Chapter 18.2: It Looked Quite Romantic

Chapter 18.2: It Looked Quite Romantic

After walking through a long wooden corridor, Zheng Shuyi finally realized that this was not a private dinner with Shi Yan, but a dinner party by one of Shi Yan's elders.

Zheng Shuyi suddenly stopped.

"Didn't I say to eat dinner with me?"

Shi Yan calmly glanced at her, "Doesn't this count as eating dinner with you?"

Zheng Shuyi:?

Whatever.

She lowered her head and out an angry "humph".Diiscover new stories at novelhall.com

"You know this isn't what I meant."

"What did you mean?"

Zheng Shuyi looked up at him and held her words back.

Whatever. There are just some people who you can't reason with.

When they reached the door, Shi Yan stopped and glanced at Zheng Shuyi.

He shoved one of his hands into his pockets, forming an arch with his arm.

Zheng Shuyi understood what he meant and wrapped her arm around his.

Right now, she was attending this dinner as the role of Shi Yan's partner.

But this didn't make Zheng Shuyi happy.

Due to work reasons, she was often invited to various banquets and dinner parties. During these situations, men would usually bring a female partner with them.

It could be a wife, a girlfriend, a colleague, or even a friend from a long time ago.

So in Zheng Shuyi's mind, Shi Yan would often bring various other women to dinner parties like this as well. He didn't treat her with any specialty at all.

If it wasn't Zheng Shuiy today, it would have definitely been some other woman.

No wonder Shi Yan agreed so quickly last night. Maybe he was just struggling to pick out a woman to go with, and she offered it herself.

Sigh.

Zheng Shuyi was a little speechless.

Businessmen were like this: they weren't interested in things that couldn't earn them money, but fortunately, this dinner seemed to be more like a feast. It didn't look serious, and formal dresses weren't even required.

And this was a Chinese-style dinner, which was a bit social. It was just a group of young people gathering around for a meal right before New Year.

In the biggest private dining room of the garden, there were four tables. They were separated by emerald screens, keeping the conversations a bit private.

When Shi Yan walked in, everyone who was sitting across from the door greeted him.

In the crowd, Shi Yan has always been the one everyone paid attention to.

When people heard his name, many turned their heads to look at him.

Zheng Shuyi, who was standing beside Shi Yan and holding his arms, felt that she got an extraordinary amount of attention as well.

What's the matter?

Zheng Shuyi was puzzled, isn't it normal for him to come with a woman?

However, after the people who were seated already exchanged glances, various scenes and thoughts appeared in their minds and were shown on their expressions.

Then, a WeChat group exploded.

Is this the actress on Shi Yan's car the other day?

Beside him, Shi Yan slowly turned his head towards the left.

Just as she thought, Shi Yan was looking at her.

He looked down, glanced at the phone screen, then looked at her face again.

The air seemed to freeze in place.

The smile at the corner of Zheng Shuyi's mouth disappeared. She quickly looked down and started typing under Shi Yan's gaze.

Zheng Shuyi: -shaped cakes.

After sending, she placed down her phone and observed her surroundings.

The look from Shi Yan finally left.

He didn't say anything, but it was more embarrassing than if he did.

The conversations at the tables were still the same. Everyone was talking happily, just like half a minute ago.

Zheng Shuyi also acted normal, as if nothing had happened.

However, two minutes later, someone saw Zheng Shuyi slowly pushing away the bowl in front of her and buried her face into her hands on the table.

Her shoulders sank, and her hair fell down. Her whole body seemed like she was trying to hide in a hole

Someone asked, "What happened to her?"

Shi Yan glanced at her and gently rubbed her trembling head with his palm.

"Not sure," he said calmly, "maybe the food doesn't suit her appetite?"

After that, Zheng Shuyi didn't know what else happened on the table.

She only knew that although some people looked alive, they were actually dead.

Zheng Shuyi covered her face and comforted herself for a long time. It wasn't until most of the food on the table have disappeared did she slowly raise her head.

Fortunately, Shi Yan didn't have any abnormal expression on his face and didn't even look at her.

Zheng Shuyi let out a sigh of relief.

There has never been another moment when she hoped that Shi Yan hadn't look at her.

But after a while, a waiter knocked on the door and came in. Then placed a small cake in front of all the women present.

Zheng Shuyi: ""

Her back stiffened again, and she looked at the little cake in front of her as if her soul was about to fly out of her body.

"Who ordered these?"

Someone asked.

Shi Yan wiped his hands slowly and said, "I did."

Zheng Shuyi: ""

"Someone here really likes cakes.

Zheng Shuyi: ""

She continued to stare at the cake in front of her.

The pink mousse, white cream, decorated with two cherries. The cake looked very cute, and it should taste very delicious as well.

But for some reason, in Zheng Shuyi's eyes, it looked quite romantic.

She felt that it was a little more than just a cake.

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