However, when he saw Su Yue promise with a huge smile that she wouldn’t drink too much, Lin Li was a little skeptical. After all, they’d had this exact sa conversation several tis before.
A young woman in an apron, about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, ca over to Lin Li and Su Yue’s table carrying a case of beer. She set the case, which held twelve bottles, on the ground beside them.
"Here’s the beer you ordered, folks. I’ve put it on the floor for you. I’ll be right back with the bottle of Otaku Happy Water you ordered."
With that, she placed a bottle opener on the table and left.
Su Yue opened the case, took out three bottles of beer, and set them on the table. She then used the bottle opener to open two of them.
She placed one in front of Lin Li, then picked up the other and, putting it directly to her lips, started chugging it down in huge gulps.
GLUG GLUG GLUG...
She drank a third of it in one go, then let out a breath with a look of pure satisfaction.
"Ahh... A sip of ice-cold beer in the sumr is so refreshing!"
Lin Li shook his head at the sight of the bold Su Yue, then picked up the bottle she had opened for him and took a sip.
"Lin Li, tomorrow let’s find a rental agency and get a car first, then we can start our trip properly," Su Yue said.
Renting a car for a road trip would save them a lot of ti waiting for transport and would be more flexible.
"Sure! I rember reading online that you don’t have to go to the rental agency anymore.
"You just download a car rental app, place an order, and they’ll deliver the car to you the next day," Lin Li said, recalling what he’d seen online.
"They deliver it to your door? It’s that convenient now?!!"
Su Yue’s usual mode of transport for commuting to and from school was an electric scooter.
Back ho, her family had a dedicated driver, so she had never rented a car from an agency before. She was a little surprised to hear what Lin Li said.
"Let look for an app." Lin Li took his phone out of his pocket and searched online. Soon, he found a car rental app with tens of millions of downloads.
"Find anything?"
"Found one. It has a lot of cars!"
"Let see! What kind of cars do they have?" Su Yue stood up, moved her chair next to Lin Li, and sat down. She then leaned over, bringing her head close to his to look at his phone screen.
"Uh..."
A faint, pleasant fragrance filled his nostrils. The delicate scent wafting from Su Yue, who was now just inches away, made Lin Li freeze for a mont.
"Wow, there really are a lot of cars! Which one should we pick?" Su Yue said, looking at the cars on Lin Li’s phone. She reached out, swiped through a few pages on his screen.
Snapping back to his senses, Lin Li pushed her head away. He cald his slightly racing heart and said with a look of mock disgust, "It’s so hot. Why are you so close? Aren’t you hot?"
"You..." Su Yue stared at Lin Li’s disgusted expression. ’Other guys would kill for a chance to get close to ,’ she thought, ’but this guy always teases with that look of disdain.’
’She really wanted to drag this guy sowhere for a sparring match and show him what she was made of.’
After pushing Su Yue’s head away, Lin Li refocused his attention on the phone screen, completely missing the infuriated look on her face.
"Let’s pick an SUV. They have ones with sunroofs and ones without. Which do you think is better?" Lin Li asked, swiping the screen and settling on an SUV.
Su Yue, who had been on the verge of exploding, imdiately cald down when Lin Li asked for her opinion on the car. Her anger ca and went quickly. She thought about it seriously and said, "An SUV? Sure! Let’s get the one with the sunroof..."
"Okay, we’ll get the one with the sunroof. It cos in black and white. What color should we get?" Lin Li asked.
"White," said Su Yue. She was quite fond of white—her own electric scooter was white—so it was her subconscious choice.
"Let’s go with black. We’ll be using it for a few days, and black doesn’t show dirt as much," Lin Li suggested, offering a different opinion.
"Actually, there isn’t much of a difference between black and white when it cos to showing dirt..." Su Yue said.
"But I feel like black is better at hiding dirt!" Lin Li insisted.
"Fine! If you think black is better, then let’s get black." Su Yue didn’t really care what color they chose.
After so discussion, the two of them finalized their decision: they would rent a black SUV with a sunroof.
He completed the process on the rental app, filled in the address, and paid. A mont later, a ssage ca through from the system’s backend.
It stated that soone would deliver the car to their hotel the next morning. The person who placed the order just needed to present their ID to verify their identity and could then take the car.
"All set," Lin Li said, putting his phone away and looking at Su Yue, who was watching him.
"What ti will they deliver the car tomorrow?"
"Around eight."
"That’s pretty early..."
"Where are we going first tomorrow?" Lin Li asked Su Yue. Since coming to Qiong City was her idea, she was the one who had planned the itinerary.
"Tomorrow morning, we’ll go to the local history museum first, and in the afternoon, we’ll go to the aquarium to see the dolphin show..." Su Yue thought for a mont before laying out the next day’s schedule.
"The history museum, then the aquarium... You should look up a place to eat beforehand, so we don’t have to scramble to find a restaurant at the last minute," Lin Li said.
"Yup, I’ve already researched the restaurants," Su Yue said with a smile. She then patted her chest and promised that her travel plan for Qiong City was flawless; they just had to follow the itinerary she’d created.
The two of them chatted about their plans for the next day while drinking their beer. Just then, the seafood they had given the restaurant owner to prepare was ready.
The waitress who had brought them the case of beer returned to their table, carrying a large platter of stead crab in her left hand and a bottle of Otaku Happy Water in her right.
After setting those two items down, she made a few more trips back and forth. In no ti, the table was covered with all kinds of seafood.
RUMBLE...
After spending so much ti ssing around in the sea earlier, both of them were getting hungry. Staring at the table laden with steaming, delicious seafood, their mouths were practically watering.
"Let’s dig in!" Lin Li said, unable to wait any longer.
"Mhm."
"That lady who sold us the seafood wasn’t lying. This stonefish might be ugly, but it tastes amazing."
Lin Li picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a piece of the stead stonefish at, dipped it in the stead fish soy sauce, and took a bite. He was instantly won over by its delicious freshness.
"Really? Let try." Su Yue, who was currently wrestling with a large crab, freed a hand upon hearing him. She also picked up a piece of the stead stonefish, tried it, and nodded. "It is pretty good..."
The two, who were starving, feasted ravenously on the delicious seafood spread. Midway through, Su Yue even clinked her bottle against Lin Li’s.
GLUG GLUG GLUG...
After finishing a bottle of beer, Su Yue placed the empty bottle on the floor, picked up the bottle opener from the table, and opened another one for herself.
GLUG GLUG GLUG...
She polished off a third of the new beer in one go. Seeing the way Su Yue was drinking made Lin Li, who was busy with a mantis shrimp, stop what he was doing and quickly try to reason with her.
"Alright, slow down. Don’t drink so fast. Eat more food, drink less beer."
"Phew..." After another big gulp of ice-cold beer went down, Su Yue let out a breath, her expression unchanged. She grinned at Lin Li and said, "Don’t worry, this is nothing! It’ll take a lot more than this to get drunk!"
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