The Shen family booked a high-end hotel in the city center, and Shen Yuhuai's birthday party was held here. As the second son of the Shen family, Shen Yuhuai rarely appears in the social circle of S City. This time, when the news of the Shen family's banquet came out, people who were on good terms with the Shen family attended the banquet.
The parking lot of the high-end hotel was crowded with cars, and guests were led in by waiters. Chen Qizhao sat by the window, his peripheral vision sweeping over the vehicles lined up toward the door. He listened to the discussion between Chen Jianhong and Chen Shiming in the car, and learned that the Lin family was also on the Shen family's invitation list. Countless eyes were watching in S City. The Lin family was of high status, so the Shen family had to be invited. Not only that, the Chen family also had to maintain superficial peace with the Lin family at this banquet.
The vehicle moved forward slowly, and Chen Shiming glanced at Chen Qizhao who was sitting by the window.
Soon, the waiter knocked on the driver's window. The Chen family arrived at the banquet at 6:30 in the evening. The driver followed the waiter to park the car.
When the Chen family got off the car, a waiter came to lead the way.
There were no other parked vehicles in front of the hotel. There was a guide standing in front of the magnificent gate. When Chen Shiming and others were signing, Chen Qizhao suddenly caught a glimpse of a black car across the fountain and his eyes stopped instantly. He took a few steps back and saw the model of the car more clearly, and his eyes immediately sank.
After signing, Chen Shiming noticed that Chen Qizhao was still standing outside the hotel's door and said, "Qizhao."
Chen Qizhao came to his senses, walked to the front to sign, and after signing, he asked the waiter: "How many layers are you wrapping tonight?"
The waiter immediately replied: "Mr. Shen has reserved the 6th to 8th floors of the hotel. The banquet hall is on the 6th floor, and the 7th and 8th floors are places to rest."
Chen Qizhao handed him the pen and said, "Thank you."
The banquet hall was on the 6th floor. After Chen Qizhao followed the Chen family to the 6th floor, he saw the entire layout of the banquet hall, including the people who came to the banquet. There were many people at Shen Yuhuai's birthday party. Chen Qizhao knew who they were by just looking around. At a glance, he saw Lin Shizhong and his son Lin Xuyan. The two of them were standing in the crowd holding champagne, with hypocritical faces of socializing on their faces.
Chen Qizhao looked away and saw Shen Yuhuai talking to someone in the distance.
Instead of going over directly, he lowered his head and sent a message.
After Shen Yuhuai toasted with others, he said something to Shen Xuelan beside him, then walked towards Chen Qizhao.
When Chen Qizhao looked up after sending the message, he saw Shen Yuhuai standing in front of him.
The man was wearing a black suit today, with his hair combed up and wearing silver-framed glasses, looking a little more mature than usual.
Chen Qizhao's eyes paused slightly, looking at the person in front of him, and saw the figure of Shen Yuhuai a few years later. Shen Yuhuai later also wore such a combination, but the current Shen Yuhuai's face looked a little younger.
"Who are you messaging?" Shen Yuhuai looked at him.
"Xiao Zhou, there's something for him to do." Chen Qizhao came back to his senses, "Happy birthday."
The two had just said a few words when a waiter came over and said something in Shen Yuhuai's ear. Shen Yuhuai paused slightly and asked, "What happened just now?"
"Yes," said the waiter.
Seeing this, Chen Qizhao said, "If you are busy, go over first."
Shen Yuhuai took a glass of orange juice from the waiter next to him and handed it to Chen Qizhao, “I’m a little busy today, so I may not be able to take care of you.”
Chen Qizhao took the orange juice and paused for a moment. His eyes fell on the champagne glass in Shen Yuhuai's hand. "It's okay."
As the protagonist of the birthday party, Shen Yuhuai was inevitably busy. And with so many people coming, it was obvious that Uncle Shen was paving the way for Shen Yuhuai's development in S City. Chen Qizhao followed Shen Yuhuai with his eyes, and saw that the other party followed the waiter and stopped at the back door of the banquet hall. The waiter seemed to have something in his hand and gave it to Shen Yuhuai, which looked like a gift from a distance.
Chen Shiming just happened to come over and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"No." Chen Qizhao asked: "Are the staff in this venue prepared by the hotel?"
Chen Shiming looked at him and said, "No, there are also some people arranged by the Shen family. Are you worried about security issues?"
Chen Qizhao said: "Just ask."
Chen Shiming explained: "Shen Xuelan told me that the people delivering wine in the banquet hall were arranged by her in advance, and it has nothing to do with the hotel."
