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Chapter 16: Barbecue

“What?! How could this be?!”

When Yu Enqi saw the photo Zhou Chengcheng sent her, she clenched her fists at once.

She did not believe it at first, yet the man in the picture truly was Chen Yuan, and the girl beside him was someone she had never met.

No wonder…

No wonder he suddenly said he wanted to break up, turned into another person overnight, stopped replying, and refused to listen.

So he had a new lover all along! Scumbag!

Furious, Yu Enqi tossed her phone aside, and the noise startled Li Ailin, who sat nearby.

“What is it, Qiqi?” Li Ailin leaned over and asked carefully.

“Chen Yuan! He is eating with another girl!” Yu Enqi pointed at the phone, her chest heaving with anger.

“Huh? That can’t be!”

Li Ailin picked up the phone, saw the message from Zhou Chengcheng, and her eyes widened.

“That girl in the photo is way too pretty…” she muttered.

Compared with her, Qiqi looked a bit ordinary.

Although she often shouted that Chen Yuan and Yu Enqi should break up, she only meant to scare Chen Yuan. Deep down she never wanted them to split.

As long as Chen Yuan dated Yu Enqi, she could receive benefits like cosmetics, bags, and phones.

She dared to treat Chen Yuan harshly because she felt sure he loved Yu Enqi deeply.

She even understood his feelings better than Yu Enqi herself.

Now this sudden turn confused her.

Since announcing the breakup the day before yesterday, Chen Yuan really seemed like a different person…

“Qiqi, Chen Yuan could never betray you. It is only a meal with a girl… maybe he has some hardship,” Li Ailin probed. “You go out drinking and shopping with other boys every day and Chen Yuan still trusts you…”

“How could it be only a meal? His phone contains no women except his mom! I checked every contact, even his game friends!” Yu Enqi bit her lip. “This means he has kept it from me for a long time! This is a serious issue!”

“Uh… so, Qiqi, do you really plan to break up with him now?”

At the word breakup, Yu Enqi fell silent.

She was not sure Chen Yuan was with that girl. Li Ailin was right; they were only eating together and that proved nothing.

Chen Yuan loved her so much; how could he find such a beauty in two days?

Besides, a girl that pretty could choose any man. How could she fancy Chen Yuan?

If it were me, I would never…

At the very least I would choose someone better…

I would never date a pauper who cannot even buy a handbag worth tens of thousands.

“Come on, I want to see for myself.” Yu Enqi stood up at once. She would confront Chen Yuan face to face and ask what he meant.

…

“Eat.”

Chen Yuan moved all the grilled meat into Clovie’s bowl and placed fresh food on the rack.

Clovie had already been drooling at the aroma. When Chen Yuan gave permission, she immediately picked up the meat and put it into her mouth.

Her eyes lit up.

“I feel alive again…”

She bounced on her toes in excitement. Even though she was a Queen, after starving for several days she felt this was the most delicious thing in the world.

“Dip it in the seasoning; it tastes even better.” Chen Yuan lifted a piece of meat and showed her how to eat it.

Clovie copied his movements, tried the dry dip, and her eyes widened once more.

“It is so good, Teacher…” she said without exaggeration.

“If it is good, eat more. The more we eat, the more we earn.” Chen Yuan flipped the meat on the grill with tongs and spoke to her with a smile.

Seeing how happily she ate, he felt greatly satisfied.

Logically, as a Queen she had eaten better food than barbecue, but perhaps because he grilled it for her…

“Teacher, you eat too.”

While he entertained that thought, Clovie placed a piece of meat into his bowl.

She saw that Chen Yuan kept giving her food while barely eating himself and felt a little shy.

She truly was starving; the morning porridge only filled her for a while, so during this meal she barely noticed how attentively Chen Yuan looked after her.

Teacher still treated her so well…

“Alright, take your time. This is self-service, so don’t worry that I won’t get any.” Chen Yuan chuckled, reading her little embarrassment.

He ate the meat she gave him and went on, “Stop calling me Teacher. In this world just use my name.

From now on I will not call you Clovie either. I will call you Luo Wei.”

After he spoke, he saw that her little mouth was covered with oil, so he simply took a napkin and wiped it for her.

The smooth action froze Clovie in surprise, and her face heated up immediately.

She answered his earlier words in a tiny voice, “Mm…”

Obviously, Chen Yuan still treated her as a girl who knew nothing, yet even then she was still a young lady…

She could feel her heart flutter…

In Chen Yuan’s eyes, she was indeed a child.

“I want to hear you call me by name, Luo Wei,” Chen Yuan said after wiping her mouth. He naturally took more grilled meat and put it into her bowl.

The bowl that had been full a moment ago was already almost empty.

This girl really was hungry.

He suddenly wondered whether the others were also hungry.

Probably not…

Only Clovie would stupidly starve. If it were Yu, she would dine and dash and disappear; the owner would never catch her.

Clovie did not even know why she felt shy. She had always called Chen Yuan Teacher, and in the other world she only used his alias Leonhard a few times.

Only people with an intimate relationship called each other by name or even by nickname.

“Chen… Yuan.”

“Good girl~”

(He pats her head~)

Clovie’s cheeks turned even redder, as if she had eaten chili, and she gripped her clothes tightly.

“Don’t praise me like that…” she muttered.

It made her feel like a child.

Although she had not heard him praise her for a long time and she liked it, she still felt a bit resistant…

He really treated her as a naive kid…

I am a Queen, after all…

Chen Yuan did not hear her mutter, but he clearly saw the redness spreading over her face.

He realized that his behavior had been a little too forward.

He rubbed his nose. “I… I couldn’t help it, haha.”

This scene was also captured clearly by Zhou Chengcheng and Liu Nan, who sat not far away.

“Looks like someone won’t sleep tonight~”

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