“Uncle Bai, we had Japanese for lunch. What do you want for dinner?”
“If you’re asking me, let’s just have McDonald’s.”
“Honestly, Uncle Bai.”
“McDonald’s is fine, but if you’re always saying you want it, people will look down on you and think you have no taste.”
Gu Yebai shrugged, not seeing any issue with liking McDonald’s.
While the Big Mac had indeed been shrinking over the years, the combination of that sauce and the patties was still satisfying and exceptionally filling.
Back in Linchuan, a Big Mac was synonymous with luxury and deliciousness.
If he could snag a coupon and get one at a discount, he would never pass it up.
However, thinking about it carefully, she seemed to have a point.
Eating McDonald’s with Gao Hongyi did feel like a bit of a step down.
“Then, does Hongyi have anything she wants to eat?”
“As for me, I want French food.”
“I don’t know much about French food.”
“Uncle Bai, you’re a novelist; you should always be trying new things you’ve never experienced before,” she said.
“Besides, you have enough money now.”
Gao Hongyi quickly began filtering through restaurants online.
To her, having their first dinner together was an extremely important matter that required a sense of ceremony.
In the future, she planned to study abroad in Paris.
Combined with the fact that French cuisine was often imbued with romantic and atmospheric symbolism, it had become almost her only choice.
It seemed that every couple in the world should have a candlelight dinner.
With the city’s night view as a backdrop, they would toast each other and sip red wine.
“Let’s go here tonight.”
Gao Hongyi tapped the phone screen gently with her finger.
The screen displayed a page for a French restaurant — La Maison Blanche.
The reason for choosing it was simple.
The description stated that the head chef was Parisian.
At least from the resume, it seemed authentic enough.
Tomorrow at noon, she would be taking Gu Yebai back to Donghai.
Before that, Gao Hongyi needed a sufficiently “decisive” scene.
A night that Gu Yebai would clearly remember and look back on repeatedly in the future.
Beyond that, she also planned to officially announce her relationship with Gu Yebai in the QQ group tonight.
She wanted to make sure those vixens hiding on the other side of the screen would completely abandon any thoughts they shouldn’t have.
Therefore, she had to prepare this dinner to be flawless.
“This place feels really high-end…” Gu Yebai unconsciously swallowed.
“1,300 RMB per person? That’s too expensive…”
“It’s not expensive at all, Uncle Bai. From now on, you need to slowly adapt to your status and learn how to enjoy life.”
Gao Hongyi gently took Gu Yebai’s arm.
Her tone was gentle, yet it carried an unquestionable certainty.
“Besides, it’s very necessary to learn table etiquette as soon as possible. For example, when you sit down, you should place your napkin on your lap, not in your collar. Bread shouldn’t be cut with a knife; it should be broken into small pieces by hand. Also, when eating French food, it’s best not to discuss topics related to money.”
She tilted her head slightly, as if she were planning ahead for a certain natural future.
“In the future, Uncle Bai will surely participate in some banquets or another. So tonight, it’s necessary for us to have a formal candlelight dinner as a prologue. I think it’s necessary for me to be your first time.”
“First time?”
“The ‘first time’ I teach Uncle Bai how to eat French food. Don’t go getting the wrong idea on your own, Uncle Bai. Though, I wouldn’t mind being the bad woman who takes away your first time, either.”
Gao Hongyi covered her mouth and giggled.
Looking at her expression, Gu Yebai was almost certain she had used that suggestive phrasing on purpose.
Gao Hongyi dialed another number.
“Hello, Dad? Are you busy? I’m planning to go for French food with Uncle Bai tonight. I’d like your help with transportation.”
That evening, when the two of them left the hotel, a Maybach was already parked quietly at the entrance, as if it had been waiting there for a long time.
This was her first time eating French food with Gu Yebai.
Even though it was French food in Shencheng, no matter how bad it was, it couldn’t be so terrible that it was inedible.
‘If I can use the alcohol to get Uncle Bai to relax a little…’ she thought,I couldn’t help but smile softly to myself.
‘Mom and Dad said I’m too young to have children. But they didn’t say that as long as precautions are taken, I can’t take my relationship with Uncle Bai a step further. If something really happens in a daze, Uncle Bai definitely won’t run away. When that time comes, we can be tied firmly together and never be apart again. If Uncle Bai gets addicted to it, that would be even better. But how to make Uncle Bai addicted to it is also something worth learning and progressing in together with him.’
“Hello. If we are going to the French restaurant, La Maison Blanche, just enter ‘The White House’ directly into the navigation, Uncle Lin.”
“All right, Miss Gao,” the driver said.
“And this must be the Young Master? A truly talented individual; you look just like the Master.”
That was the driver her father employed long-term.
He had specially flown from Donghai to Shencheng, moving without pause.
The Maybach had been arranged by her father’s friend here in Shencheng.
“Uncle Bai, we’re heading out.”
“Yeah, okay. By the way, Hongyi, do you think I should write more romance lines next, or would it be better to continue advancing the plot?”
“Honestly, Uncle Bai. We’re about to go eat, and you’re still asking such unromantic questions.”
Gao Hongyi was a loyal reader of Gu Yebai’s.
From a reader’s perspective, the faster the plot progressed, the better.
But she was feeling a bit selfish.
“The romance line, of course. So, Uncle Bai, being with me can be considered making up for your lack of experience in describing romance lines. I’ve always been looking forward to the detective and his young assistant finally ending up together.”
“I see…”
“All right. Now, focus on our upcoming candlelight dinner, Uncle Bai. In many ways, Uncle Bai is indeed more mature than I am; I admit that. But you aren’t perfect either. So, let me slowly guide you in some areas.”
Everything was going to be beautiful.
The night view tonight, the luxury car tonight, the French meal tonight, and the moment she had repeatedly imagined for tonight.
Her fair fingers gently hooked and intertwined with Gu Yebai’s.
Gao Hongyi wore her usual sweet smile.
If there was a piano in the restaurant, she might even be able to show off a little of her talent for Uncle Bai.
She hoped everything would go as she wished.
She hoped tonight would become a night in her life worth remembering over and over again.
Just as Gao Hongyi was thinking this, the French restaurant appeared at the end of her vision.
“Come on, Uncle Bai. We’ve arrived.”