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Chapter 125: Provocation

After dinner, Wen Jiayue was forced to go out with Shen Fuhan.

The town was quite prosperous. Even though it was almost 7 PM, the streets were still bustling with people, and the sounds of vendors hawking their wares filled the air.

Wen Jiayue, however, showed no interest whatsoever and followed Shen Fuhan forward listlessly.

In both her lifetimes combined, she had never gone shopping with Shen Fuhan.

In her past life, she longed for the idea of ​​walking down the street with her beloved, a dream that filled her with joy.

She was just always worried that it would bother him, so she never brought it up.

She did achieve that in this lifetime, but she no longer needs it.

Moreover, when it came to shopping, Shen Fuhan simply strolled around, never stopping to look at anything on the street.

Wen Jiayue's legs ached from walking, so she had to pull him along.

"We've been walking for fifteen minutes, let's go back."

What's the point of shopping like this? We might as well go back and rest.

Shen Fuhan asked, "Is there anything you want?"

Wen Jiayue: "...No."

She was so focused on walking with him that she didn't have time to look at the things being sold on the roadside.

Shen Fuhan looked around and saw that the girls on the street were all holding a string of candied hawthorns, so he asked, "Want some candied hawthorns?"

Wen Jiayue just wanted to get back quickly, so she said, "Yao'er might like to eat it."

"You don't like it?"

Seeing that he seemed determined to buy it, Wen Jiayue had no choice but to say, "Then you can buy it."

Shen Fuhan then went to pay, and asked, "Which skewer do you want?"

Wen Jiayue casually pointed to a string of strings: "This one will do."

Shen Fuhan frowned and said, "This is not good."

He picked the biggest and reddest one.

Wen Jiayue: "..."

Then why did he ask her that?

The vendor deftly took out the candied hawthorns and said with a smile, "Here you go!"

Wen Jiayue took it, ate two, and then handed them to Shen Fuhan.

"You eat too."

Shen Fuhan paused for a moment: "Me?"

He had never eaten anything like this before.

Wen Jiayue deliberately asked, "What, does Lord Shen look down on candied hawthorns?"

Shen Fuhan said calmly, "I just don't like sweets."

Wen Jiayue knew he didn't like the food, but she just wanted to annoy him.

"You picked this out yourself, you'd feel bad if you didn't eat it, wouldn't you?"

Shen Fuhan glanced at her: "It's obviously a provocation."

After saying that, he took it and bit off the third one.

Wen Jiayue was stunned for a moment, but seeing that he had actually eaten, she said with satisfaction, "My lord, please finish it all."

Shen Fuhan frowned: "I bought it for you."

Wen Jiayue continued walking forward: "I never said I wanted it."

Shen Fuhan paused for a moment, then asked, "What do you want?"

Wen Jiayue looked around and stopped in front of a jewelry stall.

The jewelry saleswoman, seeing her extraordinary attire and the incomparably noble man behind her, immediately became a little nervous: "Please feel free to look around, both of you."

Shen Fuhan glanced at it; the quality was mediocre, and the workmanship was even more crude.

Wen Jiayue ignored his thoughts and picked up a pair of crescent-shaped pearl earrings to examine them closely.

The two crescent moons are different in shape, but they are unique, as if the pearls naturally grew in this way.

Wen Jiayue was particularly fond of the crescent moon shape and immediately asked, "How much?"

Shen Fuhan glanced at it; the pearls were completely unpolished, both ordinary and dull.

But seeing that she liked it, he didn't say anything.

The girl quickly replied, "Thirty copper coins!"

Wen Jiayue was about to take out her purse when Shen Fuhan had already paid.

She frowned and said, "I can do it myself."

"No, is there any jewelry you want?"

Seeing this, Wen Jiayue picked up a simple black wooden hairpin.

Shen Fuhan frowned even more deeply. It was made of imitation purple sandalwood, but it was impossible to tell what kind of wood it was.

However, the rough edges of the wooden hairpin are visible, and you might hurt your hand if you're not careful.

Wen Jiayue ignored his thoughts and said seriously, "I'll pay for this. If you try to take it from me again, I'll get angry."

Shen Fuhan paused for a moment. This thing didn't even look worth ten coins, so he had no choice but to agree.

Upon receiving the wooden hairpin, Wen Jiayue placed it in his hand: "In return, I'll buy you one too."

She didn't want to owe him anything, not even a small piece of jewelry.

Shen Fuhan raised an eyebrow slightly. A gift for him?

He looked at the wooden hairpin in his palm. It was shaped like auspicious clouds, which had a good meaning and was worth considering.

He put it in his arms.

Wen Jiayue tucked the earring into her sleeve and asked, "Can we go back now?"

Shen Fuhan responded with an "okay".

Back at the hotel, Wen Jiayue put on her earrings and looked at herself in the mirror, not taking them off for a long time.

She stroked the uneven, crescent-shaped pearl and found it exceptionally adorable.

Shen Fuhan remembered the pair of earrings he had given her and asked, "I gave you a pair for your birthday, why have you never worn them?"

Wen Jiayue said, "The gift from the Marquis is too precious, so naturally it should be carefully kept."

He hesitated for a moment, then said, "You don't need to worry, it's just an ordinary pearl."

Perhaps she didn't like wearing last year's gold hairpin because it was too flashy and extravagant, so this year he gave her one that looked more understated.

She liked pearls and was suited to wearing them, so he specially selected the finest South Sea pearls and carefully polished them several times before delivering them to her.

He deliberately didn't tell her that it was a South Sea pearl, and gave it to her as an ordinary pearl, thinking that she would wear it often, but he still didn't see her wear it.

Now, however, I've become quite fond of something strange and unusual.

He simply couldn't understand where his carefully chosen earrings had gone wrong.

Wen Jiayue looked at him in surprise. Was he really ignorant or was he pretending not to understand?

Such a rare South Sea pearl, surely the Marquis of Jing'an, who grew up in luxury, would recognize it?

But she couldn't say she knew, since she came from an ordinary background and had never even seen Nan Zhu, so she had no way of explaining how she knew.

After thinking for a moment, she explained, "The gold hairpin that the Marquis gave me last year was already valuable enough. I imagine that even if this year's pearls are ordinary, they can't be that ordinary. I dare not wear them."

Shen Fuhan was silent for a moment, then asked, "Are you afraid to wear it or do you not like it?"

Wen Jiayue paused for a moment, then didn't answer immediately.

Shen Fuhan looked at her, but didn't ask any further questions. He said in a low voice, "Never mind, you go and wash up first."

Wen Jiayue responded and was about to remove her earrings when Shen Fuhan placed his hand on her earlobe first.

She flinched uncomfortably, but Shen Fuhan held her still and slowly removed the earring.

His movements were exceptionally slow, somewhat tedious, and Wen Jiayue felt her earlobes burning.

Shen Fuhan held the small earring in his palm and examined it closely, but couldn't see anything special about it.

Why do you like this?

Fearing he might touch it again, Wen Jiayue quickly took off the other one and casually replied, "Because it looks a bit like a crescent moon."

Shen Fuhan seemed to be deep in thought.

If the South Sea pearls were polished into a crescent shape next time, would she wear them?