“Massaging my shoulders is to cover up, right? You are a little nosy parker, and you were clearly eavesdropping on my conversation with other people. You have stayed in my room for a very long time, but I didn’t hear you mention anything about borrowing something. Besides, when you want my briefcase, mobile phone, computer, and even shirts and slippers, you always take them without asking me. Since when do you start to care about asking my permission?”
Being exposed by me in front of Dong Xiaoye and Dongfang Lianren, Chu Yuan blushed a little. She didn’t want to destroy her image of a good girl in front of others, so she did not dare to talk back angrily at me. However, there was something else she could do. She pretended to be innocent and said sadly like I had wronged her, “you are my elder brother, of course, I can use your stuff without your permission…”
“Then you could just take whatever you want in my room, why did you need to pretend to massage my shoulders?…”
“I wanted to borrow your cell phone. But you were using it.”
“I…”
I was reduced to silence. ‘Damn it! This bratty girl is really good at finding excuses. She can actually justify herself in this way!’ Then I heard her carry on, “after you finished the phone call, your phone’s battery was almost dead, so I didn’t borrow it. But now you actually say that I am a nosy parker… .”
The bratty girl closed her eyes very hard, trying to squeeze out two teardrops to show that she was very sad. I knew I was losing ground the moment she closed her eyes. Since we were young, I had seen this kind of scene many times. After she covered her eyes with her hands, I knew that I was in trouble. Sure enough, Dongfang Lianren looked at me disdainfully, and Dong Xiaoye simply hit me in the head…
…
It was not a date with Liusu, however, I also wasn’t totally honest with Chu Yuan either.
It all began with a phone call with Shu Tong.
Shu Tong didn’t know what happened at school in the morning, because she somehow didn’t go to work at all. Instead, she was with Liusu in the dining hall of Fengchang Company when she called me. It seemed that she arrived at Fengchang just right after I left. During the time she was in Fengchang, she received a call from Chu Yuan’s class teacher, and only then did she know that Dongfang had finished the school transferring procedures today, and Chu Yuan suddenly skipped class and disappeared…
Those two bratty girls always stayed together, so everyone knew that Chu Yuan’s disappearance had something to do with Dongfang’s transfer. Shu Tong had been very close to those two bratty girls recently, so the class teacher wanted to know if she knew anything about the whereabouts of the two bratty girls. So before I even called her, she called me first.
When she heard that Chu Yuan was ‘taken’ home by me because she had a ‘headache’, and she was not with Dongfang. Shu Tong was relieved, and then she took the initiative to invite me to dinner. She said that she wanted to discuss Dongfang little brat’s transfer with me. She also warned me not to tell this to Chu Yuan for fear that she would be sad. Her thoughtfulness actually made me feel ashamed of my lies…
Shu Tong also said that there were other personal matters that she wanted to discuss with me, and Liusu should have mentioned it to me before. I thought about it carefully. Then I remembered that when I was on the phone with her in Crouching Dragon Mountain Resort that night, Liusu had indeed briefly mentioned it. But because a lot of things had happened afterward, I had completely forgotten about it.
Because I didn’t rest well during the recovery, my wound hurt very badly today. I could hardly walk normally. This was one of the reasons why Chu Yuan didn’t want me to go out and had an argument with me all afternoon. But I had to go to this dinner because when I was talking on the phone with Shu Tong and Liusu, there was another person with them, and that person was Yao Wan’er!
Meeting Yao Wan’er was not just because I had made a promise to her in the morning that I would treat her to a dinner, but there was also a deeper reason… For example, when I heard that she was having lunch with Liusu, I couldn’t stop myself from sweating even if I was sitting under the air condition…
This girl knew a secret of mine that I couldn’t afford to let Liusu know!
. . .
I knew that this meal would be very awkward, but I didn’t expect it to be so awkward!
People often said that when three women got together, they could even perform a soap opera. But today, there were four women sitting at a round table, and we were eating the hot pot, but no one took the lead to talk!
Was it because there was no alcohol, so no one was in the mood? That didn’t seem like it. Although I couldn’t drink because of my injury, there were still two alcoholics, Liusu and Sister Tiger. Even if Shu Tong and Yao Wan’er insisted that they didn’t drink, they were still forced to drink two glasses of beer by them. But why was the atmosphere so cold?
