You in the Lens

Liu Chang'an exchanged 100 coins, figuring that Bai Hui wasn't really going to grab all the plush toys from the new store's claw machine, so 100 coins would be more than enough.

During the opening phase, you can exchange 51 yuan for 100 coins, and each draw only costs one coin. After the opening event, it will be adjusted to two coins per draw.

The store is quite crowded right now; after all, even in a commercial street where the main customer base is students, this level of spending is considered very low.

Surprisingly, there were no vacant claw machines available at the moment; every single one had someone in front of it. Liu Chang'an decided to watch others try their luck and observe the claws inside the machines.

Bai Hui took out a mirrorless camera, a Sony A7S2, from her bag.

Although it's called a mirrorless camera, it's actually quite large. Mirrorless camera lenses don't have much of a size advantage over DSLR lenses; good lenses can still be bulky and heavy.

"Does your bag have any folding space?" Liu Chang'an asked, puzzled. It was a small bag, yet it contained a camera, a lens, and some other items.

"Yes, if you stick your head in, you'll see a black hole." Bai Hui opened her bag a little, gesturing for him to stick his head in.

Liu Chang'an was certainly not that stupid; Bai Hui only opened the bag briefly before quickly closing it again.

"I think I saw something incredible." Liu Chang'an didn't see a black hole, but he did see a single condom.

"What?" Bai Hui asked, puzzled.

"It's nothing. Even though you're a fairy, you're still a grown woman. It's only natural to have these things in your bag," Liu Chang'an said understandingly.

Seeing Liu Chang'an's expression, Bai Hui rummaged through her bag in confusion, then blushed furiously.

Liu Chang'an turned around and casually looked for an unoccupied claw machine.

"This is a bag of spicy strips." Bai Hui pulled it out and quickly ran to Liu Chang'an to show it to him. Couldn't he trust her a little? He just assumed it was that thing!

"It really is spicy strips." Liu Chang'an didn't care whether it was spicy strips or condoms. He had seen some brands that didn't focus on making good products and resorted to vulgar marketing tactics.

"Zhao Yu bought it and gave me a pack!" Bai Hui glared at Liu Chang'an angrily. "What are you thinking? Would I carry something like that on me?"

"Don't hold it up like that," Liu Chang'an reminded her.

Bai Hui looked around before realizing what she had brought, her fair face flushing pink. She quickly stuffed it back in. At first glance, it looked like a girl inviting a boy out. "I brought this!"

Liu Chang'an was fine, but Bai Hui, being a girl with a delicate face, quickly moved to hide behind Liu Chang'an, rummaging through her bag to conceal herself.

Liu Chang'an walked away, and Bai Hui hurriedly grabbed the back of his clothes and followed.

"Why did you bring a camera out?" Liu Chang'an started playing the claw machine.

"This is a camera specifically designed for shooting videos, but it's also great for low-light shooting, and it's not as bulky as the last one," Bai Hui said quietly, holding the camera. "I want to take some unflattering photos of you."

"I'm pleasing to the eye at first glance because I'm good from every angle. You can't take an unflattering photo of me like that," Liu Chang'an said nonchalantly. "Even if I have crooked eyebrows or slanted eyes, you'll still find me pleasing to the eye."

"You... how can you be so narcissistic?" Bai Hui looked at that familiar face with utter admiration, then casually snapped a picture and glanced at it.

Liu Chang'an in the photo... Bai Hui didn't say anything, raised the camera, the viewfinder blocked her eyes, and looked at him through the many overlapping lenses in the lens.

The viewfinder was so small that it could only hold him. With the eye-tracking autofocus on, Bai Hui kept pressing the shutter button, focusing intently on his eyes.

Many non-professional photographers dislike their boyfriends or girlfriends being photographed by other photographers because the feeling of looking at each other through the lens is always ambiguous.

Many people say that photographers and models flirt through the lens to capture the most natural and moving feelings, especially in the fields of portrait and boudoir photography.

There are countless examples of male photographers turning their subjects into their girlfriends while taking photos. Bai Hui knows many Lolita fashion enthusiasts or cosplayers who have their boyfriends as their photographers in their private or official photoshoots.

Bai Hui didn't have a photographer boyfriend, and she preferred to take pictures of herself, so she bought two sets of cameras and lenses because she felt it was more natural that way. She always felt a little restrained if she had to find someone to take pictures of her alone.

Liu Chang'an appeared completely at ease in front of the camera, radiating naturalness and relaxation. Occasionally, while playing the claw machine, he would glance at the camera.

It was a gaze through the camera lens; Liu Chang'an couldn't see Bai Hui's expression, much less the tenderness in her eyes.

Liu Chang'an knows how to use a camera. He probably won't become my photographer, but it seems like it would be nice to hide behind the camera and take pictures of him.

"Stop filming, I'll teach you some tricks for playing the claw machine so you can try it yourself later." Liu Chang'an waved to Bai Hui, signaling her to come over.

"Oh." Bai Hui turned off her camera, walked over, and listened attentively to his understanding of claw machines and the tips he had summarized.

