Seeing his eyes glow like this, the five mers who were accompanying him felt a bit shy but the server girl didn’t mind Chen Mi’s enthusiasm. It was obviously good when their customers showed off their enthusiasm regarding the desserts sold in their shop, and since Chen Mi was still good with childlike features, he was positively cute in the eyes of the waitress.

” This, this and this and this too.” Chen Mi who didn’t have to worry about money anymore hurriedly ordered everything that he thought looked whether it was almond cookies or snowflake cakes, for the first time in his life, Chen Mi felt like an overlord who can buy anything as long as he had money in his pocket.

The waitress noted everything down and even she couldn’t help but blink at this many desserts, will they be able even to eat them? She carefully thought about the strict policy of her mistress and couldn’t help but say, ” Umm, the policy of our snacks shop is that we can’t waste food.”

Chen Mi who have never heard about this weird rule ever before in any other shop, did a double-take of what the waitress has said and simply tilted his head as he said, ” yes, what about it?”

” will you be able to” the waitress has just begun speaking when Shen Li spoke up, “it’s alright, miss. Can you please bring our order? If we don’t finish it on time, we are willing to pay the penalty.”

The restaurant where they came belonged to Wei Junfen, she was known for her weird business tactics and yet the policies that she implemented were righteous and taught people to treat every penny wisely, similarly, this restaurant that was run by her also had the same weird policy either eat everything or pay double the penalty of the food wasted.

The waitress didn’t say anything anymore, she was already being kind enough by warning them about the policy, maybe these customers were just like those who thought that this rule of their restaurant was just as faux. Fine, then she will just let them have their orders and then if they refuse to pay the penalty she will just ask the security guards to deal with them.

However, the waitress underestimated Chen Mi by a very long shot. The second she delivered the order she was prepared to fight a fierce battle and when Ye Liu called her after half an hour, she thought that her suspicions about them were correct but then, when she arrived at Chen Mi and the other’s table, the plates of desserts were cleanly wiped as if they have been washed and forget about a whole piece of a dessert she couldn’t even see a minuscule piece of the white flakes.

Thoroughly surprised, she turned to look at Shen Li and Ye Liu who were calmly sipping their tea on the other hand Chen Mi was happily patting his tummy while only Fang Chi’s tanned skin flushed under the stare of the waitress, honestly don’t look at him. He only got a piece of each dessert and then everything was a blurry mess. By the time it ended, the plates were squeaky clean! It wasn’t him who did it and neither did he saw anything.

Xiao Hua on the other hand was thoroughly impressed by Chen Mi, he nodded his head in approval. This mer was indeed great, he should have paid proper attention to him, someone who knew how to eat desserts can never be a bad guy. The same thing was going on in Chen Mi’s head as he nodded back at Xiao Hua with an approving grin.

The waitress: “….” Somebody come and helps her up, it looks like she is getting dizzy.

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The five of them paid for their meal and walked out of the restaurant, they were thinking about whether to go and watch the soap opera that was currently popular in the town when Fang Chi stopped them. ” I am sorry, I need to go and use the washroom.”

”It’s alright, take your time.” Shen Li didn’t think much and let Fang Chi go, there were many public bathhouses and restrooms. And they weren’t standing far either, so there was no problem.

Xiao Hua was standing idly beside Chen Mi but then his attention was attracted by something and then he too raised his hand as he clasped Fang Chi’s arm and said, ” I will go with you.”

Fang Chi nodded, he wasn’t as sensitive as Xiao Hua who was constantly stalked when he worked in the tavern and simply thought that Xiao Hua needed to go just like him, after all, they drank too much tea while they were eating at the snacks restaurant. Xiao Hua smiled, his eyes locked on the empty corridor that was right adjacent to them.

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” Huu” after going to the restroom, Fang Chi felt relieved. He washed his hands in the bowl that was kept on a small table and wiped his hands, However just as he stood up to leave he heard the noise. Startled he whipped his head to the door of the restroom, it was a well-known fact that while a mer was using a cubicle no one else can open the door to the cubicle that the mer was using, so who was it? Trying to keep his voice steady, he called out, ” this one is occupied please look for another one.”

The Jingling of the door stopped but before Fang Chi could even take a breath, the jingling once again started even more fervent than before. Fang Chi’s eyes widened, as the walls of the small cubicle started to close on to him- who was trying to forcefully open the door of his cubicle, what should he do now?