“Huh? Are you sure?” No matter how he thought about it, Carlo felt that Reece wasn’t a suitable tour guide.
Nie Chuan also looked over. When it comes to going out to play, he would rather have the silly Carlo since there would at least be a relaxed atmosphere. But with Reece…… play a ghost!
“En.” Reece nodded.
Nie Chuan could only settle for second best and looked toward Carlo. “Then Carlo, do you want to come?”
Carlo shook his head, “I’m not…… really interested in Wall Street, Statue of Liberty, and those kinds of places. You take your time.”
Compared to these tourist attractions, Carlo should be more willing to go to shopping malls or bars and get surrounded by beautiful women ba!
This guy with no sense of brotherhood who only knows how to think with his lower half!
“Alright……” Nie Chuan felt at an incomparable loss.
After finishing lunch, Nie Chuan followed after Reece with his head lowered. When they went out, he almost bumped into Reece’s back.
Reece stopped and turned around to say indifferently, “If you don’t want me to bring you there, you can also go by yourself or go back to the hotel to rest.”
“No! No! I was just thinking that my phone doesn’t have a very high resolution. I wanted to take some clear pictures to post on Facebook for my classmates back in China to see.” Nie Chuan desperately found an excuse for himself.
“My phone has a higher resolution than yours.”
“Ah? Oh.”
But I wouldn’t dare let you take pictures for me ah!
That’s right. He, Nie Chuan, was exactly the kind of commoner that took pictures the moment he’s at a tourist attraction!
They were so close to Wall Street that they didn’t even need to take a bus. Nie Chuan followed beside Reece. New York was like a garden of steel and Nie Chuan really liked the modern atmosphere here. Sometimes when the LED screen of the mall plays an ad, he couldn’t help stopping to watch.
Every time he turned around, worried that Reece had already walked far away, he would find the other standing beside him while watching him. His face was completely expressionless and he couldn’t tell whether he was impatient or mocking Nie Chuan for being a country bumpkin, he just watched.
Whenever Nie Chuan looked back, he would move his eyes away and continue moving forward.
When they came to a chocolate shop, Reece suddenly stopped.
“Do you want to buy some?” Reece asked.
With his hands in his pockets, he stood at the entrance of the chocolate shop and gave off the feel of a print ad, something Nie Chuan was completely unable to imitate.
“Chocolate?” Nie Chuan was very happy. He had seen the store from afar but he felt that Reece was the type who would keep moving forward once he determined his objective and wasn’t someone who would stop to look at this and that.
“En. The owner of this shop is a Belgian and has been selling handmade chocolates in New York for a long time. This store has an even older history than me.”
“Then I have to go in to see!” Nie Chuan turned and pushed the door open.
Reece followed behind him with his hands still in his pockets.
The shape of these chocolates were not at all like the square ones sold in the shopping mall but they appeared very appetizing and were very smooth and round in shape.
From the most common milk chocolate to the black truffle, Nie Chuan followed with his eyes as he swallowed. Then he found that the price of the chocolates were truly a bit high.
“What kind do you like?” Reece’s voice sounded beside his ear, bringing with it his warm breath.
When Nie Chuan turned his head, the tip of his nose almost brushed across the other’s cheek. Only then did he find that Reece was actually so close to him.
Quickly make a choice ah! Reece definitely doesn’t like waiting on people.
“Umm…… the milk chocolate, and this banana flavor one!”
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Reece looked at the clerk and pointed across the glass row by row. “I’ll take three of each of these.”
“Sir, our chocolates don’t have preservatives so they need to be finished within a week. Will these be too much for you?” The clerk inquired kindly.
“No.”
Nie Chuan thought, could it be that Reece was buying these for everyone to eat?
The clerk packed the chocolates carefully, they were very easy to carry.
“Let’s go.” Reece’s hand winded around the back of Nie Chuan’s head and tapped on his ear.
“I haven’t bought any yet!”
“Didn’t I buy for you already?” Reece hooked the back of Nie Chuan’s collar and dragged him out of the chocolate shop.
“For me?”
“If it’s you, wouldn’t you have already finished that little by the time we got back?” Reece said coolly.
“You’re really giving those to me? They’re so expensive!” Nie Chuan wanted to confirm again.
Reece narrowed his eyes and glanced at Nie Chuan. “Then I’ll go return them?”
“No need, no need!”
Nie Chuan reached out to grab the chocolates but Reece raised his arm high. Their movements were like they were playing basketball.
The people passing couldn’t help giving a knowing smile.
“You can’t eat chocolate before bed, got it?”
“I wouldn’t get fat even if I ate all of it.”
“What I’m saying is you need to brush your teeth.”
“…… Alright.”
They walked and finally arrived at the legendary Wall Street.
Nie Chuan looked at the narrow street and was stunned, “This is Wall Street?”
“En.”
“…… Isn’t the Morgan Consortium, DuPont Group, and the American Stock Exchange all here?”
“Now only the Federal Reserve Bank of New York remains.”
“Oh.”
“It’s essence is hidden on the inside rather than flowing on the outside,” Reece said in Chinese.
Nie Chuan suddenly marveled and asked, “Reece, who did you learn Chinese from?”
“My mother.”
“Is your mother Chinese?”
“No. She studied Asian culture in university and spent time living in China until I was five.”
“Ah! No wonder your Chinese is so good!” Nie Chuan patted Reece on the shoulder very admiringly.
“You should also quickly learn English.”
