Xu Ziyu snapped out of his reverie and stared at her intently.

Luo Xikui felt as if she were sitting on pins and needles, her lips pressed tightly together.

Both of them remained silent as the food was served quickly.

Since it was just the two of them dining, they ordered a very home-style four dishes and one soup.

During meals, the only sound is the clinking of chopsticks.

"Don't you dislike tomatoes?" Xu Ziyu looked at the tomato stewed beef brisket she had just received; she had already picked up a tomato three times.

This dish used to be served in the school cafeteria. Her picky eating habits were quite strange. She didn't like tomatoes but loved the beef brisket in the tomato stew. Every time she got it, she would insist on him eating the tomatoes while she ate the beef brisket, adhering to the principle of not wasting food.

“People grow up and change,” Luo Xikui said, her eyes lowered.

Xu Ziyu frowned slightly and said, "Is my face that scary? Is it necessary for you to keep your head down all night?"

Luo Xikui froze for a moment, realizing how unnatural she was, then looked up and forced a smile: "How could that be? It's just that you're so beautiful that I don't dare to look at you."

Xu Ziyu's expression darkened as he saw her stiff smile, which was clearly not sincere.

Luo Xikui felt the atmosphere was too uncomfortable, so she said, "This corn and pork rib soup is very good."

"Hmm," Xu Ziyu responded indifferently.

Luo Xikui lowered her head again and continued eating. She was very hungry, but with him in front of her, she had little interest in enjoying the food. She ate slowly, taking small bites, and soon she was full.

She put down her chopsticks, and seeing that he was still eating, she quietly drank her soup, but her eyes couldn't help but steal glances at him.

He looks even better than he did two years ago. The boyishness in his eyes has faded, and he has matured a lot, with a much stronger aura.

Those downturned eyes, that high nose, those pale lips—all of them were what she longed for.

How wonderful it would be if she could just keep watching him quietly like this. Outsiders all say she is the most outstanding violinist of the younger generation, but only she knows that if she were to give up everything she has now to exchange for the time she could love him freely four years ago, she would be a hundred times more willing.

She never had much ambition; her efforts were merely to match him.

She has now achieved more than she ever could, but she has lost the right to stand beside him.

"Is it pretty?" Xu Ziyu looked up and caught her stealing a glance.

Luo Xikui felt a little choked by the soup and chuckled dryly, "Of course our Yuhua's school heartthrob is handsome."

Xu Ziyu smiled faintly, feeling much better after catching her stealing glances.

"You eat so little?" He noticed that she still had half a bowl of rice left.

"I... am on a diet." Luo Xikui made up another lame excuse. She is now 167 centimeters tall and weighs 100 kilograms. If you take away her ample bosom and she exercises regularly, her muscles are quite firm, and she already looks like she has a slender figure.

Upon hearing this, Xu Ziyu frowned slightly, picked up a piece of beef brisket and put it into her bowl, saying calmly, "You don't need to lose weight. I don't like people who are too thin."

Luo Xikui froze again, looking at him with some surprise. What did he mean by that?

Is she overthinking it? Didn't they implicitly agree that it was over?

Xu Ziyu then placed a piece of candied lotus root on her plate and said, "Don't waste food."

"Oh." Luo Xikui lowered her head and continued stuffing food into her stomach, but she was still pondering his words.

Xu Ziyu filled her soup bowl to the brim and said, "Eat all of this."

Luo Xikui obediently listened and buried her head in her food.