22. Falling out
Jiang Yanning, who was being dreamed of by many girls, stood in front of the mirror and tugged at his tie impatiently.
His face was full of dissatisfaction as he said, "I have no plans to get married."
"You are 27 years old. What are you going to do if you don't get married?" Mrs. Jiang asked with a frown.
"I asked you to join the company to help your big brother, but you refused. But what's the point of guarding your shabby little company every day?"
"Now I ask you to find a girl of equal status to marry, but you are unwilling to do so."
"What do you want to do?" Mrs. Jiang asked him unhappily.
Jiang Yanning looked at her and said seriously, "I don't want to do anything. I just don't want to get married at such a young age."
"You don't want to marry Anlu, do you?" Mrs. Jiang looked at him and asked directly.
Hearing Anluo's name, Jiang Yanning was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "That's not true. She and I are just pure friends."
But as a mother, how could she not understand her son? Madam Jiang advised earnestly, "You don't know how much Anlu played around in college, and later she fell in love with Pei Xu to bits."
"You'd better put that thought aside."
But Jiang Yanning couldn't stand this kind of persuasion and just felt impatient.
He found an excuse to leave the room. When he walked down the stairs, Jiang Yanning was thinking about An Luo's smiling face.
Going down to the lobby on the first floor, many people had already arrived.
Brother Jiang and his wife were toasting and chatting with those people. They both had smiles on their faces, as if they had encountered something happy.
He didn't like this kind of social interaction, but since he was the second young master of the Jiang family, some people came over to chat with him when they saw him.
Jiang Yanning breathed a sigh of relief after getting rid of those people, and walked to the corner with a glass of wine.
At this time, Shen Zhiyi’s voice sounded from the side: “I thought you were going to hide.”
He raised his eyes and saw Shen Zhiyi, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Do you think Pei Xu will come?" Shen Zhiyi sat down, crossed his legs slightly, and asked casually.
"I will come." Jiang Yanning said firmly.
"Are you so sure?" Shen Zhiyi asked.
Jiang Yanning chuckled and said, "Today is my grandfather's birthday, so of course he has to come."
Shen Zhiyi thought about it and realized that it was true.
"Do you think he will bring Shi Mo with him?"
Hearing this question, Jiang Yanning frowned.
Before they could give their answers, Pei Xu gave them the answer first.
Not only did he bring people with him, he also dressed them up beautifully.
If someone asks, he will introduce her to them: "This is my girlfriend."
When those people heard the word "girlfriend", they were slightly stunned, but they were all smart people. They immediately turned around and said to Shi Mo with a smile on their faces: "Hello, hello." They looked so flattering.
Soon, the news that Pei Xu had a girlfriend spread throughout the banquet.
Shi Mo has had a cold face since he got off the car, without a smile at all.
When someone extended their hand to her, Shi Mo would shake hands with them because it was polite.
"You really brought her here." Jiang Yanning and the other two walked over, their eyes fell on Shi Mo, their faces looking particularly ugly.
"She is my girlfriend, so what's the big deal about bringing her here?" Pei Xu asked coldly.
"Don't you know that Anlu likes you?" Jiang Yanning questioned, clenching his hands tightly at his sides, his eyes full of dissatisfaction.
"Anluo has liked you for so many years. You hurt her for a woman like this. Have you ever thought that Anluo would be sad and upset if she knew?"
Pei Xu glanced at the two of them coldly, then sneered and looked at them and slowly said, "She likes me, so I have to respond?"
"I don't like her."
When Jiang Yanning heard this, he clenched his fists even tighter, feeling that it was not worth it for Anluo.
Since her junior year, An Luo has been following Pei Xu since she realized that the person she likes is him.
But Pei Xu never looked at her straight in the eye. In his eyes, there was only Shi Mo.
Even if Shi Mo disappeared for five years, Pei Xu would only miss her and think about her.
Now that the person has been found, he has been brought out to claim sovereignty.
Jiang Yanning felt even more distressed for Anluo.
"Anlu is so good to you, why don't you like her?" Jiang Yanning asked, asking with some gritted teeth, more because he felt that Pei Xu was ungrateful.
But Pei Xu found it funny. If he had to give a response, he would have won the girl by now.
"Then her liking has caused me trouble." Pei Xu didn't give the other party any face.
"Please forward this to her and stop causing me trouble."
Shi Mo, who was standing next to them, was extremely impatient. When she saw these two people, she felt so angry that her teeth were itching.
Especially Shen Zhiyi, she hated herself for not being able to kill the murderer.
Shen Zhiyi, who was standing next to them, didn't say anything, but his eyes wandered between the two of them.
But when he met Shi Mo's gaze, he was stunned.
Because Shi Mo looked at him with hatred in his eyes.
If looks could kill people, he would have been stabbed to death hundreds of times by Shi Mo's eyes.
Shen Zhiyi retracted his gaze, reached out and tugged at Jiang Yanning's sleeve, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's not talk about these things."
"Pei Xu doesn't like An Luo, you can't force him to like her."
In the end, the two parted ways unhappily. The people who were once good friends could no longer return to their original pure state.
Seeing them like this, Shi Mo chuckled and asked, "Don't you think it's a pity that they and I have to go through this trouble?"
Is it a pity?
There are some.
Pei Xu didn't have many friends, and the three of them were among his few friends.
But who made him fall in love with Shi Mo?
Then his relationship with those three people would be like strangers.
"I don't think it's a pity." Pei Xu took an empty plate and picked up some desserts and fruits for her.
The movements are graceful and the manners are appropriate.
At first glance, he looks like an heir trained in a large family.
The cakes and pastries she had picked up were all Shi Mo's favorites. After placing the plate in her hands, Pei Xu continued, "Because I can't lose you."
"Even more, I can't live without you."
When Pei Xu said this, his eyes fell directly on Shi Mo, and his dark eyes were full of the love that was usually suppressed in his heart.
Shi Mo listened to what he said without saying anything more.
He just calmly picked up the fork and slowly started eating.
The banquet began and the protagonist came out.
Everyone came forward one by one to toast and congratulate.
Mr. Jiang is eighty years old and can't drink, so his father and grandson have to do it for him.
Everyone presented their gifts one by one, and the whole banquet was very lively.
As the chairman of Jiahe, Pei Xu was naturally toasted by others.
Shi Mo felt that there were too many people around, so he took his food and hid in a corner to eat it by himself.
It was at this time that Huo Shaoyu stood in front of her wearing a black cheongsam with a white furry shawl draped over her shoulders.
"Are you the bitch who hurt my daughter?"
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