"You really have no backbone!" Jiang Miaoke looked at Ye Xiao with disdain.

Ye Xiao just smiled proudly and said, "Is backbone worth money?"

"Alright, you win. But let me tell you, once we get in the car, we're boyfriend and girlfriend, so you have to listen to me all the time and can't go against my wishes," Jiang Miaoke told Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao nodded indifferently, "Since I've boarded the pirate ship, I wasn't planning on getting off it peacefully anyway."

"Hmph, get on the ship, oh no, I mean get in the car!" Jiang Miaoke quickly said to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao chuckled lightly, then he was about to walk towards the passenger side but was stopped by Jiang Miaoke.

"Where are you going?" Jiang Miaoke looked at Ye Xiao with confusion.

Ye Xiao pointed at the blue Porsche and said, "To get in the car, where else?"

"Come on, you're my boyfriend now, can't you be my free driver? Letting others see me driving you around, do you think that looks good? I really don't understand how you are different from other men. Other men always put face first, but you seem to not care at all," Jiang Miaoke said exasperatedly.

Ye Xiao immediately smiled and said, "A man's dignity isn't given by others; it's earned by himself. Those given by others are impractical."

Hearing Ye Xiao's words, Jiang Miaoke couldn't help but give a wry smile and said, "You're the second person to say that."

"Oh?" Ye Xiao looked at Jiang Miaoke curiously.

"The first was my brother, Jiang Chuan," Jiang Miaoke said.

"Hehe, your brother is someone with ideals and ambitions, it's just a pity that being in a big family, there are many things beyond his control," Ye Xiao said with a smile, understandingly.

"You seem to understand it very well, at least better than you, being able to live luxuriously with everything at your fingertips," Jiang Miaoke said proudly, intending to tease Ye Xiao.

However, Ye Xiao didn't take it to heart and smiled, "But is that as joyful and free as how I live?"

Jiang Miaoke, listening to Ye Xiao's words, felt that they indeed made some sense, but then, what did that have to do with her?

"Come here and drive, hmph, sitting is always more comfortable than driving," Jiang Miaoke said and then went straight to the passenger side.

Ye Xiao didn't mind, driving or sitting, both were fine to him.

Once inside the blue Porsche, Ye Xiao smelled a faint scent of lemon and immediately smiled, "A fancy car and a beautiful lady, hehe, this is what many people dream of."

"How about a little interview, how do you feel?" Jiang Miaoke, sitting in the passenger's seat, asked Ye Xiao with a smile.

Ye Xiao very seriously replied, "It would be nice if there were a plate of pig's ears, they would definitely be delicious."

Hearing Ye Xiao's words, Jiang Miaoke instantly had a few black lines above her head. Do these two topics really go together?

"Beautiful girl, where shall we go?" Ye Xiao, not at all feeling like he was spoiling the mood, cheerfully asked Jiang Miaoke.

"Do you know if there's a place nearby where they sell clothes? I don't want to go to a big mall, that would take too much time," Jiang Miaoke said.

"How would I know? You know I haven't been in Bird City for long," Ye Xiao immediately said.

Hearing Ye Xiao's words, Jiang Miaoke then remembered that this guy had also only been in Bird City for a few days. However, Jiang Miaoke liked shopping a lot, so naturally, she had her own experience. She directly opened the navigation system and said, "Let's look it up on the navigation, maybe we can find a shopping street or something."

Obviously, Jiang Miaoke wasn't doing this for the first time, so she easily found a shopping street closest to Blue Star Technology called Xingyan Pedestrian Street. Ye Xiao remembered that in Minghai City, there seemed to be an Xingyan Pedestrian Street too.

"Let's go to Xingyan Pedestrian Street then," Jiang Miaoke said with a smile.

"Understood!" Ye Xiao immediately turned the steering wheel, ready to go. But just as he was about to start, he suddenly remembered that Xia Mingyue's car keys were still with him, so he stopped.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Miaoke asked with confusion.

"Mr. Xia's car keys are still with me, I need to return them to him, or at least hand them over to someone in the company who can give them to Mr. Xia!" Ye Xiao said.

"Really making a fuss. Just hurry up then, it's already half-past three," Jiang Miaoke said.

Ye Xiao immediately jumped out of the car quickly and arrived at the entrance of Blue Star Technology. When two security guards saw Ye Xiao, they immediately greeted him with smiles. Now the security team knew not to mess with Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao took out Xia Mingyue's keys and said, "These are Mr. Xia's car keys, please give them to Mr. Xia or Assistant Fang."

One of the security guards took the car keys, but before he could speak, Ye Xiao had already left.

"Wow, Ye Xiao has taken Mr. Xia's car out again," another security guard said in admiration.

"Yes, and he even got into a beautiful woman's Porsche. I wonder how many good deeds Ye Xiao did in his past life to have such luck with the ladies this life," said the guard holding the car keys, also full of admiration and musings about karma.

