I'm afraid I'm not interested in love

Chapter 588 Hongmen Banquet

The sun sets outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. The afterglow of the sunset shines through the layers of high-rise buildings, casting a warm orange light, which is very beautiful.

After eating and drinking, Xu Yang started to tinker with the PS4 in front of the TV.

When Miss Chu was decorating her house, she bought all these miscellaneous items with a wave of her hand - but she bought the game console but forgot to buy the games.

Han Bing seized the opportunity to take a lot of photos of the sunset, then sat on the carpet and started adjusting the filter.

Lin Tong was still working on that complicated and lengthy paper, and the blank pages of his notebook were already filled with his writing.

Su Chengyi took a piece of New Orleans grilled wings from the bucket, sat down in front of the coffee table, and began to eat it slowly, occasionally answering questions raised by Lin Tong.

A very peaceful afternoon.

Su Chengyi thought so.

However, there is a law of Earth Online.

Whenever you suddenly realize that it's a very calm day, it means that something is about to happen to ruin the atmosphere.

The next second, Miss Chu made a video call, but it was to Han Bing.

"Oh, Mianmian~"

The tone in which Han Bing and Chu Qingmian spoke was like an adult coaxing a child, so gentle and indirect, which was probably something Xu Yang would rarely hear in his life.

"Bingbing!"

Considering that there were no outsiders present, Han Bing turned on the speakerphone, and Miss Chu's energetic voice came out from the phone.

"I saw your latest Weibo update. The weather in Beijing is so nice today. It's so beautiful! Let me show you where I am!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Qingmian turned the camera and showed Han Bing the gloomy sky on her side. The dark clouds were densely packed with a dull and gloomy atmosphere.

"Wow, you're so goth! Where did you fly to today? You've been changing your location so much these days, I wonder if you're traveling around the world."

Han Bing looked at the European-style buildings over there, shook his head and sighed.

"Just arrived in London a little while ago."

As Chu Qingmian answered, she turned the camera back to show Han Bing her brunch today.

"Wow, they're really eating mashed potatoes. I was thinking of the stereotype!"

Han Bing sighed twice at the unappetizing white food, and then turned the camera to show Chu Qingmian a pile of food scattered on the coffee table.

For Xu Yang, everything else can be compromised except food.

His life motto is just a simple sentence.

"Life is all about eating and drinking."

So on the table now are fried skewers, barbecue, fried chicken, hamburgers, French fries, as well as iced cola and freshly squeezed juice.

Miss Chu made a sharp noise on the video and began to protest.

"What! Are you guys playing outside? Damn it!!"

"Bingo~ You guessed it right, Miss. Let me introduce today's guest to you."

Han Bing smiled and raised the camera of his mobile phone, first pointing it at Lin Tong.

"First, the quiet medical student Mutou-san. He is a complete nerd who brings his thesis papers with him and spends the whole afternoon reading them. When he eats a French fry, I'm afraid he'll poke it into my nose."

After being teased by her for a few words, Lin Tong finally realized his mistake and struggled back to reality from the ocean of knowledge. Seeing Chu Qingmian on the other side of the camera, he scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Ah, Sister Mian."

"What a fool!"

Han Bing patted his head lightly, feeling disappointed.

Chu Qingmian waved and greeted with a smile:

"Come on, come on! Remember to combine work and rest, Mr. Mu-tzu!"

"Okay, okay."

Her words seemed to have some kind of magic power, and Lin Tong suddenly felt fatigue and hunger surging into his heart.

All of a sudden, the square Song-style characters on the document became blurry, so he had to take off his glasses and rub his eyes.

"I feel like this guy Mu Tou will kill himself if no one takes care of him. What do you think, Mian Mian?"

Han Bing said with a complicated expression.

“It’s not that exaggerated, hahahaha.”

Chu Qingmian was smiling on the other side of the screen.

Su Chengyi listened to their conversation and thought silently in his heart that it was a bit too difficult to raise a child to death, but it was inevitable that he would be obsessed with his studies and neglect the details of life.

At this time, he needs a positive sweet girl who loves life to become the new focus of his life.

It's just that no one can predict the matter of fate. Given Mu Tou's personality, he will probably avoid it when necessary. The future development of this couple is a little confusing.

"Next one, a Husky man with an IQ of around 70. Look, I just lost sight of him for a moment, and he and his dog finished two buckets of wings."

