The bustling pedestrian street with bright neon lights.

Shi Xiao looked at Qiao Chen making a phone call from the side. Although he couldn't hear what he was saying from a distance, he could still tell from his excited expression and irritable eyes that he was quarreling with his home again.

Shi Xiao stood alone by the flower table, twisting the small stones on the ground with his toes. At this time, Qiao Chen walked back and said to Shi Xiao: "Let's go, go shopping."

Shi Xiao caught up with him in three or two steps and asked, "It's so late, aren't you going home yet?"

"What home is I'm not home."

Shi Xiao guessed that it might be because Chuchu went home today, so Qiao Chen was unhappy. She sighed and said, "Actually, Chuchu cares about you very much. After all, your blood is thicker than water. She treats you as..."

Qiao Chen looked back at her, his eyes turned cold: "If you want to be with me, don't make me angry."

Shi Xiao's heart suddenly broke out and he immediately stopped talking.

Qiao Chen said he wanted to take Shi Xiao to buy a pair of shoes, but the stores he entered were all famous women's shoe stores.

Shi Xiao had never entered these stores. She was a little uneasy and kept following Qiao Chen.

Qiao Chen was familiar with the story. As soon as he entered, he asked the waiter to try on this season's new shoes for Shi Xiao.

Shi Xiao looked at the exquisite and fashionable women's shoes. She couldn't afford them at all, but she couldn't let Qiao Chen down the wish of bringing her to go shopping, so she could only try them on one by one, and said that she didn't like them, and didn't like them, and then hurriedly left the store.

Qiao Chen really thought she was picky, but she was quite patient. She didn't urge her to take her to shop and shop. Finally, after visiting nearly seven or eight famous stores, he couldn't help asking: "I tried so many things, but I don't even look down on a pair of them?"

Shi Xiao nodded and said, "How about not buying it, I can still wear these shoes."

Qiao Chen glanced at her and said, "It's all broken into this virtue. It's a ghost if you can wear it!"

He always speaks straight, and Shi Xiao doesn't mind. She thought for a while and said, "These shoes are not very suitable for me, why don't we take a different place to stroll around."

Qiao Chen agreed readily. Anyway, he was just spending time and he didn't want to go home. It would be great to have someone to hang out with him.

Shi Xiao took Qiao Chen to a narrow and lively old street. The streets were filled with people, most of them were young girls shopping. There were many street stalls on the street selling clothes, shoes, and everything.

She walked in front, Qiao Chen put his hands in his pocket and followed behind.

Shi Xiao walked to a street stall, picked up a dark red fish-mouthed flat shoes and asked Qiao Chen: "Is this good?"

"It's good to look good."

Qiao Chen frowned and asked the boss directly: "How much does it cost?"

“56.”

"How could there be such cheap shoes?"

Qiao Chen was surprised: "It's too cheap!"

The boss smiled awkwardly: "Young man, if you think it's cheap, I can add more price."

Shi Xiao handed the shoes to the boss and said, "I want this pair, you can put it on for me."

"No."

After Qiao Chen finished speaking, he tightened his face and pulled Shi Xiao away with great strides, and walked out of the old street in one breath.

"What's wrong with you, Qiao Chen?"

Shi Xiao broke away from his drag.

Qiao Chen said angrily: "You look down on me, don't you?"

"No!"

Shi Xiao quickly explained: "I bought my own shoes, why do I look down on you?"

Qiao Chen wanted to explain angrily, but he didn't know where to start.

He accompanied him to go shopping, of course it was impossible for women to pay for it out of their own pocket. No matter how expensive it was, he could buy it for her as long as he was happy.

This idiot.

Qiao Chen glared at her and said, "You are here to wait for me, and you are not allowed to go anywhere."

After saying that, he hurriedly crossed the road and walked towards the bustling pedestrian street across the street.

Shi Xiao looked at his back as he left, and didn't know where he offended him again. He stood alone on the street for a long time, feeling a little sad. Qiao Chen invited her to dinner today and accompanied her shopping. She was actually very happy. Qiao Chen had a bad temper. She carefully did not make him hate him as much as possible, but just now, he was still angry.

