Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Second Meeting

Li Huanhuan didn't even know what he was busy with that evening?

If she had known that Zhang Canyang was so fickle, she should not have turned down Qin Shi’s dinner invitation. Now, not only do I have to squeeze in time to go out tomorrow, but I also have to spend money to treat Qin Shi to dinner!

“Ahhh—”

Li Huanhuan hugged his head and cried out in pain.

Next to the basketball court, an elderly couple who were out for a walk after dinner were startled by her sudden scream and looked at her with wide eyes in horror.

Six eyes meet!

Li Huanhuan's body froze.

At this moment, her cell phone rang. Li Huanhuan pretended to be very busy, grabbed the phone and quickly fled the scene. After she ran outside, she picked up her phone again. It was a message from the adoptive parents of Ahua and her daughter. The young lady said that Ahua and her daughter had already been examined at the clinic and the doctor said there was no major problem.

Li Huanhuan went to the clinic to meet the adoptive parents.

Tell the other party that the "guardian" of Ahua and her daughter had something urgent to do and could not come, and apologize. But the other party can take the cat back. As it had been agreed in advance that they would pay half of the examination fee, Li Huanhuan transferred the money to the other party via WeChat.

After chatting for a few more words, Li Huanhuan stood on the side of the road and watched the adoptive parents take Ahua and her daughter away in the car.

Li Huanhuan rubbed his hungry stomach and prepared to go back.

She didn't want to stay outside any longer, afraid of meeting someone again or something unexpected happening. 40 minutes later, Li Huanhuan returned home, rubbed the cat's head, washed his hands, and went to the kitchen to make himself a bowl of clear soup noodles.

While eating noodles, she was browsing her phone, hesitated for a moment, and finally sent a message to Zhang Canyang.

0.0: "[Screenshot], the medical examination fee for Ah Hua and her daughter. Please transfer the other half to me after you see it."

The adoptive parents paid half, and she and Zhang Canyang paid the other half. Li Huanhuan felt that she was also half a "guardian" and she was willing to help Zhang Canyang share some of the burden.

For a relationship that is neither too close nor too familiar, this allocation is just right.

Zhang Canyang probably wasn't looking at his phone at the moment, so he didn't reply to her for the time being.

After washing up, Li Huanhuan lay on the bed in her pajamas, flipping through her cell phone. Her Highness the Cat was lying on the special little pillow beside her, drowsy.

She was wondering where to take Qin Shi out for dinner tomorrow.

As a otaku with little savings, Li Huanhuan rarely goes out to eat. When they occasionally dine together with friends, they don’t choose particularly expensive places to spend money, but always eat at prices that everyone can afford.

Tomorrow she will treat Qin Shi to a meal, and it will be a "big meal"...

For a moment, Li Huanhuan was at a loss, so she opened the chat box of her best friend Xiaojing to ask.

Xiao Jing: "Eat out? Tomorrow is not the weekend, who are you going to meet?"

Li Huanhuan's friends are all workers, strictly following the nine-to-five work schedule and two days off a week. She usually makes dinner plans with friends on weekends or holidays. Tomorrow is not a weekend, nor is it a special day. Xiaojing immediately sensed something unusual.

0.0: "[His Royal Highness Cat].jpg"

She tried to get away with it by sending emoticons.

However, Xiaojing knew her, just as she knew Xiaojing, and her lies were soon exposed. Helplessly, I could only briefly talk about Qin Shi’s story, omitting the other party’s identity as a [professional e-sports player] and his name.

Xiao Jing: "Didn't you say, 'A wise man doesn't fall in love'?"

She still remembered what Li Huanhuan had said to stop her in the morning.

0.0: "Blind date! Just a blind date! There is no love at all!!!"

0.0: "Besides, he is my younger brother, okay~"

Xiao Jing: "Is my younger brother not good? My younger brother is better!!! Men are most energetic at the age of 25! You have to know that once a man is over 25, he will..."

0.0; "Tsk tsk tsk, shut up! [Give you a pack of stain remover].jpg"

Xiao Jing: "She has broad shoulders, long legs, and looks pretty, so why is she not okay? [Collect the stain remover].jpg"

0.0: "I don't like my brother [smile].jipg"

Xiao Jing: "Don't speak too soon, or you'll get slapped in the face later."

…

After a round of joking chat, this foodie bestie who often eats out recommended two restaurants to her: one is a Western restaurant with a great atmosphere, perfect for dates; the other is a seafood buffet with good reputation and quality. The seafood buffet, with an average cost of over 300 yuan per person, is located inside the building and has a beautiful environment.

Li fantasized about it and sent a message to Qin Shi: "Can you eat seafood?"

She has already added the other party’s WeChat.

Soon, there was a reply message.

Qin Shi: “Okay.”

So Li Huanhuan booked a seafood buffet.

Before going to bed, Li Huanhuan finished writing the part-time article for tomorrow's public account. Soon, it was the next day. I left home at 10:30 in the morning and arrived downstairs of the agreed building around 11:40.

Just as she was about to take out her cell phone, she heard a cough behind her.

Li Huanhuan turned around and saw Qin Shi standing behind her. He was wearing a black thick jacket today, black pants, and boots of the same color. The weather was a bit cold, so he wore a dark blue scarf around his neck and seemed to have had his hair done, which made him look more stylish.

