Chapter 162: 131 Boyfriend style jacket, heartwarming (2 updates)_1 Chapter 162: 131 Boyfriend style jacket, heartwarming (2 updates)_1 Before getting out of the car after turning off the engine, Lu Han draped his coat over Tang Su. Tang Su instinctively refused, but Lu Han reminded her that it was only when she had recovered from her fever that she was currently vulnerable to cold because of her weak constitution.

With such a compelling reason, Tang Su couldn’t refuse.

The boyfriend’s coat was indeed very warm. After her heart felt warm, her body didn’t feel cold anywhere.

Bai Dingxian and his brother Bai Dingkai had arrived early, standing at the entrance of the Firepot City, blowing in the cold wind, with Bai Dingkai obviously not used to rubbing his hands together.

“Why doesn’t Hua City provide heating? It’s so irritating to go out in such cold weather,” Bai Dingkai complained while blowing on his hands, clearly not accustomed to it.

If it weren’t for the fact that he was his older brother, Bai Dingxian really felt like cursing him for being a wimp.

Forget it—

“Hua City is a southern city; the weather at this time is called refreshing. Where is it cold? I think you just have the ailment of needing heating on schedule and can’t manage without it, huh?” Bai Dingxian retorted.

When he first came from the north to the south, he also wanted heating on schedule. Later, he realized that indoor heating in the south depended on heaters, compact and exquisite rechargeable hand warmers.

And also the warm paste packs, all of these were godsend items.

Once Bai Dingkai began filming officially, by next month, he would give all the nearly expired heating wonders stored in the dormitory to his older brother, and then he himself would buy new ones to use.

“You’re really turning your back now, aren’t you? When you first got here, who was it that wailed every day in the family group chat, saying that a life without heating simply wasn’t fit for humans? Putting on airs here with me, your older brother?”

Bai Dingxian: “…”

Alright, when it came to sophistry, he was no match for his older brother. He would wait for Lu Han’s arrival and see how he would argue.

He must be out of his mind, even fantasizing about getting Tang Su to play the female lead in his film.

Let’s not even talk about whether Tang Su is willing; even if she is, would Lu Han agree?

Once Lu Han got a hold of Tang Su, then the only leading man in her life could only be Lu Han, none other.

Even filming was out of the question.

Just look at his past, and you would understand.

“Hey, Dingxian, I thought that kid Lu Han would never get a girlfriend again in his life. That Tang Su doesn’t look like…”

“Stop right there. It’s best if you don’t ever mention this in front of Tang Su and Lu Han. If you drive Tang Su away and Lu Han ends up staying single for life, Grandpa will beat you to death.”

Bai Dingxian was also surprised. He considered himself to be quite a nag, being a doctor and all, asking patients and their family members in detail, which also helped with their diagnosis.

Perhaps due to his job, he’s become habitually chatty in life too.

But how could Bai Dingkai be even chattier than him?

Could it be from filming these past few years?

Isn’t he supposed to be a ‘daddy’ investor? Making movies was supposed to be an impulse decision, right?

Couldn’t figure it out, just couldn’t figure it out at all.

“I was just saying,” Bai Dingkai said, lost for words. The fact that Lu Han used to have a girlfriend was true; was he not allowed to mention it?

Tang Su had also been in relationships before.

Lu Han was seamlessly taking over from Tang Su’s ex-boyfriend. He didn’t mind, so what was there for Tang Su to worry about?

Lu Han was twenty-eight this year, not eighteen.

It’s not like he was the male protagonist of a novel, where whether he’s thirty or forty, as long as the female protagonist hasn’t shown up, the male protagonist must not date, no matter what.

Even the fans are strange. The male and female leads must be monogamous, or else it’s melodramatic and not worth watching.

How often does real life present a scenario where the first encounter is with the only one meant for each other?

Even if the storylines should be crafted more beautifully, after all, they are stories borne from imagination.

But—

Beautiful ≠ Ridiculous.

Animals go into heat when the time comes, but a human being thirty or forty years old waiting to go into heat just for the female lead to show up, is that… normal?

“Alright, stop just saying things. You forgot how previously, in front of Old Tan and Sister-in-law Jiao, you just said whatever came to mind, making Old Tan uncomfortable ’til now.”

Bai Dingkai: “…”

Alright, he admitted his mistake then.

Bai Dingkai didn’t speak further, partly because he really was wrong, and partly because Lu Han arrived with Tang Su.

Lu Han truly cherished Tang Su. Not only did he put his coat on her, but he also embraced her tightly in his arms.

This person who could coldly turn away and leave when approached by girls asking him out, leaving them faceless, was actually cherishing Tang Su so much?

No wonder he threatened him like that over the phone today.