When the camera turned to Xu Yang, Han Bing's tone was full of disgust, and he couldn't help but glare at Xu Yang fiercely.

"You ate so much fried food, you'll cry for help when your kidney stones start to hurt!"

"I'm hungry! And I haven't eaten in a few days. Today is an indulgence meal!"

While defending himself, Xu Yang took off his disposable gloves and saluted the camera.

"Oi~Hello, Sister Mian!"

"Thunder Monkey Thunder Monkey."

Chu Qingmian looked at the pile of bones in front of him and couldn't help but frowned:
"Are you a glutton, Xu Yang? If you don't listen to Bing Bing, you will suffer a bad fate. You suffered a loss last time!"

"If I don't want to eat, I won't eat."

Xu Yang raised his hands in surrender.

"By the way, Sister Mian, you bought a game console, why didn't you buy any games?! Doesn't this PS4 look good here?"

"What?! I bought a game console, do I have to buy the games separately?"

Chu Qingmian was stunned for a moment and asked in disbelief.

"Forget it. I'll just buy a few games and bring them over next time I come to play. You, Mr. Yi, are a rising star in the gaming industry, but you don't even give your sister Mian some general knowledge? You're a complete gaming newbie."

Xu Yang walked to the side of the PS4, his tone full of disappointment.

"Boss Yi? Is Su Chengyi here too?"

Upon hearing his name, Chu Qingmian's attention instantly turned 180 degrees, and there was a hint of gleam in his eyes when he looked towards the camera.

Han Bing looked at her best friend's worthless love-brained look and could not help but cover her face and sigh. Then she threw her phone to Su Chengyi, who was sitting cross-legged on the coffee table.

The latter had finished his chicken wings and was looking down at Lin Tong's thesis notes carefully, but he reacted quickly and caught the phone that Han Bing threw to him.

From Chu Qingmian's perspective, the picture suddenly spun around a few times in a mess, and then there was a muffled sound, and the next second, Su Chengyi's face appeared on the screen.

For no apparent reason, her heartbeat suddenly quickened.

Although he didn't understand why he felt so embarrassed, Chu Qingmian still moved the camera away.

She put her phone down horizontally against the dishes, then tilted her head and laid on the table, her arms covering the lower half of her face, revealing only a pair of beautiful, round, watery eyes.

Su Chengyi looked at the big, twinkling eyes of the young lady on the screen, and for a moment he felt like laughing for some reason, and said:

"Why don't you speak?"

"You didn't say anything either."

Miss Chu said in a muffled voice, but the smile in her eyes could not be hidden. She moved closer and asked curiously:
"What are you doing, Su Chengyi?"

She suddenly approached the camera, and Su Chengyi had the illusion that he could smell the fructose on her body. He paused for a moment before answering:

"I'm not doing anything. I'm just reading the paper documents that Mu Tou brought over." Chu Qingmian blinked and didn't say anything, but he was obviously asking what the paper was.

So Su Chengyi thought about it and simply concluded:
"The results of this study suggest that minimally invasive neuroendoscopic surgery for the treatment of severe hypertensive intraventricular hemorrhage can achieve better treatment outcomes, achieve a higher hematoma clearance rate, and have fewer postoperative complications compared with external ventricular drainage."

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Chu Qingmian said "hmm" and shook his head:

"Ding again and again, I don't understand, but I keep learning and it won't be wasted."

"I couldn't understand it either. The clinical data and the specific research process involved too many professional terms, so I just focused on the conclusions."

Su Chengyi folded the information in his hand and handed it back to Lin Tong.

"This topic involves the grading of the Daily Living Ability Scale?"

“Yes, there are also postoperative hydrocephalus, secondary bleeding, intracranial infection, and lung infection rates.”

So the two of them suddenly started discussing academic papers back and forth.

"You two are sick."

After watching for a while with his arms folded, Han Bing interrupted the academic conference in a calm tone to state the conclusion.

"I agree. I agree. I agree."

Xu Yang nodded quickly beside him, like a chick pecking at rice.

"I think it's all the wood's fault. Look at what the things you brought have done to people! Burn it, burn it, you must burn it!"

"No, no, this is information we'll need next week."

Lin Tong stood up in a panic and protected his precious documents in his arms.

"No, we haven't seen each other for several days. Can't young lovers talk about some normal topics? Good guy, come up here and have a team meeting."

