I'll go if you approve my leave.

"You?" Su Yang asked, stunned.

"What? Are you afraid of me meeting your beautiful female friends?"

Su Yang smiled and said, "Not really. It's mostly because I didn't expect you to want to go."

"I've always liked traveling around, and I haven't been to the Island Nation yet, so of course I want to go. It's also a good chance to meet your friends."

Su Yang looked at Zhuang Mengli and asked seriously, "Are you sure you really want to go? If you are, I'll count you in."

"I'm going. Do I look like I'm joking with you?"

"Mengmeng, are you really going?"

"Yeah, it's been a long time since I've had a proper vacation anyway. I've always wanted to visit the Island Nation, but for various reasons, I've never been able to."

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaotang thought for a moment and looked at Su Yang. "Then... can you add me too?"

"You?" Su Yang was stunned again.

"What? Can't I go?"

Su Yang rubbed his nose. "It's not that. It's mainly because I figured you didn't know my friends and might be shy, so I completely didn't expect you to be so proactive about going."

"It's no big deal, I love making new friends. Hehe, Brother Su, since you're so handsome, your friends must be very handsome too, right?" Jiang Xiaotang suddenly changed her way of addressing him.

"What's with the 'Brother Su'? That's so cheesy," Zhuang Mengli rolled her eyes at Jiang Xiaotang.

"Hehe, what's wrong with it? Brother Su is definitely older than me, so why can't I call him brother?"

Su Yang forced a smile and said, "Haha, let's put that aside for now. Let me ask you one more time, are you guys sure you want to go?"

"We're sure!" the two replied in unison.

"Alright, then I'll add you guys. I'll pull you into the group chat later, and you can just briefly introduce yourselves to everyone."

"No problem. Actually, I've seen most of them before, they just haven't seen me," Zhuang Mengli laughed.

Su Yang nodded. "OK, wait a moment, I'll go ask the others."

As they were talking, the coffees the three had ordered were brought over.

Jiang Xiaotang rushed to pay the bill. Su Yang didn't mind who paid; he picked up his coffee, took a sip, and continued to message people.

Hmm... I'll ask Little Lu first. She didn't go out with us last time, so I have to invite her this time.

Thinking this, Su Yang found Lu Yun on WeChat and typed, "Little Lu, Little Lu, what are you doing?"

Two seconds later, Lu Yun replied, "I'm at work, what's up?"

"We're planning to go traveling again. You have to come with us this time."

Lu Yun: "Where are you going?"

"The Island Nation."

"The Island... we're going abroad?"

"Yeah, but even though it's going abroad, it's actually not that far. The Island Nation is right next to our Hua Nation."

"Uh... I do want to go, but how long are you going for?"

Su Yang thought for a moment and replied, "We haven't decided exactly how long yet, but it'll probably be at least a week or two."

"A week or two? I... I don't know if I can get that much time off."

Seeing this, Su Yang smiled helplessly and replied, "Did you forget something?"

"What?"

"Who is the boss of your restaurant?"

Seeing this, Lu Yun on the other end of the phone immediately smacked her forehead and replied awkwardly, "Uh... I suddenly forgot about that. It's mainly because you, the boss, rarely show up, so I guess I'm not the only one; a lot of people have almost forgotten that you're the boss."

Su Yang laughed, "Haha, then I'll drop by more often in the future. But are you going this time?"

"If you approve my leave, I'll go~"

"Haha, alright. I'll tell Chen Guowei later to approve half a month's leave for you."

"Sounds good."

"Oh right, ask Little Yu while you're at it."

"Okay, I'll ask her in a bit."

"Alright, let me know when you've asked, and I'll go ask the others."

"Okay."

After exiting the chat with Lu Yun, Su Yang looked up and thought to himself, 'Little Lu is confirmed, who's next?'

'Oh right, Lingxi.'

Su Yang opened Ren Lingxi's chat interface and asked, "Lingxi, what are you up to?"

"Thinking... thinking about things."

"Thinking about what?"

"Nothing much, what's up?"

"We're planning to go traveling again. I wanted to ask if you want to come with us."

"Sure, where to?"

"The Island Nation."

"The Island Nation? Okay, I'll go," Ren Lingxi replied very readily.

"Oh ho, are you sure? We're going to be gone for about half a month."

"I'm sure! I don't have anything going on for the next while."

"Alright then, I'll pull you into the group chat later."

"Okay."

"Ok, I'll go ask the others."

"Alright~"

'Hmm, that's another one confirmed. Plus the two in front of me, that's four new additions.'

Su Yang thought about it and continued to ask around. Next, he asked Song Anquan, Jiang Mengyun, Xia Li, Li Muhan, Zhao Mengrou, and Gu Xiaoman one by one.

However, after asking, all six of them said they were busy and couldn't go.

"Arranged marriage?!"

Su Yang, who was chatting, was suddenly drawn by Jiang Xiaotang's exclamation. He looked up and asked, "What's that?"

"Uh... no, nothing. You keep chatting," Zhuang Mengli replied with a grin.

Just now, while Su Yang was asking people, Jiang Xiaotang brought up the topic of Su Yang again. Zhuang Mengli was annoyed by her pestering, so she secretly told Jiang Xiaotang the general story of how she and Su Yang met.

However, she was still very tactful, only mentioning what she could and leaving out the part about Su Yang curing her grandfather and the dark spots on her body.

"You guys have an arranged marriage? Doesn't that make Su Yang your fiancé?" Jiang Xiaotang whispered in disbelief.

"No, it's just something my grandfather and his grandfather arranged when we were kids. It's been so many years, it doesn't count."

"It mainly depends on what you think about it."

"I don't think much about it. Just let nature take its course."

"Tell me honestly, do you have feelings for him or not?" Jiang Xiaotang didn't wait for Zhuang Mengli to answer before immediately adding, "Wait, that's a stupid question."

"What?"

"If you weren't interested in him, how could you ask to go traveling with him? All your actions have already given you away."

After saying this, Zhuang Mengli stared at Su Yang, who was looking down and chatting, and fell into deep thought.

Su Yang didn't purposely listen to their conversation; he was chatting with Lu Yun.

"Little Yu is sure she isn't going?"

"Yeah, she said she wants to focus on her studies recently, so she won't be joining us."

"Alright then, I'll pull you into the group chat first."

"Okay, when are we leaving?"

"Probably in a few days. We still need to get visas and stuff. Oh right, do you have a passport?"

"Yes, even though I've never been abroad, I got one the year before last."

"That works."

Su Yang's own passport was also something his company had told him to get back when he was working. At the time, they said there was a project in Malaysia for him to handle, and he needed to go abroad, so they made him get a passport.

He had been really looking forward to going abroad, but after getting the passport, there were no further developments on the project.

Even though he didn't end up going at the time, getting the passport in advance meant he didn't have to rush to get one now.