As for the grudges between brothers, they should resolve it themselves; involving the elders is already embarrassing, but Lu Han, in a move to defeat his opponent, couldn’t be bothered to waste words and went straight to Patriarch Bai.

It was evident that he wanted to completely eliminate Bai Dingkai’s hopes.

Bai Dingkai figured it out and had already sent someone to talk to another actress.

As long as negotiations went well, they could start filming at the end of the month.

If every step went smoothly, filming was actually quite simple and not as complicated as outsiders thought.

It’s like when a child catches a cold; to the parents, the fever and cough seem as threatening as a flood or a wild beast, but to the doctor, it’s a normal process that resolves in three to five days.

Yet, if there’s no improvement in a day, the parents would rush the child to the hospital at night for another checkup and prescription.

“Miss Tang, we meet again, I told you we had a deep connection,” Bai Dingkai said, not bothering to greet Lu Han, that brother of his who frequently used the old man to threaten him. He could do without that.

“Let me introduce myself again, I’m Lu Han’s second brother, Bai Dingkai. Since you’re with Lu Han, you might as well call me ‘Second Brother Bai’ together with him, and once you get the marriage certificate, you can drop the ‘Bai’ and just call me ‘Second Brother.'”

“When that time comes, I’ll give you a big red envelope.”

“Okay, Second Brother Bai,” Tang Su said. She initially wanted to address him as Mr. Bai, but seeing that Bai Dingkai had said as much, she didn’t fuss about it.

“It’s cold and I’m hungry, which restaurant shall we go to?” Bai Dingxian also knew how to smooth things over.

“Which restaurant do you usually go to with Sun Qing when you’re here?” Lu Han asked Tang Su.

“Any of them is fine, I think our Hua City’s hot pots are all quite delicious,” Tang Su said.

“Alright, then let’s see which one has seats available and we’ll go there.”

Soon, the four of them arrived at a restaurant called Hua City Old Fire Pot, decorated in a style reminiscent of when hot pot first became popular about twenty years ago.

The owner went for a rustic style.

The main hall was packed, and the enthusiastic proprietress welcomed the four of them to a medium-sized private room that could accommodate six to ten people.

“Please make yourselves comfortable, the service charge for this private room is on the house tonight. Feel free to order as much as you like,” the proprietress said warmly as she presented the menu.

Tang Su ordered a three-soup hot pot base—one spicy, one non-spicy, and the small round circle in the middle was tomato-flavored.

Bai Dingkai, seeing that two out of the three soups were not spicy, wasn’t quite satisfied, “Tang Su, as a local from Hua City, can’t you eat spicy food?”

“I can, it’s just that I was worried Second Brother Bai couldn’t.”

After that was out in the open, Tang Su felt less awkward around Bai Dingkai.

“Are you looking down on someone here? Hey, proprietress, we don’t want the three-soup base; give us the nine-grid one, three grids super spicy, three grids moderately spicy, and three grids mildly spicy. Tonight, I want to challenge the legendary spiciness of Hua City.”

Bai Dingkai declared boastfully.

“Might as well share a table, just get two types of soup base,” Bai Dingxian said somewhat speechlessly, thinking that after eating the devilishly spicy food, they might have a sour time squatting in the bathroom the next morning.

“Can you not be such a buzzkill?” Bai Dingkai glared at Bai Dingxian, dissatisfied.

Lu Han then looked at Tang Su, “Can you handle it?”

“Yeah, can you?”

“No problem.”

Finally, Lu Han settled the discussion and requested the nine-grid base as Bai Dingkai had demanded, making sure the owner prepared three grids of super spicy.

When the nine-grid base arrived, it was in fact a single spicy soup base, with a nine-grid separator inserted, and since they wanted three grids of super spicy, the waitress added an extra dose of chili peppers to those grids.

The purpose of the nine-grids was actually to facilitate diners in organizing their ingredients as some items need to be cooked longer while others only need a few seconds in the broth.

It was not, as Bai Dingkai had suggested, about varying levels of spiciness.

Naturally, as business owners, they had encountered all sorts of peculiar customers, so when a customer made such a request, they had to find a way to accommodate it.

Adding more chili was an easy fix.

Regarding the dishes, both Bai Dingkai and Bai Dingxian were hungry, so they ordered plenty of meat and vegetables.

The hot pot restaurant was quick to serve the food.

Before beginning to cook the food, Bai Dingxian asked the other three at the table in all seriousness, “Are you sure all your peaches will be able to handle this mountain of chili peppers tomorrow morning?”

The three of them: “…”

In the end, Bai Dingkai kicked Bai Dingxian in the calf, “We’re eating, can you not talk about such disgusting stuff?”

Bai Dingxian: “…”

What’s so disgusting about that?