Three dishes and a soup.
Ran Jing was fast at cooking; over these years, in addition to her career, she was also preparing herself to get married, so she worked hard on her cooking skills.
The dishes were quite delicious.
While eating the food, Xu Cheng thought of Lin Chuxue’s dark cuisine.
The corners of the lips curled behind the mask as he was thinking about it.
Shen Yao walked over with the phone in her hand and shook her head. “The call was able to get through, but no one is answering.”
Ran Jing: “That’s good, it means she’s fine and she should call us back once she sees it.”
She then glanced at Xu Cheng. “How is the taste? Not bad, right?”
Xu Cheng nodded. “Not bad, it’s a match to my wife’s cooking.”
The two ladies were surprised. “You have a wife?”
Xu Cheng nodded. “I may look ugly, but my wife is beautiful.”
Xu Cheng glanced at Shen Yao and said, “As beautiful as she is.”
Shen Yao smiled out of politeness. “I can understand that love is blind.”
While Ran Jing was more straightforward. “No kidding? If your wife was like Yao Yao, how could you be willing to come here?”
“Work is work.” Xu Cheng lowered his head and ate his meal. He used his trench coat hood to cover up his whole face, so this way it was convenient for him to eat while the two of them couldn’t see his face.
“So do you have any children?” Ran Jing asked again.
Xu Cheng’s chopsticks paused for a moment, and he chewed slowly as he then shook his head. “Not yet.”
“You are a professional in criminal investigation, then you should be able to tell, right?” Ran Jing rolled her eyes at him. “Any normal man married to someone as beautiful as Yao Yao would love to stay at home every day and have kids ASAP. So, even if we know you have a wife, no one will look down at you. What are you bluffing about?”
Xu Cheng gave a bitter laugh and took a sip of soup. “I was being modest, my wife is actually more beautiful than her.”
Shen Yao couldn’t keep her politeness after hearing his words.
“Is there a photo? Let me see.”
“No,” Xu Cheng said awkwardly.
“Hey man, although I’m not some super beauty, I’ve rarely seen those who are more beautiful than I am. If your wife is more beautiful than me, then I’ll live stream myself eating crap.”
Poof!
Xu Cheng spat out a mouthful of soup.
He wiped his mouth while looking at Ran Jing with a bitter smile, Shen Yao’s words gave him a sense of deja vu.
Ran Jing felt that Shen Yao was too much, so she nudged her and said, “Don’t follow my footsteps. When I first met Xu Cheng, he told me that the big star Lin Chuxue was his wife, and I was as reckless as you were.”
Shen Yao was a little angry because she was quite proud of her looks, and when Xu Cheng said his wife was as beautiful as her at first, she thought it was understandable to joke. It was his wife, so she must be beautiful in his eyes, and out of courtesy, she didn’t take it seriously.
But Xu Cheng saying that his wife was more beautiful than her was something Shen Yao couldn’t listen to.
Shen Yao didn’t really believe that Xu Cheng’s wife could be that beautiful, and she knew that these days women were quite realistic. Not that she despised Xu Cheng but based on Xu Cheng’s looks and his ranking in the police force, she was able to make an assumption about his wife. That was why she dared to make this bet.
However, having heard Ran Jing bring up that episode, she smiled and asked, “So did you live stream or not?”
Ran Jing’s face was red as she slapped Shen Yao’s shoulders, reminding her that there was an outsider here and saying, “Eat your food.”
Shen Yao felt quite funny so she snorted out a laugh, “That was too dramatic.”
“Sure it was.” Ran Jing felt depressed thinking about it. “Could you believe that he was only a district policeman at that time, and Lin Chuxue was an idol. They just didn’t seem like they were from the same world.”
Shen Yao covered her mouth and laughed. “I just want to know whether you live streamed or not.”
Ran Jing stuffed her mouth with rice and chewed on it as she said, “I would like to stream it for him to see but he probably doesn’t want to see me.”
Poof!
Xu Cheng once again spat out a mouthful of rice, and this time was followed by a fit of violent coughs.
Both ladies asked in unison, “Are you okay?”
“Yes.” Xu Cheng patted his chest and waved his hand.
These two aren’t reserved at all.
With the way Xu Cheng looked, the two of them didn’t feel like they needed to have vigilance in front of him. If he was a normal man, then they may be more reserved, but with Xu Cheng’s looks, they didn’t feel like they needed to care much about their image.
That was when Shen Yao’s phone on the sofa rang.
Shen Yao got up and went over to get it, and she said happily towards Ran Jing, “It’s Chuxue calling.”
Ran Jing wiped her mouth. “Hurry up and answer it, ask her about the situation.”
Shen Yao took the phone. “Hello, is it Chuxue?”
After a moment of silence, the other side said weakly, “It’s me, Yao Yao.”
Shen Yao immediately breathed a sigh of relief. A relaxed smile appeared on her face as she asked, “Are you okay? Chuxue.”
Xu Cheng started to listen when he learned the call was from Lin Chuxue.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be a little tired. “I’m fine Yao Yao, it’s fine.”
She then hesitated and said, “Yao Yao, can you do me a favor?”
Shen Yao said, “What is it?”
Lin Chuxue: “Could you go to the M Nation, to a place called Mandala Lab and visit someone for me? I need to know if he is still alive, and I feel like you are the only person who can help me now. Many people seem to be hiding something from me, and I just want to know if he is still alive. Yao Yao, I am begging you.”
Lin Chuxue knew that all of Xu Cheng’s friends around her seemed to be hiding something from her, and she felt that she could only trust her friends.
Shen Yao’s body trembled. “Who is he?”
Lin Chuxue said word by word: “Xu Cheng!”
Shen Yao’s pupils dilated.
“What’s going on? What happened?”
Lin Chuxue sighed. “It’s hard for me to explain right now, but aren’t you always flying international trips? If you’re able to visit the M Nation, please go to the Mandala Lab for me to see Xu Cheng. I have not seen him for three weeks, and I don’t know if he is dead or alive. Can you do me this favor?”
Shen Yao said frankly, “Okay, I will report to work tomorrow and fly to the M Nation.”
Lin Chuxue said gratefully, “Thank you Yao Yao.”
“Thanks for what, we are best friends, I will help you and go there,” Shen Yao said.
Lin Chuxue pondered for a moment. “No matter what the results are, please tell me the truth, okay?”
Shen Yao’s heart skipped a beat. “Is it very serious?”
Lin Chuxue: “Yes. Let’s talk later. I’ll be back in another week. These days, I’ve been trying to divert my attention by getting involved in charity, but I couldn’t do it. There’s no way to get my head off this and I can only ask you.”
Shen Yao: “Okay, you take good care of yourself.”
Having said that, she hung up the phone.
Xu Cheng’s deep eyes stared at the dishes on the table; he had listened to the whole conversation they had just now.
Lin Chuxue was not that easy to fool, and she was able to bypass Lin Dong’s watch.