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Chapter 14 - Poached "Pearls" with Conch (5)

......

Actually ... that sentence of Toupai's was honestly very innocent.

Don't think too much into it.

Lisa was instructing herself silently.

The doors of the grocery store suddenly slid open.

Two customers had come in. Sana hastily put away her mobile phone and with a show of seriousness, put on the look of a worker doing her job conscientiously. Lisa's hands were in her pants pocket, and she very restlessly flipped her phone over and over again inside, wondering what Toupai had said to her in his message.

Lisa, stay calm ...

Toupai is the perfect Toupai. He crossed over into being a commercial voice acting celebrity a long time ago.

Lisa, stay calm ...

He actually didn't really say anything at all. Besides, even if there was some sort of meaning in what he said, it has nothing to do with you.

Breathe, breathe. Can't stay calm at all, you know?...

Sure enough, you should not mingle too much with famous people. Even she, someone who already floated around part-time in the 2-D world, was starting to have teenage girl feelings sprout in her heart and silly thoughts that were all over the place... She pulled her mobile phone out again and tapped it absentmindedly against the counter. So, with her mind in a mess and her heart hanging anxiously in her throat, she served another dozen or so customers until her dad finally arrived after finishing dinner to take over the shift from her.

She quickly handed over the work and, shouting backwards hastily that she was hungry, dashed out of the store.

Outside, beside the glass window, she immediately pulled out her mobile phone and tapped on Toupai's voice message.

"I just finished a 36-hour shift, and I'm guessing I'll sleep until the middle of the night, to about one o'clock or so." Toupai's voice was thick with fatigue. He was not speaking loudly and sounded like he was just casually talking with her. "If you need anything, leave me a message. I'll get it when I wake up."

He had not been speaking hurriedly. Exactly 14 seconds long.

And then, the voice message ended.

"Lisa?" Someone unexpectedly stretched her head out to look over in her direction. "Why haven't you left yet? Not hungry?"

Lisa was completely startled and instinctively jammed her mobile phone into her jacket pocket. "Looking for the key to my bike lock..."

So lucky ... She had been listening through the ear receiver just now ...

But her heart was still beating irregularly, in fear that she would be found out by this true, hardcore fan of Toupai.

She decided in her mind that from now on, she needed to get into the habit of using a headset. Must do! Definitely required! ...

"Over here." With a smile Sana picked up a key from the ground. "You must have dropped it when you grabbed your phone out. Lisa, your face is... um, really red." When she finished saying this, she gave Lisa a meaningful look.

Pretending to be oblivious, Lisa gave a "huh?" and exchanged a couple more perfunctory sentences with her before fleeing her bicycle.

Back home, she pulled out her re-warmed dinner to eat while opening up her Weibo.

In slightly over an hour, the tweet had been reposted more than 2000 times, and the number of comments in reply was almost equal to that as well. Just the private messages alone that had been sent to her were totaling more than several dozen... Needless to say, they of course all contained remarks similar to the ones Sana had made. She debated with herself over whether she should respond with a formal and proper "Thank you, DaRen," or just pretend until the end of time that she did not even exist. She decisively chose the latter.