Chapter 52: Didn’t want to owe him
Their meals arrived soon. Ji Xiehan had also ordered a bottle of wine which he drank on his own because Li Lanni was not in the mood to drink.
To be more strict, she just did not want to. She knew nothing about her alcohol tolerance. It wouldn’t be necessarily safe for a girl to get drunk in the company of a man, especially if that man was clearly interested in her. Wouldn’t she be offering herself like a chunk of meat on the chopping board?
Halfway through the meal, Ji Xiehan couldn’t hold it anymore. The urge to ask about their first meeting was burning him up.
Borrowing courage from the wine he had just drank, he put down his cutlery and looked at her, "Lanni, have we really not met before?"
Li Lanni raised her head and contemplated for a few seconds. "We have."
She counted using her fingers: "We met when you kidnapped me, those two times you sucked up to my mom and two whole times today. Right, I have caught you acting sneaky outside my home too."
Ji Xiehan was caught between laughter and tears. "Before all those times, we have met before. In The Emerald Grand Hotel, I found out later that it was the day of your welcome party. Do you really not remember?" His hands were already tightly clenched and his back couldn’t get any more straight. He silently awaited his death sentence after poking the beehive.
Surprisingly, the ’beehive’ didn’t react as he had expected. She didn’t call him out for using worn out pick up lines on her or for trying to forcefully claim familiarity with her. Instead, she gripped her fork so hard that her knuckles were a faint shade of pink. But the problem was that her silence was much worse than her sarcastic remarks! She was practically making him sit on needles, alright!
After what felt like several evers, she finally let out a puff of air. "I do remember that my former classmates arranged a welcome party for me."