Awaken: I See Tags, I Rewrite My Life
Chapter 68: Has Our Daughter Found a Boyfriend?

Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Has Our Daughter Found a Boyfriend?

Watching Meng Cheng’an and Tian Xiang walk into the distance, a few seniors exchanged glances. Someone sighed, "A sight to behold, a match made in heaven."

"I won’t even mention Mr. Meng, he’s always sneaking glances at the little junior sister, obviously interested.

It seems like the little junior sister has some special feelings towards Mr. Meng too, probably likes him as well."

"The young man is well-built, and it’s quite normal for the girl to like him."

"Heh, are we going to have wedding sweets soon..."

Up ahead, Meng Cheng’an caught up with Tian Xiang, and they walked side by side.

At first, they talked a bit about the previous interview; later, while pushing their bikes across a bridge, Meng Cheng’an asked her, "Why didn’t you let me escort you last time?"

Last time?

Tian Xiang thought seriously for a moment before remembering he meant the day after the event, when the troupe came over.

Tian Xiang: "The time wasn’t late, and there were senior brothers and sisters walking together, so I didn’t want to trouble you. You’ve been working all day, don’t just think about others, make sure to get some rest early."

So she was actually caring about him too.

Meng Cheng’an chuckled softly.

Tian Xiang: "What are you laughing at?"

This person always smiles mysteriously; it’s not like she told a joke.

Meng Cheng’an: "Nothing."

At the time when he was rejected, he felt very disappointed and upset.

But now, everything seemed better.

Near nine o’clock, there were barely any people left on the streets, and the two walked side by side, occasionally chatting, quiet and beautiful.

This time, Meng Cheng’an escorted Tian Xiang to the gate of the courtyard.

Watching her enter through the wooden gate, Meng Cheng’an finally turned his bike around, ready to leave. Yet, without him noticing, a middle-aged woman in a blue pointed-collar shirt stood behind his bike, blocking the already narrow road.

Meng Cheng’an: "Auntie, I need to go out."

"Ah! Oh."

Hu Honglian stepped aside, and Meng Cheng’an rode his bike straight away, his tall figure quickly disappearing around the corner ahead.

Hu Honglian stood silently, somewhat stunned.

Oh my, who is this young man, so well-built, to have escorted her daughter back home? Could it be they are dating?

Oh dear, this young man seems impressive, even more proper than Lu Feng.

Great, great, just wondering what the situation is at his home, how’s his job?

Hu Honglian scurried back to the courtyard, not yet through the door when she saw her daughter coming out holding a tea jar.

"Mom, where have you been?"

Earlier, Tian Xiang returned home, Tian Weibing was a bit puzzled seeing her return alone, and Hu Honglian hadn’t seen her daughter return, so she went to the alley entrance to wait.

But Tian Xiang didn’t see anyone when she came back.

Hu Honglian pulled her daughter inside.

"Nothing much, Sister-in-law Chun from across the alley was outside, we chatted casually for a bit."

Luckily she stood across for a while; otherwise, she wouldn’t have seen the young man tonight if she had waited at the entrance like last time.

Hu Honglian also realized today that this young man was the one who escorted her daughter back last time from her dance outing over at Red Fifth Street.

Twice, it was the same person escorting her back, this relationship...

Hu Honglian quietly asked her daughter, "Did you find a partner?"

Tian Xiang: "No."

"The one who just escorted you back?"

"He’s with the Trade Union’s publicity department; we’re partners for these legal education lectures."

Mentioning the legal education activity, Tian Xiang excitedly exclaimed, "Mom, I’m going to be in the newspaper."

In the newspaper?

"Which newspaper?"

"It’s the Red Star Weekly from our side. Mom, the reporter interviewed me tonight."

Listening to how her daughter was interviewed and photographed, Hu Honglian quickly shifted her focus from the handsome young man to excitement about her daughter’s success in making it to the newspaper, eager to boast in front of her friends.

This is quite something!

"The newspaper comes out next Monday. Mom, I’ll bring it back for you to see."

"Good, good, get multiple copies, if not buy a few more."

She planned to keep a few copies at home and a few at her workplace; good things must be shared.

If only there was an extra bicycle at home, otherwise she and the old man would also go over to applaud their daughter.

...

The next day was the weekend, Tian Xiang could rarely indulge in sleeping in.

Hu Honglian and Tian Weibing both had to work today, neither disturbed their daughter, leaving breakfast warmed in the pot before heading out.

Yet right after they left, next door, Tian Chuying and He Cuifen began their yelling match.

Tian Xiang initially ignored it, pulling the quilt over her head, but later the mother-daughter duo shamelessly opened the door and shouted into the courtyard.

The old houses in the courtyard hold no sound insulation, forcing Tian Xiang to get up.

However, by the time she was dressed, the outside had quieted down again.

Seriously...

Tian Xiang sat at the door, annoyed, eating breakfast. Aunt Pan told her that Tian Chuying sold her job at the health center.

The mother-daughter duo had previously argued about this, and Tian Chuying even got hit by He Cuifen.

Later, who knows what Tian Chuying said, but they quieted down again; He Cuifen then went to the market with a basket, and Tian Chuying went out with a bag, where she had gone is unknown.

Pan Yuzhen incredulously asked Tian Xiang, "Xiangxiang, I heard a few words, seemed like Tian Chuying is still thinking about that Lu Feng from Red Fifth Street! Good grief, what could be wrong with her head, did she catch a disease?"

Lu Feng and the widow are true love, she’s shamelessly chasing him, can that be good?

With Lu Feng’s article in the newspaper earlier, everyone now knows his love story with Widow Jiang.

Though some parts made people feel inexplicable, Lu Feng’s reputation somewhat recovered.

But with Tian Chuying shamelessly chasing him, she’s now seen with disgust.

Though Tian Chuying’s reputation is already rotten to the core, she doesn’t care; all others can do is shake their heads.

Tian Xiang: "I don’t know about that."

She was quite uninterested in caring about the two’s affairs.

Pan Yuzhen, realizing she couldn’t get info from Tian Xiang, soon found someone else to chat with.

Tian Xiang finished her meal, tidied up the stove, then went out with a bag.

She intended to find Zhuang Ermei.

This week, with the lecture activities, she hadn’t found the time, and planned to use today to ask about Zhuang Ermei and Jiang Gaojun’s situation.

But upon reaching the laborer’s glove section, the team leader said she wasn’t there, had not come this morning.

Could she be on a date?

Tian Xiang planned to check again in the afternoon, and on her way back, she saw Tian Chuying and Lu Feng by the riverside embankment.

Last time by the ditch, she saw them, Lu Feng sneaked away as soon as he saw her.

This time, Tian Xiang was more alert, hiding behind a big tree.

From afar, she couldn’t hear what they were saying, only guessing from their actions.

Lu Feng seemed to be explaining something to Tian Chuying.

Tian Chuying handed him something wrapped in a cloth, looked like tickets or money.

That fool, her head full of this bad guy, they even held hands before parting.