Han Bing sat on the sofa and raised the volume to make sure Chu Qingmian could hear him.

"That's it."

Xu Yang joined in happily, like a lively golden retriever.

"What is a normal topic?"

Su Chengyi poked a piece of fried chicken into his mouth and spoke incoherently.

"For example. Oh, I'm embarrassed to say it!"

Before Xu Yang finished speaking, he burst into laughter and waved his hands a little embarrassedly.

"What kind of epilepsy is this?"

Han Bing kicked him angrily and glared at him:
"You talk like that when you talk about it yourself!"

"It seems so."

Xu Yang was stunned for a moment and scratched the back of his head.

"Could it be because we are an old couple and not suitable for each other?"

"Get lost, who wants to be with you, my old man and wife?"

His words instantly made Han Bing's eyebrows raise. He cursed angrily at first, and then added sinisterly:

"Do you want to experience the kidney-breaking stone service? The kind with pure external force."

"sorry."

Xu Yang knew that she was determined to take action, so he immediately slid down to his knees and begged for mercy.

Listening to the two people's very familiar daily bickering and playing, Su Chengyi chewed fried chicken nuggets and belatedly thought of something.

That is, they have never officially reconciled.

Xu Yang's brain is very simple. He simply thinks that this situation is just because Han Bing is still angry and has not completely forgiven him.

Just wait a little longer, until she is coaxed into submission, the two of them can be together happily again like before.

But Su Chengyi vaguely felt that Han Bing's thoughts were not that simple.

As the much more mature party in the relationship, she thinks longer term and in a more complex way.

In this situation, it is definitely not the little girl throwing a tantrum, but it shows that she is thinking about more serious issues.

But Xu Yang, a simple-minded but strong-limbed guy, could not see any clues at all. He just squatted at the door waiting like a big mongrel.

I have to find an opportunity to have a good talk with him.

As Su Chengyi thought this, he took a cup of Coke from the side, inserted a straw and took a sip.

The bubbling carbonated drink goes down the throat, with bubbles that irritate the mouth.

Before he had time to figure out how to tell Dacongming, Miss Chu on the other side of the video dropped another bomb as if nothing had happened.

"That's right, Su Chengyi, when I return to China this time, come to my house for a simple meal~"

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Su Chengyi was choked by the Coke and coughed twice.

Potluck? Potluck? ! Potluck!!!
If this were said to other girls, it would probably be a normal routine, where everyone would happily cook a large table of dishes together and clink glasses to celebrate the holidays.

But if it happened to Miss Chu, it would be a big deal.

Hongmen Banquet.

A naked, dangerous and undisguised Hongmen Banquet.

"Are you okay? Drink slowly!"

Chu Qingmian leaned closer to the camera and said with a frown.

"Let me confirm. Does this light meal refer to the family dinner we talked about earlier?"

Su Chengyi asked.

"Yeah, it's pretty much the same anyway."

Chu Qingmian pursed her lips, her eyelashes fluttering, and she looked a little guilty.

Su Chengyi could tell from her reaction that this was indeed the fact. He couldn't help but take a deep breath and fell into deep thought.

In fact, when he made the promise to Miss Chu, he was already prepared for what is happening now.

That is, after making an official appearance at the annual gaming ceremony, he would attend the Chu family dinner as a game producer.

It's certainly not the case that such an identity is truly eye-opening, but it's definitely relatively impressive.

After all, his greatest asset is not how many resources and property he has at the moment, but that he is young.

Not only is he young, but he also has the ability to absolutely control his own future.

Everyone can see the future development prospects of X1 Game Studio, and everyone can also see clearly that Su Chengyi will definitely not stop here in the future.

This is why Su Chengyi decided to attend the banquet after the award ceremony. He never fights a battle without preparation.

Being prepared is one thing, but being actually issued an ultimatum to go to war is another.

"Hey, don't be nervous! X1 Game Studio was so great a while ago, everyone is looking forward to meeting you in person, and many brothers and sisters want your autograph! They are all fans of Disco Elysium!"

Chu Qingmian comforted her softly on the other side of the screen.

Su Chengyi supported his chin and sighed imperceptibly. When he raised his head, he saw three sympathetic faces opposite him.

As a childhood friend and best friend, Han Bing said with a sad face:

"Unfortunately, Su Chengyi, as someone who has experienced this, I can only say that all your stereotypes about the Chu family are true."

(End of this chapter)