The broth in the hot pot was boiling, but I was shaking all over in the cold.
“Wan’er, come, taste this rabbit meat, it has a delicate texture and good taste…”
Compared with Shu Tong, I seemed to be even more unfamiliar with Yao Wan’er, who had been a colleague of mine for a year. In order to break the awkward atmosphere, I enthusiastically picked a piece of freshly cooked meat for Yao Wan’er, who was a little nervous. I was very considerate. I specially used a new pair of chopsticks to pick the meat for her to avoid embarrassment. But Liusu sitting next to me still rudely intercepted and took away the meat with her bowl.
Yao Wan’er was holding the empty bowl, waiting for me to put the meat inside her bowl. But after seeing what Liusu did, her hands froze in the air. It was so embarrassing for her. I couldn’t help but frown and look at Liusu, “Liusu, what are you doing?”
“Of course I’m eating meat. What? Is there any problem?” Liusu pretended to be dumb and said.
“Then can’t you get it yourself? Why do you have to get it from my chopsticks? You made Wan’er feel very embarrassed.” I paused for a second and looked at her teasingly, “are you jealous…”
“Bah! Who am I jealous of?” Liusu slapped my hand and said embarrassedly, “I just don’t want to see you making a fool of yourself. It was pork, but you said that was rabbit meat. Wan’er doesn’t like pork.”
“Oh? Is that not rabbit meat?”
My face flushed. Then Dong Xiaoye knocked on the plate in front of her, and chuckled mockingly, “this plate is rabbit meat.”
Shu Tong almost spat out the food in her mouth when she heard the words. How would she, who didn’t like me, let go of this opportunity to mock me easily? She clapped her hands and said, “you can even mistake pork for rabbit meat, Chu Nan, you are so talented.”
“I did it deliberately,” while I said this, the rabbit meat in the hot pot was already cooked. I got up and picked a piece of rabbit meat with my chopsticks and then put it in Yao Wan’er’s bowl, “Wan’er is very shy and doesn’t like to talk, but all three of you usually like to talk a lot. So what happened to you three? Why are you suddenly very quiet today? If I didn’t make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, this meal would be very awkward. She would probably think that you don’t like to see her around.”
“Elder Brother Nan, please don’t say that. I have no such thoughts in my mind. It is the first time for me to meet Ms. Shu and Officer Dong, so I am very nervous, and I don’t know what to say… so please don’t get the wrong idea.” Yao Wan’er hurriedly said.
“Yes, Nan Nan, Wan’er is not that kind of person,” Liusu said, “Cousin, Sister Xiaoye, don’t listen to Nan Nan’s nonsense, Wan’er is like a little sheep, and she is usually very quiet in my company.”
Dong Xiaoye also glared at me and said, “you think everyone is like you?”
“Yes,” Shu Tong also said, “we are all ladies, and there is only one man here, so as a man, it is your job to break the ice.”
‘You? A lady? Can someone even be considered a lady when she finished half a plate of meat before everyone else even touched their chopsticks? Why doesn’t she look in the mirror to see how much tahini is on the corner of her mouth!’ I didn’t know whether I should laugh or cry, “so what you are saying is, it was my fault?”
“Of course.” The three women said in unison, making the shy Yao Wan’er giggle.
In just a few words, the atmosphere in the room was completely different. I raised my hand to surrender and said helplessly, “okay, okay, my fault. Please forgive me…”
Seeing my silly behavior, the four women finally all smiled at the same time.
I didn’t know what happened to Liusu and Shu Tong. They clearly told me that they had something that they wanted to discuss with me. But after we sat down for a while, they still hadn’t mentioned it. Originally, Dong Xiaoye wanted to tell Liusu that she was ordered to pretend to be my girlfriend for a while to protect me. But because she couldn’t disclose this secret operation to people other than Liusu, she couldn’t say anything to Liusu when there were Shu Tong and Yao Wan’er those two people around…
And my biggest worry was Yao Wan’er. I had some questions I wanted to ask her. For example, did she tell anyone that she saw Mo Fei kiss me? I thought the whole general operation team would come to this dinner, but why only her attended the dinner? What was exactly her relationship with Mo Fei?
The same as me, I could also tell that Yao Wan’er had many questions. After all, her eyes always moved between my face and Liusu’s face.
