美滋滋

Ch10 - Delicious

The driver saw that this woman knew Li Zhao and hesitantly slowed down the speed. Still, he didn’t stop and waited for Yan Ting’s gesture.

“Stop the car.” Yan Ting opened her mouth in an expressionless manner. He was reaching for the white gloves placed next to him and suddenly paused for a moment. He turned to look at Li Zhao sitting next to him and retracted his hand.

Li Zhao looked at the warmly smiling Yao Shasha and subconsciously shifted closer to Yan Ting. Then he realized that he might be a bit rude to her and quickly returned to his seat, speaking through the half-open window. “Sister Shasha, what happened?”

“My car has a problem and I don’t know how to fix it.” Yao Shasha gave Li Zhao a sorry smile. “I have a job this afternoon. Can I trouble you to give me a ride?”

Sending her was equal to not being able to eat hot pot with Yan Ting = coupon couldn’t be used = wasted money = letting Yan Ting wait for so long. Countless thoughts appeared in Li Zhao’s mind and then he looked at Yao Shasha with a sorry and helpless expression. “Sorry, Sister Shasha. I have a very important thing at noon and can’t send you. I have the phone number of the organizer’s staff here. Should I ask them to come and help you arrange a vehicle?”

Originally, he wanted to help Yao Shasha call an app-based driver. Then he thought about how the money would be taken from his account. He was so poor he had to forget there was this choice.

“How can I trouble you?” Yao Shasha’s expression was stiff for a moment before she suddenly leaned over, as if to get closer to Li Zhao in the car. Li Zhao moved back. “Sister Shasha, what else do you want?”

“It’s fine.” Yao Shasha looked hatefully at the 10 metres distance between her and Li Zhao and her face became expressionless. “Two days later, we are going to Xiangguo Broadcasting Station to record a program. I look forward to seeing you then.”

Li Zhao quickly waved. “Goodbye!” Then he couldn’t wait to close the door and his body leaned back in the chair like he had escaped a calamity.

Yan Ting asked, “Is she your friend from the set?”

“A friend doesn’t count. At most… a colleague.” It wasn’t good to speak ill of girls in front of the same sex. Li Zhao placed a peeled orange into his mouth, eating a few to get rid of the shock.

When he first entered the crew, Yao Shasha was quite satisfied with his face. One night, she knocked on his door in her pyjamas and with loose hair. He was so scared that he thought the hotel was haunted and refused to open the door.

Since then, Yao Shasha no longer looked at him. The rest of the crew laughed with seeing Li Zhao but Li Zhao thought it was good that she ignored him. After all, who wanted to be friends with an actor who knocked on the door in the middle of the night to scare people?

Yao Shasha looked at the car that couldn’t wait to leave and couldn’t help whispering, “I don’t understand the feelings of this poor ghost. He is a single dog who will live a lifetime without finding a woman!”

The assistant saw Yao Shasha’s face and whispered a few words in her ear. Yao Shasha’s expression slowly eased.

Li Zhao stood ten steps away from the hot pot store and said, “It is a bit wrong.”

He looked at the empty store and spoke to Yan Ting, “I heard that this store’s business is very good and there is a long line at every mealtime. Why is there no one here today?”

Aren’t they doing business today? He turned his eyes to Yan Ting who specifically came to pick him up. He couldn’t let his friend waste a trip so he went to the door and spoke to a smiling waiter. “Hello, are you still open today?” “Business is as usual today. Please go inside