Chapter 56: Chapter 55 We Didn’t Add Friends

    Outside the arcade, Shen Qingning, imitating Little Youzi, also hung a Pikachu keychain on her jeans.

    As she walked, her impressively long legs caused the yellow rodent to sway left and right.

    Cheng Zhu sometimes wondered if God had given her a special “long leg effect” when she was born.

    Thus, Lin Lu’s home gained a little pig plushie, and Shen Qingning’s home gained a Pikachu keychain.

    Everyone took the elevator together to the parking lot and then waved goodbye.

    Cheng Zhu, carrying his sister, got into Jiang Wanzhou’s car, who drove them home.

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    Not long after getting in the car, the exhausted Little You fell asleep cuddling the plush toy.

    The little girl looked adorable as she slept, occasionally smacking her lips as if she were having a delightful dream.

    At that moment, Cheng Zhu’s phone received a WeChat message; he quickly turned on silent mode to avoid waking Little You.

    Of course, children’s sleep is quite deep and not so easily disturbed, unlike many adults who suffer from insomnia and light sleep, waking up at the slightest noise.

    He picked up his phone and saw that the artist “Hu Yan” had sent another drawing.

    She had gradually understood what Daddy wanted in terms of style; this drawing was mature, requiring almost no modifications, ready to be used as is.

    Cheng Zhu inwardly praised the artist’s skill with risque? themes.

    Some artists are like that; ask them to draw something straightforward, and they just don’t get it.

    But ask them to dabble in sensuality, and they innovate and thrive.

    While waiting at a red light, the driver, Jiang Wanzhou, gave Cheng Zhu a puzzled look and said, “What are you looking at? You look so deep.”

    “Really deep?” Cheng Zhu replied.

    “Yeah. It feels like you’re full of curiosity.”

    “Good, deep and curious, that’s right!”

    Jiang Wanzhou: “???”

    He felt that Cheng Zhu had been keeping more and more secrets lately, no longer the childhood friend who used to share everything.

    He couldn’t help feeling that Cheng Zhu had been up to a lot without him.

    When the Mercedes-Benz G arrived at Cheng Zhu’s house, he carried Little You out of the car.

    The little girl was half-asleep, and bid Jiang Wanzhou goodbye in a groggy voice: “Goodbye, Brother Jiang.”

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    Hang City, in an upscale villa community.

    After dropping Lin Lu off at her home, Shen Qingning had returned to her own, so she had just finished showering and was now applying body lotion on her long white legs.

    Her legs, with lotion applied under the light, glistened like white jade; one could imagine many would love to give her a massage daily.

    Shen Qingning was a girl who lived a life of finery, as were most girls from well-to-do families.

    After she finished her skincare routine, she lay on the bed and picked up her tablet, watching “Pocket Monsters” which she hadn’t seen in years.

    She quickly became engrossed.

    “I remember collecting cards with my brother when I was young,” Shen Qingning smiled slightly, falling into reminiscence.

    After watching an episode, she reached for the water glass on her bedside table and took a small sip.

    As she set down the glass, her gaze landed on the Land Rover car keys and the Pikachu keychain on the bedside table.

    Deep down, she really liked the keychain.

    It totally clashed with her usual sophisticated style and attire, but somehow, she had impulsively hung it on her car keys.

    The aloof girl held Pikachu and the car keys, having been unimpressed by Lin Lu and Little You’s attempts to mimic Pikachu at the arcade, now sat on her bed and softly mimicked Pikachu using “Thunderbolt”:

    “Pika—chu!”

    Thinking of adorable Little You, Shen Qingning picked up her phone and snapped a photo of the car keys and Pikachu together.

    She planned to send the picture to the group chat and have Cheng Zhu tell his sister that she was making good use of it.

    Yet, for some reason, her hands naturally clicked on Cheng Zhu’s profile in the group.

    He used a cartoon avatar because, according to him, scammers don’t target people who use cartoon avatars.

    After Shen Qingning tapped the avatar, she was greeted by a restricted profile view and the option “Add to Contacts.”

    She remembered that Cheng Zhu had never added her, consistently choosing only to chat in the group.

    At that moment, the cool girl’s attractive eyebrows furrowed slightly as if she had just realized this, and she quickly sent a friend request.

    After doing this, she tossed her phone aside and continued watching TV, seemingly indifferent as to when he would accept the friend request.

    A while later, her phone vibrated. Shen Qingning picked it up and saw that after Cheng Zhu accepted her friend request, his first message was:

    “Huh? We weren’t friends already?”