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Chapter 231: Chapter 231 K Comes to China, Meeting at the Restaurant
Even after Li Muchen had left, Lu Sheng was slow to react.
It seems she had just experienced her first emotional crisis with Li Muchen—because of the unfamiliar scent of another woman’s perfume on his shirt.
From the phenomena Lu Sheng has seen, human couples are very prone to arguing and conflict over such matters.
But just now, it seemed she hadn’t really done anything; she had only said a few words, and Li Muchen had gone out in the middle of the night to look for evidence to prove his innocence.
Her lover seemed to be so conscious that he didn’t give her a reason to be angry or quarrel with him.
Seeing this, Lu Sheng could only take back her gaze and went to the bathroom to quickly take a shower.
However, just when she was preparing to go to bed, her mobile phone suddenly received a message.
To be precise, three messages.
[More than two months have passed, Miss Lu Sheng should still remember who I am, right?]
[Last time Miss Lu Sheng said on the phone that if I ever need your help or if I come to China, I can call you anytime.]
[I am arriving in Jiang City, China, on tomorrow afternoon’s flight. If Miss Lu Sheng is free tomorrow evening, I wonder if I might have the honor of inviting you to dinner ^_^]
Not to mention that Lu Sheng had already saved the number in her phone, just seeing that familiar [^_^] symbol, Lu Sheng instantly remembered K.
Two months ago, Li Muchen’s grandmother was kidnapped from the nursing home and taken away by people hired by Li Feng, locked up in a secluded abandoned underground bar in Suli.
If it weren’t for K’s help in finding the grandmother’s whereabouts, Li Muchen wouldn’t have been able to rescue the grandmother from those mercenaries so quickly.
If the grandmother hadn’t been rescued in time and had fallen into Li Feng’s hands, the consequences would be unimaginable.
With the grandmother’s life in his hands, even if he and Fu Siya’s shady plans couldn’t be fully realized, Li Feng would definitely think of ways to extract benefits from Li Muchen.
God knows how much trouble that would bring them.
The favor owed to K, Lu Sheng always kept in mind. So upon seeing the text message, Lu Sheng immediately returned a call.
"...Mr. K?" Lu Sheng said into the phone, "I hope my sudden call hasn’t disturbed you."
"Of course not."
As the voice fell, a low, pleasant chuckle, tinged with laziness, came from the other end of the phone, "I’ve said before, Miss Lu Sheng, you can just call me Crohn."
"If you’re not used to it, you can also call me by my Chinese name, Chen Shu."
Hearing this, Lu Sheng paused for a moment: "...Chen Shu?"
"It’s not the Chen of a declarative sentence, but the Chen that means untainted by dust," the man explained, "My mother is Chinese, Chen is her original surname."
So this K was actually half-Chinese, with half of his bloodline being Chinese.
No wonder he spoke Chinese so fluently, even easily using an idiom like ’untainted by dust’ that could be considered tricky.
So Lu Sheng straightforwardly changed her way of addressing him: "Mr. Chen, are you saying you will be arriving in Jiang City tomorrow afternoon?"
"Yes, the plane should land around three o’clock." Chen Shu replied.
"You mentioned in your text that you’d like to have dinner with me, and I certainly have the time."
Lu Sheng spoke into the phone, "I haven’t had the chance to properly thank you for helping my friend find her grandmother last time."
"Mr. Chen, it will be much more convenient with a guide since it’s your first time coming to China. Tomorrow just happens to be a Saturday, so I can go directly to the airport to pick you up."
"If you haven’t booked a hotel yet, I can help you book one now. For the restaurant tomorrow night, I will find one that represents the most authentic Chinese character to take you to try Chinese cuisine."
Lu Sheng is not an overly enthusiastic person, but when it comes to hosting friends, she always does her utmost, like she did for Osborne when he visited China before.
Especially since Chen Shu had done her a favor, even if she had other plans for tomorrow, she would have cancelled them.
However, contrary to Lu Sheng’s expectations, Chen Shu declined her offer.
"There’s no need to pick me up from the airport, I have other plans after getting off the plane, and the hotel has been booked for me by someone else."
