Yao Ziyan set down her Magic Phone, cradled her cup, and took small sips of flower tea. She looked up at Luo Chuan and Elina not far away. The boss was prattling on about Origin Mall's employee benefits, while the sea demon girl listened in a daze. Judging from her expression, she seemed somewhat tempted.
Yao Ziyan found the scene somewhat familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.
She gently blew on the tea, watching the petals floating on the surface slowly drift apart, then took another small sip. A faint floral fragrance lingered on her tongue, and upon careful savoring, she could taste threads of sweetness. Unlike Luo Chuan, she did not need to add heaps of sugar and honey to her flower tea, claiming that "only then does it taste satisfying."
Yao Ziyan narrowed her eyes slightly, the corners of her lips curving upward.
She remembered.
When Luo Chuan had talked her into staying back then, he seemed to have used this very method. At the time, she had not even figured things out before muddle-headedly signing some contract and boarding the pirate ship. Now, even if she wanted to get off, she could not.
Luo Chuan and Elina's conversation temporarily came to an end. The sea demon girl was left feeling rather muddled and said she would go back and think it over carefully. In that regard, she was much smarter than Yao Ziyan, at least she had not been directly sweet-talked by Luo Chuan. Then again, when they had first met, Yao Ziyan had indeed seemed not particularly clever.
Luo Chuan ambled back to his seat and noticed that Yao Ziyan had been staring at him. Her glasslike purple eyes were bright and lively, making it impossible to guess what she was thinking.
"What