The two were far apart. Cheng Liu could see the screen of her boyfriend’s phone light up, but she couldn’t see the caller’s name clearly.

Originally, she didn’t want to remind him; her boyfriend was sitting there looking down, carefully fiddling with the dishes but hardly putting any in his mouth—obviously he was a picky eater.

He didn’t pay any attention to the vibrating phone he’d placed next to the drinking glass.

After being reminded by Cheng Liu, her boyfriend put down his chopsticks, picked up his phone, stood up and stepped out of the private room.

Cheng Liu watched him go out, and then checked which dishes had actually been touched. After thinking about it, she rang the bell to call the waiter over.

“Hello, may I ask what you need?” The waiter was waiting outside and came very quickly.

Cheng Liu pointed to one of the more slightly stirred dishes on the boyfriend’s side. “Put one more of that.” 

“Okay, do you need anything else?”

“No more.” Cheng Liu waved her hand, then lowered her head to answer her ringing phone. She slid her finger and asked her chief assistant, “What’s the matter with the company?”

“The quarterly summary meeting is over,” said the assistant.” Also, I’m sending you a new proposal. Would you like to take a look tonight”

Cheng Liu leaned back on the chair. “I’m still on a date.” 

There was a faint chuckle from the other end of the phone. “Today’s date is so long? Then I’ll send the plan directly to your house and you can read it when you have time.”

“That’s fine, bring the quarterly summary report along as well,” Cheng Liu said casually.

… …

Outside the door.

Ji Chaozhou answered the phone, and Yun Fei’s voice came from the other end. “I didn’t know those reporters were there. I only talked to my assistant when I returned to S City this time…” 

He stood by the wall, saw the waiter coming in and out of the private room from the corner of his eye. He stayed silent. After listening to Yunfei’s explanation, he said coldly, “Since Aunt Yun wants some lily-of-the-valley—I will send it over tomorrow.”

From beginning to end, Ji Chaozhou never commented on what happened in the afternoon.

The more this happened, the more uncomfortable Yun Fei was. If it wasn’t for her relationship with Aunt Yun, he wouldn’t talk to her at all.

Yun Fei held the phone, biting her lower lip tightly; her beautiful face was a little pale. She pinched her palm, and once the pain cleared her roiling emotions, she asked with a nonchalant smile, “That person at the airport this afternoon, she is your friend?”

Except for Aunt Yun, she has never seen anyone approach Ji Chaozhou, let alone that woman who took him away in the afternoon.

If she hadn’t been too shocked, she wouldn’t have been surrounded by those people at the airport and missed the chance to get close to him.

The hot search tonight should have revealed the news about her ‘love affair’.

But Ji Chaozhou on the other end of the phone didn’t explain. Just directly hung up.

Yun Fei held the phone so hard that her fingertips turned white. “…”

She knew that Ji Chaozhou would never be caught again in the future.

He was always like this, as if he had already seen through all her little moves, and it was only for Aunt Yun’s sake that he didn’t argue with her.

Yun Fei would even prefer that he argued with her.

As long as she could leave a mark in the heart of such a man—like a lone cedar tree atop a cold, snow-capped mountain—she would do anything, good or bad.

Yun Fei stood in the living room for a long time, her chest heaving several times, until suddenly, she slammed the phone down hard.

… …

When Ji Chaozhou returned to the private room, he found that there was an extra dish on his side of the table, and the bodyguard immediately put down the phone that had been next to her ear with obvious guilt and sat up straight. 

Obviously, she was in contact with Ji Mushan just now and was making a report.

When Cheng Liu saw her boyfriend coming in, she subconsciously hung up on her chief assistant, and sat up straight.

In the past, she had to talk to the chief assistant every time she went on a date, and she ignored her boyfriend, leaving him to hang his head and play with his phone alone.

At that time, Cheng Liu didn’t notice the problem—or perhaps she simply didn’t care when it was pointed out—but now, she deeply realized that she was in the wrong and that it was a terrible thing for her to do.

Cheng Liu thought to herself that for the next dates, she should warn the chief assistant in advance that unless the company has something particularly urgent she needed to deal with—don’t call.

In order to ease the atmosphere, Cheng Liu took the initiative to speak, pointing to the dishes that her boyfriend had barely touched before, “Can you give me these if you don’t want to eat them?” 

This was to minimize wastage. It can also reflect the intimacy between the two.

She had heard from her business partners before that those who eat leftovers from their wives at home were qualified candidates in romance.

Ji Chaozhou turned to look at the bodyguard who ordered another dish for him on her own initiative just now. Remembering that the other party was a poor mother with children, he finally pushed his few dishes to her with a blank expression.

“You can order more if you don’t have enough food.” Ji Chaozhou glanced at the almost empty plates in front of her and thought coldly, could Ji Mushan not even afford to pay for a bodyguard’s meal?

Cheng Liu immediately said, “No, these are enough.” She didn’t like the food here so much.

But her boyfriend actually took the initiative to care about her, and Cheng Liu fully appreciated in her heart what the group of business partners had said.

It really worked!

Ji Chaozhou stopped looking at her, he was only willing to pay attention to her because she was a mother, but that was all.

… …

The rain outside stopped at some point, and there were frog calls outside the window that could be heard every now and then. The breeze came in through the mahogany window, and the candle lights flickered gently.

Cheng Liu raised her eyes to look at her boyfriend. The flickering candlelight seemed to gather around him. He was holding a pair of white jade chopsticks wrapped with gold, and the soft light cast a layer of warmth on his slender and beautiful hands.

In this environment, for a moment, Cheng Liu felt that he was like a proud young master of a noble family, full of quiet strength and refined demeanor.

It’s no wonder that the chief assistant always booked this restaurant whenever she had a dinner date. She used to be puzzled by the style and felt that the environment here was dark and even hurt her eyes.

Now Cheng Liu finally understood!

Looking at the beauty under candlelight, the beauty was even more beautiful!

Gu Yu Restaurant was indeed a good place for a date. The chief assistant has done a good job ah!

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T/N: I guess the only way to get Ji Chaozhou’s attention is to be shameless. Too bad for Yun Fei, no one can out-shameless Cheng Liu.