"Is there anything you want to eat?"
Qiqi didn't know who the people were having dinner with tonight. It was also the first time for her to go to such a social venue with him. She whispered: "Can I still order food?"
He looked at her: "As long as you want, there's nothing you can't do."
Qiqi thought for a while: "There is nothing in particular that I want to eat."
Huo Shaoting no longer asked her: "Well, then just eat whatever you want."
Afterwards, the car arrived at a high-end restaurant near the school. Qiqi followed him into the elevator. Huo Shaoting's secretary was in the elevator, so Qiqi just stood beside him quietly while his eyes fell on the elevator door.
Qiqi raised her face just in time to see his eyes looking at her on the elevator door. She immediately looked away and lowered her eyes in panic. On the contrary, Huo Shaoting was quite calm.
After the elevator door opened, Huo Shaoting was the first to go out. Qiqi followed him at the reminder of the secretary.
Qiqi thought it was a simple social dinner and she could leave after eating. However, when she followed him into the box and saw the teacher and dean in the room, Qiqi immediately stopped.
Huo Shaoting, who was walking in front of her, stopped and looked back at her. Qiqi tried her best to behave naturally and sat down next to Huo Shaoting.
Huo Shaoting did regard this meal as an ordinary social meal, because she was busy recently and he was near their school, so it was as simple as having a meal together.
Seeing her nervous look, he whispered to her: "It's nothing, just eat whatever you want. After you finish eating, you can go back to the laboratory. Don't worry about anything."
Qiqi didn't know in what capacity she was sitting next to him today, and she was still in front of the dean and teachers.
But how could the dean and teachers not know her identity? From the last rumor to now, they already knew her relationship with that person.
Upon Qiqi's appearance, the dean took the initiative to say hello to Qiqi: "Miss Li, let me toast you. As for drinking, you can drink as you wish."
While Qiqi was stupidly beside Huo Shaoting, the dean had already drank a glass of wine.
A glass of wine, straight down the stomach.
Qiqi didn't know how to react at all. Huo Shaoting, who was sitting aside, watched all this and came to her rescue: "Today is just a simple meal. You don't need to pay too much attention to her."
The dean heard what he said and smiled: "Yes, yes, the people who can be brought over by Mr. Huo are naturally very important people. Of course we dare not neglect them."
The dean spoke very politely.
Huo Shaoting also exchanged greetings: "She is a student of your school. She should be the one to toast you, but she can't drink. If you are the dean, please forgive me."
The dean immediately replied: "Mr. Huo, you don't have to be so polite. How dare we let Miss Li drink."
Huo Shaoting smiled lightly. After the dean sat down, although he said before that he didn't need to pay too much attention, he still asked the manager here to bring the menu to Qiqi and said to Qiqi by the way: "Myself point."
Qiqi never thought that one day she would sit in front of the dean to eat, and be toasted by him. She could not even move the glass.
After Qiqi was silent for a few seconds, she took it from his hand.
Huo Shaoting didn't look at her again.
But at this time, a teacher at the table said: Miss Li has excellent grades in our school, and she is worthy of being Miss Li Nai's sister. "
Huo Shaoting didn't respond when he heard this.
Another teacher added: "Miss Li Nai was among the best in our school many years ago. She is a perfect match with Mr. Huo. Moreover, Miss Li Nai plays the piano very well. She is the highlight of the school party every year."
Listening to the teacher's words, Huo Shaoting seemed to be reminiscing about something. He picked up the wine glass on the table and took a sip of wine: "It was indeed many years ago."
The teacher continued: "Miss Li's piano must not be weak, and she must have the same style as my elder sister.
Qiqi knew nothing about the piano. She was not a very artistic person. She felt that she was confused at this moment. She had always been the inconspicuous one at home, but she was praised so much.
Of course, she knew very well that these people who praised her were only because of her sister Lina.
Just when they were about to continue praising Qiqi around Li Nai.
Huo Shaoting interrupted them with a dull look: "Although Qiqi is Li Nai's sister, she is not good at piano. Everyone has their own advantages. There is no need to force similarities."
The teachers suddenly realized something when they saw Huo Shaoting's face, and they all lost their voices.
Huo Shaoting's face showed a hint of displeasure, but it was not obvious. He quickly changed the subject: "Let's skip the matter and talk about other things."
Qiqi lowered her head and squeezed the hands between her legs.
Those teachers didn't know what taboo they had stepped on, but after realizing that they seemed to have said the wrong thing, they did not dare to look at Qiqi again, so they changed the topic to the donation. The atmosphere was worse than Qiqi imagined. It's a lot easier.
Sitting aside, Qiqi, who was tensed up, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the dean and teacher's eyes and topics no longer focused on her, and her shoulders, which had always been heavy, gradually relaxed.
Inexplicably, a sense of inferiority pressed on her again.
The meal lasted until ten o'clock in the evening, and Qiqi was unable to go to the laboratory because she couldn't find a chance to tell the people around her. If she didn't, Huo Shaoting didn't mention it either.
Of course, she didn't say much after that meal. She just sat quietly aside, as if she didn't exist.
After the meal was over, Huo Shaoting took Qiqi into the car after greeting the deans.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the night breeze was very cold. After getting into the car, Huo Shaoting leaned on the chair with his eyes closed.
Qiqi also sat quietly aside, not making any sound, until the person next to her asked her: "It seems that I am really busy during this period. Didn't I say that I was going to the laboratory tonight? Why don't you want to go? ?”
The lies Qiqi told during this period were instantly exposed by him.
She kept her face tense and silent, not looking at him.
But Huo Shaoting stretched out his hand and raised her face to his.
After Qiqi was caught in his hand, she could only follow his movements and look up at him.
Huo Shaoting also looked at her and whispered: "I just want to have a meal with you. Is it so difficult?"
When he said this, his voice was slightly hoarse and slightly ambiguous. There was something in it that Qiqi couldn't catch.
She wanted to push his hand away, but as soon as it fell on his, he said again: "You are no worse than anyone else, don't you know?"
When Qiqi heard this, she grabbed his hand and suddenly stopped.
Huo Shaoting knew that she had not spoken since then because the school directors' words had made her feel timid and inferior, and he did not want her to be surrounded by these emotions.
His fingers caressed her cheek, very gently.
"You are nothing like Lina, so you don't need to stand under her halo."
As soon as he lowered his head, the distance between the two of them was extremely close, and his breath swept Qiqi's face with the smell of alcohol.
