His physiological preference

"Hello, sister-in-law."

He said. Yang Zhiyan felt a flush on her ears at being addressed like that, and nodded in response.

Sister Zhao brought out a plate of freshly made osmanthus cakes from the kitchen and placed it on the stone table in the yard.

"Try it, it's freshly steamed. You can leave after you finish eating."

The three of them sat down at the stone table. Qin Yuzheng sat next to Yang Zhiyan, and Zhou Zhanyu sat opposite him.

Yang Zhiyan picked up a piece of osmanthus cake, took a bite, and found it to be soft, sweet, and the fragrance of osmanthus blossoms filled her mouth.

"It's delicious," she said, offering the remaining half to Qin Yuzheng's lips.

Qin Yuzheng glanced at her, opened his mouth, and took a bite.

Zhou Zhanyu sat opposite him, looking down at the osmanthus cake in his hand, without looking up.

He smirked and sent a message to Mu Cheng.

"Brother Qin has changed. He ate the osmanthus cake that his girlfriend had bitten into."

Mu Cheng replied instantly: "??? Really?"

Zhou Zhanyu put his phone away without replying. He desperately wanted to secretly record a video, but he didn't dare.

After they finished eating the osmanthus cake, Sister Zhao recommended a restaurant in town, saying that the food was delicious and that everyone who came to Yun Town went there to eat.

The three of them drove there. The restaurant was by the river, an old wooden building with windows facing the river.

The river has receded considerably since yesterday, and the current is slower. Sunlight shines on the water, making it sparkle like scattered gold.

The three of them sat down at a table by the window. The waiter handed them the menu, and Qin Yuzheng pushed it towards Yang Zhiyan. "You order."

Yang Zhiyan opened the menu and ordered several local specialties: steamed whitebait, braised pork with dried bamboo shoots, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and a bowl of three-delicacy soup.

When she ordered, she would look up and ask, "Do you want to eat this?" after ordering each dish. Qin Yuzheng said yes, and Zhou Zhanyu also said yes.

Qin Yuzheng then added a few more specialty dishes, and the waiter took the menu and left.

While waiting for the food, Zhou Zhanyu picked up his teacup, took a sip of water, looked at Qin Yuzheng, then at Yang Zhiyan, and smiled. "Sister-in-law, how long have you two been together?"

Yang Zhiyan thought for a moment. "Not many days."

"Not long ago," Zhou Zhanyu repeated the words, his smile deepening. "Brother Qin hasn't known you for very long, has he?"

Qin Yuzheng glanced at him. That glance meant, "Why do you talk so much?"

Zhou Zhanyu pretended not to see it and continued drinking water.

The dishes arrived. The whitebait was very tender, the bamboo shoots in the braised pork with dried bamboo shoots were soaked with the meat juices, and the stir-fried vegetables were freshly picked from the field that day, crisp and fresh.

The three of them ate and chatted. To be precise, Zhou Zhanyu and Yang Zhiyan were talking, while Qin Yuzheng listened from the side, occasionally interjecting.

Zhou Zhanyu is usually a man of few words, but he becomes more talkative at the dinner table. He asked Yang Zhiyan what she did for a living, and Yang Zhiyan replied that she made cheongsams.

He said his mother especially loved cheongsams and made several every year. Yang Zhiyan said he could come find her next time.

Zhou Zhanyu agreed, "Then my mom will have another reason to spend money recklessly."

Yang Zhiyan smiled. Qin Yuzheng, standing beside her, also smiled slightly.

Halfway through the meal, Yang Zhiyan went to the restroom.

She had just left when two girls entered the restaurant.

They looked to be around twenty-three or twenty-four years old, dressed very elegantly. One wore a red dress, and the other wore a white dress. They were carrying shopping bags and looked like they were also tourists in Yunzhen.

Their gaze swept around the restaurant before settling on the table by the window.

I looked at the two exceptionally handsome men. One sat by the window, his profile sharp, with high brow bones and a straight nose.

The other person sitting opposite him was a bit rugged, but had a great physique; his shirt sleeves were rolled up to his forearms, revealing clearly defined muscles.

