Anime Crossover: My Youth Begins with Charlotte

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But then she suddenly realized that they were all women and couldn't use the men's restroom, so Xia Yan waited on the side, but no one came in. Bars were really a place that brought her bad luck.

After a while, there was finally a sound from the door next to him. "Hey buddy, can I borrow a piece of paper?" Xia Yan pinched his nose and spoke to the door next door in a rather rough voice.

Xia Yan successfully resolved his own matter, then went to the sink to wash his hands. After shaking off the water droplets, he was about to leave when he suddenly caught sight of a figure that looked very much like Fujiwara Chika.

"Chika?" Xia Yan hurriedly went out to look and saw that there was a man next to Fujiwara Chika. Xia Yan noticed that Fujiwara Chika's steps were very unsteady, and she walked with a swaying, S-shaped gait.

The man next to her had nowhere to put his hands, which made Xia Yan very angry. "Get your dirty hands off me!" Xia Yan rushed forward and snatched Fujiwara Chika from the man's arms.

At this moment, Fujiwara Chika was still somewhat dazed, with a glazed look in her eyes, a flushed face, and a strong smell of alcohol emanating from her body. "Natsuhiko, you've finally come." In her hazy state, Fujiwara Chika could recognize this person as Natsuhiko.

"What kind of brat are you? You dare to snatch the meat that's already in your mouth from me?" The man had a large tattoo on his arm, and he showed it to Xia Yan as if to intimidate him.

Xia Yan didn't notice the man's exposed tattooed arms or his trembling pectoral muscles. Xia Yan was a full head taller than the man, and as for fitness, he had worked out quite a bit himself...

Compared to this man, Xia Yan felt confident that he could beat him. So Xia Yan gently put Fujiwara Chika on the ground, saying, "I'm sorry, you caught a cold." Then he let Chika lean against the wall and rushed towards the man in an instant.

Before the man could dodge, a sharp crack echoed as Xia Yan's fist landed on his cheekbone. The man stood up, touched his cheekbone, and seemed to be in pain. "Good lad, you can even launch sneak attacks now?"

Then he charged at Xia Yan, swinging his 4.9-inch fists incessantly. Xia Yan dodged to the side. This man was big, but he was too clumsy and didn't know how to use his brute strength. Xia Yan could always find an opening to dodge.

At this point, more and more people gathered around to watch the commotion, causing a disturbance at the entrance of the toilet and preventing some people from using it. "Can someone please do something about this? This is blocking the way," one person who wanted to use the toilet said helplessly.

"Make way."

Chapter Ninety-Eight: Security Guards Help

At this moment, a person dressed in a police uniform appeared between Xia Yan and the man. Xia Yan's chest was being pressed against by the policeman, and his large tattooed arm was also restrained by the policeman, preventing him from causing trouble for Xia Yan.

The man pointed his middle finger at Xia Yan through the police officer and gave him a contemptuous look. He started by raising one hand, then raised both hands. Xia Yan didn't want to do anything uncivilized.

"Did you touch this woman too?" Xia Yan lowered her head, thinking the man's actions were childish, and then threw out this question at him fiercely. The man didn't know whether it was because of the police or because of Xia Yan's words.

His anger, expressed through body language, seemed to have subsided somewhat. With the policeman between them, Xia Yan turned his angular profile towards the man, who suddenly became agitated, yelling, "You just wait!"

However, he had already tucked his tail between his legs and ran away when he said that. The policeman squatted down and helped Fujiwara Chika up from the ground. Xia Yan went over and pushed the policeman's hand away, saying, "I can do it myself. I don't need your help."

In Xia Yan's eyes, anything could bully Fujiwara Chika, including the policeman who had just chased away the man. Xia Yan helped Fujiwara Chika out of the bar and then sat down on a public bench to rest.

"Chika, how are you, Chika?" Xia Yan heard Chika groan softly and thought she had woken up, so he kept calling out to her.

"Right, Ram, Ram hasn't come out yet. We need to wake Chika up quickly." Xia Yan thought of Ram still being in the bar. What should he do? On one side is Fujiwara Chika, and on the other side is Ram.

At this moment, an older woman sat down next to a public bench. She seemed quite kind, and she was wiping her sweat. She must have just finished square dancing and was resting here for a long time.

Xia Yan walked over to the older woman and said in his magnetic voice, “Auntie, could you look after her for a while? I have something to do inside and will be right back.”

