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Mai Xiaomai was looking around the restaurant, trying to find the man with a red rose as a signal that her mother had mentioned when she saw Qiao Chutian's movement.
A highly attractive man in a black shirt, with refined demeanor, was gently smelling a vividly blooming red rose...
The scene made her heartstrings quiver as if someone had plucked them forcefully, setting her heart racing...
She had not anticipated that her mother actually had such good taste and had coaxed such a first-rate man to meet her for a blind date.
Then she looked at the man in white next to him, who was also extremely handsome and sunny in disposition.
These two dashing men drew the starry-eyed attention of several female diners around...
Having seen too many brutal and unsightly corpses, Mai Xiaomai had grown somewhat numb to people's appearances, yet she couldn't help but have her eyes light up at the sight of these two handsome men.
What most impressed her was that the man she was supposed to meet for the blind date was punctual, having arrived half an hour early to wait for her, even though there was a third wheel tagging along.
But that was understandable.
In the past, when You Bei was still in the country, her mother would force her to go on blind dates, and she would always quietly bring You Bei along.
She took a deep breath and strode over, stopping in front of the two men's table. Her expression remained cool and her voice was calm as she looked at Qiao Chutian and asked, "Hello, I'm Mai Xiaomai. Are you Mr. Chen Dadao?"
Qiao Chutian's gaze at her first held a hint of surprise, then a touch of disdainful mockery appeared.
He thought this was a woman's deliberate ploy to strike up a conversation with him.
He had felt a bit of fondness for her when he saw her smile indifferently, thinking she was slightly different from those superficial women.
Yet unexpectedly, she turned out to be just another poser, employing such a lowly tactic to get to know him.
"Mr. Chen Dadao? Haha, Miss Mai, you must have mistaken me for someone else, right?"
Feng Qinglang, sitting next to him with his long, narrow, and charming peachy eyes squinted, watched Mai Xiaomai with interest. "Maybe this is your way of trying to get to know us? It's just that I've used this tactic many times before. It's not fun at all. However, seeing that you're quite pretty, I'll let you get to know me. My name is Feng Qinglang, 'Feng' as in the surname and 'Qinglang' as in clear and bright weather, hehe."
Since Mai Xiaomai could become an extremely competent forensic doctor, she certainly possessed keen insight.
However, her insight was mainly demonstrated in the examination of dismembered and deceased bodies, and it was a bit lacking when it came to observing living people.
But even with that said, she could still detect the mockery in the eyes of these two men before her.
This made her feel displeased, and she was tempted to turn around and walk away.
But then she thought of the hardships her mother and father had gone through because she had remained single for so long, and she couldn't get married. She decided to endure it.
No matter what, she had to fulfill her promise to get married within the year.
As for love... well,
heh, she had thrown that into the sea long ago.
She remembered Wang Fei once said something along the lines of, "Men are unreliable anyway, it's better to choose a good-looking one!"
The man before her had the looks and the demeanor, so if they could hit it off, then so be it.
She took out the business card her mother had given her from her bag and handed it to Qiao Chutian, "This is your business card, right? My name is Mai Xiaomai. It was my mother who arranged this, and you're the one she set me up with for the blind date—it's not a ploy to chat you up."
Qiao Chutian didn't even glance at the business card, nor did he make a sound.
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