"Did you come alone?" Shen Moyu took a sip of milk tea, and seeing her nod, he smiled and said, "Sit here."
“Damn it…” Su Jinning looked at Shen Moyu with a resentful expression and cursed in a low voice.
Its entire body was expressing its protest.
Qin Zhi pursed her lips, still not daring to sit down. After all, she had only said one sentence, and Su Jinning had already become somewhat impatient. Thinking of this, she mustered up her courage and glanced at Su Jinning's expression.
Su Jinning winked and exchanged a few words with Shen Moyu, her attitude softening somewhat under duress: "Sit down. I was a bit harsh just now."
"Ah! No, it's because I didn't know the situation." Qin Zhi said this with her eyes closed, she was terrified.
She slowly sat down and glanced at Shen Moyu with gratitude.
Out of politeness, Shen Moyu gave a stiff smile in return.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. Qin Zhi scratched her head, trying to find a topic of conversation. Her eyes suddenly fell on the identical milk tea in the hands of the three people. She smiled and said, "Hey, our milk tea is 'Fireworks in the Summer'! How coincidental!"
The three of them glanced at each other's milk tea. Shen Moyu chuckled awkwardly, thinking to herself, "It's just milk tea, what's the big deal?"
Su Jinning felt shrouded in gloom, and he abruptly ended the conversation: "I didn't see any chemistry between us."
"Uh... haha..." Qin Zhi looked down awkwardly at the milk tea in her hand, then at the two people who hadn't said a word.
"Ah, I didn't expect Senior Moyu to like this flavor of milk tea so much." She smiled sweetly, her eyes curving into crescents, enough to make any boy's heart flutter.
But only Su Jinning seemed annoyed. He picked out the key word: "Return?"
What does "still like to drink" mean? Do you know what kind of milk tea he used to like?
"Yeah, when we went out in junior high and the first year of high school, we often came here to drink milk tea. Senior Mo Yu always ordered this. I told him to try something different, but he said he only liked this, haha." Qin Zhi didn't notice anything amiss and couldn't help but laugh awkwardly herself after teasing him.
Shen Moyu genuinely felt that Qin Zhi talked too much and regretted calling her to sit down: "Ah, I also don't really want to try anything else."
Su Jinning looked down at the cup of milk tea that she actually didn't like at all, and with a forced smile revealing her canine teeth, asked, "You two used to be really close, didn't you?"
After saying that, he turned around and stared at Shen Moyu with a somewhat frightening look in his eyes.
Shen Moyu felt uncomfortable under the gaze and shrugged without saying a word. Qin Zhi, on the other hand, answered enthusiastically: "Yes, when we first met, Senior Moyu even helped me out of an awkward situation, so I've always thought of him as an older brother." After she finished speaking, she looked at Shen Moyu with some pride.
Brother. What a wonderful brother.
Su Jinning's eyes were cold as she took a big gulp of milk tea, as if she was suppressing something.
"How long have you two known each other?" Su Jinning didn't show anything unusual, but she didn't look at Shen Moyu once more.
"Hmm... if we count this year, we've known each other for about four years. I was in the first year of junior high, and he was in the second year." Qin Zhi looked up as if recalling: "It was during the school anniversary speech. I was so nervous. I was the only timid person there, and senior Mo Yu came over to comfort me!"
Su Jinning laughed, a laugh that seemed inexplicably natural, and even Shen Moyu seemed to catch it and laughed along.
"Back then he was so lively and cheerful, unlike now, so old-fashioned." Qin Zhi rested her chin on her hand, laughing and teasing Shen Moyu, then said to Su Jinning, "You have to let Senior Jinning know about this other side of Senior Moyu."
“The other side.” Su Jinning finally couldn’t laugh anymore. He looked up and met Qin Zhi’s smiling eyes. His expression was serious: “You know quite a lot.”
After saying that, Su Jinning smiled at her again, but the smile was a little stiff.
That sentence suddenly reminded Qin Zhi of the minor characters in novels who knew too much and were killed by the protagonist. Su Jinning's eyes and the atmosphere at this moment made her feel a little scared. She whispered, "Ah?"
