Chapter 2 Dinner Time

By the time Lu Xiaoyao could buy her boxed meals, it was already dinner time. This time, Lu Xiaoyao got her wish and bought a potato and beef brisket boxed meal and a Chinese chive and chicken cutlet boxed meal.

"This boxed meal looks kind of weird."

Everyone had basically bought the Chinese chive and chicken cutlet boxed meal in the morning, but like Lu Xiaoyao, they hadn't chosen to eat it right away. They all said it would take effect the night they ate it. Eating it directly without knowing who would be gone tonight would be a waste.

However, Lu Xiaoyao obviously didn't understand this. She simply felt that the main course combination was wrong, and she couldn't bring herself to eat it.

"This chive flavor is a bit strong..." After finishing the rich, savory, and soft potato and beef brisket boxed meal, Lu Xiaoyao glanced at the Chinese chive and chicken cutlet boxed meal and silently closed it. "I've decided to eat it later."

After returning from her date, Mingmei opened Lu Xiaoyao's livestream again. Looking at the Chinese chive and chicken cutlet boxed meal in the livestream, the comments section somehow started arguing about chives.

[Chives are so delicious, fragrant, and delicious when stir-fried with eggs! Little one, why don't you try a bite?]

[That's right, they're also delicious in dumplings and steamed buns! Why reject chives and fried chicken cutlet? Maybe it's an innovative dish?]

[Innovation is fine, but this is obviously not right! Deep-fried chicken cutlet stir-fried with chives? I can't imagine the taste!]

[Isn't that just stir-fried chives with fried chicken cutlet? What's so unimaginable about the taste?]

[Do you sprinkle chives when you eat fried chicken cutlet?]

[Chives are delicious, but the aftertaste...]

[Ugh, don't mention it, I hate that taste the most!]

A group of people argued endlessly about the new boxed meal, and Mingmei wondered how this boxed meal was invented.

[Oh my god, what was my uncle thinking when he designed this stir-fried chives and chicken cutlet?]

[I heard that the original main dish of the boxed meal was chives, but Mr. Yan added a piece of chicken cutlet to cater to everyone's taste.]

Mingmei: ...Okay, it feels so casual =. =

[Is there anything different about these chives?]

Mingmei's expression changed slightly. If chives were the main dish, then there must be something unusual about them.

[I heard that the data collection for these chives wasn't from interstellar cultivation, nor was it an Ancient Blue Star variety, but a mutated chive from a parallel plane. The fragrance is very strong.]

Listening to Gui Gui's description, Mingmei subconsciously felt that the strong fragrance he described might not be what ordinary people thought it was. With the addition of the words "parallel plane" and "mutation," Mingmei blinked her eyes, a sense of panic rising in her heart—it wasn't what she was thinking, was it?

…

Dinner time was also the time when the players exchanged glances like crazy.

Because after dinner, everyone would wander around again and then go upstairs to rest, so this was also the peak period for players to check the butlers' favorability towards them.

Lu Xiaoyao was also eager to try after just eating her boxed meal, but her mind wasn't completely muddled. She first asked Bai Xiao, and then Zhen Po, to see if they could exchange information.

Zhen Po was happy to talk to Lu Xiaoyao. It was bad enough that he wasn't in the same game as his brother this time, but the classmate he knew died on the first night.

Mu Chen didn't like to talk to people, and he wasn't familiar with Bai Xiao.

He was familiar with Lou Jia, but he didn't know him. He should have met Julian and the others in the game before, but he didn't know them either.

He had originally wanted to find Lu Xiaoyao today, but he didn't find her anywhere during the day, so he was very happy that Lu Xiaoyao was looking for him now to cooperate.

And because Bai Xiao had looked at Lu Xiaoyao once during the day, and then looked at herself, she only had one chance left. Therefore, she also agreed to Lu Xiaoyao's suggestion.

Getting some information from them would also help her deal with Mu Chen.

Thinking this, Bai Xiao swallowed the astringent wine and looked around to see the reactions of the others. Naturally, she also noticed Mu Chen's position—he had gone to the merchant Miss again.

Bai Xiao: =. =

This scene was actually a little bit cute?

During the lecture a while ago, Mu Chen and Mingmei, the one from his class who looked eight or nine parts similar to the merchant Miss in front of her, sat together almost every time. It was already easy to imagine their relationship. Now, looking at the game again...

Ah~ she suddenly missed her boyfriend a little.

…

"Are you sure you want to eat like this for dinner?"

On the other side, Mingmei noticed that Mu Chen was also eating strangely tonight.

He ate some chilled beer, fruit, and greasy meat, and now he wanted a glass of warm milk.

What kind of diarrhea combo was this?

"Yeah."

Mu Chen didn't explain much, just stared at the new hairstyle he had done for Mingmei in the afternoon, very satisfied.

Bright red roses pinned up Mingmei's ink-black hair, setting off Mingmei's face, which was white and translucent. Her face also looked more delicate and small than before, with bright eyes and white teeth. He almost didn't hear what the beauty's mouth was saying as it opened and closed.

"I was a little hungry during the day, so I plan to eat more at night." Mu Chen smiled, although he was explaining, Mingmei always felt that he wasn't telling the truth.

Just as Mingmei was thinking about his real purpose, she heard him lower his head and whisper in her ear, "Can I come find you at your place tonight?"

"Huh? Which night are you talking about?"

Mingmei didn't know why, but she subconsciously thought of the night after the game ended. To this, she heard Mu Chen chuckle, leaving only a sentence, "Wait for me."

Before Mingmei could ask him why, she saw Mu Chen take the warm milk back to his seat. At this time, Mingmei also saw Lou Jia, who was holding a plate, walking over, and the cook next to her was taking his order.

Along the way, his gaze inadvertently glanced at Mingmei. When he was walking back with the grilled meat on his plate, Lou Jia subconsciously checked the butler's favorability towards Mu Chen—[Mu Chen: 80 points (same taste as the owner)].

Mu Chen, unaware that his favorability was being checked, was also quietly selecting the people he wanted to see.

[Lu Xiaoyao: 87 points (a little girl who is blessed to be able to eat)].

[Julian: 78 points.]

[Bai Xiao: 74 points.]

Originally, he and Bai Xiao had agreed to look at Julian, himself, and Lou Jia.

However, Mu Chen didn't intend to cooperate with someone who started with something hidden.

Moreover, knowing Lu Xiaoyao's score, Mu Chen drank his milk and once again looked at Bai Xiao. He saw Lu Xiaoyao sitting next to her, chatting enthusiastically with Zhen Po next door.

Of the three of them, probably only Lu Xiaoyao was carefree.

Mu Chen watched as the other two passed messages back and forth around Lu Xiaoyao, and their appetites visibly decreased. At this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up...

After the end of the dinner party, Mingmei followed the cooks to clean up in the kitchen. Everyone was very curious about Mingmei's new hairstyle that afternoon.

Cook A: "Oh my god, Mingmei, how did you braid your hair? It's so pretty!"

Cook B: "Yeah, it feels so complicated, like the hairstyles of noble young ladies and madams."

"No, I'm not very good at it either..." Mingmei naturally felt a little happy in her heart that even the NPCs were praising the hairstyle that Mu Chen had done for her.

However, not everyone would say nice things. One of the cooks, C, said sarcastically, "You're all hicks. This hairstyle looks like it's from the Eastern country. I heard that there are many hairstyles for ordinary people there, nothing to be surprised about...

Even if you've hooked up with a candidate, so what? It sounds good to be a candidate, but isn't he just an illegitimate child? Before he made his fortune, he was just a hick!"