Chapter 1787 -1780: First Encounter with Rong Ning

“It hurts!”

Song Huaining was sprawled on the ground, her round little face scrunching up, looking so plump that one might want to take a bite.

Yet, despite the bustling street, no one came to help her up.

Instead, a passing woman who knew her pulled her maid along to mock her, “Song Huaining, look at how fat you’ve become. Even my maid has a more graceful figure than you.”

Song Huaining was so angry she bit her lip. Her chubby little hands pressed against the ground, trying hard to get up, but a sharp pain came from her abdomen, and she fell right back down.

“Ah!”

Her body was supported by someone, a man with strong arms wrapped around her waist, helping her up.

Once she was steady, the man quickly released her, stepped back two paces, and nodded apologetically, “Sorry, Miss.”

“Ah… no offense, no offense. Thank you for helping me.” If it hadn’t been for this brother helping her, she would have fallen again, gotten hurt and dirty, and her mother and brother would surely have scolded her when she got back.

Song Huaining dusted off the dirt on her clothes, and as soon as she looked up, she was struck by a handsome face.

The man’s features were impeccably refined, full of scholarly grace, and his tall figure made her have to look up to see his full appearance.

The slight coldness in his eyes made him inexplicably captivating.

Song Huaining’s heart stopped abruptly, followed by a racing heartbeat, echoing a thunderous sound in her ears.

“Miss?” Rong Ning called out to her twice.

Song Huaining finally snapped back to reality, seeing Rong Ning’s extraordinarily handsome appearance, she couldn’t help but blush uncontrollably, unable to fully grasp what he was saying.

Rong Ning patiently repeated himself twice, saying he wanted to compensate her with a new outfit, and asked where she wanted to buy from.

Song Huaining actually didn’t want to trouble him like this. Even though her clothes got caught and torn when Rong Ning helped her up, it was surely because she got into a scuffle with Chu Nianhan, and not Rong Ning’s fault.

But Rong Ning seemed like a gentleman, insisting on compensating her with a new outfit and accompanying her to shop, making her feel quite embarrassed.

Song Huaining was led to Fanghua Pavilion by him, standing motionless as if her feet were glued to the ground.

Rong Ning turned to look at her, “You don’t like the clothes from this store?”

He recalled the intelligence that stated Fanghua Pavilion’s ready-made clothes were the best in Jiang Du City.

Song Huaining stood at the entrance, feeling awkward, “This store doesn’t have clothes that fit me.”

In fact, buying clothes was a particularly embarrassing affair for her because she had loved eating since childhood, growing fatter than ordinary women, and since women of the Great Cheng Dynasty prided themselves on being slender, the ready-made clothes were all tailored to fit such figures, she was always unable to buy clothes that fit outside.

Rong Ning glanced at Song Huaining, she indeed grew plump, her body round, a whole circle thicker than ordinary women, and he felt her weight when he helped her earlier.

Yet he gently said to Song Huaining, “It’s not certain they don’t have something. Let’s go in and take a look.”

As he spoke, he took her hand and led her into Fanghua Pavilion.

Song Huaining was in a daze the whole time; never before had a man willingly held her hand and didn’t mind her being plump.

Rong Ning picked out two dresses for her, asking the female owner of the store to take her to try them on.

The owner of Fanghua Pavilion, surnamed Zhou, knew Song Huaining; among the noble girls of Jiang Du City, she was famously the fattest, with no outfits that fit her anywhere.

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