Chapter 23 How Could There Be Such A Cute Girl In This World

“How could there be such a cute girl in this world?”

Lan Qi seemed tired from laughing and took his water glass, gulping down the contents.

If he didn’t take a break, he felt like his back would break from laughing so much today.

Talia, on the other hand, was trembling and silent.

The more she was like this, the more amusing he found it.

It was simply too funny!

“Hello, waiter.”

Lan Qi, his interest still piqued, raised his hand, attracting the waiter’s attention.

“Is there anything I can help you with?”

The waiter, dressed in a black vest and white apron, approached them with a worldly gait.

“Can we add a few more dishes? I’d like to make some slight modifications to the previous order,” Lan Qi said to the waiter.

“Of course, no problem.”

The waiter found the menu again and handed it over.

“Thank you.”

Lan Qi thought Talia’s meow impression of Cat Boss was too appetizing, even improving his own appetite.

And no matter how much they ordered, he believed Talia could definitely eat it all.

This restaurant brought him too much joy; they might as well spend the entire afternoon here today.

“Tata, is that okay?” Lan Qi asked for Talia’s opinion.

“…Just order what you want.” Talia was so angry she didn’t want to talk.

But if it was about adding dishes, she would begrudgingly agree.

Eat this jerk broke!

“This one, this one, and this one…” Lan Qi flipped through the menu page by page, turning to the waiter as he spoke.

Talia glanced over, her mood worsening.

Lan Qi was picking all the dishes she didn’t particularly like.

“Okay, adding caviar with lobster jelly, foie gras mousse…” the waiter said respectfully and amiably, his silver ballpoint pen already taking notes.

“I mean, I don’t want these dishes. Add one of everything else on the entire menu,” Lan Qi replied confidently.

The waiter’s pen stopped.

Seriously, can you two even finish that much?

He looked at the young couple, full of hesitation.

“Don’t worry, we’ll finish it,” Lan Qi said to the waiter.

Talia didn’t know whether to be angry or not.

Lan Qi knew her tastes too well, but ordering like this was just as excessive!

“Okay.”

The waiter skillfully wrote down the order in his notebook, hesitated, and then quietly retreated.

He simply couldn’t believe these two could finish so much food.

Unless one of them was an exceptionally big eater.

Talia lowered her head, silent.

She now felt a little embarrassed to eat so much later.

The Cologne Bridge Inn Restaurant was actually a restaurant she had favored in the food weekly, and she would naturally be satisfied to eat her way through the entire menu in one sitting, but Lan Qi always had a damned meaningful look, and she was too embarrassed to eat there all afternoon!

The two waited.

Rarely were they not talking at this moment.

“Don’t you feel bored spending the whole afternoon here with me?” Talia suddenly muttered to herself.

Lan Qi was probably the only one in the world who would be willing to keep her company while eating, even wasting his time on “keeping her company.”

This kind of time should be especially precious to humans, especially someone as talented and promising as Lan Qi.

“No, being with you, I never feel bored,” Lan Qi said, his voice undisguisedly cheerful.

“…”

Listening to Lan Qi’s sincere words, Talia felt both angry and unsure of what to say.

“Why are you holding my hand so tightly again?” Lan Qi asked.

“…”

Talia didn’t answer.

She was just angry, first ruling out the possibility that “she didn’t want to let go of this human.” Even now, she felt restless because of Lan Qi.

A moment later.

The sommelier walked over gracefully, holding a crystal decanter, slowly pouring the clear, ruby-red wine into a tall-stemmed glass.

The rich fruity aroma, along with the swaying wine in the glass, diffused. Lan Qi picked up the glass and gently handed it to Talia.

He himself received a glass of grape juice specially sent by the waiter.

The two symbolically clinked glasses and each took a sip.

The appetizers were quickly served.

“Tata, don’t you think this looks like Cat Boss?”

The freshly baked mini rye bagels, a highly praised appetizer at this restaurant, exuded a wheat aroma.

Taking a bite, the texture was soft and fluffy. You could see scattered sesame seeds dotted throughout the airy interior. The avocado paste was made from avocados imported from the western Canberra Kingdom, with a uniform texture and a natural fragrance and slightly nutty flavor.

“…”

Talia didn’t want to pay attention to him, silently starting to eat.

Now, whenever she heard “cat,” she felt that Lan Qi meant something else.

