Hui Jin was caught off guard by Xia Che’s sudden apology, and even forgot that she should have turned around and run away right then.
Xia Che straightened up and said seriously:
“As an apology, I’d like to invite you out for an afternoon, or maybe dinner… I hope Miss Hui Jin can give me this chance to apologize.”
Playing that game!
The thought of running away rose in Hui Jin again, but then she thought, running away… run where?
Back to that home where she was all alone?
Back to that empty home without An Wan, and without Xiao Chi.
The girl suddenly felt a little cold.
She really had been abandoned by everyone…
The light in her eyes gradually faded, and the chill in her heart grew more and more obvious.
Offset value–
“Hui Jin, as a hero, balancing work and rest is also very important.”
Xia Che’s words interrupted her wild thoughts.
The girl looked up in a daze and saw the young man smiling at her in the afternoon sunlight:
“So, if you ask me, rest is part of the job too! How does that saying go? Money earned while slacking off at work is the money that truly belongs to you!”
Hui Jin felt the sunlight was a bit glaring.
But thanks to the sunlight, she didn’t feel as cold.
The girl’s lips curved slightly, but she quickly pouted and said quietly:
“…What kind of twisted logic is that.”
“In summary, could I ask Miss Hui Jin to do me this honor?”
Xia Che spoke in the tone of a hotel lobby manager, and didn’t forget to make a “please” gesture.
“Since you put it that way…”
Hui Jin tried hard to put on a sour face, but the corners of her mouth still couldn’t help revealing a smile:
“Then you’d better be mentally prepared, okay? I’m going to boss you around hard. If I’m even slightly dissatisfied, I’ll leave!”
“At your command, Miss Hui Jin. Today I am your servant for the day.”
“I’ll also squander your money, you know? Are you ready with the cash?”
“Don’t worry, there’s plenty of money.”
Xia Che noticed that the girl’s mood had visibly improved a little.
“Then what are you standing around for? On a date, isn’t the guy supposed to plan the itinerary?”
Hui Jin plopped back onto the bar stool, crossed her legs, and absentmindedly took a sip of beer, which was so bitter that her little face scrunched up like a soup dumpling.
“Date?”
“Mmph…!”
She hadn’t noticed, and said it without thinking!
And so the soup dumpling turned into a red-hot soup dumpling.
“That was a metaphor, a metaphor!”
Looking at the cute girl whose face was flushed red and who was so embarrassed she wished she could burrow into the ground, Xia Che smiled and opened his phone, starting to plan the afternoon’s itinerary.
He decided not to investigate Hui Jin’s identity anymore.
For today only, in his eyes, Hui Jin was just an ordinary girl.
“Could you not smile so creepily, Uncle Xia Che? It’s gross.”
It would be even better if this cute girl’s mouth weren’t so poisonous.
After a while, Xia Che held up his phone and waved it at Hui Jin:
“All right, let’s head out!”
“Where to?”
“That’s a secret for now.”
The young man made a hush gesture, went to the cooler, took out a bottle of orange soda, and handed it to Hui Jin:
“Here.”
Hui Jin stared at the still-bubbling soda for a while, then reluctantly took it.
The last time she drank soda was back in college.
So many years had passed without her realizing it…
After he started working, he suddenly felt that soda was a little too sweet, and gradually lost the habit of having an ice-cold cola on a hot day.
Not to mention this kind of orange soda.
Its target audience is little kids in the first place, so it’s definitely super sweet.
She definitely wouldn’t like it!
But since Xia Che gave it to her, she still planned to take a small sip and then throw it away.
The girl put her small mouth to the bottle opening and took a tiny sip.
See? It really is too sweet… Huh? It’s sweet…
Hui Jin looked at the bubbling orange juice, stuck out her little tongue to lick her glistening pink lips, and secretly took another sip.
It seems… it’s a little tasty?
The girl drank sip after sip, and before long, half of the 350ml bottle of soda was gone.
