Wasn't You Always the One Getting Handsy?

At the Garden Restaurant, the three of them followed the manager into an exquisite private room and took their seats.

Their earlier discussion about whether Jiang Qiuyi should take the postgraduate entrance exam had somehow progressed all the way to whether she should have children immediately after getting married.

Jiang Qiuyi blushed furiously from the discussion and had no choice but to cut the topic short.

Now that they were seated in the beautifully decorated private room, Jiang Qiuyi was afraid of neglecting Lin Meng, so she sat beside her and left Chen Wen sitting alone across from them.

Once seated, Lin Meng and Jiang Qiuyi both took out their cameras without prior discussion, switched them on, and began recording.

"What are you filming?" Lin Meng asked curiously.

"A vlog~"

"Huh?" Lin Meng looked surprised. "Who was it that said she definitely wouldn't post any videos unrelated to piano on Bilibili?"

"Don't mix up the concepts." Jiang Qiuyi gave a sly smile. "I said I wouldn't post them on the Qiuqiu yiyi account. I'm planning to upload vlogs on an alt account~"

"Showing your face?" Lin Meng asked curiously.

"Of course." Jiang Qiuyi giggled. "But not my face—his~"

With that, Jiang Qiuyi pointed her camera at Chen Wen and asked with a grin, "Teacher Chen~ Are you ready? I'll be relying on you for today's footage~"

Chen Wen: "?"

Lin Meng: "..."

After adjusting her camera, Lin Meng turned and asked, "Are you two going to appear in my video? If not, I'll only include footage of myself."

"Appearing on camera costs money~" Jiang Qiuyi said, raising her brows.

"Get lost." Lin Meng rolled her eyes and readjusted the camera's position, excluding Jiang Qiuyi from the frame.

Once she was done, Lin Meng began her opening remarks for entering the restaurant and gave a brief introduction to the Garden Restaurant.

The dishes had already been decided beforehand, so Chen Wen and Jiang Qiuyi only needed to sit and wait.

While Lin Meng was talking, neither of them interrupted her.

So Jiang Qiuyi could only make little moves with her hands and feet.

She placed the camera on the table facing Chen Wen, then reached over with both little hands to grasp his large one, turning it over and playing with it as she felt the calluses that had formed from woodworking with great interest.

Under the table, Jiang Qiuyi also stretched out her legs and wrapped them around one of Chen Wen's.

Even sitting face-to-face, she still wanted to cling to him.

"I bought you some new clothes today. They're a Children's Day gift~" Jiang Qiuyi whispered. "Try them on when we get home tonight."

"Okay." Chen Wen nodded. Only after her reminder did he remember the gift box he had put in the bag earlier.

Chen Wen bent down and reached into the bag, feeling around inside.

"Look at it after we get back. Eat first." Jiang Qiuyi thought Chen Wen wanted to admire her gift, so she hurriedly stopped him. Then she saw him pull out a plain-looking box from the bag.

Chen Wen pushed the box in front of Jiang Qiuyi.

"What's this?" Jiang Qiuyi looked utterly confused.

"A Children's Day gift."

"A gift?!" Jiang Qiuyi cried out, startling Lin Meng beside her.

"What is it? What happened???" Lin Meng had just finished the opening introduction for her vlog and turned around to ask in concern.

Jiang Qiuyi stared at the box before her, her nose stinging. "Why did you suddenly think of giving me a gift?"

"Uh..." Chen Wen scratched his head. "There happened to be some leftover White Peach Wood. Throwing it away would've been a waste, so I made something with it."

"What was that~" Jiang Qiuyi laughed until a few tears slipped out. "You could at least lie to me once in a while."

I really did lie... Chen Wen thought.

He had already planned to make her a gift, though it was also true that there had been some White Peach Wood left over.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Lin Meng leaned over the gift box and examined it from all angles. "This isn't Chen Wen's first time giving a gift, is it? Look at that wrapping."

Seeing the crooked strips of clear tape on the box, Jiang Qiuyi laughed even more happily. "It really is his first time. You've improved~"

"Shouldn't it be the second time?" Chen Wen said after pondering for a moment.

"Hm?" Jiang Qiuyi looked puzzled. "Did you give me anything before?"

"I did." Chen Wen nodded as though it were only natural. "The summer after our second year of high school, I mailed you a complete set of Wu San. Did you forget?"

"???" Jiang Qiuyi's face instantly darkened. "You have the nerve to bring that up?"

"I wasn't home that day. My mom received it first, and then I barely got to go out for the entire summer!"

"Was that a gift?"

Chen Wen fell silent, then said bluntly, "Your grades weren't very good back then. And didn't you ask me to come over every day to teach you how to do your homework?"

"Hmph!" Jiang Qiuyi scrunched up her little nose and muttered, "Who knew which big idiot got invited over to someone's house every day and still couldn't take a hint?"

"I wanted you to come over and play with me! But you actually listened to my mom and watched me do homework like a hawk!"

The more Jiang Qiuyi spoke, the angrier she became, and beneath the table, she lightly stepped on Chen Wen's foot several times.

"Enough, enough!" Lin Meng, who had truly had enough of their unprovoked public display of affection contest, hurriedly stopped them. "Aren't you going to see what the gift is first?"

"Oh, right." Jiang Qiuyi came back to her senses. Just as she was about to open the gift box, she picked up the camera from the table and stuffed it into Chen Wen's hands. "Film me opening it. Don't get my head in the shot, okay?"

Chen Wen took the camera and aimed it at the gift box on the table, watching Jiang Qiuyi peel away the clear tape and slowly lift the lid.

Under the bright lighting of the private room, a small dagger as white as jade appeared before the three of them.

Aside from Chen Wen, whose expression remained unchanged, the other two wore entirely different expressions.

"This..." Jiang Qiuyi was a little stunned, unable to understand the meaning behind the gift.

She had thought it would be an accessory like a bracelet or necklace, but he had given her a dagger?

Still, Jiang Qiuyi was already very satisfied just knowing that Chen Wen had wanted to give her a gift, so she did not ask for anything more.

Besides, the white dagger looked quite delicate. It was a nice gift too.

But Lin Meng suddenly burst out laughing beside her, covering her mouth as her body shook for no apparent reason.

"What's wrong with you?" Jiang Qiuyi asked with an amused, puzzled smile. "Even if the gift is a little weird, you don't need to laugh that hard, do you?"

"It's not that..." Lin Meng was laughing so hard she could barely catch her breath. She hurriedly patted her forehead to calm herself down. "Sorry, sorry, I really couldn't hold it in..."

"I watched Jing Ke Assassinating the King of Qin yesterday, and seeing the two of you like this just made me feel like Qiuqiu could pick up that dagger and assassinate someone at any moment."

Jiang Qiuyi laughed at that, picked up the dagger, and made several mock stabbing motions in Lin Meng's direction. "What kind of thought process is that?"

Putting the dagger away, Jiang Qiuyi placed the gift box back in order and asked, "Can you drill a hole through the dagger's handle? So I can thread a string through it?"

Chen Wen nodded. "Sure. I'll do it for you when we get back."

"Hehe." Jiang Qiuyi smiled happily. "I'll hang it around my neck. If you ever dare mess around in bed, I'll make you regret it!"

"..." Chen Wen fell silent before saying, "Weren't you always the one getting handsy?"

[Pu Jie Ri Ji]: Today, I'm the adorable two-update beast~ Hehe~ I'm back at school, and I wrote this chapter while lying in bed. Since I finally managed two updates, could you give me a recommendation vote, please~