On the way, Tang Xinjiu was originally chatting with Gou An, but she eventually stopped talking and drove faster and faster.

“What are you doing?” Gou An was getting a little nervous because of her.

“There’s a car following us,” Tang Xinjiu said nervously, “It’s a shabby Santana.”

Gou An turned her head and looked, then through two layers of glass—their own rear window and the other car’s front windshield, she saw a handsome man in a suit with a blank expression, holding the steering wheel in the driver’s seat of the broken Santa, keeping a distance that would inevitably cause a rear-end collision if they ever braked suddenly.

“…” Gou An retracted her gaze with a frown on her face, “No need to step on the accelerator, he’s my bodyguard.”

… …

Twenty minutes later, Tang Xinjiu was at the entrance of CW, still cursing, “Is your bodyguard crazy? Why can’t he just follow the car? Why does he have to stage a Fast and the Furious show?”

Just as she was complaining, she saw a very handsome man getting out of the battered Santana. He had broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and a cold look.

Tang Xinjiu held her breath and grabbed Gou An’s arm tightly, making noises like a screaming chicken with its throat strangled.

She didn’t even need to say anything, Gou An knew what she meant.

“Beautiful things are all poisonous,” Gou An said calmly, patting her paws, “He’s just like a rose with thorns. If you’re not careful, you’ll end up with a bloody head. Don’t be like that.”

These words were not said to Ye Lang at all.

He heard it though. He just glanced at her, keeping his eyes downcast, and then silently followed her into the mall. Amid the lively background music of the mall, Gou An heard a voice behind her ask in a neither loud nor low voice:

“A rose, me?”

“…” Gou An said, “Don’t flatter yourself.”

“?”

It wasn’t even him who said it.

Ye Lang didn’t understand why he was being scolded again.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Zhou Yutong was a little chatterbox.

When she saw Gou An, she started talking non-stop, like pouring beans from bamboo. She said that for this coming-of-age ceremony, she had ordered a high-end dress a year and a half in advance from Wonderland A—a famous luxury dress brand that was the dream of thousands of girls. She also asked Gou An to wear one of the ready-to-wear dresses from this brand no matter what, and that when she did, she would definitely shine at the coming-of-age ceremony.

“Me? No need. I’m already an adult.”

Gou An only prepared a set of high-end ready-to-wear clothes from another brand for that day, which was quite standard. After all, she was not the protagonist this year.

“But isn’t Gou Xun your younger brother? He’s the same age as me, right?” Zhou Yutong asked. “Logically, if he doesn’t have a confirmed marriage partner or a formal relationship with a girlfriend approved by his parents, he should dance the opening dance with you, his jiejie… Like me, I’m also dancing with my gege.”

Zhou Yutong was in the fitting room, studying how to wear the extremely complicated dress assisted by three or four sales attendants. The various straps and super-large corset made her voice sound unclear and breathless.

“Gou Xun and I don’t have a very good relationship… I don’t want to dance with him. And he probably wouldn’t want to spend his coming-of-age ceremony, a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, with me either.”

Gou An left her to stroll around the store and casually pulled out a little black dress. The back was bold and open, and there was a pink satin bow tied at the waist.

The dresses of this brand were mainly in the vintage princess style of a previous century, mostly with corsets and voluminous skirts. Looking at the dress in front of her, Gou An stretched out her hand to measure it and felt that the waist size could only fit one of her thighs at most.

So awesome.

She carefully held out dress in front of her.

“An’an, that dress is beautiful!”

“Yeah, yeah, you have such fair skin, wearing a little black dress will shock the entire place! If you don’t want to dance with Gou Xun, you can dance with He— cough, cough, Uncle Perky Butt!”

“Buy it, buy it!”

Zhou Yutong and Tang Xinjiu, who popped their heads out of the fitting room, were enthusiastically showing their support. This kind of meaningless and half-hearted flattery was just like seeing an author with poor writing skills describing a plot she didn’t put much heart into.

Gou An was starting to have a bad feeling.

She didn’t have time to think about it. The sales attendant rushed over and praised her and the dress to the skies. She said, “You have a good eye. The design of this dress almost entered the haute couture series. It was the brand designer who said, ‘We want more ordinary girls to wear our dresses as they go through their best years.’ That’s why we put it into ordinary ready-to-wear.

Gou An flipped the price tag on the spot. The six-digit price made her fall into deep thought about the market positioning of ‘ordinary girl’.

… It was expensive.

But she did kind of want it.

Her almond-shaped eyes narrowed slightly.

“Then again, no matter how much I hate Gou Xun, I am still his sister. We are related by blood… Tsk tsk, I wouldn’t just stand by and watch him die, right?”

Gou An instantly found a reason to buy this dress. As for whether she really bought it to dance the opening dance with Gou Xun, to hell with it——

Only a fool would dance with him.

She handed the dress to the sales attendant, turned around and saw Ye Lang next to her. She suddenly asked, “Does it look good?”

Ye Lang didn’t say anything.

“Are you mute?”

“Who is Uncle Perky Butt?”

“…”

Hearing Ye Lang’s question, and then hearing Zhou Yutong and Tang Xinjiu’s answering crazy laughter, Gou An slipped into the fitting room with the dress. Just as she was about to take off her clothes, she heard Jiaojiao make a ‘Ding!’ sound in her head.

Gou An: What are you doing now?

[Jiaojiao: The original storyline ahead! Meow!]

Gou An: ……………………Damn it, I knew it!

Along with the stupid cat’s howling, the sales staff outside the fitting room greeted in unison, “Welcome to Wonderland A,” followed by Tang Xinjiu exclaiming as if she had seen a ghost, “Why is she here??” and Gou An knew exactly who came in without even having to look.

Looking at the price of the dress in her hand, she was a little curious why Lu Wan would come into this store, so she quickly stretched her head out to take a look—

Then she saw her good brother Gou Xun and Lu Wan playing tug-of-war in front of the store.

“No, I already have a dress…”

“No, a normal dress wouldn’t be enough for that kind of occasion! Since I invited you, I have to take care of your dress as well! And don’t worry, I saved the money for the dress myself, so you don’t have to worry about it!”

“Really, I don’t need it. Keep your money for yourself…”

“Try it on, try it on! Aren’t you tempted by all these beautiful dresses?”

“…”

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

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T/N: Another posting tomorrow to round off the chapter; don’t miss it 🤗

Santana are mid-size sedans built and sold in China via a joint venture project between Volkwagen and a state-owned corporation. If you read those transmigration-get-rich stories set in the 1980s, the newly-rich characters would be driving Santanas. They’ve mostly fallen by the wayside since then with the influx of better, more expensive cars, and to the eyes of two Daughters from Wealthy Families, any Santana would probably be shabby even if its brand new.  

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Chapter 34.3 — Can I Not Act According to the Script?
Chapter 35.1 — Little Complaining Miss
Chapter 35.2 — Little Complaining Miss
Chapter 36.1 — I Didn’t Give You A Gift On Your First Birthday
Chapter 36.2 — I Didn’t Give You A Gift On Your First Birthday
Chapter 37.1 — She Can’t Be Quiet For Even 3 Seconds
Chapter 37.2 — She Can’t Be Quiet For Even 3 Seconds
Chapter 37.3 — She Can’t Be Quiet For Even 3 Seconds