SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 3

Translator: Sae | Proofread: anasofi 

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The glossy bald head in front of the storage shelves belonged to Gu Miao. After this young girl had completely shaved her head, it was impossible to tell that she was a girl—not to mention, she had on a boy's greyish-blue down-filled jacket. If it were not for her eyes, Jiang Cheng would not have been able to recognize that this was Gu Miao.

Gu Fei was standing behind her with an electric hair clipper in his hand and a cigarette hanging loosely in his mouth. He must have been somewhat surprised to see him since the clipper that was once moving came to a complete standstill.

However, Gu Fei was dressed entirely differently than the day before, as he was sporting a pullover and casual pants that were comfortable and relaxed.

From his physical appearance to his attire and then his temperament, one could immediately tell he was of a different type of person from his four friends—very eye-catching—the kind that you could instantly distinguish from within a pile of people.

His whole body exuded an aura of "I am their boss".　

Jiang Cheng had always thought that his own appearance did not promote him as a bad person. Although his bad temper would sometimes even scare himself, he had simply thought of it as a rebellious stage lingering longer than the average... but under the situation of just calmly wanting to buy a bottle of water, he definitely looked harmless.

So, when the people in this miscellaneous goods shop, that was decorated to look like a small supermarket, all stared at him and kept silent with a face that seemed to say, "are you looking for a fight", he felt utterly baffled.

In the process, a chunk of the ash from the cigarette in Gu Fei's mouth fell on Gu Miao's bald head. She patted her head for a while just to get rid of the ash.

Jiang Cheng had no intention of concerning himself with these people's stares. He had always been a young man unafraid of large issues and fearless towards the 'what are you looking at' type of stares, especially when it came to times that his mood and health were concurrently unpleasant.

He walked to the front of the shelf and took a bottle of mineral spring water.

He looked up only to see that Gu Fei had already walked to the side of the shelf, and after silently staring at each other from across two containers of chips, Gu Fei said: "Welcome."

"Your family's shop?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"En," Gu Fei nodded.

"What a coincidence," Jiang Cheng said.

Gu Fei went silent. He also did not want to speak again, so he tossed the water in his hand back and forth and then turned around and walked to the checkout counter.

"Two kuai[1]," someone walked behind the counter and propped his hand on the table before leaning over to stare at him.

Jiang Cheng gave him a glance. With the bu-shi-hao-niao[2] team of four still sitting at the same spot, this person was the one who was standing beside Gu Fei just now.

Since the lighting was dim before, he could not see clearly, but now that he was beneath the light, he discovered that this person was very beautiful—like a young woman. Aside from his long and narrow eyes, the other features of this person made him seem more like Gu Miao's sister than... Gu Fei as her brother.

He took ten kuai out of his pocket and passed them over. The man took the money, lowered his head and poked the cash register a few times and then glanced at him. "Da[3] Fei's friend? I've never seen you before."