Chapter 16: Eating Barbecue
What?! How is that possible?!
Yu Enqi clenched her fists upon seeing the photo sent by Zhou Chengcheng.
At first, she didn’t believe it, but the person in the photo was indeed Chen Yuan, and the girl sitting next to him was someone she had never seen before!
No wonder…
No wonder he suddenly said he wanted to break up, no wonder he could suddenly become a different person, not responding to messages, and not listening to her!
So it turns out he has a new love! Scumbag!
Yu Enqi angrily threw her phone aside, startling Li Ailin, who was nearby.
“What’s wrong, Qi Qi?” she cautiously asked, leaning closer.
“Chen Yuan! He’s actually having dinner with another girl!” Yu Enqi pointed at her phone, her chest rising and falling with anger.
“Ah? No way?”
Li Ailin picked up the phone and, upon seeing the message from Zhou Chengcheng, her eyes widened.
This… the girl in the photo is way too beautiful…
Compared to her own friend Qi Qi, she seemed a bit ordinary…
Although she often yelled about Chen Yuan and Yu Enqi breaking up, that was just to scare Chen Yuan; deep down, she didn’t actually want them to break up.
After all, if Chen Yuan and Yu Enqi were together, she could also benefit, like getting cosmetics, bags, and phones.
The reason she could be so fierce towards Chen Yuan was because she was sure he liked Yu Enqi deeply.
She even knew better than Yu Enqi how much he liked her.
Now, with this sudden development, she was a little confused.
Chen Yuan had really changed after suddenly saying he wanted to break up the day before yesterday…
“Well… Qi Qi, Chen Yuan wouldn’t do anything to hurt you. This photo… he’s just having dinner with a girl… maybe there’s some reason for it?”
Li Ailin suggested cautiously, pointing out that Qi Qi often went out drinking and shopping with other boys, and Chen Yuan had never doubted her…
“How could it just be dinner? He has no other girls in his phone besides his mom! I’ve checked every single contact, even game friends!”
Yu Enqi bit her lip, “This isn’t something that suddenly popped up; it means he must have been hiding something from me for a long time! This is a serious issue!!”
“Ah… um… so Qi Qi, are you really planning to break up with Chen Yuan?”
Once the topic of breaking up came up, Yu Enqi fell silent.
Right now, she wasn’t sure if Chen Yuan was really with that girl; Li Ailin’s words were right—they were just having dinner together, which didn’t prove anything.
Chen Yuan loves me so much, how could he suddenly find such a beautiful girl in just two days?
And, for such a beautiful girl, what kind of boy wouldn’t be able to catch her eyes? How could she possibly be interested in Chen Yuan?
If it were me, I would definitely…
At the very least, I would find someone better…
I would never settle for a poor guy who can’t even afford a bag worth tens of thousands!
“Let’s go, I want to see for myself.” Yu Enqi suddenly stood up; she needed to clarify with Chen Yuan what was really going on.
…
“Go ahead and eat.”
Chen Yuan placed the grilled meat into Cu’s bowl and prepared more ingredients in the pot.
Cu had been salivating from the aroma and, upon hearing Chen Yuan say it was time to eat, she immediately picked up the meat and put it in her mouth.
Then her eyes lit up.
“It’s alive again…”
She excitedly stood on her toes, and even though she was a queen, after being hungry for so many days, eating real meat felt like the most delicious thing in the world.
“Dipping it in the sauce is even better.” Chen Yuan picked up a piece of meat and demonstrated how to eat it.
Cu followed Chen Yuan’s actions, trying the dry dish and then noticeably widening her eyes.
“It’s so delicious, Teacher…” Cu said without exaggeration.
“If it’s good, eat more. There’s plenty, the more we eat, the more we earn.” Chen Yuan said, flipping the meat in the pot with a smile.
Seeing her so happy when eating made him feel satisfied too.
To be honest, as a queen, she had eaten better things than barbecue before, but perhaps it was because he was the one who grilled it for her…
“Teacher, you eat too.”
While lost in thought, Cu suddenly placed a piece of meat in Chen Yuan’s bowl.
She noticed that he had been serving her, but he hadn’t eaten much himself, and she suddenly felt a bit shy.
She really was too hungry; the porridge in the morning was just a temporary fix, so she hadn’t really paid attention to how carefully Chen Yuan had been looking after her.
The teacher is still so good to me…
“Okay, if you can’t finish it, take your time.” Chen Yuan smiled gently, noticing her shy demeanor, “This is self-service, so no need to worry about me not getting enough.”
Then he ate the piece of meat she had given him and continued, “I told you not to call me teacher anymore, just call me by my name in this world.”
“I won’t call you Cu anymore; I’ll just call you Luo Wei.”
After saying that, seeing her face smeared with oil from eating, he directly took a tissue to wipe her mouth.
Cu was taken aback by Chen Yuan’s swift movements and immediately felt her face turn hot.
She quietly responded to what Chen Yuan had said earlier, “Mm…”
It was obvious that Chen Yuan still saw her as that helpless little girl, but even back then, she was still a young girl…
She could still feel things…
And in Chen Yuan’s eyes, didn’t that make her just a child?
He had been a ghost longer than she had been alive!
“Then, Luo Wei, call out my name for me to hear.” After finishing wiping her mouth, Chen Yuan naturally picked up grilled meat and placed it in her bowl.
Her bowl, which had been full moments ago, was now nearly empty.
This girl was indeed very hungry.
Suddenly, he wondered about the others; weren’t they also hungry?
They probably aren’t…
Only Cu would be so absent-mindedly hungry. If it were Yu, she’d just randomly go into a restaurant for a free meal and leave, disappearing without a trace, and the restaurant owner would probably have no way to deal with it.
Cu didn’t even know why she was shy; she had always called Chen Yuan teacher, and in the Otherworld, she had only rarely called him by his alias: Leonhard.
Only in very close relationships would one call someone by their name, and even then, it would be a shortened version.
“Chen… Yuan.”
“Mm, very good~”
(*Patting her head~*)
Cu’s cheeks instantly turned even redder, her whole being felt like she had just eaten a chili pepper, and her hands tightly clutched her clothes.
“Don’t compliment me like that…” she murmured in a small voice.
It made her feel like a child.
While she really liked hearing it, she felt a bit uncomfortable too…
He was seeing her as just a naive little kid…
No matter what, I’m still a queen…
Chen Yuan didn’t hear her murmurs, but he could clearly see Cu’s flushing face.
He immediately understood that his actions had been a bit reckless.
Rubbing his nose, he said, “I… I got carried away, haha.”
This scene was also clearly seen by Zhou Chengcheng and Liu Nan, who were not far away.
“It seems someone won’t be able to sleep tonight~”
