What? Hush money? She is poor!
Cheng Kou was stunned for a moment and stood there at a loss as to what to do.
Su Yan couldn't hide the smile on his handsome face, "I was just kidding."
Cheng Kou: “…”
Whether it was a misunderstanding or a community convention, she should express her feelings. So she gritted her teeth and invited him, "How about... I'll treat you to dinner."
"Can."
Cheng Kou kept repeating "Don't agree, don't agree" in his heart: "..."
At this moment, Su Yan had already put on his clothes and picked up the car keys. Cheng Kou was in a dilemma and had to go home to put on his shoes. With Shen Yinran's gossipy expression of "you guys are in trouble", he went out and got into the elevator with Su Yan. It was not until she fastened her seat belt that Su Yan asked, "Where are you going?"
“The street next to the school.”
The school she was talking about was naturally their high school alma mater. Cheng Kou hadn't been back for many years, but according to Shen Yinran, the store should still be there. She thought Su Yan was so busy that he probably wouldn't come here often, but she didn't expect him to drive to the place she mentioned so familiarly.
Cheng Kou took Su Yan into an alley, where there was a small, shabby-looking restaurant. The proprietress saw her, looked at her for a while, and greeted her warmly, "Little girl, I still remember you. It's been many years since you've been here."
Cheng Kou smiled and nodded, "No more after graduating from high school."
The proprietress also smiled and looked in Su Yan's direction, "Are you here with your boyfriend to reminisce?"
Cheng Kou waved his hands and explained, "This is my friend. We both graduated from Mingyuan."
The proprietress led them to their seats, handed them menus, and said, "Hello, Mingyuan. You are all good students with a bright future. By the way, where is the boy you used to hang out with?"
Seeing Su Yan's gaze moving over, Cheng Kou was stunned for a moment before saying, "She's talking about Xia Linchen. We used to eat together here."
Su Yan nodded and said nothing.
Cheng Kou asked Su Yan to order the dishes. Su Yan pushed the menu back with his slender index finger and said, "Come on, order whatever you think is delicious."
"Oh, okay." Cheng Kou flipped through the menu and ordered three dishes based on memory. Then he said with some nostalgia, "The spicy cumin potatoes here are the best I've ever made besides my mom."
"Really?" Su Yan responded indifferently.
The store has been kept as clean as possible, but it is not as clean as a big restaurant after all. Cheng Kou thought Su Yan would not be used to it, but he adapted very well. Even the way he opened the disposable chopsticks was elegant.
The three dishes that Cheng Kou ordered all had some chili in them. The boss's family was from the south, and they loved spicy food, which was just right for her taste.
Cheng Kou was eating enthusiastically, not caring at all that she was here to treat someone to make amends. When she thought of Su Yan, she found that he was frowning, taking a bite of food and then a bite of rice, with no expression on his face. Although it was not the first time she had eaten face to face with him, Cheng Kou still had to sigh that the Su family's education was really good.
Su Yan just sitting calmly and quietly in this small restaurant eating can be like a painting.
Cheng Kou went to a wedding banquet at the weekend. The bride was Mi Lan, her and Shen Yinran’s college classmate, who was also Su Yan’s high school classmate. The groom turned out to be Su Yan’s special assistant Fang Yi.
The hotel where the wedding was held was very luxurious, with a very high level of service. It was said to be a property of the Su family. Su Yan generously approved a VIP banquet hall for the assistant to marry his classmate.
Mi Lan saw them in the dressing room and first gave each of them a big bear hug. Then she took Cheng Kou's hand and complained, "Our editor-in-chief is so perverted. I'm about to have my wedding, but he still sent me abroad for interviews. It's simply inhumane. I didn't even get to go to the class reunion. Did I miss a lot? Yi Jin, that henpecked husband, is being dominated by Shen Yang. I really want to watch." When the bride, with her beautiful makeup on, mentioned Yi Jin and Shen Yang, she pouted without caring about her image.
Cheng Kou thought of how she always looked down on Yi Jin, who was not manly enough, and Shen Yang, who was arrogant, and smiled secretly. She and Shen Yinran comforted her and talked to her for a while.
Shen Ru and a group of colleagues also came to the wedding banquet. She was surprised to see Cheng Kou here. Not long after the two greeted each other, Shen Yang also came in, and the small room was a bit crowded. Shen Yinran wanted to take a photo with Mi Lan, and Cheng Kou took her Polaroid camera and handed it to Shen Yang who wanted to take a photo together.
Cheng Kou and Mi Lan had been together day and night for four years, but he had never seen her so beautiful.
Shen Ru and she stepped back a few steps to make room for them, and sighed softly, "No matter how beautiful a beauty is, she will pale in comparison to the bride."
Cheng Kou has a lot of experience in this regard. She told Shen Ru this little trick, "When taking a photo with the bride, if her figure is better than yours, just take a photo of her face. If her face is better than yours, take a photo of her whole body."
