22 Chapter 22: Showdown
◎You have to seize his first time◎
Xie Yun was waiting downstairs of the female dormitory building, and he even called out Wu Yahua's name accurately. So many people saw that the person Xie Yun was waiting for was Wu Yahua. Wu Yahua felt that she had become an ostrich with her head buried in the sand. If she turned a blind eye, it would seem impolite and would embarrass Xie Yun.
She forcibly pulled Xie Lili, who was about to leave, took Xie Lili's arm, and bravely walked in front of Xie Yun.
"Xie Yun, is there anything wrong? I still have to go to class." Wu Yahua's hands behind her back were shaking.
Xie Yun: "I want to invite you to have lunch at noon. Do you think your time is suitable?"
The two of them added each other on WeChat. A small matter like making a dinner appointment could be done by just notifying each other on WeChat. Wu Yahua complained in her heart that why did he have to run to the girls' dormitory so early in the morning to block people's way.
Fortunately, it was Xie Yun's face that saved him. If it was replaced by a burly and ugly man, Wu Yahua would immediately call the school security and say that he was being harassed.
Wu Yahua wanted to refuse Xie Yun's invitation to dinner, as she was going to have lunch with Xie Lili at noon, but Xie Lili agreed on her behalf.
"Okay, she'll go."
What? Wu Yahua looked at Xie Lili.
Xie Yun looked at Wu Yahua and still wanted to ask for Wu Yahua's consent. Xie Lili's words did not count.
"Go ahead." Xie Lili nudged Wu Yahua with her elbow and winked. "He's been single for 21 years, and this is the first time he's taken the initiative to ask a girl out for dinner. How rare! It's his first time, you have to seize it."
For a moment, Wu Yahua couldn't tell whether Xie Lili was being sarcastic or telling the truth.
With Xie Lili's help, Wu Yahua nodded and agreed: "Okay..."
"Then we'll meet at Amber Bistro at 12:30 pm." After Xie Yun finished speaking to Wu Yahua, he said to Xie Lili, "Don't come with me."
Xie Lili's face turned pale on the spot.
This straight man who has never been in love doesn't know how to use his brain to think carefully. If it weren't for Xie Lili, he wouldn't be able to make an appointment with Wu Yahua for dinner today.
What a weirdo, he can't think straight.
Xie Lili groaned in anger.
Amber Bistro is the restaurant with the highest per capita consumption near World University. The consumption level of college students is far lower than that of white-collar workers who earn over 10,000 yuan a month in high-end office buildings. The location of Amber Bistro, with an per capita consumption of 800 yuan, near World University is a failure.
There was a notice of shop transfer posted in front of the store. Wu Yahua thought that Xie Yun had invited her to have dinner there, so she was not being taken advantage of.
A place that is expensive and has bad food is not the first choice for college students.
Sitting in the classroom waiting for class to start, Wu Yahua took out her mobile phone and planned to contact Xie Yun on WeChat.
"Amber Bistro is so expensive, I'd better ask him to go somewhere else."
Xie Lili, who was sitting next to them, heard this and slapped the phone where Wu Yahua was editing text.
"You haven't even become someone's wife yet, and you're already worried about the money in her purse."
"I..." Wu Yahua's face turned red and she wanted to explain that it didn't happen.
Xie Lili said: "It's not necessary. You don't need to save money for him. He has money."
Xie Lili emphasized the word "rich".
"Xie Yun's parents divorced when he was one year old. When he was thirteen, his mother was spotted by a divorced wealthy businessman. Coincidentally, that businessman was his mother's elementary school classmate. Xie Yun benefited from his mother's influence and rose to prominence. The monthly allowance his stepfather gives him is more than the annual living expenses of you and me combined."
Wu Yahua raised her eyebrows. That means he is indeed rich.
"Xie Yun's father had an even better life. He divorced his mother and immediately remarried to a beautiful female college student. The woman even bought him a house and a car. A year after their marriage, his second wife gave birth to a fat son. Three years later, his father fell in love with someone else and divorced his second wife. Not long after, his father remarried and had a pair of twin sons, but they divorced again a few years later. A few years ago, Xie Yun went to college, and his father remarried and had a son. Although Xie Yun had four half-brothers, his father loved his eldest son Xie Yun the most. His father was not as wealthy as his mother, but he lived a comfortable life. He was generous to Xie Yun and gave him money readily."
According to Xie Lili's statement, Xie Yun really is not short of money. After his parents divorced, both sides gave money to Xie Yun to spend.
Except for not growing up in a family with complete parents, Xie Yun is perfect in other aspects. He is good-looking, rich, and has good grades.
"So when you eat with him, don't worry about eating him out of money," Xie Lili said. "He's treating, and you're just ordering expensive food."
When she and Xie Yun finally sat down in the Amber Restaurant at 12:30 noon, the lights from the intricate crystal chandeliers went down, and Wu Yahua flipped through the first-class menu, feeling dazzled and hesitant.
She couldn't bear to order an expensive dish.
Wu Yahua pointed to the cheapest bowl of pork rib noodles on the menu, which cost 108 yuan, and said to the waiter standing by waiting for orders, "I'm not very hungry. I want a bowl of pork rib noodles with cilantro but no green onions, less chili and more vinegar."
Wu Yahua was reluctant to order, so Xie Yun ordered the dishes, "Amber Signature Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs, Amber Salt-Baked Shrimp, Amber Crispy Pork Belly, and Vegetable Meatball Soup."
