Chapter 78: How to Express Love?

  Qin Luo's steak arrived quickly, with two slices of dark green bell peppers along the edge of the plate and a large piece of charred beef in the middle.

  Qin Luo looked at the row of silver utensils in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and chose a steel fork.

  Then, a fork is inserted into the middle of the steak and the whole piece of steak is lifted up towards the mouth.

  The waiter who was helping them pour red wine was shocked by Qin Luo's action and didn't even notice the red wine overflowing from the glass.

  "Hey, I'm full." Qin Luo said with effort, gnawing on the large piece of beef, to the waiter.

  "Ah. Sorry. Sorry." The waiter finally reacted and quickly took a white napkin to help them wipe the spilled wine on the table.

  Qin Luo waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you go ahead and take care of your business. If we want to drink, we can pour it ourselves."

  "Thank you." The waiter thanked him repeatedly, but couldn't help taking a glance at Qin Luo who was devouring his steak.

  This guy is awesome!

  Lin Xunxi returned from the bathroom and saw Qin Luo eating steak as if it were roast, she couldn't help but pause for a moment. Then she covered her mouth and giggled.

  "Steak isn't eaten like this." Lin Xuanxi sat down opposite Qin Luo, smiling as he spoke.

  "I know." Qin Luo nodded and said. "It's more convenient to eat this way."

  "Haven't you ever had steak before?" Lin Xuanxi asked, cutting her food on her plate into small pieces and sending them into her mouth.

  "Look at others eating. Isn't steak just a big piece of beef? It's not bad to eat it this way either. Cutting back and forth is too much trouble." Qin Luo said.

  "Whatever, as long as I can eat my fill." Lin Xuanxi said. She didn't force Qin Luo to change his posture. Although there were many people around them casting surprised or disdainful glances, she didn't mind in the least.

  "He's just like that." Lin Xuan thought. "It's good this way."

  Ling Xiao deliberately walked behind, fiercely pinched a handful on his brother Ling Xuan's waist and angrily said: "I invited Guan Xi to dinner, what are you two doing here?"

  Ling Xuan looked at his sister with a mixture of pain and love in his eyes, and sighed: "It was Guan Xiao who brought us here."

  "Did he let you come and you just came? You wouldn't refuse, would you?"

  "Ling Xiao, you should wake up," Ling Xuan said with some reluctance. "Don't you understand what he's trying to do?"

  "I don't understand? I don't understand anything. And I don't want to understand." Ling Xiao glared at Ling Xuan and quickly walked towards Guan Xi in front of him.

  Ling Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head.

  He knew his sister was beyond cure.

  "Huh? Isn't that bumpkin the same jerk we met earlier?" Ling Xiao walked past a corridor and inadvertently discovered Qin Luo, who was holding up a steak and devouring it.

  "Be a lady. Be a lady." Ning gently pulled on Ling's hand, signaling her to calm down.

  It's not easy to get him out for dinner, if I ruin my own image it won't be good.

  Unexpectedly, Guan Zhu had already heard the content of the two people's conversation. Following Ling Xiao's line of sight, his pupils also suddenly dilated.

  "Do you know each other?" Guan Xiruo asked nonchalantly.

  "Haha, just ordinary friends. Not very close." Ling Xiao smiled awkwardly. Enemies meeting face to face, their eyes were especially red. She had shown her emotions too clearly earlier. If Gu Zhi knew she was arguing with someone again, it would probably greatly discount his impression of her.

  "It's all because of that annoying bumpkin." Ling Xiao cursed in his heart.

  "Since we're friends, let's go say hello then?" said Guan Xiao with a smile.

  "Huh?"

  "Let's go. Don't let people think we're being rude." Guan said with a smile, narrowing his eyes.

  Ling Xiao and Ning Si exchanged a glance, then reluctantly walked towards Qin Luo with difficulty.

  "Hey, you're eating here too?" Ling Xiao stood at the edge of the dinner table with a reluctant expression, forcing a stiff smile as he greeted Qin Luo.

  Qin Luo turned his face to look over, seeing that the person who had run over to chat was the rich girl who had just tried to run him over with her sports car. His expression immediately darkened and he angrily said: "Why can't I eat here? What are you doing here again? Are we familiar?"

  "You----" Ling Xiao almost spat out blood in anger. She couldn't care less about maintaining her elegant lady image, pointing at Qin Luo and scolding: "Who do you think you are? Do you think I'm willing to talk to you? Give me a million dollars and I wouldn't even want to say a word to you. Just looking at you makes my eyes dirty."

  "Sister-in-law, did I ask you to come over and see me? Did I beg you to come?" Qin Luo said with a cold smile.

  These rich people are too arrogant. Can't they even afford to eat a meal here?

  Her fake smile is really annoying. She must think she should be eating five-dollar fast food.

  Qin Luo, this poor kid, has always been discriminated against and has developed a sensitive reaction to humiliation.

  "Who are you calling sister? I'm still young. You're the one who's old ----- look at your rustic clothes, you're just a country bumpkin ----- humph, and not afraid of being laughed at, first time seeing someone using a fork to hold up a whole steak like a bone."

  "I'm happy to. I'll have a beef patty wrapped in a pancake for lunch, it's my own business. What does it have to do with you?"

  When Qin Luo and Ling Xiao were arguing irreconcilably, Lin Huanxi saw Guan Xu standing behind them.

