Chapter 34: Unlike Me, Who Only Cares About Senior Brother (Please Collect and Recommend)

"Dating?"

Hearing Yang Mi's words, Beside Qi Hui Hui and Jing Tian both paused slightly in surprise.

Beside Qi Hui Hui shrugged: "Not this one."

At least not for now.

Not long after, the steak arrived.

To express his apology, the manager also gave Beside Qi Hui Hui and the other two a bottle of red wine.

"I also want to date my senior brother," Jing Tian said, cutting the meat with a table knife while sighing softly:

"If I were as beautiful as senior sister, I could definitely date my senior brother just like senior sister dates a man as good as Hu Ge."

Yang Mi smiled lightly: "Haha, comparing Beside Qi Hui Hui to Hu Ge... ahem, he's not in the least inferior."

Damn, I wasn't paying attention for a moment and almost got tricked by this girl... Yang Mi secretly cursed in her heart.

"Eh?" Jing Tian asked in surprise: "So, is senior sister really dating Hu Ge? I always thought that was just a rumor."

Hearing this, Beside Qi Hui Hui also raised his head, looking at Yang Mi with a bit of gossip in his eyes.

Sizzle!

The table knife scraped across the plate, metal colliding with ceramic, producing a somewhat sharp sound.

Yang Mi lost her composure slightly; facing Jing Tian's question and Beside Qi Hui Hui's doubt, she could only give an awkward smile: "Haha... not this one, I've always been single."

"Those were indeed rumors; it's just promotion. Sometimes you really have to play along with some fake things as required by the film crew and the program crew."

"What do they call that online? Oh, shipping CP."

Jing Tian looked as if she suddenly understood: "So that's how it is..."

Then, she stopped paying attention to Yang Mi and focused entirely on the steak in front of her.

Quiet and ladylike.

Yang Mi breathed a slight sigh of relief, but felt extremely depressed in her heart; tonight's plan had been going wrong from the very beginning.

With this girl still around, she simply couldn't do the things she wanted to do with Beside Qi Hui Hui.

What should be done? Maybe switch to the second half?

While Yang Mi ate her steak elegantly, her mind kept shifting, preparing to find an excuse to shake off Jing Tian and move on to the next venue with Beside Qi Hui Hui.

Otherwise, tonight would truly be wasted.

Rolling her eyes, she quietly reached for her phone.

No choice; she would have to trouble Yuan Shanshan again.

She would make it up to her later when there was a chance.

"Hello? Yuan Shanshan?" Yang Mi picked up her phone, pretending to answer a call: "What did you say? Aren't you at...?"

Jing Tian held a silver-white table knife and asked with a troubled expression: "Senior brother, how do I cut this steak?"

Beside Qi Hui Hui raised an eyebrow and laughed: "Come, I'll help you."

Saying this, he helped Jing Tian cut the steak hand-in-hand.

Jing Tian's pretty face turned slightly red: "Thank you, senior brother; it's all my fault, I'm so clumsy..."

But Yang Mi, sitting nearby, felt as if she were sitting on pins and needles; the words she had prepared to say were forced back into her throat, unable to come out.

"Ahem... you two, Yuan Shanshan needs me for something, I'll leave first." Yang Mi could no longer sit still, found an excuse, and slipped away directly.

Neither Beside Qi Hui Hui nor Jing Tian tried to stop her, watching her leave.

"Here, senior brother, have some meat." Jing Tian smiled brightly, adding fragrance to Beside Qi Hui Hui's red sleeves.

Look at this senior sister Yang Mi, always thinking of using you; unlike me, who only cares about senior brother.

Where is there any green tea? It's clearly our good junior sister... Beside Qi Hui Hui sighed in his heart.

Van

Long Hair looked completely confused: "Why did Yang Mi leave?"

"Why did she leave?" Crew Cut shouted angrily: "That's a question I should be asking you; what's the deal with your so-called intelligence?"

"This..." Long Hair scratched his head, restless: "I received an anonymous phone call, and that's what was said inside."

"You can believe something like that?" the gloomy man sneered: "Take your head out from between your heels and use it once more!"

"Let's go, back!" Crew Cut called out very displeased.

Not long after, the van started and drove away into the distance.

Restaurant.

Jing Tian asked with a worried expression: "Senior brother, senior sister must be angry with me because of this, right?"

"So scary, senior sister..."

Before she could finish, Beside Qi Hui Hui raised his hand and flicked her forehead.

"Ouch..." Jing Tian covered her forehead, looking aggrieved.

Beside Qi Hui Hui said: "Yang Mi has already left."

