Vampire Princess Guide in Progress - Volume 1 Chapter 37

Chapter 37: The Reality Side

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“This dress is so beautiful, the pattern on the skirt is so cute, and the neckline design is quite unique. But why does it seem a bit thin when I wear it? What do you think, Yueli…Yueli?”

“Ah! Sorry, I was distracted for a moment. What is it, Ruoxi?”

“Hahaha, I knew it, I could tell. I was saying this dress doesn’t seem to suit me well. Why don’t you try it on, Yueli?”

On the second floor of a bustling commercial center plaza, in a clothing store primarily selling women’s dresses.

A young woman with smooth beige-colored long hair sat on the store’s leather sofa. Jiang Yueli sat with her legs properly together, her posture elegant, holding her now-dark screened phone in her hands. She quickly shifted her gaze toward another young woman who had just come out of the changing room.

The young woman who was lifting the hem of her dress, lightly rising on her toes while examining whether the dress fit her figure, was named Lin Ruoxi, a close friend she had made during high school. She referred to it as “high school period” because they had both already graduated and were now college-bound students.

Quite coincidentally, their academic performance had been very similar, and they had both been accepted by the same university, although they had chosen different majors.

Therefore, without doubt, this friendship between the two girls would continue. Today, Jiang Yueli had gone out shopping and playing with Lin Ruoxi.

Both young women possessed outstanding appearances and pretty faces. Compared to Jiang Yueli, Lin Ruoxi had more of a well-bred young lady’s air about her. Her behavior and manners were more graceful, and she always liked to wear a pair of shiny earrings.

Indeed, she was actually a young lady from a wealthy family.

And from among her many admirers, both male and female, she had unexpectedly chosen Jiang Yueli as her close friend.

The reason was that when all the other girls were chattering and approaching her, Jiang Yueli had simply sat quietly by the window, with a melancholic, fragile look on her face, appearing very obedient and likable, immediately catching the interest of the wealthy young lady.

Although Lin Ruoxi later learned that Jiang Yueli’s family had experienced some troubles at that time, and she had been feeling depressed during that period.

At Lin Ruoxi’s enthusiastic suggestion, Jiang Yueli had no choice but to take the dress and enter the changing room. She usually just accompanied Miss Lin to buy things, she herself couldn’t afford to spend money at brand-name stores in shopping malls to buy expensive clothes.

“O-okay, how does it look?”

“Wow, it really has to be beauty Jiang to pull this off. This is way too gorgeous.”

Lin Ruoxi exclaimed in admiration as she watched the white-dressed young woman shyly pulling back the curtain and walking out of the changing room. When she had tried on the dress and looked in the mirror earlier, she hadn’t felt it looked this good.

“Really? It’s too pure, I don’t think it suits me…”

“Not at all! Stand in front of the mirror and see for yourself. Yueli, you’re perfect for this pure maiden style. We should really develop this style for you.”

Jiang Yueli gently twirled her finger in her hair. She usually wore simple school uniforms at school, and suddenly wearing such an eye-catching white dress made her feel somewhat uncomfortable. She was nervously pushed by the shoulders by Lin Ruoxi to stand in front of the mirror, staring blankly at the beautiful young woman in white in the reflection.

For a moment, she seemed a bit surprised at herself.

Perhaps it was because she had never tried such a little dress since starting high school, and the most exquisite part of this white dress was the neckline, which highlighted the young woman’s slender, snow-white swan-like neck, accentuating it beautifully and strikingly.

Soon, Lin Ruoxi found the key to the issue — it was the chest area!

When she wore it, it gave a somewhat thin impression, but when Jiang Yueli wore it, it appeared particularly proportionate and harmonious, because the chest area was filled out, giving the entire dress a kind of soft, aesthetic feminine curve.

A sensual figure beneath a pure exterior — utterly irresistible.

“Ah! It’s definitely because of the figure. Yueli’s breast size! I’m so jealous my teeth are about to shatter!”

“Ah!” Jiang Yueli let out a startled cry, feeling a pair of sneaky white jade hands reaching from behind her waist, then purposefully moving upward, followed by a merciless grip!

Although this wasn’t the first time, it still frightened her so much that her body trembled and she almost jumped.

“N-no more! Ruoxi! W-wait, people are watching, please let go…”

“Hmph, woman, you have no right to defy me. I can’t imagine how many men will be enchanted by you and fall at your feet when you go to university. You’re definitely going to be a campus goddess-level popular girl!”

And yet such a beautiful and pure girl would say she has no plans to date in college?

She would surely become the dream girl of countless young men who would admire her from afar.

“Ruoxi, I’m going to get angry, I really am!”

Jiang Yueli’s face was flushed red, her gaze filled with embarrassment and awkwardness as she glanced at the store clerk standing nearby. Seeing the two of them frolicking, the clerk quietly covered her mouth with a smile and very consciously turned around pretending to organize clothes in the stockroom.

Lin Ruoxi reluctantly weighed the considerable weight in her hands, then, at the perfect moment, withdrew her mischievous hands.

“You’re going to college now, isn’t it time to dress yourself up a bit? Or is it that your family hasn’t given you enough money?” Lin Ruoxi rested her chin on her shoulder, smiling as she said, “Then let this dress be my gift to you.”

“Eh!? No, no! It must be expensive. I can’t accept someone else’s gift for no reason.”

“Aren’t we good friends? Next time, you can give me a gift in return, just accept it. It looks so good on you.” Lin Ruoxi wouldn’t allow Jiang Yueli to refuse. For such an obedient, cute girl from a modest family background, she was very willing to help out.

For such an adorable girl, all she had to say was “if you don’t accept it, you’re not treating me as a friend,” and she would obediently surrender.

As for her modest family background, it seemed her parents were no longer around? She was living with her brother, depending on each other.

Despite this, Jiang Yueli still had a good personality. She hadn’t become a delinquent due to lack of parental guidance, but instead remained polite, humble, gentle, and elegant — truly a graceful young lady — which inevitably made people feel sympathetic.

Finally, at the clothing store’s checkout counter.

Jiang Yueli had no choice but to stand holding the bag of clothes, already thinking about how to return the favor.

“Thank you…” she said softly, reaching out to take the receipt printed by the store clerk.

But Lin Ruoxi was one step ahead, grasping the receipt marked with “825 yuan” in her palm. “I said there’s no need to be polite.”

“So, where should we go next? Although we’ve been out for a while, and my legs are getting a bit sore, if Yueli wants to play a little longer, I’m happy to accompany you — oh, we could do something that doesn’t require walking, like watching a movie.”

“Let me see…” Jiang Yueli held the shopping bag and looked down at the time on her phone, which made her hesitate.

Ah, they had unknowingly played until this time.

Should she go home now…