What Li Huanhuan wore today was a beige long coat, with a white turtleneck sweater decorated with pearls inside, a navy blue winter plaid long skirt underneath, and a pair of black boots on her feet. Around her neck was a yellow scarf, the style of which was surprisingly similar to Qin Shi's.

Qin Shi's eyes swept across the scarf around her neck, then he put his hands back into his pockets, his eyes darting around, looking shy: "Ah, you're here. I thought you were going to break the appointment again."

Li Huanhuan opened his eyes slightly and stared at him in surprise.

Qin Shi turned his head to the side and said quickly: "Let's go, it's almost time."

Li Huanhuan raised her head slightly and looked at his smooth jawline.

Oh, forget it, I won’t bother with him. She advised herself in her heart.

The two entered the building and took the elevator to the restaurant upstairs. Halfway through, Li Huanhuan always felt that Qin Shi was looking at her, but when she looked towards him, she found that he was looking somewhere else.

Soon, they arrived at the seafood buffet restaurant.

The restaurant has a nice environment and the dishes are very fresh. While eating, Qin Shi seemed to want to find fault, but in the end he didn't.

"What are we going to do after we finish eating? Do you want to watch a movie? Hu Xun said that there is a really good action movie recently! Can we go watch it together in the afternoon? I have bought the movie tickets now." When they were almost done eating, Qin Shi suddenly took out his cell phone and asked her.

"Ah? Afternoon?"

Li Huanhuan hadn't thought about the [activity] in the afternoon, so he waved his hand and said, "No, I have something else to do this afternoon. If you want to watch it, you can ask your friends to go with you."

In fact, she had nothing to do in the afternoon. She just wanted to go back early.

Qin Shi paused while holding his phone, and swiped the page of his phone boredly: "Are you going back so early?"

Li Huanhuan said "hmm".

Qin Shi seemed a little unhappy: "Oh, actually I don't really want to see it."

So do you want to watch it or not?

Li Huanhuan glanced at him but didn't ask.

After a while, Qin Shi said again: "Let's take a photo."

"Hmm?" Li Huanhuan looked at him puzzledly.

"Have you forgotten?"

Qin Shi found an excuse this time, "I said before that I would take a photo of our meal and send it to our mother."

Li Huanhuan was stunned for a moment, as if this was the case.

but……

"Need not."

She shook her head, "I'll tell my mom that we had dinner together. I think your mom won't blame you anymore."

After saying this, he found that there was no sound from the other side.

Li Huanhuan raised her head and found Qin Shi staring at her.

Da da da.

Slender, beautiful fingers tapped on the table.

Qin Shi: "This is the third time you have rejected me today."

Li Huanhuan: “…”

It seems so.

She hesitated and raised her head awkwardly: "What should I do then?"

Qin Shi raised his chin and waved the phone in his hand at her: "Take a photo."

Two words, concise and to the point.

For a otaku who has paid the single tax for 26 years, this is the first time that Li Huanhuan has taken a photo alone with a boy. Even when she was a child, she and her biological father never took a photo together.

Li Huanhuan glanced at the protagonist sitting next to her, her body became very stiff, and the smile in the camera looked very forced.

"Smile more naturally. You are not kidnapped by me now." Qin Shi was dissatisfied.

Because it is a selfie, the lens is relatively small, and two people need to be closer to each other in order to be in the frame. As they got closer, shoulders and arms inevitably touched, which made Li Huanhuan's smile even stiffer.

"Be more natural."

In the camera, Qin Shi is still cool.

"eggplant!"

"eggplant."

Click.

Finally finished filming.

Qin Shi in the camera is still cool, and his eyes even look cooler than usual. However, Li Huanhuan was not good at facing the camera. Although she showed her teeth and raised the corners of her mouth in the camera, she looked a little dull, as if she was about to cry in the next second.

Li Huanhuan suggested taking another photo.

Qin Shi seemed to be afraid that she would snatch the phone, so he immediately took it back and sat back opposite her: "I think this one is good. I look handsome."

"But I look like I'm crying." Li Huanhuan.

"Crying? I think it's okay." Qin Shi shook his head.

Li Huanhuan clearly saw the corner of his mouth raised.

Tsk! He did it on purpose!

Why so childish? never mind.

Li Huanhuan gave up.

She is not used to taking photos with others, and even if she takes it again, it will probably be the same.

"Don't send that photo to my mom and others." Li Huanhuan settled for the second best option.

"I'll think about it." Qin Shi raised his eyebrows.

He stared at the pictures on his phone.

Suddenly, a message popped up in the WeChat group. He didn't want to read it, but the message popped up too frequently, and when he was about to swipe away, he accidentally clicked on it.

It is the chat group of Sirius. In the group there are players from the Sirius team, as well as assistants, operations, and coaches from the club.

Someone posted a photo in the group, saying that someone met Fox from Coolplay and his new girlfriend on Furong Road yesterday evening.

Xiaodong: "Fox is still cool. He just lost the game yesterday and went on a date with his girlfriend."

Crowd: "Huh? Fox has a new girlfriend again? Last time I saw her, it was not this girl."

Someone in the group joked.

Qin Shi never participated in discussions about these things. When he realized that he was late and was about to leave, he suddenly stopped. He clicked on the photos posted in the group and felt that the girl standing with Zhang Canyang in the photo looked very familiar.