Dragon Raja: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

“The city’s CBD.” Su Xiaoqiang blinked. “Didn’t I tell you?”

"You didn't say, perhaps you're too busy to remember things."

"Now that I've told you, are you coming or not? Three, two..."

"Let's go!"

Lu Mingfei followed Su Xiaoqiang out the door. Before leaving, he tossed a small piece of paper to Lao Lei and quickly grabbed the two yuan from the front desk.

"I won't go this time, I'll come back next time!"

Lu Mingfei slammed the door shut, pretending not to hear Lao Lei chasing after him.

"Damn it, you can't get a refund once you open the card!"

Chapter 49 The food is too good!

The CBD is a commercial district that has been newly built in Lu Mingfei's hometown in recent years.

Towering office buildings stand side by side, their walls entirely made of glass. Young office workers brush past each other at the crisscrossing intersections, much like a scene from a TVB drama set in Central, Hong Kong.

Although it's a newly built commercial area, the surrounding facilities are already quite comprehensive.

Especially last year, after the first local luxury mall, Ocean Mall, opened here, the CBD center surpassed East Department Store Center to become the most popular shopping district for urban white-collar workers and young professionals.

The two hailed a taxi at the "Hanting Hotel Bus Stop on Wuliqiao Road". Su Xiaoqiang got in first, and Lu Mingfei naturally followed behind her and sat in the back seat together.

Su Xiaoqiang's gaze swept lightly over Lu Mingfei, she pursed her lips, and said nothing.

Actually, when Lu Mingfei first saw Su Xiaoqiang's message yesterday, he didn't want to keep the appointment and wanted to pretend he didn't see it and brush it off.

After all, he had just been to the capital not long ago, and had climbed the Great Wall and fought Deadpool in the Nibelungen. He was exhausted and wanted to rest for a few days.

However, after hearing Lu Mingze say that he didn't need to attend tutoring classes the next day and would be resting at home, Lu Mingfei promptly ran back to his room, opened the chat window, and accepted Su Xiaoqiang's invitation.

Of course, the Lu Mingze mentioned here is the chubby cousin Lu Mingze.

Moreover, to be honest, Lu Mingfei was also quite curious as to why Su Xiaoqiang had asked him out.

Lu Mingfei was able to accept Su Xiaoqiang's invitation because, from his perspective, Su Xiaoqiang was his classmate for three years.

Moreover, Su Xiaoqiang was one of the few girls he had a fairly good relationship with during high school.

However, from Su Xiaoqiang's perspective, Lu Mingfei and she were hardly acquainted at all. Their only connection was a chance encounter at an internet cafe, playing a game of StarCraft together, and becoming QQ friends. They were merely nodding acquaintances.

"What do you want me to go to the CBD with you for?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"What do you think?" Su Xiaoqiang asked in return.

"It can't be a date, can it?" Lu Mingfei shifted his buttocks back, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and shrank back warily, saying, "I'm still a virgin! I sell my art, not my body."

Su Xiaoqiang's pretty face flushed slightly, and she spat out, "Tch, you're dreaming. I'm just in a bad mood and want to find someone to go shopping with me."

"Looking for someone to go shopping with?" Lu Mingfei seemed to have relaxed his guard around Su Xiaoqiang, and sat up a little straighter. "I can understand wanting to go shopping when you're in a bad mood, but why did you ask me to accompany you?"

"Is it not enough that I just find you pleasing to the eye?" Su Xiaoqiang said indignantly.

If I were at school and said I wanted to find someone to go shopping in the CBD with, all the boys in my class would definitely fight to come with me.

As a result, even though Lu Mingfei took the initiative to invite him to go shopping together, he still seemed reluctant, which was really infuriating.

Or is this guy actually playing hard to get?

Su Xiaoqiang, her thoughts wandering, pondered this.

"Besides, you didn't tell me how you knew my surname was Su, did you?" Su Xiaoqiang said, pouting.

She still harbored resentment about the incident when Lu Mingfei made those internet-addicted teenagers call her Sister Su back in the internet cafe.

Lu Mingfei blinked rapidly, not expecting Su Xiaoqiang to still remember this matter.

Now the two of them are sitting face to face in the back seat of a taxi, so they probably can't just laugh it off like they did online before.

We need to think of a new approach.

Lu Mingfei's eyes darted around, and he decided to retreat in order to advance!

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you the truth." Lu Mingfei spread his hands, looking like he was admitting defeat and deciding to tell the truth. "Actually, I traveled back from the future, and I was already quite familiar with you back then. I just let it slip unconsciously that time at the internet cafe."

"Tch, nobody's going to believe you!" Su Xiaoqiang wrinkled her nose and made a face.

They took the bait! Lu Mingfei thought to himself with smug satisfaction.

He knew that Su Xiaoqiang wouldn't believe him if he suddenly revealed such a far-fetched fact, so Lu Mingfei decided to tell the truth.

“But what I said was the truth.” Lu Mingfei pressed his advantage, deliberately putting on an innocent expression full of flaws. “If you don’t believe me even when I tell you the truth, then there’s nothing I can do.”

Given Xiaotiannv's personality, the more he emphasizes it, the less she will believe him.

Just as Lu Mingfei had predicted, Su Xiaoqiang gave a dismissive smirk: "Yes, yes, what you said is all true. Then tell me, what will be our relationship in the future?"

Lu Mingfei lowered his head; this had indeed stumped him.

Calling them just ordinary classmates seems too distant; calling them friends seems a little off.

What kind of relationship should that be?

Is it "more than classmates but less than friends", or is it "the victim of Chen Wenwen and Zhao Menghua's love affair"?

After careful consideration, Lu Mingfei solemnly said, "We are enemies."

