Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

“How should I know?” Zhou Weiqi scratched his head agitatedly. “Zhang Lanxiang’s father is an ordinary factory worker; her mother is a hawker. It is obvious that she is taking advantage of Zhou Ning to meet rich people.”

Zhou Weiqi paused briefly and shuddered at the thought of Zhang Lanxiang. It was obvious he hated her very much.

“Like what you said, how could she not know my situation? I was puzzled, why would an ambitious woman like her have eyes for me? Anyway, it seemed that she was not happy with the arrangement as well. I did not go back after that and that’s the last I heard from the evil lady.”

Jiang Yao knew earlier on that Zhou Weiqi was not valued in his family, although she did not know the exact details of it. It seemed like Zhou Weiqi had a dominant stepmother, and a despicable half-sister, who was always trying to one-up him.

She was listening in on the conversation but allowed her attention to wander as she did not know anything about the Zhou family. She held on to Lu Xingzhi and they both sat down on a stone bench, observing the passersby going on about their life.

Suddenly, a piercing scream tore through the air from afar.

Jiang Yao instinctively slowed her breathing and listened closely. There it was! Someone was screaming for help nearby!

“A robbery! A robbery!”

Jiang Yao stood up instantly, turned toward the rest and said, “There’s a robbery going on!”

Lu Xingzhi stole a look at Jiang Yao, and turned his head around, trying to hear it. He shook his head. “Where?”

“Someone’s screaming for help in front, can’t you hear it, it is so loud!” Jiang Yao looked at Lu Xingzhi confused. She turned to Luo Ruoran and asked, “Do you hear it?”

Luo Ruoran was deep in a conversation criticizing the Zhou family when she was suddenly asked the question. She looked at Jiang Yao blankly, “Did I hear what?”

“Someone was screaming for help, there’s a robbery going on!” Jiang Yao repeated and kept glancing back at the direction where it came from. Weirdly enough, there seemed to be no commotion among the crowd.

“We didn’t hear anything.” Both Luo Ruoran and Zhou Weiqi shook their heads.

They were not fooling around with her, but Jiang Yao was very sure that she heard it and it seemed to be getting closer, even though nobody else was reacting.

Was she hallucinating? Jiang Yao took a step forward, rubbed her eyes and looked toward the direction where the cries of help came from. She opened her eyes to see a man in his thirties, with a black sweater and a pair of jeans on, holding a woman’s purse in his hand. He was pushing the pedestrians away as he ran, while constantly looking back at a young lady and a few police officers running after him. This was the snatch thief and he was running toward the street right in front of the garden, which were separated by a high metal fence.

“There he is! He’s running toward us!” Jiang Yao raised her voice, looked at the metal fence in her way and ran toward it instinctively. She grabbed the fence and leaped, jumping over the human-height fence with ease.

Everyone else looked at what just unfolded in front of them with bewilderment.

Lu Xingzhi saw Jiang Yao stand still for a second and looked toward something in front before running after it. She ran like the wind and disappeared into the horizon.