Ke Xue Bartender

Chapter 107 Acne Scars and Dimples

"By the way, I haven't asked for your name yet?"

Mari Terahara raised her eyes and looked at Lin Ye, her big watery eyes seemed to be saying something ambiguous.

"Lin Ye."

"What a special name." Mari Terahara turned her head slightly.

“I am Chinese.”

Mari Terahara said "Eh" and looked at Lin Ye curiously.

This was her first time meeting a Chinese man. Maybe not the first time she had seen him, but it was the first time she had truly known him.

Lin Ye calmly accepted her gaze and suddenly asked:

"Have you ever heard that, Ms. Mari?"

"what?"

“Acne marks can also be dimples.”

Mari Terahara was stunned.

Of course she had heard of this Japanese proverb.

It means that in the eyes of a lover, acne scars on the face become cute dimples, which is a metaphor that people in love will see each other's shortcomings as advantages.

【Why did he suddenly mention this? 】

Mari Terahara is very sensitive about this because she had obvious acne scars on her face before the plastic surgery, which was the source of her lack of self-confidence.

"Why did Mr. Lin suddenly bring this up?"

Lin Ye smiled and said, "When I saw the guest's face just now, I suddenly remembered this sentence. In our country, there is an old saying, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", which has a similar meaning to this sentence."

"Ah, Xi Shi, I know, she is a very famous beauty in ancient times." Mari Terahara laughed.

Looking at her smiling face, Lin Ye couldn't help but admire her in his heart.

So beautiful.

I don’t know where she had the plastic surgery, but the result is better than some of the stars he had treated before, and there are almost no flaws.

You have to know that this was the 20s, and there were such powerful plastic surgery effects. Does this mean that the world's plastic surgery technology is ahead of its time?
"Actually, Mr. Kimura said something after drinking yesterday."

"Eh?" Teramon Mari was a little surprised.

[You didn't say anything when I asked you just now, why are you bringing it up now? ]

As strange as it was, she wondered what Tatsuya had said here.

"What did he say?"

"He said that he knew a girl who was very insecure about herself because of the acne scars and freckles on her face..."

A trace of panic flashed across Mari Terahara's face.

[That bastard, would he tell everyone about my plastic surgery here? ]

Lin Ye glanced at her and continued:
"...He also said that he actually liked that girl and thought she was cute when she was shy and that she should be more confident. I think in his eyes, the acne scars on that girl's face were also cute dimples."

【What! ? 】

Mari Terahara was shocked and looked up in disbelief.

"Did he really say that?"

"I think I remember it correctly."

She immediately asked again, "Did he say anything else?" her tone was urgent.

Lin Ye pretended to recall and said, "Oh, I remember now. He said that the girl went to a very far place, but he would wait for her to come back."

"He also said that he wrote a song specifically for that girl. I think it's called... Oh, right, 'I Like You Without Makeup'. He seemed to hope that this song would reach the heart of the girl who had gone far away. Maybe after hearing this song, the girl would come back to him."

Lin Ye smiled and asked:

"Ms. Mari, do you know who that girl is?"

Mari Terahara opened her mouth but no words came out. Her throat seemed to be blocked by something and tears rolled out of her eyes.

She lowered her head and her shoulders trembled.

[It turns out that Tatsuya has always liked me. I misunderstood his feelings. I even wanted to kill him with my own hands. I am really the stupidest and worst woman in the world.]

[Tatsuya, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...]

The voice of apology kept echoing in her heart, as if it needed to be repeated a thousand times or ten thousand times.

Listening to this voice that sounded like a confession, Lin Ye smiled with satisfaction.

Now she won't attack Kimura Tatsuya. [Strange, the man didn't say these words yesterday, why did he lie to her?]

【And why is she crying? 】

Lin Ye caught Toru Amuro's doubtful thoughts.

Lin Ye glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.

He felt it was worth it even if he was doubted by Toru Amuro as he could resolve a tragedy.

What's more, he holds the fatal handle on Amuro Toru, so he is not afraid of him causing any trouble.

[From her reaction, she is the woman that Kimura Tatsuya likes. Her face looks slightly unnatural, and she has obviously had plastic surgery, so Kimura Tatsuya said that she went to a faraway place]

Toru Amuro crossed his arms, clenched his right fist and placed it in front of his chin, trying to figure out the whole situation.

[She cried like this, she must have misunderstood what Kimura Tatsuya meant. Judging from what happened last night, Kimura Tatsuya must have said something very harsh to her...]

Toru Amuro suddenly thought of something and looked at Mari Terahara who was crying with some surprise.

[Does she want to kill him? ]

Lin Ye glanced at Amuro Toru in surprise.

Wow, he is worthy of being an undercover agent of the police, he can actually deduce everything.

[Wait a minute, but how did this man know that Kimura Tatsuya liked her? Yesterday, Kimura Tatsuya was very arrogant and called her ugly.]

Toru Amuro looked at Lin Ye.

Lin Ye was slightly startled and secretly decided that if he guessed his secret, he would use his weakness to hit him.

"Toru, you don't want Gin to know that you're an undercover agent, do you?"

"This is a secret between the two of us. You'd better not tell anyone, otherwise, hmph!"

Probably so.

But unfortunately, Toru Amuro's reasoning went astray.

[If he is a member of the organization, it makes sense that he secretly used the organization's intelligence network to collect Kimura Tatsuya's personal information.]

[But, using the organization's intelligence resources for this kind of thing... isn't this a criminal organization? And he's using it to help others?]

Toru Amuro's reasoning ran into trouble again, and his brows furrowed slightly.

[Stay alert, keep observing, one day I will be able to solve the mystery surrounding this man]

In the end, Toru Amuro decided that there was still a long way to go and he would slowly uncover Lin Ye's secret.

Lin Ye's mouth corners slightly raised. It seems that the scene of threatening Atou cannot be performed for the time being. Why does he feel a little regretful?

He really wanted to see a panic expression on the face of the calm Toru Amuro.

But since he didn't touch his secrets, he wouldn't take the initiative to use his secrets to threaten him.

He also wanted to train Toru Amuro to be an excellent bartender. If he scared him away, he would not be able to find such a high-quality assistant.

Mari Terahara finally stopped crying, raised her head, and her eyes were filled with tears.

Lin Ye pretended to be surprised and asked, "Ms. Ma Li, what's wrong with you?"

"Thank you, Mr. Lin."

[You saved me, and you saved Tatsuya]

She couldn't imagine what terrible things she would have done if she hadn't met Lin Ye.

“Actually, I’m the girl who’s not confident.”

Lin Ye pretended to be surprised and said:
"So it's you, Ms. Mari."

Mari Terahara took a deep breath, as if she was going to tell her secret: "Actually, I..."

"Would you like another drink?" Lin Ye interrupted her and winked at her.

Mari Terahara was stunned for a moment, then smiled embarrassedly and nodded vigorously.

[It turns out that he had already seen it]

"By the way, please don't tell him that I told you this."

Lin Ye pushed the second glass of Margarita to the bar and smiled.

"Otherwise, I'll be considered a leaky bartender."

This time, what clung to the rim of the cup was not salt, but sugar.

The crystal clear sugar edge shimmers with a subtle and beautiful luster under the warm light.

(End of this chapter)