For the sake of that card, Lu Xiaoxiao's resentment of the rich lasted only about two seconds before swiftly fading. She glanced at the night outside the window and asked, "Are we going to a bar now?"
"I'd recommend a lounge instead. We can still drink, and it won't be too noisy." As Ji Yunhuai spoke, he tapped twice on the phone mounted beside him and sent Lu Xiaoxiao a location.
Lu Xiaoxiao glanced at her phone and saw that the lounge he had pinned was called "Everlasting Night."
"That's such a nice name! Very poetic!" After praising it, Lu Xiaoxiao remembered the time Ji Yunhuai had taken her to Jiang Lei's riding club and tentatively asked, "Don't tell me this place belongs to another friend of yours?"
Ji Yunhuai thought for a moment before answering, "More or less. I know the owner of Everlasting Night pretty well."
"You sure have a lot of friends!" Lu Xiaoxiao remarked.
"You sound surprised."
"No, I'm mostly just happy for you, okay?"
At her words, Ji Yunhuai's expression briefly softened into a daze. After a half-second pause, he asked, "Happy about what?"
"That so many people like you, of course." Lu Xiaoxiao gave him a puzzled look, as though she couldn't understand what he was confused about. "With that sharp tongue of yours, so many people still want to be your friends. That means they must really like you."
Lu Xiaoxiao spoke with complete sincerity, without the slightest hint of teasing.
She genuinely thought that Ji Yunhuai having so many friends was a very, very good thing.
Since meeting Ji Yunhuai, Lu Xiaoxiao had actually revised her opinion of him many times.
At first, she had honestly thought he was a complete jerk, embodying every flaw a spoiled rich kid could have-a pretentious,