I became financially independent right after entering college.

Chapter 34 Young Master's Disease and Screening

The restaurant that Kim Hyo-joo booked was in Baijia Lake, and Bai Chou took Shuanglong Avenue. It was almost the evening rush hour, and it was the weekend, so the traffic conditions were not very good.

It took me nearly half an hour to run a distance of just over ten kilometers. By the time I parked the car in a nearby parking lot, it was already a little after eight o'clock.

After getting out of the car, Kim Hyo-joo felt a humid and hot evening breeze. Although it was already autumn and the edges of the sycamore leaves were turning yellow, it was not particularly cool.

"Let's go, it's not far ahead."

Kim Hyo-joo shook her phone with the navigation system on, and walked shoulder to shoulder with Bai Chou, chatting and laughing, complaining about the road conditions in Jinling, and soon arrived outside the Jega Steak Winery.

As soon as she entered the door, Kim Hyo-joo's eyes lit up.

Although the average consumption per person in this restaurant is only three or four hundred yuan, the environment is really good. There are about a dozen double tables in the hall, which is much better than those in more upscale restaurants.

The space utilization rate will be higher, but it is not crowded or cramped, and the privacy of each dining table can be generally maintained.

There are currently about seven or eight dining tables in use, and the diners are young or middle-aged men and women, who at least look well-dressed.

The brightness inside the store is not very high, but it is not dim either. There are dozens or even hundreds of straight dim chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, giving the entire restaurant an atmosphere similar to that of a candlelight dinner.

The photo of the person is exactly the same as the one Kim Hyo-joo saw on Dianping.

Soon, a female waiter in a white shirt and suit pants came over and politely asked if they had a reservation.

Kim Hyo-joo took a look at the other person's clothes and appearance. She looked very young, clean, and beautiful, probably in her early twenties.

Not as pretty as Kim Hyo-joo, but still prettier than half of the female customers dining in the hall.

If I worked less hard, was less beautiful, and was less lucky, would I one day be like her, working as a waiter or bartender in a high-end restaurant or bar?
Thinking this in her mind, Kim Hyo-joo opened Dianping and showed the other party her order, saying that we had a reservation and it was a set meal for two.

If you order normally, the average consumption per person in this restaurant is around three to four hundred yuan. If you order a bottle of red wine or champagne, the cost will easily exceed a thousand yuan.

But the set meal for two on Dianping only costs 500 yuan, which is very affordable for this restaurant, although it still makes Kim Hyo-joo feel a little sad, because this is almost her living expenses for a week.

The waitress checked the order, asked for the two people's opinions, and then took them to a table near the wine cabinet in the hall.

It is more accurate to say that it is a wall formed by wine cabinets rather than a wine cabinet. The wine cabinet, which stretches for more than ten meters, is filled with hundreds of bottles of red wine from internationally renowned wineries.

Bai Chou took a quick look and only recognized the dry red wines from several well-known wineries such as Lafite, Plato, Margaux, Mouton, and his favorite champagnes from brands such as Perrier-Jouët, Pol Roger, and Veuve Clicquot.

As for the others, I hardly know them.

After just a glance, Bai Chou lost interest in the wine cabinet. He didn't like drinking, but only drank some semi-dry and sweet blanc de blancs and rosé at family gatherings to avoid spoiling the fun.

I drove here today, but I couldn't even get a designated driver for a two-seater car, as I couldn't drink alcohol anyway.

Bai Chou pulled out a chair and was about to sit down when Jin Xiaozhou pushed him to the wine cabinet and said that they would take a picture of him later. There were so many high-end red wines in the wine cabinet, which served as a natural background wall and should not be wasted. It would be more appropriate for him to sit with his back to the wine cabinet.

Bai Chou thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he walked towards the wine cabinet. Jin Xiaozhou took the opportunity to sit on the chair that Bai Chou had just pulled out.

Hum ~

Is this the chair he pulled out for me?

The female waitress who brought the two people over quickly brought them a bilingual Chinese and English menu after they sat down.

Kim Hyo-joo ordered a T-bone steak set meal, which is not the cheapest set meal in this restaurant. In addition to the fixed T-bone steak as the main course and the fixed whole wheat bread as the appetizer, the appetizer, salad, side dishes and dessert can all be chosen from the dishes provided by the restaurant.