  He was smiling at himself with a pleased expression, just like when they first met.

  Will you suddenly appear at a street corner coffee shop?

  I will bring a smile and exchange pleasantries with you.

  No need to mention the past, just exchange pleasantries

  I just want to say one thing to you, just one thing.

  Long time no see-----

  "It's been a long time." Guan Xiao spoke up, his voice still as rich and enchanting as ever, seemingly possessing an endless magical power that could make people sink in.

  "Yes." Lin Xuanxi said. At this moment, her mood suddenly calmed down.

  The confrontation I had always dreaded turned out to be nothing to fear after all.

  "Are you doing well?" Qian Xun asked with a smile, intently gazing at the delicate face in front of him.

  "Alright."

  "I remember, the first time we met in Yanjing was in this restaurant. Table 116, I still remember that number." Guan Xi's voice was calm and peaceful, neither happy nor sad, as if stating a trivial matter. It was also like an experienced hunter who had dug a hole and was waiting for his prey to arrive.

  Last time was too careless, let the best prey escape. From now on, won't make such a mistake again.

  Qin Luo and Ling Xiao's quarrel came to an abrupt halt as they stared at Guan Xu in astonishment.

  If he hadn't said those words, he wouldn't have suspected his identity at all.

  Seeing Qin Luo's gaze shift onto himself, Guan Xiao proactively stretched out his hand towards Qin Luo and said: "Hello. I'm Guan Xiao."

  "Qin Luo." Qin Luo stretched out his hand and shook hands with him.

  As expected, he is indeed Guan Xu.

  He now understood why Lin Xuan had asked him to dinner here.

  He now understood that the table they were sitting at, number 116, had such a meaning.

  Pulling up a man just for waiting another man's arrival?

  So what kind of role does one play in their own script?

  Qin Luo, who had never known what love was, suddenly felt a little heartache, more of which was anger. He had a feeling of being deceived.

  Unable to resist, Lin Xuanxi chose a stance and was defeated by Guan Xiao in their first meeting.

  Guan Xiao's hand touched Qin Luo's and then let go, before turning to Lin Xiangxi and saying: "I won't disturb you and your friend having dinner. Let's catch up over tea sometime."

  He didn't give Lin Xuanxi a chance to refuse and had already turned around and left.

  "Big brother, your girlfriend is so beautiful!" Ning Shuishui looked at Qin Luo and then at Lin Xuanxi across from her, saying with a smile.

  Qin Luo nodded slightly, but there was no joy in his emotions.

  "Hehe, I won't disturb your meal anymore. See you later." Ning said with a cute smile and waved goodbye to Qin Luo.

  Ling Xiao thoughtfully looked at Lin Xuanxi for a while before quickly catching up with Guan Xu in front.

  Ling Xuan and Li Lingxi exchanged a glance, both knowing that things seemed a bit complicated.

  After waiting for a group of people to leave, both of them lost interest in having dinner.

  "When we met, it was in the United States. The only time I came back to visit my relatives in Yanjing and met at this Western restaurant. At that time, this store had just opened, and not many people knew about it. It was also the first night of the Chinese Lantern Festival, table 116, the candles were lit by him personally----" Lin Xuanxi said softly, without noticing Qin Luo's expression.

  "So, you invited me to this Western restaurant?" Qin Luo's face had a smile on it, but his eyes turned icy.

  Seeing Qin Luo look at her with such eyes, Lin Xuan's heart suddenly became flustered.

  This gaze is terrifying, as if it wants to cut off the relationship between people with one knife, never to be connected again.

  Before, she had shown this expression of refusing people from afar countless times when rejecting other men's pursuits.

  Now, however, I saw this familiar scene from someone else's body.

  "Qin Luo, don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to regain anything. I just----"

  "What's wrong?" Qin Luo was still smiling, but there was no warmth and kindness that Lin Xuan was familiar with, only a strange coldness.

  "Sometimes I think I'm a good listener too. That's all."

  "No. I regard you as a friend." Lin Xuanxi hastily said.

  She didn't know why she had to explain it. But she knew she had to do so.

  She felt that something very important was slipping away.

  "Friends? Sometimes this is the cheapest thing. Can be given casually, and can also be easily taken back." Qin Luo said with a smile. "Thanks for dinner. I have something to do, so I'll leave first."

  Qin Luo nodded at Lin Huanxi and stood up to walk outside.

  Lin Huanxi opened her mouth to shout, but couldn't make any sound.

  Until Qin Luo's figure disappeared in the twinkling starlight that also disappeared from his line of sight, tears finally flowed down his cheeks.

  The feeling I thought had long been forgotten came back so easily.

  He poured himself a glass of wine and then drank it all in one gulp with tears.

  Pour another cup. Drink it all again.

  No lingering fragrance of sweetness, only endless bitterness.

  "It's not like that. How could it be what you think? So many years ago, I was able to choose to leave, so how could I come back again?"

  "The person I couldn't forget, has actually forgotten. The cautious and nervous encounter, I can handle it well now. I don't love him, nor do I hate him. I can treat him calmly now. He and I have finally become strangers."

  "I thought my illness was cured. Although I still don't want to talk to other men, but I like listening to you speak. That's enough for me. My nostalgia is just a way of saying goodbye to the past. And you are the best witness to the end of this love affair. Because..."

  "Qin Luo, what should I do? I've fallen in love with you, but how can I tell you?"