MTLNOVEL Chapter 795 - 797: Catching X (1)
Chapter 795: Chapter 797: Catching X (1)
Even though Lu Weixi had drank two bottles, she was probably too heartbroken to get drunk, and her consciousness was still clear. It wasn’t the drink she ordered, she just raised her head: “What’s going on?”
“If daily consumption exceeds 80,000, we offer a drink on the house. This one’s called ‘Love = Human Tears’. It’s a mix of Irish whisky, coffee, cream, caramel, and sea salt,” said the bartender.
Having finished speaking, the waiter placed the drink in front of Lu Weixi and then turned to leave.
Lu Weixi had heard this story before and had tasted this cocktail. It was on Valentine’s Day last year when Qin Zhisu had prepared it for her personally. He had said, “I heard that there’s a story behind ‘Love – Human Tears’. It’s about a German bartender who encountered a flight attendant. But she only liked drinking coffee, not alcohol. After meeting her, he tried hard to create a unique drink using coffee. The next time she visited, he presented it to her. He won her appreciation and also her love with it.”
“Just admit that you wanted to use me as a guinea pig, you have never mixed a drink before, have you?”, Lu Weixi knew that he did this intentionally. It was the 14th of February, not her birthday but close enough. After a traumatic birthday experience last year when she turned twenty, she spent her birthday with her family this time. And Valentine’s Day was reserved to spend with Qin Zhisu.
“Of course, if I can’t become an architect in the future, then I will become a bartender in a quiet little town, quietly waiting for my goddess to come. No need for flowers, just sitting at my bar, sipping the drink I personally mixed,” said Qin Zhisu.
He felt thrilled as he was at the Bai family’s house that day. Bai Changyou and Lu’s mother happened to be out, Cai Yiren wasn’t there, and they suddenly had the space all to themselves, just the two young lovers.
As Qin Zhisu spoke, he showed off his recently learned fancy cocktail mixing skills while the coffee pot next to him was bubbling away. Once the coffee was ready and the whiskey poured, he sprinkled caramel, added salt, shook it all together, then topped it off with whipped cream, pushing it towards Lu Weixi: “To the beautiful lady, ‘Love – Human Tears’.”
With hopeful eyes, Qin Zhisu watched as Lu Weixi indeed took a sip. She drank it in one gulp, her lips instantly coated with a circle of cream foam. However, she scrunched up her eyebrows and made a teasing face: “What the hell is this? Sweet, salty, and bitter all at once, it tastes horrible.”
Qin Zhisu disbelieved. “That’s impossible.” He had tried it countless times at home, following the same steps, in the same amounts. He had even pre-mixed all the ingredients in the right proportions, so all he had to do was add them in the right order.
“Try it yourself if you don’t believe it,” Lu Weixi said with a disgusted look. Qin Zhisu suspiciously took a sip. The slight bitterness of the coffee, the sweetness of the caramel, and just a touch of the salty sea salt all perfectly blended into the whiskey, producing a complex yet wonderful flavor. It was surely not unpleasant.
“It doesn’t taste bad…” The moment he finished his sentence, he saw Lu Weixi grinning cheekily in front of him. He quickly realised that she didn’t find the drink unpleasant at all, she was just teasing him. He stood up abruptly: “Oh, you tricked me!”
Lu Weixi, beaming with delight, dodged him. Knowing he was about to retaliate, she just didn’t want to give him the satisfaction.
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