Shui Qingdie walked ahead, seemingly very self-conscious about being watched by Tang Ye. It wasn't that she disliked Tang Ye looking at her, but she felt self-conscious about her clothing, such as her pair of cloth shoes that she had worn for a long time. The white had turned yellow, and they were even coming apart at the seams. These were her best shoes. She had worn green Liberation shoes when she went to the mountains to look for red mushrooms before.
In front of Tang Ye, this attractive man from the big city, she always felt that she was what people referred to as a country girl, an ugly duckling, harboring a sense of inferiority that made her afraid to interact with Tang Ye.