I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!
Chapter 717 Unreliable

Chapter 717: Chapter 717 Unreliable

Kang Yue felt helpless when she heard that. Fine, one by one they were all unreliable. Forget about whether they could accompany her, they were probably all busy finding love interests now. She would have to go up and get ready to come down but decided it was better not to join the crowd. It would be best to just go back to her room.

In her room, Tang Yuchan was indeed very anxious. After agreeing and sending off the message, she was just waiting for the man on the other end to reply. But after a long wait, that man had not responded, making her particularly worried. What was going on? Why wasn’t he replying? Could it be that he thought she was really too lazy?

Was he taking so long to choose his words to reply to her? It would be so much better if Kang Yue was here. If she was here now, she could help Yuchan analyze the situation. Oh, it was all because she had been too quick to send her away earlier. Otherwise, she would have had someone to help her think things through. After all, her sisters weren’t that bad.

She waited a long time for a reply and almost couldn’t resist calling him. But then she thought that a girl should have some restraint—she had learned that lesson before. She couldn’t just send messages imposingly. Wait a little longer, wait a little longer. Don’t let him think that she was an easy woman to deal with; that was the first step.

However, she also needed to know what he was up to. Was he intentionally leaving her hanging? If he was doing that on purpose, she certainly wasn’t a pushover. If he really kept that up, she wouldn’t be merciful. She estimated she might ignore him for a few hours without replying. With Kang Yue not around and no one to analyze things with her, it really was better to have someone else help think things through.

Without someone else to help her think, it was like being a headless fly bumping around everywhere, not knowing what to do. Just as she was about to send a message calling Kang Yue up to help her analyze things, a message suddenly "dinged" its way in.

It seemed that he had replied. She opened it to find that indeed, it was from Zhang Tao. He had sent an emoji, then explained that he had been busy with work and that’s why he hadn’t replied to her message promptly. However, he was now almost done with work and planning to go eat lunch, which washed away Tang Yuchan’s initial unhappiness.

Thinking of him reporting his schedule to her made her even happier. She felt that he must really think of her as important. Otherwise, why would he tell her these things? Normally, men wouldn’t share their schedules with women unless there was some connection. Was this a sign that she held a certain place in his heart?

Tang Yuchan swayed her body proudly and rolled around on the bed with her phone for several turns, thinking that she needed to reply to him quickly. You couldn’t let the other person guess your thoughts; such things were usually imprecise. It was better for her to speak for herself. Perhaps she should also say she was going to have lunch now.

But if she said that, would it make him think she just woke up and was only now going to eat? No, she had to pretend she had been incredibly busy. So, pretending to be very busy, she replied, "Hmm, I just finished with my work too. I’m also about to go have lunch. What are you having for lunch? Can you recommend something? I never really know what to eat for lunch; it’s always such chaos. Everyday the most troubling thing is deciding what to eat when I wake up, what to eat after work for lunch, and what to have after work for dinner and for a late-night snack. If someone could help me decide, I might consider it.

It’s not like I want to sit there and make decisions for others, right? How about this, I’ll follow your lunch choice for today. Whatever you eat, I’ll eat too. That way, I won’t have to think for myself."

Tang Yuchan was flirting, and she was notably eloquent at that. Sending that text already brought them closer, reducing the barriers between them. Zhang Tao, on the other end, was quite happy reading the message from Tang Yuchan, considering that the girl at home was asking him what to eat. He glanced at his own lunch for today.

It was just a plain white steamed bun and a bowl of plain porridge. He usually ate plainly because he had been extremely busy with work recently and hadn’t paid much attention to ordering meals. People at his place ate randomly too, so if someone ordered, everyone would eat the same thing. Eventually, for convenience’s sake, they just started ordering steamed buns and porridge, the most relaxed option without waiting for food delivery, since they could just get it from a shop downstairs.

Asking her to eat the same simple meal he had for lunch seemed a bit embarrassing to Zhang Tao. How could he let a girl at home eat something so plain as he did? Better deceive her a bit and not let her think that’s all he had for lunch every day.

Otherwise, she might think he had no money and be unwilling to talk to him much further. Thinking about it, Zhang Tao felt this was very possible, and to avoid his own embarrassment, he decided it was better to tell a white lie. Comforting himself with the thought that it was a harmless lie, he casually picked a video of eating frog from his album and sent it over, saying, "Today’s lunch is this spicy bullfrog. Just eat something simple, you know? You can try the perilla flavor there too. I think all their signature dishes are pretty good. Let me know after you’ve tried it, which one you think is the tastier."

After sending it, he inwardly praised his own cleverness. Choosing this shop also eliminated the risk of being caught as it was the one beneath the building where he was working on a project. However, he overlooked that there was sound in the video, and it was loud, with a woman’s voice in there too.

Unfortunately, he didn’t carefully check if there was a woman appearing in the video or pay attention to whether there were any voices present. He simply sent the video and waited for Tang Yuchan’s response.

When Tang Yuchan saw that he had sent a video, she quickly opened it to watch. Lunch choices were unimportant; the main goal was to bridge the gap between them. That’s why she told this harmless lie about not knowing what to eat, although she already knew what she would have for lunch. Naturally, she wasn’t going to follow his suggestion.