Convincing the Foodie & Meng Xu’s Recovery

"If you are willing to."

Lu Haixuan looked firmly at him with his dark eyes. He would be willing to if Chu Haoling was agreeable, but Chu Haoling got terrified after hearing what he said, "Stop kidding, I didn't say that!"

As things were already embarrassing enough for him, he thought he could just go hang himself if they were to really get married.

"I'm not kidding, Chu, let's give it a try."

His eyes only had his reflection, and his seriousness was clearly conveyed to the other party.

"Seriously, Haixuan, you don't have to hold yourself responsible or feel bad. What happened last night wasn't a big deal."

Chu Haoling turned solemn at this moment, "I'll be frank with you. I've never planned to get into a romantic relationship. I'm actually very simple and I'm happy as long as I have food. Love is something that I can do with or without. Even if we get together, food will still be the most important thing to me, followed by the brothers who have fought together with me, and you'll be last. I'm sure you know that a relationship wouldn't last long if one party doesn't think of the other as the most important person in his heart? You may tell me that you don't mind and you can wait. Given my happy-go-lucky attitude, I wouldn't care less if it had been someone else, but I can't do that to you. This isn't only because you are Che's man and part of the Peak Squad, but also because we are friends. I can't do that to you, do you understand what I mean? Since we know that we won't last long, we shouldn't even start in the first place so that we won't end up being unhappy with each other."

Although Chu Haoling wasn't the youngest in Chaoyang, he was definitely the youngest in Xing Feng's squad. Everyone had spoiled him rotten and he even dared to talk back at Xing Feng. However, he was now trying very hard to make himself look mature and rational, because Lu Haixuan was younger than him and was the little brother whom he held in high regard.

"…now what else can I say? But my thinking is still the same, Chu, let's give it a try. How do you know that it's impossible if we don't even give it a try? I promise I won't have any bad feelings towards you even if we are not together in the end. I believe I'm not that petty."

Lu Haixuan was still firm in his decision after staring at him for a long time, for he wasn't one who would easily make changes to things that he had already decided on.

Rendered speechless by the other party's persistence, Chu Haoling was losing his maturity as well as rationality and decisiveness, "How could we just try a relationship for fun? That's enough, just get out of here since we can't come to an agreement, I need to rest."

Despite saying he was going to take a rest, he grabbed the potato chips on the coffee table and started biting them, as if they were Lu Haixuan.

"Chu, let's give it a try!"

But Lu Haixuan was really persistent. He placed his hands on the coffee table, moved his body over the coffee table, and stared at him with his deep eyes, as though forcing a positive answer out of him.

"Uh… please move away. Why should I try it out with you when you can't be eaten?"

Chu Haoling, whose back was pressed against the sofa because of his action, was completely dumbfounded. It was only at this moment that he knew exactly how stubborn Lu Haixuan was, and he wondered if his innocence in the past was just an act. With this thought, Chu Haoling couldn't help but silently criticize the Peak Squad members for being difficult to deal with.

"I can't be eaten, but I can get you lots of food."

Lu Haixuan seemed to have thought of something before he leaned closer and tempted him, "Don't you always want the food in Che's Space? Be it your favorite cucumber, tomato or all types of fruits, I can ask Che for them. Even if you want to have fish from the river or live exotic animals every day, I can get them for you. How does that sound, Chu, would you like to try it out with me?"

He finally figured out that it was useless trying to reason with Chu Haoling, and that it was better to tempt him with food. Seeing him drooling, Lu Haixuan knew that he was on the right track—the stubborn Chu Haoling had already wavered.

"R-really?!"

Chu Haoling had indeed wavered, for there was no way he could resist the delicious tomatoes from Yun Che's Space. He had previously managed to keep a basket of the tomatoes for himself in the Space. After finishing them, he had asked Yun Che for more but the latter simply refused to give him any. He had craved for them so much that he had gone to search for them in their refrigerator and hid whatever extras he had found in the Space, leaving Yao dumbfounded. Now it seemed like he stood to gain if he could have unlimited supply of them?

However, Chu Haoling seemed to have forgotten that while he was being satisfied with food he had to satisfy Lu Haixuan too!

"I won't lie to you about such things. Che treats us very well, he gives us whatever we request."

Lu Haixuan had no doubt about this, for Che wouldn't stinge on mere fruits and vegetables.

"Alright, we can give it a try, but let me warn you, don't throw tantrums at me if I really neglect you."

Food prevailed in the end, but Chu Haoling didn't forget to remind him about this. It wasn't because he had no confidence in Lu Haixuan, but because he had no confidence in himself. He felt that Lu Haixuan could never be more important than food to him.

"Alright, I shall live here from today then."