She reached for the veal with her fork. The high-quality veal leg was braised in a brown sauce until the meat was tender and the gravy rich. After repeated pounding, it tasted as smooth as silk, with a mellow and sweet aftertaste.

As long as she focused on enjoying the food, she could forget her worries.

While they were eating, the other dishes were being served one by one.

The most eye-catching was Chef Boggs’ signature dessert—caramel apple tart with vanilla custard. The crispy, golden-brown crust was covered with a layer of brightly colored caramel. The sweetness of the apples was just right, and the rich and creamy vanilla ice cream added the finishing touch to this dessert.

A small plate disappeared in less than a minute.

Soon after, Talia discovered a difficulty.

If she held hands with Lan Qi, she couldn’t eat properly with her right hand.

And she always felt a little awkward using utensils with her left hand.

Lan Qi also noticed that Talia’s eating efficiency had decreased a lot.

He observed Talia.

The delicious food was right in front of her, but she could only enjoy it clumsily and slowly.

Seeing her awkward way of eating made Lan Qi uncomfortable, even feeling like Cat Boss was scratching inside him.

This direct gaze also attracted Talia’s attention.

She looked at Lan Qi.

That questioning look seemed to be asking him what he was looking at.

She even concentrated her mind, trying to figure out what Lan Qi was thinking at this moment.

“How about we let go first? Holding your right hand is affecting your eating too much,” Lan Qi suggested a truce.

The two of them had been competing all day; they couldn’t just hold hands like this all day, could they?

Although he really wanted to feed Talia directly, Talia would definitely not agree.

And after hearing Talia’s cute meow, he was already very satisfied today.

He could only say that he would never forget such a happy day in his life.

If Tata really turned into a kitten, he would surely love her and hold her every day, feeding her non-stop.

“…You really want to feed me directly?”

Talia’s mind buzzed, and she dazedly read Lan Qi’s thoughts, unconsciously speaking them aloud.

As for the second half…

“!!”

She abruptly raised her hand, tightly covering her throat, desperately trying not to say it.

Lan Qi…wants to pick me up and feed me?

Talia felt like her head was a boiling kettle, looking at Lan Qi with a terrified expression, even moving half a step away from him, as if afraid that Lan Qi would really do something to her.

Instantly, not only Lan Qi, but even the surrounding customers turned their attention to them.

“…”

Lan Qi was also dumbfounded.

Talia’s intermittent mind-reading ability was activated again, and the side effect of her mind-reading ability was that she would unconsciously speak her thoughts aloud.

And was her reaction really that extreme?

It’s not like she couldn’t guess what he was thinking.

The last time he fed her was a long time ago.

At that time, her hand was injured in South Mantina Territory, and Lan Qi took care of her every day.

After the questions and answers at the Golden Bee Amusement Park, both sides knew what the other was thinking.

But this was limited to both sides just thinking about it.

They were both perfectly healthy. An adult’s sense of shame determined that they would never actually do such a thing.

“Yes.”

Lan Qi simply admitted it. Since Talia had already read his thoughts, if he denied it again, it would make him look like a circus member, and Talia would definitely mock him.

“Let me feed you,” Lan Qi said, staring seriously at Talia, pleading.

He was betting that Talia wouldn’t accept.

If Talia rejected him in a panic, then it wouldn’t be his problem.

“No, no, no…”

Talia was very clear-headed at this moment, shaking her head desperately.

In public, being fed like this was just…too much.

She would rather die than agree to such a thing!

And that little girl looked over again.

That innocent gaze seemed to be interrogating her.

Only children would let adults feed them; how long had she lived? She was long past the age where she needed to be fed!

“Sigh.”

Seeing this, Lan Qi let go of Talia’s hand.

It sounded like a sigh, and also like a sigh of relief.

When he raised his eyebrows again, he became smug again, his eyes carrying a hint of regret and pity.

Talia’s interesting reaction was his best trophy today.

The aftertaste was endless.

An eight-hundred-year-old wine, as expected, had a different taste every time he savored it.

“…!”

Talia immediately understood Lan Qi’s damned expression and his psychological warfare.

It was Talia who had refused.

Now, even if Lan Qi took the initiative to let go, it would be considered respecting her will, equivalent to her admitting defeat.

This guy knew that she wouldn’t dare to continue betting with him!

