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Chapter 73 Love and Such
My older cousin was just saying that, of course.

She knew perfectly well how much money Shen Yuan had.

But my older cousin doesn't like to settle for anything less than the best.

It was still a beef restaurant, and the three of them ordered over 500 yuan worth of meat.

This amount of money was perfectly acceptable to Shen Yuan.

Li Zhi sat alone in a row, while Shen Yuan and Yang Yishui sat together. This seating arrangement would not make anyone feel awkward.

My older cousin took a sip of juice and complained, "You guys are on a long holiday, but I have to go back and grade papers tomorrow."

"Your English is alright, but grading essays is a bit tiring, isn't it?"

My older cousin nodded and said with great relief, "It's a good thing I chose English. If I had chosen another subject, I'd probably be dead by now."

Compared to other subjects, the English answer sheet solves most of the problems the moment it is scanned.

In the end, all that was left was filling in the vocabulary and writing the essay, which wasn't a big problem at all.

At most, it's just a chance to experience the special privileges high school students have during English exams—the right to temporarily spell out letters.

In any case, all that matters is putting the words together.

As for whether the meaning is correct, that's up to fate.

Anyway, Yang Yishui has never seen many people with good fortune.

"Sis, I think grading math tests is pretty easy too," Shen Yuan commented.

Li Zhi glanced at Shen Yuan: "It's easier to grade your math test, right?"

Shen Yuan warned with a husky-like voice: "Hey! This is slander! Pure slander! My math test paper was covered in dense writing! Teacher Bao's eyes were blurry from looking at it."

My older cousin gently shook the ice in her glass: "Yuan, no wonder Lao Zhou always says this when he's grading weekly tests: 'That idiot kid is still pretty serious. So all you have left is attitude.'"

"To put it nicely, it's an attitude; to put it bluntly, it's just writing nonsense," Li Zhi added.

Shen Yuan couldn't take it anymore and threatened, "I'm not taking you to the claw machine tomorrow."

"Fine, I won't bring it!"

Li Zhi pointed his finger: "Childish!"

"Haha!" The older cousin laughed and egged him on, "Zhizhi, if he won't take you, I will. We'll go play the claw machine later, and he can just watch from the side."

Li Zhi nodded.

On the matter of insulting Shen Yuan, the two women stood completely together, and the awkward scene from their previous encounter at Shen Yuan's home was gone.

This completely broke Shen Yuan's defenses.

"Fine! You two are on the same side now, huh? This meal is ruined! I hereby announce my immediate departure from the trio! I'm going solo!"

"Go solo my foot!"

The older cousin persuaded Shen Yuan to behave himself.

By the time the three of them finished eating, it was already 7 o'clock.

At 7 a.m. in September, the sky was just beginning to darken. It wasn't exactly late, but it wasn't early either.

It's the perfect time to play the claw machine!

Yang Yishui chose a shopping mall that also had a claw machine arcade.

"We also have blind boxes, do you want to buy them?"

The older sister raised her chin, gesturing to the blind box shop next door.

Shen Yuan and Li Zhi shook their heads at the same time.

"Too expensive, I'd rather play the claw machine."

Shen Yuan said with a look of disgust, "I still prefer the feeling of catching it myself."

Li Zhi nodded slightly: "Buying blind boxes is like gambling; there's no sense of accomplishment."

"Would you like to buy two?"

"Forget it, let's play the claw machine instead. I'll exchange your 150 yuan worth of tokens for two big ones!"

Shen Yuan's face revealed the smile befitting the "King of Claw Machines in Jiyang".

The Dragon King has a crooked mouth.

However, once he arrived at the shop, Shen Yuan realized that he seemed to have no use for his skills.

Yang Yishui has plenty of money to play claw machines.

After exchanging 200 yuan worth of coins and leaving Shen Yuan with 100 yuan and 20 dolls, the older cousin took Li Zhi and started their carefree self-expression mode.

Li Zhi plays claw machines for fun. Yang Yishui does too.

The two of them grabbed at their favorite dolls indiscriminately, completely ignoring the methods Shen Yuan had previously suggested.

If they can't catch it, they frown and keep inserting coins.

They're overjoyed when they catch them, they're incredibly happy.

On the other hand, in order to maintain his reputation as the king of claw machines in Jiyang, Shen Yuan has to win a doll that corresponds to his reputation from the 100 yuan worth of game coins.

This is what it means to be burdened by fame!

Looking at the claw machine in front of him, Shen Yuan inserted a coin.

After controlling the claw to fall, the claw steadily pierced the doll's tag, and then the doll was lifted up.

"Tsk, no big deal."

The title of "King of Claw Machines in Jiyang" is well-deserved; Shen Yuan's skill in this area is beyond doubt.

However, just as Shen Yuan picked up the doll, he heard his older cousin cheer.

Turning my head, I saw my older cousin take a white doll out of the claw machine.

"Wuhu! Zhizhi, you're amazing!"

Li Zhi was clearly pleased with this, his face beaming with pride.

You're expressionless when you get 130 in Chinese, but you want to tell everyone when the claw machine sells something.

Seeing the two women's happy expressions, Shen Yuan felt that he couldn't be happy at all.

Damn, playing the claw machine feels like going to work.

It turns out that once everything is tied to work, there's no sense of accomplishment whatsoever.

So what if he's the king of claw machines in Jiyang?

In the end, we've all been reduced to working for others.

Looking at the smiles on her older cousin's and Li Zhi's faces, Shen Yuan felt a surge of resentment.

I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!
Why can they happily play the claw machine there, while I can only play it here with no sense of accomplishment?
Do not!
It shouldn't be like this!
How could I, the undisputed King of Claw Machines in Jiyang, not have a straight man by my side?!
Thinking of this, Shen Yuan took out his phone and took a picture of A-Jie.

Shen Yuan: "Look at yours."

Zhou Shaojie: "[Image]"

Shen Yuan opened it and immediately saw a super idol.

This is already comparable to the Bilibili scam song "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the comments section of Douyin!

However, the psychological trauma caused by the two is on completely different levels.

After being deceived by the latter, the deceived person may willingly perform a Rick-Swing routine.

But the former is definitely a form of psychological trauma.

It's pure torture; all the energy they have is being used on the people.

After sending A-Jie a long string of blessings, Shen Yuan set A-Jie's QQ account to "Do Not Disturb" and added it to the message assistant, thus subjecting A-Jie to cyberbullying.

After doing this, a white cat doll appeared in front of Shen Yuan.

"Ta-da! Isn't that amazing! You caught one with just 20 coins!"

Shen Yuan nodded, crossed his arms, and said in a low voice, "Young lady, you have earned the approval of the King of Claw Machines in Jiyang!"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhi gave Shen Yuan a sweet smile.

"Then I acknowledge your title as the King of Claw Machines in Jiyang!"

Behind the two, Yang Yishui crossed her arms just like Shen Yuan, a standard auntie smile on her face.

"Childhood sweethearts are so wonderful."

Love is something that not everyone yearns for, but at least some people do.

Although Yang Yishui couldn't say she longed for it, seeing the beautiful interactions between the young man and woman, she couldn't help but fantasize about the wonderful scene of love coming to her.

Imagining that scene, my older cousin suddenly shuddered.

"Damn it! There's a villain trying to harm me!"

Love can wait until I'm financially independent.

Don't fall into the trap of love when you should be making money!

(End of this chapter)