Su Yao’s sudden move made Lin Qing’s whole body go stiff.

He never imagined she’d actually do it!!!

What was this woman trying to do?!

Even if she wanted to get Nurse Li Mei’s attention, she didn’t have to go this far. There were plenty of other ways to attract someone!

“I’ve lost my appetite.”

But just as Lin Qing’s body went rigid, one of the two people talking at the next table suddenly threw down his chopsticks.

The clatter was loud enough to draw the attention of several nearby tables. The nurses sitting behind Su Yao and Lin Qing noticed it too.

“Hey, miss, if you don’t mind, how about we get to know each other?”

Judging by his clothes alone, the yellow-haired guy who’d thrown down his chopsticks looked like a street thug. Instead of leaving the cafeteria, he plopped down across from Su Yao and fixed her with an unmistakably leering stare.

He’d come in for a follow-up on the knife wound in his chest, then planned to teach those stubborn tenants who’d dared hurt him a lesson. But the hospital said they wouldn’t have the results until midnight.

So the yellow-haired guy had no choice but to wait around, annoyed, and grab a quick meal in the cafeteria with his buddy. He hadn’t expected to run into such a pretty girl.

Sure, she already had a boyfriend, but a weakling like that could be knocked into his coffin with one punch.

Useless and nothing to look at.

She’d be better off with him!

He’d make sure she had the time of her life~

“Darling, you’re hungry, aren’t you? Let’s eat first. Mwah~”

Whether she was just putting on an act or indulging in some mischievous fun of her own, Su Yao wrapped an arm around the stiff-as-a-board Lin Qing and kissed him again.

She completely ignored the yellow-haired guy across from her, gazing at Lin Qing as if he were the only one in the world.

Being ignored made the yellow-haired guy see red. Women usually groveled at his feet, the shameless lot. How dare this little brat ignore him!

He wanted to flip the table right then and show her what happened when she crossed him!

You couldn’t go easy on women. Give them a beating and they’d learn their place!

The person who’d originally been sitting across from Lin Qing saw trouble brewing and immediately picked up his bowl, eating faster.

It felt like a fight was about to break out. Better finish eating and get out of here!

You could run into this kind of thing even in a hospital. Those annoying thugs really were everywhere!

“You’re so easily embarrassed. It’s adorable! All right, I’ll feed you~”

Ignoring the yellow-haired guy’s sour expression, Su Yao kept fawning over Lin Qing. But just as she was about to open the lunchbox, the yellow-haired guy ‘accidentally’ swung his hand and knocked it straight to the floor.

The purple wooden lunchbox hit the floor and shattered into pieces, instantly drawing everyone in the cafeteria’s attention.

Since the usual approach wasn’t working, he’d have to try something less conventional.

What happened next didn’t disappoint the yellow-haired guy.

“Oops, I’m really sorry. How about adding me on WeChat, miss? I’ll pay you back.”

When Su Yao finally looked his way, the yellow-haired guy perked right up and spoke with a big, cheeky grin. He even held up his phone with WeChat open, hoping to add her as a friend on the spot.

She was way too pretty to just let her go!

“Huzi, cut it out. We need to leave, now! You—”

“Get lost! She hasn’t added me yet. Don’t ruin this for me.”

But before Su Yao could say anything, the person who’d been sitting beside the yellow-haired guy hurried over with an anxious look and started pulling him to his feet.

As he spoke, he glanced at Su Yao. Unlike the yellow-haired guy’s leering stare, his was tinged with panic.

But after going this far, how could the yellow-haired guy let his prize slip away?

He shook his companion’s hand off and kept grinning at Su Yao.

“You’re going to pay me back? Great! I was just wondering whether I should call the police.”

“I’m a law-abiding citizen. Since I knocked it over by accident, of course I’ll take full responsibility… Why do you keep tugging at me? Let go, or I’ll get angry.”

As he spoke, the yellow-haired guy shot his companion a vicious glare.

The message in his eyes was clear: Don’t ruin this for me!

“Uncle Li, I’ll leave what happens next to you. I’m so upset today—my darling’s been left hungry… Once this is all taken care of, let’s go to Sakura no Mi and get a Japanese set meal. The most expensive one~”

But things didn’t go the way the yellow-haired guy had expected. Su Yao suddenly turned to her left with a sorrowful expression and spoke.

The yellow-haired guy instinctively looked over—and immediately spotted a burly man in a black suit.

His hands were calloused, and a knife scar stood out clearly on his cheekbone.

The cold, bone-chilling gaze he turned their way was even more intimidating.

Years of experience on the streets told the yellow-haired guy this man was no pushover!

Just then, his companion tugged at his sleeve and gestured toward the floor beside them.

This time, the yellow-haired guy didn’t ignore him. He quickly lowered his head and looked.

Among the pieces of the shattered lunchbox lay a huge, luxurious lobster, nestled among all kinds of ingredients.

The lobster alone was worth a fortune, and that was before you even counted all the ingredients he couldn’t identify.

Was this dinner?

More like eating gold!

The lunchbox must have drawn everyone’s attention when it hit the floor because that lobster was impossible to miss.

And he was the only one who hadn’t known…

The yellow-haired guy stared at the lunchbox, dumbfounded, realizing he’d really messed up this time.

Just looking at those precious ingredients, he knew he couldn’t afford them.

He’d probably have to work all year just to pay for that meal.

“Oh, and my favorite part was the little-leaf rosewood lunchbox. It had master-level carvings, so it cost over a hundred thousand yuan… I wanted to make something delicious for my darling, so I used one of my treasured lunchboxes. Who knew…”

As everyone gasped at the price of the lunchbox, Su Yao’s face filled with sadness as she spoke. She threw herself into Lin Qing’s arms, seeking comfort.

Lin Qing had only just returned to normal, but now he was frozen in Petrification again.

“Miss, please don’t be upset. I’ll have the other bodyguards go to Sakura no Mi and bring a meal to your hospital room right away. Please leave as soon as you can, so you don’t have to stay here and feel worse.”

After the black-clad giant appeared and spoke respectfully, he turned his head toward the yellow-haired guy and his companion, looking at them coldly. He had the kind of natural authority that could scare a child to tears.

The yellow-haired guy’s legs started trembling. He knew he was completely finished this time.

At first, he’d thought he’d only have to pay for an extremely expensive meal. Now he knew the lunchbox was ridiculously expensive too.

Even if he sold himself, he couldn’t come up with over a hundred thousand yuan!!!

“Sniff… Okay…”

Still playing the role of a delicate little flower, Su Yao didn’t refuse the bodyguard’s offer of comfort. She took Lin Qing’s hand and rose from her seat.

Without saying a word the entire time, Lin Qing used the moment he stood up to glance toward the nurses’ table from the corner of his eye.

He saw three black skulls above Li Mei’s head, their mouths wide open as they struggled and screamed. Her eyes were blood-red, like fresh blood.

She was utterly furious.

She was even angrier than the last two times.