Lush tulip trees lined both sides of the road, sunlight filtering through the leaves in scattered flecks.
Temperature: 37°C.
Outside Maxim Cafe.
Wang Ce, panting, parked his shared bike and locked it. Sweat had soaked his hair, making it cling together in strands, and his handsome face was flushed from the intense exercise. He wiped himself with the back of his hand, revealing a smile brighter than the sunlight.
"Wow~~~"
A woman exclaimed dramatically, "Handsome guy! I like him!"
Cao Xuan turned his head and saw a woman who weighed at least two hundred pounds sizing him up with naked hunger in her eyes, as though she wanted to swallow him whole. Beside her, a pretty boy in smoky makeup nestled against her round ham—no, arm—with the delicate air of a little bird clinging to someone.
The pretty boy tapped the fat woman with his tiny fists and whined sweetly, "Darling, how can you flirt with other men right in front of me? You're awful~~~"
Cao Xuan's mind suffered a ten-thousand-point critical hit. The only reason he did not throw up on the spot was because he had not eaten much.
Fortunately, he had not eaten much.
Cao Xuan decided these people were not worth provoking. He was just about to lock up the shared bike and make a quick escape.
"Hey, you! You can't park there!"
Suddenly—
A loud shout startled Cao Xuan. A young male waiter in the cafe's uniform stood at the top of the high steps, looking down at him.
"This is a dedicated parking space for the cafe. Only customers who spend money here are allowed to use it. Maxim's is the most upscale cafe in Tianhe, not somewhere any stray cat or dog can afford to visit. Move your crappy bike now, or suffer