Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Jiang Lan packed up his things, took his younger brother with him, and went to have dinner with Ying Qiao.
He originally thought it was just a casual dinner date, but Ying Qiao drove them directly to a famous Internet celebrity music restaurant in the city center.
The music restaurant was famous for its environment and atmosphere, and its resident singer was also famous. It was one of the places where most of the Internet celebrities in Jiangcheng checked in. Many Internet celebrity bloggers liked to come here to check in, and it was usually difficult to reserve seats.
Jiang Lan was still a little confused when he got out of the car: “Why did we come all the way here?”
Probably because they usually made dinner appointments based on the principle of staying close to where they stayed, so they rarely ventured out of the Hanyang District. Today, it felt a bit weird to come all the way to the city center.
“Celebrating my salary increase.”
Ying Qiao’s casual excuse was very convincing. Jiang Lan’s doubts were instantly dispelled. He let out a “wow” and said congratulations.
“Won’t you ask how much the salary has gone up?” Ying Qiao raised his eyebrows.
Jiang Lan followed the good advice: “How much has it increased?”
“The basic salary has been increased to 5,000, and the year-end bonus has also been increased.” Ying Qiao recalled the employee salary list that he had signed before and compiled it without any flaws.
“That’s great.” Jiang Lan was very supportive, with a lively expression and sincere tone, and excellent acting skills: “The director told me at the meeting today that Xue Meng and I will both receive a bonus for helping solve the case.”
“Well, let’s have a drink and celebrate today.”
While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the front desk of the restaurant. Ying Qiao reported his mobile phone number. After the front desk lady confirmed the booth number, she looked back and forth between the two of them and added: “Today is the third wedding anniversary of our boss and couples who come to dine can get a 50% discount.”
Jiang Lan was stunned for a moment. Just as he was about to explain that they were just friends, Ying Qiao said first, “How do we participate in the event?”
The lady at the front desk showed an as expected expression, and her smile became more enthusiastic. She pointed to a wall in the restaurant full of photos: “Take a couple photo and hang it on our commemorative wall, and you can participate in the discount.”
The two of them looked over and saw that it was a very artistic photo wall with couple photos hanging on it. There were many heterosexual couples, but there were also many same-sex couples. The photo was taken with a Polaroid camera, and the color tone conveyed a sense of nostalgia that seemed to have been blessed by time.
Ying Qiao rarely spoke easily: “Then take a picture for us.”
After saying that, he approached Jiang Lan and said in a breathy voice: “Take a photo and get 50% off.”
Jiang Lan’s little embarrassment disappeared instantly.
If you take a group photo, you can get a 50% discount, which was really worthwhile.
The lady at the front desk took out the Polaroid camera, asked them to stand in front of the cherry blossom background wall, and took a group photo of them.
They didn’t pose too intimately. The two of them just stood side by side. Jiang Lan tilted his head slightly towards Ying Qiao, and Ying Qiao looked at him with his eyes lowered. Both of them had a faint smile on their lips. There was no explicit intimacy but were surrounded by unspeakable ambiguity.
“You two are a perfect match.” The receptionist showed the photo to them.
There were two photos, one would be hung on the memorial wall in the restaurant, and the other would be given to the customer as a souvenir.
“Thank you.” Ying Qiao took the photo calmly, showed it to Jiang Lan, and then put it into his wallet.
Jiang Lan was a little embarrassed. After all, this was his first time pretending to be a couple to get discounts, so he could only hide his guilt and embarrassment with a smile.
The lady at the front desk hung the photo on the commemorative wall, and the waiter led them to the booth.
Green plants and dried flowers were used as partitions between the booths, making it semi-enclosed. After Jiang Lan sat down, he quietly exhaled and muttered: “This is my first time doing such a thing.”
Ying Qiao laughed: “We are familiar with each other. Colleagues in our company often pretend to be lovers in order to get discounts. Many stores also know that, after all it is just to create an event to attract customers.”
“Is that so?” Jiang Lan was half-aware.
“Yeah.” Ying Qiao looked determined.
….
The environment and dishes of the music restaurant were both good, and Jiang Lan was satisfied with his meal. The two also drank a few bottles of fruit-flavored beer. The alcohol contained the sweetness of fruits, but the alcohol content was not high. The feeling of being slightly tipsy made people feel relaxed.
Even Suan Ni followed suit and tasted half a cup. At this time, he was holding Jiao Tu and slumped on the sofa with blurred eyes. His tail was hanging on the edge of the sofa, wagging here and there.
There was a singer singing folk songs on the stage, with a hoarse male voice and melodious guitar tunes, like a lover whispering.
Jiang Lan supported his chin with one hand, narrowed his beautiful eyes slightly, thought for a long time and said, “Humans are really a magical race, right?”
Perhaps it was because he had been living in a state of confusion for so long. Ever since he left the Dragon Palace and entered the human city, Jiang Lan particularly liked the quiet bustle. Bai Ze once said that his turning point would be among the human race. Jiang Lan was not sure whether he could find a turning point, but he really liked this prosperous city.
Ying Qiao stared at him, holding a can of peach-flavored beer between his slender fingers. Packed in cans, a bottle cost no more than ten yuan. If it were before, he would never have tried it.
He shook the can gently, chuckled, and agreed with Jiang Lan’s statement: “Yes.”
Humans were a very magical race. Geng Chen once said something similar to him.
