Chapter 158 Tonight we're having pickled fish
This restaurant serves very hearty dishes. A large plate of flavorful eggplant, a refreshing cucumber salad, and a big bowl of sauerkraut fish are all served in generous portions and taste delicious.
Ye Qingning picked up her chopsticks: "You're welcome."
Tan Shaosen smiled and said, "Eat up."
He took off his suit jacket, carefully folded it to one side, and rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt, revealing a section of his forearm.
As Ye Qingning picked up her chopsticks to eat, her gaze inadvertently fell on his arm, where she noticed a slightly menacing scar.
"What happened to your arm?" Ye Qingning asked casually.
Tan Shaosen gave her a deep look, still smiling: "You forgot? I fought for you. That was the only time I ever fought in my life."
Ye Qingning was taken aback: "Because of me?"
Tan Shaosen nodded and very naturally used the serving chopsticks to pick up a piece of tender fish for her: "It's okay if you don't remember. I didn't fight for you so that you would remember."
After a moment of silence, he said in a deep voice, "These are my medals of honor."
Ye Qingning paused in her eating, realizing something was off about what she was saying!
Suddenly, her phone chimed. Ye Qingning wiped her hands with a tissue and took out her phone. It was a message from Lin Feiyan: "What are you doing?"
Ye Qingning's lips curled up unconsciously: "Let's eat out."
"With whom?" the man asked again.
"An old classmate."
"How come I didn't know you had classmates in this city?"
Ye Qingning pursed her lips: "I just found out too."
After a moment of silence, the man sent another message: "Invite me over for dinner sometime, after all, I'm your friend."
"There's no need. She's just an old classmate. If you want to treat, please treat Jian Yan; she's my friend," Ye Qingning replied.
She was constantly trying to find ways to connect Jian Yan and Lin Feiyan.
Lin Feiyan's gaze remained icy in the office, but a slight smile played on his lips: "Okay. Eat up, and go home early."
"OK."
After replying to the message, Ye Qingning put her phone away and explained to Tan Shaosen with a smile, "It was a message from my husband asking if I had eaten lunch."
Tan Shaosen's chopsticks fell to the ground with a clatter. He hurriedly bent down to pick them up, and when he looked up at her, there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes: "You're married?"
Ye Qingning nodded: "Yes."
Tan Shaosen's smile was a little stiff as he held his chopsticks and asked her, "Is he good to you?"
Ye Qingning recalled the scenes of her time with Lin Feiyan and nodded, "Okay."
"That's good." After a while, Tan Shaosen finally found his voice: "Eat, eat it while it's hot."
Although Tan Shaosen continued to chat and laugh during the next meal, Ye Qingning keenly sensed the lingering disappointment and sadness in his eyes.
Ye Qingning searched through the original owner's memories for a long time, but still couldn't find many memories about Tan Shaosen.
Tan Shaosen was probably just an ordinary classmate to her.
Even though he had fought and been injured for her...
After the meal, the two came out of the restaurant. Ye Qingning saw that he was taking great care of his suit jacket. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the brand; it probably cost several thousand yuan for a set.
It's not even a fraction of the price of Lin Feiyan's suit.
But this is what ordinary people's lives are like, isn't it?
Passing by a milk tea shop, Ye Qingning bought two cups of milk tea and handed one to Tan Shaosen: "Thank you for being hurt for me when we were young. I hope your future will be full of sunshine and that you can move forward without hesitation!"
Tan Shaosen smiled, though the smile didn't reach his eyes, but his mood had eased somewhat. He clinked his milk tea cup against Ye Qingning's: "Thank you, you too."
The two exchanged contact information at the entrance of the food street. Tan Shaosen then saw Ye Qingning into a taxi before returning to his law firm.
His preoccupied look remained with him all the way to the law firm. When he saw his teacher, he greeted him and, as usual, helped him tidy up his desk. He inadvertently noticed the three words "Ye Qingning" on a scrap of paper.
He took it and glanced at it, only to find that it was a divorce agreement.
Seeing that his expression was off, the teacher explained, "You're here to consult about divorce matters, what's wrong?"
Tan Shaosen put the file into a file folder and simply explained, "It's nothing, just my classmate. What's her situation?"
"Your classmate?" The teacher glanced at him. "Nothing special, just a regular divorce, no litigation involved."
Tan Shaosen nodded, a glimmer of hope rekindling in his eyes.
...
After returning to the house, Ye Qingning took a nap, then got up and checked on the flowers from yesterday to see how they were blooming. After that, she sat in the living room and read a book.
The aroma of dinner wafted from the kitchen, and it was already evening.
Smelling the familiar aroma, Ye Qingning entered the kitchen: "Aunt Qin, what delicious food are you making?"
"Pickled cabbage and fish," Aunt Qin replied with a smile. "Mr. Lin specially ordered this dish, saying he'll be having it for dinner for the next few days."
Ye Qingning's heart skipped a beat.
She had just eaten pickled fish with Tan Shaosen at noon today, so why did the man order this dish and specifically ask her to eat it for the next few days?
This is not his eating style at all!
Could it be that he knows where she was today? He even knows that she ate sauerkraut fish with Tan Shaosen?
No wonder this man, who rarely asks many questions, sent her so many trivial questions while she was eating today...
Ye Qingning suddenly felt a little scared.
She tried hard to recall the original plot and realized that the male lead seemed to know everything about the original owner's antics.
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