Chapter 51

Since we are going to do a "business", we must do it seriously.

Tang Bai lit some scented candles, took off her clothes in the flickering candlelight and soft music, lay in the bathtub and sprinkled rose petals on herself, closed her eyes comfortably and thought about what to wear for her first date with Xiao Cheng tomorrow, and where to take Xiao Cheng for dinner.

Tong Meng said that the candlelight dinner at a restaurant under the sea is particularly romantic. After dinner, you can go to listen to a musical. The pink flower garden is especially suitable for taking photos...

On the other side, Xie Ruheng roughly took off his clothes, stood under the shower and closed his eyes to take a cold shower. Water droplets dripped from his high brows onto his thick eyelashes. His sexy thin lips were tightly pursed. Xie Ruheng was desperately thinking about how to ruin the meeting with Tang Bai tomorrow.

After this incident, it’s time to throw away the pseudonym.

Therefore, Xiao Cheng's identity must not leave Tang Bai with too many beautiful memories. Otherwise, after Xiao Cheng disappears from the world, what will Tang Bai do if Xiao Cheng lives in his increasingly beautiful memories?

I must screw it up and make Tang Bai cry! I must let Tang Bai know that the wild alpha on the street can never compare to Xie Ruheng!

After Tang Bai came out of the shower, he carefully applied a hair mask, facial mask, lip mask, and glandular mask to himself. Then he walked into the cloakroom and was at a loss for what to choose from the beautiful clothes that filled the room.

Should I dress up more elegantly or more like a youth campus drama?

Xie Ruheng dug out two slightly old clothes from a pile of tofu blocks, wondering whether he should choose the classic A-line plaid shirt or the summer limited edition white old man vest.

In the same time and space, both of them were stuck in clothing choice.

The next afternoon.

A pitch-black antique motorcycle rushed past the suspended car like a hurricane. The completely different exhaust sound made passers-by subconsciously raise their heads and look in the direction of the sound wave, only to see the flash of black paint reflecting the dazzling sunlight.

"What is that?"

"It's already the year 206, and there are still people riding motorcycles?!"

“Noise pollution is terrible.”

"Fuck, how come it's still a bit cool?"

Tang Bai appeared at the gate of the Etiquette College with a radiant look. He wore pearl sunglasses and held a lace parasol like a little lady. He stood at the school gate gracefully and dignifiedly with a lovely and sweet smile on his lips.

Just then, he heard a loud roar.

Tang Bai was stunned for a moment when he saw an antique motorcycle that only existed in the history of the evolution of transportation parked in front of the busy school gate.

A pair of long legs fell cleanly from the paint-chipped motorcycle, and the motorcycle helmet was removed by black gloves. The tall alpha shook his head, a strand of black hair crossed his brow bone, revealing dark eyes filled with coldness. Looking down, the white vest could not hide his inverted triangle figure at all.

Tang Bai pulled down his sunglasses and stared at the alpha walking towards him with wide eyes.

This alpha seemed extremely carefree in every move he made, with a temperament that was a perfect blend of elegance and ruffianism, instantly reminding people of the life of exile, a world of adventure that Tang Bai had never been exposed to.

Xie Ruheng raised his eyebrows slightly.

You must be shocked.

Have you ever seen such an unkempt and poor alpha?

Xie Ruheng did not walk towards Tang Bai politely as he usually did. His posture revealed a hint of laziness, whether it was the helmet tucked under his elbow or his eyes slightly closed as if he had not woken up yet. This was his truest appearance -

There was arrogance in his eyes and eyebrows, and the drooping corners of his lips revealed hostility.

How could a peasant who had crawled out of the slums and fought for his life in the underground arena behave like a nobleman all the time?

But in the past, for Tang Bai's sake, he always restrained himself and was polite when interacting with Tang Bai.

This time, Xie Ruheng didn't even say hello, but directly extended his hand to the stunned Tang Bai——

Give me the talisman.

