Qin Chen slept until almost noon. He hadn't slept so well in a long time.
The aunt he hired was cooking in the kitchen. His life seemed to have returned to the time before he reunited with Lin Sui. Of course, he was not as rich as before, but he also liked his current life very much. The hot pot restaurant business was booming, and he felt that his life had a purpose again.
Auntie prepared one meat dish and one vegetable dish in the morning, and also cooked rice porridge. After Qin Chen finished eating, it was already afternoon. He planned to go to the store to check on the business, and then look for the address of the new store.
No one knew that the gears of fate had quietly started turning again.
Qin Chen arrived at the restaurant at 3pm. There weren't many diners at this time, only a few tables near the bed. Qin Chen first chatted with the store manager and held a small meeting with all the waiters. Just as he was about to leave, someone came to the front desk to settle the bill.
He turned his head and met the man's eyes. He never expected that it would be Fang Zhiyou.
"Qin Chen? Why are you here?" Fang Zhiyou was a little surprised.
"This is the shop I opened." Qin Chen smiled and said to the store manager, "Give them a free meal."
The girls standing behind Fang Zhiyou, probably her colleagues, were a little surprised and said no, saying they were splitting the bill anyway. Qin Chen smiled and said, "It's okay. Youyou and I are friends, and a meal isn't expensive. Everyone is welcome to come and support me in the future."
This one sentence made Fang Zhiyou earn enough face, and her vanity was greatly satisfied. The colleagues all left first, tactfully, leaving Fang Zhiyou alone to reminisce with Qin Chen.
"How did you come up with the idea of opening a hot pot restaurant?" Fang Zhiyou looked around the restaurant and thought it was really good. This restaurant was very famous, and she had heard about it a long time ago. So everyone wanted to try it during the dinner, but unexpectedly they met Qin Chen.
"The company went bankrupt, so I had to find something to do, so I thought of the catering industry. I'm lucky, and this store is doing quite well." Qin Chen smiled and spoke very humbly.
"What about Lin Sui? Are you married?" Fang Zhiyou asked with a smile, as if he didn't care about what happened in the past at all.
"We broke up again." Qin Chen said with a wry smile.
"How could it be?" Fang Zhiyou widened her eyes and covered her mouth. She really didn't expect it.
"Maybe we are just not suitable for each other, so even if we are together again and again, we will eventually separate." Qin Chen did not explain too much.
"You paid a heavy price to be with her." Fang Zhiyou sighed, "but in the end, it was all in vain. I don't know whether to cry or laugh."
"You should laugh. After all, I hurt you so much for her, and now I'm getting my retribution." Qin Chen shrugged and joked.
"Yeah, I'll go home and have some champagne tonight to celebrate." Fang Zhiyou said playfully.
It was very strange. Qin Chen thought that meeting Fang Zhiyou again would be an unpleasant situation, but he never expected that the two of them could still sit together and chat and laugh.
Wan Qing stood in the corner, squinting her eyes as she looked at Fang Zhiyou. Although she didn't know who that person was, her natural female intuition told her that this person must be her rival in love, and a strong one at that.
Qin Chen and Fang Zhiyou chatted for two hours. Like old friends, they reported their recent situation to each other.
"You have no idea how annoyed I am. A male student actually confessed his love to me. I was scared to death." Fang Zhiyou said coquettishly.
"Isn't this a good thing? It means you are charming enough." Qin Chen smiled.
"What good news? This will affect my promotion. Ever since a male student confessed his love to me, you don't know, my work attire has changed. I used to wear very beautiful clothes, but now I wear whatever I want. I even want to snatch my mother's clothes and wear them.
"It's only on my days off that I can wear my own nice clothes. On weekdays, I dress like an old lady at work. Even funnier is when I went grocery shopping with my mom after work one day, and someone actually asked my mom if I was her sister. Isn't that infuriating?" Fang Zhiyou said, then laughed to himself.
Qin Chen also laughed uncontrollably. Their eyes met, a flash of electricity passed through them, and they tacitly moved away.
"I won't disturb you from doing business. I have to go home. My mother is waiting for me for dinner. I came here to have lunch, but we ended up chatting until the evening. If I don't go home soon, my mother will be worried." Fang Zhiyou stood up and said.
"Let me take you there." Qin Chen also stood up.
"Okay, I'm not driving either." Fang Zhiyou's graceful and elegant demeanor made Qin Chen feel dazed, as if she was like this when he and Fang Zhiyou first met, generous, decent, lively and bright. Later, he didn't know if it was because of him, but after being with him, she became more and more stingy, suspicious, sensitive and irritable.
It seems that when he was with Fang Zhiyou, he was not a good lover. Qin Chen sighed in his heart. He thought that he had lived for 27 years and had only had two relationships, and each relationship ended in failure. Does this also mean that there is something wrong with him?
Seeing Qin Chen's car, Fang Zhiyou was surprised, "Well, why did you change the car?"
"That car has been sold. Now I'm not a successful person. At most, I'm a small boss. Naturally, the car I drive has to fit the persona of a small boss." Qin Chen joked and opened the passenger door for Fang Zhiyou.
"Thank you, young boss." Fang Zhiyou teased Qin Chen.
The car squeezed into the evening rush hour traffic. The two people sitting in the car were not awkward at all, and they started talking one after another.
"How about it? Have you found a better man after leaving me?" Qin Chen asked Fang Zhiyou jokingly.
"There are quite a few people chasing me, but none of them are to my liking. My mom also arranged a few blind dates for me. Oh my god, I didn't know until I went on blind dates, but I was shocked. As soon as I saw those guys, I didn't know what my mom thought of me. Each one was uglier than the other! Each one was shorter than the other! If I married them, I might as well die."
"Is it that exaggerated?" Qin Chen laughed to death.
"Really? One time, my mom told me the guy she introduced me to was incredibly rich, and that marrying him would ensure a comfortable life. So I went with such confidence. But, oh my god, you couldn't even tell what he looked like. He looked like a frog standing up! At the time, I thought, 'Oh, I don't think I care about money that much.' Life is pretty good now."
"Hahahaha, stop talking. I can't even drive because of laughing." Qin Chen was laughing so hard that his whole body was shaking.
Fang Zhiyou saw that Qin Chen was laughing so hard that he started laughing too.
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