Forced to Date a Big Shot

15: Let's Play Together Next Time

"Pua!"

Lu Chao spit out the milk he had just drunk. "What did you say you wanted to buy?"

Confused, Xue Xi looked at Canine Teeth and did not understand why he overreacted. Yet she still explained it seriously. "It's the balloons that were on the shelves when I came by that first day."

What balloons? Those were clearly...

Canine Teeth had wanted to speak, but he choked on himself and began to cough violently.

Xue Xi looked at Xiang Huai perplexedly.

The man placed his hands in his pocket and walked to the counter. He sat down lazily on the chair before asking, "You're buying that to play on your own?"

She paused for two seconds before replying, "...Yes."

Xiang Huai leaned back as he hid himself in the dark corner of the store. Then, he said with a hint of laughter in his voice, "How boring it is to play alone."

Xue Xi gave it a thought. "That's true, too. Then I'll buy them and leave them here so we can play together next time."

"Pua!"

Just as Lu Chao had had a mouthful of water to suppress his cough, he spat it out again.

She noticed that something was off, and just as she was about to ask Canine Teeth why he was being so agitated, the sound of fingers knocking against the table was heard. Xiang Huai's mesmerizing voice rang. "Little kid, you're gonna be late soon."

Late...

She anxiously looked at the clock in the store and saw that there were five more minutes before the bell was to ring.

She picked up her school bag in a hurry and ran outside. "I'll go for now."

Looking at the girl's back, Lu Chao slowly turned to look at his boss. The man was calmly hidden in the corner and reading his book.

Lu Chao walked over and leaned on the counter. "Boss, when are you going back?"

He replied, "We'll talk about it another time."

Lu Chao nodded. "Right, when I got the tea from Old Gao yesterday, he obliquely tried to know your whereabouts. He sent a message today to ask what the tea was for. How should I reply?"

Xiang Huai kept quiet for quite some time.

Lu Chao thought the man's silence meant that he did not need to reply. However, Xiang Huai suddenly chuckled. "Betrothal present."

"Huh?"

Lu Chao was stunned, but he quickly became excited.

If Old Gao were to know that Boss, who had been single for 25 years, has finally gotten a fiancée in Bin City, his jaw would probably drop, wouldn't it?

After replying to the message, he walked to the dining table and picked up the hundred yuan bill that Xue Xi left behind. Just as he was about to put it in his pocket, he heard Xiang Huai knocking his fingers against the table again.

He froze as he turned around and saw Xiang Huai staring straight at him.

Lu Chao gave the hundred yuan bill to the man out of instinct. The man opened his wallet and placed the bill alongside the two hundred yuan bills from yesterday before reading his book composedly again.

Lu Chao: "..."

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After two periods of physical education where Xue Xi did her exercises, she came back. Seizing every minute and second, she kept doing the Olympiad questions that Old Liu had assigned for her to do.