I was exposed for adding my female boss to my group of female friends.

Chen Ya continued, "The matcha used in Japanese tea ceremony can upset your stomach if you drink it on an empty stomach, so the tea snacks are just to fill your stomach. If you are full, you won't want to drink tea."

"Is that so?" Liu Ruyan asked, still somewhat doubtful.

“That’s it.” Chen Ya crossed his legs and leaned back comfortably in his chair. “I had tea and snacks at Ichimi-an in Tokyo once, and the whole experience was great. But kaiseki meals in China have nothing but food. But when it comes to food, Japanese cuisine can’t compare to Chinese cuisine. So it’s better to eat Chinese food.”

"Oh..." Liu Ruyan felt like she was about to faint from hunger.

“So, your parents are wrong,” Chen Ya said. “Why didn’t they object to them?”

Liu Ruyan lowered her head: "It's not like I haven't objected before..."

Chen Ya smiled, seemingly already guessing what kind of environment her family was in. He crossed his legs and continued reading the suicide note in his hand.

"Do you feel sorry for your nanny?"

“?!” Liu Ruyan suddenly looked up.

Chen Ya scratched his head and said, "Is your nanny very good?"

Liu Ruyan lost her temper.

This person guessed everything just by reading these few lines.

"Yes, she graduated from a 985 university, speaks three foreign languages, and is very beautiful."

Her father said that in order to provide her with a role model, he hired a particularly outstanding nanny at a high salary, who was said to have previously worked as a simultaneous interpreter.

Unfortunately, Liu's father's plan backfired.

The more Liu Ruyan looked at the nanny, the more she felt that she was a lazy person who couldn't even fold clothes.

Chen Ya asked in surprise, "How much is your monthly salary?"

"I don't know, I haven't asked."

"Tsk tsk, your family is really wasting the talent that the country has worked so hard to cultivate." Chen Ya shook his head.

These words were like a sharp arrow, piercing Liu Ruyan's heart with a "thud".

The old tears had barely dried when new tears welled up from the corners of her eyes.

Chen Ya looked at the suicide note like an old scholar: "You left your second favorite piece of clothing at home, so the one you're wearing is your favorite?"

Liu Ruyan blushed and said, "Yes, so what?"

"It looks nice, but it would look even better if the skirt were a little shorter."

"Huh? Huh? Huh?" She looked down at her skirt, not understanding why someone could openly comment on her clothes to her face.

"Because I can see that you have great leg shape, wearing shorter clothes will look even better," the other person said confidently.

Liu Ruyan's face flushed red.

She increasingly felt that this person was making fun of her.

"Give it back to me." She reached out for her suicide note.

Chen Ya quickly folded the letter and put it in his pocket.

"??!" Liu Ruyan stared at him with wide eyes.

"Here you go, and then what?"

"And then what?"

"Are you going to use it as your will?" Chen Ya asked. "If you use it as your will, I'll give it to your parents for you. If you don't need it, I'll throw it away for you."

Then he gestured toward the lake and said, "Please."

Liu Ruyan stood there with her fists clenched, her face flushing red and then turning pale.

He just dismissed her painstakingly written suicide note as worthless, and now he's telling her to jump into the lake.

To be honest, she has absolutely no suicidal thoughts now.

She couldn't help but reflect on her life, feeling that every day was marked by failure.

It seems she has never dared to do what she truly wants to do.

Even on her last day, she didn't dare to muster the courage to die.

That's bad enough, but the suicide note was also belittled as garbage, and at the last moment, people had to bring up painful memories.

Liu Ruyan squatted on the ground and cried.

Chen Ya stood up, her hands and feet a little flustered: "Don't cry."

"Waaaaah—"

Chen Ya handed over the suicide note: "I'll give it back to you."

The girl slapped the letter out of his hand.

"Waaaaahh ...

Chen Ya squatted down.

"I admit it, I was just trying to dissuade you from jumping into the lake in my own way, and it might have been a bit harsh. I apologize now. I'm sorry, please calm down, okay?"

"Waaaaaahh ...

Liu Ruyan became even more undisguised and cried even harder.

Chen Ya looked back.

Fortunately, it was early morning, so there weren't many people around.

If someone were to pass by, it would be even more difficult to say.

He reached out and stroked the girl's back. This time, apart from her shoulders shaking, she didn't react violently.

It took quite a while for the other person to calm down.

Liu Ruyan looked up and saw Chen Ya's annoyingly handsome face.

Why are you crying?

Liu Ruyan swallowed hard, her shoulders twitching involuntarily twice. Then, summoning all her courage, she broke free from her mental constraints for the first time and spoke her deepest feelings at that moment:

I'm hungry.

