"Wow, this flirt really knows his moves!" Shen Minglang started cursing like last time.
"Let me see, which stop is it this time?"
"Ha! Yangcheng, huh? It’s getting further and further away!"
"Ningning, just who is this flirt? Is he from your school?" he asked fiercely.
God damn it, asking my sister out on a trip again!
Your calculations are almost crashing into my face!
Inviting a girl out on a trip, where they wouldn’t sleep together?
"Not bad, pretty persistent, aren’t you!" Shen Minglang commented.
Shen Qingning cast him a glance but said nothing.
Young Master Shen was actually just asking casually; he knew his sister would definitely not tell him who it was because he’d always been trouble since childhood and feared he would bother others.
However, he didn’t seem to want to leave; instead, he stood beside his sister with arms crossed.
Waiting for his sister to unleash her aura full force, just like last time, and tear the concert ticket into shreds!
Shen Minglang thought Ningning looked cool tearing the ticket with such indifference last time.
Come on, let’s have a classic reenactment!
However, all he finally heard was Shen Qingning sighing and then, with ticket in hand, she prepared to go upstairs.
"Wait, no! Ningning, you’re not actually going, are you?" he immediately followed her upstairs.
"I’m not going. I will find an opportunity to return the ticket," Shen Qingning said.
"Really?" Shen Minglang felt something was off.
"Didn’t you see the date? Just check whether I’m at home or in Yangcheng when the time comes, right?" Ningning frowned and glanced at him.
Her mind was a mess, and it was starting to go haywire again.
She really wasn’t in the mood to continue this pointless talk with her brother.
"I’ll handle my own matters," she said, leaving the words behind before heading to her room by herself.
Shen Minglang stayed in the living room, angrily throwing the delivery box into the trash can.
"Damn this bloody seducer! He really doesn’t mind spending the money!" he muttered to himself.
He’d seen too many men who took the relentless approach with women.
It was said, "Even the most resolute woman fears a persistent suitor," and there seemed to be some truth in that.
"Pity you picked the wrong target," Shen Minglang let out a scornful and merciless laugh.
Little did he know, as soon as Shen Qingning returned to her room, she locked the ticket in a drawer, then sprawled face-down on the desk, burying her face in her arms.
It was the third ticket, this was already the third ticket.
"Cheng Zhu, I really won’t go..." she muffled her voice as she spoke.
Her heart wanted to go, but she could not.
After a while, she sat up from the desk, opened the drawer, and looked at the three tickets stacked together.
She sighed again, put on her headphones, and started playing Zhou Jielun’s songs on shuffle.
The first song was "Obviously."
As the song echoed, a line of lyrics pierced right through Shen Qingning’s heart, suffocating her.
The lyric was painfully fitting for her situation.
It was about a best friend, herself, and a guy she used to like and had a fling with, but who was now her best friend’s boyfriend.
"[No need to choose, I’ll automatically become just a friend.]"
In Tai City, Cheng Zhu was driving.
"I wonder if Ningning got the ticket?" he thought to himself.
He’d said before, according to his plan, this third concert was the most crucial step.
The previous two were just setting the stage; this move was the ultimate one.
It would become a turning point, giving them a chance to actually go to a concert together.
"Ah, wracking my brains out over this plan, step by step, I should play myself ’If This Isn’t Love’," Cheng Zhu thought.
Honestly, in his heart, he truly wanted to take Ning Bao to a concert, to fulfill a promise he had once made.
And what was his plan this time?
For the Shanghai concert, he went to Shanghai and made sure she knew he was there.
For the Tai City concert, he came to Tai City and again, she knew.
She would definitely think that he went alone, he attended both concerts, next to an empty seat.
Next was the concert in GZ City, also known as Yangcheng.
And then, the most cunning part.
"This time, I’m not going to Yangcheng!"
"And I’ll make sure she knows I didn’t go!"
(P.S.: This is a combined update of over 6000 words.
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