Tong Ya walked in the middle, with Su Yichen and Luo Yueli on her left and right. The three of them walked side by side on the curb of Baiyue North Road.
But she wasn’t satisfied with any of them.
“Where should we eat?” Tong Ya had searched for several restaurants on her phone, then turned to her left and cast a questioning look at Su Yichen.
“Let me see.”
Taking the phone Tong Ya handed him, Su Yichen didn’t reply immediately. Instead, he glanced at Luo Yueli out of the corner of his eye.
(She asks him, and he looks back at her.)
As if sensing Su Yichen’s gaze, Luo Yueli took out her phone and sent him a message.
Luo Yueli: “Yichen, you know what I like to eat, but today Xiaoya is the main character.”
“She wants to see you, so you should consider what she wants to eat.”
After sending the message, Luo Yueli quietly shook her phone at Su Yichen and then smiled sweetly.
Su Yichen’s eyes flickered. He said nothing, just took out his phone, glanced at it, and asked:
“Tong Ya, is there anything you want to eat?”
If this were a date, the best way to deal with a girl at this point was to give her multiple-choice questions instead of open-ended ones.
Based on shared preferences, find two or three restaurants and turn a complicated open question into a simple multiple choice.
This would make it easier to advance the relationship and let the girl feel that they get along well together.
This was Su Yichen’s little trick for flirting.
If it were just him and Tong Ya, he would naturally ask that.
But with Luo Yueli beside him, it was inconvenient.
“Me…”
Tong Ya could tell that Su Yichen was asking for her opinion.
The girl also knew that now was not the time to make excuses, let alone say “Whatever.”
She first asked Luo Yueli:
“Lizi, what do you want to eat?”
Now she needed to show concern for Yichen-ge’s childhood friend and project a gentle and considerate image.
After all, he was watching.
‘After Yichen-ge becomes mine, I’ll definitely make sure to whisper sweet nothings in his ear, hmph.’
‘Only then can I feel at ease by making their relationship less intimate.’
“Xiaoya, whatever you and Yichen eat, I’ll eat too.”
Luo Yueli’s smile was gentle, but to Su Yichen, it carried an unfathomable quality.
The Luo Yueli now and the one he met on the rooftop gave him two different impressions.
Upon hearing this, Tong Ya felt a bit embarrassed.
She had just been thinking about later using pillow talk to make Su Yichen and Luo Yueli’s relationship less close.
Instead, Luo Yueli was being helpful in every way.
This made her seem petty and inferior.
But…
Who could accept their lover having such a childhood friend?
If Luo Yueli were inferior in looks, figure, knowledge, and personality, there would be nothing to worry about.
But she was so perfect.
Tong Ya felt that if she didn’t keep a close watch, she might end up being cheated on.
A boy like Yichen-ge, once they’re together, she’d have to lock him in a cage to feel at ease.
But for now, of course, she needed to be the sweet little sister.
After thinking about Luo Yueli’s usual tastes, Tong Ya moved very close to Su Yichen and pointed at the screen.
“Hot pot or Japanese food?”
The girl’s expression turned mischievously sly as she gave Su Yichen a binary choice.
Su Yichen couldn’t help but grin at that.
Well.
If I recall, Luo Yueli prefers hot pot, while Japanese food suits Tong Ya’s taste better.
‘This little kitten is really mischievous.’
“Japanese food then.”
After thinking for a moment, Su Yichen said.
If this were one of those ambiguous fake shura fields where two girls were half-rivals and both interested in him, and he wanted to have both, he would say he wanted to eat both, that both tasted good, but he only had one stomach—what to do?
Flip a coin.
That was the simplest way to avoid trouble.
But now…
At least both Luo Yueli’s behavior and her message indicated that Tong Ya should be the priority.
So now he definitely had to choose Japanese food.
“How about it?”
After saying that, Su Yichen asked both girls for their opinions while handing the phone back to Tong Ya.
Tong Ya naturally had no objection, and Luo Yueli nodded lightly in agreement.
The Japanese restaurant wasn’t far from where Su Yichen and the others were. After walking just over ten minutes, they arrived at the shop.
They sat down in a small private room, scanned the code, ordered dishes, and placed the order.
After smoothly completing the whole process, Tong Ya’s face immediately darkened. She secretly pinched her fair thigh under her skirt.
Damn it!
Although this place wasn’t one of the top two Japanese restaurants in Jinyue City, it was still pretty good.
Tong Ya had deliberately avoided the two most expensive ones; she had been to those before.
As always, although Tong Ya grew up as an ordinary girl, her spending habits from childhood to now were completely disconnected from those of ordinary girls.
She thought she had avoided the minefield, but a single oversight—the prices here weren’t low either. It was definitely not something she, with her “poor student” persona, could afford.
Fortunately, she had a habit of maintaining a “small appetite” persona in front of Su Yichen, so she hadn’t ordered too much.
Otherwise, the lie would be impossible to maintain.
But now…
It was still a lot!
The three of them had ordered nearly 1,200 yuan!
And she had ordered so smoothly!
It’s over, over. She was going to be exposed.
Tong Ya’s face turned pale, and her heart sank like ashes.
Suggest splitting the bill?
That would be worse than being exposed.
If splitting the bill made Su Yichen misunderstand her as the kind of girl who invites guys out to fleece them, wouldn’t that be an injustice?!
It hadn’t been long since her last “menstrual cramps.”
At first glance, Su Yichen noticed Tong Ya’s bad expression and couldn’t help but wonder if the little kitten’s period had come and leaked.
But then he thought again—the little kitten’s period shouldn’t have come yet.
“Um, Yichen, can you take a look at these?”
Tong Ya asked quietly.
“Let me see.”
Su Yichen glanced at the price on the phone bill, then recalled how smoothly Tong Ya had ordered dishes after entering the private room.
‘So she’s worried about exposing her little rich girl identity.’
‘He felt like laughing, but luckily he was professional enough.’
As a dedicated actor, Su Yichen naturally wouldn’t see through Tong Ya’s poor acting, let alone laugh.
Of course, that didn’t stop him from teasing Tong Ya a little.
After thinking for a moment, Su Yichen said:
“I have no problem with it.”
Then he handed the phone to Luo Yueli:
“Yueli, take a look?”
“Okay.”
Luo Yueli responded and took the phone Su Yichen handed her.
Tong Ya secretly rejoiced inside.
‘As expected, Yichen-ge is super dense and didn’t notice.’
‘Finally, it won’t be exposed.’
But the good times didn’t last.
Luo Yueli had planned to just glance over it, but her peripheral vision inadvertently caught the price, and her willow-leaf eyebrows slightly furrowed.