“Massaging my shoulders is to cover up, right? You are a little nosy parker, and you were clearly eavesdropping on my conversation with other people. You have stayed in my room for a very long time, but I didn’t hear you mention anything about borrowing something. Besides, when you want my briefcase, mobile phone, computer, and even shirts and slippers, you always take them without asking me. Since when do you start to care about asking my permission?”
Being exposed by me in front of Dong Xiaoye and Dongfang Lianren, Chu Yuan blushed a little. She didn’t want to destroy her image of a good girl in front of others, so she did not dare to talk back angrily at me. However, there was something else she could do. She pretended to be innocent and said sadly like I had wronged her, “you are my elder brother, of course, I can use your stuff without your permission…”
“Then you could just take whatever you want in my room, why did you need to pretend to massage my shoulders?…”
“I wanted to borrow your cell phone. But you were using it.”
“I…”
I was reduced to silence. ‘Damn it! This bratty girl is really good at finding excuses. She can actually justify herself in this way!’ Then I heard her carry on, “after you finished the phone call, your phone’s battery was almost dead, so I didn’t borrow it. But now you actually say that I am a nosy parker… .”
The bratty girl closed her eyes very hard, trying to squeeze out two teardrops to show that she was very sad. I knew I was losing ground the moment she closed her eyes. Since we were young, I had seen this kind of scene many times. After she covered her eyes with her hands, I knew that I was in trouble. Sure enough, Dongfang Lianren looked at me disdainfully, and Dong Xiaoye simply hit me in the head…
…
It was not a date with Liusu, however, I also wasn’t totally honest with Chu Yuan either.
It all began with a phone call with Shu Tong.
Shu Tong didn’t know what happened at school in the morning, because she somehow didn’t go to work at all. Instead, she was with Liusu in the dining hall of Fengchang Company when she called me. It seemed that she arrived at Fengchang just right after I left. During the time she was in Fengchang, she received a call from Chu Yuan’s class teacher, and only then did she know that Dongfang had finished the school transferring procedures today, and Chu Yuan suddenly skipped class and disappeared…
Those two bratty girls always stayed together, so everyone knew that Chu Yuan’s disappearance had something to do with Dongfang’s transfer. Shu Tong had been very close to those two bratty girls recently, so the class teacher wanted to know if she knew anything about the whereabouts of the two bratty girls. So before I even called her, she called me first.
When she heard that Chu Yuan was ‘taken’ home by me because she had a ‘headache’, and she was not with Dongfang. Shu Tong was relieved, and then she took the initiative to invite me to dinner. She said that she wanted to discuss Dongfang little brat’s transfer with me. She also warned me not to tell this to Chu Yuan for fear that she would be sad. Her thoughtfulness actually made me feel ashamed of my lies…
Shu Tong also said that there were other personal matters that she wanted to discuss with me, and Liusu should have mentioned it to me before. I thought about it carefully. Then I remembered that when I was on the phone with her in Crouching Dragon Mountain Resort that night, Liusu had indeed briefly mentioned it. But because a lot of things had happened afterward, I had completely forgotten about it.
Because I didn’t rest well during the recovery, my wound hurt very badly today. I could hardly walk normally. This was one of the reasons why Chu Yuan didn’t want me to go out and had an argument with me all afternoon. But I had to go to this dinner because when I was talking on the phone with Shu Tong and Liusu, there was another person with them, and that person was Yao Wan’er!
Meeting Yao Wan’er was not just because I had made a promise to her in the morning that I would treat her to a dinner, but there was also a deeper reason… For example, when I heard that she was having lunch with Liusu, I couldn’t stop myself from sweating even if I was sitting under the air condition…
This girl knew a secret of mine that I couldn’t afford to let Liusu know!
. . .
I knew that this meal would be very awkward, but I didn’t expect it to be so awkward!
People often said that when three women got together, they could even perform a soap opera. But today, there were four women sitting at a round table, and we were eating the hot pot, but no one took the lead to talk!
Was it because there was no alcohol, so no one was in the mood? That didn’t seem like it. Although I couldn’t drink because of my injury, there were still two alcoholics, Liusu and Sister Tiger. Even if Shu Tong and Yao Wan’er insisted that they didn’t drink, they were still forced to drink two glasses of beer by them. But why was the atmosphere so cold?
