Lu Xiaoxiao didn't have dinner at home that evening because Ji Yunhuai had invited her over to try his cooking, at the same apartment as before.
Clearly, this was his special way of cheering her on the day before her audition.
Of course, Lu Xiaoxiao wouldn't turn down Young Master Ji's kind gesture. As she headed out, she even joked to 037 that Ji Yunhuai was becoming more and more of a model boyfriend, practically a different person from the infuriating jerk he used to be. As always, 037 followed its host's lead and showered him with praise, extolling his love for her as something that could move heaven and earth. For once, it earned Lu Xiaoxiao's verdict that its "emotional intelligence had improved a lot."
The human and system chatted and laughed all the way to their destination. But when the elevator reached Ji Yunhuai's floor, the doors had barely opened before she came face-to-face with a middle-aged man wearing a rather ugly expression. Judging by the direction he'd come from, he seemed to have just left Ji Yunhuai's apartment.
Both of them froze when their eyes met.
Lu Xiaoxiao thought the man looked familiar. Her brain stalled for a second before she asked 037, "Hey! Don't tell me he's... Ji Yunhuai's scumbag dad?"
037 nodded frantically in her mind. "You guessed right, host. This is Ji Cheng! Uh... but why are we running into him here at this hour? Could Ji Yunhuai have invited you over for dinner as an excuse to introduce you to his father? That's so strange!"
Lu Xiaoxiao's lips nearly twitched at that, and she shot back instantly, *"You really don't have a brain, do you? Does Ji Yunhuai even treat that man as his father anymore? Even if he wanted me to meet