Chapter 27 - Complicated interpersonal relationship at the BBQ table. Want to eat you tonight.

For some reason, Qiao Ning knew in her heart that Chen Jun was not her husband, she was not a wife, and she didn’t do anything wrong to feel sorry for him, but at this moment, she felt inexplicably guilty.

She hesitated, “I was on the phone with a friend and Chen Jun, don’t come to pick me up today. I’m going out for dinner with my friend.”

“I’ve already arrived, which friend?” Chen Jun asked unintentionally. His heart was a little uneasy thinking if it could be that wolf cub with a savage heart* childhood friend from the other day.

“~Ah…it’s Huo Wenbin.” Qiao Ning hesitated for a moment and decided to tell Chen Jun the truth. The more she tried to conceal it, the stranger it felt.

But before Chen Jun could reply, Qiao Ning hurriedly continued, “He has already figured it out and doesn’t want to lose this friendship, so we have already agreed that we will remain good friends!”

“Well~ that’s good.” Chen Jun responded, but his heart was already stormy. Men knew men best. Huo Wenbin knew that he and Qiao Ning were not married. Now he was just executing a retreat in order to advance further tactics.

For a man who had liked a woman for that long, after confessing, they would never be willing to be just friends again.

“Since that is the case, as he is your childhood friend, he is also my friend. Let’s do this, I will treat him tonight. I beat up him the other day. Let this meal be the apology.”

These words were satisfactory and thoughtful. Qiao Ning couldn’t refuse, so she said, “Alright, I’ll come over to find you first. Then have Wen Bin head directly to the dining place. However, it seems that you don’t eat barbecue.”

When Chen Jun was in playing competitively, he could not eat many things. That included barbecue, so after retiring, he also did not have the habit of eating these things.

“It’s okay, I can eat lesser.”

What could he do? To prevent his wife from being abducted, let alone barbecue, and arsenic, he would also try.

After hanging up, Qiao Ning called Huo Wenbin again.

“Wen Bin, Chen Jun has arrived to pick me up. He wants to treat you to dinner tonight. Let’s meet directly at the destination, the Fatty Seafood BBQ.”

The line was silent for a moment, and he immediately replied in a relaxed tone: “Eh, that’s good, I’ll see you later.”

After hanging up the phone, Huo Wenbin’s face looked gloomy. The current situation of Chen Jun and Qiao Ning was no longer about whether they are a married couple or not. It was better than a husband and wife, if this continued, It was a matter of time before they went ahead to get the real marriage certificate. If he didn’t deal with this sooner, he would only lose her.

The three of them arrived at the barbecue restaurant and they chose to sit outside. After all, eating barbecue at night in the summer was only interesting if you ate the barbecue skewers and drank beer while enjoying the wind.

Chen Jun and Huo Wenbin shook hands, and they fake a smile and exchanged pleasantries. Qiao Ning was relieved, and she was naturally happy that the two could get along harmoniously.

After all, at present, these two men were the closest men to her other than her father.

“What are we eating? Shall I go and order?” Qiao Ning stood up happily and was going to order.

“What I enjoy eating, don’t you know best? Just order the same as before.” After Huo Wenbin finished speaking, he gave Chen Jun a meaningful look: “Ask Chen Jun, I don’t know what he eats.”

“Whatever you order, I will eat it. In our house, you have the final say.” Chen Jun responded easily.

“Sure, I’ll go order.” Qiao Ning didn’t hear the turbulent battle beneath the two’s calm words and went to the restaurant to order food at a leisurely pace.

As soon as Qiao Ning left, the two immediately wiped the fake smiles on their faces.

Huo Wenbin sneered and said: “Your family? Mr Shen, this pretending to be amnesias, have you started believing it already?”

“Then, as a friend, don’t Mr Huo feel that you are minding too much?” Chen Jun smiled lightly, deliberately aggravating the word friend.

