Chapter 2663 It’s raining in Nancheng tonight 24
Ling Gun Gun lay on the car like a decoration, its little head swaying back and forth, looking old-fashioned and sighing.
[I understand, I understand, host. This is called "no destruction, no construction."]
He seemed to have a lot of experience.
Upon hearing its words, Jin Chen freed one hand and flicked it on the forehead. [You're even answering before me now!]
Zero is humble, saying, "Experience comes from observation; I've already achieved considerable success."
The bar became unexpectedly successful shortly after it opened.
Soon, word spread in the industry that there was a bartender on Lin Island with exceptional skills and a particularly handsome appearance. Within a few days, some people couldn't resist confessing their feelings to him, but without exception, they all met with rejection.
The better this bartender is, the colder and more distant he is with people.
A few days later, at Lin Island Bar.
The atmosphere was lively in a fairly large booth in the corner, where Xie Linzhou sat, somewhat absent-minded.
He was dragged by Xiang Wenqing to attend a university friend's gathering. Unexpectedly, the person who organized it chose this bar. As soon as he sat down, he subconsciously glanced at the central bar counter, but the person standing behind the counter skillfully shaking the shaker was not the one he wanted to see.
"Brother Zhou! Boss!" Xiang Wenqing, who was sitting next to him, leaned over and called his name several times, raising his voice. Xie Linzhou suddenly snapped out of his daze and asked, somewhat bewildered, "What's wrong?"
"What are you thinking about so intently?" Xiang Wenqing teased him with a smile. As the only girl in the team who had known Xie Linzhou since college, she was always quick to joke without thinking. "Are you afraid your boyfriend will check up on you? Didn't you tell your cool guy you were going out to a party?"
"……Need not."
Xie Linzhou lowered his eyes, picked up the wine glass in front of him, took a sip, and had no intention of continuing the topic.
The booth was crowded, and the conversation ranged from embarrassing moments in college to jobs and current situations after graduation, inevitably involving mutual flattery and banter.
"If you ask me, Sister Xiang and Brother Xie are doing really well. Your team must be getting pretty big projects now, right? Leadwood Studio is a well-known name."
Xie Linzhou forced a smile, casually changing the subject with a few polite words, and didn't really engage.
He only perked up a little and listened attentively when the conversation inadvertently turned to the bar itself.
"I reckon that the seats closest to the bar are either for the owner's face or for his bartending skills.
A young man with dyed red hair said, "Several bartenders here were personally trained by that boss, but the feeling is just different, really different!"
He clutched his chest, a look of lingering satisfaction on his face. "I was lucky on opening day; I had the privilege of drinking a cocktail personally mixed by the owner. I'll never forget it!"
The person sitting next to him chuckled and nudged him, teasing, "Yuan Qiu, how many times are you going to say it? Are you still so hung up on that boss?"
"That's right!" Yuan Qiu sat up slightly, a suspicious blush rising on her face, a mixture of excitement and shyness. "I not only drank with him, but I also talked to the boss! I've decided, I'm going to confess to him today!"
"Cough cough cough..." Xie Linzhou was caught off guard and choked on a mouthful of wine, coughing as he covered his mouth.
After finally calming down, he looked at Yuan Qiu in disbelief, "You're going to... confess to him?"
Yuan Qiu turned his head and nodded vigorously: "Yeah! Brother Xie, you don't know, in the days since the store opened, there have been so many people confessing their love to the boss!"
"What if! What if I'm lucky and succeed!"
Xie Linzhou: "..."
His fingers tightened unconsciously around the wine glass; he simply couldn't understand this impulse.
"How long have you known each other? Do you know him well?"
“I don’t know,” Yuan Qiu replied matter-of-factly, even confidently. “I don’t even know the boss’s name.”
Xie Linzhou was even more puzzled, his brows furrowing slightly: "So... you're going to confess your feelings just like that?"
"If you like it, just give it a try!" Yuan Qiu said with a grin, displaying the carefree spirit of youth. "Even if I don't succeed, I won't lose out if I get to sleep with such a handsome boss!"
Xiang Wenqing, who was listening nearby, was amused and didn't notice Xie Linzhou's increasingly unpleasant expression. She slapped her thigh and laughed, "What a typical fast-food romance!"
After she finished laughing, she turned to Xie Linzhou and said, "Boss and your cool guy are so great, it's like a fairytale romance."
Xie Linzhou tugged at the corners of his mouth, trying to force a smile, but found that he couldn't manage a smile at all, and it turned into a somewhat stiff arc.
At this moment, there was some commotion in the direction of the booths near the stairwell.
The people at their table also instinctively looked over.
Two men, one after the other, walked down the spiral staircase from the second floor.
The man walking in front was dressed in a very avant-garde and eye-catching style, with a cynical smile on his face, and he even blew a few kisses to some familiar guests downstairs.
He noticed that everyone's attention wasn't on him, so he smiled, turned around, and shoved the man behind him.
The man was very tall, wearing a simple, crisp black shirt with the cuffs rolled up to his elbows. He walked down from the bar to the sound of rock music, glanced indifferently at the noisy hall, and exuded a coldness that seemed out of place with his surroundings.
Xie Linzhou's heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively wanted to turn his head back to avoid that gaze.
But halfway through his action, he couldn't help but look over again, only to find that Jin Chen's gaze was merely sweeping across the area, not lingering on the crowded booths, let alone noticing him in the corner.
"Holy crap..." Xiang Wenqing next to him was also stunned, staring blankly at the figure, then slowly turned his head to look at Xie Linzhou beside him.
Isn't that... the cool guy from the eldest brother's family!
