Chapter 99: Feng Siruo, “Three Days of Ignoring You!”

Around four in the afternoon, the sun suddenly disappeared.

Thunder rumbled through the darkened sky, and the temperature plummeted.

The rolling clouds looked like they’d been soaked in ink, growing darker by the second.

Just as Jiang Zhou drove his car across the overpass, raindrops as big as beans began slamming down hard.

The sycamore trees on both sides of the road were beaten so badly that their leaves drooped and wouldn’t lift again.

“The weather’s been getting stranger lately, like it’s deliberately going against the forecast,” Jiang Zhou muttered. “Meteorology in 2009 really can’t compare to my previous life.”

He rolled up the window to keep the warmth in.

As the saying goes: One autumn rain, one chill. This sudden downpour marked the official end of summer.

The goddess of autumn, swirling her skirts, had descended to the human realm.

Jiang Zhou drove to the central road of the university town.

Many students who’d gone out for a walk were now sprinting back through the rain.

Especially the couples, hand-holding was no longer a priority. Everyone covered their heads and ran like crazy toward the campus.

“Long live youth,” Jiang Zhou murmured with a nostalgic smile as he slowly pulled into the university city.

By the time he got back to Ganfanren, rain had already pooled on the roads.

Su Nan and Xu Yurong were squatting by the floor-to-ceiling window, dumbly watching the rain fall.

Inside the spacious office, two others were taking shelter from the rain — Ding Yue and Feng Siruo.

Jiang Zhou opened the door and shook the water from his hair.

“Boss, where’d you go?” Su Nan asked.

Jiang Zhou accepted the towel she handed over. “Went to help Lu Qiang deliver an order. It’s off-campus, in the North District.”

“Another off-campus order?”

“Yeah. Turned out to be some crazy woman who immediately tried to buy Ganfanren.”

Su Nan’s eyes sparkled. “Seriously? How much did she offer?”

“Money, money, money, that’s all you think about. Even if it was a hundred million, none of it’s for you!” he snapped, tossing off his jacket.

“Yurong, do we have a clean towel?”

“Yes, yes!” Xu Yurong quickly fetched another towel and handed it to him.

Jiang Zhou took it and walked over to Feng Siruo, placing it on her head and rubbing her hair dry.

Feng Siruo just tilted her face up at him, looking all silly and innocent. She didn’t dodge at all.

“It’s raining hard. We’ll probably get a surge of orders. Tell Lu Qiang’s team to be ready,” Jiang Zhou instructed.

“And tell the food street vendors that if they want to close early, they must report it in advance. That’s in the contract.”

Su Nan nodded and grabbed the phone to call the delivery team.

Xu Yurong also picked up a landline and started calling the food street managers.

“Ouch… it got in my eye…” Feng Siruo said in a small, aggrieved voice.

Jiang Zhou finally noticed.

While giving her a towel dry, he’d also been barking out instructions, so he hadn’t realized the corner of the towel had brushed her eye.

He handed the towel to Ding Yue. “Where the hell did you go? Why are you soaked?”

“Shopping for a suitcase.”

“What for?”

Feng Siruo glanced at Ding Yue, who answered after drying her hair.

“We’re going on that class trip, right? She didn’t have a suitcase, so we went to the mall.”

“Why didn’t you tell me? I could’ve taken you.”

Feng Siruo wrinkled her cute nose and held up three fingers.

“Three?” Jiang Zhou was puzzled. “What does that mean?”

Ding Yue answered for her, “It means she’s ignoring you for three days. Still don’t get it?”

“Oh? Really?”

Feng Siruo nodded, wiggling her soft, fair fingers.

Three days of ignoring you, and today is day one.

Jiang Zhou chuckled. “But why are you ignoring me? What did I do?”

Feng Siruo just huffed and shook her head without speaking.

Her designated spokesperson was now Ding Yue, since she was officially in “three-day ignore mode.”

Ding Yue cleared her throat. “You haven’t figured it out yet?”

Jiang Zhou looked at her. “I’ve been busy all day. I haven’t even watched Nan’er’s dance. No time for reflection.”

“Dance? Where do you even watch that?”

Su Nan gave him a glare, her cheeks turning pink.

This guy was always bringing up her anime dance videos, but he never paid for the content. She hadn’t earned a cent from it!

“Forget that. Just tell me why she’s ignoring me.”

Ding Yue rolled her eyes. “Isn’t it because you were flirting with Huang Qi? Siruo saw it.”

“Jealous? For real?”

Feng Siruo nodded. “Mm-hmm.”

Jiang Zhou pretended to be surprised. “But you haven’t even agreed to be my wife yet!”

“Emm…”

“If you’re not my wife yet, you can’t be jealous. Didn’t you know?”

“N-no…”

“Well, now you do. Want to fix that and agree right now?”

Feng Siruo was stunned for a moment. He made it sound so reasonable.

She hadn’t agreed to be his girlfriend yet, so why was she getting jealous?

Did that mean… she needed to agree first before she could give him the silent treatment?

Her little brain was stuck. She glanced at Ding Yue, silently begging for help.

She’d always been clueless about relationships, so Ding Yue had become her go-to love guru.

“Hey, stop twisting the logic,” Ding Yue said sternly. “You’re pursuing her but still flirting with someone else. Why shouldn’t she be jealous?”

Jiang Zhou shot her a glare. “Do you have to open your big mouth now? I was this close to tricking her into saying yes!”

Ding Yue put her hands on her hips. “I’m just speaking up for our Siruo!”

“Bull! Feng Siruo belongs to me. What’s it got to do with you?”

“She hasn’t said yes yet. You don’t own her!”

“Su Nan! Xu Yurong! Throw this unruly maid out of here!”

Ding Yue glanced at the downpour outside, shrank her neck, and shut up.

The storm didn’t care who you were. If she got kicked out now, she’d definitely catch a cold.

Sure enough, when it rains, you gotta bow your head.

Jiang Zhou pinched Feng Siruo’s cheek. “You’re really gonna ignore me for three days? You won’t regret it?”

Feng Siruo hesitated. “N-no regrets.”

“Alright. From this moment, it starts. Whoever breaks the silence first… is a puppy.”

“Emmm…”

Feng Siruo suddenly looked unsure again.

She really didn’t want to become a puppy…

The rain came fast, and it stopped just as quickly.

Feng Siruo was still playing QQ Speed when Ding Yue came to pull her up and head back to the dorm.

She almost forgot she was supposed to be ignoring Jiang Zhou.

Just as she was about to wave goodbye, Ding Yue stopped her.

“Siruo, you’ve got to learn to be mad, otherwise, you’ll be walked all over!”

“But I’m not even his wife…”

“Exactly! If you agree now, your status will be locked in forever.”

Feng Siruo looked shocked.

Dating had statuses?

Ding Yue was dead serious, “I read this novel once. The princess was so submissive that the prince hung her on the city wall for three days and nights!”

“Oh my god…”

“You’re already so sweet and naive. If you don’t learn to stand up for yourself, he’ll crush you someday.”

Jiang Zhou, overhearing this, was speechless.

Which genius wrote this ridiculous webnovel?

Hung on a city wall for three days and nights?

That wasn’t a princess, that was jerky!