Gu Chengyu settled Su Qianqian on the sofa and ruffled her hair: "Sit here and watch quietly, everyone will be here soon."
He sat down next to her, took out his phone, and opened a small group chat containing only Shen Que, Qin Yu, and Zhou Yu'an.
His long, slender fingers tapped rapidly on the screen, his words concise and to the point: "Everyone get dressed and head down to the private room immediately. This boring bet needs to end tonight."
After sending the message, Gu Chengyu hugged Su Qianqian, his voice low and reassuring, asking, "Who sent you?"
Su Qianqian lowered her face even further and whispered, "Yes, it was this afternoon. Sister Shu waited for me in the corridor, showed me the address of the private room, and said that you two are related."
Gu Chengyu's eyes instantly turned cold.
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As soon as the group message was sent, Shen Que, Qin Yu, and Zhou Yu'an's phones rang simultaneously.
"bite."
"bite."
"bite."
The three beeping notification sounds were particularly clear in the slightly eerie atmosphere of Yunque.
The background music had been turned down, and the crowd was still whispering about what had just happened.
Chen Que irritably pushed away his female companion who was trying to get close to him again, took out his phone, and unlocked it.
When he saw the message Gu Chengyu had posted in the four-person group chat, his expression became complicated.
The private room downstairs? Should everyone dress neatly and go there?
The image of the tearful woman at the door, Su Qianqian, flashed through Shen Que's mind almost immediately.
Chengyu did it for her, didn't he?
Not only did he chase after them and appease them, but he also brought them right under his nose, making them dress neatly and go to settle the gambling dispute.
This wasn't about the gambling; it was clearly about giving that woman an explanation.
An indescribable bitterness welled up in Chen Que's heart.
The innocent, pure girl who caught my eye at the company during the day became the apple of Chengyu's eye by night.
How could Chengyu go to such lengths, something that's unprecedented for him?
He instinctively wanted to speak up, to treat this as a joke and tell Qin Yu and Zhou Yu'an next to him, just like before.
He wanted to say: Chengyu's new love is the same new girl I spotted at the company during the day. Isn't that a coincidence?
But he swallowed the words back down his throat.
Shen Que twitched the corners of his mouth, forcibly suppressing the slight embarrassment in his heart, and put on that cynical, roguish smile again.
He waved his phone, deliberately raising his voice with a mocking tone: "Tsk, look, Young Master Gu has spoken! He wants us all to dress properly and gather in the private room downstairs to settle this stupid betting game."
He glanced around the room at the people who still looked somewhat dazed, and drawled, "Did you all hear me? Hurry up! Fasten your belts, straighten your skirts, and get dressed properly!"
"Don't get in the way of the Crown Prince and his new lover!"
He deliberately emphasized the words "new love," his gaze sweeping over the scattered clothes on the ground and the ambiguous figure in the corner, his words carrying a hidden meaning.
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