Miss Su couldn’t refute this, not to mention that when they were dating, she frequently accompanied Bo Jingshen to various snack stalls, feasting to her heart’s content. And at that time, Bo Jingshen was just a poor boy, always choosing to take her to various inexpensive snack stalls on their dates.
At first, Bo Jingshen worried that his girlfriend was just accommodating him. He felt a bit uncomfortable about it. However, he later realized that his girlfriend really enjoyed eating, with oil all over her mouth and a face full of satisfaction. Where did it seem like she was compromising?
It was because of this that Bo Jingshen, who dreamed of lofty things, could never have imagined that the girl, who always seemed to enjoy the roadside stalls with him, was actually a wealthy heiress.
Bo Jingshen gulped down his medicine, and Miss Su took out a small bottle of mineral water from her bag and handed it to him. Bo Jingshen took it and twisted off the cap, his eyebrows lifting slightly as he did so.
It was only after he drank it that Miss Su belatedly realized that it was the mineral water she had been drinking from. Although they had done far more intimate things, fussing over him drinking her water, which was like an indirect kiss, seemed rather prudish.
But considering that their relationship was indeed in an awkward state at the moment, it was somewhat inappropriate.
Miss Su thought to herself that it must be pregnancy-brain—only that could explain why she had acted so thoughtlessly just now.
"I heard the takoyaki here is unrivalled," Bo Jingshen said.
Miss Su loved the taste of these tentacled mollusks, cuttlefish balls, takoyaki, octopus, and the like—they were all her favorites.
Following the guide, when they arrived at the evening food stalls, the whole street turned out to be lined with night stalls.
Outside stood layer upon layer of glass tanks filled with various lively seafood, while inside were the seating areas, buzzing with people’s voices.
Miss Su headed for the night stall that the guide recommended the most, with a five-star rating. The reason for the recommendation was...a 30% discount for Huaxia compatriots.
So, as they approached the entrance of this night stall, they could already hear the moving sound of their mother tongue.
"Number five leader, six six six, we’ve got everything! Drink up!"
Those who knew they were abroad might mistake it for a food stall beneath their own apartment block back home.
Hearing the familiar hometown dialect in a foreign land brought a sense of comfort and laughter.
"Let’s go with this one," Miss Su said.
"Got it?" Miss Su didn’t understand.
Then she saw Bo Jingshen nodding towards the inside of the stall.
Following his gaze, Miss Su looked inside and saw at a table, conspicuously, the young folks from Lie Ying’s team.
Empty beer bottles already piled up beneath their feet, each of them looked slightly tipsy.
Usually, as e-sports players who needed fine motor skills, they would avoid anything that could potentially affect their control, such as strong tea, coffee, or alcohol, and some even quit smoking.
Substances like alcohol and nicotine were hidden risks. The best policy was not to touch them at all or as little as possible.
But they were out for training and hadn’t scheduled training or matches for the first two days, truly relaxing, so everyone indulged themselves a bit by drinking some liquor.
Compared to the still deafening sounds of rock-paper-scissors from other tables, their table was playing much more genteelly.
"It’s a zoo, not an aquarium. Where did the seahorse come from? Drink!"
"Watch ’Dream of the Red Chamber.’"
"Pfft... How did Lin Chong get into the Dream of the Red Chamber? Drink up, drink up."
"Strolling through the vegetable market."
"...Where did this meat dish come from?"
"Hey, you guys didn’t say meat dishes were off-limits. Besides, isn’t it very normal to find meat at the market?"
Esports players were said to be quite intelligent since without well-developed brains, it would be impossible to carry out such precise maneuvers and extreme reactions.
But these supposed high-IQ guys were at this moment just like a bunch of elementary school chickens, playing the most childish of games, and even arguing over it like schoolkids might. Honestly, rock-paper-scissors would’ve been better.
And in this flock of elementary school chickens, there was the most childish one of them all.
"How can he, playing such a simple game, lose so badly that he gets himself drunk?" Bo Jingshen found it somewhat incredible.
After all, Jiang Li used to be able to compete with Bambi, even though he always lost, and he was even able to race Bo Jingshen. Not to mention he had a brother like Jiang Su, clever as a fox.
No matter how you looked at it, Jiang Li didn’t seem like someone with a worrisome IQ, but he had really lost so badly at this simple game that he became drunk.
With a flushed face, he was slumped over the table, not quite passed out, his eyes still glittering, but from his demeanor, he was definitely drunk.
"I see everyone else... isn’t faring much better," Su Lu commented as she glanced over the scene, unable to help but exclaim.
The only relatively sober one was Ying Xi, who also first noticed Bo Jingshen and Su Lu.
Ying Xi’s eyes brightened, and he waved at them, "Bam... Mr. Bo, Miss Su, come here."
"How many has he had?" Bo Jingshen walked over and asked.
"Two dozen," Ying Xi replied helplessly, "Any more, and he’s going to get gout."
All that was ordered for the table was seafood barbecue, and indeed, if they kept drinking, gout was a valid concern.
Su Lu glanced over at the empty cans in front of Su Yi. Su Yi wasn’t too drunk; his face was flushed, but his mind was quite clear. Noticing Su Lu’s gaze, he grew a bit nervous.
Probably because of the alcohol’s effects, coupled with the nervousness, his speech became a bit slurred, "Thish isn’t all mine!"
Su Lu barely held back a laugh at his accent, "Why were you thinking of drinking? Weren’t you planning on training?"
Although everyone knew Bambi was the real boss of bosses, and Jiang Li was also a boss, for some reason, they all had a sort of wariness towards Su Lu.
Perhaps it was because they had heard from their manager the fear of being dominated by Su Lu, who easily poached the cornerstones of their team, Lie Ying...
So, hearing Su Lu speak, one teammate sobered up a bit, struggling out of his drunken haze and said with forced spirit, "We have a practice match in two days, a show match with a local team here. Honestly, this local team... we could win even giving them a handicap, so we just came out to relax."
"A show match?" Su Lu had learned a bit about the industry before taking on the project, so she had a rough idea what that entailed.
The teammates clearly had confidence, which meant this local team was probably not so hot.
One teammate mumbled hazily, "Miss Su could come and play, and we’d still crush them."
This one had obviously drunk too much and lost his sense of reason, "Bambi, can’t Little Deer God lead us to fly?"