Hearing Ye Yifan's words, the man opened his mouth and stammered out a few words after a long while: "You are, you are not... you are Ye Lao's man?"
Ye Yifan snorted coldly: "Remember, there are always people better than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding." After saying that, he said to Hua Kai: "Let's go inside, it's cold outside."
Although Hua Kai knew this guy was capable, she didn't expect him to be of such high status.
She quickly followed Ye Yifan into the restaurant, feeling her back straighten more. She had found a great backer; it seemed she was lucky to have been given a second chance at life.
Standing at the restaurant entrance, Lu Xue looked at her uncle and asked, "Uncle, who is he? Why is he so arrogant?"
The man sighed, "Xue, don't offend that girl again. You can't afford to. Your uncle might lose his job because of you."
Lu Xue's face turned pale. Her uncle was the support of their entire family, and her arrogance was all because of him, and he doted on her.
She was terrified and wilted, because if it weren't for her uncle's doting love for her, he probably would have wanted to beat her by now.
In the restaurant, Ye Yifan asked for a quiet seat by the window, then gentlemanly pulled out a chair for Hua Kai. After Hua Kai sat down, he sat down opposite her.
The waiter brought over the menu, and Ye Yifan looked at Hua Kai: "Do you want to order, or should I order?"
Hua Kai knew that Ye Yifan was worried that she had never eaten Western food before and would feel awkward ordering, so he asked her that question.
She wasn't familiar with the food available at this time of year, so she said to Ye Yifan, "You order."
Ye Yifan took the menu, ordered foie gras as an appetizer, vegetable soup for the soup of the day, seafood as a side dish, steak as the main course, and finally salad and dessert.
Then he looked at Hua Kai and asked, "Would you like some red wine?"
In her previous life, Hua Kai had a high alcohol tolerance and a habit of drinking a glass of red wine before bed. She hadn't had any in a while and was missing it, so she quickly nodded and said, "I can drink a little."
Ye Yifan ordered another bottle of red wine.
After the waiter left, Hua Kai looked at Ye Yifan, sizing him up.
Ye Yifan touched his face: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with me?"
Hua Kai quickly shook her head: "You're perfect in every way, too outstanding. What kind of woman do you think will be worthy of you in the future?" Speaking of this, Hua Kai felt a strange tightness in her chest.
Ye Yifan frowned as he listened: "You're still young. Let's talk about this when you're an adult."
Hua Kai disagrees with this statement: "If minors can date, I'll be able to get an ID card next year. Does that mean I can't even gossip about the love lives of adults?"
Ye Yifan avoided Hua Kai's gaze: "I'm still young, no rush, I'll focus on my career first."
Hua Kai thought for a moment and said, "That's true. Someone as outstanding as you must have many ideals in your heart. But don't worry, you have good judgment. Trust me, I will make you extremely successful in your career."
"I believe that." Ye Yifan truly trusted Hua Kai, not just because he liked her, but because he knew she was indeed talented and capable.
After talking for a while, Hua Kai also brought up Li Jing's matter. She had been busy with factory matters and hadn't had time to talk about this.
She asked Ye Yifan, "Are you free tomorrow morning?"
Ye Yifan replied directly, "It's nothing."
Hua Kai continued, "Then I have a favor to ask of you, it's quite important."
"Tell me, as long as it's within my power," Ye Yifan said without hesitation.
"Captain Ye, you're so kind. It's like this, my friend Li Jing, from our village, her sister-in-law wants her to marry off to a cousin from her maternal family. She's been using threats and inducements to force the marriage. So I told her sister-in-law that I'd partner with her to open a factory, and that I'd bring Li Jing to the city to develop her career. My original intention was to use Li Jing's earnings to entice her sister-in-law, but she didn't believe I could open a factory with her. I made a bet with her: if I brought you with evidence proving we were going to open a factory and could get Li Jing a job in the city, she wouldn't interfere with Li Jing's marriage anymore..." At this point, Hua Kai looked at Ye Yifan, who was listening intently, and asked, "Do you understand?"
Ye Yifan nodded and said, "I understand. Anyway, we're free tomorrow, so let's go back and visit your place."
Hua Kai couldn't stop smiling when she heard Ye Yifan agree so readily: "Captain Ye, you're so kind of you, you don't mind that I'm a lot of trouble."
Seeing the flowers bloom made Ye Yifan happy, and his mood naturally improved: "You're a loyal person, of course I'll help you."
At this point, the waiter started serving the food, and the two stopped talking about that and started chatting about the restaurant's ambiance and other things.
Soon all the dishes were served, and the wine had decanted. The waiter poured them some wine, and the two began to eat.
Some habits are really hard to break. Hua Kai kept pretending to be a little clumsy with the knife and fork, pretending to watch Ye Yifan's movements and learn to eat by imitating him. But when she picked up the wine glass, she forgot to hide it. She naturally held the stem of the glass, tilted the glass to look at the color of the wine, and then swirled the glass slightly.
This set of practiced movements stunned Ye Yifan on the other side. Although he knew that Hua Kai had many secrets and knew that she knew a lot of things, judging from Hua Kai's gesture, she was definitely a person who often drank red wine.
Hua Kai looked into Ye Yifan's eyes and realized her mistake. She wanted to explain that she learned it from a book, but felt that it was a weak explanation.
She simply stopped pretending: "If I can one day, I will tell you my secret, but I can't tell you now."
Ye Yifan smiled upon hearing Hua Kai's honest words: "Yes, I'll wait until the day you're willing to tell me."
To cover her embarrassment, Hua Kai took a sip of wine.
Ye Yifan also took a sip.
Afterwards, the two talked about the factory again, and drank two more glasses of wine as they talked.
Hua Kai felt her face getting hotter and hotter, and her head started to spin, but her mood was getting better and better.
She looked at Ye Yifan and said, "You're so handsome. I love looking at you. It makes me happy."
Ye Yifan blushed a little at Hua Kai's sudden words. He was initially happy, but then he looked at Hua Kai across from him, drinking and scratching his collar: "Why am I so hot?"
Ye Yifan only then realized that this girl was drunk, but she hadn't drunk that much. Given her skillful drinking habits, her alcohol tolerance shouldn't be this high.
Of course, Hua Kai herself never expected that she would get drunk after drinking so little. In her previous life, she had the reputation of being able to drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. However, she overlooked the fact that while she could control other things with her mind, her ability to drink alcohol was the original owner's physical ability. The original owner had no alcohol tolerance and had never practiced drinking, so how could she not get drunk?
She became increasingly dizzy and eventually fell asleep with her hands resting on the table.
Ye Yifan called the waiter to pay the bill, then took off his coat, draped it over Hua Kai, picked her up, carried her out of the restaurant, placed her in the passenger seat, fastened her seatbelt, and drove her back to her rented apartment.
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