Bai Hui didn't try to catch many; Liu Chang'an helped her catch twenty-three, and she only caught two herself before stopping.

Bai Hui used the remaining game coins to play on the dance machine. Liu Chang'an was always interested in digital products that showcased the charm of technology, and he played with Bai Hui's digital camera. Bai Hui said that the memory card was full, so she replaced it with a new one for him.

While Bai Hui was playing the dance machine, Liu Chang'an took a few test shots with his camera. The mirrorless camera was actually similar to a DSLR in actual use, although there were some differences, such as the electronic viewfinder.

After Bai Hui finished dancing, she looked at the photos, hurriedly deleted them, and glared at Liu Chang'an. This guy, standing close by and taking a picture from above with a wide-angle lens, made Bai Hui look like a kindergarten child in the photo. At first glance, you might mistake him for Zhou Dongdong, short and round!

"Haha, looks like you're not perfect from every angle." Liu Chang'an reached out his hand, then withdrew it. She was already short enough, so he decided not to pat her head.

Bai Hui was furious. She had clearly been seen by him from a high place during the club's recruitment that day, and he could see that she was a long-legged girl!

"Come here!" Bai Hui picked up a large bag of dolls and walked to a quiet corner.

Liu Chang'an stood still.

Bai Hui waved again.

Liu Chang'an looked at her suspiciously, then walked over. "Don't blow air into my nose, or I'll sneeze and waste my saliva."

Bai Hui didn't bother arguing with him about his nonsense.

"Also, don't lift up your skirt to measure your leg length anymore. We already did it last time." Liu Chang'an remembered it vividly. Even if it was a girl like Bai Hui with an average figure and face, the scene of her lifting up her skirt to measure her leg length would be memorable. After all, she went to such lengths, and remembering the scene was a form of respect.

"Look here," Bai Hui said, pointing to her chest, her cheeks flushed.

"It's just clothes." Liu Chang'an saw mountains as mountains and water as water.

"Even if I'm not perfect from every angle, I have a 360-degree perfect Bear Bear!" Bai Hui had to make him understand this point. The key is not that a person can be perfect from every angle, but that having a part of perfection is enough!

"If you say it's perfect, then it's perfect." Liu Chang'an didn't want to comment.

"You don't believe me?" Bai Hui felt that Liu Chang'an's attitude was too perfunctory.

"I didn't say I didn't believe it."

"I... I can't do what I did last time! I was out of my mind when I lifted up my skirt last time. I won't lift up my T-shirt and underwear." Bai Hui said dejectedly, as if telling Liu Chang'an, but also as if reminding herself not to be too impulsive.

"Finally, he's using his brain." Liu Chang'an said with relief.

"Anyway... anyway, you have to admit I'm not as useless as you say." Bai Hui was still frustrated. She couldn't prove it directly, yet she was very concerned about proving it.

Liu Chang'an sighed.

"Why are you sighing?" Bai Hui looked at Liu Chang'an suspiciously.

"Big boobs, no brains" perfectly describes you.

Bai Hui didn't mind the compliment; he said she had big breasts.

"If you're completely useless, how can you be qualified to be my friend?" Liu Chang'an laughed. Forget it, he wouldn't expect Bai Hui to see through appearances to the essence of things.

"That's true." Bai Hui gave a slightly shy smile. This seemed to be the first time Liu Chang'an had directly expressed that he was interested in her.

"I'm going back." Liu Chang'an waved his hand and walked outside.

Bai Hui quickly followed him, intending to walk with him to the street corner before parting ways.

Liu Chang'an fulfilled Bai Hui's wish. He walked from the street corner to the bridge and saw a spider had built a web between the stone piers and railings, thread by thread.

This spider is so stupid. It works so hard to spin its web, but in this place, a gust of river wind or a shower of rain can tear it to shreds.

We still need to find a suitable place to set up these silk threads and nets.

Or perhaps it has its own power; once it's entangled, neither wind nor rain can break or tear it apart.

Liu Chang'an looked at the spider, which was still diligently weaving its web. He stretched out his finger and placed it on the web. As if it sensed some primal attraction, the spider gave up weaving and crawled onto Liu Chang'an's finger.

Liu Chang'an walked across the bridge, passed the small commodities market, and stretched out his finger under an electric meter under a awning. The spider climbed up and began to spin its web inside the awning.

Back in the neighborhood, I didn't see Shangguan Dandan playing cards under the grapevines. The weather wasn't suitable for playing cards outdoors anyway. It would be much more comfortable and relaxing to find a card-playing friend's house and sit by the fireplace to while away the time.

Liu Chang'an saw Zhou Dongdong lying on her back under the sycamore tree, holding Shangguan Dandan's phone, staring at the screen as if she were lost in thought. When Liu Chang'an walked over, he saw a line of drool dripping from the corner of her mouth, almost falling from her chin. He glanced at the screen and saw that she was watching a "mukbang" (eating broadcast), where a person had a large basin of seafood in front of them and was eating it ravenously. Zhou Dongdong was watching with complete fascination.

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