The word friend made Huo Wenbin annoyed and angry. In his heart, it was clear that he and Qiao Ning were closer than just friends, but in just a dozen days, the situation was turned upside down. The level of closeness between the two of them was not better than a husband and wife. Even after the meal, he walked alone, they are together, and he could only settle for the second best. He had to settle for the identity of a friend for the two of them to reconcile. He was naturally angry.

“What about friends? She and I were childhood friends. I even bought sanitary napkins for her when she got her first period. We had a lot of history together. Can you compete?!”

Chen Jun leaned back in his chair, skillfully deflected with a smile, “The two of you are friends. We are husband and wife. These are different feelings, and there is no need to compare. So what if you bought her sanitary napkins when her first period came? The things I can tell you, I guarantee it will keep you furious and awake at night, but it’s not necessary, because I don’t need to compare with you.”

“You!” Huo Wenbin clenched his fists tightly, and the blue veins on his forehead loomed. When he saw that Qiao Ning had finished ordering and walked toward them, his face changed again.

“Did you order some oysters and lamb loins for me?” Huo Wenbin asked with a smile after Qiao Ning was seated.

“That’s for sure. How can I forget what you must eat every time you come? I ordered a lot today. After all, the capitalist is treating guests. We must maximise it!” Qiao Ning smiled and looked at Chen Jun, winking at him mischievously.

Chen Jun pinched her little face dotingly, and said with a smile, “Of course, didn’t I say in the morning you can spend my money however you want.”

Jealousy flashed across Huo Wenbin’s eyes. He joked, “You ordered so much, am I going to suffer in bed tonight?”

“Stop! Don’t say any more dirty jokes~” Qiao Ning hurriedly made a shush gesture.

“What? You guys used to make jokes like this?” With a smile on Chen Jun’s face, his heart felt a little uncomfortable.

“It’s all because of him! The first dirty joke told him. But I didn’t understand it at the time, and I didn’t react to it until later.”

“You still dare to say. After you started going to work and met those colleagues, you’re smoother with dirty jokes than me. Who was the one who teased me every day for being a hotel toothpaste*?” Huo Wenbin smiled and looked at Chen Jun and said, “I almost took off my pants to prove to her my innocence.”

“What about you, I was only joking with you, you took it seriously, and you even said that I’m Wangzai Xiaomantou*!!”

The two of them bartered, smiling brightly, and Chen Jun seemed to be an outsider at the moment.

After the skewered arrived, both of them ate with relish. Anything that Qiao Ning took a bite and said was not nice, Huo Wenbin would take it over and eat it, even if there were traces of Qiao Ning’s bite on the piece of meat.

Chen Jun was on pins and needles at the moment, and when his jealousy was almost no longer able to be concealed, Qiao Ning noticed that Chen Jun didn’t eat anything.

“Why don’t you eat? Was it not to your liking? Why don’t you order something you like?” Qiao Ning grinned widely as an afterthought.

“I’m not hungry, I want to eat something else at night.”

“What would you like to eat? Do you want to change to another store?” Qiao Ning opened her big watery eyes with a puzzled look on her face.

“You’ll know when you get home.” Chen Jun said with a wicked smile.

Qiao Ning didn’t understand this, but Huo Wenbin, who already knew about lust, naturally understood, and he couldn’t help the sour feeling in his heart. It was useless for him to argue!

“By the way, Ning Ning, how are you going to celebrate my birthday in two days? I arranged your birthday for you last year.”

“Don’t worry, I will take out all my assets and throw a good birthday for you. ”

Of course, her entire asset was less than ten thousand.

“It’s getting late, you have to go to work tomorrow, I’ll go get the check.” When Chen Jun couldn’t take it anymore, he got up and went to the store to pay the bill.

wolf cub with a savage heart (狼子野心 Lángzǐyěxīn) – refers to vicious and violent people, and their habits are hard to change. It is a derogatory term.

hotel toothpaste (酒店牙膏 Jiǔdiàn yágāo) – someone who brings women to hotels for sex regularly.

Wangzai Xiaomantou (旺仔小馒头 Wàng zǐ xiǎo mántou) – refers to women’s breasts being small.

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