In the small private room, barbecue and cola, sashimi and oysters; glasses clinked back and forth.
"The last time you and I ate alone together feels like it was ages ago."
Hearing Zhao Huo say that, Ren Suo, who was gnawing on charcoal grilled snow crab legs, froze for a moment. After seriously thinking back for quite a while, he said, "The last time I ate with you... should have been in the academy dining hall?"
"Yeah." Zhao Huo wolfed down his twenty-fourth Grilled Oyster with a whoosh and said, "Back then, you didn't even know Dong Chengling. You suddenly came over and asked me, 'Do you know Dong Chengling?' You were so desperate, like you'd never seen a woman before..."
"I wasn't desperate!" Ren Suo remembered it too. At the time, he had been playing "Devouring World Spirit" and, for the first time, had seen an NPC in the game overlap with someone in reality. That was why he had been so eager to investigate Dong Chengling.
"Right, you looked so innocent back then." Zhao Huo sighed with deep emotion. "Your aptitude was low, your strength was weak. You were like a chick that had just cracked out of its egg, looking like you'd be a virgin forever. Who could have guessed you'd go from chick to phoenix and become human trash everyone loved..."
"Weren't you the one constantly talking about your fiancée back then? When your fiancée gave you a car, you specifically parked it beneath the Dormitory Building and called me over to show off. You were as loyal as Guan Yu. And now? Heh, man of three surnames."
"When did I ever show off to a Refined Scoundrel like you?"
"Then why did a beast in clothing like you park downstairs from the Dormitory Building for