Rags to Riches: The Rise of a Dual-Talent Prodigy-Chapter 543 - 535 The Feast with a Share of 2,000 Yuan
"You... your first kiss with me last time?"
Su Ang tightly grasped Qian Qi’s fingers, unwilling to let go. His clear and handsome eyes stared straight at her, eagerly wanting a definite answer from her mouth, "Never kissed another man? Only me?"
"Do you have some misunderstanding about me..." Qian Qi recalled the incident with Su Xingle and couldn’t help but laugh, "I heard you’ve been spreading around that I’m a major flirt with lots and lots of boyfriends?"
Su Ang blushed and averted his gaze, "I didn’t spread it everywhere, just mentioned it to that Su something Le guy."
It was all because of that guy’s Light Brain nickname, calling himself Su Cheng’s Number One Boyfriend, which made him think she had a Su Cheng Number Two Boyfriend, Su Cheng Number Three Boyfriend...
Now learning that Qian Qi had only kissed him, Su Ang secretly thought, doesn’t that mean he is her only boyfriend?
The pure and romance-novel-naive Su Ang obviously didn’t realize there might exist a type of person who separates love and sex distinctly; they might sleep with someone they don’t love, saving pure kisses for their true love.
In her past life, Qian Qi, who was too busy studying to read romance novels, also didn’t know such people might exist, so the two of them hit it off, one proving they only had one boyfriend, and the other finally confirming the other person only had them as a boyfriend.
[Congratulations, congratulations! This system sends a note for two thousand dollars to Qian Qi’s account.]
"Get lost," Qian Qi flicked away the annoying system panel, wanting to enjoy their two-person world.
Getting up from the bed, the two began their proper date.
Since they hadn’t eaten for a long time, they decided to go to the food court in the mall to cook a meal together.
Su Ang had never systematically learned to cook, nor was he used to cooking in instances where there were usually logistics to handle meals, so he could only follow video tutorials on his Light Brain, step by step.
He was evidently a data freak; when he put in a few pounds of ribs and several liters of water, he was still at ease, but when the blogger in the video started using terms like a little or a lot, he began to get flustered.
On the other hand, Qian Qi, who grew up eating big pot meals, could only produce the taste of big pot meals. The taste wasn’t delicious but was palatable and not unpleasant.
Tortured by "a little" and "a lot," the taste Su Ang ultimately produced could only be barely edible as well.
Luckily, neither of them was picky, and after tasting each other’s dishes, they nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad."
After eating, they strolled around the mall, selecting attractive clothes for each other like ordinary couples. In the vast mall, they were the only ones walking in the empty corridors, but their joyful laughter was enough to fill the empty building.
Carefully packing away the clothes Qian Qi selected, Su Ang lifted his Light Brain to scan the store’s payment code, transferring the money into the store’s account.
His eyes skimmed over a pair of adorable little white bear stuffed animals on the shop counter, and he paused slightly, recalling how the orphanage’s Xiao Min had taught him how to win over Qian Qi’s heart. He found a pin on the counter and attached the slightly larger white bear to the casual couple sweater she had chosen for him.
"Su Ang! Hurry up!" Qian Qi’s voice came faintly from outside the store.
Su Ang scanned the payment for the stuffed animal and strode out of the clothing store, "Coming."
As soon as Su Ang appeared, Qian Qi noticed the little bear that had appeared on his sweater and couldn’t help but chuckle, "Senior Su, I didn’t expect you to have such a childlike spirit."
She pinched the face of the cute little bear, "So adorable, but a kitten suits you better."
When he disliked it, he was cold and distant, but when he liked it, he became clingy and always suspected she was keeping other cats outside.
"Really?"
Su Ang lowered his head and pinned the slightly smaller white bear onto her sweater, then, on impulse, whispered by her ear, "Meow."
After the meow, he began to feel shy, the blush spreading bit by bit from his neck to his earlobes.
Qian Qi: "..."
This person... why is he so adorable in private!
Wanna hug him tight.
After shopping, the two headed to the cinema.
Standing in the projection room, one big and one small head leaned together trying to figure out how to play the movie. Once they successfully figured it out, Qian Qi excitedly hugged Su Ang, her face full of pride, "As expected of us~!"
With popcorn and drinks bought from the supermarket, the two sat in the last row of the cinema, watching a randomly played movie from the projector.
It was an apocalyptic film, describing the appearance of an S-Class Magical Beast. The ordinary male and female leads, fed up with each other’s messes, were preparing for divorce but awakened S-Class superpowers during the Magic Beast Tide, recruited by the military to deal with the S-Class Magical Beast.
Their awakened skills were also interesting; they had to collaborate to use them, similar to "together invincible, apart worthless," causing funny incidents during their training.
At the end of the movie, the male lead emerged from the bloody sea of magical beast corpses, holding the female lead’s body.
Their little love had long been replaced by a greater love. The once petty squabbles seemed trivial in the life-and-death bond—when they finally realized they still loved each other deeply, it concluded with one’s heroic sacrifice, never returning to the past.
"Su Ang."
As the movie ended, Qian Qi suddenly asked, "If it was eighteen days until the end of the world, what would you do?"
The young man beside her slightly tilted his head, gazing at the girl’s seemingly casual demeanor, and after seriously thinking it over, he confidently replied.
"Stay by your side."
Qian Qi was gently stunned, then curved her eyebrows into a smile.
"Mhm."
As long as someone is there, the end of the world wouldn’t be that frightening.
After the movie ended, the two held hands and walked out of the mall.
"Is it time to part now?" Qian Qi speculated about the date process, "Go home separately and then video call before bed to say goodnight."
"But I don’t want to separate." At the mention of parting, Su Ang immediately gripped her hand tightly.
After watching the movie, he was unable to calm down for a long time. Perhaps influenced by the movie’s thrilling plot, he felt that if Qian Qi left at that moment, he might never see her again.
Racking his brain, he finally thought of a way to keep her, "No need to follow what long-distance couples do; we can do what cohabiting couples do and go home together."
Qian Qi: !!! 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Seems so reasonable!
"Then we..." Qian Qi was just about to suggest going home together when, for some unknown reason, the sky that had just begun to show the light of dawn was suddenly illuminated like daylight. A nearly heart-shattering and eardrum-splitting tiger’s roar descended from the depths of the sky, roaring across the whole of Qing City!
"Roar——!"
