Chapter 057
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Chapter 057 Let’s See Who Can Handle Spicy Food
After drinking three cups of juice, Lin Aoxue finally felt the spiciness in her mouth slightly diminish.
“How about this, if you say ‘I give up,’ I’ll order a non-spicy soup base for you. What do you think?” Su Rui said with a smug smile. The feeling of subduing Lin Aoxue was truly wonderful.
This expression, in Lin Aoxue’s eyes, looked incredibly despicable.
Lin Aoxue watched Su Rui eating with relish and truly wished she could push his head into the spicy hot pot and scald him for a good ten minutes to vent her anger.
Before Lin Aoxue could answer, they heard someone at the next table slam their palm down hard and shout angrily: “Bastard!”
This shout immediately drew the attention of everyone in the restaurant.
“This is absolutely outrageous! Is this how you treat a beautiful woman? Beautiful women need to be cherished. Don’t you understand such a simple principle? If no one else will be her protector today, then I will!”
It’s not that protagonists always encounter harassment or scene-disrupting whenever they dine with female leads. The real reason is that these women are simply too beautiful. Beauty brings trouble, and bystanders are either fools or perverts who can’t resist such temptation, creating unnecessary conflicts.
“Oh, this is interesting. Aoxue, see how powerful a beautiful woman’s appeal is? Men are attracted to you wherever you go. Should I congratulate you or should I congratulate you?” Su Rui rubbed his nose and said with a smile.
Lin Aoxue gave him a cold glance, then lowered her head, completely ignoring the newcomer. She had absolutely no interest in such matters anymore.
The table-slapper appeared to be in his thirties, with a burly build and a fleshy face. His hair was cropped short, and he wore a gold chain as thick as a pinky finger around his neck, along with a large gold watch and an extremely eye-catching gold ring. He looked like an uneducated nouveau riche. With so much gold combined together, his style couldn’t be more tacky.
“Brother, do you need something?” Su Rui looked at the burly man with the fleshy face. This guy was obviously hostile, but Su Rui still spoke with a smile, seemingly not taking him seriously at all.
“You ask what I need?” The nouveau riche looked greedily at Lin Aoxue, then with a face full of righteous indignation, berated Su Rui.
“Brother, would you like to join us and try this insanely spicy hot pot? Why don’t you sit down and eat with us? Meeting makes us friends. As Confucius once said, isn’t it delightful to have friends coming from afar?”
The fleshy-faced nouveau riche slammed the table again and said, “Nonsense! Is this how you treat a beautiful woman? Look at this beauty, so lovely and delicate, truly a sight that moves me to pity. Yet you force her to eat such spicy food while enjoying yourself. Do you have any kindness in your heart at all?”
“A sight that moves me to pity.” For some reason, hearing such sappy words from this fat man’s mouth made Su Rui feel intensely nauseated.
This guy was born to disgust others!
Su Rui looked at him with mockery on his face and said, “I don’t care whether I’m kind or not, so why should you give a damn!”
These four words were learned directly from Lin Aoxue, applied immediately after learning.
The fleshy nouveau riche became even more furious: “Look at you! How dare you speak so rudely in front of a beautiful woman? Where are your manners? Are you even a man?”
After saying this, he turned to Lin Aoxue, politely took out a business card, and bowed as he handed it to her, saying, “Beautiful lady, I’m the owner of the Dicote Bar across the street. If you’d like, you could come sit at my table instead of staying with this rude, ill-mannered brute. What do you think? We might even have some further interaction!”
The last sentence was full of suggestive meaning.
He called Su Rui rude, but if he stood side by side with Su Rui, it would be hard to tell which one was ruder.
Lin Aoxue glanced at him and was about to answer, but then she caught sight of Su Rui’s mischievous smile. So our Miss Lin, unusually quick-witted, said, “You should ask for his opinion.”
The “his” Lin Aoxue referred to was naturally Su Rui.
“Oh my, you’re actually asking for my opinion?” Su Rui was extremely pleased. Since when did the little Miss Lin start consulting him?
This feeling was incredibly satisfying!
Su Rui looked at the fleshy-faced brother and said, “Do you think I would agree? My girlfriend is so beautiful, and you want me to let her go to your table? Do you think that’s safe? You’re so ugly, obviously a hooligan and a scoundrel. Do you think I want to be cuckolded?”
When Lin Aoxue heard the words “cuckolded,” her face darkened again. Since meeting Su Rui, her face had been darkening more and more frequently. She had tried to set a trap for Su Rui but ended up falling into it herself. In verbal sparring, Lin Aoxue would never be a match for Su Rui in this lifetime!
“Fine, let’s have a competition. If I win, this beauty comes to my table and won’t have to endure your mockery and humiliation anymore. What do you say?”
“Mockery and humiliation?” After hearing these words, Su Rui looked at Lin Aoxue with surprise and said, “Sister Aoxue, have I humiliated you? That word doesn’t seem very appropriate, it’s not accurate.”
