"Thank you, Senior Han," Shi Yao's soft voice soon replied.
It was only after hearing Shi Yao's response did Lin Jiage manage to calm himself down, and he slowly turned his head back.
Senior Han... It seemed like that was all there was to their relationship. It was probably just a normal dinner between fellow schoolmates...
Thinking so, Lin Jiage moved his chopsticks and continued to dig into his food.
But barely after he picked up a slice of fish with his chopsticks, the man whom Shi Yao addressed as Senior Han spoke once more, "Shi Yao, eat this. I've already removed the bones in this one…"
Lin Jiage's hand trembled, causing the slice of fish to slide down from his chopstick and back into the plate. The sauce splattered and stained his white shirt.
Had it been on any other occasion, the fastidious him would have immediately reached for a tissue paper to clean his shirt, but he didn't do so this time around. Instead, he turned around and faced the lush, green leaves behind him once again.
Are the two of you that familiar with each other? Didn't you hear her calling you Senior Han? With such a polite form of address, don't you think you're being a little too intimate by deboning a fish for her?
Grumbling on the inside, Lin Jiage craned his neck toward the table behind him. But no matter how he squinted, all that was in his sight was those lush, green leaves.
When he entered the restaurant earlier, he had been glad that these green plants would conceal him. But at this moment, he had nothing but antagonism left for them. Just what kind of atrocious interior design was this? To fill the restaurant with so many green plants, were the owners not afraid that they might draw mosquitoes into their restaurant...
Just as Lin Jiage was just getting ready to stand up, Shi Yao, who had just swallowed a mouthful of food, replied, "Thank you, Senior Han, but there's no need for you to trouble yourself. I can eat on my own."
That's right, that's right! Soft Bun is already nineteen this year. It's not like she's a three-year-old child who needs your excessive concern!
The nonchalance in Shi Yao's tone soothed the irritation Lin Jiage felt, allowing him to cool down once more.
"Senior Han, you should eat too. The food won't taste as good cold…" Shi Yao urged again.
Lin Jiage didn't turn back this time around, but he began stabbing at the fish in his plate with his chopsticks.
If the food doesn't taste good cold, you should just end the dinner...
There was a very long silence behind him.
For the air between them to turn silent and awkward, it seemed like the two of them weren't very familiar with each other after all...
Lin Jiage slowly picked up a slice of meat from the fish he had devastated through his relentless poking, but before he could bring it to his mouth, that Senior Han-or-whatever person suddenly broke the silence, "Shi Yao, I have something to tell you—"
There's something wrong about his tone...
Sensing that something was amiss, Lin Jiage stopped eating and pricked up his ears.
Too absorbed into tackling the fish sitting before her, Shi Yao didn't notice the anomaly in Han Jing's voice at all. With a perfunctory nod, she replied absent-mindedly, "Senior Han, feel free to speak."
Staring intently at Shi Yao, whose cheeks were puffed up from stuffing too much food in her mouth, Han Jing nervously gulped down a mouthful of saliva.
From the very moment he lay his eyes on her while visiting He Tiantian at her dormitory room, he had already fallen in love with her.
Half a year had passed since then, but he still couldn't find the courage to confess his feelings.
It was by chance that he had learned from He Tiantian that she would be coming here to watch a match today, so despite being uninterested in eSports, he still bought a ticket and came over.
The truth was that he wasn't intending to confess today, but watching as she adorably gobbled down the food before her, his heart skipped a beat. He suddenly felt an urge to confess to her, and this urge only seemed to be growing stronger by the moment...
He closed his eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. When he opened them once more, his gaze had become much more serious than before. Even his tone had turned solemn as well.
"Shi Yao, I... I like you. Will you... Will you be my girlfriend?"