"Then go eat!"

"I didn't bring any money."

"...I'll treat you to a meal."

Chapter 29 I Want to Eat Your That (Thanks to Banxia Zimao for the donation~)

Chen Ya took Liu Ruyan to a 24-hour convenience store.

Pointing to the freezer displaying instant hot meals, Chen Ya said, "Take whichever one you like."

Liu Ruyan's eyes darted around, scanning the plastic-packaged food before turning to him and asking, "Are these edible?"

"What kind of question is this? I'm not treating you to a meal because it's too cheap."

"no……"

Liu Ruyan picked up a plate of Sichuan pepper beef rice with her left hand and a plate of two-color curry omelet rice with her right hand, and said, "I want to eat both."

Are you a pig?

After hesitating for a long time, Liu Ruyan finally reluctantly put down the two-color curry omelet rice, urged on by her stomach.

“This one actually tastes better,” Chen Ya said, pointing to the two-tone curry.

After saying that, he went to choose his own late-night snack.

Behind him, Liu Ruyan quickly replaced the rice in her hand with two-color curry.

Finally, the two went to the cashier to pay. Chen Ya's late-night snack was a bowl of instant noodles.

"Would you like it heated up?" The male cashier on the night shift was cool and didn't say much.

"Heat it up, and soak the noodles for me."

"We don't help with adding seasonings here."

"fine."

The cashier put Liu Ruyan's food into the microwave. She sat at an empty table without any food waste, resting her chin on her hands and waiting.

After a while, Chen Ya came over with a bowl of instant noodles.

The bowl was already full of hot water. He first took out the powder packet, tore it open, and sprinkled the brown seasoning powder onto the golden noodles, which turned black from being soaked in the soup.

Then came the sauce packet. As soon as she tore open the plastic packaging, Liu Ruyan smelled a unique fragrance.

Finally, there's the vegetable packet. The dehydrated, tiny, and adorable dried vegetables are scattered in the noodle soup, bouncing and frolicking like playful children.

Chen Ya stirred the noodles with a plastic fork for a while, then stuck it into the instant noodle bowl, fixed the plastic lid on top, and then waited.

During this time, Liu Ruyan kept staring straight at him.

This was the first time she had ever seen the entire process of making instant noodles.

Chen Ya's movements were fluid and graceful; watching him make instant noodles was like watching him cook on a teppanyaki grill.

However, teppanyaki is usually a performance, and it can be seen as deliberately showing off, but he is not.

Every step he took was extremely practical.

The final step of securing the tortilla lid to the bowl with a fork was particularly ingenious.

If he hadn't performed for her, she would never have imagined that a fork could be used in such a way.

After a long pause, she finally said, "This is the first time I've ever seen this."

Chen Ya said calmly, "Miss, your world is too far removed from us mortals. I feel like I live on a completely different planet from you."

"I didn't want this either."

“I know, and I don’t care. Don’t expect me to feel inferior when I’m with you,” Chen Ya said. “What I mean is, you live in a completely different world from everyone else. How are you supposed to understand someone else?”

Returning to this topic, Liu Ruyan became distressed again.

"Whether it's strict parents, an excellent nanny, or even a cat that gets indigestion from eating salmon, these are experiences that most people will never have in their lifetime. How can you expect others to understand your pain?"

Liu Ruyan didn't speak, but her expression was very distressed.

Chen Ya remained silent. He was a cool guy; if no one answered, he wouldn't say more than three sentences.

After a while, Liu Ruyan stared at the braised beef drawn on the instant noodle bowl and said, "How can I make others... understand?"

"First, you must learn to understand everything, at least things that are different from yourself."

Liu Ruyan tried very hard to swallow his words and extract the parts she could understand from them.

Chen Ya opened the instant noodle lid, and a wonderful aroma wafted out with the steam, rising to the ceiling and then spreading throughout the entire space.

Liu Ruyan had never smelled this fragrance before.

Neither kaiseki cuisine nor teppanyaki smelled as good as the aroma she was smelling now.

Chen Ya checked the elasticity of the noodles and then put the lid back on.

"The two-tone curry is ready."

The cashier said that.

Liu Ruyan stood there stunned. Chen Ya reminded her to go get it, and she went over to retrieve her food.

She placed it on the table and began to ponder the intact plastic seal.

"..."

Chen Ya took her food, tore open the packaging for her, and pushed it in front of her.

"It's ready to eat."

The girl noticed: it didn't smell like instant noodles.

So, for the second time in her life, she mustered her courage and tentatively took a step into her unknown world:

"I want to eat yours."