"Qin Zhi, let's not bring up the past." Shen Moyu said, rubbing his forehead, somewhat embarrassed.
The milk tea cup in Su Jinning's hand suddenly overflowed due to his unconscious exertion, spilling all over himself.
"Hey! Are you clumsy?" Shen Moyu exclaimed. His pants were thin, and the iced milk tea soaked them instantly, sticking to his skin, making them wet and sticky.
Su Jinning subconsciously stood up, but stood there motionless, staring at Shen Moyu as if in a daze.
His gaze swept over him from top to bottom, scrutinizing him closely.
"I'll go ask the waiter for tissues!" Qin Zhi quickly got up and ran towards the counter.
Shen Moyu pulled out the last tissue from his pocket and began wiping himself.
"You sprayed water on me this morning, and this afternoon, my pants were barely dry when you threw milk tea on me?" Shen Moyu was genuinely angry and glared at Su Jinning.
"I'm sorry." This time his apology was straightforward, but his tone was stiff, and he stood there like a stick.
"Here! Tissues!" Qin Zhi hurriedly ran over and handed the tissues to Shen Moyu.
Unintentionally, Shen Moyu's fingertips touched Qin Zhi's hand, but neither of them noticed, as they were too busy cleaning up Su Jinning's handiwork.
But Su Jinning, with her sharp eyes, noticed it. It would have been better if she hadn't looked, because once she did, the monster called "annoyance" inside her growled a few more times, making her feel irritated.
"Stop fucking wiping, I'll go back and wash you, okay? Come on, let's go home." Su Jinning grabbed Shen Moyu and left without even taking the snacks from the table.
"What are you doing? Let go!" Shen Moyu's wrist was gripped painfully, and he tried to shake off Su Jinning. He really hated being dragged around without any explanation.
"Hey! Senior, your snacks!" Qin Zhi chased after him and patted Su Jinning on the shoulder.
"Take it back and eat it yourself. Get out of here. Do you even know me?" Su Jinning raised his voice and became more forceful. He no longer cared about being a gentleman and his words left Qin Zhi stunned. Even Shen Moyu, whom he was pulling, was a little confused.
Even though she had only walked a little faster, Su Jinning was panting heavily, as if something inside her was about to explode.
Shen Moyu didn't understand what was going on. He looked back at Qin Zhi several times with guilt, but didn't dare to say anything more.
"Still looking! Still looking! Qin Zhi is so beautiful?" Su Jinning forcefully pulled Shen Moyu in front of her, venting her anger without any basis.
Shen Moyu felt even more pain from the pull, and slapped Su Jinning on the back of the neck, as if to wake him up: "What's wrong with you? We just made up, don't make me beat you up!"
Perhaps Su Jinning realized that Shen Moyu was really angry, or perhaps the slap was really hard, acting like a tranquilizer to calm him down.
He gently rubbed his neck, calming down considerably. But he still turned his face away angrily, his voice low and deep: "You were so good to her before, and you even accepted her seaweed rice rolls right after we reunited, chatting and laughing with her. I think you two are in love." Su Jinning mustered her courage and shouted out the last sentence in one go.
Shen Moyu was quite annoyed by his sudden, illogical reasoning. She closed her eyes and sighed heavily.
He suddenly pinched Su Jinning's ear.
"Ouch! That hurts! Holy crap!" Su Jinning's ear was burning from being pinched, and he quickly grabbed Shen Moyu's wrist.
Shen Moyu seemed to have vented all the anger from the past two days, pinching Su Jinning and then punching him. Seeing that he was no longer going to say anything foolish, she said, "Can you stop being like Chen Hang and the others all the time, always saying this one likes that one, and that one likes this one?"
He didn't know why he compared himself to Chen Hang and the others; he just suddenly recalled the scene when they were teasing Su Jinning about being in a relationship.
Su Jinning felt wronged and unhappy for no reason.
Qin Zhi and Shen Moyu had known each other for a long time, and there were many things that even Qin Zhi, Shen Moyu's best friend, didn't know, but Qin Zhi could tell them offhand.
How could she know so much about Shen Moyu's past? What was that other side that I had never seen?