novelraw Chapter 449 - 427: Snowy Confession (1)
Chapter 449 - 427: Snowy Confession (1)
That day, before Dudu got off work, she received a phone call from Shen Yiran: "Happy birthday."Dudu was taken aback. It seemed like a long, long time since he had last said these words to her. On her previous birthdays, she had always bought a cake herself and pestered him, but he had never said anything nice to her.
"Twenty-four, you’re really grown up now."
Dudu responded with sarcasm: "Aren’t you always telling me to be sensible?"
"Listening to me so well? Come out tonight for dinner. It’s my treat, and I’ve prepared a birthday gift for you."
"I’m busy. We don’t have any relationship anymore. Stop calling me in the future."
He was silent for a moment. Dudu lowered her eyes, ready to hang up, but his voice sounded again: "Are you really not coming?"
Dudu hesitated for a moment, recalling how he treated her before, and heartlessly hung up the phone.
She still couldn’t understand why he was completely different from before.
She hadn’t walked a few steps when her phone rang again, this time it was An’an calling, coincidentally also offering to celebrate her birthday.
This time, Dudu did not refuse and immediately asked for the location, then took a cab to get there.
The restaurant was one they often visited before. The setting was serene, and it was entirely transparent, with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on the second floor that offered a good view of the scenery below.
When she arrived, Gu Qimiao and Xiaoxiao were already there, and the table was filled with little desserts.
As Dudu sat down, she pointed at the open space downstairs and said, "What are they doing down there? There are so many tablets set up."
An’an glanced over and laughed: "Probably some kind of promotion."
Gu Qimiao and Xiaoxiao exchanged glances and said nothing.
Outside the window, everything was white with snow, falling gently in fine flakes. The central square had been cleared of snow, where usually many children played, but today it was unusually quiet, with only a crowd around the periphery, observing the oddly standing tablets.
An’an was chatting with Dudu about all sorts of celebrity gossip when her phone suddenly rang. Seeing that it was Su Bao calling, she excused herself to a corner to answer.
"Is she there?" Shen Yiran asked.
An’an nodded: "She’s here. Proceed with Plan B. Take on a bit of hardship, and she’ll definitely agree to your proposal tonight."
They had two plans. One was if Dudu was willing to go out to dinner with Shen Yiran, in which case the two of them could clear things up face to face. The second plan was if Dudu refused to go with him, then she would step in to help, and he would play the pity card. The first step was to get Dudu to meet him.
Shen Yiran wasn’t worried about enduring some hardship, he just said: "The wind is picking up. Let’s start now."
An’an looked at the square outside. If the wind blew down the carefully arranged tablets, all the effort would be wasted, so she said: "Okay, let’s begin."
When she returned to her seat, the three women were still engrossed in their earlier celebrity gossip, everyone talking with great interest. An’an kept an eye on the situation outside. Noticing movement, she exclaimed: "Look over there!"
At the center of the square, thousands of tablets began to fall in sequence. Dudu laughed and said: "I just knew they would get blown over!"
But in the next second, she changed her mind: "Are they playing dominoes with tablets?"
The domino effect started as one tablet after another fell in order. The previously dark screens simultaneously flashed with a boot-up screen. Dudu smiled and said: "Are they advertising? This is way too creative."
An’an, Gu Qimiao, and Xiaoxiao exchanged glances, remaining silent as they quietly watched outside.