Qiao Chen told Shi Xiao not to leave, and Shi Xiao didn't dare to leave, so he just waited for him. After about half an hour, Qiao Chen walked back with a white paper packaging bag.

After approaching, he stuffed his pocket directly into Shi Xiao's hand.

"Take it."

Shi Xiao took it and looked at the packaging bag blankly. The bag was printed with the logo of a famous store I had visited before.

Shi Xiao took out the box inside and opened it. A red fish-mouthed heel lying quietly in the shoe box, with a very textured luster.

Shi Xiao had tried this pair of shoes before. Qiao Chen judged the light from her eyes that she liked them very much.

But she shook her head and left the store. Qiao Chen thought she had something she wanted more, but she didn't expect that this woman would have misunderstood his intentions.

Shi Xiao held the shoes, like a treasure, his eyes softened, but the joy in his heart was mixed with a hint of indelible emotion.

"Do you like it?"

Qiao Chen couldn't wait to ask her.

Shi Xiao sighed, carefully put the shoes back into the box, and after packing them, he carried the bag and returned it to Qiao Chen.

"I can't."

"You don't like it?"

Qiao Chen was very confused. He thought for a while: "...Let's go and take a look. If you like something, you have to tell me, I'll buy it for you."

Shi Xiao shook his head: "No, Qiao Chen."

Qiao Chen frowned: "What do you mean?"

"This is too expensive, I can't ask for it."

She can't, and she can't afford it.

Qiao Chen said blankly: "It's not expensive, it's just more than two thousand."

Shi Xiao's heart trembled. This was her two months of living expenses.

"I can't accept your gift."

Qiao Chen did not pick up the pocket she had replaced, he couldn't understand: "Why?"

"We... are not relatives or because of this."

Although Shi Xiao’s family is poor, his parents have also educated her since childhood that they are not allowed to take things from her own. She was admitted to a high school in the city. On the night she left, her mother pulled her into the house and told her seriously that she should never accept other people’s gifts at will. Girls should know how to love themselves.

"Where is no relative or a relative?"

Qiao Chen was upset: "Don't you like me?"

Shi Xiao's heart trembled violently. The most secret thought was suddenly exposed like this, but she was still the one she cared about the most. She was extremely embarrassed and her face flushed.

"I don't..." Shi Xiao instinctively denied.

"You don't like me, you kissed me that night?"

When Qiao Chen said this, he didn't feel anything particularly big, as if he was just talking about something very ordinary.

But Shi Xiao's heart was about to jump out of her chest. She thought he was asleep, thought he didn't know, but she didn't expect him to...

Her earlobes were burning.

She likes him, so he gives her a gift. In Qiao Chen's logic, there is a causal connection, nothing wrong.

But Shi Xiao still stubbornly returned his pocket to him: "Qiao Chen, I really can't ask for it."

Qiao Chen suddenly became a little angry: "I, Qiao Chen, have never taken back the gift I gave, so you can throw it away if you don't want it."

After saying that, he cursed and turned around and left.

Shi Xiao grabbed his pocket in embarrassment, stood there for a long time, but still caught up with Qiao Chen: "Then like this, what do you like, I will buy you something, okay?"

"No need."

Qiao Chen didn't even look at her.

Shi Xiao secretly decided in his heart that she would not accept his gifts for Qiao Chen in vain, but she did not have that much money now, so she had to save some time to buy a good gift for Qiao Chen.

"Then Qiao Chen, I'll accept it."

She looked at him begging: "Don't be angry, okay?"

Qiao Chen's ears are soft and he likes to listen to soft words the most. Although he still didn't say anything, he gradually slowed down.

The two of them stood by the bus stop. The bus flashed with the headlights and drove over. Shi Xiao got into the car and put coins in, turned around and raised his hand at Qiao Chen: "Goodbye."

Qiao Chen followed into the car and muttered, "See you again."

“Huh?”

"I'll go with you."

"oh!"
To be continued...