Chapter 1561 - 1297: Incident Occurs

Chapter 1561: Chapter 1297: Incident Occurs

Shen Zui ordered a lot of dishes, most of them were the ones Shi Nuan liked, and he also ordered red wine.

Shen Zui said, "I know you can really hold your liquor when it comes to red wine, so I booked a bottle. You don’t mind, right?"

Shi Nuan shook her head. "It’s fine. I haven’t had red wine in a long time, I can have some!"

The waitress took out her tools and was about to open the wine. Shi Nuan glanced at the bottle, her brows pinching slightly, and called out, "Wait!"

The waitress’s fingers trembled, she looked at Shi Nuan. "...Excuse me, miss, do you need something?"

Shi Nuan looked at the bottle cap and said, "Has this bottle been opened before? Why are there signs that the cap has been opened?"

Shen Zui also took a look, and sure enough there were traces of it having been opened.

"What’s going on? If I remember correctly, I reserved this bottle about a month and a half ago!"

The waitress’s eyes flickered and she said, "...I’m sorry, Mr., this bottle is indeed the one you reserved earlier. It’s my fault. I accidentally went to the wrong private room just now... But please don’t worry, Mr., after I opened it and realized something was wrong, I immediately brought it over to you. I’m really sorry, Mr...."

Shen Zui frowned and said, "How can you make a mistake like that? And I can’t be sure whether it was opened just now or even earlier. Go call your manager. I want to change to another bottle of wine..."

When the waitress heard that, she quickly said, "Mr... Mr., this bottle of red wine was really just opened. I’m not lying to you. If you don’t believe me, you can taste it. And please don’t call the manager in, or I might lose this job..."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Shi Nuan and said, "Miss, miss, I’m begging you. I really didn’t do it on purpose. Please don’t call the manager. My mother is still in the hospital, and I haven’t even scraped together the money for her surgery yet. I really need this job, miss, I’m begging you, please let me off just this once, I’m really begging you..."

Shi Nuan looked at the waitress, at the way her eyes were turning wet, and felt that she probably wasn’t lying.

In the end, she couldn’t bear it and said, "I think we should just let it go. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Besides, this bottle of wine is still full, no one has drunk from it, and it was just opened. We were going to drink it anyway, so whether it’s opened a little earlier or a little later doesn’t really make a difference."

Shen Zui frowned. "But it’s been opened. What if the wine inside isn’t the same bottle I reserved back then..."

Shen Zui had eaten here once before and had this kind of red wine. He thought it tasted good, so he reserved a bottle.

At the time, the restaurant had about five bottles left. Shen Zui knew Shi Nuan liked red wine, and he reserved it with her in mind.

But he never dared hope Shi Nuan would ever have the chance to come here and drink this bottle. He hadn’t expected that today it would actually happen!

In his heart, he was genuinely grateful to the heavens for giving him this chance. He felt that this might be his last dinner with Shi Nuan.

He wanted everything tonight to be beautiful. He wanted to give Shi Nuan a perfect dinner, but he hadn’t expected something like this to happen.

Seeing that Shen Zui wasn’t speaking, Shi Nuan picked up her glass and took a sip, raising her brows slightly. "It tastes really good. Try it, see if it’s the taste you had before."

Shen Zui picked up the other glass and took a sip. The taste was indeed exactly the same. With Shi Nuan here, he didn’t want to fuss too much and leave her with a bad impression.

So he said, "Forget it, we’ll let it slide this time."

The waitress, hearing that, immediately thanked him with tears of gratitude in her eyes. Shen Zui didn’t want his mood ruined, so he said, "You can go out now. If we need anything, we’ll call you."

The waitress answered and politely backed out.

At the instant the private room door closed, the waitress let out a long breath.

Then she wiped at the tears that were almost spilling from her eyes and turned to enter the private room next door.

Inside the room, Ji Xiangling was drinking red wine while eating, but Chu Jingyun, sitting opposite her, didn’t have any appetite at all.

Seeing that waitress, Ji Xiangling raised her brows. "Well? Did you deliver the wine?"

The waitress nodded. "I did."

Ji Xiangling looked at the state she was in. "Look at you, I’m guessing that Mr. in there gave you a hard time, huh? Fine. On top of the hundred thousand I promised you for your mother’s surgery, I’ll add another fifty thousand as a subsidy for her recovery afterward."

When the waitress heard that, she quickly nodded and thanked her. The tears she had just held back nearly fell again.

Chu Jingyun sat there with her brows knitted, wanting to say something, but in the end she didn’t say anything at all.