Who Could Rival Qian Renxue in Popularity? Only Gu Yuena, the Dragon Who Gave Herself Away

As the car drove into the underground parking garage of a nearby mall...

"Let's head to a clothing store in the mall first. You can't keep wearing the same outfit all the time. You need to buy some changes of clothes," Jiang Yan said.

"Does your era have any pretty clothes?" At the mention of buying clothes, Ye Guyi immediately perked up.

"What do you think of her outfit?" Jiang Yan pointed at the hip-hugging skirt uniform Leng Yaozhu wore.

"It shows a little too much skin." Ye Guyi dressed rather conservatively.

Even when wearing a long dress, she would choose a long dress.

"That's because you're still young. You don't understand yet," Leng Yaozhu said mildly.

"Even so, we wouldn't wear skirts that short. Most people wouldn't dress like that," Qian Renxue added.

In Qian Renxue's era, almost no one dressed like that.

"Not necessarily." Leng Yaozhu smiled faintly.

From everything she had seen so far, Leng Yaozhu had realized that her own era was actually the closest to the Modern Era.

Whether it was cars or televisions, if that was the case, then their clothing should also be similar to that of her era.

When they took the elevator from the second basement level to the ground floor, Qian Renxue froze the moment they stepped out.

Almost everywhere she looked, the vast majority of girls were wearing short skirts.

Instead, her own outfit seemed somewhat out of place.

"Why are they all dressed like that?" Qian Renxue asked in confusion.

In Qian Renxue's era, all the nobles wore long robes and long dresses.

"Because that's the current fashion. People are free to wear what they want now." Jiang Yan smiled.

"Why are there so many people?" As soon as they entered the mall, Ye Guyi and Qian Renxue were startled by the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds.

"It's almost mealtime, so there are more people shopping. Wait until five in the afternoon, and there'll be even more," Jiang Yan explained.

"Don't they need to earn money?" Qian Renxue asked in confusion.

"Of course they do, but you have to enjoy life too, right? The guiding principle these days is to seize the day. Money is earned to be spent."

"Look at the employees in those stores. They're all hard at work." Jiang Yan pointed at the store staff.

Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi looked into the stores. Although the shop assistants still wore smiles on their faces...

They could both tell that those smiles were helpless ones, completely different from the natural smiles of the people out shopping.

"Why are their smiles so forced?" Qian Renxue asked.

"They're at work. How could they be happy? Who could stand working over ten hours a day, living the 996 life every day?" Jiang Yan explained.

"Over ten hours? Isn't that worse than being a slave?" Qian Renxue exclaimed.

"They aren't called slaves anymore. They're called workhorses now," Jiang Yan said helplessly.

"Then where do you find these sla... workhorses? At a slave market?" Qian Renxue asked.

"They aren't called slave markets anymore. They're called job markets," Jiang Yan said.

"Job markets? Do you buy them outright there too?" Qian Renxue asked curiously.

"That was in the past. These days, it's a monthly rental arrangement. If you meet a decent boss, he'll pay your social insurance, and you can take leave when you're sick instead of going to work. If you meet a bad one, you'll get kicked straight into outsourcing," Jiang Yan said.

"That's just too miserable." Qian Renxue was somewhat shocked.

"How is that miserable? Students have it the worst," Jiang Yan said. "They leave for school at five every morning and don't get home until ten at night. Then they still have a pile of homework to finish and can't rest until around midnight. Being at school is practically like being in prison."

As they chatted, they walked into a fairly upscale clothing store.

"So many pretty clothes!" Looking at the dazzling array of clothes, Ye Guyi could no longer suppress the girlish excitement in her heart.

"See if there's anything you like. Feel free to try things on." Jiang Yan smiled.

"Huh? You can even try the clothes on?" Qian Renxue paused slightly.

"Of course. How can you buy them without trying them on?" Jiang Yan spoke with such complete assurance that Qian Renxue could find no fault with it.

"Then can anyone come here to try on clothes? Is it all right to try them on without buying them?" Qian Renxue asked again.

"Of course." Jiang Yan smiled.

Outside the Sky Screen, nobles from the various eras were instantly dumbfounded at the sight.

"They let just anyone try on clothes? Who runs a shop like that? There are no rules at all!"

"Exactly! Those lowborn wretches don't deserve to enter a shop like this! They should only be allowed to look at these clothes, not try them on!"

Meanwhile, within the Sky Screen, Ye Guyi and Leng Yaozhu had each gone off to choose clothes.

Only Qian Renxue was at a loss as to what style to choose.

She had gone undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire at the age of nine and wore men's clothing most of the time. She really didn't have many women's outfits.

"What's wrong? Don't know what to buy? Shall I pick out a few things for you?" Jiang Yan smiled.

Qian Renxue nodded instinctively.

Just then, several more girls entered through the clothing store's doorway.

As soon as they came in, they kept staring at Qian Renxue.

Before long, one of the bolder girls came up to greet her.

"Excuse me, are you cosplaying Qian Renxue? You look absolutely gorgeous."

Qian Renxue paused slightly, momentarily unsure how to answer, and instinctively looked toward Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan immediately caught on and stepped forward to explain. "Yes, that's right. She's cosplaying Qian Renxue. Looks great, doesn't she?"

"Yes, she looks amazing! Could we take a picture with your girlfriend?" the girl asked.

Qian Renxue said, "Huh? I'm not..."

Before Qian Renxue could finish, the girls' eyes instantly dimmed, leaving her unsure what to say.

"A picture? Of course, no problem." Once again, Jiang Yan stepped forward to speak.

"Really?" At his words, the girls' dimmed eyes lit up again.

"Of course. Give me your phone. I'll take it for you," Jiang Yan said.

"Okay!"

The young woman handed over her phone while calling to her friends at the entrance, and they gathered around Qian Renxue.

Jiang Yan took a group photo for them, then handed the phone back.

After they left, Qian Renxue still felt a little embarrassed.

"How does it feel to be a celebrity?" Jiang Yan teased.

"Do that many people here know Qian Renxue?" Qian Renxue still hadn't recovered from what had just happened.

"Of course. Qian Renxue is very popular," Jiang Yan said.

"Probably the only one who can rival Qian Renxue in popularity is Gu Yuena, the dragon who gave herself away."

"So, to keep this from happening again, you'd better change into some modern clothes."

Meanwhile, outside the Sky Screen, in the Dragon King era, Gu Yue's brows knitted tightly at Jiang Yan's words.

"Gu Yuena, the dragon who gave herself away? What does that mean?"

"Could it be that I didn't unleash my true strength in the final battle against humanity?"