36: Chapter 36 A Bizarre Scene!
Actually, when he heard this, Shen Zhou had already guessed that the person Mu Shanshan was talking about for her blind date might be him.
There weren't many customers in the Diecai Pavilion; at most, there were only about a dozen, and most of them were groups of two or three girls.
In the entire shop, it seemed like there was only him and one other man.
And the other man had a woman with him, so, in all likelihood, the blind date Mu Shanshan was talking about must be him.
However, a guess is just a guess; right now, he still needed to confirm it further.
"You have someone you like? Then it seems your blind date is going to be jealous."
"By the way, where is he? Hasn't he arrived yet? You wouldn't have been so dismissive that you don't even know his surname, right?"
What Shen Zhou said was actually referring to himself.
Because he didn't even know the woman's name for this blind date.
Earlier, to brush off his mother, Shen Zhou had kept saying "I know, I know" over the phone.
In reality, he hadn't heard his mother's introduction clearly at all, let alone the woman's name.
Looking at Mu Shanshan now, it seemed she was just like him, having been nagged about marriage until she was numb to it.
Upon hearing Shen Zhou ask for her blind date's name, Mu Shanshan immediately felt a bit awkward.
"Uh, I think his surname is Zhang, oh no, maybe it's Li, or perhaps Chen?"
"Wait a second, let me check my phone! My mom sent me his number, I'll ask him and I'll know."
Without a doubt, Mu Shanshan's situation was almost exactly the same as Shen Zhou's.
Both were prime examples of obedient children who had been nagged about marriage until they were sick of it.
Realizing that she didn't even know her blind date's name, Mu Shanshan immediately pulled her phone out of her handbag and busied herself searching through it.
"Oh, found it, here's his number. Mr. Shen, wait a moment, let me give him a call first."
As she spoke, Mu Shanshan hurriedly dialed the number displayed on her phone's WeChat!
"Little mouse, little mouse wearing a flowery coat, squeak squeak, squeak squeak, squeak squeak. Big-faced cat, big-faced cat..."
"Huh? What era is this? Why would someone use such a childish ringtone!"
"Hey, why, how..."
Just as Mu Shanshan was about to criticize the other person's ringtone, she suddenly froze, looking in Shen Zhou's direction.
That's right, at this very moment, the phone Shen Zhou had placed on the tea table was playing the exact same melody.
"Ms. Mu Shanshan, tell me, is it possible that the blind date your mother introduced is me!"
"Oh, right, the one you mentioned, the blind date who uses that super childish ringtone!"
Shen Zhou asked Mu Shanshan with a 'serious' yet playful tone.
As it happens, this ringtone was one Shen Zhou had just changed to.
Because for most of this week, Shen Zhou had been accompanying Lin Lan to handle company project matters, and he had seen too many unreliable so-called investors.
Because of this, Shen Zhou felt somewhat irritated.
These so-called successful people in society were almost all, without exception, scheming and insincere.
Compared to these investors who talked a big game but wouldn't spend a dime when it mattered most.
Shen Zhou preferred the simple and pure interpersonal relationships of his childhood.
Therefore, in order to replenish a bit of pure nourishment in his busy life, Shen Zhou had changed his ringtone to this one.
"How could it be you! You aren't..."
With the result revealed, the expression on Mu Shanshan's face could truly be called colorful.
At first, Mu Shanshan's face was full of surprise.
And immediately after, there was a girlish, shy flush, followed by an expression of awkwardness from putting her foot in her mouth.
Finally, Mu Shanshan seemed to wake up from a dream, slapping her own head, and hurriedly explained to Shen Zhou in annoyance:
"Mr. Shen, that's not what I meant when I said it was childish."
"I really didn't expect that the person I was having a blind date with today would be you."
"The person I like that I mentioned earlier, actually, actually, uh, anyway, I'm just embarrassed, I didn't mean it, I..."
The series of events clearly left Mu Shanshan at a loss for how to explain.
She had wanted to tell Shen Zhou that the person she liked was actually Shen Zhou.
But then she realized that the blind date she wanted to brush off was also Shen Zhou.
The two pieces of information suddenly tangled together, intertwining into a misunderstanding.
Her brain couldn't keep up for a moment.
Fortunately, Shen Zhou had already seen the clues, so just when Mu Shanshan didn't know how to explain:
Shen Zhou had already somewhat smugly revealed the most important truth of the matter:
"Ms. Mu Shanshan, are you trying to explain to me that, in fact, the person you like is me."
"That's why you wanted to refuse your blind date."
"It's just that you didn't expect that your blind date was also me, which is why this comical misunderstanding happened!"
Although Shen Zhou had seen girls acting shy before.
Back when he first started dating Lu Qinglian, Shen Zhou was still a naive student who had just entered college.
At that time, Lu Qinglian wasn't as realistic as she is now.
Therefore, in the beginning, when Shen Zhou just confessed his feelings to Lu Qinglian, he had seen with his own eyes the innocent and green shyness of a girl on her face.
In the blink of an eye, more than four years had passed.
The world changes, and people change.
Shen Zhou really hadn't expected that after more than four years, he would see such a pure side of a girl once again.
The Mu Shanshan before him clearly had never truly been in a relationship.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have such a clearly visible flush on her face right now.
This kind of bashfulness only appears on the faces of girls who have no real dating experience.
Those bold types who date dozens of times on college campuses would absolutely never have this expression.
"Shen Zhou, I've let you down. I shouldn't have been so dismissive of this blind date."