The two girls' gazes lingered on that table for at least three seconds.

The one in the red dress moved first. She tugged at the hand of the woman in the white dress, the two exchanged a glance, and then walked over together.

"Brother," the voice in the red dress said sweetly, like water soaked in honey, cloyingly sweet.

"Are there just the two of you? Can we sit together? It'll be more fun with more people."

Qin Yuzheng looked up and glanced at her.

But there was something in that gaze, cold and aloof, like the wind of deep winter, devoid of any emotion.

"It's inconvenient," he said.

The smile in the red dress froze for a moment, but didn't fade.

The woman in the white dress next to her also spoke up, her voice softer than her best friend's, carrying an air of "we're just sharing a table, that's perfectly natural."

"Brother, let's eat together, it's not like we're losing out." She said, pulling out the chair next to her and making a move to sit down.

Qin Yuzheng placed the chopsticks on the table, and the chopsticks made a very soft sound when they landed on the table.

His voice was cold and hard: "I said it's inconvenient. I already have a girlfriend."

The woman in the red dress withdrew her hand from the chair. A hint of embarrassment flashed across the woman in the white dress's face, but she quickly regained her smile, as if she wanted to say something.

"Beautiful lady, this is my seat."

Yang Zhiyan's voice came from behind. I don't know when she returned; she was standing there, wiping her hands with a tissue.

She was wearing a white dress that had a very slim waist, perfectly showing off her figure.

Her hair was tied up with a hairpin, revealing a section of the nape of her neck. Her expression was calm, with even a slight smile at the corners of her mouth.

This is my seat, and this is my boyfriend. You shouldn't be sitting here.

The woman in the red dress and the woman in the white dress exchanged a glance, said nothing, and turned to leave. Their high heels clicked on the wooden floor, the sound like fleeing footsteps.

Yang Zhiyan sat down next to Qin Yuzheng, picked up her chopsticks, took a piece of fish, put it in her mouth, and chewed slowly.

Qin Yuzheng turned his head to look at her.

"Baby," his voice was low, so low that only she could hear, "you're amazing. I'm so glad you came to save me."

Yang Zhiyan almost choked on the fish in her mouth. She swallowed it and turned to look at him. His expression was serious; he didn't seem to be joking.

Zhou Zhanyu, sitting opposite, paused in mid-air with his chopsticks in his hand.

He heard it. He heard it all. He heard Qin Yuzheng say "Baby," he heard Qin Yuzheng say "You're amazing," he heard Qin Yuzheng say "Luckily you came to save me."

He had known Qin Yuzheng for twenty years, from high school to now. He knew what kind of person Qin Yuzheng was: calm, restrained, indifferent to women, and indifferent to everyone else.

The man's tone of voice just now was like the satisfied, docile purring of a large dog being petted on the head by its owner.

Zhou Zhanyu lowered his head, took a sip of soup, and swallowed the "Holy crap" sound.

Then he picked up his phone and typed a message in the group chat: "Never eat with Qin Yuzheng and his sister-in-law."

Mu Cheng replied instantly: "?"

Qiu Jinyi also commented with a "?".

Zhou Zhanyu: "They don't need to eat anything, dog food is enough."

Mu Cheng: "Hahahaha!"

Qiu Jinyi: "I already knew. Last time at Jinhao, I saw him confess his feelings, and I got goosebumps all over."

Liu Minlan sent a message from Beijing: "A-Zheng is in love, he's a different person."

Mu Cheng: "When are you going to take your sister-in-law out for a proper meal?"

Qin Yuzheng replied in the group chat, "Let's make it up when we get back." Then he added, "I don't mind you guys being like third wheels."

Mu Cheng: "Holy crap! This is what our Brother Qin said?"

Qiu Jinyi: "The iron tree is blooming, and it's blooming quite flamboyantly."

Liu Minlan: "Let's get together when we get back. I want to see what it's like for A-Zheng to be in a relationship."

Qiu Jinyi: "Let me see if the dog food is enough to fill me up."

Qin Yuzheng placed his phone face down on the table, a slight smile playing on his lips, but did not reply.