"Are you just treating me to this to celebrate?"

Chen Cheng looked at the hot pot restaurant's sign and laughed, feigning annoyance.

Qiao Xichen lifted her chin and said coquettishly, "Nanmen Shuanrou is very famous, you know."

"It's super hard to get a table."

Chen Cheng glanced at her. "Is that so?"

Qiao Xichen nodded quickly and showed Chen Cheng the number she had just taken on her phone. "Look, we came right after work, and we still have to wait for twenty minutes."

Wait in line?

Chen Cheng clicked his tongue. Oh well, since they were already here.

Under normal circumstances, Chen Cheng wouldn't eat at a place like this.

Mostly because whenever he goes out to eat now, he doesn't have to book the restaurant himself.

The two found a bench to sit on, and Qiao Xichen hugged Chen Cheng's arm and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Let me lean on you for a bit, I'm so tired."

"I was so excited when I got promoted this morning."

"But by the afternoon, I was too tired to even speak."

Chen Cheng smiled. "Didn't they promote you to supervisor?"

"Didn't they assign anyone to work under you?"

"In management, you have to learn to delegate tasks to others."

"You just need to clarify the direction and control the key milestones."

"Hmm," Qiao Xichen shook her head. "This current project is very important, and I've been doing it from start to finish."

"If I dump it on someone else now and something goes wrong, I might get fired as supervisor before my seat is even warm."

Chen Cheng's smile brightened as he glanced at her.

Silly girl, even if Jiang Han, the CEO, gets fired, your position as supervisor would still be rock solid.

A waiter came over to pour them tea and handed them the menu.

Qiao Xichen took the menu and, while looking at it, asked for Chen Cheng's opinion. "What do you want to eat?"

"Today, this supervisor is paying, so eat to your heart's content."

Chen Cheng looked at her grinning face and felt quite happy himself.

It was rare for Qiao Xichen to treat someone.

Among her four sisters, she was notoriously stingy.

Chen Cheng took the menu and looked at it, not holding back at all.

"Fresh-cut lamb, lamb belly, fresh-cut lamb shank, beef chuck, snowflake fatty beef."

"Hey, hey, hey, that's too much," Qiao Xichen said, seeing him order a plate of snowflake fatty beef costing over three hundred, feeling a pinch in her heart.

Chen Cheng didn't care. "Isn't that what you said? 'Eat to your heart's content today, this supervisor is paying.'"

Qiao Xichen tried to suppress a smile. "Fine, fine, since we're here."

"Then I'll have some shrimp paste and this baked sesame cake."

"The cakes are ordered by the piece. Do you want one?"

"This is their specialty, crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, soft and delicious, with a strong sesame flavor."

"Shall we get two?"

Chen Cheng readily agreed and nodded. "Okay, I'll listen to Supervisor Qiao."

Qiao Xichen couldn't stop grinning and waved her hand pretentiously. "Oh, you're too kind, you're too kind."

Chen Cheng smiled slightly. This girl was actually quite fun.

After ordering, they waited for a while before going in.

"This is an old establishment; it's been open since the eighties."

"It's just because of the special circumstances this year, with no tourists from out of town, otherwise we'd have to wait for several hours."

After they went in, Qiao Xichen looked at the other diners and introduced the place a bit.

The hot pot arrived quickly.

The two chatted and laughed while eating for a while.

Chen Cheng steered the conversation to her roommate.

"I heard you say your new roommate is hard to get along with?"

Mentioning this new roommate, Qiao Xichen was speechless.

She nodded. "Yeah, being unhygienic is one thing."

"But she also brings her boyfriend over."

"Originally, the two of them being shameless in the living room didn't bother me."

"But then her boyfriend wouldn't even wear clothes."

Once she started, Qiao Xichen couldn't stop.

"He doesn't close the door when using the bathroom."

"And he drips on the toilet seat."

"When I complained to her, she actually said, 'I'm letting you see my boyfriend for free, and I'm not even charging you.'"

"With a figure like a beanpole, I don't know how she has the nerve to say that."

"It really makes me so angry."

Chen Cheng chuckled. "So if her boyfriend had a good body, then it would be okay to look?"

"Uh..." Qiao Xichen's face turned beet red. She looked at Chen Cheng and said with a smile, "Well, no matter what, he wouldn't have a better body than my boyfriend."

Chen Cheng smiled. "That's more like it."

Qiao Xichen had a bright smile on her face, and her eyes were filled with affection as she looked at Chen Cheng.

This guy's body was truly impeccable.

Pectorals, abs, V-taper, solid waist.

Whew.

Chen Cheng raised his drink and said with a smile, "Come, congratulations to our Qiao Supervisor on her promotion, may you have a brilliant future."

As he spoke, Chen Cheng asked, "Does this mean I'll be basking in the glory of being a 'leader's spouse' from now on?"

Qiao Xichen's smile didn't fade. She clinked her glass with his, lifting her chin playfully. "Thanks, Xiao Chen, you can definitely bask in it."

Who knew Chen Cheng would suddenly say cheekily, "Only bask?"

Huh?

Qiao Xichen blushed instantly and nervously looked around.

Seeing no one noticed, she felt a little relieved.

She said coquettishly, "Oh, what are you saying."

"Hahaha~"

Seeing her bashful appearance, Chen Cheng laughed out loud.

Qiao Xichen's chest heaved, and she picked up her chopsticks, pretending to hit him, threatening, "Laugh again and see what happens."

Chen Cheng didn't continue teasing her and took a sip of his drink.

The two ate for another half hour, finished all the meat Chen Cheng ordered, and then Qiao Xichen went to pay the bill.

Chen Cheng never had the habit of fighting to pay when someone else was paying.

He didn't care about that.

They got into the car, and Chen Cheng turned his head to ask, "Do you know how to drive?"

Qiao Xichen blinked and nodded gently. "I have a driver's license, but I'm basically a 'paper driver'."

"I haven't really driven since I left driving school."

Chen Cheng said with a chuckle, "Then you should practice when you have time; you can't be a road menace."

"Hmm," Qiao Xichen didn't realize Chen Cheng had an ulterior motive and just nodded.

Chen Cheng drove toward the destination, and Qiao Xichen suddenly asked:

"Where are we going? It looks like the direction of the World Trade Center."

Chen Cheng turned his head. "To your place. You know my capability; it wouldn't be good if I disturbed your roommate and made her boyfriend feel inferior."

"Let's go to my place instead."

Qiao Xichen blushed instantly.

Although they didn't explicitly state what they were going to do after celebrating, there was no need to say it.

Having tasted the sweetness, Qiao Xichen also had that intention.

Besides, after eating, one naturally needs to exercise, otherwise it's easy to gain weight.

"Then where is your place?"

This guy wouldn't even tell her his name. Now he was taking her home; Qiao Xichen felt a little flutter in her heart.

Chen Cheng smiled faintly. "You'll know in a moment."