Chapter 36 Declaration of Sovereignty
"The dishes are all here, everyone, please take a seat."
Lin Ze looked at Uncle Gu and Aunt Jiang with a smile. Her temperament, indifferent smile and beauty made the two elders feel a little at a loss.
This doesn't look like the owner of a private restaurant at all.
"Xiaohan, did you choose this place specifically? It feels like home. You really thought about it."
Although Uncle Gu felt a little strange, he was a generous man after all. He smiled and patted Li Muhan's shoulder.
Little did they know that Li Muhan was already more embarrassed than both of them at this moment.
As for Gu Ruoxi, she also felt quite uncomfortable.
There are four girls in this room now.
Xia Yue, Lin Ze, Su Xue, and her.
She has always been the epitome of beauty in the eyes of her friends, but now, in front of these three girls, her appearance has become the most ordinary.
Especially when compared with Xia Yue, she even felt a little ashamed of herself.
Xia Yue's fingers exerted a slight pressure, holding her chopsticks straight and in an orderly manner, like a warrior preparing for battle. Her gaze shifted to Li Muhan, his eyes clear as water, gleaming with excitement and anticipation. She softly asked the most pressing question in her mind: "...Shall we have dinner?"
"...dinner?"
"Wait a minute, be good." Li Muhan's response was both warm and doting.
He quickly took out a can of ice-cold cola from the refrigerator and handed it to Xia Yue with a hint of playfulness and affection, gently rubbing her hair which was slightly disheveled.
After temporarily calming Xia Yue down, he turned to the two elders and said respectfully, "Uncle and aunt, please sit here."
He pointed to the comfortable and elegantly furnished chair next to him.
At the same time, during the entire welcoming process, Li Muhan was as indifferent to Gu Ruoxi as if he were invisible.
From beginning to end, he never paid any attention to the girl who once occupied a place in his heart - as if she didn't exist in this space at all.
Only then did the two elders really take a look at Xia Yue. Aunt Jiang was a meticulous person, and she recognized that Xia Yue's voice was the same as the girl who was talking next to Li Muhan on the phone just now.
She found that the girl was petite and delicate. Even her daughter, of whom she had always been proud, was not one-tenth as beautiful as this child.
But what made them even more curious was who this girl was and why she was acting so intimately with Li Muhan.
After the two elders sat down, Lin Ze and Su Xue also sat down.
This made the two elders a little confused.
In their opinion, Lin Ze and Su Xue seemed to play the roles of chef and waiter respectively - preparing the banquet thoughtfully and low-key behind the scenes.
But at this moment, the two of them were not standing in their preset positions and busy with something; instead, they sat down and shared the dinner time with everyone else.
Amidst the confusion, Uncle Gu smiled and broke the silence: "Are these two your friends, Xiaohan?"
"Ah? Ah...ah! She, she, she, the two of them..."
Just when Li Muhan was about to say that this was her superior and colleague, Su Xue suddenly spoke with a smile.
"Uncle, aunt, hello, my name is Su Xue, and I'm Mu Han's senior in college. Mu Han has helped me a lot, so when I knew you two were coming today, I wanted to keep you company. I hope I won't disturb your fun."
Su Xue spoke in a gentle and polite manner, and her every move and gesture had the demeanor of a young lady, making the two elders feel like they were in spring breeze when talking to her.
"Of course not, of course not. Sister, you are Mu Han's senior, so you should also be our Ruoxi's senior, right?"
Aunt Jiang smiled and looked at her daughter beside her, wanting her daughter to join in the conversation as well.
"Oh, sorry, I don't know your daughter."
As a result, as soon as she mentioned Gu Ruoxi, Su Xue's gentle expression suddenly seemed a little distant, and her tone became much colder.
Of course, Gu Ruoxi didn't know Su Xue either. She always chose friends who were uglier than herself and could bring out her own beauty. How could she possibly look for a beauty like Su Xue? Wouldn't she just be her supporting role then?
"Hello, I'm Li Muhan's homeroom teacher."
In order to avoid an awkward atmosphere, Lin Ze took over the conversation. She held a cup of coffee in her hand, crossed her legs, and kept stirring the liquid in the cup.
The smile on his face was still gentle, but it looked a little distant.
"Teacher?"
Uncle Gu was surprised and looked at Li Muhan with some resentment.
"Xiaohan, how could you bring us to our teacher's house and let the teacher cook for us?"
Li Muhan was speechless. Is this Su Xue’s plan?
Never mind, at least it's much better than having two maids...
"Please don't blame him, uncle."
Lin Ze smiled and helped Li Muhan out of the predicament.
"Li Muhan is an excellent student in school, both in character and academics. He is a rare good student. I like him very much and I also want to meet the kind of adoptive parents who can raise such an outstanding child. That's why I really want to meet you two today. I hope you can forgive me for being so intrusive."
As expected of a public servant, he spoke so many rhetoric that he soon fooled the two old men.
But only Gu Ruoxi was extremely disdainful and didn't believe it.
How could she not know that Tianhai University had such a beautiful teacher? Li Muhan’s homeroom teacher was just a bald middle-aged uncle, who had nothing to do with the beautiful girl in front of her.
Finally, the two elders' eyes fell on Xia Yue, who was also the girl that Aunt Jiang paid the most attention to.
Because some of the interactions between Li Muhan and her seemed so intimate, almost like a couple.
"Oh, this, this is Xia Yue."
Li Muhan noticed that the two elders' eyes were focused on Xia Yue.
He understood that Xia Yue's situation was not so easy to explain, because Gu Ruoxi saw that Xia Yue lived in her house, so he acted decisively and raised his hand to hold Xia Yue's delicate and gentle wrist as she was about to pick up some food.
At that moment, Xia Yue clearly felt her heart tighten.
Her heart beat faster at the sudden movement - just like a thief who was caught off guard while stealing.
She turned her head slightly to look at Li Muhan; her eyes met his, and her affectionate and gentle eyes, like the warm sunshine in late autumn, were full of affection and comfort.
"Uncle, Auntie." Li Muhan began in a gentle but firm tone, "Please take this opportunity to formally introduce you two."
He took Xia Yue's hand and stood up from the chair, but Xia Yue still looked at the table of food reluctantly.
"This is my girlfriend, Xia Yue."
Everyone present reacted in their own way. Lin Ze held his chin with his hand, smiling as he admired the scene, while Su Xue covered her mouth in feigned surprise.
Aunt Jiang and Uncle Gu looked at each other, as if they didn't expect Li Muhan to be so direct.
As for Gu Ruoxi, she clenched the chopsticks tightly in her hands, and the emotions accumulated in her heart finally couldn't help but burst out at this moment.
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