Inside the kitchen, a small flame burned beneath the stove while the iron pot emitted a delightful bubbling sound. A rich, mouth-watering aroma of fish soup drifted outward from the kitchen, smelling simply wonderful...
Four cooked dishes sat on the table: shredded potatoes with vinegar and chili, sweet-and-sour pork ribs, stir-fried pork kidneys, and pan-fried hairtail. They were all dishes that Lin Li loved to eat!
Ah... no, it should be that as long as Su Yue was the one cooking, Lin Li never turned anything down and loved everything she made.
Gulp.
For the past two days it had been either egg and shredded pork noodles or self-heating rice. Lin Li was now desperately craving a normal, home-cooked stir-fry. Seeing this table full of dishes made his mouth water uncontrollably, and he swallowed hard.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and sit down! I'm going to dish up the fish soup." Su Yue walked up behind Lin Li and reached out to tap his shoulder.
"Oh." Lin Li nodded, quickly pulling out a chair to sit down. Watching Su Yue's swaying figure as she walked leisurely into the kitchen to dish up the fish soup, a thought couldn't help but pop into his mind.
Ah, Su Yue is so pretty and such a good cook. If she were my girlfriend... Ah, stop daydreaming. There's a huge crowd of guys chasing Su Yue, so how could it ever be my turn?
Lin Li shook his head, banishing his unrealistic fantasies. Then, he remembered that there was a very important thing he had forgotten to do.
"Su Yue, my phone is about to die. Can I borrow your charger?"
"The charger is on the bedside table in my bedroom. Go get it yourself!" Su Yue said from inside the kitchen as she dished up the fish soup.
Lin Li got up from the dining table and walked toward Su Yue's bedroom.
Click.
He pushed open the door to Su Yue's bedroom and walked in. A fragrance like orchids immediately rushed to meet him. Such a pleasant scent was definitely not the smell of perfume.
Subconsciously twitching his nose a few times, Lin Li reached out to turn on the indoor light.
As the electric light came on, the darkness inside the room was instantly dispelled.
His gaze turned toward the bedside table, where he immediately spotted the charger Su Yue had mentioned. Lin Li walked over to the bedside table, bent down, and picked up the charger.
Just as he was about to turn and leave, the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of Su Yue's bed. That casual, unintentional glance instantly stopped his about-to-depart footsteps in their tracks.
On the white bedsheets, a few purple lace undergarments were glaringly conspicuous.
Tap, tap, tap...
Just as Lin Li stood frozen in a daze, footsteps sounded from outside the door.
Because these footsteps were somewhat hurried, one could tell that the owner of the footsteps was feeling rather anxious.
There was no one else in the house besides himself and Su Yue, so whose footsteps were outside went without saying.
Awoken by the hurried footsteps, Lin Li hurriedly withdrew his gaze and walked toward the door, pretending as if nothing had happened.
He had just reached the bedroom doorway when he bumped right into Su Yue, who was walking quickly into the room.
"Ah!" Colliding head-on with Lin Li, Su Yue let out an exclamation as her body tilted to the side.
Seeing that she was about to fall to the ground, Lin Li acted with lightning speed, shooting out his right hand to grab Su Yue's flailing, snow-white, and delicate wrist.
With a slight tug back, Su Yue instantly lunged straight into Lin Li's embrace.
The initial collision had been so sudden that Lin Li hadn't felt much, but this current intimate contact allowed him to very clearly feel Su Yue's generous bosom.
This kind of battle array was more than an experienced veteran cadre could handle, let alone a little rookie like Lin Li who had never even had a girlfriend.
To avoid making a fool of himself in front of Su Yue, Lin Li quickly reached out to place his hands on Su Yue's shoulders, pushing her away from his chest.
"You scared me to death." Su Yue patted her generous bosom. The magnificent, rolling spectacle left Lin Li too afraid to look directly—she was simply too fierce.
"I'm so hungry, I'm going to eat." Flurriedly dropping those words, Lin Li practically bolted in the direction of the dining room.
Standing in place, Su Yue watched the flustered, fleeing Lin Li, and then looked toward her own bed.
The purple undergarments were laid out very conspicuously on the bedding.
The moment she thought of Lin Li seeing those few pieces of intimate wear just now, Su Yue—who was always bold and uninhibited in front of Lin Li—felt her snow-white cheeks instantly flush with the red of rouge.
At the dining table, Lin Li and Su Yue ate quietly, a situation completely different from when they usually sat down to eat together.
Agh, this is so awkward! Why did I walk so fast just now? Lin Li kept his eyes glued to the dishes in front of him, not daring at all to check out Su Yue's expression right now.
This is so humiliating, I really should have put the dried laundry away in the wardrobe... Although Su Yue felt a bit shy inside, her reaction seemed somewhat more calm and collected. While eating, she was also quietly observing Lin Li.
When she saw Lin Li single-mindedly throwing himself into the grand enterprise of eating, the shyness in her heart gradually vanished. What am I being shy about? As if this coward would ever dare to flirt with me.
The quiet dining atmosphere did not last long. The moment the shyness in Su Yue's heart completely dissipated, she took the initiative to break the atmosphere.
"Lin Li, now that you've graduated from college, do you have any plans for the future?"
What plans for the future? I plan to hunt exotic beasts in the wilderness, stuff the Miracle Small Tree on the Mysterious Small Island until it's completely full, and make it grow magical little fruit after magical little fruit.
Then I'll eat those magical little fruits, become a powerful Cultivator, and go on to make tons and tons of money. Finally, I'll marry a wealthy, beautiful woman and reach the peak of life...
Sigh, it's a pity I can't tell a single soul about such a grand blueprint... This must be the stage of forbearance one has to endure before a mighty expert achieves success and renown!
Lin Li, who had been wholeheartedly focused on eating his food, heard Su Yue's question, and a long, impassioned speech flashed rapidly through his mind.
Swallowing the food in his mouth, Lin Li turned his head to look at the pretty and captivating Su Yue, responding with an air of having no great ambitions, "Haven't thought about it. I'll just coast along like this for now. Anyway, I won't starve to death."
Su Yue had rented Lin Li's house after graduating from college, and today it had been almost three years. Through all the various events that had happened during that time, the two of them had transcended the landlord-and-tenant relationship to become exceptionally good friends.
Su Yue had long since known about Lin Li's mindset of holing up at house and acting like a carefree salted fish.
Only, Su Yue didn't want someone in the prime of his youth like Lin Li to hole up at home acting like a salted fish.
"Even though you have some savings, it's still no good to just sit around eating through them like this!"
Big sis! Please don't talk about sitting around eating through savings. Your junior here doesn't even have a single cent to his name right now—you could practically call me destitute...
Lin Li truly had bitter sufferings in his heart that he couldn't voice right now. If Su Yue hadn't called him over to her place to eat just now, he wouldn't even have had a place to charge his phone.
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