In fact, she was so thin that it seed a bit excessive, feeling like she was as lanky as a stalk of hemp, and her walk wasn't quite natural either, with a certain stiffness and staccato to it.
Fortunately, her voice was quite pleasant, soft and cute, and also very polite.
As she approached the entrance of the restaurant and saw that Ma Lu hadn't spoken, she took the initiative, "Hello, is this the Universe Infinite Canteen?"
Ma Lu nodded, "You are...?"
"I've booked dinner here tonight," she paused, then added with a sowhat shy voice, "Um... I'm planning to propose to my boyfriend here."
"Love-Struck?"
"Yes, yes, yes, that's ." The visitor nodded vigorously like a pecking chicken.
"Co on in, has your boyfriend not arrived yet?" Ma Lu opened the door for her and casually asked.
"Not yet, I'm eting him in half an hour and wanted to co early to prepare. It's the first ti I'll see him, and I'm a bit nervous," Love-Struck's voice trembled.
Ah???!
Three question marks popped up over Ma Lu's head, "You haven't t before?"
"Mhm, mhm, mhm, but we've known each other for a long ti, it's just that before it was all online chatting, this is the first ti we're eting offline."
"Uh, okay... erm, may I ask, how long have you known each other?"
"Today marks exactly 50 days, so if we get engaged today, it would be very aningful," Love-Struck imagined aloud.
"What?"
"Do you have balloons here? I really like balloons and hope to have them around when I get engaged," Love-Struck said without waiting for an answer, "I'm sorry, is my request too much? I should have told you earlier, but every ti I think of being with him forever, I get so excited I can't think!!!"
"Balloons, right? No big deal."
Ma Lu rembered that the grocery store across the street sold balloons, so he went to buy 30 of them, borrowed an air pump, and spent quite a bit of ti inflating them all, arranging them around Love-Struck's dining table.
Love-Struck circled the colorful balloons and was very satisfied, "This is the engagent party I've dread of."
As she said this, she pulled out a chair and sat down, but quickly beca embarrassed again, "Manager, I feel like this table is a bit bare."
"That's because the food isn't out yet, we've got to wait for everyone to arrive, don't we."
"No, no, no, I an, could you... um, could you please find a candle, hehehehehe," Love-Struck said sheepishly.
"Oh, that's easy." Ma Lu rembered he had bought so smokeless tea lights, originally intended for heating trays, and went to fetch two from beneath the counter and placed them on the table.
"Wow, that's fantastic! Yes, yes, that's the ambiance!" Love-Struck was so excited she was almost incoherent, "Oh my gosh, I can barely believe it, this is really so romantic."
Ma Lu looked around the minimalist-styled restaurant, at the balloons on the floor worth 30 cents each, and the white tea lights common at barbecue stalls, unsure where the romance lay.
But as her na suggested, Love-Struck was already imrsed in her own romantic kingdom.
Not wanting to spoil her mood, Ma Lu couldn't help but remind her, "You've only known each other for 50 days, and tonight is your first eting. Isn't proposing a bit too fast?"
"Fast?" Love-Struck pondered, "But I feel like true love isn't asured by ti."
Ma Lu was at a loss for words.
"When you et the right person, you will sense each other imdiately, just like and my Lonely Handso Man."
"Lonely what?"
"Lonely Handso Man, that's his na on WeChat."
"That's a very straightforward na. How did you et this Lonely Guy?"
"Oh, I matched with him while playing 'Honor of Kings'. He was a Master, and I was a newbie. I kept feeding the enemy team in that ga, and all my teammates were cursing , but the Handso Man didn't say anything, he just kept carrying the team and we won the match. At that mont, I thought he was so cool, boyfriend material max.
"Afterward, I added him on WeChat and we started chatting. I asked him to help rank up, and he agreed without hesitation. Gradually, besides gaming, we began to talk about life.
"Of course, most of the ti it was talking and him listening, but guess what, our favorite bands, movies, gas, authors turned out to be exactly the sa!!!"
"Oh my gosh!!!" Love-Struck let out another groundhog-like scream, "That's too coincidental, there is no other explanation but it's fate that we should be together."
"That... if you really want an explanation, there are plenty though."
"If that's not enough to show we're ant for each other, I also consulted a Tarot Master about our marriage prospects. And guess what? The tarot cards indicated we are destined to march down the aisle and have a happy, loving relationship!"
Seeing how Love-Struck was, Ma Lu knew anything he said would be futile, so he simply said,
"Since you're so certain you two will end up together, why do you still need to hear his heartfelt words?"
"Oh, that's actually my mom's requirent. She always feels I'm never grown up, so she made promise that if I want to get engaged, I must hear his true feelings.
"But it doesn't matter, Lonely Handso Man will definitely pass the test. Our love is unbreakable."
"Alright then." Ma Lu glanced at the clock again, nearly twenty minutes had passed since Love-Struck ca in, aning the other star of the evening should also almost be making his entrance.
So Ma Lu went to the kitchen to notify Old Wang to start preparing the dishes, and he himself quietly prepared two packs of tissues, planning to offer them to Love-Struck later on.
There was no helping it; her romantic tale just radiated an air of unreliability from head to toe.
And while waiting, Ma Lu suddenly rembered a crucial question, "Wait a minute, this online beau of yours, does he know about your identity?"
"Of course, at the start I told him I'm a girl and definitely not a transvestite."
"No, what I an is your identity as a visitor from another plane, and don't the city managers care about this sort of thing?"
"Why should the city managers care about my love life?" Love-Struck didn't understand.
"Because those living in this plane have the responsibility to hide their true identities, at least that's what Pigeon told . I have a friend who was fined by it for sothing similar, and we're talking Star Currency here."
"It's okay, I'm loaded," boasted Love-Struck, "and if that's not enough, I can always ask my mom for more."
"..."
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