Chapter 56 Intentionally Causing a Misunderstanding
As Fang Qibai passed Zhu Fan's seat, his slender fingers casually fiddled with his phone: "Fan, would you mind if I asked your boyfriend to go to a bar for a drink tonight?"
Zhu Fan looked up from her phone: "You asked him out for drinks, why are you asking me?" She stuffed her phone and book into her bag. "Are you two even capable of sitting down and drinking peacefully together now?"
Zhu Fan didn't mean anything by it; she was simply curious whether their relationship had improved.
Fang Qibai smiled self-deprecatingly, "I asked him to drink because I wanted to ease the tension."
His mother hoped that he and Fang Qizhou would be like brothers in front of their father.
She also wanted to prove that she could take good care of him and Fang Qizhou.
He cooperated with his mother, even using Aunt Xin to threaten Fang Qizhou, forcing him to come home every weekend.
He doesn't see Aunt Xin, and he doesn't play the piano for her, so Aunt Xin won't have nightmares and be tormented by the past in her dreams.
Sometimes, he was even grateful that Fang Qizhou still had people he cared about and a thorn in his side.
Zhu Fan pursed her lips. "Fang Qibai, I'm an outsider to your family affairs and grudges. I have no right or reason to interfere. But if you bully my boyfriend, I will make trouble for you."
Fang Qibai leaned against the table and remained silent for a few seconds under Zhu Fan's protective and earnest gaze.
He lazily spread his hands towards her, "I've got it."
Zhu Fan took out the chocolate that Sister Fang had asked her to give to Fang Qibai yesterday from her bag.
In the last row of the classroom, Rong Lewei looked at Fang Qibai and Zhu Fan, who were sitting and standing in front of her, talking, and her nails dug into her palms.
She told herself to stop indulging in wishful thinking.
Remember Fang Qibai's words: stay far away from him.
The man still maintained the dignified and aloof demeanor I remembered, a gentle smile playing on his lips as he spoke.
Refined and gentle.
But she saw another side of Fang Qibai that noon.
Fang Qibai, with a cigarette between his lips, asked her how much she liked him.
She had never seen Fang Qibai smoke.
Almost instantly, the man's previous impression was overturned.
The stark contrast captivated her.
Ashes fell onto her skirt. Looking at the face she had longed for for so long, she said without hesitation that she could give him anything.
"Including your family and everything you own now?"
She almost nodded under the man's gentle yet aloof gaze.
"If you don't want to lose everything you have now, I'll give you a chance to be honest."
Fang Qibai's cold voice felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over her head.
Did I touch you that night?
The man tore away his composure, self-restraint, propriety, and gentlemanly demeanor, and plunged the most tender yet merciless knife into her.
She realized that she had never truly understood or known Fang Qibai.
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Peach Blossom Bar.
The woman swirled the liquor in her hand, gazing at the handsome man who had been fiddling with his phone since entering the bar.
The bar was dimly lit. The man was tall and long-legged, dressed in a white shirt and black pants. He held a cigarette between his pale, white fingers, looking languid and indifferent.
Noticing the woman's gaze, Fang Qibai raised the corner of his eye and glanced at her casually.
The woman raised her wine glass towards Fang Qibai.
Fang Qibai raised the cigarette in his hand.
The man exuded an air of asceticism, and the white shirt he wore did not appear prim and proper on him, but rather gave off a dashing and noble air.
"Handsome, are you alone?"
Want to share a table?
Fang Qibai slowly unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt. "Sorry, I'm waiting for someone."
Under the man's indifferent gaze, the woman smiled and showed no intention of giving up.
She pulled up her WeChat QR code.
Fang Qibai chuckled and stubbed out his cigarette. "The person I've been waiting for has arrived."
The woman turned her head and unexpectedly met a pair of cold, fierce black eyes.
The man was dressed in all black, with large, conspicuous patches of paint on his clothes. His extremely tall stature exuded an imposing presence, and his muscular physique was faintly visible beneath his clothing. His sharp brow bone conveyed a sense of world-weariness and arrogance, and the ferocity in his dark eyes made it impossible to meet his gaze.
She instinctively took a step back.
Fang Qizhou grabbed Qi Bai's shirt collar, his dark eyes cold and piercing.
"Fang Qibai, do you really think I wouldn't dare to kill you?"
The woman screamed.
Fang Qibai seemed to have anticipated Fang Qizhou's opening remarks.
"You came from Yueyuan?"
Upon hearing Fang Qibai mention Yueyuan, Fang Qizhou's forehead veins bulged. "Who the hell told you to go to Yueyuan last night?"
Fang Qibai braced himself against the table with one hand, "Dad wants to see Aunt Xin, but Aunt Xin won't see him."
In order to see Aunt Xin and make her happy, her father sent him to Yueyuan.
"Has something happened to Aunt Xin?"
The violent rage that had been building up between Fang Qizhou's brows vanished in an instant.
His fist was sharp and ruthless.
Luo Shuixin mixed a whole bottle of sleeping pills into her ice cream that morning.
If it weren't for the aunt noticing something was wrong, Luo Shuixin would be a cold corpse right now.
Fang Qibai turned his head and slammed his back hard against the table. He swallowed the blood in his mouth. "Fang Qizhou, I promise you, I will never see Aunt Xin again, and you don't have to go back to the Fang family that you hate."
Fang Qizhou's lips curled into a smile, but he paused when he saw the box of chocolates on the table, his hand holding the ashtray he was about to use to smash Fang Qibai's head.
In the dim light, the man's face seemed to hold a beast lurking beneath the surface, ready to break free at any moment, yet for some unknown reason, it was suppressed.
This box of chocolates is exactly the same as the box of chocolates Zhu Fan gave him last night.
Following his gaze, Fang Qibai pushed the chocolate on the table in front of Fang Qizhou. "Zhu Fan said that if I bully her boyfriend, she will cause me trouble."
Upon hearing Zhu Fan's name, Fang Qizhou's cold gaze hardened. "She gave you this box of chocolates?"
Fang Qibai seemed oblivious to the pain, casually wiping away the blood from his lips.
He took the punch to the cheek.
The opportunity to make Fang Qizhou suffer is right in front of us.
He smiled and explained in detail: "She gave it to me during her last class in the afternoon, after everyone had left the classroom."
"If you like it, you might as well take it and eat it."
Fang Qizhou's face was frighteningly gloomy.
Fang Qibai straightened the table and chairs, a gentle smile in his eyes.
It's something that makes Fang Qizhou so violent, yet he still has to endure it.
He was very happy.
Fang Qibai lazily walked to the bar area and ordered an apple martini and a Godfather cocktail.
"Fang Qizhou, I called you over today just to invite you for a drink."
"I've had enough of everything you're tired of."
The gloom in Fang Qibai's eyes was magnified several times over by his mother's phone call.
He took the drink from the bartender and downed it in one gulp.
The phone stopped ringing.
The screen lights up.
Why aren't you answering the phone?
【Where are you now? 】
Call me back now, immediately!
Who gave you permission to block location services on your phone?
Get home before your father arrives!
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