Bai Chou glanced at the menu and suddenly looked up to ask Jin Xiaozhou, who was fiddling with her hair across from him, "Do you have any dietary restrictions on animal offal?"

"I, I'm fine..." Kim Hyo Joo answered ambiguously. She had no taboos on animal offal, but she didn't know why Bai Chou asked this, so she answered ambiguously.

"Since it's just okay, then it means you don't really like it. You can exclude the foie gras mousse appetizer."

Bai Chou smiled and pushed the menu in front of Jin Xiaozhou: "You choose the rest."

Kim Hyo-joo glanced at the menu and suddenly realized that the appetizers offered in this set meal were a choice of three: air-dried duck breast, foie gras mousse, Wagyu carpaccio, and truffle carpaccio. The other two did not contain offal.

The rest of the side dishes and salads on the menu didn't include any animal offal. She said it was okay, but Bai Chou still ruled out the foie gras mousse and let her choose the dish.

This proves that it was Bai Chou himself who had a taboo against animal offal.

In fact, it is true.

Bai Chou is essentially the same as Li Xue, both of them have strong "young master syndrome" and "princess syndrome" and are used to being self-centered. It can even be said that Bai Chou's "young master syndrome" is more serious than Li Xue's.

At least Bai Chou is much more picky about food than Li Xue.

He doesn't eat animal offal, ugly things, smelly things, or many vegetables. He is extremely picky about food.

With such severe picky eating habits, it is natural that Bai Chou would miss out on many dishes that others consider to be delicacies.

But so what?

I just don’t like something. Do I live for others? Do I have to like what others like? Do I have to accept what others say I’m doing this for your own good?
The so-called self-centeredness, the master syndrome, and the princess syndrome do not mean that I want all good things and I must get everything I want.

But no one can give me what I don’t want, and no one can force me to bow my head when I don’t want to.

Bai Chou grew up in a wealthy family, at least in the small city of Handan, and with the love of his parents, it was natural for him to develop such a character.

The difference between Bai Chou and Li Xue is that he has higher emotional intelligence and can deal with his excessive behavior in a more reasonable way, preventing others from seeing that he is actually a very selfish and arrogant person.

For example, now, for example, when I was at the dinner party yesterday and said I didn’t like drinking.

But Bai Chou's "high emotional intelligence" has its limits. I'm being nice to you because I don't want to cause trouble, but that doesn't mean you can be so arrogant.

Yesterday, Li Xue kept trying to get Bai Chou drunk, and Bai Chou was ready to throw a fit regardless of the situation. If Zhou Haoyu hadn't smoothed things over, the situation would have ended in a bad way.

The same is true now.

Bai Chou said vaguely that he didn't like eating offal, and gave the menu to Jin Xiaozhou and asked her to choose all the remaining dishes.

This is both a concession and a screening.

If Kim Hyo Joo insisted on ordering the foie gras mousse, it would prove that Kim Hyo Joo either has low emotional intelligence and cannot understand what people say, or likes to be mean and tease other people's bottom line.

If something like this really happened, Bai Chou would naturally lower Kim Hyo Joo's rating in his own screening mechanism. It's fine for fun, but forget about serious relationships.

As for how Kim Hyo-joo selects him, Bai Chou doesn’t care. What does it have to do with me?
　Bai Zhi, like Li Xue, is a typical second-generation self-centered person. I have already written about this very clearly in the chapter about the dinner party.

　　In dormitory 404, Zhou Haoyu, who looks the most second-generation and the most flamboyant, is actually the least second-generation and the least arrogant.

　　Finally, let me reiterate that I am not writing a story about a wealthy man whose wealth grows at an explosive rate, but a story about the second generation. The role of Brother Tongzi is to allow the protagonist, a second generation from a small city, to maintain his second generation nature after going to a big city and entering society.

　　This is also the original intention of my book. I won’t say all of them, but at least in many of the rich stories I have read, no matter how awesome the protagonist is, how rich he is, how many beauties he sleeps with, how he eats like a gourmet, how he owns planes, yachts, and big villas, and how he brags about his temperament and calmness, they do not match my impression of rich second-generations and wealthy people, and do not have that core.

　　I have never met anyone who is too rich, nor have I ever been with young people who are too rich. However, the friends around me who grew up in well-off families or whose parents are leaders are all quite selfish.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)