Chapter 14: , Baby? Zhang Xian?

"Visiting a grave?"

"Zhang Xian, is your brain broken?!"

"You call visiting a grave having a sense of ceremony??"

Chu Yourong was so angry she nearly started cursing. Her original intention was to guide Zhang Xian into putting together some romantic marriage proposal ceremony or something—after all, she was a girl, and some things weren't easy to say too directly.

And yet, Zhang Xian came up with visiting a grave!

This guy's brain circuitry was something else—had parasites already hollowed out his brain?

Chu Yourong couldn't help but recall a line that had been trending online recently.

【Some people are mistaken for normal people just because they can take care of themselves.】

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Zhang Xian spread his hands: "You said you wanted a sense of ceremony, so tell me, is there anything more ceremonial than visiting a grave to pay respects to the ancestors?"

"Haven't you seen the news? That infamous drug lord was caught precisely because he went back to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors. You can see how seriously people in this country take this matter."

"No way—you can actually give a reasonable explanation for that??"

Chu Yourong was utterly speechless. In her view it was completely absurd, yet Zhang Xian somehow managed to explain it as if it made perfect sense.

"It was perfectly reasonable to begin with!"

"Don't you want to give the public the impression that we're very much in love and about to get married?"

Zhang Xian continued: "The Zhongyuan Festival is just a few days away. I'll take you to visit my mother's grave—wouldn't that prove even better how close we are?"

"Uh, this..."

Chu Yourong's little head spun rapidly, and a flash of wisdom occasionally sparkled in her big eyes: "Seems like there's some logic to it."

"But you're only 22 this year, right? Did Auntie pass away so young?"

"I still have five older sisters."

"What!"

"Five older sisters??"

Chu Yourong was greatly shocked. As an only child, she had always longed for an older brother or a younger brother.

Unfortunately, an older brother was impossible, but as for a younger brother, there was still a tiny sliver of hope—her mother was 45 this year, her father 47.

The other day the news had even reported that a 59-year-old mother had successfully given birth to a son.

But she had probed around before, and her parents seemed to have no plans for a second child at all. The two of them were just waiting to retire and enjoy life!

Having a child? That would just be making trouble for yourself!

"That's not the point, okay? The point is, what do you think of my proposal?"

"Mm, it does work, I suppose."

"But won't filming the process of paying respects be disrespectful to Auntie?"

Chu Yourong gently rubbed her slightly chubby baby-fat cheeks.

"I didn't ask you to film the whole process. Filming the entrance of the cemetery and the preparations for paying respects is fine. After all, just letting people know you went to visit a grave with your boyfriend is enough, isn't it?"

Before Zhang Xian's mother passed away, she told him that when he got a girlfriend in the future, he must bring her to let her have a look, and if she was satisfied, she would give Zhang Xian a dream visitation.

Of course, dream visitations were too mystical—Zhang Xian didn't believe in that sort of thing. But he remembered his mother's dying words. The two girlfriends he had seriously dated before, he had actually taken them to pay respects to his mother.

It's just that his mother never gave him a dream visitation!

Now that Chu Yourong had become his "third" girlfriend, and she had brought up wanting a sense of ceremony, and the Zhongyuan Festival happened to be approaching, it was the perfect time for Zhang Xian to take her over to pay respects and let his mother have a look.

"Alright, I'll go with you."

In a relationship, if you've met each other's parents, that carries a lot of weight—it's a signal of moving toward marriage, or at least having that intention.

Once the news was made public, it would make the company even more convinced that Chu Yourong was really getting married.

At the entrance of the restaurant.

A taxi slowly came to a stop.

Liu Dongxu and Wang Jiajia got out from the back seat.

"Zhang Xian actually picked such an expensive place—who's paying for this?"

Liu Dongxu glanced at the extremely upscale storefront decor and muttered under his breath.

"Is this restaurant very expensive?"

Until today, Wang Jiajia had never been to a proper Japanese restaurant before. Given the nature of her work, even when some big brother invited her to dinner, they never went to a Japanese restaurant.

"Over a thousand per person, I think!"

"I can afford it, but Zhang Xian doesn't even have a job. He's probably planning to make me pay!"

"I shouldn't have invited him. He's seizing the chance to fleece me!"

Liu Dongxu pouted and complained.

"That kind of person—there's nothing he wouldn't do."

Wang Jiajia chimed in.

"Probably just trying to show off in front of his girlfriend."

"I'd like to see what kind of girlfriend he managed to find!"

Saying that, Liu Dongxu grabbed Wang Jiajia's hand and strode into the restaurant.

"Welcome, do you have a reservation?"

A pretty waitress asked with a smile.

"Yes, Sakura Hall."

"Alright, right this way, please."

The waitress in a kimono led the way in front, swaying her waist gently as she walked, and Liu Dongxu's eyes could barely look away.

The private room had a wooden sliding door. The server stopped at the entrance and gave a light knock.

"Miss Chu, your guests have arrived."

"Alright, please come in."

After receiving permission, the server opened the door.

Liu Dongxu, holding Wang Jiajia's hand, walked into the private room. He had originally wanted to complain to Zhang Xian about why he'd picked such a place, but the moment he saw Chu Yourong sitting beside Zhang Xian, he froze on the spot.

"Chu, Chu Yourong!"

After staring blankly for quite a while, Liu Dongxu finally shouted Chu Yourong's name in shock.

Wang Jiajia beside him had also widened her eyes. She didn't normally follow the entertainment circle, but yesterday's news of Chu Yourong revealing her relationship was so viral that while scrolling through Douyin she had also passively seen the related coverage.

And when Wang Jiajia read the news, she thought to herself that a young, beautiful female star like Chu Yourong must have found either a second-generation rich kid or a big tycoon as her boyfriend, and she couldn't help feeling envious.

What she hadn't expected was that the big star she could only see in the news yesterday was now appearing right before her eyes — what a delightful surprise.

But why was Chu Yourong in this private room?

"Miss Chu, I'm your die-hard fan."

"I really didn't expect to run into you here!"

"It's just, sorry, I think I may have walked into the wrong private room..."

After coming back to his senses, Liu Dongxu's first thought was that he had walked into the wrong private room.

Otherwise, how could he possibly have met Chu Yourong?

Huh, wait, that's not right! Zhang Xian is here too!

Liu Dongxu looked again at Zhang Xian beside her, and his mind immediately went a bit blank — he could clearly feel his brain's CPU wasn't enough to handle this.

"Baby, these two are your friends, right?"

Chu Yourong stood up from her seat with a smile, then pointed at the empty seats across from her: "Please, you two, sit down."

Baby?

Who was she calling "baby"?

Could it be Zhang Xian??

Liu Dongxu was once again thrown off by Chu Yourong's "baby" — such an intimate form of address was usually only used between boyfriend and girlfriend.

Actually, Zhang Xian was also a bit stunned. He hadn't expected Chu Yourong to commit so hard to the act — she'd even pulled out "baby."

But then again, having a cute girl like Chu Yourong coo "baby" in that sweet, girlish voice really did feel good — it was as if his bones were going a bit soft and tingly.

"Miss Chu, pardon the question — were you just calling Zhang Xian?"

Liu Dongxu asked, unable to believe it.

"Yes, why?"

Chu Yourong put on a very surprised look: "Zhang Xian didn't tell you that I'm his girlfriend?"