Chapter 179
Chapter 179
Ji Lin gave him an indifferent look. “It’s not as if you don’t want a relationship. Why not take the blind dates seriously?”
The words “blind date” instantly wilted Wang Yuanyou.
“I prefer falling in love naturally. You know, the kind where you spot someone in a crowd, fall in love at first sight, and one glance feels like ten thousand years. Do either of you understand that thrill?”
Ji Lin said, “No.”
Yun Youyou said, “I understand.”
Not only did Wang Yuanyou turn to look at her, but Ji Lin also stopped what he was doing.
Yun Youyou tossed a piece of roasted lamb into her mouth.
“Whenever I buy roast duck, I can pick out the fattest one at a glance. I think that’s probably love at first sight.”
Ji Lin: “…”
Wang Yuanyou: “…Go watch your Makka Pakka. A mature adult like me has nothing to discuss with you.”
Yun Youyou shrugged helplessly.
Was that not basically the same thing?
Towel smelled the roasted lamb and repeatedly tried to jump up against the table.
It was too heavily seasoned for him.
Yun Youyou tried to persuade him. “It isn’t good. Not good at all!”
She stuffed lamb into her mouth as she spoke.
Towel might be small, but he was not stupid.
His dark eyes stared pitifully at her.
Yun Youyou’s heart softened under his gaze.
“There’s no choice…”
Towel sensed her wavering, and his tail wagged even harder.
Yun Youyou sighed and completed her sentence.
“No choice but to close my eyes and force it down.”
Towel: “…”
His tail stopped dead.
“Whine…”
The aggrieved puppy whimpered and burrowed into Ji Lin’s arms.
Ji Lin patted his head in consolation.
“Be good.”
Wang Yuanyou had already received three calls from Her Majesty, the Queen Mother. If he did not leave for the blind date now, he would probably have to hold one in the Underworld.
“Youyou! I can’t live without you!”
Wang Yuanyou looked ready to wrap himself around her leg.
The words sounded somewhat suggestive.
When he caught Ji Lin’s gaze from the corner of his eye, Wang Yuanyou immediately corrected himself.
“Youyou! I can’t live without you, just like poop can’t live without plastic wrap.”
Yun Youyou asked, “What does poop have to do with plastic wrap?”
“Nothing. Just like there’s nothing between the two of us.”
Yun Youyou was confused.
“Do you want my help or not?”
Wang Yuanyou turned to Ji Lin. “Should I want it?”
Yun Youyou: “???”
What did this have to do with Ji Lin?
Ji Lin did not answer directly. He looked calmly at Yun Youyou.
“Do you want to go?”
Wang Yuanyou hid behind Yun Youyou and answered in a high-pitched imitation of her voice, “I want to go!”
Yun Youyou: “…”
The poor child had been driven to this point. She might as well help him.
Wang Yuanyou left first. Before going, he could not resist asking, “What are you planning to do this time?”
“I haven’t decided. Play it by ear when the time comes.”
“I still don’t feel safe.”
“What are you worried about?”
“You. As a person.”
“Then should I leave?”
Wang Yuanyou hurriedly said, “Don’t leave. I’ll leave!”
He marched out with the grim determination of a soldier heading to war.
Ji Lin and Yun Youyou stayed home and ate for a while before leisurely setting out.
Yun Youyou had just squeezed a generous clothing allowance from Wang Yuanyou.
She fastened her seat belt.
“Let’s go. We still need to stop at the mall. I’ll buy you an outfit too.”
Ji Lin’s grip tightened around the steering wheel, though nothing showed on his face.
“I don’t think I need one.”
Yun Youyou’s Ultraman performance had delivered a modest shock to this serious man.
In more than twenty years of life, Ji Lin had never witnessed anything so outrageous.
Yun Youyou’s sharp eyes caught the line of tension in his arm, and she burst out laughing.
“Relax. This time, you’re playing a normal person.”
Ji Lin believed only half of anything Yun Youyou said.
If she claimed he was playing a normal person, the only thing he could be sure of was that he would be human, not some bizarre species.
Whether the human would actually be normal remained unknown.
Yun Youyou bought an outfit for each of them.
As the car traveled down the road, she applied makeup in the passenger seat.
Ji Lin caught sight of the thin eyebrow pencil in his peripheral vision, and his eyelid twitched.
“Can’t that thing stab you in the eye?”
Yun Youyou finished her brows, then swept a brush across her face.
“Relax. My hand is perfectly steady.”
Ji Lin felt his heart lurch with every movement. He had never been this tense even inside an Instance.
He slowed the car, terrified that one wrong bump would leave Yun Youyou blind.
As she applied her makeup, Yun Youyou explained his role.
There was not much to explain.
When she finished, she handed Ji Lin a pair of sunglasses.
“Stand behind me and act like a cold, ruthless bodyguard. The colder, the better. The more ruthless, the better.”
Ji Lin silently accepted the sunglasses.
At least Yun Youyou had not assigned him an important part.
The moment they entered the restaurant, Yun Youyou tossed her hair and strode inside on four-inch stilettos.
Wang Yuanyou sat facing the entrance, looking as though he had lost all desire to live.
His eyes lit up the instant he saw Yun Youyou.
Miss Wang, seated across from him, sensed something and turned.
Two people had appeared beside their table.
The woman in front was breathtakingly beautiful.
Beneath the lights, she looked like a porcelain doll. Her skin was flawless and pale, her lips a vivid, seductive red. Every shift of her gaze shimmered, and the slight upward tilt of her eyes seemed capable of stealing souls.
Miss Wang stared, entranced.
Ji Lin wore a black suit and black sunglasses that concealed most of his face, yet he was still handsome enough to make knees weak.
No one in the restaurant had any interest in eating anymore. Every gaze kept drifting toward them.
Yun Youyou looked down upon the pair with aloof nobility, too intimidating to meet directly in the eye.
Even Wang Yuanyou muttered inwardly that she looked surprisingly convincing.
Yun Youyou suddenly curved her lips into a smile. She hooked the sunglasses in her hand beneath Wang Yuanyou’s chin and forced him to raise his head.
“Man, how dare you secretly slip from my grasp?”
Wang Yuanyou: “…”
Understood. This time she was playing the dangerously seductive tyrant.
He quickly entered character and jerked his face aside.
“I won’t go with you.”
Cold indifference entered Yun Youyou’s eyes. “Only the dead can refuse me.”
Wang Yuanyou shrank back theatrically.
“No! Don’t!”
Yun Youyou was about to signal Ji Lin to tie him up when the previously silent Miss Wang suddenly stood.
“A melon picked by force won’t be sweet!”
Surprise flashed through Yun Youyou’s eyes. She immediately sneered.
“So what if it isn’t sweet?”
Miss Wang stepped in front of Wang Yuanyou, shielding him.
“But I am. Instead of taking him, why don’t you take me?”
Yun Youyou: “???”