"But as for the restaurant with the most authentic Chinese character, I indeed need Miss Lu Sheng’s help for that."
"If Miss Lu Sheng has chosen a restaurant, just send me the address."
"We’ve set the time. How about meeting at the restaurant tomorrow evening?"
"Of course, that’s fine." Lu Sheng agreed straightforwardly.
Since the other person had other arrangements, she couldn’t appear too enthusiastic without a sense of boundaries. Anyway, this phone call had already shown her importance.
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At seven o’clock the next evening, Lu Sheng changed her clothes at home and took a taxi out.
Speaking of which, since she fell off a horse and broke her lower leg, casting it with plaster, she had hardly gone out during those two months of recovery at home.
Not moving much was one thing, but Jiang Ting and her older brothers had been feeding her all sorts of delicacies every day, causing her to gain quite a few pounds.
Every time she looked in the mirror, she felt her face appeared a bit rounder.
But each time Lu Sheng asked her brothers if she had gained weight, the answer was always surprisingly unanimous—no weight gain, absolutely none, it must be an illusion.
They shook their heads denying it while they continued to feed her until her cheeks were stuffed like a little hamster, only then would they be satisfied and stop.
The time Lu Sheng agreed to meet Chen Shu was at half-past seven, and the journey took about less than twenty minutes.
Arriving at the restaurant ten minutes early was just the right amount of time to find the person.
To some extent, Lu Sheng and Chen Shu were also meeting as internet friends for the first time.
Their first contact was when Chen Shu’s subordinate approached Lu Sheng to deliver a business card. The second encounter was when Lu Sheng texted Chen Shu asking for help in finding someone.
Lu Sheng didn’t know if Chen Shu knew what she looked like, as she had always worn a panda mask during the seven days of competitions at the Abis Underground Boxing Ring.
But she didn’t know what Chen Shu looked like.
However, Lu Sheng hadn’t specifically asked Chen Shu for any physical description.
For one thing, they weren’t familiar enough yet, and it seemed somewhat impolite to start by asking someone about their height, build, or any conspicuous features.
Secondly, Lu Sheng thought Chen Shu was a foreigner, and even though he was mixed-race, he should be easily recognizable in a crowd.
The restaurant they agreed upon had rave reviews online, but because the pricing was quite high, there were not too few customers eating inside, but it wasn’t extremely crowded either.
However, as soon as Lu Sheng entered the Great Hall, she saw many people standing in a row near some flower beds, seemingly sneaking glances toward a table near a window not too far away.
They were mostly girls, and as she passed by, Lu Sheng heard their uncontrollable excitement in their discussion— 𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝒃.𝙘𝙤𝒎
"My God, is this the legendary model face? The head-to-body ratio and those deep features are simply sublime!"
"Holy cow, there are actually such good-looking people in real life! It’s like a Greek goddess has descended, exuding aristocratic aura from top to bottom!!"
"He must be a celebrity, but if he is, how come we’ve never seen him before? Logically, with that face, he could debut and sweep the nation right away!"
"He’s so handsome I can’t breathe! Can’t help it, I need to take more pictures for wallpapers, I bet if I post these photos on Xiaohongshu, the notes will definitely blow up!"
The man seated at the window-side table appeared to be exceedingly attractive.
So much so that the girls didn’t care about their meals and instead gathered around here, snapping photos with their phones.
But Lu Sheng didn’t care about who the celebrity or internet famous person sitting there was.
That had nothing to do with her.
Her gaze swept around the Great Hall.
When her eyes came across a man sitting alone at the leftmost table in the distance, they paused for a few seconds.
Ten seconds later, Lu Sheng approached the table.
The man sitting in front of her seemed to be in his thirties, obviously a foreigner, with blond hair and blue eyes.
His nose was prominent, his hair a bit thin, and he looked to weigh about over two hundred pounds, and his attire somewhat suggested he worked in the IT industry.
The IT industry—could it be that, like Huo Yu, he was a hacker, which is how he was able to help her find her grandmother so quickly?
Thinking this, Lu Sheng found it quite reasonable.
So, she naturally sat opposite the man, then extended her hand and politely smiled, "Mr. Chen, hello. I’m Lu Sheng. It’s a pleasure to meet you."
