Jiang Yansheng, who wasn't a big fan of sweets, had to admit that An Di had to wait in line for two and a half hours for the thousandth layer cake.
It was sweet but not greasy, and melted like a cloud.
An Di sat at the table with a pen in his hand. He held the side of his face with one hand and played with the pen in the other. "Since it's Jiang's treat, I'm not going to eat today. I'll save my stomach for tomorrow's drink."
Jiang Yansheng saw him talking seriously with a smile on his face, so she laughed and said, "Aren't you a regular customer of Muse? If you drink until your stomach perforates tomorrow, it'll be very embarrassing. "
As soon as An Di heard this, he immediately slammed the pen in his hand down on the table. "Who said that? I can drink a thousand cups."
After sending An Di back, Jiang Yansheng had just finished eating the thousandth layer cake. She stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and looked down at the dessert shop An Di had mentioned before.
The green and white opaque glass refracted dazzling light under the morning sun. The large signboard was quite cute and catered to the current dessert market with shiny cat paws on both sides.
Even though the limited edition cakes An Di had mentioned were all sold out, there was still a small line at the door.
Business was indeed booming.
This feeling was especially clear when Jiang Yansheng came in after work without making a sound.
Except for the moment when she entered the door, she was stopped by the shop assistant at the door to register her name and birthday. The rest of the time, she was full of people.
She looked down at her watch.
It was already two hours after work, but she actually had to wait in line to buy a simple meat floss bread.
Her eyes gently looked around the glass shelf. Most of the squares had been emptied. Jiang Yansheng sighed softly and silently told herself in her heart that she didn't buy it because of An Di's thousandth layer cake this morning. She just happened to come after work to buy tomorrow's breakfast.
It was convenient, not intentional.
As if to highlight her insincerity, a thunderous roar resounded through the sky outside the glass window, followed by raindrops rushing to hit the ground.
Suddenly, someone patted her shoulder. Jiang Yansheng looked up indifferently. She had already wasted at least five minutes standing in line. She estimated that it would take at least twenty minutes for her to pay the bill.
"Hello, are you Miss Jiang Yansheng?"
After seeing Jiang Yansheng's face, a good-looking waiter looked at the phone in his hand, as if he had confirmed something, and let out a long sigh of relief.
She hurriedly put her phone away.
Jiang Yansheng was not interested. "Yes."
If the shop had asked her to apply for a membership card during the 20 minutes she had wasted waiting in line and allowed her to experience the benefits of membership discounts, then the 20 minutes would have been worth it.
Unexpectedly, the waiter suddenly bowed politely. "Please come with me."
The smile on her face was like a spring breeze. If it weren't for the fact that it was Jiang Yansheng's first time coming to this shop, she would have thought that she was the owner of the shop.
"I'm still … in line." Jiang Yansheng gently closed her lips and pointed at the long line in front of her, which seemed to have no end.
The waiter smiled when he heard that. "It's alright. Congratulations on becoming our 520th customer today. We have specially prepared a platinum card for you."
"Miss Jiang, come with me. We can pay the bill first and give you a special gift."
After hearing this, Jiang Yansheng gently touched the tip of her nose with her index finger. She seemed to be in disbelief. The waiter took the tray and the tongs in her hand without saying anything. Jiang Yansheng tilted her head and waited for a while before happily agreeing to what the waiter said. Then, she nimbly followed the waiter to the counter that had a "No Cashier" sign on it.
The waiter, who had a ponytail and was full of youthful vigor, pushed the shiny sign to the side to make room for Jiang Yansheng's plate.
The waiter routinely scanned everything, then gently pressed a button on the machine to print out a receipt. With a smile on her face, she tore off the receipt and took out a delicate and cute card and handed it over.
"Miss Jiang, this is your bill. There is money in the platinum card."
Jiang Yansheng and the waiter looked at each other, and the waiter nodded calmly. She curiously took the receipt and roughly glanced at the price on it. She was even more puzzled.
"Did I buy things that cheap?"
Could it be that this shop was thriving because of the good quality and low price?
The waiter smiled happily. "It's like this, Miss Jiang. As our special customer, as long as you come to our shop with this platinum card, everything will be 50% off."
She paused, then took out a delicately wrapped paper box from the small cake shelf that had been sold out and placed it on the table.
On the side was the meat floss bread that Jiang Yansheng had just bought. It was the size of a palm.
The paper box was about three times bigger than the bag of bread.
It looked like the bread was a freebie.
Jiang Yansheng was in a complicated mood. She solemnly pointed at the thing on the table. "This is … a 'small' gift?"
The waiter nodded without hesitation. She reached out and picked up the thing.
Jiang Yansheng stared at it for a while in confusion. Suddenly, she found it a little familiar. "Is this the limited thousand layers of bread in your shop this morning?"
