After coming out of the cinema, they started browsing the mall.
Here was Xie Mi's usual mall routine:
1. Buy a cup of milk tea to sip as she walked.
2. Browse a gift shop without buying anything.
3. Buy a scratch card with absolute confidence, then win nothing.
4. Go home.
The whole idea was that, apart from the milk tea shop and the scratch cards, nobody was getting her money.
With Shen Yeqing and You Hongxuan along today, she planned to let them experience this routine too.
First, they each got a cup of milk tea, then walked into a gift shop.
But as for not spending a single cent...
That clearly wasn't happening today.
"These knitted hats are nice. They come in three different colors, and it gets windy in autumn. How about one each?"
You Hongxuan brought over three hats and insisted they try them on together.
And so the three of them stood before the mirror with red, green, and yellow heads, looking so much like traffic lights that even a passing car would have to stop before moving on.
"What do you think? Do they look good?" You Hongxuan asked eagerly.
"You know what? They're actually pretty nice," said Xie Mi, whose tastes were always tickled by the strangest things.
"Buy them," said Shen Yeqing, who knew Xie Mi would like them and therefore kept quiet even though he found them ridiculous.
The traffic-light hats went into the shopping basket, but they weren't done yet. They began exploring another section of the gift shop.
Fresh out of several months of closed training, You Hongxuan was especially excited. He liked everything he saw and was keen on anything the three of them could match.
So when Shen Yeqing picked up a pair of pink-and-blue couples'