32 Rejected

Moments later, Ken had brought Lidya's car, a brand-new Honda Civic sedan.

Lydia sat next to Ken. The car had not yet started when Lidya saw her friend passing by outside the car.

Lidya opened the window to talk to a friend who was walking near her car.

Seeing that, Ken took his cell phone because there was an incoming call.

It turned out to be an incoming call from Andreas. Ken listened to Andreas' words through the earphones in his ears.

"Young master, we will follow you in case you need us."

"No need, Andreas. No need," Ken said. Ken felt he didn't need Andreas and his friends because Ken had the martial arts skills to deal with people who tried to harass him or Lidya.

"But according to Tony, the young master might need my help because the young master just had a fight with someone quite powerful, so he might send thugs to harass the young master and the young master's girlfriend on their date."

"I can deal with that."

"I know young master is very tough, but, think about the comfort of young master's girlfriend as well. Besides, we're doing the escort so that you don't have to bother with the keroco. Let us face them."

Ken thought for a while. Finally, he said, "Okay." Ken quickly hung up the phone as Lidya had ended her conversation with her friend.

Then Lidya immediately closed the car window and said, "I want to eat with you at La Perfecto restaurant."

"Where is it?"

"I'll show you the way."

After that, the car drove out of the Mulia investment and securities office.

After that, Ken began to break through the Jakarta traffic. There was a car following Ken's car, which was the car of Ken's bodyguards, led by Andreas, because they had gotten approval from Ken to follow wherever Ken went tonight.

But unbeknownst to Ken and his bodyguards, there was another car following Ken's car. There were two people sitting in this car. These two people were Heri and Alex.

Heri drove the car and continued to follow Ken's car from a safe distance while beside Heri, there was Alex.

Alex started making phone calls to someone. "Ardi, we're following that cleaning service who seems to be going out with Lidya."

There was an angry voice on the other end of the line. "Okay, you follow their car. If they go to a restaurant, call me immediately so that I can call the manager or owner of the restaurant so that they don't give Ardi and Lidya access."

"Yes, Ardi."

"With no access into the restaurant, Lidya will definitely be disappointed especially when the manager says that Lidya can enter or eat at the restaurant but Ken is prohibited from entering or eating at the restaurant. This way, Lidya will feel uncomfortable walking with Ken and she will eventually leave Ken."

"Good idea, Ardi. Okay, Ardi. We'll do that."

"Okay and if Lidya and Ken change restaurants, you do the same thing again, call me directly or if you know the owner of the restaurant they go to, pressure the owner to not give Ken access to make Lidya even more uncomfortable."

"Okay, Ardi. We'll do it right away."

**

A few moments later, Lidya and Ken had entered the Italian restaurant which was quite popular and trending among families, young couples and young children, making it a favorite place to eat for many people.

Ken and Lidya were immediately greeted by a waiter. They were immediately directed to sit in the center seat.

Holding hands, the two of them began to choose from the menu in their hands.

Without Ken realizing it, Andreas and Matias had taken seats about 6 tables behind Ken. They both deliberately sat behind Ken and not in front of or beside Ken, so that Ken would feel comfortable in the restaurant because the possibility of seeing them, Ken would not be too comfortable because he felt followed.

Unbeknownst to Ken too, around the entrance of the restaurant with a considerable distance from Ken and Lidya, which is in the center of this restaurant, Alex and Heri have sat down and started looking for the manager of this restaurant.

Alex was very happy to report to Ardi because it turned out that the owner of this restaurant or the franchise holder of this restaurant in Indonesia, was a car club friend with Ardi, so it would be easier for Ardi to carry out his plan.

By this time, a waiter had arrived to record all the food ordered by Lidya.

As Lidya was eagerly ordering the various dishes, she asked Ken. "Is there anything you want to add?"

"You order for me, Lidya."

Lidya looked at Ken and said, "You don't have to be shy, because I brought you to this fancy restaurant. I'll pay for all the food we order, so you can order whatever you want."

Lidya thought Ken hadn't ordered anything until now because he was worried about the price of the food in this restaurant. That's why Lidya said that.

"I leave everything to you, Lidya. You can order food for me, after all, I don't know the names of these dishes." Ken's lie.

Back in Hong Kong, Ken sometimes followed his mom and dad's tastes. When he wanted French food, they would use their private jet to fly to France to taste the best French food in Paris.

When Ken's mom wanted Italian food like in this restaurant, they would take their private jet to Milan to taste the best Italian food, straight from the city.

Therefore, the foods on the menu were very familiar to Ken, but because Ken remembered his status as a cleaning service worker, Ken let Lidya think that Ken didn't know about the food terms on the menu in front of Ken's eyes.

Lidya smiled. Finally, she no longer insisted that Ken order his own food, because she thought Ken did not understand the food terms on this menu, so she started ordering food and drinks for Ken.

After she finished recording everything, Lidya said to the waiter, "That's all. Please hurry? I'm really hungry. I deliberately didn't eat lunch today so that I could have a big meal here, so, if possible, I want it as soon as possible."

"Yes, sis. We will try to make it as soon as possible. Stay tuned, sis," said the waiter after which he took the menus in Lidya and Ken's hands and left the table.

Ken felt very sorry to hear that Lydia didn't have time to eat lunch because she wanted to eat at this restaurant, so, after a few minutes, anxiously, Ken had immediately asked several waiters about the order ordered by Lydia earlier but then a waiter brought bad news.

"What? We've been rejected at this restaurant?" asked Lydia cluelessly, to the waiter who brought the news that the two of them were not wanted at this restaurant.