"These cup noodles and drinks should be able to last me until my next paycheck." Hui Ying thought as she quickly put a few instant noodles and juice boxes into her bag before walking to the counter to pay.
"That will be 15 dollars and 78 cents." The store clerk said. Hui Ying rummaged through her wallet and realized she had only brought 15 dollars with her. "I'm sorry I-" before she could finish her sentence a young man her age handed the store clerk 25 dollars and said, "I'll pay for hers as well."
Hui Ying looked at this man in surprise. "Oh thank you, but that's not necessary, I can just put a few of these back." The man stared at her. "It's fine, you'll owe me." Then he left.
Hui Ying looked down at her food and thought, "I'll have to thank him the next time I see him."
- ONE WEEK LATER -
"Ying Ying, what did you think about the test we took?" Hui Ying's best friend and roommate Chen Jiayi sat down next to her and sighed.
"It was normal." Hui Ying scrolled through her phone. She suddenly jumped from the chair.
"Oh my god! You scared me! Why did you jump all of a sudden?" Chen Jiayi looked at Hui Ying confusingly.
Hui Ying showed Chen Jiayi her screen and it showed the man she saw at the convenience store. "Do you know him?" Chen Jiayi looked at her screen and said..
"..Yeah, that's my older brother." Hui Ying spat out her water.
"WHAT?"
Chen Jiayi wiped her face and shouted, "Hui Ying are you crazy? What did you spit out your water for?"
Hui Ying quickly apologized. "Oh, I was just surprised. He's the person I met at the convenience store last week."
"What? Really?" Chen Jiayi was surprised. "My brother would never go out of his way to pay for someone's food, are you sure you saw correctly?"
"Mhm." Hui Ying definitely saw him correctly. A man like him was hard to miss.
Suddenly Chen Jiayi's phone rang. "Hello, Weiwei?"
(Weiwei, full name Lin Wei, is another roommate of Hui Ying and Chen Jiayi)
"Oh you're coming back late tonight? Alright then, be safe!" Chen Jiayi hung up the call and turned to Hui Ying. "Weiwei said she'll be home late tonight and to not wait for her."
The two didn't think much about their roommate being late since it happened pretty often, however on the other end..
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"Who are you?" Lin Wei stepped back from the group of drunk men heading her way when she realized she had hit a wall. There was nowhere to go. "What do you want?"
One of the men laughed and said, "You're so pretty miss, why don't you come join us? We'll have lots of fun!" The group of men behind him laughed.
Lin Wei shivered. These men were too disgusting.
'How did this happen?' Lin Wei thought. She was at a dinner party with her colleagues when she was ambushed at the bathroom. She quickly racked her brain to come up with a plan to escape because she didn't plan on getting harassed by a bunch of hooligans.
As the men approached her Lin Wei immediately kicked the nearest man in the private area. "Ouch! This bxxch!" The man howled in pain as the other men dragged her by the hair. "Who do you think you are, huh? How dare you kick my men!"
Lin Wei cried. "Let go of me!"
At this moment a chair suddenly flew at the man who was grabbing Lin Wei's hair. This caused the man to shout in pain. "Who dares to do that?" He looked around angerly when a red haired man appeared and kicked him in the face. What a shocking sight.
The red haired man fought the gang of men and scared them away.
"Ha! Just you wait!" The men ran with their tails behind them.
Lin Wei laughed. "Thank you, uh..sir?"
"My name is Zhang Ming."