137 Of Course, As Is Suitable For A Background Character, The Girl Got Offscreened In No Time (1/2)

Ye Muqi easily got rid of the girl blocking her with one swift sweep towards her legs, making the latter tumble over.

She skipped over the girl on the floor, and feeling anticipation race through her veins, she headed to Zhou Lei again.

'I made the most prestigious chefs in our household to cook this lunch just for him, and it's an opportune surprise that he didn't bring his own food. I can already imagine what will happen next...!'

A haughty grin crept towards Ye Muqi's face as she stared at Zhou Lei's back.

'Er... what was that?' Zhou Lei felt a shiver go down his spine. 'Maybe I'm just getting hungry...'

”Hmm, how about we go to the cafeteria?” Lin Guiying pulled Zhou Lei's free arm and asked him.

”I'm not in the mood to go to the cafeteria...” With his Taste stat being well over a hundred, the food being cooked and served in that cursed place might just make him puke out his stomach, even with the slightest contact with his tongue.

To tell the truth, Lin Guiying had been quite disappointed as well when she heard that Zhou Lei forgot to bring his lunch. From the day she tasted his homemade food, she was dissatisfied with everything she ate.

She tried her hardest to replicate that delicious meal by requesting various famous chefs to cook, and with her wealth and fame, it wasn't hard for that bunch to give in, even with their insanely high pride.

At the start, she had anticipated how the meal prepared by the famous chefs would compare when pit against Zhou Lei's homemade lunch. However, although the food from the chefs tasted quite good, they weren't even in the same league as her friend's casual cooking.

This troubled her so much that even her mother stepped in and tried to cheer her up with her cooking, but failed ultimately.

In that sense, Lin Guiying knew exactly what Zhou Lei meant by not being in the mood to head to the cafeteria. Her brain translated his words from ”I'm not in the mood” to ”What the f×ck kind of suggestion is that? I might as well go swimming in a f×cking sewage pipe and I'll get the same taste inside my f×cking mouth!”

”Lei, you don't have to curse so much, geez.” Lin Guiying shook her head disapprovingly.

'...Huh? When did I curse?' Just when Zhou Lei was about to open his mouth to ask Lin Hanying this question, a fragrance soothed his mind, steam entering his nose.

An involuntary urge made him turn his head towards where the scent came from, and eventually, his nose was a centimeter away from touching a grain of rice snugly fit inside a lunch box.

Lin Guiying widened her eyes. 'This lunch box... smells really good! However, Zhou Lei's cooking has a better scent...'

Meanwhile, Zhou Lei inched his head away from the lunch box, afraid that he might make contact with it and ruin its flavor. From the looks of it, or rather, from the smell of it, the food in front of him would taste pretty good. If not for his inhumanely high Taste stat, his stomach would have started rumbling the moment he caught a whiff of the fragrance the lunch box emitted.

However, one matter left Zhou Lei pondering: why was there a lunch box full of delicious food right in front of my face in the first place?