[Tang Ya (phantom) favorability: 19 (indifferent) → 35 (newly acquainted)]
"Little brother, you're such a nice person. Then I won't stand on ceremony~"
After a surge in favorability that would have left Huo Yuhao ashamed of his own, Tang Ya quite naturally handed Lu Chen a nice-guy card, then took a seat at the table.
She picked up a freshly grilled fish skewer and cried, "So hot!" while frantically shoveling the fish into her mouth.
That enthusiasm for eating alone could have cured quite a few people with anorexia back on Blue Star.
Only then did Bei Bei stroll over, greeting Lu Chen and Huo Yuhao with a helpless expression before turning to the girl. "Xiaoya, our hosts haven't even eaten yet, and you're already enjoying yourself."
Hearing this, Tang Ya widened her beautiful eyes, chewed rapidly, then swallowed the delicious fish with a bob of her slender throat and feigned indignation. "What did you call me?!"
Bei Bei immediately raised both hands in a French military salute and conceded, "Teacher Xiaoya. Surely I can call you Teacher Xiaoya?"
"Hmph~"
Displaying her little grease-stained fist as if in warning, Tang Ya rolled her eyes at Bei Bei. "That's more like it. Remember your place!"
Though she was young, she was at the freshest, loveliest age of girlhood. The myriad charms in that single glance left both Bei Bei and Huo Yuhao beside him staring in a daze.
Of course, it had no effect on Lu Chen.
Even leaving everyone else aside, Tang Ya as she was now still fell far short of Ah Yin, whom he could see through his mental space whenever he wished.
As a result, he instead noticed many other things.
For instance-the discreet glances Bei Bei cast his way from time to time amid