798 Don't need validation
Chyou gasped at the sight of an ice cream parlor. "O.M.G! So this was your plan."
Yating said, "I feel guilty for the half ice cream you had to sacrifice for my sake. So you can eat all the ice cream you want to your heart's content here."
"I am supposed to be on a diet."
"I am sure you will burn off the calories."
"I am not supposed to be doing this. My sweet manager can become quite demonic you know."
"Nobody will know if nobody speaks of tonight," he smiled. "It's only you and me and my lips are zipped."
Chyou wiped her imaginary emotional tears. "As my loyal subject, I will be sure to give you a handsome raise in your salary."
He raised his brow. "Thank you, my Queen. I really needed that raise."
Once inside, Chyou peered at the different ice cream flavors with gleaming and glittering eyes. "There are too many options. I want to try out new flavors too!"
"Go ahead then."
She shuddered in horror. "So many ice cream scoops will kill me. My manager will wring my neck herself."
He sighed. "The dark reality of the entertainment industry."
The attendant behind the service area chirped and grinned. "Sir, Mam I suggest why not try out the couple ice cream scoops~ We have launched a new ice cream set for couples only~"
"..."
There are things like that too? Couple ice cream set?
Wait a minute, is she misunderstanding us as a couple!?
"Ummm..."
Yating smiled at the attendant. "We are not a couple. I just brought her here for a treat."
Chyou sighed in relief.
The attendant blinked twice. "Of course you are a couple. My eyes can never fail me."
"..."
"No, like I said, we are just friends."
The message still didn't reach the attendant and she waved her hand in dismissal. "Yeah sure. Oh, oh I got it now. You must be hiding your relationship. Maybe you feel that somebody would recognize you? Don't worry. If somebody comes snooping around, I will act ignorant," she nodded.
"..."
Chyou's brow twitched heavily. "Why are you so insistent that we are a couple?"
"I couldn't see his face clearly in the news but my spidey senses tell me the story of their sizzling chemistry. He was like such a charming knight!"
Chyou lacked years to shed and didn't know what to say.
"And if it's impossible between him and Queen Chyou then can I have him please?"
Yating's mouth fell open. A girl in an already committed relationship was openly flirting with the man in question though unaware.
"I think you forgot the part where you said that you have a very loving boyfriend."
"Aish, my heart can accommodate another handsome man, no worries~"
His brow twitched.
"What if your boyfriend says the same thing about another girl?"
"I will kill him."
"..."
Seems like hypocrisy runs in the younger generation quite well too.
"Can we get the ice cream?"
"Oh yes I completely forgot!"
She pushed the couple's ice cream set before them and cheerfully said, "Here's the bill!"
"...We didn't ask for the couple's ice cream set."
"I am sure your heart wants it though~ I am an excellent mind reader!" She flared her nostrils with pride.
I don't think so...
Chyou grabbed the tray without any hesitation. "I am starving now! Let's put the misunderstanding aside for now," she sighed helplessly.
At the table where the tray lay in between them, there formed an awkward silence.
Yating cleared his throat in an attempt to dissipate the awkwardness. "It's all yours."
"O-Of course! I had to sacrifice my precious ice cream so naturally, all of this is mine," she coughed, unable to meet his eyes for some reason.
Chyou looked away, hesitant as took ice cream bites.
Yating tapped his finger on the table as nobody talked. Eventually, he said unable to bear the silence any longer. "You really don't have to take her words to heart."
"I am not doing that."
"Your gaze is troubled. You don't have to lie to me. Neither you need validation of your and Cheng Yin's relationship from anybody. So...don't look like you need to prove anything to anybody."