After napping for more than four hours in the plane, they finally landed at Narita International Airport in Tokyo.
After taking care of the entry procedures, Yang Chen brought the group of female colleagues to the exit of the airport.
Since it was a group travel, they naturally had a tour guide and a driver. Dressed in a pink sweater, a young lady with a good figure who was carrying a small handbag could be seen from afar. She was holding a banner with the words âYu Lei Internationalâ.
As Yang Chen and the others approached her, the lady tour guide named Kawanako welcomed their arrival using rather acceptable Mandarin. She then led everyone to board a minibus before heading to the hotel, to allow the people to rest after the long flight.
Upon entering the minibus, Kawanako started introducing their schedule for the trip briefly and the current situation in Tokyo.
Actually, even if she didnât tell them, this top-in-the-world international financial centre, the second largest city in the world, was enough to open the eyes of the fellow lady employees from the public relations department. These endless streams of crowds and vehicles together with the compact and dense skyscrapers all displayed the atmosphere of a metropolis.
There was a total of around ten days allotted for this trip. They would be heading from Nagoya to Tokyo, then to Kyoto and Osaka before finally flying back to Zhonghai.
The place that the ladies were most concerned about wasnât somewhere to have fun at. The first thing they asked was where they could purchase cheap, branded handbags, or questions like where affordable, branded cosmetics could be found.
Including Liu Mingyu who appeared the most steady and mature, they held an expression of high expectations as their eyes shone with wild, aggressive gazes. This made Yang Chen feel rather helpless. Judging by the situation, shopping was the main factor that caused the ladies to pick Japan.
âDo you women want to buy all the nice handbags you see? Why canât you resist the desire?â Yang Chen asked Liu Mingyu.
Liu Mingyu blushed, but still nodded at last. âYeah, I have an experience of almost failing to pay my credit card overdraft once.â
Feeling gloomy, Yang Chen asked, âDonât handbags get renewed every four seasons in the year? Even superstars or entrepreneurs wouldnât be able to afford all of them, let alone you people who live on wages. This is nothing other than a depthless hole.â
âAlthough we canât purchase all of them, we can certainly try our best!â Liu Mingyu answered.
Yang Chen rolled his eyes. It could be said that he was utterly impressed.
âKawanako, will we be scammed when weâre buying branded stuff since weâre foreigners? What happens if we get knockoffs?â Zhang Cai asked as her eyes shone, agitated.
Kawanako smiled gently as she answered, âDonât worry, there wonât be any inauthentic products as long as youâre buying from a legit business. In Japan, a business would be immediately reported if someone noticed theyâre selling counterfeits. The punishment is very severe.â
The group of ladies cheered in joy. They immediately got close to the tour guide Kawanako, as if they were sworn sisters.
They quickly arrived in the building of a booked four-star hotel. Although the atmosphere didnât scream luxury and the place wasnât very big, the place was tidy and clean, making it give off a feeling of coziness.
Being the only man in the team, Yang Chen instantly realized that he was indeed rather offbeat. He didnât think much before coming. Currently, everyone was sharing rooms in pairs of two, while he would be sleeping in a small room alone. He couldnât help but to feel like a lost child as he got teased by the female colleagues.
Coming to the twenty-seventh floor, Yang Chen entered his own room and put down his simple luggage. He was ready to pull out his laptop to contact Makedon. Except asking for An Xinâs coordinates and situation, he still wanted to check if there were any movements from Yamata Sect. He came to their nest this time after all, he had to make sure to avoid something bad from happening. However, before he even switched his laptop on, someone knocked on his door.
Yang Chen wondered if it was Liu Mingyu who came to get intimate with him eagerly. He felt that this was really possible. As he secretly felt pleased, he walked to the door before opening it.
Expectedly, Liu Mingyu was standing behind the door. However, Zhang Cai, Zhao Hongyan and a few other colleagues were there as well, amounting to five or six people in total.
As the bunch of women stared upon him, Yang Chen felt really helpless, as if he was a antelope being targeted by a bunch of lionesses.
âWhat is it? Did anything happen?â
Liu Mingyu said, âWeâre thinking of going to Akihabara to get cameras and stuff. I heard theyâre affordable and high-quality there. None of us brought a camera here, so we want to get it now. This way, itâd be convenient for us when we visit the attractions tomorrow.â
Akihabara was a well-known commercial district in Tokyo specialized in electronics, so Yang Chen could comprehend them. However, Yang Chenâs eyes got opened when he heard the ladies wanted to immediately start shopping upon checking into their rooms.
I have never seen them this hardworking before in the office...
âWouldnât it be fine if you looked for the tour guide? Are you possibly looking for me to be your translator?â Yang Chen asked gloomily.
âBut tour guides canât be trusted, they get so much commission from stores!â Zhao Hongyan immediately said.
