Xiaoju emerged from the arrivals gate and looked left and right, but there was no sign of Chen Jincheng.

She felt a little annoyed. ’Even if I’m only being his girlfriend for a few days, does he have to be so half-assed about picking me up from the airport?’

She immediately took out her phone, about to ask where he was, when a voice sounded from behind her. "Hey beautiful, did your boyfriend not show up to get you?"

Xiaoju spun around instinctively. She had watched so many of Chen Jincheng’s videos and heard his voice so much over the past two days that she recognized it instantly.

Sure enough, there he was behind her, wearing a baseball cap.

She was just about to voice her complaints and vent her frustration, but he held out a large bouquet of roses to her.

"For me?" A hint of shyness crept onto Xiaoju’s face.

"Is there anyone else here?" Chen Jincheng retorted.

"Thank you!" Xiaoju took the flowers and sniffed their fragrance. A lot of her frustration dissipated, and her mood improved considerably.

In any case, at least Chen Jincheng knew to bring flowers. He had put in some effort.

"Don’t thank me yet. Let’s add each other on WeChat first!" Chen Jincheng smiled, taking out his phone to scan her code.

Seeing this, Xiaoju also took out her phone and pulled up her WeChat QR code. ’He’s finally getting around to adding me,’ she thought. ’Before this, we’d only ever chatted through private messages on Tiao Yin.’

Chen Jincheng, meanwhile, aimed his lapel camera at the process of them adding each other on WeChat, making it clear that this was the first time they had done so.

Just then, Chen Jincheng heard Xiaoju’s stomach grumble. It was quite loud; the lapel camera probably picked up the sound.

So, he smiled and said, "Let’s go. Your stomach is protesting. I’ll treat you to something to eat!"

As he spoke, he proactively took the suitcase from her hand and led the way forward.

Xiaoju was taken aback by this gesture.

’He’s so thoughtful. Most guys aren’t this considerate, even with their own girlfriends.’

With that thought, she followed him, trailing closely behind as they entered a noodle shop.

"What would you like to eat?" Chen Jincheng asked.

"Just a bowl of thick noodles is fine," Xiaoju said immediately.

Chen Jincheng didn’t forget to tell the noodle shop employee, "Make hers mildly spicy. She doesn’t eat cilantro, but you can add some scallions."

He’d learned this earlier when he was bored and browsed Xiaoju’s Tiao Yin account, seeing it mentioned in one of her videos.

This was what you called premeditated romance.

Just as he’d expected, Xiaoju was stunned when she heard him. She stared blankly for a moment, a strange sense of being touched welling up inside her.

After all, he had just stated her preferences and even thoughtfully relayed them to the staff. Even though she wasn’t really his girlfriend, she felt like she was experiencing the bliss of being one.

The two of them took their order number to a table. Not long after they sat down, their two bowls of noodles were delivered.

As they were eating, Xiaoju couldn’t help but probe, "So, you came here and hit on a pretty girl, huh?"

Perhaps because she was talking while eating, she immediately choked, coughing a few times. A piece of scallion ended up on the corner of her mouth.

Seeing this, Chen Jincheng quickly grabbed the complimentary drink and handed it to her. "Have a drink. Don’t rush to eat when you’re talking."

Xiaoju saw the drink offered to her lips and instinctively took a couple of sips, which made her feel better.

Chen Jincheng, however, had already reached out and brushed away the piece of scallion from the corner of her mouth. His fingers grazed her lips, making her heart flutter inexplicably.

Looking at Chen Jincheng again, she couldn’t help but feel that he was a total pro at this.

"No wonder you can be such a scumbag," Xiaoju blurted out subconsciously.

"What scumbag?" Chen Jincheng said at once, his tone righteous. "You must have misunderstood something. All that stuff online is just slander. I live by the rule ’don’t shit where you eat.’ I’ve never touched a single girl from Second-Life Star."

"Then what about me?" Xiaoju asked teasingly.

"You were so forward, of course I had to appreciate the mood," Chen Jincheng said with a very serious expression. "If I didn’t play along, wouldn’t that just break your heart? And I’m the kind of person who can’t bear to see a beautiful woman sad."

"Oh, thank you so much," Xiaoju couldn’t help but roll her eyes at him.

She truly couldn’t understand how he could say such things with a straight face, even twisting it to make it seem like she was the one who initiated everything.

’Wasn’t he the one who was stringing her along and manipulating her for exactly this purpose?’

His ability to turn the tables and blame the victim was truly something to behold.

After finishing their noodles, the two rested in the shop for a while. Seeing that they had plenty of time, Chen Jincheng took out a tablet, exported the footage from his lapel camera, and started editing.

From this raw footage, he had to cut out any parts showing that he and Xiaoju already knew each other. It needed to look exactly like he had just met and approached her for the first time.

So, the first 60-second video could be him buying flowers and searching for a beautiful target, then suddenly spotting Xiaoju. He could use a close-up for the moment she appeared, making it seem as if a stunning beauty had walked right out of a painting, capturing the camera’s attention.

The second 60-second video would naturally be him approaching her with the flowers to strike up a conversation, adding her on WeChat, and then, upon hearing her stomach grumble, grabbing her suitcase and leading her away.

The third part would naturally be him ordering food, her choking on her noodles, him thoughtfully handing her water, and the intimate moment of him wiping the scallion from her mouth. It would end with her line: ’No wonder you can be such a scumbag!’

These three video clips might make the pickup seem a bit too simple, but Xiaoju’s beauty and great figure more than made up for it, even making the scene feel immersive for the viewer.

While Chen Jincheng was editing, Xiaoju had already come over to sit next to him, curiously watching the process. After a moment, she complained, "You’re unbelievable. We obviously planned to meet up, but you’re editing it like this? Now I’ve become some random girl you just hit on?"