Lu Haixuan nodded and stepped back in satisfaction. Chu Haoling trembled when he heard what he said, "Live here? I've only agreed to try it out, I didn't say I wanna sleep with you."

Damn, his butt still hurt. How big was his d***? He felt that he was lucky to be still alive.

"What are you thinking? I said I'm gonna live here, not sharing a room with you."

Lu Haixuan couldn't help laughing. He merely felt that since they were already together, he would be letting him down if he continued sleeping in the same bed with Zeyu. Since there was an extra room here, he thought he should just move in, since the two squads were like one family anyway. He really hadn't thought about sleeping with him, but…

"If you want to, I would be more than happy to live together."

"Screw you. Don't even think about it. I'm used to sleeping alone."

Chu Haoling, who was already feeling a little embarrassed, blew up right away. Lu Haixuan showed a brilliant smile on his face and felt that Chu looked really adorable like this.

The chaotic day was finally over. For the next few days, Chaoyang and Peak Squad went out on missions as usual while Xing Feng was involved in the affairs of the institute. Yun Che, who had time on his hand, stayed at home with his sister, brother and nephew for two days and also helped to take care of Meng Xu. On the third morning, after coming back from exercising, everyone gathered in the living room instead of rushing for breakfast. Meng Xu, who was wearing a blindfold, was surrounded by them, and even Chenchen was holding his hand anxiously.

"I'm going to take it off, Xu, don't be nervous. It's okay if you still can't see, we will think of another way, alright?"

Meng Gang stretched out his trembling hand. Although it was just a blindfold, he didn't dare to remove it after a long time. Meng Xu couldn't help but laugh, "Just take it off, Brother, I'm not nervous."

His brother was the one who was nervous instead, but the kind Meng Xu didn't bust on him. He knew that his brother behaved this way because he doted on him, which was why he had no objection when his brother said that he wanted to take off the blindfold for him when he woke up in the morning, and he had been waiting patiently in the living room.

"I'm really going to take it off!"

Meng Gang looked up at everyone again. After making everyone wait anxiously for a long time, he still hadn't removed the blindfold. Everyone couldn't help rolling their eyes at him for making the atmosphere so tense.

"You're a man, stop dawdling and just take off the blindfold!"

With that said, Zhao Gang stretched out his hand and took off Meng Xu's blindfold. Everyone applauded him in silence, thinking that this was how a real man should be!

"Slowly, Xu, open your eyes slowly…"

Not bothering to argue with him, Meng Gang immediately squatted in front of Meng Xu anxiously. No one busted on him anymore, and everyone's attention was on Meng Xu, whose eyelids were moving as he tried to open his eyes. His long and thick eyelashes slowly moved upwards, showing his eyeballs bit by bit. Everyone held their breath, and Meng Gang was completely tensed up.

It was only when everyone saw that his eyeballs were no longer blood red that they started to loosen up, and his eyes looked normal when completely opened. Having not seen the sun for a few days, Meng Xu blinked in discomfort, saying only after a while, "Yes, I can see, I can see."

"Yay!"

"Thump…"

After Meng Xu announced happily and everyone gave each other high fives, there was suddenly the sound of a heavy object falling. Everyone turned their heads and were dumbstruck—Meng Gang actually fell to the ground because he was too tensed up. As the captain of the Peak Squad, Yun Che held his forehead helplessly and wondered why there were always weird characters in his team.

"Uncle Xu, what happened to Uncle Gang?"

The confused Chenchen asked after taking a look at Meng Gang, who had already gotten up with a grim face and feeling ashamed of himself. Chenchen had successfully won Meng Xu over during the past few days that he had stayed at home. Now that he could see, Meng Xu turned his head and pinched his cheek dotingy, "Nothing, my brother loves me too much."

Meng Xu was a considerate guy who would speak to cover up for his brother.

"But Xu, can you really see? Tell me, what is this?"

Meng Gang continued with his antics and squatted in front of him, showing two fingers. Even Meng Xu felt like busting on his brother for being silly, not to mention the others.

"Heh…you're so stupid, Uncle Gang, that's two."

"Haha…"

Before Meng Xu could think of how to answer him in a nice way, Chenchen covered his mouth and snickered before kindly announcing the answer. Everyone burst into laughter. Yun Che walked over, carried him up and gave him a kiss, "You're awesome, Chenchen. You're even smarter than Uncle Gang."

"Haha…"

Was that even a compliment? Everyone couldn't stop laughing. Meng Gang was dumbfounded when he finally realized his foolish behavior. However, Chenchen blinked and looked confused, wondering why his uncle praised him for knowing something that even kindergarten kids knew.

No matter how clever he was, it was impossible for him to know that Yun Che was in fact mocking Meng Gang by praising him.