136: Chapter 137 The Bitter Wait

On Li Xue's side, she opened her eyes groggily and found that Li Ruonan beside her was already awake, holding her phone in a daze, with a faint, almost imperceptible smile on the corners of her lips.

"Yo, smiling so sweetly early in the morning?" Li Xue teased deliberately, reaching out to poke Li Ruonan's cheek.

Li Ruonan was startled, quickly pressing the phone screen off, her earlobes turning slightly red. "What are you doing? You scared me, honestly!"

Li Xue narrowed her eyes, looking mischievous. "Don't tell me you're messaging Jiang Jing?"

"It's not that!" Li Ruonan immediately retorted, but her gaze drifted uncertainly.

Li Xue didn't call her out, stretching with a grin. "Alright, I won't tease you. But—" She suddenly leaned in, saying mysteriously, "I messaged Jiang Jing last night and asked him to accompany us shopping today."

Li Ruonan was stunned, then widened her eyes. "Wh-what?!"

"What, you don't want to?" Li Xue blinked. "Should I tell him to cancel now?"

"Don't!" Li Ruonan blurted out instinctively, then realized she had overreacted and quickly cleared her throat. "I mean... since it's already scheduled, we shouldn't stand him up."

Li Xue held back her laughter, deliberately drawing out her tone. "Oh—so you're that considerate, huh?"

Li Ruonan angrily grabbed a pillow and threw it at her. "Li Xue! If you do that again, I'm not going!"

"Alright, alright, I won't tease you!" Li Xue laughed, dodging and jumping out of bed. "Hurry up and get ready! Today is the first operation of our 'alliance,' we must make Jiang Jing's eyes light up!"

Jiang Jing sat bored out of his mind in the driver's seat of the rolls-royce Phantom, tapping his fingers idly against the steering wheel.

This custom-made luxury car was pitch black, with elegant and smooth body lines, and the interior was extremely luxurious, even the door handles were gold-plated.

"Products from the system are always so flashy." Jiang Jing muttered, taking out his phone to check the time.

Twenty minutes had passed since he made the call, and there was still no word from the two young ladies upstairs.

"When a woman says 'almost ready,' it basically means at least another half hour." Jiang Jing rolled his eyes and casually opened Douyin to start scrolling.

"Families, who understands this? I met such a toxic guy today..."

Swipe.

"Teach you to become a stock market master in five minutes..."

Swipe.

"Black silk outfit tutorial! Guys can't resist at all..."

Jiang Jing's fingers paused.

The fashion blogger in the video was demonstrating various black silk pairings. Jiang Jing watched with great interest and even added it to his favorites.

"This one is nice... that one is also okay... oh, this one is good!" He stroked his chin while commenting, completely unaware of how lecherous his smile was.

Upstairs, Li Xue's walk-in closet had turned into a battlefield.

"Will this skirt be too short?" Li Ruonan tugged at the hem of a black bodycon skirt, her brows furrowed tightly.

Li Xue poked her head out of the closet, a hair tie held in her mouth. "What are you afraid of? Your legs look so good!" She said indistinctly, tossing a pair of stockings over. "Try these, they have fine glitter!"

"Are you crazy?" Li Ruonan caught the stockings, her earlobes bright red. "Th-this, what's the difference between wearing this and wearing nothing at all!"

Li Xue finally tied her hair up, leaning in with a wicked smile. "That's exactly the effect of being partially hidden and partially revealed~" She shook her phone. "Jiang Jing just messaged saying he's waiting downstairs and is about to die of boredom."

"Then why are you still dawdling!" Li Ruonan was speechless.

On Jiang Jing's side, after finishing the videos, he was struck by a whim and opened a game.

"Come on, let's team up!" Jiang Jing insta-locked his favorite hero, only to be ganked by the opposing jungler three times right at the start.

Teammate 1: [Can the jungler even play? Feeding?]

Teammate 2: [Can you noobs not play ranked?]

Jiang Jing was furious, his fingers typing rapidly on the screen: [What do you know? This is called strategically attracting fire!]

The opposing jungler mocked in the public chat: [This level and you're playing jungle? Go home and farm!]

Jiang Jing was so angry he almost threw his phone. "Just you wait! Once I farm up..."

Afterward—a score of 0-8-3.

"Damn it! This game is broken!" Jiang Jing exited the game indignantly. "And I keep getting matched with trash teammates!"

He typed rapidly in the chat box: [If you don't know how to play, don't steal the position! You play like a bot!]

The other party replied instantly: [You have the nerve to say that? Look at your gold!]

Jiang Jing was righteous: [That was a strategic sacrifice!]

Just as he was preparing to continue a keyboard war, two beautiful figures finally appeared at the entrance—

Jiang Jing looked up and immediately forgot the tragic game he just had—

Li Xue was wearing a black cropped waist-baring T-shirt, paired with a high-waisted plaid pleated skirt, an outer black leather jacket, thick-soled Martin boots, and sheer black stockings on her slender, beautiful legs.

Li Ruonan had chosen a boyfriend-style shirt paired with black shorts, revealing alluring black-stockinged legs, and she wore a pair of Martin boots, looking both cool and seductive.

The two walked over arm in arm, their black-stockinged legs glistening alluringly in the sunlight.

Neither of them was wearing high heels; it seemed they were prepared to shop for a long time today...

"Are you done looking?" Li Ruonan felt uncomfortable under Jiang Jing's blatant gaze and glared at him fiercely.

Jiang Jing slowly put away his phone. "Not enough, I need to look for a lifetime."

"Smooth talker!" Both women said in unison, but they couldn't help but let the corners of their lips curl upward.

Li Xue playfully spun around. "How is it? Are you satisfied?"

Jiang Jing nodded very quickly. "Full marks! No, extra full marks!"

The suicide doors of the rolls-royce slowly opened, and Jiang Jing made a "please" gesture. "I specifically switched cars for you two; a sports car wouldn't fit three people."

Li Xue climbed into the car and suddenly leaned into Jiang Jing's ear. "Actually... squeezing in would have been nice too~"

Jiang Jing's hand trembled—did I miscalculate for once?

No, no, Jiang Jing thought to himself, safety is still more important; other tricks are better played at home.

Li Ruonan covered her forehead in the back seat. "Li Xue! Can you be a bit more reserved!"

"No~" Li Xue giggled as she fastened her seatbelt. "Let's go! Today we're going to max out someone's card!"