0013 Accommodation

The Sichuan restaurant he mentioned was indeed excellent. Jiang Jifan, who loves spicy food, thoroughly enjoyed the meal.

On the other hand, the man opposite him was unusually reluctant to eat, only taking a few bites before tilting his head back to drink water.

Jiang Jifan glanced at the suddenly reduced amount of lemonade in the glass pitcher on the table, then looked at his cheeks, which were flushed red from the spiciness, and used the act of lowering his head to eat to hide the smirk on his lips.

He poured himself another glass of water.

"Can't you eat spicy food?" She looked at him with a slightly mischievous glint in her eyes, her dimples barely visible at the corners of her mouth.

Upon hearing this, Tantai Qing looked at her, smiled sheepishly, and admitted, "Yes, I don't usually eat spicy food."

"You're from City B, right?" Jiang Jifan asked confidently, picking up a piece of boiled beef with his chopsticks and putting it in his mouth.

Then she heard him say yes.

It's quite obvious that a young man like him, born into wealth and privilege, grew up in a family with a rich and influential background.

City B has no shortage of people like this.

Tantai Qing then took the opportunity to ask her where she was from.

“Me?” Jiang Jifan inexplicably recalled a popular saying on the internet recently, and jokingly said, “I’m a small-town test-taker.”

The other person clearly didn't understand these internet slang terms. They had big, watery eyes, bright red lips, slightly furrowed eyebrows, and a slightly stunned expression as they stared at her, which she found rather cute.

Realizing what she was thinking, she immediately looked away and forced herself to calm down.

He asked her what "small-town exam taker" meant, and she was too lazy to explain, simply saying it was "a poor kid's story of overcoming adversity."

Tantai Qing stared at her face, lost in thought.

During this time, he accidentally choked on the chili peppers, coughing until his fair face turned a deep liver color, which startled Jiang Jifan. She quickly poured him a glass of water and then patted his back.

"If you can't finish it, then don't eat it," she said, frowning.

After saying that, he asked the waiter to bring him a glass of iced milk.

Tantai Qing drank several large mouthfuls of iced milk before she could barely suppress the spiciness in her throat. She coughed lightly twice, her embarrassment barely concealed, and said to her, "I'm sorry."

Jiang Jifan thought he was a bit silly, knowing full well that he couldn't handle spicy food but still trying to be brave. But then he thought that the reason might be because of him, and he fell silent.

She said meaningfully, "You're quite good at accommodating people."

He finished the last sip of milk, and upon hearing her words, smiled and said, "Actually, it depends on the person."

If he had been having dinner with someone else today, he probably wouldn't have gone out of his way to accommodate them.

Jiang Jifan understood what he meant, but pretended not to hear and did not respond.

The sun was blazing in City A during the day, but it turned out to be so cool at night. Jiang Jifan stood at the restaurant entrance with his arms crossed, waiting for him to pay the bill.

She was only wearing a thin black V-neck blouse and a dark pink leather pencil skirt today, unaware of the large temperature difference between day and night in City A, and hadn't packed a coat in her luggage.

When Tantai Qing came out, he saw her standing at the door, quietly sniffing. So he took off his coat and draped it over her shoulders. When she frowned and was about to refuse, he immediately said, "You can wear it. Even if it were another lady tonight, I would have done the same."

He said it on purpose, afraid that she would feel burdened.

Sure enough, she immediately relaxed her brow and whispered, "Thank you."

Tantai Qing gazed at her delicate profile, pondered for a long time, and then asked softly, "Are you considering it?"

"What?" Jiang Jifan turned to look at him.

"My pursuit."

Author: My hand is injured, it needs to be treated with beads to heal (not really).