Yan Dai: “Me?” As for whether she wanted to move it forward or not, she didn’t seem to have said anything like that, right?
Chu Yuan suddenly popped another thought, and the more she thought about it, the more likely it felt, so she asked it very directly. “Sister, could it be that you have some unforgettable white moonlight? Or some unforgettable ex-girlfriend?”
White moonlight, ex-girlfriend.
These were all very possible.
After all, Yan Dai had a good family background, high visual appearance, strong work ability… (one million words of descriptions are omitted here, since in Chu Yuan’s heart, Yan Dai was simply a super-duper perfect person). At this age, it was impossible for her not to have dated.
Just the thought of Yan Dai having dated in the past made her feel a bit jealous.
After all, being able to engage in free-will romance with Yan Dai must be such a happy thing.
But she had dated before too, so they could barely call it even!
She also tried her best to comfort herself not to mind Yan Dai having a past tense.
But the most terrifying thing was that someone who could be liked by Yan Dai should also be an equally outstanding girl.
And breaking up with such a good girl, it was also possible to remain unforgettable, right?
What Chu Yuan feared most was actually this.
When asking this question, Chu Yuan kept looking at Yan Dai.
Anticipating an answer that could satisfy her.
Yan Dai: “No.”
Whether it was true or false, Chu Yuan felt satisfied anyway.
Even though this answer was still as sparse with words as gold, it was superior to all love words.
Two short words had successfully hooked Chu Yuan into a wide smile.
Chu Yuan was very satisfied, and she brought the topic back again. “Then as for the matter of us getting married…”
Yan Dai: “Eat first.”
“Oh.”
Chu Yuan only took it that Yan Dai was deliberately avoiding this matter and had no interest in continuing to discuss this topic, so she didn’t talk about it further.
But she said to Qin Man, “Play a song for us to listen to?”
“What song?” Qin Man finally spoke up cautiously.
“Today I Like You Very Much Too.” Chu Yuan stole a glance at Yan Dai before finally saying this song title.
Finally reaching the destination, Qin Man did not go inside with them.
Originally, Chu Yuan thought they were going to dine at a very high-end place, just like the high-end one she took Yan Dai to yesterday, but the reality was exactly the opposite.
This was just an ordinary little restaurant.
But Chu Yuan didn’t really care about this kind of thing, instead, she felt that such an ordinary place was also good. While it wasn’t so formal, it also eliminated some of the sense of distance.
Yan Dai: “We’re just coming here to have a simple lunch.”
“I know, I’m very satisfied.” Chu Yuan was simply in total validation of Yan Dai.
Yan Dai asked, “What do you want to eat?”
“Listen to sister.”
Yan Dai nodded, randomly ordering a few items Chu Yuan might like to eat, and then added. “Let’s order a portion of mushroom soup.”
The waiter nodded and left.
Chu Yuan was a little surprised. “Little mushrooms? There’s actually mushroom soup here?”
“Mm.”
Chu Yuan laughed instead. “Sister is so good, still remembering that I said before I like little mushrooms!”
Although back then what she said was that she liked wild mushroom hotpot, it seemed to be more or less the same thing…
Yan Dai said, “The online rating for this place’s mushroom soup is pretty good.”
Chu Yuan really couldn’t hold back and let out two giggles.
In fact, being able to restrain herself from laughing out loud directly was already very incredible.
What did Yan Dai proactively ordering mushroom soup for her just now imply?
If Yan Dai’s engagement partner right now weren’t Chu Yuan, but some other girl instead.
Perhaps they would also come out to eat together right now, and advancing their relationship and getting familiar with each other was indeed a very necessary thing.
But Yan Dai would absolutely not order mushroom soup for the other party or rather, the probability of that was very small.
This portion of mushroom soup was purely ordered only for Chu Yuan.
It was her exclusive.
Once Chu Yuan thought this way, she felt that she seemed to have become a bit more important in Yan Dai’s heart.
So happy, so fortunate.
Just because of a simple portion of mushroom soup, she was already happy to the point of boiling over.
So crazy, actually able to be happy like this just because of a portion of mushroom soup.
Right now at the restaurant, the dishes were being served a bit slowly.
But it also happened to be convenient for them to talk a bit more to understand each other.
