watching the eldest daughter of the Gou family who suddenly went crazy.

… If he wasn’t angry, it was probably because a deeper level of confusion occupied Ye Lang’s mind at this moment.

In the silent standoff between Gou An and Ye Lang, Lu Wan, who had already finished her shift behind the counter, was the first to react. Anxiously, she walked around the counter, got a clean, wet, disposable wipes, and came to Ye Lang, “Hurry up and wipe it—”

She reached out to wipe Ye Lang’s face, her fingertips almost touching his chin, but suddenly she seemed to remember that he didn’t like physical contact with others, so she stopped abruptly…

Lu Wan looked at Ye Lang and handed over the disposable wipes in her hand.

Ye Lang then lowered his eyes to glance at the girl. He remained silent (not even saying thank you) and took the wipes from her hand—

“Don’t take it!”

Not far away, the words, sharp like a whistle was heard again.

Ye Lang was stunned by the shouting, and his gaze, which was originally on Lu Wan, shifted to look at Miss Gou who was standing not far away with her hands on her hips, frowning at him.

“Put it down.”

Miss Gou ordered with a cold face.

… …

In all of Jiangcheng’s lower district, everyone had a consensus: anyone who dared to speak loudly to Wolf ge would not receive a single word in response, but in the next second, they would be stuffed into a garbage can in the back alley of Endless Night and would have no choice but to crawl out with a bruised face.

How many years has it been since he heard such an arrogant order?

Even when Master Hong Jiu had to fire him after Endless Night was smashed by the Jiang family and the man had been really afraid of further retaliation, he had still chosen his words very carefully and practically rolled out the red carpet to send Wolf ge away.

… What was going on with this little miss?

The fuse in Ye Lang’s brain was about to burn out, but that didn’t stop him from hesitating for a second and then obediently placing the wipes in his hand on the counter next to him.

“A’Lang?”

Lu Wan’s eyes widened in shock.

Then she turned her head and looked at Gou An in disbelief.

On the other hand, she couldn’t believe how she dared to order A’Lang like that.

At the same time, she couldn’t believe that A’Lang actually listened to her.

However, no matter how surprised Lu Wan was, Ye Lang did not look at her again. He just stood aside with a blank face and a disheveled look, even though the melted ice cream was still flowing down his slightly pointed chin and dripping onto his collar.

He seemed completely unaffected.

This bodyguard standing by the door just tilted his head and watched as Gou An asked the staff to pack up her ice cream, then took out her wallet to compensate for the store’s cleanup costs. Finally, she waved and apologized to the other customers in the store who had been watching the excitement in amazement, saying that she was sorry to disturb their happy afternoon tea.

She was very polite to everyone throughout the whole process.

Except to him.

… …

After arranging everything, Gou An once again picked up the pile of shopping bags that she had set down next to her. But unlike when she first entered the dessert shop, there was now an extra dessert bag filled with small ice packs in her hand.

All in all, they were quite heavy.

Carrying a lot of bags did not prevent Miss Gou from walking out of the store with her head held high.

She passed by Ye Lang without blinking.

She walked three or four steps out of the door before she stopped and turned around. She found that the tall figure in a disheveled state was still standing there, his eyes not having left her.

Because when she turned around, she met his dark eyes that were as sharp as knives.

Who knew if it was because of anger or some other reason, but those eyes, which were usually dull, became unusually bright the moment she turned her head.

Beside him, Lu Wan was anxiously asking if he was okay. Ye Lang ignored her, his head turned away to stare at Gou An stubbornly. His eyes looked as if he wanted to eat her on the spot, so focused that it was scary.

Being stared at so disrespectfully should have made her even angrier, but Gou An’s anger actually subsided a little. She put down the shopping bags that were about to break her hands and kicked one of them, “You take these.”

Of course, these words were said to Ye Lang.

Originally, according to Gou An’s impression of this person as being cold and rude, and unwilling to be soft-hearted, he might just ignore her—and then they would have another big fight.

Unexpectedly, after receiving the order, he casually wiped the sticky milkshake-like ice cream on his chin with the back of his hand, then walked straight towards her.

The young man who bent down to pick up the pile of shopping bags on the ground and stood straight in front of her now looked absurd and grotesque.

Everyone in the mall was still looking at him, but this time, their gazes were no longer filled with amazement, but with surprise…

However, it seemed that whether it was amazement or surprise, these kinds of gaze made no difference to him.