After all, the two of them bicker as soon as they meet, and they're never on good terms. It just goes to show that enemies are destined to meet.

However, the word "enemy" took on a different meaning in Su Xiaoqiang's ears.

The word "enemy" has had two meanings since ancient times.

It can refer to an enemy or a lover; it's ironic, expressing extreme love, and carries a hint of playful ambiguity.

Su Xiaoqiang felt that she and Lu Mingfei could never become enemies, so she naturally assumed that Lu Mingfei meant the latter meaning when he said "enemies".

"Pah, who said I'm your enemy? You're bad luck," Su Xiaoqiang said, her face flushed and annoyed.

Then, she turned her face to look out the window on her side, not wanting to continue discussing this topic with Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei, on the other hand, was completely baffled as to why Su Xiaoqiang would suddenly react this way. However, seeing that Su Xiaoqiang didn't continue to press him about "how he knew her last name," he didn't dwell on it.

After all, he had already achieved his initial goal, and if he continued this topic, he really wouldn't be able to think of a way to get out of it in a short time.

The taxi stopped in the CBD business center, and the two got out one after the other.

Su Xiaoqiang strode towards the Ocean Crystal Mall with her fair and slender legs.

Although she was dressed simply today, Su Xiaoqiang's appearance was already quite outstanding, and because she was of mixed race, she also had a maturity on her face that was beyond her years.

This simple style of dressing actually brings out her natural charm.

As she walked across the square, the young men who brushed past her all turned around, stopping to stare at Su Xiaoqiang's arrogant and domineering back, their eyes unwilling to leave her.

When they saw Lu Mingfei next to them, wearing loose clothes that were obviously a size too big and looking rather young, they subconsciously assumed that the two were in a relationship where the woman was older than the man, and they were all indignant.

These days, middle school boys eat way too well!

I had my appointment this morning, and this afternoon I took care of my grandfather at the hospital (he's 91 years old and just had surgery; my aunt has been taking care of him for three days straight, and I only helped her out this afternoon since I'm home for the day). That's why the update is a little late. My sincerest apologies!!! Please forgive me!

Chapter 50 Is Tiramisu delicious?

Shopping with a girl as strikingly beautiful and sharp as Su Xiaoqiang is actually a very stressful experience.

Because standing next to a girl like that, you're always forced to endure extra scrutiny.

Ever since he got out of the taxi and started walking with Su Xiaoqiang, Lu Mingfei had a very clear feeling that he was being stared at from all sides, with eyes that seemed to be both open and hidden.

Lu Mingfei had experienced this feeling not long ago, when he was invited to stand behind Liu Miaomiao while taking a group photo.

At that time, he also felt the gazes of the boys in his class were like cold arrows, piercing his back.

The feeling of being the center of attention is, how should I put it, like when you're in a very quiet library and suddenly you sneeze several times in a row, and then everyone in the library turns around and stares at you.

Fortunately, the current Lu Mingfei is not the same 15-year-old loser Lu Mingfei. This level of attention is nothing to him.

In his previous life, when he was a freshman at Kassel College, he faced far more scrutiny than he has now.

You know, back then, the students at the school were practically glued to their screens, following him around looking for something funny.

Looking at the envious and jealous looks from the boys around him, Lu Mingfei felt quite helpless.

Why are you all staring at me with such gritted teeth? Even if I give up my spot next to Su Xiaoqiang right now, you still won't be able to get to her side!

……

In 2006, Ocean Classic Mall was already the most luxurious mall in the city at that time.

However, due to the limitations of the times, the entire supermarket, whether in terms of decoration or layout, is much worse than the large malls that Lu Mingfei experienced 10 years later.

What's more, Lu Mingfei has studied in America and traveled to Japan for business, you know.

Lu Mingfei has visited Macy's and Bolognese, shopping paradises in Chicago, as well as the famous Ginza in Japan.

In today's parlance, Lu Mingfei is a complete returnee from overseas, someone who has seen the world.

Therefore, when Lu Mingfei entered Ocean Classic Mall, he did not show any surprise or amazement, as if he were simply walking into an ordinary supermarket.

Lu Mingfei's excessive composure made Su Xiaoqiang turn her head and glance at him.

Su Xiaoqiang is also a wealthy and beautiful woman from a well-off family. She travels between the World Trade Center Twin Towers on Fifth Avenue in New York and Ginza in Japan every year, so she is naturally not surprised by the decoration of Ocean Classic Mall.

However, many boys in her junior high school class liked to use things like "My dad took me to the Nike store at Ocean Classic to buy new shoes" as a way to show off among classmates.

Although she attended the prestigious private Xunli Middle School for junior high, there were very few students in her class whose fathers were major shareholders in listed companies and whose wealth amounted to hundreds of millions, just like hers.

Most of my classmates come from middle-class families with savings ranging from tens of thousands to a few million. So it's normal for them to compare themselves with each other by wearing designer clothes.

This Lu Mingfei, despite being dressed in loose-fitting, cheap clothes, was the same person I first met in an internet cafe, a complete internet addict.

However, when entering Ocean Classic, one of the top luxury malls in the city, Lu Mingfei was not surprised at all by the surrounding environment.

With his hands simply placed on either side of his body, he walked as if he were strolling in his own garden.

Compared to Lu Mingfei, the urban white-collar workers around him, who were looking up and exclaiming "Wow!" and taking out their phones to take pictures, seemed much more unsophisticated.

Of course, this doesn't mean that someone who has never been to a high-end mall or is unsophisticated will be considered a certain way.

However, it's true that blocking the way to take photos in a crowded place like a shopping mall significantly impacts other people's shopping experience and makes you seem very cheap.