Chapter 64 She said I was a rotten cucumber and didn't want me anymore.

After Lu Yanzhi took Han Wei home, he wandered around the city alone.

Looking at the street scene outside, his feelings were complicated.

The streetlights cast a dim yellow glow, and the traffic flowed endlessly.

The city's myriad lights seemed to belong to none of him.

"Buzzing..."

His phone rang.

Lu Yanzhi turned on his phone and saw that it was a call from a friend.

"What is it?" he answered the phone.

"Want to go out for drinks?" Yu Yiyang's voice came from the phone. "I'm at PIH, want to come over? Or are you going to keep the beauty company?"

Yu Yiyang is Lu Yanzhi's longtime friend; they've been friends since childhood.

So at that moment, he didn't hesitate and told the driver to turn around.

“Okay,” he said.

The Bentley drove all the way to PIH, the largest nightclub in City A.

After walking through the noisy crowd, Lu Yanzhi finally arrived at Yu Yiyang's private room.

He frowned slightly as soon as he entered.

There were quite a few men and women inside. I don't know what went wrong with Yu Yiyang today, but he had so many people come to keep him company.

"Yanzhi, you're here!" Yu Yiyang reached out and hugged him as soon as he saw him.

Lu Yanzhi had no choice but to follow him inside.

"Let me introduce you all. This is my childhood friend, now the president of the Lu Group, Lu Yanzhi! Applause!" Yu Yiyang was clearly a little drunk.

The scene began to get noisy.

Lu Yanzhi is a very famous person in City A. Right now, everyone inside is staring at him with wide eyes.

He just found it noisy.

So he waved his hand, signaling some irrelevant people to leave first.

Yu Yiyang wasn't angry; he just smiled and let those people leave, going along with his wishes.

The two sat on the sofa, and Yu Yiyang poured him a drink.

Under the dim light, Lu Yan stopped drinking and took a small sip.

"How have you been lately?" Yu Yiyang asked.

Lu Yanzhi did not answer immediately. He leaned back in the shadows, and Yu Yiyang could not see his expression.

After a long while, he said, "What about you? What happened to you?"

Yu Yiyang smiled, wiped his eyes, and took another sip of wine.

"It's alright, but there have been a lot of things going on at home lately, and there are some things I need to handle. Also, that stupid woman Xu Qin actually broke up with me and said I was a rotten cucumber and didn't want me anymore."

Yu Yiyang shook his head and said, "I don't know what she's thinking. I have been in contact with some people recently, but those are all family matters. My father asked me to accompany the Zhou family's daughter shopping. How could I not go?"

Lu Yanzhi gently swirled the wine in his glass, listening to the conversation in a half-hearted manner.

At the end, he said, "Perhaps you've done too many things that have caused her to misunderstand."

Yu Yiyang rolled her eyes at Lu Yanzhi and poured him another drink.

“Okay, I got it, Young Master Lu.” Yu Yiyang said sarcastically, “I should be like you, Young Master Lu, who only had Shi Nian by her side when she was a child, and now only has Han Wei by her side.”

A sudden wave of annoyance washed over Lu Yanzhi, so he waved his hand to stop Yu Yiyang from adding any more wine.

Yu Yiyang, however, became interested.

"Are you angry?" Yu Yiyang said with a smile. "I'm just praising you, I really mean it."

"I'm quite envious of you." Yu Yiyang put the wine aside and leaned back on the sofa.

"He is capable enough to turn the family business around and even take it to the next level."

"Emotionally, Shi Nian loves you to the core and is willing to do anything for you, even risk his life for you."

"Although Han Wei has replaced her now, based on what I've read online, she is a very kind person."

"But what about me..."

In the dim light, no one could see the expression on Yu Yiyang's face.

"Although I have taken over the family business, there are still many external troubles."

"The woman I've been with for several years suddenly thinks I'm dirty, and she won't listen to me even after I explain."

"How I wish I could be like you, carefree and playing around with life."

Yu Yiyang's voice echoed in the private room.

Lu Yanzhi lowered his eyes slightly, looking at the ice cubes slowly swirling in the wine in the glass.

Playing the field?

It seems not.

"...By the way, what's going on between you, Shi Nian, and Han Wei?"

While Yu Yiyang was still talking, he suddenly asked Lu Yanzhi, "I've been reading the news online on and off lately, but I still don't understand what you're trying to do."

“Shi Nian and I are going through divorce proceedings and are currently in the cooling-off period,” Lu Yanzhi replied.

"What?!" Yu Yiyang sat up abruptly, his face emerging from the shadows, now filled with shock.

"For Han Wei?" Yu Yiyang looked incredulous.

Lu Yanzhi took a sip of wine.

"Mm," he replied.

"No, buddy, I don't understand." Yu Yiyang immediately put his own affairs out of his mind and said, "Weren't you and Shi Nian getting along really well before? I remember you were quite satisfied with her. Han Wei is almost gone, and I thought you were just taking care of her out of humanitarianism... And, is Shi Nian really willing?"

Lu Yanzhi simply swirled the ice cubes in the wine gently, without looking at Yu Yiyang.

“She agreed,” Lu Yanzhi said. “So we are now in a cooling-off period.”

“This isn’t right!” Yu Yiyang stood up and paced back and forth in the private room.

It seems quite confusing.

"She's really willing to leave?" Yu Yiyang said, "I remember back then, there was a beautiful woman from the other side who offered herself up, but you couldn't be bothered with her. Then she went to Shi Nian and acted arrogantly, and Shi Nian dealt with her directly. Didn't she stay angry with you for several days and not let you touch her?"

As Yu Yiyang spoke, Lu Yanzhi recalled that incident.

The whole thing was a misunderstanding. He had no interest in the other person and was just too tired to respond that day. But the other person thought that his silence meant he agreed, so he went to Shi Nian's place to make a scene.

He still remembers how Shi Nian lost her temper back then.

He threw a stack of documents at the other party, telling them to get lost if they didn't want to do business properly; the Lu family didn't lack clients like that.

That night, when he tried to hug her, she pushed him away.

It was puffed up, just like a pufferfish.

It took him a long time to coax her back to calm down.

That night, after finally coaxing him, she said to him, "Zhi, business matters are negotiable, but I won't compromise on our feelings."

That day she said, "Ah Zhi, I love you, I love you so much."

"But I'm a selfish person; I want you to only have me in your heart."

"If one day you fall in love with someone else."

At that moment, her eyes were filled with determination. She said:

"I will not stay."

Lu Yanzhi's hand holding the cup suddenly tightened.

Then, he relaxed easily.

“That’s true. She’s always been following you around. At most, she’d cause a little trouble. After all these years, how could she possibly leave?” Yu Yiyang’s voice came through.

Lu Yanzhi closed his eyes.

Indeed, it's been seven years, and she can't live without him.

I've recently learned to be sensible and not make a fuss.

Thinking of this, Lu Yanzhi drank the wine in his cup in one gulp.

They drank a lot of alcohol that night.

But for some reason, he always felt a little scared.

However, he put the matter out of his mind the next day and went back to his normal life.

A few days passed peacefully.

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