Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 111 - 96 Shooting Your Heart

Chapter 111: Chapter 96 Shooting Your Heart

After slipping downstairs, Lin Lu let out a long sigh of relief.

She got into her little white Audi, started the car, and couldn’t help but mutter, “Why didn’t I have the courage to tell her directly? Ningning is clearly not the kind of person who loves gossip or making a commotion.”

“Even if she knew I was dining alone with Cheng Zhu today, given her personality, she wouldn’t overthink it, let alone get the wrong idea.”

“Forget it, don’t want to think about it anymore, I’m going to be late!” She started driving to the dining spot.

By the time she reached the fried chicken restaurant, she saw Cheng Zhu standing at the entrance of the arcade machine store, gazing blankly ahead, lost in thought.

The energetic girl, seeing him distracted, planned to sneak up and scare him.

But as soon as she quietly approached Cheng Zhu like an assassin, he suddenly turned around with a deep and loud “Hmm—” startling Lin Lu.

“Ah! So annoying! Do you have eyes on the back of your head or something?” Lin Lu gritted her teeth.

“There’s a shadow on the ground.” Cheng Zhu pointed and said: “That shadow just now was too sneaky and creepy. I guessed it was you right away.”

“Go die! You’re the creepy one!” Lin Lu exclaimed angrily.

“Let’s go, let’s go in.” Cheng Zhu pointed at the fried chicken restaurant next door and then helped her open the door.

The owner of the fried chicken restaurant wasn’t there today, but the female employee recognized Cheng Zhu and Lin Lu, thinking to herself: “Ah! The little couple from the store next door is here!”

She had noticed them before; the girl was particularly beautiful and cute, and the guy was tall and handsome, looking quite well-matched.

The fried chicken restaurant was doing okay, with quite a few people coming in for takeout, but only a few dined in.

After they sat down, Cheng Zhu looked at her and said, “What do you want to eat? I’ll order.”

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“Just order whatever, I don’t eat much for dinner. All beauties have their own figure management, you know!” She propped her cheek with one hand, glancing at the various fried chicken combos hanging on the wall.

“Okay then.” Cheng Zhu stood up, then casually glanced at her and said, “You even put on earrings today. They look pretty good.”

On hearing this, Lin Lu slightly tilted her head and then raised a finger to lightly tap her earring, continuing to bask in her vanity, “It’s just a regular design. Perhaps my beauty adds extra points to it.”

Cheng Zhu smiled and went to order.

He hadn’t really paid much attention to the earrings; as someone who once ran a live broadcasting company with many female anchors dolling themselves up in the company makeup room, he could spot the changes in Lin Lu’s makeup and outfit at a glance.

“A girl’s careful dressing and attendance in full array actually affirms your handsomeness and charm. She’s heavily complimenting you with her beauty of the day.”

“Complimenting back is the least courtesy.” That’s what Cheng Zhu believed anyway.

In the end, Cheng Zhu ordered a sweet and spicy fried chicken meal and got two cans of soda.

He personally didn’t particularly like the self-brewed sodas in some small shops, feeling the taste was off.

Though the chicken from this shop was just okay, for a girl who paid attention to figure management, eating fried chicken once was like indulging herself.

And indulgence always brings joy.

So, Lin Lu was quite happy eating.

Well, it should just be because of that.

As it happened, this was their first time dining alone together, which, on some level, was equivalent to a first date.

Some people rack their brains over the venue for their first dates, even spending a lot of money to go to fancy places that they wouldn’t normally patronize.

Cheng Zhu thought that this approach wasn’t very wise.

Besides, if you set the bar too high from the start, some girls might think you’re getting less and less sincere later on.

Lin Lu was a very simple girl; she didn’t have much demand for the grade of the dining place.

She now had a soft spot for the arcade machine store and naturally considered the fried chicken restaurant as her neighbor by instinct.

The two of them had a dinner full of laughter and chatting.

But Cheng Zhu kept teasing her, and since her emotions were always written on her face, to others, it looked like they were constantly flirting.

“You’re really only eating this little?” Cheng Zhu asked.

“Yeah, it is fried chicken, after all!” Lin Lu still felt a bit greedy, but a beautiful girl had to learn to restrain herself.

Most slim girls who claim to be foodies are either sipping green tea or just pretending. Lin Lu knew she wasn’t the type who could eat anything without gaining weight, and those girls were few and far between.

“I was thinking of treating you to some milk tea, but since that’s the case, I’ll have to drink it alone later. However, you have to come with me to queue.” Cheng Zhu said.

“I’m not going with you. I’m going to drive away after this!”

“That won’t do. You have to accompany me to the arcade machine store to have a look. As the boss, I need to properly inspect the fruits of the supervisor’s labor.” Cheng Zhu spoke.

“Crazy, I’ve worked so hard, and you actually want to assess me!” Lin Lu was irritated again.

Ah, ah, ah! If I stay with him for too long, will I get mammary gland hyperplasia from the annoyingness?

My bust shape is very nice; I don’t want to have surgery.

“Come on, let’s go buy the milk tea, help us digest after the meal.” Cheng Zhu motioned her with a wave of his hand.

