Chapter 327: Night Market
It was past 8 PM at the Jin Street Night Market.
The Cultural Center had already closed at 8 PM, and the social vehicles in the parking lot outside had also automatically disappeared.
It wasn't that the Cultural Center cleared them out; rather, parking spaces here cost money. Any consumption at the Cultural Center allowed for three hours of free parking, and staff could swipe their cards for free parking. This was also to prevent social vehicles from occupying all the spaces.
There's no doubt that if such a thing isn't prevented, it will absolutely happen.
An Alphard drove into the parking lot. Jiang Shu, smelling of smoke and alcohol but with a clear mind, got out of the car, followed closely by Choi Ji-yeon.
Jiang Shu looked Choi Ji-yeon up and down, causing the professional secretary to look very puzzled.
"Your outfit doesn't look like it's for strolling through a night market."
Choi Ji-yeon looked down at her business attire; it did seem to be the case.
"You go back to the hotel, I'll go by myself," Jiang Shu waved his hand and said.
After the opening ceremony, Jiang Shu had changed his clothes. His T-shirt and shorts looked very much like a local from Guangzhou. The only thing missing was slippers on his feet.
"Okay," Choi Ji-yeon nodded. She didn't want to come anyway. Jiang Shu hadn't drunk; she had drunk on his behalf.
Given her alcohol tolerance, she was fine, but the problem was that lying down after drinking was definitely more comfortable than strolling around.
After waving his hand, Jiang Shu put on a mask and headed towards the night market outside the Cultural Center.
The so-called night market was actually a designated area for small vendors to sell goods, right next to the Cultural Center. Vendors usually started arriving around 6 PM and would stay until two or three in the morning.
The reason Jiang Shu came here was because Sakura and her group were here.
The seventeen people split into three, four, five, or six groups. Some went to eat crayfish, some went for barbecue, and a few went to a KTV to sing. Sakura, Li Caiyan, and Lee Chaeryeong chose to come to the Jin Street Night Market to eat and shop.
The restaurant where they had dinner wasn't far, so Jiang Shu came directly.
The night market was still very crowded. Not only was it close to the Cultural Center, but it also offered night market snacks, which many tourists enjoyed when visiting a new place. This made the already crowded night market even more so with the addition of tourists.
There were quite a few people wearing masks like Jiang Shu, so his attire didn't attract too much attention.
"Where do I find them?" Jiang Shu looked at the long night market ahead, frowning in thought.
The three of them—Sakura, Li Caiyan, and Lee Chaeryeong—seemed like a lot, but they looked very few when placed in a crowd.
Let's go further inside first.
Jiang Shu's eyes scanned around as he walked, searching for his three artists.
At a small table behind a "Changsha Stinky Tofu" stall, a type found everywhere across the country, Sakura, Li Caiyan, and Lee Chaeryeong sat together, attacking a bowl of stinky tofu in front of them.
"It's actually quite tasty!" Lee Chaeryeong said with sparkling eyes, biting into a juicy piece of stinky tofu.
"It's a bit spicy, but it's really good with the sauce," Sakura whispered from the side.
They were speaking Korean, and if their voices were too loud, they would attract attention from the people around them.
Li Caiyan didn't say anything, just kept stuffing stinky tofu into her mouth.
Compared to her younger sister Lee Chaeryeong's efficiency of five or six bites per piece, Li Caiyan directly ate one in two bites.
Suddenly, a figure flashed across Sakura's line of sight. By the time she swallowed the food in her mouth and looked again, the figure had disappeared.
Before Sakura could think deeply, Li Caiyan spoke up.
"Where is the Chairman?"
"I don't know if he's here yet," Sakura shook her head, looking at her phone which had no new messages.
"Then let's eat while we wait."
"Mm."
On the other side, Jiang Shu walked from one end to the other, still not seeing any sign of the three of them.
This left Jiang Shu a bit puzzled. Didn't they say they were right here?
He picked up his phone and checked; they hadn't sent any messages saying they left, which meant they were still here.
"Are they sitting and eating?"
This was the only blind spot in his vision.
So, Jiang Shu turned back again.
This time, he carefully looked at the people sitting and eating, and soon, he saw the figures he was looking for.
At a small wooden table against the wall, three girls had their backs to the busiest corridor, whispering to each other, but not a sound could be heard from them.
Jiang Shu's gaze fell on the figure on the far left. The white sleeveless tube top had an excellent visual effect from the back. A few strands of hair peeking out from under the baseball cap showed that the girl had dyed her hair cherry pink. This was most likely Sakura.
Then he looked at the other two. The girl in the middle was wearing the denim outfit beloved by cool girls. Her newly cut short hair just touched her shoulders, somewhat similar to Wendy's hair but a bit fuller. This should be Li Caiyan.
The girl on the right was wearing a blue spaghetti strap mini-dress, her hair tied up. But even though only a third of her profile could be seen, the overwhelming aura revealed her identity.
Lee Chaeryeong!
The number of people, their clothes, and hair colors all matched. Jiang Shu immediately walked through the space reserved between the stalls and went inside.
He reached out and placed his hand on Sakura's right shoulder, then smoothly sat down to Sakura's left, his right arm naturally draped over Sakura, half-embracing her.
Jiang Shu's movements startled Sakura, but as soon as Jiang Shu sat down, she immediately recognized him, and her tense body instantly relaxed.
Jiang Shu's movements weren't small; Li Caiyan and Lee Chaeryeong both saw him. At first, they didn't recognize him and wondered who it was, but Li Caiyan was the first to see Jiang Shu's arm draped over Sakura, and Sakura also had no reaction, so she immediately understood.
"Chairman!"
After saying that, she instinctively tried to stand up, but Sakura, quick-handed, pulled her back.
"Don't stand up," Sakura whispered.
Lee Chaeryeong, who also wanted to stand up, heard this and sat back down after having just lifted her bottom.
However, Lee Chaeryeong cautiously glanced at the hand on Sakura's right shoulder and silently lowered her head.
【I can't see, I can't see, I can't see...】
【I didn't see anything...】
"Are you three only eating one portion?" Jiang Shu asked in surprise, looking at the solitary stinky tofu on the table.
"We ate other things before," Sakura explained.
Jiang Shu nodded.
"What else do you want to eat? I'll go buy it for you."
"No, no!" Li Caiyan and Lee Chaeryeong quickly refused. The Chairman personally buying things for them? They couldn't agree to that.
"We're already full, if we eat more, we'll get fat," Sakura added from the side.
"As long as you're full, that's fine," Jiang Shu said with a smile.
"Did you drink alcohol?" Sakura twitched her nose, smelling the smoke and alcohol on Jiang Shu, and asked cautiously.