"I'm not very familiar with Tianrui Lifeng. Are there any good restaurants you'd recommend?"
Xu Le's question was a perfectly normal one. Any normal person, as a local, would naturally have offered some answers about where the good food was.
The problem was... Chi Xiao wasn't a normal person.
After Xu Le asked her this, she hesitated briefly, then shook her head.
"I don't know."
Xu Le: ??
"What do you mean?"
Chi Xiao was fairly straightforward. Even if it was a little embarrassing, she wouldn't hide much about something like this.
So... she simply explained her awkward situation.
"I don't really have any friends, and I don't particularly like interacting with other people. I don't like talking to pointless people, either, so I cook for myself most of the time. Of course, if I have a friend around, I do go out to restaurants."
As she spoke, Chi Xiao even glanced at the black cat, as if to reinforce her point.
A total shut-in!
That was Xu Le's first reaction.
And Chi Xiao really did have the makings of a shut-in, except she wasn't into boys' love or video games.
Her shut-in interests were rather unusual, such as holing up in the Mother Tree Realm every day to forge metal...
When Xu Le thought back carefully, he realized that Chi Xiao really liked forging, to the point of devotion and obsession.
A woman who loved forging. Top-tier among the top-tier.
"What are you thinking about?" Chi Xiao suddenly asked.
"Uh, I'm thinking about what we should eat."
"You're not very good at lying."
"That's not really important..."
Xu Le hurriedly changed the subject.
"You said you usually cook for yourself. What do you normally eat?"
No sooner had Xu Le asked than Chi Xiao produced a piece of meat