"Who is so heartless as to disturb people's peaceful dreams so early in the morning?"

She groggily reached out and frantically groped around the pillow.

Finally, her fingertips touched the edge of the phone. She snatched it away, didn't even glance at the caller ID, and impatiently pressed the answer button, her tone a little irritated: "Hello, who is it?"

A weathered voice came from the other end of the phone: "Xiaoxi, it's Grandpa. You're still not up, are you? I've already arranged to meet your blind date at the Red Pavilion Cafe at 11:30. Get up quickly."

Upon hearing the sound, Chen Xiaoxi immediately woke up, her drowsiness vanishing.

She sat up abruptly in bed, her eyes wide, her voice full of surprise and coquettishness: "Grandpa, why didn't you tell me beforehand?"

Grandpa Chen seemed to have anticipated her reaction, and laughed heartily: "If I told you, you would make excuses to refuse again. So, I'll do it first and ask you later. You'd better pack your things quickly."

After saying that, he hung up the phone hastily without waiting for Chen Xiaoxi to say anything more.

Immediately afterwards, his phone chimed with a text message notification; Mr. Chen had sent over the phone number of his blind date.

Chen Xiaoxi glanced at the time displayed on her phone screen; it was exactly 8:30.

She used the black screen of her phone to examine herself.

In the mirror, a head of messy long hair was casually draped over both sides of her face, with a few strands sticking up like mischievous little tails.

She stared blankly at her slightly puffy, sleepy eyes for a moment, then patted her cheeks and muttered to herself, "I need to get up quickly and put on some nice makeup."

The sound of running water was loud in the washroom.

Chen Xiaoxi quickly washed her hair while mentally calculating the time.

Amidst the whirring of the hairdryer, she skillfully styled her hair, then sat down at her vanity to carefully select cosmetics.

Foundation, eyeshadow, lipstick—every step is meticulously applied.

After applying the last stroke of lipstick, she looked at herself in the mirror from left to right, and finally a slight smile appeared on her lips: "So beautiful, I'm sure I'll seduce that awful Lu Qingzhou to death in a moment, hehehe."

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