It was indeed a custom to invite friends over to have dinner when moving into a new house.

But as it turned out, Cheng Liu was quite dissatisfied with this idea because this time she was planning to have dinner with Ji Chaozhou.

Actually, last night, she had wanted to make it more lively and invite more friends over, but Ji Chaozhou said that that would be too much.

Later, Cheng Liu changed her mind and thought that it would indeed be too inconvenient to order takeout when inviting people to dinner at home. If there were not enough dishes, she would have to cook a few more. How could she cook? She would have to rely on Ji Chaozhou.

So just ask He Bai alone to come.

Anyway, it was just this one meal.

“When will Assistant He arrive?” Ji Chaozhou asked Cheng Liu. They were at the small garden in front of his villa.

“I sent a message and told him to come at noon.” Cheng Liu squatted in front of the pomelo saplings, staring at them for a while, and said to Ji Chaozhou, “They seem to have grown a little.”

Ji Chaozhou walked towards Cheng Liu and stood beside her. He looked at the branches of the pomelo seedlings for a moment, then suddenly reached out and bent down to touch the thorns on them.

“It has thorns!” Cheng Liu, who was now fully focused on the grapefruit seedlings, quickly blocked Ji Chaozhou’s hand and reminded him, “The thorns will hurt your hands.”

Ji Chaozhou concealed his emotions, stood up, and explained, “I didn’t pay attention just now.”

Cheng Liu looked surprised. She just saw him reaching out to the thorns from the corner of her eye.

“Let’s go to the supermarket to buy some groceries, and then come back to figure out what to cook.” Cheng Liu held out her hand to Ji Chaozhou, drooping her brows and looking a little pitiful, “My legs are numb.”

Ji Chaozhou was stunned, then with a perceptible smile on his face, he held her hand and pulled Cheng Liu up, “Don’t squat for too long next time.”

“Okay,” Cheng Liu nodded in agreement immediately.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

They’ve already returned the cart from the supermarket, and now they planned to buy some more things, so they prepared to drive over.

Ji Chaozhou was driving the car; Cheng Liu only drove the car out from the garage.

Cheng Liu sat in the passenger seat and turned her head to look out the window. What she saw was not the scenery outside the window but the shadow of Ji Chaozhou’s profile on the window.

It wasn’t very clear, but she could still see some of it vaguely.

He was really good looking.

Young President Cheng sighed several times in her heart.

The supermarket wasn’t far away, and it only took a few minutes to get there by car.

Cheng Liu unbuckled her seat belt and had just stepped out of the car when she received several messages on WeChat.

She clicked it and her eyes lit up immediately.

These were the airport photos sent over by that entertainment reporter, Kong Zhouyun.

The photos captured their first meeting so perfectly that Cheng Liu was quite satisfied with it and quickly clicked and held the button to save it.

Wedding photographer Kong Zhouyun: [All the photos from the airport are here. I want to delete them and never plan to post them. I initially just kept them privately because I thought they were taken very well. President Cheng, don’t worry, I didn’t show them to anyone else.]

Cheng Liu actually wanted to let others see these very much, she hated not letting the whole world see it, but it was a pity that she and Ji Chaozhou still weren’t boyfriend and girlfriend.

Cheng Liu quickly replied: [Keep them for now, when we get finally together later, you can post them then.]

Wedding photographer Kong Zhouyun: [Ah?]

Cheng Liu: […If you have something to say, please speak up.]

She encounters these kinds of employees everywhere.

At the same time, with such excellent photography skills, would she still hesitate?

Wedding photographer Kong Zhouyun: [President Cheng, you haven’t given the other party a name yet? ]

Cheng Liu stood beside the car with a wrinkled face. What did this entertainment reporter say?

“Sending a message to Assistant He?” Ji Chaozhou asked. He got out of the driver’s seat and walked over to Cheng Liu.

Cheng Liu subconsciously put away her phone out of guilt but when she looked up at Ji Chaozhou’s cold and beautiful amber eyes— a powerful survival instinct suddenly took over.

She took out her phone again, sent the photos to Ji Chaozhou, and explained, “It’s from an entertainment reporter who took photos of us at the airport and then again outside the press conference.”

Ji Chaozhou opened WeChat and saw the candid photos of the airport. Cheng Liu was pulling a suitcase with one hand and carrying a black backpack over one shoulder. She was walking towards the airport exit with her other hand holding his hand.

Because it was a candid shot, the photos were not that clear but rather a bit blurry, creating an atmosphere of a lingering story between the two, as if it were a story of two lovers escaping from the airport.

“Only photos of the airport?” Ji Chaozhou asked Cheng Liu.

“… and the ones outside the press conference,” Cheng Liu also sent the photos over.

After seeing it, Ji Chaozhou said to Cheng Liu, “Does he want money? If you want, you can expose the photos as you like. I don’t mind.”

Cheng Liu was silent and felt guilty. The reporter had no intention of leaking the photos, nor did he ask for money. It was she who had her own agenda.

“Hey, it’s early to tell. Let’s go buy some groceries,” Cheng Liu said.

… …

He Bai arrived early and reached the door of the villa at ten o’clock. He rang the doorbell of Villa No. 6, but Cheng Liu opened the door and came out of Villa No. 5.

“You came early. We are still washing vegetables.” Cheng Liu had her sleeves rolled up, and her hands were still wet.

He Bai smiled and said, “Hello, I can also help you wash the vegetables.”

Cheng Liu made way, “Come in first.”

He Bai, holding a bottle of red wine in his hand, followed Cheng Liu in.

As soon as he walked in, he found that Ji Chaozhou’s front yard was extremely discordant. The left side was bare with only two tree saplings, while the right side was full of flowers.

“Mr. Ji, why didn’t you hire a gardener? I know a little bit about gardening.” He Bai pointed at the two saplings on the left, “It would be better to pull those out and replace them with something else…”

Cheng Liu interrupted, “Are they bothering you if they grow there?”

What Assistant He wanted to pull out was the pomelo saplings, which was a symbol of her love!

“I… just think they are very disharmonious.” He Bai was a little shocked. Just because he said something about Ji Chaozhou’s yard, why did that make Cheng Liu become so fierce?

Cheng Liu paused and turned to look at He Bai, quite puzzled, “Why is it disharmonious? Are the pomelo seedlings I planted so ugly?”

He Bo was stunned: “…”

It turned out that he was criticizing the wrong person.

If It’s Wrong, Then It’s Wrong translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N: Pomelo trees—like a lot of citrus plants—do have thorns. And they’re not the namby-pamby kind either! They’re quite sturdy and sharp.

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