Chapter 143

Watching the black Mercedes drive away, Qin Tian suddenly put his hands together and said something in a voice only he could hear.

"Qin Tian, what are you doing?"

Xia Nuannuan looked at him with a surprised gaze.

"I'm thanking Auntie."

Qin Tian said with a straight face.

"Pfft!"

Xia Nuannuan couldn't help but be amused, clenched her fist and lightly tapped his shoulder, urging him with curved eyes: "Let's go, stop acting silly."

"Alright, then I'll thank her in my heart."

Qin Tian smiled and withdrew his hands.

Xia Nuannuan rolled her eyes and asked with a beaming smile: "Shall we go to the mall?"

"Mm, let's go, let's look around!"

Qin Tian nodded and started walking towards the city center mall.

This place wasn't far from the mall; you could see it just by looking up, and it only took a few minutes to walk there.

Xia Nuannuan hurried to keep up, her hands behind her back, her steps light.

"You drank so much, are you okay? Do you want to find a place to sit and rest for a while?"

Xia Nuannuan tilted her head and asked with concern.

"I'm fine, do you really think my tolerance is bad?"

Qin Tian shook his head with a chuckle and said confidently: "Believe it or not, if we kept drinking, Uncle would definitely be the first to get drunk!"

"Really? My dad often drinks with friends, why don't I believe that!"

Xia Nuannuan expressed her doubt with her eyes.

"Believe it or not, you'll know later."

Qin Tian grinned.

There were quite a few people strolling on the street; looking around, one could see many boys and girls of similar age, walking in groups of three or five.

Including the Fourth Middle School, there were three high schools in the Yucheng urban area.

Unsurprisingly, most of these boys and girls were just like them—graduating seniors who were about to take the college entrance examination and had come out to shop and relax.

After walking for a while, the two even saw several couples holding hands.

With graduation just around the corner, some underground couples who had been hiding their relationships were naturally no longer willing to keep them under wraps.

Every time she saw a couple holding hands, Xia Nuannuan would subconsciously lower her head and glance at Qin Tian's hand.

Without realizing it, the two had moved much closer, and Xia Nuannuan's shoulder would occasionally brush against Qin Tian's arm.

When crossing the street, Qin Tian naturally grabbed the little hand of the girl beside him.

Xia Nuannuan's heart trembled slightly, a faint blush appeared on her pretty face, and on the other side where Qin Tian couldn't see, the corners of her lips curled up into an arc involuntarily.

During this time, they could basically only see each other at school, so naturally, it was hard to make similar intimate gestures.

The happiness and little sweetness of that time they held hands while shopping and watching a movie flooded back into her heart.

After entering the mall, the two took the escalator to the upper floors.

"What shall we do?"

Xia Nuannuan asked.

"Hmm..."

Qin Tian thought for a moment and suggested: "Shall we go check out the video game arcade upstairs?"

Xia Nuannuan's eyes lit up, and she nodded in agreement: "Okay, but I don't really know how to play many of them."

She had been to the arcade with her parents a few times, but the last time was several years ago.

"It's okay, I'm good at it, I'll teach you!"

"Mm-hmm, okay!"

Xia Nuannuan agreed with a radiant smile.

The arcade, like the cinema they had visited before, was on the sixth floor of the mall.

The two took the elevator directly to the sixth floor and arrived at the entrance of the arcade.

A sign stood at the entrance, and the promotion the shop was running caught their attention.

It was actually arranged for high school seniors: bring your student ID to the shop to buy game tokens for a 30% discount, and not only that, the shop also had various surprise rewards arranged.

"This shop is really something; even a game arcade can ride the coattails of the college entrance exam?"

Qin Tian sighed with genuine emotion.

Xia Nuannuan couldn't help but smile and said: "I didn't bring my student ID!"

"I didn't bring mine either!"

Qin Tian shrugged and said with an indifferent smile: "It's fine, we don't need any discounts; it's not like we're short on this bit of money, and it's not auspicious—don't let them discount our college entrance exam scores when the time comes."

Xia Nuannuan was amused again, rolled her eyes at him, and complained: "Don't talk nonsense, you jinx!"

"Right, right, right, can't talk nonsense!"

Qin Tian raised his empty left hand and patted his own mouth.

Xia Nuannuan laughed extremely happily.

Afterwards, the two walked into the shop holding hands.

The shop was very lively; almost every machine had someone playing, and some of the more popular game machines even had people waiting in line.

The two came to the counter, and Qin Tian took out money to buy fifty yuan worth of game tokens.

In this day and age, game tokens were still relatively affordable; fifty yuan bought a full one hundred and thirty tokens.

Qin Tian remembered that after he graduated from university in his past life, there was a year during Spring Festival when he came with Zhang Peng, and one hundred yuan could only buy a few dozen tokens—it was a total rip-off.

"What should we play first?"

Holding a basket full of game tokens, Qin Tian asked with a smile.

"Let me see..."

Xia Nuannuan looked around, and after seeing the motorcycle game that many people were playing over there, she looked at him with her large, expressive eyes.

"Let's go!"

Qin Tian smiled and led her over there.

After waiting for a short while, a machine became free, and the two quickly stepped forward to claim it.

"I don't know how to play this, you play once first and teach me!"

Xia Nuannuan said with a smile.

Qin Tian nodded, handed all the game tokens to her to hold, then straddled the motorcycle, and beckoned to Xia Nuannuan with a smug look: "Come, help me insert the tokens, watch as your brother shows you a performance of what a 'Qiu Mingshan Racing God' is."

Xia Nuannuan couldn't help but give him a sideways glance, stepped forward, and inserted three game tokens.

After one round, the Qiu Mingshan Racing God's attempt to show off failed.

There was no helping it; he hadn't played this in many years and was a bit rusty.

The master-level gaming skill in the system skill bar didn't seem to include this thing.

"As expected of the Qiu Mingshan Racing God, amazing, amazing."

Xia Nuannuan gave a thumbs up and praised him with a serious expression.

Qin Tian gave a sheepish smile, waved his hand, and said: "Not important, none of this is important; I was just doing this to teach you how to play, did you learn it just now?"

"I don't know, I'm afraid I learned it wrong."

Xia Nuannuan teased with a beaming smile.

"Ahem... stop it!"

Qin Tian raised his right hand and lightly tapped her forehead with his finger.

This scene, falling into the eyes of three boys who had come to play together nearby, made them feel as if they had eaten a whole lemon—so sour their faces distorted.

"Let's go, let's go, let's play something else."

One of the boys said.

The other two nodded, and the three single dogs who didn't want to eat "dog food" decisively chose to stay away from this place of trouble.

"Are you happy now? It's all your fault!"

Xia Nuannuan, who had already sat on the motorcycle, gave Qin Tian a shy glare.

"Actually, I did that on purpose; look, now we can play together."

Qin Tian smiled calmly and sat on the motorcycle next to her.

"Come, come, let's play together, I'll let you have a five-second head start."

"No, it's my first time playing, I don't want to race you!"

"I'll give you ten seconds, best of three, the loser treats the winner to milk tea later."

"Qiu Mingshan Racing God, is that all the spirit you have? Twenty seconds!"

"Then you might as well just let me admit defeat."

"That works too!"