She really…couldn’t do it…

A faint blush appeared on her cheeks, exposing her inner embarrassment. She lightly bit her lower lip, as if regretting her failure.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

Really, the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

Now, she didn’t even need to look at Lan Qi; she felt that her mind was full of Lan Qi’s smug, winner’s gaze.

She probably wouldn’t be able to sleep well tonight.

She was going all out!!

Talia moved closer to Lan Qi, and finally made up her mind, stood up, and sat on Lan Qi’s lap, obediently waiting for him to feed her.

Let’s see whose shame is greater.

“If you want to hold me, then hold me. Let’s see if you really dare to hold me?” She whispered in Lan Qi’s ear, gritting her teeth, her face flushed.

Talia was prepared to die together.

“…”

Lan Qi.

His brain stopped working.

He might be dead.

Or maybe he wasn’t dead.

…

Outside the restaurant, on the Selena River.

A small wooden boat was leisurely gliding across the surface of the Selena River, its bow slightly upturned, like an elegant swan about to spread its wings and fly.

Eithio sat at the stern, holding a wooden paddle, gently stroking, driving the boat to glide on the water.

Rosalinda sat at the bow, holding binoculars, staring intently at the glass wall of the restaurant in the distance.

Everything was quiet and beautiful.

Suddenly.

“Waaahhhh!”

Rosalinda covered her face, screaming excitedly.

She didn’t expect Tata and Lan Qi to be so affectionate. This was a public place! Didn’t they care about the eyes of people around them at all!

“Wo Cao Meow!”

Even Cat Boss was startled, jumping into the air.

“Cat Boss, are they like this in your restaurant too?” Rosalinda asked, her face flushed.

“How is that possible! Wait…” Cat Boss was about to deny it, but then thought of the previous incidents.

It seemed that each time was more radical than the last.

It didn’t know what was going on, it just felt that there must be some misunderstanding between Lan Qi and Tata in the restaurant.

These two both had overly strong personalities.

If no one was watching them, they would only play bigger and bigger, until they blew each other up!

Eithio was still taking pictures non-stop.

Such beautiful moments, when they saw them again in the future, they would definitely have different feelings.

…

Cologne Bridge Inn Restaurant.

After Lan Qi’s brain rebooted, he realized that Talia might have read the second half of what he had just been thinking.

But she had only read half of it.

So it became that he wanted to hold her and feed her!

Lan Qi began to sweat profusely.

If he told Talia the truth at this time, letting her discover that she had actually misunderstood, she might take him down with her.

Maybe his story would end here.

The End]

Wait, don’t have such subtitles!

Lan Qi felt like he had fallen into a hallucination space.

After a series of mental struggles, from the origin of the universe to the summary of his life, a revolving lantern flashed before his eyes.

Finally understanding the situation, Lan Qi, under the absolute threat of death, tremblingly picked up the caramel apple tart with vanilla custard and handed it to Talia’s mouth, who was sitting in his lap.

Talia also trembled, starting to bite at the custard that Lan Qi was feeding her.

So Lan Qi went to jail.

His face was also red.

He could only feed Talia like this.

“Mom, Mom, did Dad feed you like this before?” the little girl not far away asked.

“Shh!”

Her mother quickly covered her mouth.

This time, her eyes not only carried apology, but also fear that these two would corrupt the child.

Normal people wouldn’t do this kind of thing.

Even if today was considered a festival in the Posen Kingdom, this was a bit too much.

“…”

Lan Qi and Talia’s faces were both flushed.

The little girl’s words were like a meteorite thrown into a calm lake, making their hearts boil instantly.

The two bodies involuntarily stiffened, their eyes darting anxiously, then quickly looking away, hit by that most innocent question, striking the weakest point in their hearts.

Talia admitted that she had fantasized about being fed by Lan Qi in the Posen Kingdom, but she never thought it would be so…and so absurd in the end!

She could only quickly eat the food that Lan Qi handed her, cooperating with Lan Qi, to quickly end this lunch.

If they continued to mess around like this, neither of them could take it anymore.

But this meal seemed like it would take another three or four hours.

The two, pressed closely together, had remarkably similar thoughts amidst the heartbeat and torment—

It would be better to just have a normal date like they usually do!

Why was this happening?

No matter what, this incident must be taken to the grave!