“……”
Treat it as if he didn’t say anything ba.
Reece took him to wander around Wall Street and Nie Chuan found that as long as he calmed himself, he could feel the kind of atmosphere that was in the movies.
With his hands in his pockets and his head raised, Nie Chuan’s eyes swept over these old buildings and found even the thin, mottled lines to be full of charm.
As he walked to the Federal Hall National Memorial, he turned around and saw Reece raise his phone to take a picture of him.
“Hey! What are you taking a picture of me for?” Nie Chuan quickly came over to Reece’s side and leaned his head over to see.
“I’ll send it to you when we go back.”
“Show me now ah! You didn’t take a picture when I almost fell down the stone steps earlier too did you?”
“I did.”
“What? No way! Delete it, delete it!”
This guy was definitely going to save his embarrassing picture and use it to make fun of him sometime.
Reece directly stuffed his phone in his pocket and turned to avoid Nie Chuan’s hand.
“Hey! That’s my picture! My portrait rights!”
“Then you can just take pictures yourself later,” Reece said coolly.
“How could I go taking pictures of myself ah!”
Stretch his hands out with the peace sign while facing the camera? Impossible!
“Let’s go.” Reece continued walking as if nothing had happened.
Nie Chuan could only steel himself and follow after him, waiting for an opportunity to take Reece’s phone away.
As they kept walking, they eventually came to Wall Street’s infamous bronze charging bull.
Nie Chuan pointed to it as he said to Reece, “That’s that bull! They say that if you touch its eggs then the stocks you buy will always be a bull!” [tn: bull refers to bull markets where stock price keeps rising while eggs is slang for balls lol]
“How is that possible.”
“I want to touch it!”
Nie Chuan was about to run over when he was pulled back by Reece. “Can you trade stocks?”
“No,” Nie Chuan shook his head.
“If you can’t then what are you touching it for?”
“Maybe I’ll trade stocks in the future!”
Nie Chuan broke free from Reece and ran forward. He circled around the bronze bull and came to it’s rear before happily reaching out to grab it.
The back of his collar was grabbed again as Reece pulled him back.
“Stupid.”
“We’re already here, just let me be stupid for a bit.”
When Nie Chuan’s hand extended down again, Reece directly grabbed his wrist.
“It’s dirty.”
“Aiyo! Those aren’t even a real bull’s eggs! How are they dirty!” Nie Chuan couldn’t understand Reece’s persistence.
“A lot of people have touched them.”
“Oh, that’s true! Don’t worry, I’ll definitely wash my hands before dinner!”
“Xiao Chuan.”
Nie Chuan froze. He looked at Reece helplessly and protested, “Don’t call me ‘Xiao Chuan’ all of a sudden!”
It’s horrifying, alright?
“Touching the bull isn’t about making money in the stock market but gaining courage and strength.”
“Ah? So it turned out to be like this!”
After Reece explained it like that, it became a lot more lofty ah!
“So you don’t need to touch the bull’s eggs.” Reece took Nie Chuan’s hand into his own and gently pressed it against the body of the bull, “This will be good enough.”
Nie Chuan: But I still want to touch it’s eggs! This was what had been highly recommended by many students ah!
“Xiao Chuan, you need to quickly grow up.”
Don’t tell me I’m also a middle schooler in your heart?
“I need a partner, not a student.”
In that moment when Reece released Nie Chuan’s hand, Nie Chuan’s heart seemed to have filled to the brim with something.
So the so-called “courage and strength” turned out to be this?
“Let’s go. Don’t you still want to see the Statue of Liberty?”
Reece turned to leave.
“Oh, coming!”
Taking advantage of when Reece was turned around, Nie Chuan tried to touch the eggs of the bronze bull again. However, before his hands made contact, he heard Reece’s voice, “I already said not to touch them.”
What’s up with that ah! You knew what I was trying to do even when your back was turned?
Nie Chuan regretfully bid farewell to the bronze bull and would turn around to look back at its tail every couple of steps.
Alright, the next time he comes to Wall Street, he must touch it!
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Drea: Tsk tsk, not even letting go of a bronze bull, how stingy
MadMadamMims: That’s love Ure feeling NC! I don’t make the rules 😘
This made me laugh so much! Thanks for the chapter (ृ ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ृ )ु
thank you for the chapter! XDD it’ll be in ther bucket list of couple things to do together
Just thinking out loud… was the author trying to say that Reese didn’t want NC to touch anyone else’s balls (✿ ͡` ͜ʖ ͡´)
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖😭 their date is so cute!!!! Reece buying Nie Chuan chocolate!! Holding it above his head and not letting NC have it until he promises to brush his teeth! Even getting jealous of a bronze bull!!! I’m gonna explode into a million heart emojis!! I lost it when Nie Chuan tried one last time but Reece caught him anyways 😂😂 so stingy, just let him touch Reece!!
As always thank you for the chapter!
Reece is such a vinegar jar. Even competing against a statue of a bull? Nie Chuan probably misunderstood Reece’s line of “I need a partner not a student.” Reece, Nie Chuan is adorable ans he’s good at basketball. But he thinks the bith of you are straight. You’re going to be waiting a long time if you want him to figure it out by himself…
“I need a partner, not a student.”
Did he just indirectly confess ?
They’re so cuteeee 🥺 I can’t wait for them to be a couple 🥺🥺🥺🥺
Partner in life—that’s what Reece needs. 🤭
Partner? I think he wants a husband even more~ 🤭