Ye Chu's face flushed red from being scolded, and she almost coughed up the wine in her stomach. It took a long time for her to calm down a little.

He Linzhi took back her hand that was patting her back, and after being anxious for a while, she smiled.

Ye Chu looked at her resentfully.

He Linzhi smiled, "It was you who insisted on learning to smoke, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Plastic best friend, no empathy at all."

"Puff——" He Linzhi took out another cigarette in a mean way and handed it to Ye Chu, "Still want to learn?"

Ye Chu glared at her with gritted teeth.

He Linzhi grinned, "I'll just watch you, learning to smoke to prevent President Xiao, what do you think?"

As she said that, He Linzhi picked up the whole pack of cigarettes and was about to throw it away, but Ye Chu grabbed her hand.

He Linzhi glared.

Ye Chu resisted the nausea that was still rising, "Let's do it again."

He Linzhi frowned, "Do you really want to learn?"

Ye Chu nodded firmly, took the cigarette, smoked one, and lit it himself.

He Linzhi snatched the cigarette from her mouth, pressed it into the wine glass, and said sternly, "You are not allowed to learn."

Ye Chu knew that she was doing it for his own good, and he knew that smoking was not good, but...

Just as the two of them stared at each other in silence, a man in glasses on a high-legged seat beside the stage was staring at the cigarette in Ye Chu's hand, and then he quickly took out his mobile phone to take a picture as if he remembered something.

After taking the picture, the man in glasses decisively found the contact from WeChat and sent the photo.

Recipient: Special Assistant Qiao.

10 minutes later.

Ye Chu was still staring at the cigarette on the table, his mind was struggling fiercely. He Linzhi rested his chin on his hand, his tipsy eyes looking from Ye Chu to the cigarette.

"Isn't it just smoking? Am I afraid?" Ye Chu thought to himself and decided to learn to smoke.

He Linzhi sighed.

Even if Ye Chu was persuaded now, he would learn it secretly if he wanted to, so he had to accept his fate.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm doing this for my future happiness." Ye Chu said something crooked.

He Linzhi twitched his lips, closed his eyes and lay on the table, "Then you continue, I won't watch."

Ye Chu was silent for a while, took a few deep breaths, and finally picked up the cigarette, lit it, and inhaled very slowly.

"Cough! Cough cough!"

She was still bitten a few times, but it was much better than before, at least she didn't feel like coughing her internal organs.

He Linzhi couldn't help but peek, feeling depressed, after all, she didn't like Ye Chu smoking.

Ye Chu didn't feel good in his heart, but he was determined, so he simply closed his eyes to prepare himself mentally, and then continued - smoking -

suddenly.

The cigarette in his hand was forcefully taken away.

Then her wrist was gripped tightly.

Ye Chu looked up in surprise, and when she met the man's cold eyes, her whole body froze.

"Mr. Xiao, Mr. Xiao?" He Linzhi's surprised and trembling voice sounded angrily. At this moment, she had sat up straight, blinking mechanically at Mr. Xiao who seemed to have fallen from the sky.

Xiao Beichen still held Ye Chu's wrist tightly and glanced at He Linzhi.

He Linzhi felt that she was being chopped into pieces. Her desire to survive immediately told her to run, but her friendship with her best friends kept her from abandoning Ye Chu and escaping alone.

So He Linzhi said with trembling lips: "That, that..."

Xiao Beichen glanced at her with a cold look, and He Linzhi was completely stuttered and her legs were shaking.

"It's none of Linzhi's business. Linzhi just forbade me to learn to smoke." Ye Chu finally regained consciousness and spoke quickly.

He Linzhi was so moved that she wanted to cry. She opened her mouth to speak again to save Ye Chu, but her arm was grabbed. She turned her head and saw

Qiao Sen, with a frown on his face, grabbing He Linzhi's arm and whispering in her ear, "If you don't want to be implicated, follow me quickly, or you will die or be skinned alive."

He Linzhi swallowed hard, but still didn't want to abandon Ye Chu.

Qiao Sen glanced at his young master and immediately dragged He Linzhi away!