145: Eighth blind date

"I'm here. Where should we meet?"

Stopping in the mall's underground parking garage, Chen Qiu sent a message to Cheng Yun.

This time, a reply was received quickly.

"Come over here."

She immediately sent an address.

"'Half a Word of Gossip'... is that a bar?

Chen Qiu raised his eyebrows in surprise.

She said 'get a drink,' but she actually meant alcohol?

This was somewhat outside Chen Qiu's expectations.

After all, what decent person takes a blind date to a bar for drinks on their first meeting!

And after drinking, they still have to watch a movie.

Wouldn't it be close to midnight after the movie?

If he drank, driving the car would be inconvenient.

Wouldn't they have to get a room right there?

If they got a room, wouldn't they have to... As Chen Qiu pondered this, he realized, what kind of blind date pace was this?

This was clearly a routine used by guys to trick young girls into hitting a home run!

"Is she the speedrun type, trying to seal the deal right away?"

Chen Qiu recalled Wang Yi, the Flight Attendant who could fly anywhere in the country that afternoon.

He had to admit, the girls He Ting introduced were quite something.

The routine was completely different from previous blind dates!

"I hope this one's requirements can also meet Wang Yi's standards."

Chen Qiu secretly looked forward to it.

The bar wasn't located inside the mall, but rather on a nearby street, a few hundred meters away.

Chen Qiu therefore didn't drive over.

Since he was going to drink and would likely return to the mall to watch a movie later, he simply walked over.

Five minutes later.

Chen Qiu arrived at the bar named Half a Word of Gossip.

Bars generally seem to follow an artistic style, and this one was no exception.

It had a wooden sign, plants decorating the entrance, and a small standing easel listing the special drink of the day and the resident singer for 8:30.

"You must be Chen Qiu?"

Just as he reached the entrance, a slightly hoarse, deep, and magnetic, sexy smoky voice came from the side.

He turned his head to look.

A mature beautiful woman, 165cm tall, wearing a wool coat, with seductive makeup and long, wavy red hair, was staring at him with a smiling gaze.

It was Cheng Yun.

"Hello, Miss Cheng."

Chen Qiu paused for a moment before speaking to greet her, a touch of emotion flashing in his eyes.

He wondered where He Ting had found these two girls.

Their looks were surprisingly almost identical to their photos.

However, the current Cheng Yun's style of dress and temperament were quite a contrast to the photo.

So much so that Chen Qiu didn't even recognize her immediately.

"Did I surprise you?"

Cheng Yun seemed quite pleased with Chen Qiu's reaction, stepping forward with a light chuckle.

"Yes, your personal style is quite different from the photo."

If he remembered correctly, the photo He Ting sent showed Cheng Yun dressed more like a Sweet Girl.

He hadn't expected the real person to exude the aura of a mature beautiful woman, complete with a smoky voice.

She looked like a Scumbag Girl who indulged in smoking and drinking in private.

"That was a photo I took a few years ago right after graduation."

"You don't think I'm deceiving you with a fake photo, do you?"

It looks like you've been through a lot in the past two or three years.

Chen Qiu shook his head.

"Alright, let's go inside."

Cheng Yun led Chen Qiu into the bar.

Chen Qiu had been to places like this bar a few times before.

It wasn't anything new; it was just a place to have a few drinks with friends, sit down, and chat and laugh.

Essentially, it wasn't much different from those generic bubble tea shops in small towns where Spiritual Youth gathered to play cards and leech off the WiFi.

Except one serves bubble tea, and the other serves alcohol.

One target audience is Spiritual Youth, and the other is niche artistic youth.

The bar's lighting was dim, and the space wasn't particularly large.

At a glance, the occupancy rate at this time was decent, nearly reaching one-third capacity.

"Hello, I'll have a Margarita."

After Cheng Yun finished speaking, she turned her head to look at Chen Qiu again.

"What would you like to drink?"

"A Mojito, please."

"One Mojito, put it on my tab!"

After ordering, Cheng Yun and Chen Qiu sat down in a more secluded spot.

"Does Miss Cheng come here often?"

Chen Qiu asked casually.

"I used to come often when I was in university."

"It's rare now. After all, I work in Modu, so I only come back for a couple of drinks during the Spring Festival every year."

"Did you attend university locally?"

"Yes, Gannan Normal..."

"Didn't expect that, did you? I even passed the teaching qualification exam back then!"

Cheng Yun rested her hand on her chin, her long, slightly foxy eyes looking up at Chen Qiu.

Her entire being exuded a hint of provocation.

"Can you imagine me standing at a podium teaching children?"

Chen Qiu asked with slight surprise.

"Aren't you a dance teacher now, too?"

Cheng Yun gently shook her head, her tone slightly wistful.

"That's different. I'm just teaching classes at a dance training institution now."

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Qiu keenly noticed Cheng Yun's gaze pause slightly.

She immediately changed the subject.

"Want to see a video of me dancing?"

Although it was a question, she didn't give Chen Qiu a chance to choose.

The next moment, she pulled out her phone and started searching through it.

"Here..."

She opened the Music Note app. In the video, she was in a dance practice room, wearing a very revealing strapless, midriff-baring top, spaghetti straps, and ultra-short shorts, with leg rings cinched around her full thighs, causing the flesh to bulge slightly.

Standard 'Borderline Girl' figure!

However, unlike Wang Yi's artificial physique, Cheng Yun's body was full of healthy symmetry and firmness, yet still curvaceous!

Especially when she twerked to the beat, the floating bullet comments all read, "One Crispy Skin every three seconds."

Normally, Chen Qiu would definitely give it a like.

But now... Chen Qiu's eyes widened slightly.

We're on a blind date, and you're showing me this?

"How is it? Isn't it sexy?"

Cheng Yun took a small sip of the Margarita that had just arrived, her long, beautiful eyes filled with seductive provocation.

She crossed her legs, and whether intentionally or not.

Her patent leather thigh-high boots seemed to be lightly brushing Chen Qiu's calf.

"Actually... what I'm wearing under my coat is pretty similar to that outfit."

Her red lips parted slightly, and the slow, heavily suggestive words entered Chen Qiu's ears, nearly dumbfounding him.

Chen Qiu looked at the mature beautiful woman in front of him, who was resting her chin on her hand, her pretty face slightly flushed, and felt utterly confused.

Wait, are you drunk after just one sip?

At this moment, Chen Qiu vaguely realized that although Cheng Yun was flirting with him, her attention wasn't actually focused on him.

Instead... was she listening to something?

His gaze shifted, and he suddenly noticed a flash of white beneath her long, wavy red hair, hidden near her right ear.

Chen Qiu squinted, barely managing to recognize it.

"Is that... a Bluetooth headset?!"

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