It was still Chu Yuan who opened the topic first. “Sister, are you busy this weekend?”
If not busy, then she could have time to call sister out to play with her again.
She wished she could stick together with sister from morning till night, best if sticking together for 24 hours without separating, that would be even better.
Yan Dai: “Need to work overtime.”
“Still need to work overtime on weekends?” This had simply exceeded Chu Yuan’s scope of cognition.
As someone who had just graduated from university and never needed to mingle in the workplace, she really couldn’t fathom what kind of work could actually require working for such a long time.
Even to the point of working overtime.
Yan Dai noticed the disappointment on Chu Yuan’s face. “By the end of the month, things will be a bit more free.”
Chu Yuan’s mood lightened up a bit. “Then at the end of the month, I’ll find sister to play.”
Yan Dai took out her phone, lowering her head as if replying to someone’s message, and only after replying did she nod to Chu Yuan and say okay.
The dishes had gradually been fully served. Chu Yuan poked at the little mushroom in her hand with her chopsticks. “Sister is not focusing on eating~”
Eating together with her but distracted by chatting with someone else, more importantly, she didn’t even know who the other party was, so she could only use this way to make a tiny protest.
Yan Dai casually placed her phone to her right side. “Is the mushroom soup delicious?”
“Delicious.” Chu Yuan tossed a little mushroom into her mouth. “Is sister’s work recently very busy and also very tiring?”
“Average, recently it will be relatively tiring.” Yan Dai belonged to the type who answered whatever was asked, but at the same time had a very fatal shortcoming, which was that besides answering the related question, she would rarely say anything else.
However, Chu Yuan actually rarely cared about this matter, not only that, but she also felt that this kind of Yan Dai seemed to have a very special sense of cuteness.
After falling in love with a person, no matter what the other party did or said, one would feel there was a unique cuteness about them.
Even if Yan Dai didn’t pay attention to her, she probably wouldn’t feel it was anything.
She truly felt that her entire heart had been completely grasped by Yan Dai.
Chu Yuan proposed. “Then how about I come find you at mealtime in the future? Or I can also make some delicious food with my own hands and bring it for you to eat.”
She could be described as already putting in a lot of effort to search for all opportunities to be together with Yan Dai.
Yan Dai politely declined instead. “The assistant will prepare meals, and eating out is also convenient.”
Chu Yuan felt a little frustrated.
Hmph, rejected again?
She just wanted the time spent together with sister to be longer, and the relationship between the two to be closer. What wrong did she commit…
Yet sister didn’t accept it?
And what assistant? Qin Man? Why was she everywhere?
Chu Yuan silently docked points, points, points from Qin Man in her heart!
Chu Yuan: “My cooking is super delicious!”
“You know how to cook?”
“Yeah!” Chu Yuan praised herself. “The kind of level that can directly take up a post as a Michelin chef, you know.”
As for whether she could take up the post, that remained to be determined, but Chu Yuan’s culinary skills were indeed good.
Chu Yuan had gone abroad to study at the age of seventeen, until she graduated from university and returned to the country.
A very bad thing about being abroad was that she simply couldn’t get full from the food. If she didn’t know how to cook some edible Chinese meals herself, she might have starved to death abroad long ago.
After a few years abroad, the thing she learned best turned out to be her cooking skills.
Who could have known that before she went abroad, she was someone whose fingers never touched spring water and who couldn’t even manage to differentiate vegetables?
Yan Dai nodded, this time not continuing to decline. “Then that works.”
The refusal just now had been made subconsciously.
Thinking carefully, Yan Dai felt that she really had no reason to reject her initiative.
Just purely based on the fact that Chu Yuan was her engagement partner, building a good relationship with Chu Yuan was also something she should achieve.
“Then sister can tell me what you want to eat, and I’ll deliver meals to sister.” Chu Yuan herself was idle anyway. She just played and slept every day. Mom and Mommy wouldn’t force her to learn how to manage the company either, and didn’t mind her “not doing her proper business.”
“Ordinary home cooked dishes will do.”
Chu Yuan: “Then I’ll make something different for sister every day.”
Yan Dai didn’t say much, just nodded and said okay.
In her view, coming from so far away just to deliver a meal to her was actually a very tiring thing.
