Chapter 173

This possibility is not non-existent.

Shu Chen clearly doesn't quite believe it, but he possesses absolute optimism, "Hahaha, it doesn't matter, whether it was a mistake or not isn't important; what's important is that these past two days have been too awesome!"

Without realizing it, Shu Xia had already finished washing and cutting all the vegetables that needed to be prepared, and had also processed and marinated the meat.

After glancing at the time, she called Qiao Muting.

"About what time will you be home?"

Qiao Muting was playing basketball with a few friends; he wiped the sweat from his forehead and glanced at the time, "Preparing to head back now, I'll be home in about an hour."

"I'm leaving first," Qiao Muting said to Gu Jianzhang and the others.

"Why leave so early? Play for another hour," said Gu Jianzhang.

Everyone had time today, and it wasn't easy for them all to get together to play ball.

Qiao Muting shook his head, "I have an appointment tonight."

Gu Jianzhang raised an eyebrow, glanced at the smile on the corner of Qiao Muting's lips, and guessed it immediately, "Going home?"

"Mm."

Gu Jianzhang asked in a low voice, "Didn't you say you didn't like her? Looking at you like this, it doesn't seem like it."

Qiao Muting withdrew the smile from his lips, "You don't understand."

Then he strode away.

Gu Jianzhang raised an eyebrow; who was the one who didn't understand, anyway?

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Inside Xinghai Villa.

Qiao Muting had just opened the door when he smelled waves of food fragrance.

Perhaps because he was tired from playing ball, his stomach had started rumbling on the way back.

Now that he had arrived home and smelled the enticing aroma of the food, a sense of impatience suddenly arose in his heart.

After walking in, he saw that many dishes had already been laid out on the table.

Although her culinary skills couldn't compare to the chefs at five-star restaurants and the plating wasn't that exquisite, it exuded a taste of home; having eaten the food she made a few times, it was simple and delicious, and he could always eat quite a bit more rice each time.

Having played basketball all afternoon and burned quite a few calories, it wouldn't hurt to eat a bit more tonight.

Shu Xia brought over the braised fish she had just finished making and saw that Qiao Muting had already returned, "You're back!"

It seemed he was ten minutes early.

She still had two dishes that wouldn't be ready for another ten minutes.

"The road back was quite smooth, no traffic jams," Qiao Muting's thin lips curled slightly, and his tone relaxed quite a bit as well.

It seemed he was in a good mood today.

Shu Xia also smiled, "There are still two dishes left, wait for me for ten minutes."

"Alright, don't rush," Qiao Muting nodded.

His gaze swept across the table; there were nearly twenty dishes in total.

The portion size of each dish wasn't large, so although twenty-some varieties looked like a lot, the two of them shouldn't waste any.

Ten minutes later, Shu Xia finished the last two dishes.

She poked her head out from the kitchen and asked Qiao Muting, "Mr. Qiao, what would you like to drink? There is red wine, and there are some beverages in the refrigerator."

"Red wine."

"Alright."

One hour later.

Shu Xia's cheeks were slightly flushed; with her low tolerance for alcohol, she hadn't expected to get drunk from drinking red wine, and she looked at Qiao Muting before her with unfocused eyes.

Qiao Muting was slightly tipsy, but this amount of alcohol was nothing to him.

He had known before that Shu Xia had a low tolerance for alcohol, but looking at it now, she really couldn't drink at all.

She would get drunk after just a touch of alcohol.

However, being drunk to the point of having no defenses against others like this revealed a bit of charming naivety, and her red lips glistened with the luster of the red wine; not knowing what she was thinking of, she bit her red lip, an unintentional flirtation.

"Don't drink with others casually in the future," Qiao Muting advised in a slightly low voice.

Shu Xia was a bit rebellious, especially now that she had been drinking and her brain was reacting slowly and not working well, her rebellious streak was even stronger, "No, I just want to drink with others. Do you believe in my alcohol tolerance? If I told you, it would scare you to death."

"Alcohol tolerance?" Qiao Muting's eyes were deep, and he couldn't help but laugh.

With just this little alcohol tolerance, she could scare people to death?

Shu Xia stretched out one hand, her index finger glistening and translucent, white and tender, "Guess what this represents?"

Qiao Muting's gaze fell upon it, "Oh? What does it mean?"

The drunk Shu Xia was like a lazy little cat.

"The answer is so obvious, and you still can't guess it?"