MLROCSHR Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Giving You a Chance to Pursue Me

“Dream on,” Qi Luzhi flicked Lian Xun’s forehead.

“Then why did you ask me?” Lian Xun rubbed his head, frowning.

Qi Luzhi didn’t reply.

After a while, he reached out and pinched the tender flesh of Lian Xun’s face, saying fiercely, “If you ever dare to secretly meet with other men behind my back again, I’ll lock you in the basement, chain you up, and you won’t be able to go anywhere.”

Lian Xun finally realized belatedly that he was jealous.

Locked in the basement, a chain around his neck…

How perverted, Qi Luzhi!

But he liked it!

Lian Xun curved his lips, smiling charmingly as he moved closer to Qi Luzhi.

“Qi-gege, then agree to be my boyfriend, and I promise not to go around flirting.”

“Impossible,” Qi Luzhi refused outright.

Seeing Lian Xun pouting, looking resentful, Qi Luzhi added, “However, I can give you a chance to pursue me.”

“How do I pursue you?” Lian Xun’s eyes were full of eagerness to learn.

“That depends on your ability.”

Qi Luzhi arrogantly left these words behind and started the car.

“Hmph, you said it yourself, just you wait, I’ll write my name backward if I can’t win you over.” Lian Xun raised his face, looking determined.

Qi Luzhi’s mood improved a lot, and even the evening rush hour traffic didn’t seem as annoying as usual, but when he thought of what Lian Xun had mentioned earlier, he couldn’t help but worry.

“By the way, I’ll help investigate your mother’s matter. Don’t carry everything on your own in the future.”

It will break my heart, Qi Luzhi added in his mind.

“Got it.”

Lian Xun was now focused on figuring out how to pursue Qi Luzhi, after all, he had only been in one relationship in his life.

That time, Qi Luzhi pursued him!

He remembered that at that time, Qi Luzhi always bought him delicious food and cooked his favorite sweet soup for him…

Thinking of this, Lian Xun had an idea.

He turned his head and asked, “Have you eaten?”

“No, why?”

Qi Luzhi went to Phantom as soon as he got off work. Although he hadn’t eaten, he didn’t feel very hungry.

Thinking that Lian Xun probably hadn’t had dinner either, he said softly, “There’s a good restaurant up ahead, let’s eat before going back.”

“No,” Lian Xun shook his head like a rattle.

“Let’s go to the supermarket,” he said.

Qi Luzhi gave him a puzzled look, “What are we going to the supermarket for? You don’t want to buy groceries and cook yourself, do you?”

Lian Xun: “Don’t you want to try my homemade food?”

He said it this way, but who knew how long it had been since he had been in the kitchen. But now that he could think of a way to please Qi Luzhi, he could only start by pleasing his stomach.

Qi Luzhi was silent for a while, his face full of suspicion.

“Are you sure the food you make is edible?”

Had a young master who had servants and housekeepers taking care of all aspects of his life really cooked before?

Qi Luzhi expressed doubt.

“Edible, definitely edible,” Lian Xun assured again and again, his eyes full of sincerity.

He thought, with his intelligence, he could learn a few dishes quickly, right?

“Even if I don’t do well, you’re still here,” Lian Xun complimented with a smile.

Qi Luzhi was very good at cooking!

“So you were waiting for me here?” Qi Luzhi raised his eyebrows, glancing at Lian Xun out of the corner of his eye.

“No, no,” Lian Xun quickly explained, “I sincerely want to cook for you myself.”

The corners of Qi Luzhi’s lips unconsciously curved up, “Since you insist so much, then I’ll reluctantly give you a chance.”

In the supermarket, Lian Xun pushed the shopping cart through the dazzling array of shelves.

“Wow, this fish is so fat, let’s buy it!”

“Wow, such fresh beef, let’s get a piece!”

“Oh? It’s your favorite asparagus, we have to buy it!”