Xia Che watched from the side, always feeling that the girl who sipped her soda in small mouthfuls, occasionally showed a satisfied expression, and even swung her little feet along with it, was very much like some kind of cute small animal.
Hmm… that’s not right.
The girl herself is a very cute small animal!
By the way, even her taste is the same as Xiao Chi’s…
Thinking this, Xia Che took another bottle of orange soda.
When he returned to Hui Jin’s side, the soda in her hand was already only a quarter left.
Looking at the table full of liquor cans and the girl curled up on the chair, sipping her soda in small mouthfuls, he walked over and pressed the cold soda bottle against the back of her neck.
“Meow!”
The girl cried out in surprise and nearly flew from the chair onto the table.
She whipped her head around and glared fiercely at Xia Che:
“What are you doing!”
Xia Che nodded as if he had confirmed something.
Sure enough, even a fierce Hui Jin was cute, and even her cry was…
So the girl’s species is a kitten?
What breed is a gray kitten?
“…Even though you’re not saying anything, my intuition tells me you’re thinking something very rude.”
The girl kicked Xia Che’s calf.
It didn’t hurt much, about the same as a massage.
If the one kicking him was Xiao Chi…
Before being kicked to death, should he say, “I, Xia Che, am willing to call you the strongest!”?
His mind was full of wild thoughts, and in reality he spouted nonsense.
Xia Che lied with his eyes wide open:
“No.”
Then he changed the subject at light speed:
“If you can’t drink alcohol, then don’t drink it. And I remember the age you filled in on your registration file was 17…”
“None of your business!”
While the two were playfully bickering, a black luxury sedan stopped at the entrance of the shop.
The lockdown had been lifted, and people on the street were gradually returning.
“Let’s go.”
Xia Che went to the front desk to pay, came to the back door, opened the car door for the girl, and made a “please” gesture:
“Please get in, Miss Hui Jin.”
Hui Jin gave him an annoyed glance and slipped into the back seat.
At this moment, the girl again seemed like a tsundere young lady from a game.
Along the way, the car drove very smoothly.
The girl quietly curled up in the back seat.
Sitting like this made her feel very safe.
To avoid dirtying the driver’s seat cushion, she deliberately placed a layer of magic protective film between her stockings and the seat cushion.
She looked out the car window and noticed that the tall buildings were gradually decreasing.
Yet the scenery felt somewhat familiar to her.
Only twenty minutes later, when the two stood on a brick-paved road and looked at the huge sign that read “Rain City Glory Amusement Park,” did she finally remember:
This was the amusement park Ye Qianqiu had once brought the young Ye Xiao Chi to.
Now it had completely changed.
“I heard that to attract more visitors, this amusement park was just renovated before the New Year. Not only did they launch a new theme park, they also collaborated with quite a few famous IPs.”
As if he knew what Hui Jin was thinking, Xia Che spoke up to explain.
“But…”
Hui Jin looked around, “There are way too many people!”
There were long lines at almost every ticket gate.
It could be seen that the people coming to have fun were basically families or couples.
“It is the weekend, after all. But it’s fine.”
Xia Che pulled two tickets out of his hand as if by magic:
“–I have fast passes!”
Hui Jin stared at the “SVIP” mark on the tickets and glanced suspiciously at Xia Che:
“I remember that from the time we met until now, you haven’t left my side for even a step, right? Where exactly did you get two fast passes? Don’t tell me this was premeditated?”
The girl narrowed her eyes slightly, giving off a somewhat dangerous air.
Could this guy be trying to hit on me?
Hmph… don’t even think about it.
She could never like men in this lifetime, and she would absolutely never betray An Wan.
As for Xia Che, he knew well that the girl’s narrowed eyes were equivalent to a cat’s hiss.
If he didn’t want to get hit, he’d better soothe her quickly.
So he hurriedly raised his hands and explained:
“No, I swear to heaven, this really was a coincidence! These two tickets were originally prepared for Xiao Chi. It’s almost her birthday, right? I wanted to give her a surprise.”
“Ah, is that so.”
For some reason, Xia Che felt the girl’s voice had grown even colder.