My Mr. Mermaid

Untitled Part 19

Chapter 19: Group Meal by ryuxenji

The restaurant Tang Yi-Bai had chosen was a specialty restaurant whose selling point was greens and organic food. The restaurant claimed to be collaborating with an organic farm — all their plant-based foods were free from chemical fertilizers and pesticides, their meats were sourced from animals fed with organic feed, and all their eggs and dairy were certified safe and secure.

As the cost for these food products was high, the price-range of this restaurant was also very high.

When Yun Duo arrived at the entrance of the restaurant, Tang Yi-Bai and company had also just arrived. The five people in his group had taken two cars over, and the tall men unfolded themselves out of the cars one by one. Tang Yi-Bai saw Yun Duo and waved at her.

Yun Duo walked over and asked curiously, "With so many of you, why didn't you all borrow a car from the team? Wouldn't that be more convenient?"

"Ahem," Tang Yi-Bai seemed rather embarrassed, "We are all unlicensed."

So that's how it was.

Yun Duo saw that two of the five people were sporting sunglasses and face masks, their entire visage covered up securely. Although she couldn't see their faces clearly, Yun Duo could identify one of them as Qi Rui-Feng from the person's height. As for the other person, they were a head shorter than Qi Rui-Feng, about the same height as Ming Tian; Yun Duo really had no clue who it could be.

Tang Yi-Bai introduced her. "This is Elder Sister Yang, you've seen her before."

"... ah?"

That person waved to Yun Duo, "Hello, I'm Xiang Yang-Yang." The person's voice was somewhat muffled coming from behind the mask.

Yun Duo gaped. So she would be eating together with two Olympic champions and three national champions today? She suddenly felt like she was standing at the peak of life ...

Qi Rui-Feng noticed Yun Duo spacing out, and in his typically arrogant tone, he said, "You should be honoured to eat with us. What is there for you to be dissatisfied with?"

Whack! Xiang Yang-Yang's palm thumped onto Qi Rui-Feng's head. "You're butting in here for a free meal. Be a little more humble, will you!"

Yun Duo's eyes were as wide as saucers — Xiang Yang-Yang actually smacked Qi Rui-Feng's head? She had swung her palm freely and cleanly, without any hesitation whatsoever. How domineering! That's Qi Rui-Feng, you know!

Qi Rui-Feng rubbed his head and grumbled, "Can you stop hitting my head?"

"That's fine. I'll spank your butt next time."

Qi Rui-Feng: "..."

Yun Duo stared at Xiang Yang-Yang with a look of worship until Xiang Yang-Yang felt a little embarrassed and explained, "I've never spanked him before."

Qi Rui-Feng felt that a childish word like 'spanking' was really damaging to his heroic image. He ignored the two women and took the lead to walk towards the restaurant. "Let's go. I'm starving!"

The shortest ones among the group was Ming Tian and Xiang Yang-Yang, and they were still at least 1.7 to 1.8 metres tall. Walking amongst them, Yun Duo felt as if she had stumbled into the world of giants.

Qi Rui-Feng and Xiang Yang-Yang were carefully covered up, obviously concerned about being recognised. They were public figures after all, these were the kind of things they always had to worry about. They had believed that even their mothers would not be able to recognise them dressed up like this, that they would be able to rest easy ... unexpectedly, as soon as they entered the restaurant, they were recognised.