Dishes with the word "Amber" in their name are signature dishes and are dozens of yuan more expensive.
Xie Yun only chooses expensive dishes.
The waiter confirmed their orders and asked, "Do you want rice?"
Xie Yun: "Yes, two bowls of rice."
"I, I can't finish it." Wu Yahua said, feeling very uncomfortable. "Just order the rice you want to eat, otherwise it will be wasted."
Xie Yun looked at Wu Yahua and smiled, "I usually eat two bowls of rice for one meal."
"Oh oh." Wu Yahua was so embarrassed that her face was burning. It turned out that she was just being too sentimental.
The reason why Xie Yun chose to eat at Amber Bistro was not because of its high-end dining environment or the exquisite and delicious dishes, but because he noticed that at mealtime, among the restaurants near World University, Amber Bistro, which had posted a store for sale, had the least business and the fewest customers.
At noon today, Xie Yun and Wu Yahua were the only guests at the Amber Restaurant on the upper and lower floors, which effectively meant they had the entire restaurant to themselves.
A quiet environment is conducive to eating and chatting without being overheard by others.
While waiting for the food to be served, Xie Yun asked Wu Yahua indirectly, "When did you leave school last semester during the summer vacation? Was it on July 20th, right after the exams, or on the 21st, the day after the exams?"
"Why are you asking this?" Wu Yahua was cautious. From Xie Yun's suspicious look, she was worried that the fact that she had turned into a cat would be exposed.
The hands on the knees under the table were squeezed into a ball.
It was so quiet that only a single buzzing sound remained in my ears.
I don’t know where the buzzing sound comes from. If it’s too quiet, the buzzing sound will appear.
Xie Yun: "I'm just asking casually. The food hasn't been served yet, so I'm just chatting. You seem very nervous."
"I'm not nervous. I left school on the day I finished the exam. I booked a high-speed rail ticket for 8 o'clock in the evening." Wu Yahua took out her mobile phone and looked through the itinerary on 12306, wanting to prove to Xie Yun that she had finished the exam and left school on the same day.
After taking out the itinerary on 12306, Wu Yahua was dumbfounded.
The itinerary shows that she had a high-speed rail ticket for the morning of the 21st.
Wu Yahua remembered clearly that she bought a high-speed train ticket for the night of the 20th, and on the 20th she turned into a cat when she returned to the dormitory to get her suitcase.
After turning into a cat and being picked up by Xie Yun and brought back to the dormitory, Wu Yahua thought about the high-speed train she took home. It was impossible for her to remember it wrong.
Seeing Wu Yahua's surprised expression, Xie Yun leaned forward and looked at Wu Yahua's cell phone.
The itinerary on the mobile phone screen clearly showed that Wu Yahua bought the ticket on the morning of the 21st. However, before Wu Yahua opened her phone to look at the itinerary, she insisted that she had left school on the 20th.
Xie Yun found a way to save her, "Is it possible that you remembered it wrongly? It's been more than two months."
It wasn't two years that happened, it was only more than two months. How could I have made a mistake in the time to buy the high-speed rail ticket to go home?
Impossible.
"Maybe... I remembered it wrong." Wu Yahua answered according to Xie Yun's words, with confusion and doubt in her eyes.
What on earth was going on? Wu Yahua felt as if she had fallen into a cage, with dense fences surrounding her trapping her.
Seeing Wu Yahua's reaction, Xie Yun boldly guessed that perhaps Wu Yahua, like him, was experiencing something beyond the laws of nature and difficult to explain.
After the waiter served all the dishes, no one would come to disturb them. Xie Yun wanted to verify whether his guess was correct, so he decided to come clean.
"I had a strange experience during the summer vacation."
As soon as Xie Yun said this, Wu Yahua started eating noodles nervously.
"My roommate Hong Cangkang and I found a cat at school."
When talking about cats, Wu Yahua's heart started beating fast. She slurped a large spoonful of noodles, filling her mouth, and didn't dare to look up at Xie Yun.
"The day I brought the cat back to my dorm, two other people in our dorm, A and B, had seen the cat. People in the next dorm had also seen the cat. When I stayed on campus during the summer to prepare for a competition, the cat stayed with me the entire time. I bought it a litter box, cat food, and other things. After I left for the competition, I left it in my dorm and hired someone to come and clean up the cat's poop and feed it."
"While I was playing, I got a call from someone who said they had found my cat."
"I was out of town for a competition and couldn't return to school, so I asked him to temporarily take care of the cat until I came back. Something happened and I returned to school a day later than planned. The next day, I received a call from him saying that my cat had bitten through his window screen and ran away."
"After I came back, I wanted to meet him, but I had a fever as soon as I got off the plane. My body was holding me back and the condition was very bad. I had to go to the hospital for treatment. After the examination, I was told that there was something wrong with my lungs and I needed to be hospitalized for observation."
"I stayed in the hospital for three days, during which I was briefly drowsy. Three days later, the high fever disappeared and the doctor told me that the lung abnormality had also disappeared, so I returned to school."
"I wanted to find the cat, but I had no clue where to find it. I called my roommate Hong Cangkang, but he seemed to have lost his memory and didn't remember having a cat. Not only him, I also called A and B in the dormitory, and they both said I didn't have a cat. My classmates who had seen the cat in the dormitory also denied that I had a cat."
When she heard this, Wu Yahua had already stopped using her chopsticks. She chewed the noodles in her mouth a few times and swallowed them quickly.
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