Mr. Huo, stop being abusive. Miss Fu is going on a blind date again.

During the meal, Xiaoxia received a call from her family. While she was talking on the phone, Fu Yan got up and walked out of the box, went to the front desk, and clicked on the mobile payment interface.

"Excuse me, please settle the bill in box 8."

"OK, just a second."

The front desk staff pressed a few fluent buttons on the console, "Hello, Miss, Box 8 has been settled."

Fu Yan was stunned for a moment. She and Xiao Xia were together the whole time, and she never saw Xiao Xia come out. Moreover, she even temporarily added two things that Xiao Xia liked to eat, so it was impossible to settle in advance.

"Could it be a mistake?"

The receptionist smiled and said, "That's right."

Fu Yan put his phone back into his pocket suspiciously, but when he turned around, he saw a familiar profile face walking towards the side door.

She was stunned.

Cao Fang.

Cao Fang and Cao Yuan are Huo Mingzheng's special assistants. Except for their own personal time, they are almost always on call by Huo Mingzheng's side. Especially today, they will stay by Huo Mingzheng's side.

At this time, as Huo Minzheng is the head of the Huo family, Huo Mansion will definitely celebrate his birthday.

The reason why she was sure she wouldn't be outside was because Huo Mingzheng didn't like celebrating birthdays. She had only attended Huo Mingzheng's birthday party once in her life, and it was organized by Li Qin.

At that time, Li Qin also invited the younger members of the Huo family to participate, including her.

She didn't want to participate in the first place. She was out of place in the Huo family and there was no need to increase her presence.

It was that day that she happened to meet Huo Minzheng coming back from outside. She happened to be going to school. Huo Minzheng casually asked her if she had time on the weekend. If she had time, they could go to the birthday party together to relax before the college entrance examination.

Even though she knew he had a girlfriend, she still agreed to his invitation. She was satisfied just by looking at him from a distance.

That year she was eighteen and Huo Mingzheng was twenty-three.

In the past, she always thought that Huo Mingzheng didn't like the excitement. She arrived at the villa where the birthday party was held early that day. She didn't want to be late and become the focus of others, so she arrived early. At that time, she was still a bit socially anxious.

When she entered the venue, she was glad that she had arrived early and no one else had arrived yet, but she found that Huo Minzheng was already sitting there, earlier than her.

Her first reaction was that Huo Mingzheng was as afraid of society as she was?

But she immediately rejected her speculation. How could Huo Minzheng be afraid of society?

Seeing him from a distance, Fu Yan didn't dare to get too close to him, for fear that he would hear his unusual heartbeat.

It was shameful to secretly like a man who had a girlfriend, so she hid it deeply.

She pretended to be calm and walked past him. Anyway, Huo Mingzheng was playing games on his mobile phone and his back was turned to her, so he wouldn't notice her at all.

"and many more."

A cold voice came.

Her feet seemed to have been pressed on the pause button, and she stood still. When she raised her eyes, she met a pair of cold black eyes.

Huo Minzheng turned sideways, holding a mobile phone in one hand and a half-burned cigarette in the other. White smoke drifted slowly from his eyes, blurring the expression in his eyes.

"Why didn't you call me?"

She lowered her eyes and called out obediently: "Second brother."

Not sure if her ignorance made him unhappy, he frowned slightly, "Why didn't you call me just now?"

"I didn't see you." She lied with her eyes open. The sofa where Huo Minzheng was sitting was in the center of the space. It was the most eye-catching presence and it was impossible to miss it.

In fact, not only did she see it, she saw it as soon as she entered the door.

In her heart, she and Huo Mingzheng were like the positive and negative poles of a magnetic field. No matter where she went, she could always see him at first sight and recognize him at first sight.

She lowered her head and did not see the expression on his face. She only heard him chuckle, "I have been blind since I was young. I will go to the hospital to check my vision when I have time."

Her face suddenly turned red, but she couldn't think of how to refute him. She quickly said happy birthday and wanted to find a corner to sit down.

Unexpectedly, Huo Minzheng's hand holding the cigarette blocked her way, "Since you know it's my birthday, where's the gift?"

She took out a gift box from her bag that looked like it had been wrapped in a boutique.

Uncle Huo has been dead for a few years now. Wufang's life in Huo Mansion seems to be no different from before. Living expenses will still be paid, but this kind of life of being dependent on others is not easy. She is extremely frugal and does not want to spend more. The Huo family only wants to wait for the work-study program in college to stop using the Huo family's money.

So she didn't have much pocket money.

In addition, she couldn't give a gift that looked carefully prepared to avoid being noticed, so she just randomly selected a small ornament in the boutique house.

She thought Huo Mingzheng would put her gift aside, but she didn't expect that he would open the gift box in front of her and take out the ornament.

The ornament is a crystal base, which was the most popular dog head emoticon pack that year. The dog head and the crystal base are connected with a spring, and they sway back and forth.

"Where did you buy it?" Huo Minzheng held the ornament in one hand and flicked the dog's head with the other hand.

"You can buy it from any boutique. I think this dog head matches you very well... No, I mean it looks very similar to the dog you had before." The more she explained, the redder her face became.

Huo Minzheng didn't pay attention to her slip of the tongue, but asked: "Just bought it?"

She nodded.

He put the ornaments back into the box, put them aside casually, took a last puff of cigarette, and pinched the cigarette butts. At this moment, people came one after another, and someone called Huo Mingzheng's name, but what Huo Mingzheng said, she didn't listen clearly.

At that time, she didn't dare to express her feelings in front of Huo Mingzheng.

A girl has to hide her thoughts, which is very bitter and cautious.

Even if it was his birthday, she would only dare to give him a very ordinary gift. She would stay in the corner as much as possible during the birthday party, not wanting to see others making fun of Huo Mingzheng and Li Qin.

She still remembered that it was the first time someone mentioned that she and Li Qin looked similar. Huo Mingzheng said they looked different with a half-smile in the dim light.

Fu Yan came to his senses and quickened his pace to follow the direction that Cao Fang had just left.

At this time, Huo Mingzheng's birthday should be celebrated in the Huo Mansion. Cao Fang and Cao Yuan must be by his side, and there is no way they would appear in this place.

But she was sure that she was right, that person was Cao Fang.

This private restaurant has a medium consumption level. Huo Mingzheng would not come here to eat, and Cao Fang would not come here to eat. It is even less likely that the person who invited them to dinner would choose this place.

She recalled that the front desk had just told her that she and Xiaoxia's menu had been settled. Could it be related to Cao Fang?

Not far from the side door is the road. Behind a row of plane trees, a black car was parked.

Fu Yan walked out and recognized it at first glance. It was Huo Minzheng's car.