The broth in the hot pot was boiling, but I was shaking all over in the cold.
“Wan’er, come, taste this rabbit meat, it has a delicate texture and good taste…”
Compared with Shu Tong, I seemed to be even more unfamiliar with Yao Wan’er, who had been a colleague of mine for a year. In order to break the awkward atmosphere, I enthusiastically picked a piece of freshly cooked meat for Yao Wan’er, who was a little nervous. I was very considerate. I specially used a new pair of chopsticks to pick the meat for her to avoid embarrassment. But Liusu sitting next to me still rudely intercepted and took away the meat with her bowl.
Yao Wan’er was holding the empty bowl, waiting for me to put the meat inside her bowl. But after seeing what Liusu did, her hands froze in the air. It was so embarrassing for her. I couldn’t help but frown and look at Liusu, “Liusu, what are you doing?”
“Of course I’m eating meat. What? Is there any problem?” Liusu pretended to be dumb and said.
“Then can’t you get it yourself? Why do you have to get it from my chopsticks? You made Wan’er feel very embarrassed.” I paused for a second and looked at her teasingly, “are you jealous…”
“Bah! Who am I jealous of?” Liusu slapped my hand and said embarrassedly, “I just don’t want to see you making a fool of yourself. It was pork, but you said that was rabbit meat. Wan’er doesn’t like pork.”
“Oh? Is that not rabbit meat?”
My face flushed. Then Dong Xiaoye knocked on the plate in front of her, and chuckled mockingly, “this plate is rabbit meat.”
Shu Tong almost spat out the food in her mouth when she heard the words. How would she, who didn’t like me, let go of this opportunity to mock me easily? She clapped her hands and said, “you can even mistake pork for rabbit meat, Chu Nan, you are so talented.”
“I did it deliberately,” while I said this, the rabbit meat in the hot pot was already cooked. I got up and picked a piece of rabbit meat with my chopsticks and then put it in Yao Wan’er’s bowl, “Wan’er is very shy and doesn’t like to talk, but all three of you usually like to talk a lot. So what happened to you three? Why are you suddenly very quiet today? If I didn’t make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, this meal would be very awkward. She would probably think that you don’t like to see her around.”
“Elder Brother Nan, please don’t say that. I have no such thoughts in my mind. It is the first time for me to meet Ms. Shu and Officer Dong, so I am very nervous, and I don’t know what to say… so please don’t get the wrong idea.” Yao Wan’er hurriedly said.
“Yes, Nan Nan, Wan’er is not that kind of person,” Liusu said, “Cousin, Sister Xiaoye, don’t listen to Nan Nan’s nonsense, Wan’er is like a little sheep, and she is usually very quiet in my company.”
Dong Xiaoye also glared at me and said, “you think everyone is like you?”
“Yes,” Shu Tong also said, “we are all ladies, and there is only one man here, so as a man, it is your job to break the ice.”
‘You? A lady? Can someone even be considered a lady when she finished half a plate of meat before everyone else even touched their chopsticks? Why doesn’t she look in the mirror to see how much tahini is on the corner of her mouth!’ I didn’t know whether I should laugh or cry, “so what you are saying is, it was my fault?”
“Of course.” The three women said in unison, making the shy Yao Wan’er giggle.
In just a few words, the atmosphere in the room was completely different. I raised my hand to surrender and said helplessly, “okay, okay, my fault. Please forgive me…”
Seeing my silly behavior, the four women finally all smiled at the same time.
I didn’t know what happened to Liusu and Shu Tong. They clearly told me that they had something that they wanted to discuss with me. But after we sat down for a while, they still hadn’t mentioned it. Originally, Dong Xiaoye wanted to tell Liusu that she was ordered to pretend to be my girlfriend for a while to protect me. But because she couldn’t disclose this secret operation to people other than Liusu, she couldn’t say anything to Liusu when there were Shu Tong and Yao Wan’er those two people around…
And my biggest worry was Yao Wan’er. I had some questions I wanted to ask her. For example, did she tell anyone that she saw Mo Fei kiss me? I thought the whole general operation team would come to this dinner, but why only her attended the dinner? What was exactly her relationship with Mo Fei?
The same as me, I could also tell that Yao Wan’er had many questions. After all, her eyes always moved between my face and Liusu’s face.