The burly man didn’t seem very patient: “Hurry up and set your terms. How shall we compete? Money, manpower, or fighting? I’ll compete with you in any way, as long as you’re willing. I’m confident I’ll win!”
This bar owner’s name was Zhang Hao. He had achieved some success in recent years and made quite a bit of money from his bar. The main reason was that he had been paying tribute to Li Yang’s gang for several years. With gangsters providing protection, no one dared to cause trouble, and business naturally flourished.
As a result, he had been increasing his tribute to Li Yang each year, as the money was well spent.
Of course, men tend to go bad when they get rich. The majority of men, after acquiring wealth, develop a fondness for playing with women.
He hadn’t expected to encounter Lin Aoxue while casually going out for hot pot. Zhang Hao had played with many women—white-collar workers, college students, and promiscuous women—but he had never seen a woman with such cold elegance. Her exquisitely beautiful face and noble, iceberg-like temperament were a perfect match.
The moment he saw Lin Aoxue, Zhang Hao had the impulse to snatch her away and make her his woman.
If Lin Aoxue heard such thoughts, she would probably deliver a fierce knee strike to this guy, rendering him impotent for the rest of his life.
“Really? You’ll compete however I suggest?” Su Rui looked at the man with an ambiguous smile.
As the saying goes, beauty brings trouble. Having a beautiful woman by your side always attracts unnecessary problems. That’s why men shouldn’t find wives who are too beautiful—it brings too many unnecessary troubles.
Zhang Hao was very confident. He did have a lot of money, more than the average man could match. Looking at Su Rui, this pretty boy dressed in ordinary clothes, he was probably just a moderately wealthy man, no match for himself!
Su Rui smiled and said, “Let me confirm once more: if you’re a real man, don’t back down. You’ll agree to whatever challenge I propose.”
Nonsense, when encountering a girl who moved his heart, he naturally wouldn’t back down.
Zhang Hao slammed the table, appearing magnanimous: “Fine, let’s compete today. I’ll take on whatever you suggest, absolutely no backing down!”
“Alright, you said it, don’t go back on your word.”
Su Rui smiled mischievously, pointing at the red soup base still steaming on the table, and said with a grin: “Let’s do this: we’ll see who can drink this insanely spicy soup base. For the first round, let’s start small—three cups each! How does that sound?”
Three cups each of the insanely spicy soup base!
This soup base was super insanely spicy!
A nearby waiter, upon hearing this, felt the world had gone mad. He had specifically instructed the chef to make the already extra-spicy soup base several times spicier. Normal people couldn’t even handle dipping food in it, let alone drinking it straight. Wouldn’t that drive someone crazy with spiciness?
Zhang Hao’s eyelid twitched involuntarily. He looked at the steaming soup base, smelling the spicy aroma in the air, and felt somewhat intimidated!
Could this soup really be drunk? Would something bad happen if he drank it?
Indeed, just smelling the aroma in the air, Zhang Hao could tell it was extremely spicy. But what man would back down in front of a beautiful woman he admired?
If he surrendered before the battle even began, it would be too humiliating! He had initiated this confrontation, and if he backed out now, he might as well commit suicide. His bar would become a laughingstock!
The people around, hearing Su Rui’s words, all gathered to watch, eager to see the two men compete by drinking the insanely spicy soup base. Many began taking photos with their phones, and some even started recording videos!
People nowadays love to watch spectacles. Drinking three cups each of this insanely spicy soup base was unimaginable. Encountering such an exciting event during a meal out was truly thrilling!
Su Rui had already picked up a ladle and glass, filling three cups each for himself and Zhang Hao, placing them on the table. He said, “Well, will you drink or not? Whether you drink quickly or slowly, as long as you finish these three cups, I won’t consider you defeated. How about it?”
In the transparent glasses swirled a bright, eye-catching red liquid.
“I’ll drink! Do you think I’m afraid of you? Beautiful lady, remember our agreement—if I beat this guy, you’ll have to come eat at my table!”
Zhang Hao looked at Lin Aoxue, hoping to get some encouragement from her, but Lin Aoxue just gave him a cold glance before lowering her head, seemingly completely uninterested in the competition on the table!
Didn’t Lin Aoxue realize she was the prize in this contest? This woman was really something—a face like an iceberg, no one knew what she was thinking, always expressionless.
Su Rui made it sound easy, but these three cups of insanely spicy soup base could choke someone to death if drunk carelessly. Just a drop of spicy oil entering the windpipe could torture someone to the brink of death!
Su Rui picked up a glass and gave Zhang Hao a challenging look. Almost as if drinking water, he tilted his head back, and a glass of hot, bright red soup went straight into his stomach!
The way he drank it so smoothly, it was like drinking ice-cold beer on a summer day!