He didn’t understand it before, and he didn’t bother to understand it.
But now, his attitude had changed slightly because of Jiang Lan.
The two stayed in the restaurant until half past nine before leaving. When leaving, passing by the memorial wall, Ying Qiao noticed that a photo of the two of them had been hung in the middle of the memorial wall.
When checking out, he asked the front desk how soon the photos on the souvenir wall would be changed.
The front desk lady told them that as long as the restaurant continued to operate, the photos would not be changed. When this wall would become full, the restaurant would open a new commemorative wall. If they were still together a year later, they could use the photo to get another discount when they came to the restaurant again.
Ying Qiao paid the bill with satisfaction and left with Jiang Lan.
It was getting late. After sending Jiang Lan back to the community, Ying Qiao returned to his new residence.
——The house in the new community that he bought to make up for the lie.
In the past two days, all his daily necessities and clothes had been moved here, and a new bookshelf had been added to the bedroom, which was specially added to store books.
After understanding what he was thinking, Ying Qiao made a decisive decision to move.
Since you are acting, you have to go the whole way.
Before, he didn’t understand what he was thinking, so he only took care of Jiang Lan as a little kid. But now that he regarded Jiang Lan as his future partner and spouse, he had to act more cautiously.
At least until the little monster’s impression of Ying Long improved, his identity could not be revealed. Even when he confessed his identity in the future, he must prepare the ground step by step before confessing.
Ying Qiao had a good idea, he had to coax the little monster home first and then confess.
Even if he was angry at that time, it would still be a household matter, and quarrels at the head of the bed could be solved at the foot of the bed.
He walked around the house, thinking about what else to buy for his new home. Every time he thought of something, he wrote it down in a memo. When everything was complete, he would send it to Chen Hua and ask him to buy it.
Just as he was thinking about it, the doorbell rang.
Ying Qiao frowned and went to open the door. Outside the door was Chen Hua. He was also holding a large cardboard box in his hand, and he didn’t know what it contained.
“What’s this?”
Chen Hua took the carton in and said dissatisfied: “Shouldn’t I ask you? The doorman couldn’t contact you for the express delivery to the villa, so he called me.”
Ying Qiao remembered: “It should be the books I bought.”
“Why are you buying more books?” Chen Hua was extremely confused by his obsession with reading books about raising cubs. There were still a lot of books on the bookshelf over there. Why did he buy them again?
Was he planning to gain experience and publish his own book?
“Isn’t there a saying among humans ‘live and learn’?” Ying Qiao slowly opened the express box and took out the books inside to examine them one by one: “Reading can make you wise, but you just read too few books.”
Chen Hua: ???
I’m not raising any fu**ing cubs, so why should I look at this?
Why do you have a sense of superiority after reading a book about raising cubs?
He glanced at the books piled on the coffee table with slight disgust, but his eyes froze when he saw the title on the cover.
“Basic Law of Love”?
“One hundred little things couples must do when they are in love”??
“Teaching you how to capture a man’s heart”????
What the hell was this?
Chen Hua sat upright after being paralyzed for a second, picked up the “Basic Law of Love” on the top, and made sure that he was not dazzled or hallucinating.
It was as if ten thousand grass-mud horses were running through his head, and there were so many question marks that he couldn’t fit them all into his head. He thought about it again and again, but he couldn’t understand when Ying Qiao had changed the channel.
“Why did you buy these books?”
Ying Qiao frowned and looked at him: “Look.”
He wouldn’t have bought them back to eat, right?
Had he turned stupid after working overtime?
Chen Hua took a deep breath: “I mean, why are you buying these books about love? You have no one to fall in love with.”
And if you are in love, are you sure you won’t break up after reading this kind of book?
Ying Qiao stopped what he was doing, straightened up and looked at him condescendingly, and said unhurriedly: “Who said I have no partner?”
“Do you need me to help you recall?”
Chen Hua clapped his fingers and told him with a very sincere expression: “From the time you were born to now, you must have been single for thousands of years.”
He had heard that there were demons who were confused by his appearance in the past and chased him without fear of death. In the end, they were all beaten up and thrown out by him.
Later, Ying Long’s reputation became more and more evil. Who else dared to risk his life to fall in love with Ying Long?
He really had no idea.
“Nobody fell into my eyes before.” Ying Qiao snorted and said with a stern look in his eyes: “Now someone did.”
Chen Hua didn’t believe it at all. He felt that an old dog like Ying Long, who was narcissistic and had a bad temper, had a face that meant he would be single for life.
He poured himself a glass of water and asked perfunctorily: “Who is it?”
“Jiang Lan.”
Ying Qiao didn’t plan to hide it from him, so he easily threw the bomb.
“!!!”
Chen Hua was so shocked that he couldn’t swallow the sip of water and was so choked that he coughed. He coughed for a long time before he recovered. He looked like he couldn’t understand what he was talking about: “Jiang Lan?”
Ying Qiao looked disgusted and immediately moved his book further away and asked, “What? No?”
Chen Hua faked a smile: “That’s great.”
A few days ago, he wanted to be someone else’s father, but now he changed his mind and wanted to sleep with him.
As expected of you.
Beast.
The author has something to say:
Scheming Dragon: I am single because there is no one I like. You are single because you are poor and ugly.
Chen Hua: …Grass!
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Longlong was so happy that he took advantage.
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