Then he saw the little omega in front of him blinking, as if after a fierce psychological struggle, and finally put her white and tender little hand in his palm with some embarrassment, and asked softly: "Are we going for a ride on the motorcycle?"

Xie Ruheng: “???”

Tang Bai blushed and said, "You should have told me earlier, then I could have worn the pink bunny helmet."

Xie Ruheng: “???”

Tang Bai tapped Xie Ruheng's broad palm with his fingertips, "Let's go, I've already booked a table at Xinghai Restaurant. I want to treat my savior to a big meal today, you are not allowed to refuse me~"

Xie Ruheng: “???”

When a more outrageous request is made, people will naturally accept the previous one. Xie Ruheng, who originally wanted to refuse the offer of riding a motorcycle, said in bewilderment, "Xinghai Restaurant?"

Tang Bai nodded sweetly. He opened the restaurant picture in the computer and showed it to Xie Ruheng: "Dream Star Sea Restaurant! Isn't it super beautiful? We can sit on the moon boat and see the marine life in all directions in the 100-meter-long ocean tunnel..."

Xie Ruheng's mind flashed with his Ma Jia and Tang Bai cuddling each other on the crystal clear moon boat, with the little creatures in the dark blue sea silently witnessing their sweet time. Such a romantic thing, of course...

no!!!

If I have to go, I’d rather go with the real person!

Seeing Tang Bai's high interest, Xie Ruheng hardened his heart and interrupted him ruthlessly: "No."

Tang Bai looked up in confusion, his big watery eyes showing a hint of loss. He said softly, "Then... where are we going to eat?"

Xie Ruheng: “…” Why do we have to have dinner together if we just come to get a talisman…wait!

With a flash of inspiration, Xie Ruheng suddenly came up with a brilliant idea to make Tang Bai hate him.

"Let's eat at a roadside stall."

"Huh?"

The rumbling motorcycle did a beautiful drift and stopped at a market. Tang Bai almost stuck to Xie Ruheng's back due to inertia. Fortunately, he tried to control the distance while sitting on the back seat.

"This is a snack street." Xie Ruheng helped Tang Bai and took Tang Bai out of the car.

Tang Bai looked around curiously. He saw the food stalls on both sides of the street that gave off a smoky smell. He didn't know if those stalls had hygiene certificates. Tang Bai heard from the cooking class teacher that these stalls were frequented by a lot of rats and flies, the oil was reused, and the ingredients were not clean.

"Have you eaten anything here?" Xie Ruheng asked.

Tang Bai shook his head obediently. He followed behind Xie Ruheng and saw one diner after another passing by them and heading towards different stalls.

Some people would look back at Tang Bai with surprise. After all, Tang Bai, dressed so exquisitely, didn't look like someone who should appear here.

"Some of the stalls here are very dirty, but the one I'm taking you to is clean." After walking a few steps, Xie Ruheng stood in front of a stall in a good mood and said coldly: "Boss, give me the stir-fried rabbit meat for fifty star coins!"

That's right!

Xie Ruheng's idea was to bring Tang Bai to eat rabbit meat! Tang Bai loved rabbits so much that even his mecha was designed to look like a rabbit. If he brought Tang Bai to eat rabbit, it would definitely be a big blow to Tang Bai's fragile heart!

It was too cruel, really too cruel, so cruel that Xie Ruheng couldn't bear to look back at Tang Bai's expression.

Xie Ruheng turned his head and saw Tang Bai's tears...

It flowed out from the corners of his mouth.

Xie Ruheng: “???”

Tang Bai took a deep breath and looked brightly at the diners at the next table who were eating a full pot of spicy rabbit meat. With his cooking skills, he only needed to look and smell it to know how delicious the rabbit meat was.

Oh my god! Rabbits are so cute, how can we not eat them? !

Tang Bai sat at the greasy wooden table with a look of longing, and was so engrossed that he ignored the "terrible" dining environment.

