Chapter 364: Chapter 288: Same Style White Sneakers for Three Women Chapter 364: Chapter 288: Same Style White Sneakers for Three Women Inside the production area of Youu Tea, the manager Wang Wei was busy at work while overseeing everything.

She noticed that several employees were frequently glancing outside, as if they were looking at Cheng Zhu and Chen Jieyu.

“What are you all looking at?” she asked.

“Manager, is that woman the boss’s girlfriend?” Lin Yue, an employee, asked.

The base for the Cheese Mixed Berries tea was her own improvement. In Youu Tea, aside from Wang Wei, for the time being, she was the one most valued by Cheng Zhu.

The young girl had a straightforward and cheerful nature and wasn’t one for scheming.

The question she asked was precisely the topic of gossip among the bubble tea shop employees.

Indeed, there were plenty of beautiful customers in the tea shop, some even at the level of internet celebrities, with fashionable dress styles.

But teacher Chen Jieyu still stood out.

In real life, seeing a woman like her, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses with a unique air about her, was quite rare.

The serious vibe, along with the ascetic temperament and a touch of mature urban charm, sometimes cut through not just men, but women too.

Thus, these employees were quickly drawn to Mr. Chen.

Right after, everyone saw the boss go specially into the production area and make a cup of mango pomelo sago just for her.

Hilarious, the woman beside her also ordered a Cheese Mixed Berries, but the lazy boss just won’t make it for her!

But if this woman really is the boss’s girlfriend… Ahhh! That’s too delicious a story to chew on!

“It should be that way, make it only for the girlfriend, it’s this overt favoritism that we want!”

“Ying ying ying! The boss is so cool at this moment!”

“It feels like a drama series come to life!”

If he actually made both cups of tea, it wouldn’t have sparked the same feeling.

For this reason, people like Lin Yue couldn’t help but look outside, paying attention to Chen Jieyu.

Of course, there was another reason for this, and that was their boss was a handsome man.

The relationship status of a handsome man is indeed more eye-catching.

Everyone naturally was curious to see what kind of woman could win over such an attractive and wealthy guy!

But who would have thought, a May-December relationship?

Chen Jieyu, as a mature urban woman, definitely had a strong “older sister” vibe.

“Cool bad boy + abstinent older sister!”

“Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!”

“What kind of romance novel pinnacle setup is this, I can directly devour it!”

“I can even imagine a whole melodramatic scenario unfolding!”

Wang Wei, hearing the words of Lin Yue and others, noticed their gossip about the boss’s love life, but she didn’t find it strange.

When she first started working at the doll machine shop, she couldn’t help but gossip too.

However, she quickly went from gossiping at first to… numbness later!

Initially, when Wang Wei saw the goddess-level beauties coming to the shop to find the boss, she too thought she smelled an affair.

But as more and more high-quality beauties kept coming, she gradually became numb.

As the manager, she simply said lightly, “You just started working here not long ago and there are some things you don’t understand.”

“Huh? What do you mean?” Lin Yue was a bit confused.

Wang Wei was about to explain a bit more when she looked out through the glass of the production area and realized she didn’t need to.

She just tilted her chin up, gesturing everyone to look in the direction she was pointing.

All the employees in the production area curiously looked out and soon saw Lin Lu and Shen Qingning. They were two girls with different charms, but both stunning enough to make one’s eyes light up.

Lin Yue, who was naturally a sweet and beautiful type herself, felt an endless envy upon seeing Lin Lu.

Wow, how can someone be so well-crafted? Such delicate and beautiful features, and such a nice figure too.

We’re just like products off an assembly line, but she must have been specifically crafted by Nuwa herself, truly–a show of Nuwa’s skills.

But, why is the manager asking us to look at them?

Is she telling us there are more beauties unrelated to the boss’s girlfriend in the store now?

Then, the next moment, everyone saw Lin Lu start waving at Cheng Zhu, saying energetically, “Cheng Zhu! Hello! Hello!”

“Over here! Over here!” She kept waving her hands.

Seeing that Cheng Zhu was looking at her, she pointed to the queue: “We’re going to line up first!”

Baby Lu was just that lively and warm-hearted. She didn’t care about the many people around her, nor did she mind that many were looking this way.

On the other hand, the proud and aloof girl Shen Qingning quickly whispered in reprimand, “Stop shouting, everyone’s staring at you. Let’s go, let’s go, we’re going to line up.”

She dragged Lin Lu to the end of the line.

Lin Lu was pulled along like a puppet on strings, and before she moved too far, she still made sure to flash Cheng Zhu a mischievous smile and waved her hand again.

Inside the production area, employees like Lin Yue seemed to understand what the manager meant.

“They’re all here for the boss!”

They all looked at Wang Wei, who appeared calm and unsurprised.

How could these goddess-level women suddenly start showing up frequently to see the boss?

Lin Yue was taken aback and couldn’t help but ask, “Manager, there won’t be… more in the future, right?”

“What do you think?” Wang Wei looked up at her, smiled mysteriously, and said.

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Inside the shop, Liu Feng couldn’t help but say, “Lin Lu senior is here too!”

Don’t forget, he’s a staunch fan of the “Chasing Deer Until the End” CP.

–I wave the flag for Lin Lu!

Shen Qingning is also great, but I firmly stand on Lin Lu senior’s side.