So, Cheng Zhu took Lin Lu to the milk tea shop and ended up ordering a cup for her as well.

“I really don’t want it!” Lin Lu frowned, feeling conflicted. You’re really testing me, you jerk!

“It doesn’t matter, it’s bought now so you can take it back to Shen Qingning later,” said Cheng Zhu, waving the issue aside and heading toward the arcade machine store.

Lin Lu initially held the straw, struggling inside. Suddenly, for some reason, she plunged the straw in.

She sipped a little milk tea, and her expressive eyes squinted slightly.

Eating fried chicken was already indulging, but following up with milk tea after fried chicken was downright breaking the fast.

—Living without discipline feels too good.

With a milk tea in one hand and her purse in the other, her small black leather shoes clicked against the street as she hurried to catch up with Cheng Zhu. Intentionally lagging two strides behind him, she stepped on the head of his shadow with each foot.

The lights in the ceiling of the arcade machine store weren’t fully installed, making it dark inside.

Cheng Zhu groped his way in and gestured to Lin Lu, saying, “Come on, hurry up!”

The voice actor girl hesitated to enter the gloomy interior and prepared to switch on the flashlight on her phone.

“Don’t turn it on, just follow me,” Cheng Zhu told her.

“Why?” Lin Lu was puzzled, but she obediently followed.

As soon as she entered the door, Cheng Zhu abruptly pulled down the rolling door.

The arcade machine store’s glass door had not been installed yet; there was only a rolling door.

Lin Lu was startled at first, then realized she was in an almost completely enclosed space with Cheng Zhu, and her heartbeat involuntarily accelerated.

In addition to that, the surrounding darkness made her a bit nervous and afraid.

“Why did you pull down the door?” Her voice grew quieter, and she felt a little overheated.

“You’ll know in a moment,” Cheng Zhu said. “Don’t move, stay here. It’s a bit messy inside, so be careful not to trip.”

After speaking, he made his way over to the wall.

“Click.” He flipped a switch, and the neon light patterns on both sides of the wall immediately lit up.

These had just been installed that afternoon, and Lin Lu had not yet seen them.

“Ah!” The sudden burst of colorful light flooded into her eyes.

These neon light strips forming patterns made the shop not pitch black anymore, but still not very bright.

They purely created an atmospheric effect.

Cheng Zhu walked over to Lin Lu and said, “Not bad, right?”

“Ah? Oh, yeah… it’s good,” she replied, nervous and uncertain in the dimly lit, enclosed shop, she quickly lowered her head to drink some milk tea.

“I just installed it this afternoon. You’re the first one to see it,” Cheng Zhu remarked.

“Oh, really!” Lin Lu looked around, giving every neon light in the shop a once-over.

“Anyway, once everything is done, the shop will certainly look quite nice,” Cheng Zhu said.

“Then I’ll look forward to it!” Lin Lu replied.

Cheng Zhu looked at her smiling face and those adorable dimples, then bent down and opened a drawer. He took out a glowing Crayon Shin-chan trinket.

“Here, it’s a gift from the neon light factory. I know you’re a serious Crayon Shin-chan fan. Do you want to keep this in the shop, or take it home?” Cheng Zhu said.

This was a clever question. It was clearly a gift for her, but yet he asked, “Do you want to take it home, or would you rather keep it here in the shop?”

He wasn’t presenting her with a choice; he was imparting significance to the shop.

If the shop had nothing to do with her, it shouldn’t be in the same choice category as home.

“Then… keep it in the store!” Lin Lu immediately made a decision.

The little arcade machine store thus had a personal token belonging to Lin Lu.

The voice actor girl was quite happy, looking at the glowing Crayon Shin-chan ornament, and imitated Crayon Shin-chan’s voice: “Hello, please treat me well, my name is Nozaki Shinichiro, I am five years old.”

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After leaving the store, Cheng Zhu suggested taking a look around.

Continuing down the street and crossing a road, there was a bustling area at night.

Knowing she had indulged too much today, Lin Lu also wanted to walk off some calories, so she nodded and agreed.

The two strolled slowly through the night, enjoying the cool breeze, feeling quite comfortable.

“Want to play?” When they passed a small stand with a dart-throwing game, Cheng Zhu noticed that Lin Lu took several glances.

“Not really, it’s just for kids.”

“How about we compete?”

“Well then, you are so losing! Let’s do this!”

Cheng Zhu, at a loss whether to laugh or cry at her words.

At such roadside stalls, if you throw darts and score high enough, you can exchange them for prizes.

Each got ten darts, and Cheng Zhu threw them slowly.

He really wasn’t good at this, but with each throw, he learned, carefully observing, and then trying something new with the next one, drawing conclusions.

Lin Lu didn’t care about angles, force, curves… Just throw them!

“Got it!”

“Got it!”

The voice actor girl even did her own sound effects, and since her hit rate was not high, she got louder and louder.

She quickly finished her ten darts and then counted her score, disappointedly saying, “Ah? I’m still three points short of the third-place prize…”

But before she even finished complaining, she couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, “Ah!”

Because she saw another dart suddenly shoot out from the side and hit her target!

A resigned male voice came to her ear: “Oh no, I missed my target.”

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