Delivering once or twice was fine, perhaps out of a sudden impulse or fresh interest, but once time passed, Chu Yuan herself wouldn’t be able to persist anymore.
So she didn’t need to say too much now. Chu Yuan would slowly give up on her own later.
The two ate their meal and chatted for a while.
Basically, it was the mode where Chu Yuan proactively brought up topics and Yan Dai answered.
During this time, Yan Dai got up to go to the restroom.
Chu Yuan sat in her seat with nothing to do.
She suspected she was like someone with skin hunger disease, or rather, afflicted with Yan Dai hunger disease. The other party merely left temporarily to go to the restroom, and she already felt bored, wishing she could just directly follow her to the restroom to look for her.
Chu Yuan thought this way, and practically, she wanted to do it too.
Just as she was preparing to get up to find the person, she caught sight of the phone in front of Yan Dai’s seat.
Chu Yuan’s eyes lit up. Yan Dai hadn’t directly taken her phone along.
Naturally, she couldn’t do something like directly snooping into someone else’s phone, but she was still very curious, what would Sister Yan’s remark for her be?
When liking a person, one couldn’t control caring about this kind of thing, which should be very normal, right?
Chu Yuan thought about it and came up with an excellent idea.
Then she directly pulled out her phone and sent a kitten-peeking emoji over to Yan Dai’s WeChat chat box.
As a result, she saw Yan Dai’s phone screen light up for two seconds.
Chu Yuan thought very proudly that Little Yuan was simply a clever little ghost.
But in the next second, the smile on Chu Yuan’s face couldn’t control freezing up directly.
Because Chu Yuan finally saw the remark Yan Dai had set for her.
“Chu Yuan”
It was just her simple name, without even one extra character.
Chu Yuan’s mood felt a bit frustrated.
Was Sister Yan’s remark for everyone so cold? Or was it uniquely so only for her?
But no matter which one it was, Chu Yuan was a bit dissatisfied.
She wanted to be the most unique one in Sister Yan’s heart.
Although a WeChat remark couldn’t reflect anything, the current Chu Yuan just couldn’t control caring about this.
As for what kind of remark Chu Yuan would want Yan Dai to give her? =
She wanted something slightly special, best if it could let someone know it was her at a single glance.
And just while Chu Yuan was letting her thoughts wander wildly, Yan Dai had already returned from the restroom.
Yan Dai: “Full?”
Because she saw Chu Yuan spacing out and not eating.
“Almost…”
Even if she wasn’t completely full right now, after seeing that icy name remark, basically she was almost full enough.
Yan Dai was full too, no longer moving her chopsticks: “Where else do you want to go after eating? I’ll let Qin Man send you back.”
Chu Yuan was choked up. “Qin Man sending me?”
Why was it Qin Man again?
“She is the assistant by my side, letting her send you back also gives peace of mind.” Yan Dai explained slightly, but seeing Chu Yuan’s instantly disappointed look, she comforted her again. “I’ve been a bit busy with work recently.”
“Oh.” Chu Yuan said, “That can still be understood. Sister Yan, go ahead and be busy with work first~”
Actually, she still couldn’t forgive it!
Yan Dai: “Unhappy?”
“Mm.” Chu Yuan didn’t want to continue hiding her true feelings at all either.
Yan Dai could actually guess some of the reasons. “What’s wrong? Because there’s no time to send you back?”
“Not entirely.” Chu Yuan originally wanted to be slightly more indirect, but facts proved that she didn’t seem to have talent in this area.
Chu Yuan couldn’t help asking directly. “Sister, what is your WeChat remark for me?”
“Your name.” After Yan Dai finished speaking, she seemed to smile very lightly, suddenly guessing Chu Yuan’s little thoughts when asking this, and directly handed her phone over to her after speaking. “What do you want to change it to?”
The meaning of this action was to let her change it however she liked.
Chu Yuan considered carefully for a moment. What would be better to change it to?
After merely considering for a few seconds, Chu Yuan thought of an excellent form of address.
Everyone called her Little Yuan, but she wanted to be sister’s unique little mushroom.
So it was very easily changed!
Chu Yuan handed the phone back, smiling very playfully. “Done~”
Yan Dai lowered her head to take a look.
Five characters. My Little Mushroom (mushroom emoji)
As expected, still a kid.