After work, they headed to the commercial street, where people milled about everywhere. They made a beeline for their usual hotpot restaurant, but today it was also crowded, and they had to queue up and wait.
So, they left Zhang Zixuan and Su Hang to line up, while the three girls went shopping.
Yu Qiqi bought milk tea, and the three of them sipped on their drinks as they strolled around, popping into any store that piqued their interest.
Ye Wanwan also looked around. She often came here with her friends during university days, usually for meals, and rarely for shopping since her family would have everything prepared for her.
But her first paycheck was just over seventeen hundred yuan. If she were to shop according to her usual standards, she probably couldn’t afford anything.
Yu Qiqi and Tang Xiaorou swiftly picked out two sets of clothes in a women’s clothing store and even asked Ye Wanwan, "Do you see anything you like?"
Ye Wanwan shook her head, it wasn’t that she found the clothes unworthy, but she just wanted to spend that seventeen hundred yuan today.
If she spent it, she wouldn’t have money left to buy something for Shen Yi.
"Should we go look in a men’s store?" Ye Wanwan suggested.
Yu Qiqi immediately understood, and couldn’t help but show a sleazy grin, "Eh, do you have to be so showy!"
Ye Wanwan chose to give up, not bothering to argue with Qiqi.
Thus, the three quickly moved on to the men’s stores. Ye Wanwan didn’t know what kind of clothes would suit Shen Yi, since he was almost always in shirts and suits.
So after much browsing, Ye Wanwan still ended up in a store that specialized in suits, where the styles were quite uniform and there weren’t many options to choose from.
But even these, which were neither big-name brands nor haute couture, she couldn’t buy a whole set with her seventeen hundred yuan.
In the end, Ye Wanwan chose a shirt and a pair of cufflinks. After the discount, it came to one thousand six hundred and eight, leaving only a few dozen yuan from her paycheck.
After Ye Wanwan finished paying, Yu Qiqi said, "Su Hang said it’s our turn, we can head over now."
So, the three of them stopped their shopping spree and went straight to the hotpot restaurant.
During the meal, Ye Wanwan felt very happy, not because the hotpot was particularly delicious, but simply because she found the moment of having dinner with friends especially pleasant.
She genuinely felt happy from the bottom of her heart.
In her previous life, she had only experienced this kind of bonding in university with her roommates, but after that, she spent all her time on Shen Yi.
After the hotpot, they went to KTV. Yu Qiqi ordered a lot of alcohol, declaring that she wouldn’t leave until she was thoroughly drunk tonight.
Ye Wanwan used the excuse of preparing for pregnancy to avoid drinking a drop of alcohol.
By eleven o’clock, Qiqi was already drunk, clinging to the microphone and belting out songs with such a voice that Ye Wanwan feared the people in the next room would come over and start a fight.
"Alright, let’s go home, we still have to work tomorrow," Tang Xiaorou snatched the microphone from Qiqi’s hands and then had Su Hang and Zhang Zixuan help her out.
When it was mentioned they were heading back, Ye Wanwan then remembered she had been so caught up in the fun that she forgot to send Shen Yi a message earlier.
She followed behind, while sending a message to Shen Yi, telling him not to come and that she would be home soon.
Shen Yi replied quickly, saying he had already arrived and was in the parking lot outside the mall.
A wave of happiness washed over Ye Wanwan, and uncontrollably, her lips curled into a smile.
She pocketed her phone and caught up with the others, taking the elevator together.
Once outside the mall, Ye Wanwan spotted Shen Yi standing by the car in the left-side parking lot. She simply waved her hand, not hurrying over.