Do you want to go out with me? Why did it sound like Ye Quan was asking him out on a date? Was Lin Zhu too stupid to think that Ye Quan really wanted to go on a date with him?
No. He wasn't that stupid, and that was why he firmly rejected Ye Quan's invitation. Maybe he sounded like he was giving an excuse by saying that he already had an appointment so the two of them couldn't go together, but he was telling the truth that he did have to go with someone else tonight because he had promised that person before Ye Quan came to him and asked him to go out with him.
Even if his heart skipped a beat when he heard how Ye Quan asked him to go with him, he still chose to go with Yi Jianli because he had promised to accompany her shopping tonight.