Rebirth: I Became Mr.President's Beloved-Chapter 300: Then What Do I Look Like

Seeing her struggling to conceal her disappointment, a smile surfaced in the depths of Song Baiyan’s eyes. When Tang Li released the straw, which had a faint pink residue on its outer wall, he guessed what it was and asked, "Is it that delicious?"

Tang Li looked up and noticed that Song Baiyan’s glass of sugarcane juice hadn’t been touched. For public figures like them, especially during an election period, personal safety was extremely important. Once she realized this, she immediately picked up his glass of sugarcane juice: "I’ll test it first, then you can drink if there’s no problem."

Unexpectedly, Song Baiyan leaned forward slightly, took her cup away, and said, "No need to test, just get a new one."

Tang Li, who was tearing the seal off the top of the cup: "..."

"I’ve drunk from that cup."

After a long while, she found her voice.

Song Baiyan looked at her warmly, his left hand resting on his crossed legs, gently rubbing his thumb and forefinger together, and said to her, "Are you saying that if you’ve drunk from it, I can’t drink from it?"

"...No," Tang Li noticed the straw stained with her lipstick, quickly replaced it with a clean one, and said with a slightly flushed face, "As long as you don’t mind, it’s fine by me."

Song Baiyan didn’t speak again, nor did he touch the glass of sugarcane juice.

Above their heads, a dusty lightbulb hung.

When the stall owner lifted the lid, white steam carrying the rich aroma filled the shed. Tang Li picked up the rice noodles with her chopsticks and ate cautiously to maintain her appearance, just like she always did when dining with Song Baiyan, slow and meticulous. For some reason, she suddenly thought of Miss Bao from the Bao Family.

Moved by the thought, Tang Li spoke up, "Does Miss Bao still look for you?"

Song Baiyan, who was rinsing a small dish with a kettle, heard her, looked up, and the soft light shone into his deep, unfathomable eyes.

Then, Tang Li heard him ask her, "Are you curious about her and me?" ƒreewebɳovel.com

After meeting Song Baiyan’s gaze for a good while, she finally regained her voice, "I just went to buy sticky rice cakes and saw roasted crabs for sale, which reminded me of the time at the Fu Family’s place, where she brought hairy crabs, so I just mentioned it casually."

After finishing, she continued to bury her head in eating the rice noodles.

But her ears were slightly red.

— She had no right to inquire about Song Baiyan’s private matters.

Her question was already too presumptuous.

At that moment, Song Baiyan’s mellow voice came through, "If she continues to look for me, it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to have supper with you here anymore."

"..." Tang Li held her chopsticks tightly.

Then she looked up again, meeting Song Baiyan’s gaze and speaking up, "Miss Bao probably isn’t as petty as you make her out to be. An elder and a junior eating supper together should be understandable to someone grown up like Miss Bao."

Song Baiyan smiled upon hearing this and nodded in agreement, "You have a point, perhaps I was being cynical."

Tang Li lifted the corners of her mouth and continued, "You don’t seem like a petty person."

After pausing for a moment, she added, "They say appearances reflect the heart, and a petty person usually looks sneaky and rat-like."

Song Baiyan seemed amused by her remark, flicking the ash into the small dish while playfully asking her, "Then what do I look like?"

Tang Li wasn’t expecting Song Baiyan to follow up with such a question.

It was just a bluff, and she wasn’t particularly articulate, so it was easy to be left speechless.

Not wanting the atmosphere to become awkward, she thought about Song Baiyan’s position, and a term flashed through her mind, which she immediately voiced out: "Someone like you should be called a ’Lord.’"

"..." Song Baiyan smiled slightly.

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