Chapter 149 - 115: The Descent of the Gods

Chapter 149: Chapter 115: The Descent of the Gods

Gu Qing smiled. "I think our tastes are pretty similar. As long as it’s something you like, I’m sure I’ll like it too."

’That sounded so flirtatious!’

’Is he hinting at something?’

’If I confess to him right now, will we get together immediately?’

’No!’

’Gotta stay calm!’

’I have to hold it together!’

’Acting on impulse will just make me look like a clown!’

’I can’t just confess to him rashly!’

’I have to let things take their natural course!’

’Just wait for things to happen naturally!’

Xia Shuran repeatedly warned herself.

She quickly suppressed the swirling thoughts and, feigning nonchalance, said with a smile,

"Since you’ve said that, Senior, I’ll order the rest of the dishes."

"But you’d better genuinely like the dishes I pick, Senior. You have to eat every last bite."

"Otherwise, I’ll punish you by making you invite me over to your place next time!"

Xia Shuran said with a cheerful grin.

She looked playful and cute.

Full of youthful energy.

Gu Qing smiled. "You’re thinking too small, Junior."

"You should have put it this way: if I can’t finish it, you’ll punish me by making me invite you to my place. And if I can finish it, you’ll reward me by letting me invite you to my place."

"That way, you win no matter what. A total landslide."

"..."

Xia Shuran’s eyes lit up. "Senior, you’re the one who said it! Then it’s a deal. You can’t go back on your word!"

Gu Qing said with a serious face, "If I’m lying, I’m a dog."

"You’re something else, Senior!"

Xia Shuran shot Gu Qing a playful glare. "What do you mean, ’if you’re lying, you’re not a dog’? It should be, ’if you’re lying, you are a dog’!"

"I don’t care! Anyway, you have to invite me to your place, Senior!"

"Or else, watch out! I might turn Traitor tomorrow. Right in the middle of a fight, I’ll suddenly switch sides to join the Ancestor, and then I’ll stab you hard in the butt with the Dragon Spear!"

Xia Shuran puffed up one cheek, threatening him with a fake pout.

Gu Qing chuckled. "No problem. If that happens and I can’t beat them, I’ll join them. I’ll surrender and switch sides to join your Ancestor too."

Hearing this, Xia Shuran was amused and burst out laughing. "HAHAHA... Senior, why are you always so funny? I can’t even pretend to be mad. You completely broke my composure."

Gu Qing teased his junior with another smile. "You might not believe this, but it’s an innate talent. My mom said when I was born, other babies came out crying WAH WAH, but I came out laughing HA HA. Everyone at the hospital was stunned."

"HAHAHAHA..."

Xia Shuran was beside herself with laughter. Between giggles, she said, "I don’t believe you! You must be making up stories to tease me again, Senior."

After laughing for a while,

Xia Shuran managed to compose herself a little.

She went back to ordering.

She ordered Sizzling Plate Squid, Stir-fried Fish Maw, Charcoal-Grilled Oysters, Salt and Pepper Mantis Shrimp, and Stir-fried Water Spinach with Fried Tofu Puffs.

Counting the stir-fried clams and chilled cucumber salad Gu Qing had ordered earlier, there were seven dishes in total.

They waited for about half an hour before all seven dishes slowly arrived.

With every dish that arrived, Gu Qing would wolf it down, leaving the plate completely clean.

The owner who brought the food over was stunned.

’This handsome kid isn’t even fat,’ he thought.

’How can he eat so much?’

After dinner,

Gu Qing went shopping with his junior. They took a lot of photos together and bought a huge pile of local specialty foods.

When it was almost ten at night, he finally took his junior home, then hailed a taxi for himself.

「On the way home.」

His sister, Gu Yao, sent him a WeChat message: [When are you coming home?]

[Gu Qing: On my way now. Should be home before eleven.]

[Gu Yao: Pick up a durian on your way back, will you? I’ll have Mom transfer you the money. I had some of Sister Zhiyi’s durian last night and I’m still craving it.]

[Gu Qing: No need for Mom’s money. Your big brother has plenty. My treat.]

[Gu Yao: Wow, a rich guy! Transfer me 50 to prove how rich you are!]

[Gu Qing: If you can perform ’eating a raw durian shell’ for me, I’ll transfer you the 50.]

[Gu Yao: Pfft, stingy!]

Gu Qing stopped replying to his sister and opened Douyin to scroll through short videos.

Ever since gaining his Extraordinary Power, he’d noticed he no longer got dizzy from looking at his phone in a moving car. His body’s various abilities had all been enhanced to a superhuman level.

...

「More than half an hour later.」

Gu Qing returned to his residential complex.

He got out of the car and walked into the security office, greeting the security guard inside.

He then left the specialty foods his junior had bought for him in the security office, figuring he would pick them up on his way back after buying the durian.

Then,

he took out his phone.

He opened a food delivery app and searched for the word "durian."

He needed to see where he could still buy durian this late at night.

He did a quick search.

Soon,

he saw a fruit shop two kilometers away that was still open.

Without a second thought, he immediately started running toward the fruit shop.

He didn’t run too fast.

Just at a pace of two and a half minutes per kilometer.

He couldn’t help it. With so many people on the streets, if he ran at a hundred meters per second, wouldn’t he scare the ordinary people silly and cause a huge commotion?

"Handsome, wait up!"

Just as Gu Qing took a shortcut into a dim alley to save time, a delicate voice suddenly called out from behind him.

Hearing the voice, he stopped and turned to look in the direction it came from.

The next second,

what met his eyes was a beautiful woman wearing a purple sun hat, a red dress that still had the tag on, and heavy makeup.

The woman was none other than Qingyu, the one who had crippled two Night Court Members just hours before.

At this moment, Qingyu had changed into a red dress swiped from a roadside clothing store. Her lips were painted a vivid red, and she looked incredibly hot.