He truly wasn't looking at the young girl in front of him!
This young girl looked obviously young; he didn't even know if she was an adult. How could he possibly be interested?
Even if he were desperate, he'd still have standards!
"No, I'm just drinking..." Ning Fengzhi lowered his head, holding his wine cup, trying to explain. At least he could say he was just drinking and didn't want too many people to misunderstand, right?
"What? You even want to invite me to drink with you? Look at yourself!" The girl was relentless. She spoke with disdain in her voice.
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Ning Fengzhi felt utterly confused. What did this girl mean? Was she deliberately trying to embarrass him?
This was too much!
Just as he was about to frown and teach this girl a lesson, she had already sat down at his table: "Forget it, since you've sincerely invited me, I'll graciously sit down and have a couple of drinks with you."
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Ning Fengzhi felt even more bewildered. What was this woman playing at? Why did she just sit down on her own accord? Not only that, but why was there a blush on her face? Was she shy?
Or was it…
He suddenly remembered that when he was younger and bored at the Ning family's home, he would watch anime and dramas. Many characters had this kind of personality…
Tsundere?
He forced himself to be patient, trying his best to remain calm. Although he was of an older generation, he considered his emotional intelligence to be quite high. He proactively poured wine for the girl and then said, "You couldn't get an autograph and photo opportunity with Brother Xiao, so you want to use me as a stepping stone?"
The girl visibly froze when she heard him say this. She stared at Ning Fengzhi strangely before her eyes darted around, and she replied, "Of course."
Her demeanor made Ning Fengzhi feel that she hadn't really thought of this plan at all originally.
A very strange girl.
"A man like Lin Xiao is a great hero in the hearts of all our senior and junior sisters, a perfect man. You're close to him, and I want to get to know him through you. What's wrong with that?" As she spoke, her gaze unconsciously drifted away, as if she didn't want to make eye contact with Ning Fengzhi.
"That's true."
Ning Fengzhi became very calm. After all, what the girl said was true. Lin Xiao had many titles, and he served the country and its people. If there was any flaw about him, it was that incident with his wife back then.
However, now that he had returned to Shashi for his wife and become a stay-at-home dad, that flaw was gradually disappearing.
He said this, then poured himself another glass of wine, and said with a hint of melancholy, "It's a pity. If only I could be like Brother Xiao, then I would be a hero too, and you wouldn't look down on me like this."
A trace of weariness and helplessness appeared in his eyes, a melancholy of unfulfilled ambition, and the bitterness of 'why must there be Yu when Liang is here?' Coupled with his slightly slow drinking pace, letting the wine trickle into his mouth drop by drop, he closed his eyes, as if savoring the wine, or as if the wine was taking his melancholy down with it.
In the eyes of the girl opposite him, a hint of reluctance involuntarily flashed across her face.