Shen Ru nodded, then thought of a possibility and asked, "What if her face and figure are better than mine?"
Cheng Kou thought for a moment and said, "There's nothing I can do about it. I'll just be a green leaf."
Shen Ru: “…”
When Cheng Kou and Shen Yinran returned to the banquet hall, it was already crowded. They handed in their gift money and signed their names at the door. After entering, they found that their university classmates' tables were all full. Cheng Kou pulled Shen Yinran and prepared to find a seat elsewhere.
"Hey, Miss Cheng... Reporter Cheng!" Shen Ru called Cheng Kou, "We still have two empty seats at this table."
She was actually a little worried that Cheng Kou would refuse, after all, she didn't know these employees of Su's.
Cheng Kou just nodded politely, pulled Shen Yinran to sit down generously, and said, "Thank you."
The people sitting at this table were all from the Su Corporation's president's office. Shen Ru didn't shy away from gossiping with the two outsiders. "What do you think happened to our President Su recently? He postponed a business trip that was scheduled a long time ago to attend a class reunion. He made us work overtime every day recently. Didn't he never participate in such activities before?"
Another beautiful woman laughed at her, "Shen Ru, those who are capable should do more work. Otherwise, you should apply to be transferred to Building A. President Su hasn't come back from his honeymoon yet, and we are almost dead from idleness."
They teased each other, but no one could explain the reason. Shen Yinran poked Cheng Kou under the table, "Didn't you go to the class reunion as well? Do you know what happened?"
Cheng Kou shook his head and whispered, "He said the matter was cancelled that day."
Shen Ru was very observant and heard them talking. She asked in surprise, "So you and Xiao Su were classmates in high school?"
Cheng Kou nodded, "But we are in different classes. I haven't talked to him."
Su Yan arrived late. Fang Yi greeted him at the entrance of the banquet hall and led him to the main table. Su Yan glanced at Shen Ru, stopped, and said to him, "I'll be fine here."
Fang Yi hurriedly called the waiter to add a chair, but was at a loss as to where to put it. Although they were of similar age, Su Yan was the leader after all, and it would always be inappropriate for him to sit with these secretaries and assistants.
Shen Ru said first, "Put it next to me. Is it okay for Mr. Su to be next to my old classmate?"
"Well, old classmate..." Su Yan repeated these three words playfully, "an old classmate who borrowed a textbook from me once."
Cheng Kou was embarrassed. She just remembered that she had said something wrong to Shen Ru. She had talked to Su Yan before, but she didn't expect that he still remembered it.
That day, Cheng Kou forgot to bring her textbook. When she realized it, it was almost time for class. It happened to be the class taught by the teacher they called "Mistress Miejue". Class 9 and Class 10 had the same teacher. Cheng Kou bumped into Su Yan in the corridor and mustered up the courage to talk to him, "Classmate, can you lend me your biology book?"
Su Yan entered from the back door. He sat next to the door. He bent down, took out the biology book from his bag and handed it to her. He didn't speak to her from beginning to end, not even a single syllable.
Su Yan's textbooks were clean and tidy, with his name neatly written on the title page. She memorized the handwriting, and in the years that followed, she would imitate it on a piece of white paper whenever she remembered it.
Cheng Kou wondered what Su Yan would think if he knew that she was absent-minded throughout the class and her mind was full of thoughts about putting a love letter in the textbook when she returned it. Anyway, she endured the 45 minutes and ran to Class 9 to return the book. Su Yan was not there, and under the curious eyes of others, she put the book on Su Yan's empty desk and ran away.
"Come to think of it, I haven't said thank you yet." Cheng Kou laughed, "It's just that your book is too clean, without even a single word. When Miejue asked me questions, I couldn't answer them."
After hearing this, Shen Yinran complained to her in a low voice, "You can't answer the question and you blame it on not being in the book." Naturally, Cheng Kou twisted her waist.
Since the leaders are sitting at this table, these secretaries and assistants naturally can't gossip anymore. They all behave themselves and try to make a good impression.
Shen Ru suddenly remembered something and called a waiter over, asking him to change the dish for this table to a non-spicy one.
Su Yan stopped her and added, "Half."
Shen Ruyi understood and asked the waiter to go to the kitchen to inform them.
Cheng Kou tilted his head and asked Su Yan, "You can't eat spicy food?"
Su Yan looked at her and replied vaguely, "Not really."
Cheng Kou recalled his appearance that day and felt that he did not feel uncomfortable. He probably ate it calmly just to appease her.
Yi Jin looked at Cheng Kou's table from a distance for a long time before looking away. He said sarcastically, "Cheng Kou doesn't even sit with us old classmates. Hey, when did she become so familiar with Su Yan?"
Du Lanshan frowned when she saw that the atmosphere over there was very good, with people talking and laughing. Then, when she heard what Yi Jin said, she felt even worse.