Into the Night, Jiao Jiao Gets Kissed by a Business Tycoon
Chapter 173: [Extra] Take a Gamble

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: [Extra] Take a Gamble

"Do you really like that guy so much?" Tan Bo suddenly asked.

Jiang Yurou looked down at her breakfast. "I can’t say I like him that much, but there’s just something about his aura that makes you can’t help but want to get closer and understand. Plus, he’s especially handsome, really attractive."

Now, Jiang Yurou was treating Tan Bo entirely as her emotional trash bin.

Tan Bo rolled his eyes at her and said unhappily, "Crazy fangirl."

"You’re the crazy fangirl. So it’s okay for you guys to like beauties, but we girls can’t like handsome guys?" Jiang Yurou retorted.

Tan Bo said, "I didn’t say you couldn’t like handsome guys."

It’s just... how come you don’t see the handsome guy right in front of you?

"Then you’re letting me go find him?" Jiang Yurou suddenly batted her big eyes.

Tan Bo chuckled twice at Jiang Yurou before saying, "You’re overthinking it."

Jiang Yurou: "Hmph, then why say all that."

Tan Bo didn’t pay her any more attention and started playing with his phone. In fact, for a moment just now, he had thought about letting go and letting Jiang Yurou try, because he knew very well that Jiang Yurou only saw him as a brother and friend. If there wasn’t any external stimulation, Jiang Yurou might never come to realize his feelings for her.

At this moment, two voices were clamoring in Tan Bo’s heart. One was saying, "Let her taste the bitterness of love. Once she’s tasted it, she’ll remember your kindness."

The other voice was warning him, "Don’t do it. What if she really falls for someone else? Then what will you do?"

Actually, Tan Bo didn’t think Jiang Yurou was the kind of person to fall for someone at first sight, but he still didn’t dare to gamble...

In the following days, Tan Bo stayed at Jiang Yurou’s place, only leaving for important matters at the company. Otherwise, he spent almost all his time in the apartment.

Jiang Yurou’s mood was like a roller coaster. Starting with a glimmer of hope, she eventually settled into calmness. So many days had passed; Zhou Ming probably almost forgot about her...

Jiang Yurou suddenly regretted not being more assertive when she had asked Zhou Ming for his phone number; otherwise, she wouldn’t be left without even an explanation now.

Until Monday morning, when she couldn’t bear it any longer, Jiang Yurou tried to please Tan Bo. She not only got up early to make breakfast but also mopped the floor.

How could Tan Bo not see Jiang Yurou’s unusual behavior? But he also clearly understood why she was trying to please him.

He lit a cigarette and said, "Do you really want to go find that guy?"

Jiang Yurou nodded. "Mm-hmm. I promised him I would go see him the next day when I left last time."

Whether it was out of frustration or helplessness, Tan Bo let out a long sigh, took a deep drag of his cigarette, and then slowly exhaled, making his already serious face look even sterner.

"Fine, wash the dishes, and then you can go," he said.

Jiang Yurou didn’t expect Tan Bo to actually agree, so she quickly responded, "No problem."

Jiang Yurou was quick to act. In less than five minutes, she had washed the dishes and put them into the sterilizer. She took off her apron and walked back to Tan Bo, "I’m done."

At that moment, Jiang Yurou was like a child waiting for a parent’s praise.

Tan Bo looked at her face, his gaze somewhat scattered, "Yeah, you can go."

"Like, really go?" Jiang Yurou pointed at the door and asked again, almost afraid that Tan Bo would change his mind the next second.

"Mm-hmm."

Having received Tan Bo’s affirmative response, Jiang Yurou went back to her room to change her clothes. Then, she grabbed her bag, greeted Tan Bo, and left.

Tan Bo watched Jiang Yurou’s departing figure, a flash of painful struggle passing through his eyes, but in the end, he did nothing.

He had looked into that man before: parents deceased, a sister who had enrolled in a not-so-bad university after the college entrance exam. Later, she dropped out because she was diagnosed with leukemia, and he had been taking care of her at home for years, working multiple jobs to accumulate enough for her medical expenses.

This time he would take a gamble, to see how important he really was to Jiang Yurou. If he won, their relationship might progress further, but if he lost... then it would truly be a parting of ways.

Even though the outcome might not be to his liking, he still chose to give Jiang Yurou six months to take a good look at what was in her heart...

He didn’t believe that Jiang Yurou had felt nothing for him all these years.

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In the alleyway, Zhou Ming was busy with his routine tasks as usual: cleaning the shop, fixing cell phones, catching up on sleep...

Everything seemed so calm and harmonious.

However, just then, a figure suddenly blocked the brightness before him. He looked up to see the petite and delicate Jiang Yurou standing there, staring at him with her big, watery eyes.

Zhou Ming was stunned for a moment, then two seconds later he looked away, "What brings you here?"

The truth was, after that day Jiang Yurou didn’t show up, he had given up any hope of seeing her again. And yet, unexpectedly, she had come.

"Of course, I came to see you!" Jiang Yurou said with a sweet smile.

"Is that so?"

"Of course!" Jiang Yurou walked up to Zhou Ming and began to explain, "I’m sorry about the other day. I said I would come to you the next day but didn’t make it. It wasn’t intentional; something came up at home, and that’s why I missed our appointment."

"It’s fine," Zhou Ming replied indifferently.

Although Zhou Ming felt a bit odd that Jiang Yurou didn’t come that day, he was quickly occupied with work.

Such things had happened far too often, and he had grown accustomed to it.

Jiang Yurou cheerfully linked her arm through his, "That’s good. I thought maybe you had forgotten about me."

Feeling the warmth on his arm, Zhou Ming stiffened, then slowly withdrew his arm.

If it were another girl, Zhou Ming might indeed have forgotten, but this was Jiang Yurou, a girl as dazzling as the sun. It was impossible for him to forget her.

At that moment, a van suddenly stopped in front of the shop. Zhou Ming put down what he was doing and walked out.

A man in a black tank top moved a large box down from the van. Jiang Yurou realized it was a delivery.

Jiang Yurou also walked over and, after Zhou Ming had paid, placed her hand on the box.

"What are you doing?" Zhou Ming asked immediately upon seeing this.

Jiang Yurou looked at him, smiling, "It looks heavy. Let me help you carry it."

Zhou Ming went over and pried her hand away, "No need. Go inside and sit. I’ve got it."

With that, he carried the box inside. Jiang Yurou had tried to lift it and found it extremely heavy, unable to move it, yet Zhou Ming had lifted it so easily.