Transmigrating as the Female Supporting Character: Dumb with Deep Pockets - Chapter 24

Chapter 24: The Senior is Pretty Nice

Jiang Hanting’s face turned grim. “Shut up!”

For anyone else, such a warning would be intimidating, but for Su Su, it was a blatant provocation.

“If I shut up just because you told me to, wouldn’t that make me look incredibly weak?” She looked at Lin Yue’er with eyes full of pity. “Does he always talk to you like this? If you’ve been kidnapped, just blink twice. How did you even fall for a guy like this?”

Su Su’s overwhelming enthusiasm was more than Lin Yue’er could handle. Having only finished half her cry, tears still clung to her eyelashes, making her look utterly pitiable.

“He doesn’t… usually talk like this,” Lin Yue’er stammered.

This left Su Su speechless. She patted Lin Yue’er on the shoulder. “At first, I didn’t understand how you two got together. Now, I get it. My dear and I have things to do, so goodbye!”

She dragged Chen Jia away, her smile vanishing the moment they turned the corner, replaced by a look of exasperated disappointment. “Being ‘romance-brained’ is a disease.”

Chen Jia couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“What are you laughing at?”

“Nothing, I just think you’re hilarious.”

Chen Jia still couldn’t fathom why the Su Su in the original novel had liked Jiang Hanting, let alone how that obsessed character had transformed into the girl standing before her now. Had the shift from a 2D world to 3D triggered some butterfly effect she hadn’t noticed?

The sky hadn’t completely darkened yet; faint traces of the sunset lingered on the horizon, but the night market was already beginning to bustle.

Before coming here, Chen Jia hadn’t expected Su Su to be so popular on this street of delicacies. Every stall owner greeted her enthusiastically, as if a big boss was inspecting her territory.

“Bao Bao is back? Oh my, you’re a big girl now, getting prettier and prettier. I still remember when you were little—you were so chubby…”

Su Su had intended to show off her popularity to Chen Jia, but that one sentence from the vendor made her smile falter. “Auntie, that was a long time ago. I’m a little beauty now.”

“Yes, yes, a little beauty. I haven’t seen Yuanyuan in a while. I heard she doesn’t run a stall anymore because she struck it rich?”

“Ah, yeah, she made it big. She probably won’t be coming back.” Clinging to a wealthy partner counts as making it big, right? Su Su thought. Her aunt was quite good at making money, after all.

The vendor looked at her own sausage stall and suddenly felt a lack of motivation. “Who would have thought that uneducated girl would have such luck? I wonder if she’s married. My son just got a government job. If she’s single…”

Su Su couldn’t stand to hear that. “She’s not single, and even if she were, there’s no chance. Besides, she’s already married. Auntie, two sausages please. My friend and I are heading elsewhere.”

The vendor’s face turned green. She prepared the sausages in silence, but when it came time to coat them in chili flakes, she applied them with a vengeance, as if trying to set Su Su and Chen Jia’s mouths on fire.

Su Su, seemingly oblivious to the resentment, said satisfactorily, “Thanks, Auntie! I love spicy food the most. Chen Jia, you like it too, right?”

“Uh… right.”

The vendor’s parting glare was sharp enough to pierce holes in them. Su Su, undeterred, waved the heavily coated sausage. “I’ll be back!”

She carried the sausage the entire way without taking a single bite. The level of spice was nothing to Chen Jia, who assumed Su Su was simply afraid of the heat.

Chen Jia tossed her own skewer into a trash can. “It’s not that spicy.”

“I know. But it’s so hot today; what if I break out from eating all that chili?”

“Are you really not going to eat it?” Truthfully, while the vendor’s personality was lacking, her sausages were famous on this street.

Su Su swallowed hard, thinking of her complexion, and shook her head. “No.”

Pimples eventually fade, but not eating something you crave causes its own kind of suffering. Su Su sighed, “I’ll eat it. I don’t mind.”

As it turned out, while they came to eat, the reality was mostly Su Su buying a pile of food, taking two bites, losing her appetite, and handing the rest to Chen Jia.

Halfway through the market, Chen Jia suggested, “Let’s go back.”

“Are you tired?”

“I’m stuffed.”

Su Su looked at the bags of food in Chen Jia’s hands and smiled awkwardly. “Okay then. Let’s take the rest home. I’ll eat them slowly tonight.”

Chen Jia didn’t say anything, just stared into her eyes. Su Su immediately looked away guiltily. “I really will eat them! Worst case, I’ll put them in the fridge and eat them tomorrow.”

Chen Jia sighed. “I’m not blaming you. I know you care about your looks and don’t actually like eating this much. Today you bought all this because you wanted me, a ‘country girl,’ to see the world and taste everything. But wasting food is a very bad habit.”

“I’m sorry.” Su Su had one great quality: when she was wrong, she admitted it without making excuses.

Chen Jia’s slight annoyance vanished instantly. She stammered slightly as she spoke, “Well… just don’t treat me like your leftover bin in the future.”

Su Su muttered softly, “You’re not a leftover bin, and you’re not a country girl.” Only Su Su was allowed to call Chen Jia that; no one else could, not even Chen Jia herself.

As the two stood there, staring at the bag of food as if it were a mortal enemy, Su Su’s phone vibrated.

“A senior I know from a club said she’s nearby and wants us to hang out.”

While Chen Jia had been busy with studies and part-time work, Su Su had gradually formed her own circle of friends. The university world was larger, making it easier to meet people. However, Chen Jia rarely heard her talk about these people, so she couldn’t judge what kind of person this senior was.

Hearing that Su Su was close to others made her feel a strange sense of unease. Unlike Su Su, Chen Jia wasn’t used to expressing her emotions. So even though she didn’t like the idea of Su Su playing with others, she only asked, “Where are you going?”

“I’m not sure. She said they’re going to sing karaoke, and a lot of her friends will be there.”

Those few words caused Chen Jia’s “Original Plot Radar” to scream at max volume.

“What’s her name?”

“Fu Xuejia.”

“Don’t go!”

Su Su looked down at Chen Jia’s hand gripping her sleeve, completely stunned. “Huh?”

In her eyes, Chen Jia was a very independent person. Even though they were best friends, Su Su was usually the one shamelessly clinging to her. This was the first time she felt a sense of “dependency” coming from Chen Jia.

The feeling was so wonderful that she wanted to prolong it. Even though she wasn’t that close to Fu Xuejia, she asked with feigned regret, “Why don’t you want me to go? I think the senior is actually pretty nice.”