After Lily left, Nie Chuan followed behind Reece.
Even if he couldn’t see Reece’s face, Nie Chuan knew this guy’s expression was definitely freezing.
“Hey, what’s up with you? Weren’t you bringing your fans around campus?” Nie Chuan deliberately walked around in front of Reece, wanting to see his expression clearly.
Reece pushed Nie Chuan’s face to the side and replied coolly, “They’re too troublesome.”
“Oh. Why didn’t you tell me that you made a reservation before the game?” Nie Chuan asked.
“I didn’t make a reservation.”
“Huh?” Nie Chuan thought he heard wrong, “So we’re just eating wherever? What about the dining hall?”
If you didn’t make a reservation then why say you did?
If it didn’t matter what you ate then just go eat Asian food at the dining hall with Carlo ah!
This made Nie Chuan feel like he let Lily down.
At this moment, Reece suddenly stopped and looked at Nie Chuan with a hint of cold ridicule in his eyes. “If you ate with Lily, were you planning on splitting the bill?”
“Ah…… I’ll probably pay it……”
Although the last time he and Lily went to the Chinese restaurant was expensive enough for Nie Chuan to almost be in tears. Lily was the lady in any case ah. Plus, how expensive can desserts be?
“A piece of cake the size of half a palm would be twelve dollars.” Reece raised his hand.
Nie Chuan was dumbfounded. “Twelve dollars?”
“That doesn’t even include the coffee and service charge. Are you sure you’d want to go?” Reece asked.
Nie Chuan shook his head.
If he waited until he graduated college and got a job then it wouldn’t be a problem inviting Lily to such a restaurant to eat but right now, his buying power had yet to reach that level.
So Reece said he made a reservation on purpose for me?
“Thank you,” Nie Chuan said with his head lowered.
“Are you planning to invite Lily to that dessert shop next time?” Reese raised an eyebrow.
“Since she wants to go there, I should invite her there to eat.”
“When I was in New York, the place where my father and my sister had dinner was also a Michelin star restaurant. But I won’t be taking you there,” Reece said.
“Why? I can split the bill with you too! Once I save up, I can also invite you out to eat!” Nie Chuan widened his eyes with an offended expression.
Was Reece looking down on him? Even if his family wasn’t as wealthy as Reece’s, he grew up eating the simplest of home-cooked foods, and he’s never even seen the door of a Michelin restaurant, why isn’t Reece willing to take him to one?
Even if Reece was living the life of nobility, doesn’t he, a commoner, have the power to experience it for himself?
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Reece’s words immediately made Nie Chuan feel relieved.
Reece had always been thinking about himself, not from the perspective of money and status but whether or not he’s happy.
“Then I’ll invite you in the future,” Nie Chuan said seriously.
“Why?”
“In any case, I’m treating you!”
“Oh, then I’ll order the black truffle steak. You might need to bake a week’s worth of pizza at the pizzeria for that.”
“Sure.” Nie Chuan replied briskly.
He felt that the relationship between himself and Reece had gone back to normal.
“For the appetizer, I’ll get spicy bass.”
“No problem.”
“1982 vintage red wine. At worst, you’ll be making pizzas for another week.”
The corner of Nie Chuan’s mouth twitched. The area he usually spent the most money on was games. At worst, he’ll quit them.
“Oh, you get it ba.”
“Then what will you drink?”
“Water.”
“With water, you’d need to bake pizzas for an hour.”
Reece, what on earth are you eating! It’s obviously more expensive than the place Lily chose!
As soon as Nie Chuan turned, he saw the curve of Reece’s lips.
This guy was smiling, so he was just teasing him again?
How boring! You scoundrel!
“Well I’m hungry, what should we eat now?” Nie Chuan asked.
“What do you want to eat?” Reece asked back.
“I think I can eat two burgers this big right now!” Nie Chuan gestured with his hands.
“We can have barbecue then.”
“Barbecue? I know this place near the school! That one has really great barbecue sauce, let’s go ba!”
As soon as Nie Chuan thought of barbecue, his saliva practically overflowed. He grabbed Reece and dragged him towards the school gate.
The barbecue restaurant was an open-aired one where everyone had to make their own charcoal fire and cook over it.
Nie Chuan burned the charcoal very attentively, but he couldn’t light it even after burning it for a long time. Reece crossed his arms and watched from the side. Half an hour passed, Nie Chuan’s stomach was rumbling but the charcoal fire was still not lit.
“Huh? What’s going on?” Nie Chuan felt a deep breakdown.
