In the small private room, barbecued meat and cola mixed with sashimi and oysters as glasses clinked.
"The last time we had a meal alone together, it seems like it was a long, long time ago."
Upon hearing Zhao Huo say this, Ren Suo, who was gnawing on a charcoal-grilled snow crab leg, paused. He took a while to recall and then said, "The last time I ate with you... was in the academy cafeteria, wasn't it?"
"Uh-huh." Zhao Huo, who had just wolfed down his twenty-fourth grilled oyster, said, "Back then, you didn't even know Dong Chengling. You suddenly came over and asked me, 'Do you know Dong Chengling?' You were so anxious, as if you'd never seen a woman before..."
"I wasn't anxious!" Ren Suo also remembered that moment; he was playing *Devouring the Spirit of the World* at the time. It was his first time seeing a game NPC that coincided with a real person, so he was eager to investigate Dong Chengling.
