She hadn't even bothered to study it.
No matter how malicious someone might be in broad daylight, they still wouldn't dare pull any tricks out in the open. Nighttime was a different story.
Maybe the news about Ding Ning selling her job and cashing in on the pension money hadn't spread yet. The people eyeing her house and her job were only making little moves for now.
"Ding Ning, are you going to work and coming back? You're always going out alone to buy groceries and then going to work, that's so tiring. How about Auntie introduces you to a young lad?"
"I'm just buying groceries, it's not that tiring. I'm not considering that for the time being."
Ding Ning could only turn her down tactfully.
The neighbors she ran into now, plus those aunties she knew, the way they sized her up and tried to play matchmaker—none of them were even professional at it.
Hearing their chatter, Ding Ning walked even faster. Being treated like prey gave her a mixed, complicated feeling.
