kvmb Chapter 30 The Beauty You Said?
Chapter 30 The Beauty You Said?
Wang Zhe was a natural optimist; his sadness came and went quickly. He slyly hooked his arm around Jiang Lin's shoulder and asked, "Isn't it pretty?"
Jiang Lin pictured Xingyi's face in his mind and casually said, "She could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky, and the moon hide its face and flowers blush with shame."
"Really?" Wang Zhe rarely heard Jiang Lin make such an evaluation, so he quickly pulled Jiang Lin to a corner, away from Ding Xuehui: "If you don't have that idea, introduce me to someone!"
Jiang Lin glanced at Wang Zhe's physique, her words carrying a hidden meaning: "I'm just afraid you won't be able to handle it."
Wang Zhe raised an eyebrow and patted his muscular chest: "Don't worry about that, I can do eight hundred squats in one go, I'm in great shape!"
That afternoon, Wang Zhe brought good news: he had contacted the student, Tian Mingxuan, who, as Jiang Lin had predicted, was also a survivor of the death game. They had received an invitation to meet that evening at Xingyue Bay. Wang Zhe and Ding Xuehui both accepted, and now they were asking Jiang Lin if he had time.
At 6 p.m., Jiang Lin arrived at Xingyue Bay, a famous private restaurant in Hangzhou. Besides being delicious, it's also expensive and difficult to book a table. Anyone who can get a table there needs to be both wealthy and have some connections. Jiang Lin was certain it wasn't the engineering student from that morning.
The entrance features a modern Chinese design, understated yet luxurious. The restaurant operates on a reservation system with limited seating. Jiang Lin followed the waiter to the private room, where he saw a round table for nine people, with only two seats left for him.
Jiang Lin narrowed his eyes slightly, not expecting Tian Mingxuan to bring so many people.
"Jiang Lin, over here!" Wang Zhe stood up and pulled out a chair for Jiang Lin: "Didn't you say you were bringing a beauty? Where is she?"
Ding Xuehui, who was on the other side of Wang Zhe, glanced at Jiang Lin and a hint of nervousness flashed in her eyes when she heard these words.
Jiang Lin sat down, glanced around at everyone, and smiled, "He has some urgent business to attend to and will be ten minutes late. Everyone, please begin. There's no need to wait for him."
Just as Wang Zhe was about to introduce himself, the person opposite him spoke first.
"So you're the one who picked up on Tian Mingxuan's code?" The speaker was a blond young man in a white T-shirt. He was also quite handsome, but compared to Ji Xingyi, he was noticeably more effeminate. The diamond-encrusted four-pointed star necklace around his neck shone brightly under the light.
"My name is Yi Jing." The blond youth did not stand up, but raised his glass, gestured with his eyes, and then drank the white wine in one gulp.
Jiang Lin found this guy interesting. It wasn't his noble air, but rather the blond youth's sharp, piercing eyes, like a wolf or a tiger, that made him seem like a spoiled brat.
"Jiang Lin." Jiang Lin raised his wine glass and clinked it against the glass in mid-air.
Besides Yi Jing, Tian Mingxuan brought four other people with him: Qiu Zhuo (22), a high-achieving student specializing in information technology; Ruan Qing (19), a girl with long hair, who was in the same year as Jiang Lin; and An Zhiwei (26), a counselor at the university.
Yi Jing is the most skilled, having completed the dungeon four times. The Phoenix Mountain incident was a dungeon that Yi Jing led Ruan Qing and Qiu Zhu to complete. Tian Mingxuan completed the dungeon twice, and An Zhiwei is a new member who joined just the day before yesterday.
Wang Zhe: "Third brother, isn't your time almost up too? We're discussing the arrangements for the next dungeon."
Jiang Lin then mentioned that he and Ji Xingyi had just completed their second dungeon.
"No, it's one thing if you don't invite me, but you're with a pretty girl too. You're so unfair! You're so fickle!" Wang Zhe couldn't help but complain.
Ding Xuehui lowered her head and sipped her juice, concealing the disappointment in her eyes.
“I didn’t say it was a girl,” Jiang Lin chuckled.
Suddenly, a creaking sound came from inside.
Apart from Jiang Lin, everyone looked at the door of the private room behind Jiang Lin with shocked expressions.
Wearing a black shirt and black suit pants, Ji Xingyi arrived late and sat down in the empty seat next to Jiang Lin without hesitation. Because she had arrived in a hurry, she was a little thirsty. Seeing that the glass on the table was empty, she picked up the glass that Jiang Lin had drunk from and drank it all in one gulp.
The entire process was devoid of any superfluous movements, yet it captivated everyone's attention like a black hole.
Yi Jing looked surprised, then revealed a mocking smile: "I didn't expect that I wasn't the only one who was unlucky, Young Master Ji was also in trouble!"
The Ji family's business circle is in the Yangtze River Delta, while the Yi family's influence is in the south. Therefore, Yi Jing and Ji Xingyi are not familiar with each other, but they are both people in the top circles, and they have seen each other's faces. Moreover, Yi Jing could not forget Ji Xingyi's face even if he wanted to.
"Nice to meet you," Ji Xingyi replied calmly.
Wang Zhe glared at Jiang Lin and muttered under his breath, "This is the beauty you were talking about?"
Jiang Lin's eyes were playful: "Not pretty?"
Wang Zhe couldn't help but glance at Ji Xingyi's outrageously beautiful face again, swallowing hard: "She's way too beautiful." It's just that the models don't match! Wang Zhe only dared to mutter the last sentence to himself.
Jiang Lin chuckled, his gaze drifting to Ding Xuehui. Seeing that the girl's complexion was not good, he deliberately poured a cup of hot water in front of Ji Xingyi and handed it to her: "Xuehui? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Thank you..." Ding Xuehui hurriedly took it, but met Ji Xingyi's cold gaze. Her hand panicked and knocked over the wine glass, spilling juice all over herself. Ding Xuehui stood up in a flustered manner: "I'm sorry, I need to go to the restroom first."
Ji Xingyi showed no change in expression and reached out to replace Jiang Lin's wine with juice.
After this brief interlude, the group continued their discussion of the dungeon. The atmosphere in the private room gradually became tense.
Tian Mingxuan: "A team can have a maximum of 4 people, so for the next dungeon, I hope Wang, Ding, Qingqing and I can form a 4-person team."
Jiang Lin and Ji Xingyi had just come out of the dungeon, so Tian Mingxuan didn't ask them for anything more.
"Why?" Ruan Qing didn't hear Yi Jing's name, and her smile vanished instantly.
Tian Mingxuan helplessly advised, "Qingqing, theoretically speaking, the dungeons will get harder and harder. Team dungeons are different from random dungeons. If Yi Jing teams up with us to participate in a dungeon, the system may match us according to Yi Jing's difficulty level, which will be very dangerous for us."
Ruan Qing's expression was unpleasant, but she said no more.
Ji Xingyi took a few bites, put down her chopsticks, and got up to leave. Jiang Lin glanced at her, then looked up, meeting Yi Jing's gaze. A meaningful smile appeared on the blond youth's lips.
Ding Xuehui was wearing a dress today. It took her a long time to roughly clean up the stains on the hem of the dress. After touching up her makeup, Ding Xuehui looked at herself in the mirror and fell into deep thought.
She concealed a lot of information from Jiang Lin. She was indeed the blind date arranged by Ji Xingyi's mother, but their relationship was not as intimate as she had described.