"What, Auntie?" The handkerchief the woman was wiping her sweat from suddenly stopped in mid-air. She looked at Xia Yan in a questioning tone, then glanced at Fujiwara Chika lying on the chair behind Xia Yan.

"It's my fault for being so tactless, sister. Could you please look after my friend for me?" Xia Yan bent down and spoke to the older woman. The woman was clearly very pleased with Xia Yan's change of address.

"Hey, I'm telling you young people, you just love to have fun. It's good to have fun, because when you get old like us, you won't be able to have fun anymore. You're a handsome young man, so I'll help you out." After saying that, the aunt got up and sat down next to Qianhua.

"Thank you, sis, I'll be right back." Xia Yan walked into Bar 407 again. Before entering the bar, he glanced worriedly at the backs of the aunt and Fujiwara Chika. Fujiwara Chika was leaning back in her chair with her head tilted back.

After Xia Yan went inside, he returned to the table they had just booked, but couldn't find Ram. Just then, a waiter passed by, and Ram called out to him, "Excuse me, have you seen a lady sitting here?"

"Tall and thin, with slightly curly hair," Xia Yan roughly described Ram's appearance, and compared Ram's height. Then he looked at the waiter with an eager look, hoping that the waiter would not disappoint him.

"I don't remember. Why don't you go upstairs to the private rooms and look?"

Chapter Ninety-Nine: Finding Ram

Xia Yan asked the waiter for directions to the private room upstairs. By this time, Xia Yan could already feel the chill in his clothes, which were soaked with sweat from the cool breeze while he was running.

Xia Yan walked towards the private room, but all the doors were locked. How could he find Ram? Xia Yan was at a loss for a moment. "Sigh, I guess I'll just have to ask."

Xia Yan asked every waiter he met if they had seen Ram, but no one said they had.

"You mean that lady? I've seen her. She was brought by a man, and she bumped into me. I remembered her because she was pretty. Wasn't she wearing a huge diamond necklace?"

A woman who came to the bar's private room saw Xia Yan looking very anxious, so she came up and asked Xia Yan what he was looking for. Xia Yan described what Ram looked like to the woman, and the woman actually said she remembered him. At this point, Xia Yan was extremely anxious.

Xia Yan's last hope was to find Ram quickly. The man seemed to sense Xia Yan's anxiety and said, "Don't worry, let me think. It should be this room." The man paced back and forth in the corridor.

Then, recalling the scene of meeting Ram, he paced back and forth until he stopped in front of a room. At this moment, Xia Yan did not say anything about confirming with that woman again. This was his last hope, and he had to hold on to it tightly.

"Knock knock knock!" Xia Yan pounded on the door of that room, knocking harder and harder each time. Suddenly the door was opened. "Who is it?" came an impatient voice from inside. It was a man's voice.

Xia Yan pushed aside the man who opened the door and rushed inside, only to find that the person inside wasn't Ram. At that moment, Xia Yan's last hope was shattered. "Sorry to bother you," Xia Yan apologized to the person in the room.

Then he came out of the room. "Lamu?" The door to the next room opened, and Lamu came out. "Xia Yan." At this moment, Lamu's eyes were filled with watery tears, making her look pitiful.

This made Xia Yan even more regretful about his incompetence and failure to fulfill his responsibility as a protector of the flowers. Xia Yan shielded Ram behind him and said, "I'm sorry, I frightened you." With that, Xia Yan pulled Ram outside.

"Yeah, it's okay. Xia Yan, you've done your best. It's our fault for not protecting ourselves. By the way, how's Fujiwara Chika? Is she alright?" Ram shook her head as Xia Yan grabbed her wrist, trying to comfort Xia Yan's self-blame.

"Chika is safe now. Next time, please don't come to a place like this without me. The three of us will never come again. Promise me, you won't come here when you're alone either." Xia Yan suddenly stopped and turned to Ram.

When Xia Yan said his last sentence, he used an extremely firm and unyielding tone, even a bit domineering. Ram knew that Xia Yan's behavior was because he was too worried about her.

Ram wasn't angry at Xia Yan's anger, that contagious tone of rage; instead, she was somewhat pleased by Xia Yan's assertiveness, for reasons she didn't know.

Xia Yan finally dragged her to the bar entrance. "Huh? Where's Qianhua? She's gone?" When Xia Yan and Ram reached the bar entrance, Xia Yan suddenly let go of Ram's hand and walked to the public bench.