The last time he came with Zhou Bin and Mao Xian, Zhou Bin had made the fire while he and Mao Xian took charge of barbecuing. He didn’t really pay attention to how Zhou Bin had started the charcoal fire.
“Did you give your chemistry knowledge back to the professor ah.” The corner of Reece’s lips twitched, he seemed to enjoy watching Nie Chuan flounder around.
He pressed his palm on Nie Chuan’s forehead. “Go pick the drinks and meat, I’ll make the fire.”
“You can make a fire?” Nie Chuan felt that Reece was almost omnipotent.
“During holidays back when I was in grade school, I often went camping with my mother and sister.”
“Sounds like you’re a pro!”
But when Nie Chuan returned to their seats, Reece really did already have a fire going.
Fortunately, cooking things was Nie Chuan’s specialty, otherwise he would really feel useless!
Nie Chuan, while brushing sauce onto the chicken wings, asked Reece who was seated and reading the news on his phone, “Is there anything you can’t do?”
“I learn very quickly but there are few things that I will persist in doing.”
“That’s because you’re too smart. If you grasp something too quickly and it’s not challenging, you’ll find it boring. What sports can you do? Other than basketball?”
“I can play most ball games.”
“You even know table tennis?” Nie Chuan couldn’t help asking.
“Yeah.”
“Alright! Someday we’ll have a match!” Inwardly, Nie Chuan thought of how he had been playing table tennis on his patio with the other kids ever since he was a child. Reece only knows how to do it, he might not be proficient.
He finally has the possibility of defeating Reece in some area.
“You think you can beat me?” Reece suddenly put his phone down and leaned back in his chair to look at Nie Chuan.
“No…… I’m just curious about how you’d look while playing table tennis.”
Ai, how boring, you can guess everything I’m thinking. Can we even stay roommates?
Nie Chuan placed the grilled chicken wings on the table. After standing by the charcoal fire for so long, he was very thirsty.
With a crisp sound, Reece pulled the ring of the Coke can and placed it directly in front of Nie Chuan.
Nie Chuan smiled. Sure enough, there really was a tacit understanding between him and Reece! It was completely incomparable to those so-called fans. Only they would do something so silly for Reece, this guy doesn’t even eat sweets!
Actually…… Reece might not like to eat barbecue either……
“Why did you refuse when Mr. Lyndon wanted to interview you?” Reece asked.
“Of course it’s because I’m not strong enough ah.”
“But your performance in the practice match today already surpassed my expectations. I should have let you keep the weight on your ankles.” Reece took a bite of the chicken wing.
This kind of posture was completely different from the aristocratic temperament that comes with holding a knife and fork to cut steak at a restaurant. The motion of turning his head as well as the lines of his neck were all full of unruliness.
Nie Chuan swallowed inexplicably.
“Do you really think I’m that good?”
“Mm.” Reece looked at Nie Chuan and suddenly smiled, “You look like a kid who wants to get a reward from me. Want me to give you a kiss, hmm?”
Nie Chuan knew that Reece was joking with him again.
But different from many past embarrassing predicaments, this time, Nie Chuan really wanted what Reece said to be true.
Nie Chuan lowered his head and whispered dully, “Kiss me if you have the ability ah……”
At that moment, Reece put one hand on the table and suddenly leaned toward Nie Chuan.
Almost hitting him, the moment Nie Chuan raised his face, his brain crashed completely.
But Reece stopped less than one centimeter from the tip of Nie Chuan’s nose. His breath passed between Nie Chuan’s lips and permeated into his mouth, touching the tip of his tongue.
Just when Nie Chuan was feeling dumbfounded, Reece’s eyes looked straight into his.
“When I have the ability to actually kiss you, don’t be so absentminded.”
“W-what?”
“Hand those German sausages over to me to barbecue.”
Reece raised his eyebrow as he tapped the table with his finger.
“You barbecue it yourself!”
A fire rose from the pit of Nie Chuan’s stomach to his head.
He was very angry at that moment, but he wasn’t sure whether he was angry because Reece played him again or because he didn’t actually kiss him.
MadMadamMims: 0_0 What a tease! NC this is where you kiss him instead!
Drea: NC!! When you see an opportunity to steal some tofu, don’t be so absentminded!
Btw, sorry for the late chapter! I’m still in the process of getting my schedule back on track 😅
awii! Thank you for the chapter ehe
Teasing NC really is pretty much Reece’s lifelong job, huh lmaoo
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Thanks for the chapter ❤❤
If Reece ever stops teasing Nie Chuan, I’ll know that something is really wrong. Nie Chuan should have just kissed Reece. Payback for all the teasing. Plus, I think they both want it. Thanks for the update!