"Hehe..." Jing Tian chuckled softly, rubbed her forehead, and the aggrieved expression vanished instantly, returning to her original lively self.

"Senior brother, how well did I complete my mission?" she asked with great interest.

"Perfect!" Beside Qi Hui Hui gave a thumbs-up.

"Yeah, then let's eat quickly," Jing Tian said: "I'm a bit uncomfortable staying in this restaurant."

"Okay." Beside Qi Hui Hui agreed, asked the manager for a pair of chopsticks, and finished the steak in three quick moves.

As for the bottle of wine the manager gave, it remained untouched, left for the manager to clean up himself.

Soon, the two left the Western restaurant.

"Full?" Beside Qi Hui Hui asked as they walked.

"No," Jing Tian answered truthfully, "That steak was just a small piece."

A Western restaurant was never meant to be a place to get full.

"Come on, let's switch to the second half," Beside Qi Hui Hui laughed heartily. "Whatever you want to eat, I'll treat."

"Yeah, sure!" Jing Tian exclaimed excitedly, "Then let's go eat Chang'an Hulutou!"

"Ah, this..." Beside Qi Hui Hui's face froze; that dish seemed to be the fattiest part of the large intestine.

He wasn't quite used to eating it...

"Don't worry, Senior Brother, Hulutou is delicious!"

Alleyway, old shop.

Billowing steam churned inside the shop, waves of fragrance wafting everywhere.

"Boss, two portions of mutton paomo, one Hulutou," Jing Tian's energetic voice rang out in the shop.

"Alright, pick your own Hulutou, fat or lean... Eh? It's you?" The boss replied, then looked up and exclaimed in surprise.

A regular customer had arrived.

He immediately smiled and said, "I know, you want it leaner, and no cilantro, right?"

Saying this, he opened a smoked braising pot and picked out a non-fatty large intestine from inside.

"Mm-hmm!" Jing Tian nodded repeatedly.

Watching her move with such familiarity, Beside Qi Hui Hui couldn't help but smile, "I thought you were eating Hulutou Paomo."

"I can't eat that either," Jing Tian playfully stuck out her tongue.

"Come on, let's break the bread." She pulled Beside Qi Hui Hui to an empty spot and began breaking the bread.

"Senior Brother, where are we going in a bit?" Jing Tian chatted while breaking the bread.

Beside Qi Hui Hui shrugged, "I'm going back to the hotel."

"Eh?" Jing Tian asked in surprise, "Staying at a hotel?"

"Yeah, I just finished filming a while ago," Beside Qi Hui Hui said.

"Uh..." Jing Tian's eyes rolled around, then she smiled, "Senior Brother, do you want to rent an apartment here? I know a very good agent."

She also knew Beside Qi Hui Hui had just graduated, so she didn't ask about buying a house.

Hearing this, Beside Qi Hui Hui fell into thought; settling down in the Imperial Capital... seemed like a good choice.

The original body had studied here for four years and had already grown accustomed to this city.

Moreover, Ling Xiaosu, Zhang Ruoyun, and others all lived in the Imperial Capital.

"That works," Beside Qi Hui Hui nodded, "Thanks for your trouble."

"Hehe... No trouble at all," Jing Tian smiled happily, like a little fox whose scheme had succeeded, "Then let's go after we finish eating; there's still time, it's only past eight."

"Okay."

As the two talked, soon the mutton paomo and Hulutou were ready.

With a bit of hesitation, Beside Qi Hui Hui picked up a piece of Hulutou with his chopsticks and bit down.

The expected greasiness did not appear; instead, a rich aroma carried a faint smoky flavor.

Combined with the chewy texture, it was unforgettable.

"Mm... Not bad!" Beside Qi Hui Hui couldn't help but praise.

"Yeah, didn't I tell you?" Jing Tian was very happy, her mood cheerful.

She was from Chang'an; seeing someone else enjoy her hometown's food naturally made her very glad.

"And the mutton paomo, Senior Brother, try it quickly."

Residential compound, a residential building.

The agent led Beside Qi Hui Hui and Jing Tian to a room.

"Mr. Qi, this is our room."

Beside Qi Hui Hui nodded; setting aside other things, the environment outside in the compound was quite nice.

If there were no major problems inside, he wouldn't mind renting it.

Soon, the agent opened the door and led Beside Qi Hui Hui and Jing Tian inside.

Quickly, some feminine-style decoration and ornaments appeared before Beside Qi Hui Hui.

"Eh?" Beside Qi Hui Hui looked at the furnishings and decoration inside and was slightly startled, "This looks like a woman's place."

"Ahaha... Maybe the previous tenant was a girl," Jing Tian laughed and said.