38 Closer To Li Xiuying (1/2)
Hotpot Restaurant
Li Xiuying sat at the table in the private room that Ren Shirong insisted upon using.
Little 4th sat on her left and Ren Shirong was on her right.
Also, at the round table were Ren Longwei, Ren Daiyu, Xǔ Junjie and Sima Hwei-ru.
Li Xiuying and Little 4th were looking through the menu together.
Sima Hwei-ru: ”Dr. Li, I'm sorry again for taking you by surprise today. I've wanted to meet you and apologize for what happened with your credit cards. So I convinced Uncle Ren to set up a meeting.”
Li Xiuying nodded, but didn't look up from her menu.
Sima Hwei-ru continued on: ”I realise you were told that your credit card would be sent via the post, but I wanted to personally deliver it to you.”
She took two envelopes out of her bag and passed it over to Li Xiuying.
Li Xiuying finally looked up; she took the envelope from Sima Hwei-ru outstretched hand.
She slowly opened the envelope and unfolded the letter it contained. Li Xiuying looked at the credit card with a picture of a pair of Dr. Marten's on it. She stroked her name with the tips of her fingers.
Sima Hwei-ru:”The other envelope contains a letter with your pin number on it.”
Li Xiuying smiled at Sima Hwei-ru: ”Thank you.”
Sima Hwei-ru was momentarily stunned by Li Xiuying's smile. Li Xiuying had been expressionless since she stepped foot in this restaurant.
Little 4th was torn as he looked at Li Xiuying; he loved seeing his Big sister YingYing smiling but he didn't like her smiling at someone else.
Li Xiuying was expressionless again and looked back down at the menu.
Xǔ Junjie was annoyed.
Damn this Sima Hwei-ru! How could she beat me to the punch line!!!
Xǔ Junjie cleared his throat: ”I also have both your credit cards with me here. Along with your pin numbers.”
He slid the envelopes over to Li Xiuying.
Li Xiuying took the envelopes and opened them. One credit card was purple with a scalpel on it, whilst the other credit card was gold with a black hoody on it.
Li Xiuying smiled at Xǔ Junjie: ”Thank you.”
Xǔ Junjie was unhappy.
When she smiled at Hwei-ru it was bigger!
It was all clearly Xǔ Junjie's imagination, but his competitive spirit had blinded him.
There was someone even more unhappy than Xǔ Junjie; Little 4th looked like he was sucking on a sour lemon.
She's Mine! I'll have to keep Big sister away from this Xǔ Junjie.
Ren Shirong: ”Let's order one of each type of Hot pot.”
Li Xiuying stopped looking at the menu, she was more than happy to try as many dishes as possible.
Ren Shirong called over the waitress that was waiting outside the open door and ordered. The waitress wrote down the order and closed the door behind her as she left.