Chapter 117: My Friend Isn’t Afraid of You!
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Noon.
After lunch, Dai Xiaomei suddenly sidled up beside Bai Qingming.
“Want some milk tea? I’ll treat you.”
She had abruptly become very solicitous.
“Then order delivery,” Bai Qingming said with a nod.
Having a cup of milk tea after lunch did sound like a pleasant idea.
But instead, Dai Xiaomei pulled him up from the sofa.
“Don’t order delivery. We’re going out to buy it. My treat.”
Twenty minutes later.
A Bugatti Veyron pulled into a parking space at Wanda Plaza, and the two of them got out.
“Is it really necessary to drive this far just to buy milk tea?” Bai Qingming asked.
“You’ll find out in a moment.”
Dai Xiaomei gave him a mysterious smile, strode ahead, and headed for a milk-tea shop.
Bai Qingming followed behind her. The moment he entered the shop, he was utterly stunned by what Dai Xiaomei did.
“You love me, I love you, Mixue is sweet as can be~”
He had no idea what was wrong with this old woman. The instant she walked through the door, she began singing.
The song was painfully embarrassing.
For a moment, every employee in the shop stopped what they were doing and stared at Dai Xiaomei.
Several of them covered their mouths, desperately trying not to laugh.
Bai Qingming hesitated and did not hurry inside.
That way, if anyone asked whether he and the person inside were together, he could honestly say that he did not know her.
“Excuse me, does this qualify for a free drink?”
After singing the song several times in a row, Dai Xiaomei finally asked.
She had just seen a video on Douyin claiming that singing this song at a Mixue shop would get you free milk tea.
The young woman handling the payments shook her head.
“I’m sorry, but that won’t work here. You still have to pay.”
The employee answered very gently, without the slightest hint of discrimination against an idiot.
Dai Xiaomei was inexplicably disappointed.
“That’s not right. I saw on Douyin that Mixue shops in other places offer free drinks if you sing. Why doesn’t your shop do it? Are you deliberately refusing to give me milk tea?”
Dai Xiaomei spoke timidly.
She had a point, but not much confidence behind it.
At that, the cashier could no longer hold herself back and burst out laughing.
“What exactly do you mean by that?”
Dai Xiaomei felt as though she was being mocked. She planted her hands on her hips.
“Where’s your boss? Get him out here! I’m going to report you to the consumer hotline, 12315. This is blatant consumer fraud!”
The moment she finished speaking, a voice rang out.
“Who’s looking for me?”
A very tall, heavily built man emerged from the back of the shop. He looked fierce and thoroughly unapproachable.
“Boss, it’s this lady…”
The young woman explained what had happened.
After listening, the man called the boss walked over to Dai Xiaomei.
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“I hear you want to file a complaint?”
The owner loomed over Dai Xiaomei, overwhelming her with a palpable sense of pressure.
“No…”
Dai Xiaomei immediately lost her nerve and swallowed hard.
Halfway through her reply, she suddenly remembered Bai Qingming standing nearby.
In an instant, her courage returned.
She stepped behind Bai Qingming, turned her head, and spoke again.
“I’m filing a complaint! What are you going to do about it? Are you thinking of hitting someone? Let me tell you, my friend isn’t afraid of you!”
“What?”
Bai Qingming was dumbfounded.
What did this have to do with him?
“If it’s really a problem, just forget it. It’s not as though we can’t afford milk tea. Why insist on getting it for free?”
Bai Qingming lowered his voice and tried to reason with her.
It was not that he was afraid of the shop owner. He simply felt there was no need for this.
How much could one cup of milk tea cost?
The fuel for the drive alone would have bought several cups.
“No! I want free milk tea. Free milk tea tastes better!”
Dai Xiaomei was determined to get something for nothing.
She even intended to pull out her phone and record a video exposing the shop for defrauding consumers.
At that moment, the owner calmly spoke up.
“Miss, we really don’t have a promotion where singing gets you a free drink. But if you truly want free milk tea, I suggest you try the Mixue shop next door.”
The entire shop fell silent.
Dai Xiaomei inconspicuously backed toward the entrance. When she saw that the shop’s name had three characters, she went numb.
Oh, hell…
This was a spectacular public humiliation.
“I’m sorry. This is my younger sister. Her brain hasn’t worked quite right since she was little. Please forgive her.”
It was the first time in his life that Bai Qingming had ever felt so mortified.
He could only force an awkward smile, make up a random excuse, and turn around to drag Dai Xiaomei out.
“Thank goodness nobody recognized me. Come on, let’s go!”
Dai Xiaomei let out a long breath of relief.
But she had barely taken two steps when a string of whispers rose behind them.
“Did you notice? That woman looks just like Dai Xiaomei, the streamer from Douyu.”
The old woman was finished.
…
After wandering all over Wanda Plaza and checking again and again, Dai Xiaomei finally found the real Mixue shop.
Unfortunately, there was a long line, and they would have to wait quite a while.
While they were waiting, Bai Qingming noticed a man sneaking up on another woman who was also standing in line.
The woman’s bag had already been opened, and the man had just taken a phone from inside it.
“A thief?”
Dai Xiaomei noticed it too.
Before Bai Qingming could say anything, she charged forward and began pummeling the man with her little fists.
The man was clearly caught off guard. It took several blows before he finally reacted.
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He shoved Dai Xiaomei away and glared at her furiously.
“What kind of lunatic are you?”
Seeing this, Dai Xiaomei suddenly thought of something.
What if the thief had a knife?
And normally, thieves had accomplices waiting nearby to help them escape.
Wouldn’t she be in danger after rushing in like that?
Realizing this, Dai Xiaomei once again hid behind Bai Qingming.
Then she addressed the man, repeating her old trick:
“My friend isn’t afraid of you!”
Bai Qingming, who had just walked over, was speechless.
Again?
Still, catching a thief seemed to be an act of justice this time. So be it.
With that thought, Bai Qingming decided not to say anything.
However, at that very moment, the woman who had supposedly been robbed spoke up.
“Why did you hit my husband?”
She glared at Dai Xiaomei, clearly furious.
Dai Xiaomei was stunned once again.
They were a married couple?
For the second time that day, she was finished.
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When they returned home that evening, Dai Xiaomei began her livestream.
“Old woman, I just saw a video of someone singing ‘Mixue is sweet as can be’ in a milk-tea shop and threatening to report the owner. Was that you?”
“If it wasn’t her, who else could it be? I also saw someone who looked exactly like Dai Xiaomei beat up the man in a married couple, thinking he was a thief.”
“What a coincidence. I saw both of those videos.”
The moment the stream began, the viewers started chattering among themselves.
Dai Xiaomei was rendered speechless.
People actually uploaded that stuff online? Did they have nothing better to do?
Seeing that the comments were all mocking her for being flat-chested and brainless, she hurriedly changed the subject.
“I think it’s Father’s Day these past couple of days. Let me tell you a secret about my dad.”
“When I was little, my mom asked my dad to wash the dishes. He didn’t want to do any work, so every day, after my mom left, he made me do it.”
“I couldn’t beat him, and the more I thought about it, the angrier I got. So I secretly used his toothbrush to brush our dog’s teeth. Ha-ha! My dad still has no idea.”
As she spoke, Dai Xiaomei laughed so hard that her whole body shook.
Just then, her phone rang.
“Huh? Why is my mom calling me?”
Dai Xiaomei answered.
“Hello, Mom.”
“What? You want me to come home for a bit?”
“My dad says he misses me?”
At that moment, an inexplicable sense of dread rose in the old woman’s heart.
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