His expression was extremely anxious, even more so than when he had been looking for her earlier.

Chapter 100 Ram's Treat 44

At this moment, Ram clenched her fists and followed Xia Yan up. "What, where is Qianhua?" Ram's tone was somewhat cold.

"Hey, isn't there a note here? Chika said she's already gone home and told you not to worry." Xia Yan took the note from Ram's hand, or rather, snatched it from her, a move that hurt Ram.

Ram let out a soft "Ouch!" and then glanced at Xia Yan. At that moment, Xia Yan's gaze was fixed on the paper, and he didn't even notice Ram's soft groan.

Suddenly, a large group of people rushed out of the bar. "Are you Xia Yan?" The 413 men, each holding a large stick to their backs, glared at Xia Yan with vicious expressions.

"Yes, it is..." Xia Yan turned his head to see who called his name. He saw a big, burly old man, but Xia Yan didn't care and continued to look at the note.

"This is the guy who was getting us drunk at the bar," Ram hid behind Xia Yan and pointed at the man. Xia Yan looked in the direction Ram was pointing and took a closer look at the man.

He dressed similarly to the man he met at the toilet entrance, and was about the same size, but this man was fatter and not as muscular as the previous one. "The woman behind you is mine," the man said, waving a large stick in his hand.

Then he made a baseball stance, saying, "Today I'm going to use your head as a baseball to smash it open, so don't blame me if it gets blown out." The man lowered his body slightly, and the people who came out with him cheered and applauded.

This attracted a lot of onlookers. "Don't worry, I've already called the police," Ram said as she came out of the room, reassuring Xia Yan. Xia Yan nodded. "Brothers, I'll go first, so he won't accuse us of ganging up on you."

This guy was quite principled. He swung his baseball bat and charged at the unarmed Xia Yan. Xia Yan dodged to the side, and when the guy passed by, he snatched the bat from his hand.

"Hey, why aren't you playing by the rules? Fine, I'm not playing by the rules either, brothers, let's go!" After seeing that his weapon had been taken by Xia Yan, the man ordered his brothers to rush towards Xia Yan.

The man spat and then started to walk towards Ram. Xia Yan saw the man's action, and Ram was frightened by the man's lewd expression. Xia Yan shook off the people who came up to him and ran over to protect Ram behind him.

"You haven't had enough of this yet, have you?" A police officer stepped out from the crowd and pointed his baton at Xia Yan. "It's you again. Didn't you get enough of a beating? Doesn't your face look swollen enough?"

When those people saw the police officers approaching, they took off running faster than leopards, but they couldn't escape the police's pursuit. The police are specifically there to catch leopards. "Come on, come with us to the police station."

The police asked Ram and Xia Yan to come to the police station to give a statement before leaving. After they finished explaining everything, they came out of the police station. "Phew, finally a big problem is solved," Ram breathed a sigh of relief as he came out.

"Thanks to Xia Yan today, you did a great job as a protector of flowers," Ram walked up to Xia Yan, patted him on the chest, and praised him.

"It's good that you're all alright."

"How about I treat you to dinner another day? A meal is the only way to express my gratitude," Ram extended an invitation to Xia Yan.

Chapter 101 Having Dinner with Ram

"I'm fine with it. It's always better if someone else is paying for a meal," Xia Yan said with a smile, accepting Ram's invitation without refusing.

On the day that Ram and Xia Yan had arranged to have dinner together, Xia Yan thought that Ram was a lady after all, and he shouldn't keep Ram waiting too long, so he arrived at the restaurant fifteen minutes early.

This time, Ram really spent a lot of money. When Xia Yan arrived at the restaurant, he found that it was a high-end restaurant with a Michelin-starred chef. Xia Yan looked at the sign at the entrance of the restaurant and saw that the prices of the dishes were very expensive.

"Has Ram made a fortune lately? Why is he being treated to such a high-end restaurant?" Xia Yan thought to himself. Then, as Xia Yan entered the restaurant, a waiter greeted him warmly.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Xia Yan? Ms. Ram's private room is this way. Please follow me." The waiter bent down at a perfect 135-degree angle, flashed a standard smile revealing eight teeth, and then extended his right hand in a gesture of invitation.

Xia Yan followed the waiter inside and found that the private room was decorated exceptionally beautifully, almost to the point of being luxurious. Xia Yan was momentarily taken aback, even though he had been to quite a few high-end restaurants.