Chen Jieyu’s gaze had been fixed outside the shop, but she now brought it back indoors.

She had impressions of both girls.

Her impression of Lin Lu came from when she was alone during a military drill for the Computer Science class, watching Cheng Zhu.

And for Shen Qingning, her impression was from their encounter at the doll machine shop.

But today her gaze immediately focused on the little white shoes they were wearing.

Since the shoes were the same as hers and she valued them highly, she noticed them right away.

When Ning Bao and Baby Lu appeared, Cheng Zhu had been keeping an eye on Chen Jieyu’s gaze and line of sight.

He sensitively noticed that she glanced down at the white shoes on her feet.

At this moment, Zhao Xiaoqian was teasing, “Isn’t that Shen Qingning and Lin Lu? Cheng Zhu, you seem to know quite a few pretty girls!”

“It’s alright, it’s alright,” Cheng Zhu replied with a smile.

Then, he turned to look at Chen Jieyu’s shoes and said, “I just saw them and it seems they have the same shoes as Mr. Chen.”

“Really?” Zhao Xiaoqian immediately looked at Chen Jieyu’s shoes.

“Yeah, it looks like they bought the same shoes as Mr. Chen,” Cheng Zhu deftly cleared himself from any involvement with one comment.

Indeed, he also had no idea that the two girls had bought the same pair of shoes.

“It seems Mr. Chen has good taste, I guess these shoes are going to be the next trendy must-have,” Cheng Zhu said with a smile, looking at her.

What he said was something others couldn’t understand, but Chen Jieyu couldn’t help but think to herself, “He’s bragging again.”

But any perplexity in her mind at that moment all but dissipated.

In fact, it was because Cheng Zhu was by her side that some of the awkwardness in her life was reduced.

As mentioned before, she ran into Shen Qingning at the doll machine store and on that day, Lin Lu was also there.

However, she had a deeper impression of Shen Qingning.

Because, that day, she had embarrassingly fled in front of that girl.

The reason was simple; she clashed with Shen Qingning–over their shoes.

She thought she had bought a stylish model on Taobao, but when she saw the pair of shoes with clearly better texture on Shen Qingning’s feet, she realized–I’ve bought a fake designer copy!

Many luxury brand catwalk models don’t necessarily have a brand logo and might be even more expensive than regular models.

In other words, Chen Jieyu, unaware she had bought fake shoes, encountered Shen Qingning wearing the genuine article.

[Delicate-but-poor]met [Truly Delicate].

Shen Qingning’s rich young lady aura was too strong, even if someone was duped into buying a fake at the price of the real thing, upon seeing a difference between their own shoes and hers, they might suspect a dodgy reseller, not question the authenticity of the rich girl’s shoes.

That moment of embarrassment and shame had Chen Jieyu quickly leaving the doll machine shop.

She didn’t know if the other party had noticed her counterfeit goods.

It was the same clash over shoes, and with the same person too.

But at least today, the shoes she wore were real.

She had no desire to compete because she was well aware that from the moment she was born, she and the other girl were not from the same world, not of the same class.

She, being a girl, had even her own biological parents’ contempt.

The other, likely the apple of her parents’ eye.

Not needing to flee in embarrassment, not being too flustered to even look her in the eye, was already very good.

Zhao Xiaoqian looked at Chen Jieyu’s shoes and said, “Ah! I remember now, Mr. Chen, I bumped into you in the staircase that day, and you were carrying these shoes in your shopping bag, right?”

Yes, that day Cheng Zhu escorted the teacher back to the staff dormitory, and she happened to meet Zhao Xiaoqian.

“Uh, yes,” Chen Jieyu recollected.

“Envious, envious, I’ve seen many celebrities with these shoes,” Zhao Xiaoqian said. She kept up with the entertainment industry and had been a fan during college.

Cheng Zhu, standing to the side, chimed in with a smile, “Really? Seems these shoes are quite hot and trendy, and I remember Star City has a counter for this brand on the first floor.”

“These shoes come in unisex styles, right? I might as well get a pair too,” he said.

Yes, he was even planning to buy a pair for himself!

Hearing this, a thought suddenly darted through Chen Jieyu’s mind: “That… that would be a bit like couple’s shoes, wouldn’t it?”

Rounded up, they might as well be couple’s shoes.

A wave of indescribable feelings spread through her heart.

And since everyone else actually didn’t grasp the subtext in Cheng Zhu’s words, he was essentially teasing her outright a few times today, always with double meanings in his words.

Everyone enjoys a sense of thrill to some extent, though the intensity varies with some chasing it by daring to do just about anything for the sake of excitement, while others aren’t as keen.

Thus, the teacher also publicly reaped this emotional state, which she had not experienced in her life for the previous twenty-plus years.

Ever since Cheng Zhu appeared, she had been experiencing thrills frequently.

Like in the guesthouse, in the staff dormitory, and now too.

Add to that their identities–one a student advisor, the other a student of Computer Science class II–spreading a contextual thrill.

A mix of thrill + taboo + the sweetness between a man and a woman!

–Mr. Chen, how will you defend?

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(P.S.: Second update, seek monthly tickets, and today it seems there’s still a chance to grab the daily monthly champion!

Note: The foreshadowing about counterfeit and genuine products is in Chapter 112.)