However, Ye Xiao did not see this; knowing that Jiang Miaoke was anxiously waiting, he immediately headed to the location indicated by the GPS after getting into the car.

Xingyan Pedestrian Street in Jinling District is also very famous. Although it's not as upscale as big malls, it has brand-name goods everywhere, not inferior to those in larger shopping centers.

Soon, the car was parked at a parking lot at the entrance of Xingyan Pedestrian Street.

"There are quite a lot of people here. It seems the clothes and stuff here must be good," Jiang Miaoke said cheerfully.

"A big forest attracts all kinds of birds!" Ye Xiao said to Jiang Miaoke.

Hearing Ye Xiao suddenly say this, Jiang Miaoke looked at him curiously and asked, "Why say that now?"

Ye Xiao pointed towards the distance and said, "Look!"

Jiang Miaoke looked in that direction and saw a man stealthily slipping his hand into a stylishly dressed woman's handbag.

"A thief?" Jiang Miaoke frowned and immediately prepared to go forward and catch the thief, seemingly ready to apprehend him on the spot.

However, Jiang Miaoke was grabbed by Ye Xiao, who asked, "What are you doing?"

"Tsk, didn't you see there's a thief?" Jiang Miaoke immediately replied.

"I did see, but didn't you notice that there are two or three people around this thief who can track his movement?" Ye Xiao whispered to Jiang Miaoke.

Jiang Miaoke, following Ye Xiao's words, looked around and indeed, two or three shady-looking people were paying attention to their surroundings and the woman the thief was targeting, which made Jiang Miaoke instantly think of the term 'lookout.'

"Are they all together?" Jiang Miaoke was somewhat surprised and said, "They are committing crimes as a group?"

"Haha, nowadays, every industry is all about teamwork, it's not odd at all," Ye Xiao laughed and said, "We came here to shop, not to look for trouble, and this sort of thing is common and not worth bothering about."

"But that woman is going to face a loss," Jiang Miaoke said anxiously.

"Well, if you come out to shop, you should be prepared to be targeted by thieves at any time. So, haha, understand? Let's go," Ye Xiao promptly replied.

Jiang Miaoke was somewhat unwilling, but what Ye Xiao said made sense. Reluctantly, she walked into Xingyan Pedestrian Street, and soon, the colorful clothes on display in the stores along the street captivated her, pushing the earlier incident with the thief far from her mind.

"These leather shoes are pretty good, casual style," Jiang Miaoke pointed to a pair of men's leather shoes and said.

"This one?" Ye Xiao glanced casually, noticed the shoes were vermilion-colored, which he felt was not a great color choice, but when his eyes landed on the price tag, he shook his head vigorously and said, "Nope."

"Why not?" Jiang Miaoke immediately looked at Ye Xiao, puzzled, "What's wrong with them? I think these shoes are quite nice. If you don't like the color, you can ask if there are other colors available."

"It's the color, but mainly it's because they're too expensive," Ye Xiao pointed at the price tag and said, "Didn't you see? 2546 yuan!"

"Just because of that?" Jiang Miaoke listened to Ye Xiao's words and gave a wry smile, "But have you considered that if these shoes are comfortable, you could wear them for several years? And if they're uncomfortable, even if they're cheaper, what's the use?"

"But it's too expensive, costing over two thousand. My salary is only two thousand a month," Ye Xiao firmly shook his head.

At this moment, a shop assistant, probably hearing Ye Xiao's comment, came over and said indifferently, "These shoes are the latest model, and they're not on discount."

Hearing the shop assistant's words, Ye Xiao looked up at her. She was a twenty-five-year-old woman with average looks, but there was an air of arrogance on her face and a hint of disdain in her eyes.

"Hehe, I didn't say I wanted them," Ye Xiao said.

Jiang Miaoke also noticed the shop assistant's disdain towards Ye Xiao, and although she was annoyed that Ye Xiao was loudly bemoaning the high prices, she was even more upset that the assistant seemed to look down on Ye Xiao, especially since Ye Xiao was accompanying her today and was nominally her boyfriend.

"Get those shoes down and let's try them to see if they fit," Jiang Miaoke pointed to the '2546 yuan' leather shoes and said.

The shop assistant was not particularly enthusiastic and said, "This gentleman has already said they are too expensive, I think you should look at other models here, there are some from the previous years on discount, only three or four hundred per pair."

"If you don't bring those shoes down right now, I am going to smash you with money," Jiang Miaoke suddenly burst angrily, glaring at the assistant with a seething expression.

Jiang Miaoke's words were brash, and the assistant was indeed startled by them. Although it was just a rash statement from Jiang Miaoke, the aristocratic demeanor cultivated from growing up in the Jiang Family was something the shop assistant couldn't match. At that moment, the assistant was overwhelmed by Jiang Miaoke's aristocratic presence and believed her words!

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