Maxim's interruption really did ease the tension quite a bit.
Lu Zhou suddenly realized that this guy was actually quite interesting.
Although he was very serious at work, he could be quite casual when joking around.
His only flaw was that, perhaps because his English was not very good, he tended to go off on tangents when he spoke. Lu Zhou often felt as though they were not even on the same wavelength.
"You're not married? No girlfriend?"
"No." Faced with that surprised expression, Lu Zhou felt that admitting it so directly was a little embarrassing, so he added, "Of course, it's not because I can't find one. I'm just too busy with work to worry about those things for now."
"Okay, okay. You don't meet women at work? You don't know how to start a conversation when flirting? I understand your troubles." Maxim snapped his fingers, raised his brows, and continued, "My advice is that you need to find a place with lots of good girls and learn more about this sort of thing... Want me to introduce you to a good place? I only discovered it after arriving in Saint Petersburg recently."
Lu Zhou: "???"
It was an hour's drive from Pulkovo International Airport to the Corinthia Hotel in downtown Saint Petersburg. The scenery flashing past the car windows was steeped in foreign charm, down to every brick and tile.
However, as they approached the city center, that feeling gradually faded.
The central districts of major cities around the world were largely the same. Aside from busy streets, there were only forests of steel and concrete.
Still, when he arrived at the entrance of the Corinthia Hotel, Lu Zhou was mildly astonished by the resplendent Russian palace-style hotel.
It was different from the Mathematical Society conference in Brazil.