Seeing that Xu Han was about to leave, Jiang Yanan walked up to the door and grabbed his arm!
"Junior, tomorrow is Saturday. How about I treat you to dinner? I know a newly opened hot pot place, and it's quite good!"
Sensing that the two of them were standing too close, Xu Han instinctively took half a step back and turned his head to look at Tang Shiying!
She was pushing her wheelchair toward the living room, acting as if she hadn't heard a thing!
Xu Han awkwardly scratched his head, and a flash of inspiration struck him!
"Senior Sister Jiang, why don't I bring the ingredients tomorrow, and we can have hot pot at Teacher Tang's apartment instead?"
"Good idea!"
Jiang Yanan wrapped both hands around Xu Han's arm and shook it back and forth. A wave of softness pressed against him, but he didn't dare to look down!
"Then tomorrow, I'll go shopping with you. It's a deal!"
With that, she turned to look at Tang Shiying: "Tangtang, you don't mind, do you?"
Tang Shiying said nothing, which implied consent!
……
The next day, a little past nine!
Xu Han received a voice call from Jiang Yanan!
"I'm downstairs at your dorm, hurry up and come down!"
Riding her little red electric scooter, Jiang Yanan took Xu Han straight to the nearby supermarket!
The two of them browsed for a full hour and a half. When Xu Han wanted to ask what Tang Shiying liked to eat, Jiang Yanan told him:
Whatever she liked to eat, Tangtang liked too!
After buying a wide variety of ingredients, the two of them returned to the apartment!
Because of her foot injury, Tang Shiying sat on the sofa, studying the script in her hands intently!
Xu Han and Jiang Yanan washed the ingredients in the kitchen!
For a family hot pot, elaborate plating wasn't necessary; once the vegetables were washed, they were ready to serve!
Looking at the table full of food, Jiang Yanan could barely wait!
"Junior, do you want me to mix a dipping sauce for you?"
"I can make my own!"
The three of them took their seats, and the steaming hot pot bubbled away on the table!
Before long, the beef and mutton in Xu Han's bowl were piled high!
"Junior, eat more..."
Jiang Yanan fished out some freshly cooked meat slices from the pot and put them in his bowl.
Tang Shiying, who hadn't managed to get any meat, glared fiercely at her best friend!
It was as if she were saying: you care more about boys than friends!
Acting as if she hadn't noticed, Jiang Yanan beamed and stared straight at Xu Han's profile!
"Junior, are you nineteen years old?"
Xu Han stuffed a mouthful of meat into his mouth and nodded obediently!
"Then do you like older girls or younger girls?"
Hearing this, Tang Shiying, who was picking up some food, froze for a second. Her expression remained calm, but her ears perked up!
Xu Han swallowed the food in his mouth and replied in a low voice:
"I... I like older girls!"
With that, he looked up at Tang Shiying, whose expression remained completely unchanged!
Jiang Yanan, on the other hand, smiled happily and immediately added more meat to his bowl!
"Then do you like gentle ones or cold and aloof ones?"
Perhaps because of the hot pot, Xu Han's face flushed bright red, all the way to the tips of his ears!
He didn't know how to answer!
If he straight out said he liked cold and aloof ones, Jiang Yanan would surely think of Tang Shiying. But she was his teacher now, and he was a student—were students even allowed to pursue teachers?
He would be more than willing, but what about her? She definitely had to be mindful of appearances!
Seeing that Xu Han remained silent, Jiang Yanan added, "Or do you like both?"
Tang Shiying picked up some greens and placed them in Jiang Yanan's bowl.
"Eat up! They'll get cold if you don't!"
"Ah! Oh!"
Jiang Yanan remembered to keep eating. Looking down at the greens in her bowl, she glared at Tang Shiying!
"Are you feeding a rabbit? I want meat... when did you turn so bad?"
With her attention diverted, Xu Han let out a long sigh of relief, feeling like he had just dodged a bullet!
Was she trying to bail him out just now?
No time to think about that—Xu Han buried his head in his food. For a foodie, pursuing a goddess was important, but eating was equally indispensable!
Seeing that he had finished the meat in his bowl, Tang Shiying immediately added a helping of cooked greens.
The corners of her mouth turned up, revealing a curious expression!
The little fellow didn't look fat, but he certainly had a big appetite!
Watching him eat, Tang Shiying drifted off for a moment, an impulse welling up inside her heart...
"What are you doing?"
Jiang Yanan waved a hand in front of her eyes, pulling her back to reality!
She quickly explained:
"I saw the junior was almost done, so I added some more for him!"
Immediately after, a full bowl of thoroughly cooked greens and meat slices appeared in front of Xu Han!
Looking up to see that Tang Shiying had added the food for him, Xu Han, though already quite full, happily ate it all up!
This was personally served by Teacher Tang, after all!
Wait a minute! Why did this feel a bit like acting like a flatterer?
When the hot pot session ended, quite a lot of the ingredients they had brought back were still left over, so they put everything back into the fridge.
While cleaning up, Jiang Yanan pulled Xu Han and Tang Shiying in for a group photo!
Under the guise of: commemorating the first hot pot meal with the junior!
She even posted the photos and a caption on her WeChat Moments!
Naturally, the only ones who could see it were her closest friends!
"Go like my post right now!"
Holding her phone, Jiang Yanan smiled happily!
Unlike Tang Shiying, she was the kind of girl who wore her emotions on her sleeve, and she had a great personality.
Shortly after cleaning up, she received a phone call and left first.
Before leaving, she asked Xu Han to take care of Tang Shiying.
Xu Han readily agreed. Since someone had entrusted this task to him, he was determined to give it his all!
Sitting on the sofa, Tang Shiying looked at the photo in Jiang Yanan's Moments and quietly saved it to her phone!
Just as she was about to put her phone down, a notification popped up!
It was a photo sent by Xu Ruolan—the exact same group photo of the three of them!
Xu Ruolan: My little brother actually went to eat with you guys? Did you bully him?
Looking at the message, Tang Shiying glanced at Xu Han, who was washing fruit in the kitchen, and replied calmly:
"Why isn't it him bullying me?"
It was clearly that little fellow... he made the first move!
Xu Ruolan: He would bully you?
: Did something happen between the two of you?
Something happened?
Seeing those two words, Tang Shiying's face burned hot!
It seemed like nothing had happened, but...
Tang Shiying pondered for a moment and replied: It might have been an accident, too!
This time, Xu Ruolan didn't reply instantly.
Xu Han walked out carrying a plate of fruit. Looking at the neatly cut fruit, Tang Shiying's eyes lit up!
No wonder he took so long to wash it; he was actually cutting fruit. The little fellow was quite thoughtful.
She could easily picture Xu Han's clumsy attempts at cutting fruit. Judging by his look, he had probably never done such a thing in his life!
"Sit down!"
Tang Shiying patted the spot beside her, signaling him to sit down, and casually picked up the script from the table to hand to him!
"Take a look at this!"
Xu Han took the script. Since this was his major, he could roughly understand the contents inside!
Not disturbing him, Tang Shiying stabbed a piece of fruit to eat and waited quietly in silence!
Three or four minutes later, seeing that he had finished reading the first section, she slowly spoke up!
"What do you think?"
Xu Han's expression was focused, his eyes slightly narrowed—a completely different state from his usual self in daily life!
At this moment, he was thinking very deeply!
"If the female lead's emotional arc were a bit more delicate, it would be even better..."