The food was served quickly. While Xu Shengxia leisurely cooked some vegetables in the pot with her chopsticks and ate, she didn't miss the chance to give the waitress a hard time.
"Hey, my shoelace is untied. Come over and tie it for me."
As she spoke, she stuck out her foot, which was clad in a shabby canvas shoe.
A hint of reluctance flickered across the waitress's face.
'She really didn't want to do something so demeaning.'
But Xu Shengxia just kept staring at her with a chilling gaze.
Her gaze seemed to be a warning: if the waitress didn't tie her shoelace, she wouldn't get the promised tip.
In the end, the waitress caved for the 1,000 yuan. She lowered her head to tie the shoelace for Xu Shengxia, an item she clearly found disgusting.
After she finished, just as she was about to straighten up, another foot was thrust in front of her.
"You missed one," Xu Shengxia said lazily, popping some food into her mouth with her chopsticks.
The waitress had no choice but to tie the other one.
After tying both laces, she straightened up.
But as she was straightening up, her head suddenly bumped into something. A cry of "Ah!" rang out, and a bowl of greasy hot pot broth came pouring down onto her head...
The waitress: "…!"
Xu Shengxia shrieked,
"Oh my! What have you done? How could you be so careless? You didn't even look when you were getting up and bumped right into my arm while I was about to drink my soup."
"Tsk... what a waste. I'd just let that bowl of soup cool down, too!"
The waitress: "!!!"
Her expression was absolutely livid.
'She had never been so humiliated.'
The greasy liquid covered her hair, face, and neck, seeping into her collar.
But that wasn't even the most infuriating part.
'The infuriating thing was that this girl had dumped hot pot broth all over her, and now she had the nerve to turn around and blame *her* for not being careful?!'
'How was she supposed to be careful?'
'Standing up after tying a shoelace was a completely normal action.'
'Who looks up when they're doing that?!'
'If anyone was at fault, it was her... She should have known I was about to stand up, yet she chose that exact moment to lift a bowl of soup, holding her arm right over my head...'
'She's the one in the wrong... No, to be more precise, she must have done it on purpose!'
'Because normally, even if someone bumped her arm while she was drinking soup, it should have spilled on *her*.'
'But the soup spilled all over *me*!'
'She did it on purpose!'
At this thought, the waitress glared furiously at Xu Shengxia.
But without any proof, she didn't know how to call her out, so she said nothing.
Just as she was seething with internal rage, the girl spoke first.
Her expression was one of extreme impatience.
"Hey! What are you looking at me like that for? You made a mess, so hurry up and fix it. Clean up the soup you spilled, or I'll file a complaint for ruining my appetite!"
The waitress: "!!!!"
She took a deep breath, her face turning pale with suppressed fury.
Without another word, her hair still dripping with grease, she went to get a mop and started cleaning.
Once she finished cleaning, she asked Xu Shengxia in a stiff tone,
"Is there anything else you need?"
Xu Shengxia gave her a cool glance and said nonchalantly,
"No."
Hearing this, the waitress picked up her mop, turned, and left without a single glance back.
The door slammed shut with a CLANG.
Xu Shengxia just clicked her tongue, completely unfazed.
"Born to be a maid, but insists on having princess syndrome... She looks down on customers, is greedy for petty handouts, and can't handle the slightest bit of heat. A person like that... what's she doing working as a waitress? She should go be a 'princess' at a KTV."
As for deliberately spilling soup all over the waitress, Xu Shengxia didn't feel she had gone too far in the slightest.
'How dare she look down on me, the young lady of the Xu Family? In my past life, I could have made it impossible for her entire family to survive in this city!'
'With this one, she'd already gone easy. It was just a bowl of soup, and a cooled-down bowl of hot pot broth at that... It was a light punishment meant to teach a serious lesson.'
'Hopefully, the waitress learned her lesson and won't provoke me again. If she doesn't, I'll let the matter drop. But if she tries anything else... Hmph. I wouldn't mind giving her a much bigger punishment.'
But these thoughts flashed through her mind in just an instant.
For Xu Shengxia, the most important thing was the food.
An insignificant person like that wasn't important enough to affect her appetite.