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Chapter 403: How Could You Be So Shaht Lina Lee continued to hold her hold

Sumptuous steaks were a treat for vaeneral had hty appetites, and t-bone steaks were a fine remedy

Due to the universal appeal of T-bone steaks, Chu Cheng did not sit idly by He was never one to waste

The bottle of chane quickly vanished between the two of the couldn’t tell if it was the alcohol or the food Her pale face now had a healthy pink glow,beauty even more apparent

“Hey” It was the first word she’d spoken since they started eating

“H sly

She looked back at him with her head canted to the side, an odd expression on her face “I want to ask you so”

“Please,” he said, “I’m an open book”

Genuine curiosity played on her pretty features as she leaned closer across the table She fixed his eyes with her own “I really want kno you could be so shaentleman’s face froze, but for a tick at the corner of his mouth “You’re, ehm, direct I’ly “Loss for words You have fewer scruples than a thieving leper 1 Don’t be coy, I know your garin He looked at her with a raised brow “Fine – you’re right I am shameless But tell ood friend, Lan Jue He said, ‘A man who does not feed his pride is invincible’ This is true in pursuing women – you must be shameless Either you succeed or you don’t, so to me there’s always a fifty-fifty shot And for a wo as you, the chance to live that life is worth ive ht up What do you think?”

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Lan Jue, having just broken through to the next rank, sneezed suddenly 2 He furrowed his brow, and rubbed his nose

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Lina’s gave him a flat stare “Who knoto work on me You playboys are slime, I can’t think of anyone I hate more I could see you were trash froet out”

As she spoke, she got up and waved hi looked to her clean plate, then to her frigid expression With helpless expression he rose to his feet Though his face bore a forlorn expression, he said nothing He set about carefully piling the dirty dishes and napkins back on to the tray and even wiped the table down He set the lid back on the tray, took it up, and finally walked to the door

As he passed her, Chu Cheng offered a slight nod “I’m sorry to have disturbed you” With that said, he walked around Lina and left without looking back

A sudden and inexplicable chill raced through her as she watched hiht Shouldn’t he be a sticky sleeze like all the others? Instead he left without any fuss Alh he really didn’t have any ill-intent

Those steaks had been delicious And juicy After she shut the door, Lina realized the anger that’d burned at her was gone

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The last two days of competitions was the most watched stream in all the Great Alliances Each round, each hts were finished, analysts looked over the fights and hand-picked which ones to rebroadcast Several were already eht away Surprisingly Lan Jue’s fight with the Barber was not the ’s

In terht was full of excellent footage The coht between a man and a woman never failed to draw eyes, especially when the woman looked like Lina The dra her to reveal her gorgeous fraure – it was so perfectly watchable as to be al the North and the Great Conclave As he’d been unfortunately reminded by his run-in with the robot earlier, there was no shortage of screens trained on hi banners of their faces to be plastered all over the web There were conversations about other fighters, pictures as well, and they rose and fell in popularity too With so much to see, the adoration of the croas fickle and hard earned

However, when the tournaanizers took this opportunity to have the crowd pick their favorite losers, Lina was one The other was the Barber, who unfortunately fell second to the vampire heiress