130: Chapter 130 No, what do you mean by giving me condoms when I buy sanitary napkins?

Lu Li froze for a moment, his brain lagging for a fraction of a second.

"Sa—Sanitary pads?"

Shen Qingxue lowered her head, her earlobes so red they looked as if they might bleed, her voice as faint as a mosquito's hum.

"Mm... I ran out. I originally planned to go buy some today, but..."

She didn't finish, but her meaning was already crystal clear.

Lu Li took a deep breath, trying hard to make his expression look normal.

"Alright, I'll go buy them."

He spoke cleanly and decisively, with no trace of anything unusual in his tone, and turned to walk out.

"Wait!"

Shen Qingxue suddenly called out to him.

Lu Li stopped in his tracks and turned his head back.

"What is it?"

"Do you... do you know what kind to buy?"

Shen Qingxue's voice was still very soft, but this question left Lu Li completely stunned.

Huh? Sanitary pads... come in different types?

Lu Li scratched his head, looking completely bewildered.

Seeing his expression, Shen Qingxue bit her lip and simply gave him the name of a certain brand directly.

Lu Li recited it three times in his mind, confirmed he had remembered it, and then nodded.

"Got it, I remember. Wait for me, I'll be right back."

With that, he turned, walked out of the room, and gently pulled the door shut.

Leaning against the headboard, Shen Qingxue listened as Lu Li's footsteps gradually faded away, only then letting out a complete sigh of relief.

But at the thought of the scene just now... she curled her entire body straight back under the covers.

"How mortifying."

She muttered muffledly, burying her face into the pillow.

...

On the other side, Lu Li walked out of the bedroom, ready to head out.

However, in the middle of the night, a grown man going to a convenience store to buy sanitary pads...

Wouldn't he be mistaken for a pervert?

Just thinking about this scene made him feel like his toes were curling hard enough to dig out a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment.

But who was Lu Li?

Never mind that he was buying this for Shen Qingxue; besides, what even was face? As long as I'm not embarrassed, the awkward person is someone else.

Thinking of this, Lu Li instantly felt relieved.

Soon, wearing flip-flops, he clattered out.

...

Before long, Lu Li arrived at the 24-hour convenience store outside the residential complex.

When he walked into the convenience store, he still felt that he had made thorough psychological preparations.

Isn't it just buying a sanitary pad?

It's not like buying contraband.

As a grown man, he would walk in openly, pay openly, and walk out openly.

What was there to be embarrassed about?

However, when he saw the female clerk standing behind the cash register, half of the psychological construction he had just built instantly collapsed.

Damn it, with a male clerk they could at least understand each other...

But with a female clerk, it was truly a bit awkward.

However, don't panic.

A man... oh no, a person, has to act like one! Just go for it, let's go!

Lu Li cheered himself up in his heart.

He walked naturally between the shelves, pretending to scan the area casually.

Where were the sanitary pads?

Lu Li's gaze swept rapidly across the shelves, but he just couldn't find his target.

But he was embarrassed to stare intently at one spot, afraid of being mistaken for some weirdo.

After walking around twice, Lu Li finally gave up.

Forget it, I'll just ask directly.

Then Lu Li walked up to the cash register, hands shoved into his pants pockets, trying hard to look relaxed and casual.

"Um... uh..."

The female clerk looked up, watching him with a smile.

"Hello, what do you need?"

Lu Li opened his mouth, but swallowed his words back down as they reached his lips.

He discovered that thinking about it was one thing, but actually saying it out loud was a completely different story.

"Uh... do you guys have that thing here?"

Lu Li's voice unconsciously lowered.

"It's... that..."

Fearing the female clerk wouldn't understand, he even subconsciously reached out and pointed toward his crotch area.

"It's that... you know? The thing girls use conveniently at night..."

After saying this, Lu Li felt his face starting to burn.

What kind of mess was this!

But thinking of Shen Qingxue, who was still "clamoring for food" at home, Lu Li could only pamper her for a bit.

Just this once, no next time!

Sure enough, as soon as Lu Li said these words, the female clerk froze for a moment, her gaze then lingering on the direction of his finger for a second.

A look of sudden realization instantly appeared on her face.

"Oh~ I understand!"

The female clerk nodded with a smile, wearing an "I get it all" expression, and then turned to briskly grab a few small boxes from the shelf behind her, lining them up on the cash register.

Lu Li looked down and was completely dumbfounded.

What the heck, balloons?!

And they were ultra-thin, packs of three.

"Which one do you want? The ultra-thin style or the ribbed..."

The female clerk was still enthusiastically introducing them, her fingers tapping on those colorful little boxes.

"Take a look at this one, it's strawberry-flavored. This one is the ultra-thin experience model, and this one is long-lasting..."

"Wait wait wait wait! Hold on!"

Lu Li's face turned completely dark, and he quickly reached out to interrupt her.

"No! I don't want these!"

The female clerk paused, blinked her eyes, looking completely innocent.

"You don't want these? Then what you pointed at earlier..."

"I was pointing at... at..."

Lu Li was so anxious he almost jumped, yet he was too embarrassed to say it out loud—he couldn't just directly say he was pointing at his crotch.

What a mess... If he could, he really wanted to sing "Unable to Speak" right on the spot.

"I mean, I'm talking about that... the thing girls have every month... the thing to use at night! Oh goodness me, it's diapers!"

In a flash of panic-induced genius, Lu Li came up with this ultimate trick.

What the heck kind of diapers!

The female clerk stared at him for two seconds, and then her mouth slowly opened into an "O" shape.

"Oh~~~~"

She drew out her voice and nodded.

"Sanitary pads, right?"

Lu Li let out a breath of relief, almost bowing to her on the spot.

"Yes yes yes! That's it!"

Suppressing her amusement, the female clerk turned around and took down a few packs of sanitary pads of different brands and specifications from another shelf, neatly arranging them on the cash register.

"Then which kind do you want? Night use or day use? Extra-long or regular? Cotton surface or..."

Looking at those five or six colorful packs of sanitary pads, Lu Li's brain went blank again.

This stuff... why are there so many different types?

What brand did Shen Qingxue say it was just now?

He tried hard to recall for two seconds, but his mind was completely blank.

He had clearly recited it three times in his mind when leaving, but after being tossed around like this, he had completely forgotten it.

He really wanted to give his own mouth a couple of slaps.

Mouth: Blame me for the brain not remembering? Why are you so selfish? I really want to make you fly!

"Uh... my girlfriend said... she wanted that... what brand was it again..."

Lu Li scratched his head with an embarrassed look.

It wouldn't do to say he was buying this for a friend, but explaining it this way shouldn't be too weird.

Buying it for his girlfriend, was there any problem with that?

Watching his expression, the female clerk couldn't suppress the curve of her lips no matter what.

"It's fine, take your time to think, no rush."

Lu Li took a deep breath, desperately searching his brain.

In the process of his thinking, the young female clerk found the person in front of her inexplicably familiar the more she looked at him.

But for a moment, she just couldn't remember.

But when she unconsciously swept past the flip-flops on Lu Li's feet, her eyes widened instinctively.

This is... Lu Li?!