Yang Chen couldnât hold himself back from laughing. âDidnât you all behave really closely with the lady Kawanako earlier?â
âHave you forgotten what weâre working as? We all deal with public relations. Getting close to and truthfully treating someone are two completely different things. Your eyes are so unobservant, she looked like a conwoman at first glance. We certainly wonât get tricked!â Zhang Cai said proudly. Not long ago, she was still happily chatting with Kawanako.
Yang Chen felt a bit dizzy up his head. He almost couldnât deal with these women anymore.
He had no choice. He couldnât just tell these beautiful faces that he was tired as a man. As a result, he followed them as their translator and servant.
After getting two old Toyota cabs outside the hotel, they went to Akihabara together. Actually, they could totally go with a train, but none of them was familiar with Tokyo. Getting a cab was still more convenient.
As they arrived at Akihabara, the countless, dazzling shops blurred the ladiesâ eyes. After making their way inside, the different kinds of well-designed cameras in addition to new smartphones all became the their targets.
Japanese service attitude was famous in the entire world. The servers would all bow to welcome you inside as long as you passed by or walked into their shops.
Even if you decided to not purchase, theyâd still be thankful for your visit as you walked out of their stores.
Using such a service attitude, their immensely polite behavior would make customers feel comfortable.
If Iâm not buying anything at all, will I be sorry to their ninety-degree bows?
Thus, the ladies managed to buy something they wanted after entering merely a few shops.
Yang Chen saw that his female colleagues looked elated as they held their newly bought electronics. Helplessly, he asked, âAre you satisfied? Letâs go back if thereâs nothing else.â
The ladies looked at each other before shaking their heads together.
âI havenât shopped enough. Iâll walk a little longer, itâs not like itâs dinner time yet,â Zhao Hongyan replied.
Yang Chen felt really helpless, but he really couldnât stand shopping with the group anymore. As a result, he sat on a bench by the walkway in a thick-skinned manner and said to the ladies, âYou guys may continue shopping. Iâll sit here to wait for you all. Come look for me here when youâre done, since the entrance of the mall is just here.â
The ladies disdained Yang Chenâs lazy act. Making stupid faces, they went their own ways as they shopped away without forcing Yang Chen to come along.
In Japan, communication had a really magical and tricky situation, even global phones couldnât be used. One had to get local Japanese SIM cards before they could make a phone call. So Yang Chen asked them to walk around together to avoid failing to locate each other later on.
After the ladies left, The corner of Yang Chenâs eyes suddenly caught a beautiful figure...
It was a woman dressed in an elegant blue dress which had no embellishments at all. It was just a plain cotton dress, appealing fresh and natural. Her white and slim arms were exposed in the air together with her lotus-root-like legs. She wore a pair of flat white shoes. Although it was winter, she was still dressed up loosely as if it was summer.
The womanâs hair extended all the way to her hips. She was tall and graceful.
To ordinary people, this woman looked elegant and was dressed inappropriately in the weather. Although her back view was considered attractive, there was nothing else unique about her.
However, in Yang Chenâs eyes, her long hair that stretched to her hips naturally and her simple but stylish dressed in addition to her strangely matched white shoes, her figure brought a hint of sadness...
Suddenly, Yang Chenâs brain almost stopped working. Just like getting an electric shock, his body turned stiff and numb. He even forgot to breathe!
Yang Chenâs ears couldnât listen to any noise from the outside world while his eyes didnât blink for even once. All he could feel was his heart which was beating madly!
An explosion-like scream echoed from the bottom of his heart!
Itâs her! Itâs her?! Why is it her?!
Yang Chen violently stood up. He completely forgot that he was at a crowded market. His movement speed was so quick that most peopleâs eyes blurred. Astonished, they stared at Yang Chen and doubted if they had seen an illusion.
At that moment, Yang Chen moved from his original position to a corner more than twenty meters away.
The figure disappeared from exactly this corner.
However, when Yang Chen came to the corner, there was no trace of her anymore.
Yang Chen gulped as he widened his eyes. Nervously, he looked at his surroundings in an attempt to look for her figure, which was nowhere to be found...
âWas it an illusion... I havenât felt this way in a while. Why is it back again...â Yang Chen murmured as he painfully shut his eyes. Sighing bitterly, he said in a mournful manner, âYeah, how is it possible that sheâs still in this world.â
Yang Chen slowly walked back to the place he came from. He looked just like a deflated ball, appearing particularly soft. Without any energy, his eyes silently waited absently.
Regarding the few people who witnessed Yang Chenâs movement speed earlier, none of them dared to come over to talk to him when they saw his sorrowful look. Most of them concluded that they saw it wrongly, since this kind of speed wasnât something a human being should have been capable of.
In the large market, Yang Chen shut his eyes as he sat on the bench alone without moving at all. He looked just like a decaying sculpture, hidden away in the dark...