Chapter 397: Chapter 357 It’s best not to meet_2
"I’m sorry." Zhuo Yuqing suddenly said in a soft voice.
"No need to say sorry." Bai Chengxi’s tone was also rather harsh, and after he spoke, Zhuo Yuqing stopped talking, looking down and fiddling with the two straps on her backpack.
They remained silent until they reached Xiangshan Club, where the familiar manager led them to Bai Chengxi’s private room.
When ordering, Bai Chengxi holding the menu, pointed to one of the dishes and said: "Don’t put spicy in this, don’t put cilantro in this cold dish, less vinegar."
After ordering, he noticed Zhuo Yuqing was looking at him. He picked up his glass of water and took a sip without making a sound.
Zhuo Yuqing wasn’t ungrateful, because what he had just ordered were all her dietary dislikes; she had been spoiled by her father from childhood, and was somewhat picky. She did not expect that this man remembered all of them and even indulged her picky habits.
"Bai Chengxi." She called him softly, Bai Chengxi looked over indifferently, and only then did she carefully ask, "What do you like to eat?"
Bai Chengxi, looking at the girl in front of him who appeared slightly guilty and somewhat pleasing, felt his previous annoyance dissipate, as if his heart was enveloped by a soft, warm flow. He spoke, still with a slightly harsh tone: "Fish."
"Then what don’t you like to eat?" Seeing that he was willing to answer, Zhuo Yuqing felt more confident.
"Tomatoes."
Zhuo Yuqing blinked, and it took a while before she responded, oh, so he doesn’t like tomatoes, she had even cooked scrambled eggs with tomatoes yesterday; how embarrassing, luckily he didn’t eat it.
Halfway through the meal, he suddenly said, "I need to go home this weekend, it’s the old lady’s birthday."
"The old lady is?" Zhuo Yuqing was still unclear about his family.
"The old lady is my grandmother."
Was this hinting at meeting the parents? Truthfully, Zhuo Yuqing hadn’t expected it to be so soon, but sooner or later she had to meet his family, and she was mentally prepared.
"Then what does grandma like?" With the old lady’s birthday coming up, she couldn’t just go there empty-handed, "And also, what do your parents like?"
Bai Chengxi stared at her for a while, regardless of whether Zhuo Yuqing had feelings for him, she at least seemed to care about his family.
"She’s just a big kid, likes things not suitable for her age. My parents are easy to get along with, you don’t need to be nervous; as for gifts, anything casual will do, they aren’t very particular."
Zhuo Yuqing realized Bai Chengxi had said a lot but still hadn’t addressed the main point, but she felt it was not appropriate to ask further.
After dinner, Zhuo Yuqing needed to return to the magazine offices. She initially wanted to take a taxi by herself, but Bai Chengxi said he was on the way and offered a ride. Then, in the car, he gave her another piece of sensational news.
Zhuo Yuqing, who was drinking mineral water, choked a bit and looked at him incredulously: "Really?"
Bai Chengxi then gave her an ’Am I joking?’ look before focusing back on driving.
"I just knew it, this thing mustn’t be so simple, why did this news break just as his film was about to be released, even if you didn’t tell me, his management team must have leaked it intentionally, right? Actually, the real intention is to promote the movie, although Chi Ming is getting a lot of criticism now, once this news goes out, he can quickly turn things around." Zhuo Yuqing analyzed seriously, "Chi Ming’s move is really cunning."
"Now the news has already broken." Bai Chengxi said casually, looking forward, "It’s up to you to release it."
"You’ve given me two such explosive pieces of news, how should I thank you?"
"If you really want to thank me, make me steamed fish for dinner when we get back."
Zhuo Yuqing blinked and silently said to herself, cooking, can’t it be something else?
But this was Bai Chengxi’s request, he had given her such great resources, how could she bargain with him.
So she gritted her teeth and nodded heavily: "Okay."
As soon as Zhuo Yuqing arrived at her office, she received a WeChat friend request with the domineering message: "Add me."
She clicked accept.
Soon, Bai Chengxi sent her a scanned document, Zhuo Yuqing enlarged it to see, her face lit up with surprise, with this, her news wasn’t baseless anymore.
But Zhuo Yuqing did not immediately organize this news, instead, she opened Bai Chengxi’s WeChat profile, his bio read just one sentence: "The best we never meet."
Zhuo Yuqing also liked this poem very much, she silently recited the next line: "So that we never fall in love."
She continued to browse his photo album, but unfortunately, besides a movie promotion message he transferred four years ago, it was empty, nothing else.
Zhuo Yuqing was about to close her phone, suddenly recalling the abundance of posts in her own Moments, back then she was deeply infatuated with Tang Tianyou, almost every post in her Moments related to Tang Tianyou, some were pictures with him, and some were her feeling melancholic alone.
Oh no, oh no, what if Bai Chengxi saw them, even she felt those posts were cheesy, looking like a teenager secretly in love.
Even Liu Lian once chased her asking if she had a crush on someone, seeing how melancholic her posts were.
Zhuo Yuqing hurriedly opened her own WeChat, starting from the top, she began deleting her Moments; she hadn’t realized it before, but looking at them now, even she was shocked by how cheesy her younger self was.
"Is there such a person, such a scene, you speak of giving up countless times, but in the end, you can’t bear to do it."
"Because I really care, so I’ve always pretended not to care."
"Liking you, turns out to be a matter of my own."
Each of these posts was paired with especially sad images.
Zhuo Yuqing’s hands trembled with excitement, not understanding why she was so afraid of Bai Chengxi seeing them.
And in the building of Xingdong Media, Bai Chengxi stared at the lines on his phone, lost in thought. **