"...When you ran into him yesterday, he'd just had a fight with Song Chuxia—the girl he likes."
Li Yan rubbed his forehead.
The bowl of soup that appeared in his field of vision made him pause.
He looked up.
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"Have some soup."
"And try some of the dishes, too."
"Everything's here now."
"Let's eat while we talk."
"Right, right."
Zhuge Yun chimed in enthusiastically. "Let's eat while we talk."
Otherwise, there'd have been no point in suggesting they chat at a restaurant.
After eating a few bites, Zhuge Yun suddenly realized what had sounded off about Li Yan's earlier remark.
"They fought?"
He was puzzled.
"That doesn't make sense."
"Your friend hasn't even won her over yet. Why would he risk picking a fight with her?"
Did he even still want to win her over?
"Have they fought before?"
"I'm not sure."
Li Yan shook his head.
After all, there'd been a long stretch when they hadn't seen each other.
"But I don't think so."
"A Cheng isn't exactly a pushover."
"But when it comes to Song Chuxia, he's really..."
Li Yan knitted his brows, then finally found a fitting word. "Accommodating."
"Song Chuxia is the standard he measures everything by."
"He got into a fight with Song Chuxia?"
Li Yan looked utterly unconvinced.
"As for Song Chuxia..."
"At first, she'd lose her temper with A Cheng, too."
As he'd mentioned before, she'd deliberately set Qian Cheng difficult conditions, picked on him, and raised her voice at him...
"But A Cheng just took it all in stride. No matter how Song Chuxia treated him, he never got angry."
"Song Chuxia isn't bad-tempered, either."
"Seeing A Cheng act so 'shamelessly,' she couldn't bring herself to stay angry."
"A fight takes two."
"If A