Love Began with the First Meeting
Chapter 83 An Unexpected Meeting (Part One)

The crowd was beginning to lose its minds, pushing and shoving like a bunch of lunatics. Initially, there were a very few people rushing towards the star. But now, an entire legion was gathering around.

The South Street Alley was a popular destination for shopping for assured quality products at affordable prices. At night, it would turn into the busiest markets of the city, which would serve delicious foods and attract a multitude of customers. Already packed during normal situations, when Park Shin Chun showed up, it was a total mess which no one could have controlled.

Several vendors here were young, unemployed people, or middle-aged women who wanted to support their families. Soon as they heard the cry of 'Park Shin Chun', they rushed to catch a glimpse, regardless of whether the news was true or not.

At that very moment, someone was shoved towards a stall where pork chop soup was boiling on a stockpot. The platform could not hold his additional weight and broke, spilling the scalding soup all around. Unfortunately, Molly was passing by that very stall and the soup rushed right towards her.

"Watch out!"

She was distracted by a scream and before she could react, someone pulled her arms towards the side and she was saved in the nick of time.

The entire pot of boiling soup splashed down, white steam emanating from it. Even though Molly was pulled away, she was still splashed slightly. "Oh....."

She felt a little twitch in her ankle that turned into scorching pain.

"Are you all right? Were you burnt?" Her rescuer's comforting enquiries were like a melody. A kind, warm voice, belonging to a woman.

After a glimpse at her ankle, Molly shook her head and replied, "It's OK, just a small scratch. Don't worry about it..."

"Okay, that is a relief!" The voice continued, "Lucky I got to you in time. You could have been seriously burnt if that pot had fallen down on you!" "Thank you! You're okay too, right?"

Molly looked up to make sure her rescuer herself was safe. Looking at her, she found that it was an elegant, beautiful woman, whose face seemed to hide her age. Her eyes were large like a galaxy, bright and enticing. Molly felt like she could talk just through her eyes, which were full of care and concern.

"Emmm.... Madam... Thank you so much for your kind help. Were it not for you, I would have been badly burnt. Are you sure you're all right?" Molly knew nothing about the woman. Based on her appearance, she must have been older than her.

"Madam?" Hearing that, Shirley smiled and her eyes seemed to turn brighter. She grumbled frivolously,"I am still not old enough to be called madam!"

There was a very coy anger in her voice, which was evidently not real.

She said with a smile, "You look like you're around 20. You can call me Aunt."

Her face and expressions delighted Molly, and she grew fond of the woman there and then.

"I am sorry, so sorry. Are you all right?" They were interrupted by the stall owner, who hastily came to apologize, complaining about the star, "Why do these stars come here? They make a total mess like there's a flood inbound!"

"Oh, no!" All of a sudden, Shirley cried in disappointment, looking at the congested crowd. She said with great pity and some anger, "I lost my opportunity again!"

"What do you mean, Aunt?" Molly looked at her in confusion. She eventually figured it was due to the star showing up.

Fixating on the congested crowd, Shirley could not help but pout. She said with great pity as though she had gone through an immense setback, "Park Shin Chun seems to have left. I'd been following his schedule for so long. It was so hard to replace out that he would be coming here tonight and I couldn't even catch a glimpse. What a pity!"

Stunned by her words as a crazy fan girl, Molly glanced at her for a while with great curiosity. When she was at school, she was also smitten by stars and shared their information with her classmates. But this was the first time she had seen an adult like her obsessed by a star. "Looks like I'll have to wait for his concert!" Shirley told herself. Then she turned towards Molly and said, "My name is Shirley, you can just call me Aunt Shirley. How about you?"

"Molly!" she replied with a smile.

"Molly... It sounds like a small bubble floating around in the summer, delicate and soft. It's a beautiful name and suits you well, Little Molly!" Little Molly?

It dawned on Molly that Eric was fond of calling her like this as well!

"Oh!" Suddenly, Molly's eyes grew wide open and she started looking around. Her face was anxious. "Oh, dammit!"

"What happened, Molly?" Shirley also looked around. Park Shin Chun had left and all the fans were roaming around in annoyance and disappointment.

Molly swept over the people around her. Due to their mind-lost action, she had been pushed from the stall selling fish balls to here, where she was almost burned by a stockpot of soup. And now, she could not replace Eric among so many people. In a bid to catch contact with him, she wanted to make a phone call. However, when she stopped looking around and intended to take out her mobile phone from the pocket of the waitress uniform, she could not replace it.

"Where is my mobile phone?" she frowned and asked herself.

"Did someone in the crowd take it?" Hearing Molly's loss, Shirley also frowned slightly. She took out her phone. "You can use mine."

"Thank you so much!" Taking over the phone in haste, Molly wanted to dial Eric's number, but she did not remember it.

She was upset. Eric had called her a while ago, but she hadn't memorized his phone number.

Seeing her so anxious, Shirley understood and asked, "Were you supposed to meet somewhere?"

Molly's face grew brighter. "We were supposed to meet near the fish ball stall." Once she said, she wanted to dash towards the stall selling fish balls.

"I'll come with you!"

Shirley did not think it was proper to let a girl hang out at night in such a chaotic alley. She tagged along. They were moving through the crowd while two indifferent men in black suits were following them at a distance.

Arriving at the stall, Molly asked the owner, "Excuse me! Do you remember the man with me? Has he come back?"

"He has not come back!" The owner surveyed her. He remembered the man with her was very handsome and he was impressed. He replied, "Not yet, ma'am!"

His answer seemed to make her even more anxious. She had no idea whether Eric had caught that man or where he was. It had been a while and he hadn't come back. She was worried that he might be in trouble or at risk. Shirley looked around and saw a slim person at a distance.

"Wait! You haven't paid for the fish balls you ate yet!" Suddenly, the owner of the stall remembered that they hadn't paid.

Molly was so embarrassed. All of her money was stolen. She didn't have a penny.

Shirley, on the other hand, felt like they might be the target of that slim person. She took out a pen and a piece of paper, wrote down her telephone number and enveloped the paper with a hundred dollar bill and handed it to the stall owner. She said rapidly,"This is the money for the fish balls, keep the change. If the man comes back, please ask him to call this number!"

Before the owner could react, Shirley ran away, pulling Molly with her.

"Aunt Shirley, what's the matter? Are you OK? What are we doing..."00000