Xie Ruheng: "...Don't you think it's cruel to eat a cute rabbit?"

Tang Bai tilted his head, "Are pigs not lovable? Are lambs not lovable? Are ducks not lovable? Whether an animal is lovable or not is not the criterion for judging whether it can be served on the table. What is important is whether it tastes good!"

Xie Ruheng: “…Yeah.”

Soon a plate of fragrant rabbit meat was served. The roasted rabbit meat was golden brown, topped with black bean oil and crushed peanuts, giving off a crispy and fragrant aroma.

Tang Bai picked up a piece of rabbit meat and couldn't wait to take a bite. The smooth and tender rabbit meat was fresh and not fishy, ​​and very chewy. The fragrance lingered between the teeth after eating a piece.

"It's so delicious!" Tang Bai took another piece in surprise.

Xie Ruheng: “…”

Xie Ruheng held his forehead in pain and covered his eyes with his hands.

After eating the rabbit meat, Tang Bai seemed to have already blended into the atmosphere of the roadside stall. He happily carried a bowl of cold noodles and ate while walking. Xie Ruheng carried the grilled sausages, octopus balls, and pancakes that Tang Bai was going to eat later...

Staring at Tang Bai's bulging cheeks calmly, Xie Ruheng couldn't help but ponder the mysterious question of why Tang Bai could be so thin despite eating so much.

"You're helping me to hold it, but I don't have any hands to eat it." Tang Bai picked up an octopus ball and placed it close to Xie Ruheng's mouth, "Eat one~"

Xie Ruheng was stunned for a moment, then he opened his mouth and took a bite of the octopus ball. He then heard Tang Bai say with a smile, "It's not bad to eat street food once in a while, although our teacher always says that street food is unhygienic and not difficult to cook, and it's not worthy of being served in a formal restaurant."

"But today I feel that it is full of vitality and fluidity. There is no distinction between high and low in food. This is true not only for food, but for everything. When I have free time in the future, maybe I can also set up a roadside stall."

Tang Bai stopped walking and looked up at Xie Ruheng with a smile, "Please come and visit my stall when the time comes. I guarantee it will be the cleanest!"

At that time, a streak of firework bloomed in the dark sky, illuminating Tang Bai's amber eyes. When their eyes met, the noisy environment around them seemed to stop for a moment, along with the fireworks blooming brightly in the sky.

Xie Ruheng saw a barely perceptible uneasiness emerge on that always bright and confident smiling face. When he nodded, the pretty little omega turned away to look at the fireworks with a little discomfort, saying "the fireworks are so beautiful" while trying hard not to curl up the corners of her lips.

Xie Ruheng was stunned for a moment, then raised his head to look at the fireworks above his head.

yes......

How come he hadn't realized before that fireworks displays could be so beautiful...

The two stood side by side, looking up at the same sky.

After the fireworks were over, Xie Ruheng heard Tang Bai ask softly, "Do you want to go see the musical?"

For a moment, Xie Ruheng wanted to nod.

He and Tang Bai sat in the audience. Tang Bai was concentrating on watching the performance on the stage, while he could quietly look at Tang Bai's profile.

"......No." I can't let you and I leave behind fond memories of the vests we are about to discard.

Tang Bai was not disappointed by the rejection this time. He looked at Xie Ruheng trustfully and asked, "So what are we going to do?"

Xie Ruheng hesitated for a moment, "...watch the square dance?"

"Huh?"

Dynamic music sounded loudly in a square, and the middle-aged and elderly people in the square danced to the rhythm of the music, well-trained and in unison.

Xie Ruheng stood expressionlessly in the corner watching the uncles and aunts stretching their muscles. This disturbing and low-tech activity should have made Tang Bai realize that "Xiao Cheng" was just a vulgar person without high tastes.

Unable to enjoy musicals.

I only know the basic dance steps that Tang Bai taught me temporarily.

They should be people from two different worlds.