However, it was a bit too extravagant to set up such a grand meal for just two people. Xia Yan was seated by the waiter, and a few minutes later, a person stood outside the door.

Xia Yan turned around to look. "Lamu?" The luxurious environment made Xia Yan feel a little awkward, but Lamu's arrival made him feel much more relaxed. "Why are you spending so much? There are only two of you. You could have just treated us to some snacks."

Xia Yan's gaze followed Ram's seat and then settled on Xia Yan. Ram walked to the opposite side of Xia Yan with a smile. It was a typical Western-style long table. Xia Yan was nearsighted, and the table was too long.

"Why don't you sit here next to me? I have to raise my voice several decibels to speak from across the table," Xia Yan pointed to the empty space along the long side of the table, suggesting that Ram sit down so it would be easier to talk to her.

Otherwise, it would be so awkward if the two of them sat facing each other and spoke in a way that sounded like they were arguing. When Ram heard Xia Yan say this, she moved her chair over to him.

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"I'll do it, don't move," Xia Yan said when he saw Ram lift the chair. He wanted to go over and help Ram. Ram was different today. Usually, she would just ask for help without him having to notice.

"No, no, no, you sit down, I can do it myself. Moving a chair is a small thing like this," Ram stopped Xia Yan's movement, shielding her chair behind her so that Xia Yan wouldn't touch it.

.... . . .

When Ram sat down next to him, Xia Yan finally got a good look at Ram's makeup. Today, Ram had put on exquisite makeup, wore a bodycon skirt and a V-neck shirt, and had a necklace hanging on her fair neck.

"See, I had the foresight to come fifteen minutes early. Otherwise, you see, the men would have made the women wait." Actually, what Xia Yan wanted to ask Ram through this sentence was why she came so early today.

However, Xia Yan still couldn't bring himself to ask Ram directly, so he changed the meaning of the question slightly, twisted the language, and added some embellishments before saying it aloud.

Chapter 102 Gift Giving

"Oh, it's alright. Even if you make me wait, it doesn't matter how long it takes. You and I have to pay attention to all those complicated etiquettes," Ram said when she heard Xia Yan say that.

But when Ram opened the door to the private room, she found Xia Yan already sitting upright inside. Ram was pleasantly surprised, which dispelled the feeling of waiting for an unnecessary long process.

Ram arrived early because she wanted to prepare herself mentally for having dinner with Xia Yan on April 13th, but Xia Yan's early arrival disrupted her original plan, though it also gave her a pleasant surprise.

While talking to Xia Yan, Ram didn't look at him directly, or rather, she didn't dare to look at him directly. When the two of them were silent, footsteps sounded outside the door, probably the waiter bringing the food.

"Oh, I've already ordered the dishes according to your taste in mind. I don't know if they'll suit your taste. If not, we can change them." Ram heard the waiter coming over and then told Xia Yan that she had already ordered, skipping the troublesome process of choosing dishes.

"That's perfect. I was quite conflicted when ordering, so this way we can eat faster." Xia Yan noticed that Ram's tone seemed apologetic, so he repeatedly said that it was fine, it was all good, since we were all going to eat anyway.

“It’s perfect for me to see if you really understand me,” Xia Yan continued. Since Ram ordered the dishes according to her own taste, this was also a chance to see if he, who treated Ram like a younger sister, truly understood her older brother’s tastes.

The waiter's plate contained a bottle of red wine, two plates of steak and salad, a rectangular fruit platter, several cakes and desserts, and pasta.

"Wow, this is really plentiful. I wonder if the two of us can finish it all," Xia Yan said, looking at the dishes that the waiter had brought, which filled the entire table. She was worried that they would have to waste the food.

"Don't worry, this restaurant has its own exclusive ranch where they raise pigs. If you can't finish your food, you can give it to them. The owner will be happy if you can't finish it all," Ram told Xia Yan to eat as much as he wanted, and to order more if he wasn't satisfied.

"So, what are you hiding behind your back?" Xia Yan noticed that when Ram went to pick up some food, the handle of a bag on her back was sticking out, so Xia Yan pointed to the sticking-out handle and asked Ram.

"Sigh, you still found out, you little rascal." Ram saw that the place Xia Yan was pointing to was the gift she had hidden behind the chair to give Xia Yan. Now there was no surprise, but the gift was still meant for Xia Yan...