Chapter 451 - Chapter 451: Chapter 282: This Person is a Bit Strange (Please Subscribe)_2 (1/2)
Chapter 451: Chapter 282: This Person is a Bit Strange (Please Subscribe)_2
— Knives, guns.
Yes, she had not only trained with guns but also with knife-like weapons.
Her identity was not merely that of a hacker.
“It’s just ten million, it doesn’t entice me much,” Angelina pursed her lips, a smile playing at the corners.
Lin Chuan laughed wryly.
Indeed, with her capabilities, having established herself firmly in the hacker community for many years, a mere ten million US dollars really wasn’t attractive.
The hotpot was boiling.
Lin Chuan swished a piece of beef through it: “You surprise me a bit.”
Angelina was not very skilled with chopsticks. While picking up vegetables, she laughed and said, “You turned out to be more formidable than I had anticipated.”
“Really?”
Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow.
Angelina smiled faintly: “Because you can even tell fortune.”
Lin Chuan looked up.
The two shared a smile.
The steaming heat, carrying the fragrance of the beef broth, permeated the small space, and Angelina, like a fairy descending to the mundane world, seemed to pick up a bit of the human hustle under Lin Chuan’s influence.
Hmm, her high-neck sweater was steeped with the scent of hotpot.
Angelina did not put on airs because of her beauty; rather, she was more relaxed, pulling up her collar and sniffing, letting out a few phrases in her hometown dialect.
Lin Chuan asked what she meant.
She only said they were words of praise, then lifted her glass of vodka, took a swig, and asked Lin Chuan if he wanted a drink.
Lin Chuan gently waved his hand.
He was indeed tempted to try, but as an idol, getting drunk would be embarrassing.
And of course, no drinking when driving!
Having hotpot with Angelina, Lin Chuan found that she was not just the elf he first met.
She loved drinking and highly praised the hotpot.
In front of Lin Chuan, she seemed quite innocent, without any pretense.
Because she regarded Lin Chuan as a true friend.
And Lin Chuan regarded her as a true friend too.
She was a hacker, and Lin Chuan’s main profession was a web novel writer; fundamentally, they had one thing in common.
— Both were people active online.
Such people often had few friends in reality.
Thus, transitioning from the web to reality and becoming friends gave them a peculiar feeling.
It was not about gender or romance, but rather like finding a kindred spirit.
The winter sun always sets early, the setting sun like blood, reflecting on the mountains and rivers, displaying a hazy brilliance, light golden and pale yellow, seemingly enveloped with a thin layer of mist.
The hotpot was finished.
Both of them scented with the aroma of life, Angelina also with a trace of alcohol, they left the building, walked beside the riverbank, blowing in the evening breeze, airing out the smell.
Dusk to nightfall seemed to happen in an instant.
Walking along, they soon saw lights shining brilliantly from the opposite shore.
On the riverbank, despite it being a winter night, the number of people walking after work gradually increased.
Quite by coincidence.
Lin Chuan saw an acquaintance.
“Good evening, Chairman!”
The HR Manager, Zhou Xiaoying, dressed casually, greeted Lin Chuan warmly as she approached.
Lin Chuan smiled in response, surprised, “Manager Zhou, you’re walking too.”
“Yes, I take a walk around here every evening to count my WeChat steps.”
Manager Zhou’s face was brimming with a smile, showing a bit of awe towards Lin Chuan and also trying to make a good impression in front of her superior to become more familiar.
“Does anyone else in the company count steps?” Lin Chuan joked.
He glanced at Manager Zhou.
Her face, unmade-up and clearly visible in the brilliant light by the shore, indeed looked a bit aged, somewhat slack, with a few freckles on the right cheekbone.
“Director Li always ranks first in daily steps,” Manager Zhou said with a laugh.
Lin Chuan looked at his wrist, where there was no watch: “Manager Zhou, you should walk a bit more too, try to surpass Li Qing today and become the first.”
“Alright!”