“We want this too…”

After a round of shopping, the shopping cart was piled high. Qi Luzhi followed behind Lian Xun with his hands in his pockets, watching him looking so excited like a child, his face full of doting.

Back home, Lian Xun changed into home clothes, then plunged into the kitchen.

After a while, the clanging sounds came. Qi Luzhi was worried and went to the kitchen to take a look.

Lian Xun was processing the fat carp. The cutting board, the sink, and even the floor were covered with bright red unidentified liquid. Anyone who didn’t know would think it was a murder scene.

“Can you do it?” Qi Luzhi crossed his arms and leaned against the kitchen door, frowning.

“I have to! I don’t believe it, I can’t handle a mere fish,” Lian Xun was still fighting wits and courage with the fish, and his words were a bit gritted.

Qi Luzhi couldn’t stand it anymore, stepped forward, picked up the apron hanging on the wall, and handed it to Lian Xun: “Put it on, be careful not to get your clothes dirty.”

Lian Xun turned around, holding a kitchen knife in one hand, and the other hand was also wet, so he couldn’t put it on himself.

“Look at me like this… or, you help me put it on.”

“Troublesome!”

Qi Luzhi complained, but his hands had already hung the apron around Lian Xun’s neck, then wrapped around his waist from behind and tied a bow.

The two were very close, and Lian Xun could even feel the heat radiating from Qi Luzhi.

After tying the apron, Qi Luzhi raised Lian Xun’s chin with his left hand and said in a deep voice, “Don’t move.”

Lian Xun’s head tilted slightly with Qi Luzhi’s movement, his eyes meeting Qi Luzhi’s deep eyes.

The scorching breath spilled on each other’s faces, and the atmosphere suddenly became a bit ambiguous, Lian Xun’s heart beating wildly uncontrollably!

What was Qi Luzhi doing? Was he going to kiss him?

Sure enough, cooking was the best way to capture a man’s heart, the effect was immediate.

Lian Xun’s heart was bubbling with excitement, his eyes staring straight at Qi Luzhi in front of him, waiting for the expected kiss to fall.

Qi Luzhi raised his right hand, his thumb slowly stroking Lian Xun’s cheek.

“You have blood on your face, idiot!”

Then he stepped back two steps, looked at Lian Xun who was still in a daze, chuckled, and turned to leave the kitchen.

“Ah?”

Lian Xun came back to his senses, and Qi Luzhi was long gone.

What was that, such a good atmosphere, would a kiss kill him? What an insensitive Straight Man!

Lian Xun continued to cook while muttering.

An hour later, three dishes and a soup were finally brought to the table. Lian Xun enthusiastically introduced to Qi Luzhi, “This is my carefully prepared ‘You and Fish Together’, ‘Love for a Lifetime’, ‘Evergreen Love’, and ‘Affectionate Rib Soup’, taste how it is?”

Qi Luzhi glanced at the dishes on the table. The dark one was fish, the two green ones didn’t know if they were cooked, and that soup… was also a soup.

Under Lian Xun’s expectant gaze, Qi Luzhi put a small piece of fish into his mouth.

Although the appearance wasn’t very good, the taste was actually not bad, he had really underestimated him.

“How is it?” Lian Xun asked impatiently.

Qi Luzhi was expressionless, “It’s okay, I guess.”

“It’s okay”? That meant he was pretty satisfied. Lian Xun continued to ask, “Then, is it enough for me to win you over?”

Qi Luzhi put down his chopsticks, looking helpless, “You don’t think you can win me over with one meal, do you?”

Couldn’t he?

Lian Xun became anxious, “Qi Luzhi, are you deliberately playing with me? You don’t want to agree to me at all, do you?”

“I didn’t say that,” Qi Luzhi’s tone was still faint.

Lian Xun snorted and sat down to eat, pouting. If this plan didn’t work, he would think of another one. What was the big deal!

Could it be that he had to use his charm again?

According to past experience, Qi Luzhi seemed to like this trick.