The Beautiful Time With You

Lu Benlai: [Boss, I swear on my basic decency as a human that it must be the block function.]

Are you sure you have any basic decency as a human? To swear on it so casually … Lin Jiage muttered in his heart, still unwilling to accept this reason.

On the other end of the phone, Lu Benlai seemed to guess what Lin Jiage was thinking, and he sent the following messages: [I swear it on my chastity too!]

[As well as my about-to-sprout love!]

Lin Jiage couldn’t be bothered to respond to Lu Benlai anymore. He clicked on the latter’s name and tapped on the block function.

Then, he sent a text message over to Lu Benlai: [Open my Moments page and take a screenshot.]

Very soon, Lu Benlai sent a screenshot over.

It looked exactly like what happened when he opened Big White Chubby’s Moments page. Other than the cover photo, profile picture, and a short introductory message, there was nothing to be seen.

So, what Lu Benlai said was really true… Big White Chubby really blocked me from her Moments page… She replied so actively to Xia Shangzhou’s messages, but when it comes to me, she actually blocked me?

The more Lin Jiage thought about it, the more irritation he felt. In the end, he went straight to the App Store and found the download page for WeChat. He resolutely gave it a 1-star rating, and added the comment: [Really poor customer experience. If the lowest score wasn’t a 1 star, I would have really given you a 0 star.]

However, posting the negative review did little to alleviate Lin Jiage’s stifled feelings. Thus, he tapped into WeChat and found Lu Benlai: [I’ll take you out for afternoon tea. Coming?]

Lu Benlai immediately replied: [Coming!]

He even added an ‘acting cute’ emoji at the end.

Lin Jiage: [Ten minutes. School entrance.]

Lu Benlai: [Roger that, Boss.]

A while later, Lu Benlai added: [Boss, are we calling Old Xia along too?]

Xia Shangzhou, huh?

Without any hesitation, Lin Jiage replied: [No. We’re abandoning him.]

Lu Benlai: [Sounds great, I’m not close with that guy anyway. What’s he even called?]

…

By the time Lin Jiage arrived at the school entrance, Lu Benlai was already waiting there.

Lu Benlai soon noticed the approaching Lin Jiage, and he quickly put away the phone he was fiddling with before asking, “Boss, where are we having our afternoon tea?”

Lin Jiage casually replied, “You’ll know once we get there.”

Then, he stopped a cab passing by the main street and gestured for Lu Benlai to get in.

It was three in the afternoon, still sometime before the rush hour, so the traffic condition still wasn’t too bad. Roughly twenty minutes later, the car arrived at the street Lin Jiage had given to the driver earlier.

After paying the fee, the two of them got off the car and walked along the road for roughly 200 meters. Finally, they stopped in front of a restaurant.

Lu Benlai recognized this street. It was one of the famous midnight dinner streets in Beijing. He lifted his gaze to read the name of the restaurant—Taste of Home. Then, he looked at the lively crayfishes clawing within the tanks, and he couldn’t help asking, “Boss, are you sure that you want to eat crayfish for afternoon tea?”

Lin Jiage replied with a nonchalant “Mm” before leading the way into the restaurant.

Lu Benlai discreetly fondled his stomach filled with his undigested lunch before reluctantly following along.

Even though it was in the afternoon, the restaurant was still considerably full.

Taking their seats at a table located closer to the center of the restaurant, Lin Jiage passed the menu over to Lu Benlai and gestured for him to order. After which, he began scanning the surrounding diners intently.