Apart from his dirty clothes and face, he looked exactly the same as when he was standing at the mall entrance earlier.

He lowered his head slightly and stared at Gou An. His forbearing look made Gou An speechless. She really wanted to call Gou Yu and ask him how much money he was paying this bodyguard. Otherwise, how could such a good person turn into a Ninja Turtle¹…

After a while, it was Miss Gou who couldn’t stand the constant sidelong glances from others, and with a gloomy face, she called the driver to pick her up.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

In the end, she didn’t get to buy the jewelry she wanted.

She only remembered this when she got in the car.

She couldn’t help but exclaim in a regretful ‘Ah, I’m so unlucky’ tone, which attracted the attention of the driver, as well as the bodyguard who had just opened the car door and to sit down on the passenger seat.

The driver was a new one, in his twenties, surnamed Zhang. He had a lively and cheerful personality, but his shortcoming was that he was a little unstable…

At this time, Xiao Zhang finally noticed Ye Lang’s embarrassing state. He exclaimed ‘whoa!’ as if in fright. He hurriedly took out a large bag of wet wipes from somewhere and asked the bodyguard to wipe himself down quickly.

Ye Lang glanced at the big bag of tissues that was about to hit his face, but did not take it immediately. Instead, he turned around to look at Gou An.

… He looked like someone who had been shouted at so much and was in a state of shock, and now he didn’t know whether he could respond or not.

Gou An: “…”

Seeing him accepting everything she dished out so submissively, Gou An felt a little relieved, but at the same time, another fire seemed to be burning in her heart. She frowned, grabbed the wet wipes, and threw it hard at him.

Ye Lang easily caught the wet wipes and began to wipe the unpleasant sweet liquid from his body.

Finally, after struggling for more than ten minutes, he finally gave up. The suit jacket was too ugly to look at…

At an intersection, he silently took off his suit jacket and placed it neatly on his knees.

From Gou An’s perspective, she could see the broad shoulders of the man in the passenger seat, wearing a light blue shirt. His long and thick eyelashes were lowered, grazing his cheeks, as he folded his jacket.

“Do you still want to be my bodyguard?” Gou An suddenly asked without warning.

Ye Lang stopped folding clothes, turned around, and looked at her calmly. “I just want to know—why?”

Obviously, when she woke up that morning, she didn’t have this terrible attitude towards him. Instead, she was like an overly clingy cat, jumping around beside him and looking very lively…

But after Lu Wan arrived, and he stuffed her into the closet, everything changed.

She became extremely aggressive.

“I saved you.”

“I hate you.”

A voice that seemed emotionless at first but actually seemed a little aggrieved spoke at the same time as a decisive female voice.

Ye Lang almost immediately fell into the familiar silence again. After a pause, he seemed to be stubbornly trying to get an answer and asked again, “Why?”

Gou An, however, curled her lips. Then, as if afraid that he hadn’t heard clearly, she repeated her words and said patiently, “What reason do you need? You saved me, so what? If you hadn’t come that day, I would have beaten that man’s head off and then crawled down the pipe myself.”

Ye Lang remained noncommittal about this statement and maintained a reserved attitude.

After all, that night, although Gou An did climb down the water pipe by herself, she let go for the last two meters and fell…

If he hadn’t caught her, she would have fallen and broken her bottom at the very least.

She had obviously forgotten about this matter because she had been drunk and had been chattering on and on.

“I’m an ungrateful person. I just hate you. Either you get out of here today or if you shamelessly stay… I guarantee something similar will happen again.”

She paused and added decisively—

“Countless times.”

Ye Lang: “…”

From the Day the Engagement was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Lest people start flaming Gou An for being a rich girl who looks down on poor people—she’s raging because Ye Lang was paying attention to Lu Wan. She didn’t let him use the wipes the Lu Wan gave him, but the ones from the driver was okay.

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Chapter 32.2 — Comparison
Chapter 33.1 — He Jinxing, Are You In Love?
Chapter 33.2 — He Jinxing, Are You In Love?
Chapter 34.1 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?
Chapter 34.2 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?
Chapter 34.3 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?

FOOTNOTE:

1. The first character for the Chinese translation of ‘Ninja Turtle’ means to endure/bear, so to call someone Ninja Turtle means to be forbearing, eat all the hardships silently. ↩︎