"Have you eaten?" Lin Qi sat beside the dining table and looked at them. "If not, you can eat here while you're at it."
The two brothers both shook their heads. Noel said, "We already have."
Lin Qi put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at the little maid. "Bring them a breakfast, and add more meat!" As he spoke, he pointed at the two chairs opposite him. "You can't hide your true thoughts at all when you're lying."
The Green Brothers kept fairly normal hours, but neither of them was married. Aside from themselves, the house contained only their men.
There were girls too, but expecting those girls to make breakfast would be less worthwhile than spending a little money and solving the problem on the way.
They had driven over early in the morning, timing their departure precisely. They definitely had not had time to eat breakfast.
Besides, when Lin Qi asked them, Fern glanced at the table, while Noel rejected the offer without even looking. That was completely contrary to how people normally thought.
People always subconsciously weighed whether something was beneficial to them. It was like how some boys already had girlfriends, but when someone asked whether they had a girlfriend, they would first look over the girl in front of them—or ask whether the girl posing the question was pretty! People were always selfish. That could not be called a bad habit; it was merely an instinct hidden beneath the surface.
Just like how hungry people wanted to eat, there was nothing shameful about it.
Noel's answer had come too quickly and too decisively, while Fern had looked at the food. Lin Qi immediately understood.
"I was just thinking of calling you. I didn't expect you to come over."
He paused. "Did you