"Look, there's a little baby dancing over there!" Tang Bai pointed at a child dancing with an adult and said excitedly, "He has the right rhythm! He's so cute!"

Xie Ruheng looked in the direction Tang Bai pointed, and sure enough, he saw a child of about four or five years old dancing stupidly.

"Hey, this move is quite cute." Tang Bai suddenly added: "That move is so stylish, hahahaha."

Xie Ruheng suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He turned around and saw Tang Bai said happily: "Why don't we go dance too!"

Xie Ruheng: “???????”

Tang Bai dragged the confused Xie Ruheng and skipped into the square dance team. He had a good sense of rhythm and started dancing to the music. He soon received thumbs-up from the uncles and aunts around him.

Tang Bai and Shangye praised each other and gave each other a thumbs up, dancing and laughing. They turned around and saw Xie Ruheng standing still, so Tang Bai simply took Xie Ruheng's hand and started dancing.

"Don't you think this feels great?!" Tang Bai had to speak very loudly so as not to be drowned out by the music. Xie Ruheng turned around and looked at the energetic Tang Bai, "We don't know each other, but we are brought together by music, we are all dancing the same dance, each of us is very happy, and then we are all surrounded by happiness!"

Is happiness contagious?

Why did his heart become soft when he saw Tang Bai smiling so happily?

Tang Bai failed to lead Xie Ruheng. He looked at Xie Ruheng, who was as motionless as a piece of wood, and was caught off guard by those dark eyes.

Silent and boiling, like a night sky filled with stars.

Tang Baixin shuddered, and he wanted to let go of the alpha's hand, but the next moment, the other person's hand held his back.

The gloves had been taken off, and without any barrier, their skin was pressed tightly together.

“You dance very well.”

In the dim light, Xie Ruheng saw a blush quickly appearing on Tang Bai's face. The blush spread from his cheeks to his ears and seemed to be dyeing his fingertips red.

He lowered his eyes and looked at the hand that was tightly clasped with Tang Bai. Afraid that Tang Bai would recognize his true identity, he had already used a short-acting scar-removing ointment on his hand. At this moment, his hand completely wrapped around Tang Bai's soft hand.

Obviously, they had done many intimate things in the previous etiquette teaching, and each of them was much more intimate than a simple handshake.

But why, at that time, Tang Bai never blushed like this, and the atmosphere between them had never been as charming as it was at this moment?

——"Have you ever thought that Tang Bai doesn't like either of them?"

——"He and Xie Ruheng are good friends with similar interests. Sending lunch boxes as imitation makeup is a normal interaction between close friends."

......

——"Hello, classmate Xie. My name is Tang Bai. I am a freshman in the culinary department of the etiquette college next door. I know you don't know me, but I admire you very much."

It turns out that for many things, you can really understand them more clearly if you think about them from a different perspective.

Why don't you want to fall in love with him? Why do you always treat him well? Why do you let him work hard on his career?

Because what Tang Bai said at the beginning was not love, but admiration.

But...

I don't want your admiration, I want your love.

Xie Ruheng trembled and let go of his hand.

"Are we going back?" Tang Bai hid the hand that he had held tightly behind his body and looked at him with shining eyes.

"Um."

Xie Ruheng put on a helmet, burying his emotions under layer after layer of barriers. The summer breeze at night was a little cold, but the alpha's back was broad and could block all the cold wind.

Tang Bai sat behind Xie Ruheng, opened his arms and felt the refreshing summer breeze. At that moment he felt like a carefree bird that had flown out of a cage.

No one spoke.

The stars in the night sky are twinkling and blinking.

Then, Xie Ruheng suddenly felt a warm touch on his back. He was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and found that a pair of hands were gently around his waist.

The noisy sound of motorcycles suddenly faded away and became silent.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

Only the sound of his heartbeat remained.

All that remains is the author's voice asking for nutrient solution——

Good! Want! Nutrition! Fluid!

It’s you!!!