Chapter 51: A Warm Scen (1/2)

Baldy also followed behind Lu Chenzhou as they sat down, asking, “So, what’s the situation between the two of you?”

Was he too old to know the newest trends anymore? He always felt that the world was moving too quickly! Even after they had allegedly separated, the two of them still acted so naturally towards each other; one had said that he was hungry, and the other, just like a dutiful wife, had immediately run off to cook something. But on the other hand, if they weren’t separated, then it was way too unusual for Lu Chenzhou to not react even after seeing a strange man sleeping at his partner’s house!

Lu Chenzhou’s patience with Baldy was clearly limited to before he entered the doorway, because he didn’t deign to respond to him now. Instead, Lu Chenzhou lowered his head and started to play ‘Extreme Racing’—an app that he’d become obsessed with recently, a particularly childish and boring kids’ game about little flying cars. What’s more, Lu Chenzhou’s skills were particularly horrid. Ten times out of ten, he’d crash his car against a cliff. Despite his having played it for over half a month, Lu Chenzhou still hadn’t gotten past a single checkpoint.

This time was no different. Baldy had just sat down and was about to say something when he saw Lu Chenzhou’s car smash down with a big “Bang!” sign filling the screen—he had crashed into a roadblock. The crash destroyed the car entirely and instantly killed the driver, only leaving a bunch of glass shards and blood spurting out from within the car.

Baldy’s eyes twitched, and he pretended that he hadn’t seen anything. He earnestly urged Lu Chenzhou, saying, “Don’t play this game, alright? Even if it doesn’t lower your intelligence, it’s very damaging to your image… Anyway, tell me what you plan on doing about that man. Do you want to chop him up or smash him to pieces with a hammer? I’d be very happy to lend you a hand.

“That’s the guy we met that day near the river, isn’t it? F*ck, then he must have gotten together with her before the two of you broke up! Are you really going to let him off just like that?

“I don’t think that you should eat anything that she cooks. With her skills as a doctor, who knows if she’ll add something else inside?”

……

He spoke until his mouth became parched and his tongue dry, but Lu Chenzhou impassively continued to play his game. Baldy couldn’t help but grumble, “Say something, won’t you?”

Lu Chenzhou didn’t even raise his head as he replied, “Oh.”

What a particularly gloomy man. Baldy was unable to incite a response from him, so he decided to switch to a different tactic. “Do you know what I saw when I first came in? They were…” He extended his hand to within Lu Chenzhou’s range of vision, and made a particularly vulgar hand gesture as he noisily sucked in air with his mouth. “It was nearly too unbearable to look at! I even took a picture. Do you want to see?”

He assumed that Lu Chenzhou would ignore him just like before, but right as he finished speaking, Lu Chenzhou’s car once again crashed viciously into an obstacle. The charred metal of the wreckage rolled off into the horizon, somersaulting through the air until it finally landed heavily on the ground.

Lu Chenzhou mashed furiously at a button, turning the car to scrap instantly.

Only after this did Baldy realize that all of Lu Chenzhou’s actions in the game were violent. His back covered in a layer of cold sweat, Baldy quickly became submissive, saying, “...don’t accelerate when you’re turning a curve; don’t rush it; do it slowly. Actually, there must be something wrong in the settings of this broken game. Wouldn’t it be better if the roads were straight? How stupid must the creator be to make so many curved paths, cliffs, and obstacles…”

When Lu Chenzhou looked over at him, he immediately flashed a gentle smile at him. “Let me ask you something, why are you eating here?”

Lu Chenzhou lowered his head again and coolly replied, “I’m hungry.” His reason was just this simple.

“......Oh.”

He was somewhat dazed, because he could smell a wonderful scent, and then he realized very lamentably that he too was hungry.

Very, very hungry!

Last night, Lu Chenzhou had abruptly left him in the restaurant halfway through, and then he had to leave because he had something to do. He had even slept late last night and was busy the whole day today, accidentally skipping lunch on top of that. In the afternoon, Xu Po and the rest had booked a place and insisted that he and Lu Chenzhou make up for their missed gathering. To meet up with everyone, he had gone to find Lu Chenzhou right after work, so he hadn’t eaten anything decent for the whole day.

As he kept thinking about food, he got hungrier; as he kept sniffing at the air, he got even hungrier. By this point, his stomach was almost inflamed with desire.

Baldy pounded the table. “I’m hungry too!”

The two of them cried out pitifully for food, and Cheng Xi didn’t disappoint them, preparing a sumptuous dinner: a big plate of dumplings, a dish full of beef jerky, a bowl of meatballs, and a pan of fried eggs.

Baldy was salivating just from looking at it, but he still disdainfully said, “There aren’t any vegetables here.”

Cheng Xi turned around and unceremoniously took out two big leeks from the kitchen. “This is green. Do you want it?”

Baldy had no response to Cheng Xi’s quip.

A hint of a smile flashed across Lu Chenzhou’s eyes. He put down his phone, picked up the chopsticks and bowl that Cheng Xi had set out for him, and began to eat slowly.

Baldy tried his best not to stare at those leeks. He was very suspicious that Lu Chenzhou had said something to Cheng Xi—how else could she have known that that very thing she had taken out was what he’d most hated and despised?

“Take it, take it away.” He really couldn’t stand it anymore.

“You won’t eat it?” Cheng Xi put on an innocent look, and then continued selling it enthusiastically. “It helps prevent cancer.”