Chapter 166 Love, they bullied me! (1/2)

Following Rika's suggestion, they went to a fancy restaurant where Rika already planned to pig out alone.

Currently, Lexi sat across her somewhat newfound friend. As they wait for their orders to arrive, Rika giddily opened a conversation. ”Tell me, tell me, are you and…” she paused as she examined Lexi's inexpressive front.

Slightly furrowed her brows, Lexi repeated in a questioning tone, ”me and…?”

”Uhmm, Eli a thing?”

Upon hearing her question, Lexi's unchangeable front immediately turned to a dismayed one. ”Eww, no way!”

Her response cracked Rika up as she burst out laughing while lightly slamming her palms at the surface of the square table. After a two-minute good laughed, Rika recovered, or so she thought.

”I wonder what will his fans say if they heard you, pftt--! Hahaha! the nation's prince being 'eew-ed'! Pfft-! That was gold!” Rika stated in between her unrestrained laughs.

”Really, what made you think that me and him… like, I can't even imagine.” Unlike Rika, Lexi could not help but roll her eyes as that thought never flashed in her head. It was already surprising for her that Arnold Shen thought that their chemistry was pretty good.

”My, my, now there's two of us who think Elliot is not that great.” Happy, Rika leaned a little closer and whispered her words of relief. She added,

”Like, yeah, Eli is good-looking but meh— not a prince at all.”

Lexi stared at Rika for a while before she tilted her head to the side and asked, ”Did you two dated?”

Her question froze Rika as her eyes widened as if she didn't see that coming, ”How did you know?”

”I didn't, that's why I asked.” More shocked than the lady across her, Lexi felt like laughing at the ridiculousness of this conversation.

”Gosh… me and my stupid mouth. Well, I trust you anyway.” Rika lightly smacked her lips before she shrugged as if nothing happened. Well, she wouldn't blurt this out to anyone anyway if she didn't trust the person.

”Uh…” Speechless, Lexi could merely nod her head with what she said.

'Trust? Me? Why?' She asked inwardly but even if she wanted to say that inquiry, they were stuck on her throat for no reason.

”Well, you see, me and Eli… We dated for a month because of a movie, like always. But, meh— he's too gentle for me.” Nonchalantly shrugging, Rika evidently showed her indifference as she uttered the summary of dating Elliot Gong.

”Oh… but at least, you two seem alright.” Nodding in understanding, Lexi stated because Rika and Elliot talked like normal colleagues as if they didn't have a history.

”Well, it's a mutual decision between us, and we decided to just be friends since we are better that way.” Shrugging once again, Rika justified.

”Also, I already set my eyes to someone but sadly, he seems he was taken. *sigh*” Rika added as she heavily sighed. She then took out her phone from her purse and immediately tapped a few times before showing the screen to Lexi.

”This guy,”

Lexi raised her head to Rika's screen and to her extreme surprise, the man that was displayed on the screen was Ethan Lu's Weibo account. Since Lexi wasn't active in any social media platform because of the constant criticism, she wasn't updated that Ethan Lu has been active with his account.

Retracting her phone from Lexi, Rika heavily sighed once again as her gaze looked at Ethan Lu's profile. ”So sad, he's taken… I always wonder how fun it will be to tame a casanova.”

Just then, the dishes they ordered finally came. They served it with care to their table as one staff conversed with them. This gave Lexi a relief because of her shock regarding Rika's inkling toward Ethan Lu.

Since Rika's attention was diverted, they never discussed 'taming a casanova' or anything of the sort. They continued dined and talked for more than an hour as Rika did live up with her illegal cheat day and ate with her heart's desire.

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”Hmmm? You got a boyfriend?” Rika inquired when they entered the men's section of the huge famous boutique.

”Not a boyfriend. I'll be gifting a friend…” Raising her brows, Lexi didn't turn her head to Rika as she continued to scan the displayed watches.