Shen Bing occasionally caught snippets of Gao Jingchuan and the others' conversation. From those few words, he figured out Gao Jingchuan's motive—or rather, his wife Zhang Jiayu's.
She wanted to set him up with a girlfriend, and the candidate was the aloof beauty who had been staying by her side.
Damn, I haven't even graduated from college, and I'm already being set up on blind dates. Just my luck.
The real kicker was that even with his current status, he still ran into this kind of melodrama. He honestly didn't know what to say.
In a situation like this, Shen Bing would have pretended to be busy with something else even if he wasn't. As it happened, he really was busy.
Shen Bing could also tell that the aloof beauty wasn't interested in him. She might not even have known what Gao Jingchuan and his wife had planned at first.
Well, "motive" probably wasn't quite the right word. After all, the couple meant well and wanted to bring two people together.
They simply hadn't anticipated this outcome.
Clearly, nothing would come of it. Throughout the meal, the two of them weren't remotely on the same wavelength.
Still, despite devoting all his attention to the Gate to the Immortal Realm, Shen Bing knew that the food on the table was absolutely delicious. Eating it was a pleasure for both body and soul.
He had no choice, really. Gao Jingchuan and his wife Zhang Jiayu kept enthusiastically piling food into his bowl. He couldn't refuse to eat it.
He had never enjoyed such premium ingredients before. Even now that he was a billionaire, his food and clothing weren't actually much better than an ordinary person's.
As the saying went, it was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go