Underworld Player Chapter 23 - Broke! (▼皿▼#)

"...Street food? Really?"

Lin XiaoYi stared at the plate of fried noodles placed before her, then lifted her head, looking incredulous.

"Surely you didn't think I would splurge on a fancy meal at a restaurant just for you?" Bai Zhi rolled his eyes as he reached for a pair of chopsticks. "Come on, I'm just a poor boy from a poor family. Restaurants are all overpriced anyway, can't beat the value of a nice roadside stall!"

"But it's so hot out here..."

The sun was out in full force and it made Lin XiaoYi quite distressed.

"How about the small diner? They have air conditioning."

"'Kay, if you're paying." Bai Zhi didn't wait for a reply before starting on his food.

Lin XiaoYi was speechless. For the next hour. she struggled through the hardest meal of her life. She swore on her life that she had never had a meal quite so unforgettable.

Even though she'd put on a nice dress, and makeup, no less, and happily gone up to her crush to ask him out, not only did this lunch "date" do nothing to advance their relationship, it left her sweating buckets and worst of all, her date never looked directly at her the entire time...

The way he had treated her got her so boiling mad that, once she was back in the dorms, she furiously downed three bottles of water in a row to cool down.

All her life, she had been the one pursued, never the pursuer. She, who should have had no trouble reeling in a man, found herself unexpectedly foiled at every corner, her every attempt at romance nipped in the bud.

Despite the fiery passion with which Bai Zhi had pursued her before, he had done a 180, and now he acted as frigid as an iceberg.

"Argh... things can't go on like this..."

The one on the bed with her face firmly planted into her pillow was none other than our dear, thoroughly despondent campus belle.

"He's completely cut himself off from me after getting rid of that monster who was stalking me... Oh, did you have to be so harsh? Even if you're not loaded, I could share...!"

Lin XiaoYi's face darkened as she recalled the terrible

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