Forgive me, Xiaxia]
"Wait for me!"
Lu Yuanqiu looked up and shouted after the girl.
"What did you say, Brother Qiu? I'm lying in bed. Are you coming over?" Cao Shuang's voice came through the phone.
Lu Yuanqiu frowned. "Get lost. I wasn't talking to you!"
As he spoke into the phone, he chased after Bai Qingxia. "This afternoon... around one, I guess. We still need to have lunch first. If you get there early, book a small private room."
"Sure thing, Brother Qiu. You two take your time and have fun. Heh-heh-heh-heh-"
Cao Shuang's laughter came through the phone.
Lu Yuanqiu immediately hung up.
Damn, that guy's laugh sounds even sleazier than mine.
Ten minutes later.
In a little noodle shop across the street from Qingnian Road Market, business was slow. There were only two customers.
The boy and girl sat at a corner table near the entrance, with Bai Qingxia on the inside and Lu Yuanqiu on the outside.
"You heartless girl! You actually left me behind and walked off on your own. Don't you know I don't know this area? What if I got lost? What if someone kidnapped me?"
"Don't you know traffickers love innocent, frail boys like me? What if they grabbed me and made me stand naked on a stage performing for muscular men?"
With a miserable expression, Lu Yuanqiu clung to one of Bai Qingxia's arms and rubbed his utterly tearless face hard against her shoulder.
Bai Qingxia shrank into the corner with disgust on her face, her soft, pale hand pushing hard against Lu Yuanqiu's head.
When she saw the noodle shop owner glancing over from the serving window, visibly struggling not to laugh, she grew even more embarrassed and annoyed, pushing harder.
"You... go away..."
"No! You owe me compensation for