Chapter 235 - 90: Catching Dolls, Watching a Movie (2)

And just like that, Jiang Li used two tokens to win her first plushie.

It was a little ugly, but she was going for quantity over quality.

Zhou Jiawen, unlike Jiang Li, grabbed a cart and went straight for the claw machines she liked. She had no technique, only a genuine love for the plushies.

By the time Jiang Li had already won five or six plushies and put them in her cart, Zhou Jiawen still had a big fat zero.

It was one token per play, and they each had 300 to spend.

That might sound like a lot, but when you’re actually playing, they disappear in a flash.

Especially for someone like Zhou Jiawen, who stubbornly fed all her tokens into one machine, her supply hit rock bottom in just a few tries.

When her tokens ran out, Zhou Jiawen still hadn’t had her fill.

Looking at the three plushies in her cart, Zhou Jiawen felt confident that she was winning.

She immediately pushed her cart to find Jiang Li. But when she did, she saw a crowd gathered around her, and Jiang Li’s cart was already piled high with plushies.

Zhou Jiawen blinked in disbelief and muttered under her breath, ’So that’s where her confidence comes from. She’s actually got some real skill.’

She glanced at the plushies in her own cart, then back at Jiang Li’s. Suddenly, her own prizes didn’t seem so great anymore.

Just then, Jiang Li nabbed another plushie. The onlooking crowd erupted with questions. "Master, do you have any tricks?"

"Are you here to play or to restock the machines? This is incredible!"

"Why do you make it look so easy when it’s so hard for the rest of us?"

Jiang Li gave the crowd a slightly sheepish smile. "I’m just getting lucky, that’s all."

She was about to switch machines when she spotted Zhou Jiawen nearby and immediately waved. "Wenwen."

Zhou Jiawen rubbed her nose, a little sheepishly, and pushed her cart forward.

She had assumed Jiang Li was out of tokens too, but one look showed she still had about half of hers left.

Zhou Jiawen was dumbfounded. "Wait, how do you still have so many tokens?"

Jiang Li raised an eyebrow, countering with a question of her own. "You’re all out?"

Zhou Jiawen coughed lightly. "Yep, pretty much."

Jiang Li picked up her basket of tokens. "Here, I’ll share some with you."

Zhou Jiawen shook her head. "No, you keep them. It’d just be a waste if I used them."

If she’d felt unsatisfied before, now she was so thoroughly demoralized that she probably wouldn’t want to touch a claw machine for at least six months.

Seeing Zhou Jiawen’s dejected expression, Jiang Li laughed. "Alright then, I’ll finish this up quickly."

She had already done a full circuit, trying basically every machine, so she knew which plushies were easy wins and which were impossible.

In the end, she just decided to grind one machine to use up her tokens and get it over with.

Zhou Jiawen stood by and watched the whole time, her emotions on a rollercoaster—excited when the claw grabbed a plushie, disappointed when it dropped, and unable to resist cheering when Jiang Li finally secured a prize.

If they weren’t in a public place, she would have screamed.

’Jiang Li is just too incredible!’

’It’s one thing to be gorgeous, but she’s also amazing at picking stocks and even a pro at claw machines.’

By the time they were done, Zhou Jiawen’s face was flushed with excitement.

She gave Jiang Li a thumbs-up and said with genuine admiration, "Sister-in-law, you’re just too amazing!"

Jiang Li replied humbly, "It’s nothing. Your big brother is even better."

Zhou Jiawen had a look of utter confusion on her face. "Wait, when you say ’big brother,’ you don’t mean... your husband, do you?"

Jiang Li nodded. A flash of disbelief crossed Zhou Jiawen’s eyes. "No way. *He* plays claw machines?"

’Oh my god, I really can’t picture Shen Yanzhi playing with claw machines.’

’A guy that aloof and cold playing something that’s totally for girls... The thought alone is mind-blowing.’

Jiang Li neither confirmed nor denied it, only saying casually, "He’s the one who taught me everything I know."

Zhou Jiawen gulped. ’Jiang Li is already this good at it... If it were Shen Yanzhi, he’d probably get a prize with every single token.’

’This couple is just inhuman!’

Jiang Li pushed her cart and jutted her chin toward the prize counter. "Come on, let’s go trade in the plushies."

After all, they had won too many small plushies to carry easily. It was better to trade them in for a few larger ones.

They pushed the carts to the prize counter. The employee had probably seen plenty of experts like Jiang Li before; their expression remained completely unfazed as they simply started counting the plushies.

"Seventy-two in total."

Zhou Jiawen was shocked. She’d thought there were only forty or fifty, but it turned out to be a whopping seventy-two.

And that was just from Jiang Li’s cart.

’This is insane!!!’

Jiang Li nodded and asked, "So, what can we trade these for?"

The employee pointed a finger at the shelf behind them. "You can trade for anything on this side. Not just plushies, but also cups, accessories, figurines, and so on."