I S U F D (Lisa X Mingyu)

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Hey, Egg Fried Rice — This must be the fanciest egg fried rice she had seen.

Tian Xia Restaurant was a famous, fine dining Chinese restaurant in A City with a good environment and several frequent celebrity customers. Despite the many years Lisa came to A City, she could count the number of times she came to Tian Xia Restaurant on both hands. It wasn’t because the food didn’t taste good; instead, it was because it was expensive.

The type of expensive where eating once would cause a heartache for half a year.

Now that Lisa was going to Tian Xia Restaurant for dinner again, she intentionally dressed in high-class attire, her heels higher than normal by two centimeters. Arriving at the doorway of Tian Xia Restaurant, a tall hostess with a beautiful and sweet voice asked her if she had a reservation. She stated Tian Tian’s name and the last four digits of Tian Tian’s phone number. The hostess then led her to the elevator.

The average, small private rooms were all on the third floor. The first floor was the lobby and relaxation area, while the second floor was the banquet hall. Although Tian Xia Restaurant had a banquet hall, Lisa wondered, who would even come here to host banquet? Rather than food, they were eating shining silver.

A new hostess guided her straight to the doorway of the private room before leaving after she arrived at the third floor. Lisa pushed open the door and caught sight of Mina sitting inside and playing on her cell phone.

Mina was Invincible Little Sweetie in the group chat. Their best friends group chat had four people; their going-to-the-bathroom-together friendship started from senior high school. Although they didn’t study at the same universities, they all went to ones in A City—mn, beside Jihyo who studied abroad. Although, because the three of them stayed in A city after graduating, Jihyo let her family purchase an apartment in A City for her and said that it would later be considered their stronghold—which was Lisa’s current residence.

Mina saw Lit at last and immediately put away her cell phone, telling her to place an order after greeting her.

“In the end let’s just AA today, okay?”1 Lisa scanned over the deranged prices on the menu; she didn’t have the heart to make Mina  bleed so heavily.2

Contrarily, Mina paid her decision no mind. “We already agreed that it’s my treat; just think of it as soothing the harm your heart suffered because of that Mr. Kim downstairs.”

When she mentioned ‘that Mr. Kim downstairs,’ Lisa felt a stab of pain pierce through her heart. “You mentioning him to me right now—do you intend to make me lose my appetite so you can thus eat more?”

Mina giggled. “Pfft. Okay, then we won’t mention him. How about we talk about that adorable boy, Park Jimin?”

“Mina, when did you become so gossipy?” Lisa  slanted her lips to the side for a moment before calling out to a waiter. “I want to have your signature egg fried rice.”

“Okay.”

Mina teased her. “I seldomly treat you to eat at Tian Xia Restaurant, yet you order egg fried rice?”

“You should look at the price of egg fried rice first before speaking.” Lisa handed over the menu. This signature egg fried rice was something that she had wanted to order the very first time she came here. It was just that…the price made her flinch.

The price for this restaurant’s egg fried rice was enough for her to eat a month’s worth of egg fried rice at a small stir-fry store on a sidestreet.

But the more expensive it was, the more curious she became. How could a plate of egg fried rice be sold at such a high price? Today, she finally had someone to pay the price for her, so she naturally wanted to order this dish to taste test!