The one that An Di had put on the table for her in a hurry in the morning seemed to be the same as this one.
The waiter's expression didn't change, but her smile deepened. "Yes, a small gift for the platinum card."
"Not only this one, but all the limited cakes are here. If Miss Jiang doesn't like the matcha-flavored one, we can get other flavors."
"Miss Jiang will be given a small gift every time she comes to the shop."
Jiang Yansheng was speechless.
Wasn't the pie that fell from the sky a little too big?
An Di's hard work in the morning seemed to make her feel a little sad.
She had heard that there was no free lunch since she was young, but it was still fresh in front of her.
She gently rubbed the uneven surface of the platinum card with her fingertips.
"Does this card have any other conditions?"
"No."
The atmosphere was silent for a moment. Jiang Yansheng suddenly chuckled. "I didn't expect to encounter such a thing one day. It's really rare."
The waiter replied sweetly, "Miss Jiang is lucky enough."
Jiang Yansheng looked at her with a smile. She didn't expect that one day the word "lucky" would be used to describe her.
She walked to the door, and suddenly there was a loud thunder in the sky. The white light almost lit up the night, and it was raining heavily.
The company's parking lot was opposite. When she went out just now, the sky was clear and it wasn't raining, so she didn't bring an umbrella.
She was hesitating about whether to wait for the rain to stop in the shop. Suddenly, someone caught up with Jiang Yansheng from behind, out of breath. She turned around and saw the waiter who had just given her the lucky card. He was shouting at her with a red face.
"Miss Jiang …"
The waiter raised the umbrella in his hand high. There was no water on the umbrella, and the folded marks were very clean and refreshing. It could be seen that it was a new umbrella, and it might even have been opened for her.
Jiang Yansheng raised her eyebrows and asked, "Is this also a benefit for platinum members?"
"Yes."
The waiter took a few breaths with his hands on his legs and said gently, "It's raining outside. I saw that Miss Jiang didn't bring an umbrella. It's not too late now. Go back early. If it's still raining when you get home, you can use this umbrella again.
"Thank you."
Jiang Yansheng took the umbrella, feeling a little strange. It was the first time in her life that someone had given her the green light all the way. In the past, she always listened to other people complain about all kinds of unfairness, and at the same time, she worked harder. She didn't want to participate in this kind of discussion at all.
But when this kind of preference occasionally tilted to her head.
She had to say that it was really good.
It was dark outside. It was obviously overcast, but there was an inexplicable trace of warmth.
She turned her head, leaned over, and picked up the tag on the waiter's chest. "Number 043. I'll remember you. I'll return the umbrella to you next time."
The waiter blushed and waved his hand, saying that there was no need.
Jiang Yansheng smiled slightly. "How many platinum members do you have?"
Every one of them can receive such considerate treatment?
The waiter smiled and winked at Jiang Yansheng. His ordinary face looked lively because of his cute expression. "So far, there's only Miss Jiang, so she will receive 100% care from the whole store ~"
"She's the only lucky one. There's only one platinum member."
…
After driving back to the apartment, Jiang Yansheng hummed a song as she locked the car.
The exquisite bow on the cardboard box fluttered up and down as she walked, like a nimble butterfly dancing.
She sat in the living room and began to eat the layer cake. Although she knew that it was not suitable to eat sweets after nine o 'clock in the evening, she was a little impatient now. She also stuck the lucky card of lifetime in Paris on the first layer of the card bag.
The layer cake was as sweet as she had tasted in the morning. It melted in her mouth. Jiang Yansheng squinted her eyes slightly, enjoying this rare peace and beauty.
She ate more than half of the layer cake and felt a little full. She sinfully thought that she would never buy cake at night again in the future. It was simply pushing herself into the abyss.
The quiet atmosphere was suddenly broken by a small fluctuation.
"Rub …"
Suddenly, there was a small scratching sound at the entrance. It didn't sound like a human knocking on the door, but a series of small scratching sounds. It rang for a while and then stopped.
Jiang Yansheng was a little puzzled. She bit the plastic fork in her mouth and looked out through the peephole in her pajamas.
It was empty outside. There was not a single person.
A small circle of goosebumps appeared on her arms.
What was scratching the door just now?
Jiang Yansheng looked up and was surprised to find that the door of Gu Yan's opposite was not closed. The warm yellow light at the entrance shone on some messy leather shoes on the ground.
When she came back just now, the door of Gu Yan's was still closed. It seemed that he had just come back.
Why didn't he close the door?
Jiang Yansheng took out the fork in her mouth and carefully squinted at the opposite door. She found that there was no movement, and no one came out for a while.
She pretended to open the door carelessly. She wanted to go to the opposite door to remind them, but a white thing flashed under her feet.
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