Chen Qizhao seemed to be thinking about something.
On the other side, Shen Yuhuai followed the waiter to the door of the banquet hall, and the waiter handed him a gift box.
This waiter is the person responsible for registering the guests' gifts.
Shen Yuhuai looked at the gift box in front of him, then looked at the waiter and asked, "What did the person who came say? What does he look like?"
"He was middle-aged and wearing a hat, so I couldn't see his face clearly." The waiter continued, "I asked him to register his name, but the information he registered was very strange. It was the same as that of one of our guests."
Shen Yuhuai's eyes sank slightly. The box in front of him was not big, and the things he picked up were very light, so it didn't seem like there were any dangerous items inside.
The gift box is beautifully packaged and very light, so light that it seems like there is nothing inside.
Shen Yuhuai tore open the gift ribbon on the box, and after opening it, he found that there was only a stuffed bear the size of an adult's palm inside.
He frowned slightly, and just as he picked up the stuffed bear, the bear's head fell off.
The puppet's head is separate from its body.
Shen Yuhuai's hand did not leave the range of the gift box. He put the body of the stuffed bear back, and seeing the bewildered waiter next to him, he closed the lid of the gift box and said, "Go tell the person in charge of the hotel to check the surveillance video in the hotel venue. Be careful not to make this matter public."
On the 16th floor of the hotel, Gu Shen stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the city view. After a while, someone knocked on the door and came in. The middle-aged man took off his hat and mask, stood beside Gu Shen and said, "Sir, the gift has been delivered. When the Shen family counts the things later, they should be able to notice it."
A birthday party was still being held downstairs in the hotel. In the quiet room, Gu Shen's eyes swept over the information on the table. He asked someone to check Shen Yuhuai's movements in City B. The person's activities in City B for the past few days were very detailed. He even stayed in the "hotel" for several days without going out.
Shen Yuhuai had already finished his work in B University, so it was self-evident what he was doing at other times.
Gu Shen thought about the Shen family's contribution to the jade necklace, and Gu Zhengxun's use of the so-called collective system loophole to expose it, and he completely lost his patience with Shen Yuhuai.
The birthday party came quickly, and he had no time to prepare it in advance, but if he wanted to give Shen Yuhuai and the Shen family a surprise, it could still be done. Since it is Shen Yuhuai’s birthday party, it must be held in a grand manner to make the Shen family lose face.
"The people who were arranged have already gone there." said the middle-aged man.
"Tell him to be careful and not to be discovered."
The middle-aged man asked again: "Should we tell Mr. Lin about this?"
Gu Shen shook the red wine glass: "No need."
The waiter brought the birthday cake and champagne tower, and the party continued.
Everyone's attention was on the elegant man in a suit.
Chen Qizhao stayed in the banquet hall, and was relieved when he saw Shen Yuhuai re-enter the banquet hall. His attention was on the other people in the room, those who were talking to the Shen family, those who were chatting with the Chen family...even those who were interacting with Lin Shizhong, he was watching them all.
After a while, he saw the two Yan brothers coming in from the entrance of the banquet hall.
Yan Kailin walked straight up to him, "Brother Zhao!"
Chen Qizhao was talking to Yan Kailin while continuing to observe the surroundings. "Why are you here so late?"
"There's a traffic jam on the road. I've been feeling suffocated these past few days." Yan Kailin saw the champagne in Chen Qizhao's hand and asked in confusion, "Brother, why are you drinking this?"
Chen Qizhao paused, "Change the taste."
"Oh, is the orange juice here good?" Yan Kailin also took a glass from the waiter next to him, "Have you given your gift?"
Chen Qizhao's gift had not been delivered yet. While talking to Yan Kailin, his attention had already shifted to the waiters in the venue. These were all employees arranged by the hotel. In fact, there were only a few waiters coming and going in the banquet hall.
During the observation, Chen Qizhao saw the phone ringing. He handed the orange juice in his hand to Yan Kailin, "Please help me keep an eye on Brother Huai. If he leaves here, call me."
Yan Kailin took the orange juice blankly, "Ah? Where are you going, brother?"
"bathroom."
When Chen Qizhao left the banquet hall, he answered the phone, "Is the car still there?"
"exist."
Xiao Zhou stood breathlessly at the entrance of the hotel, looking at a black car from a distance. He took a photo of the license plate as instructed by his boss and reported the license plate number again.
Chen Qizhao's heart sank when he heard the license plate number Xiao Zhou reported.
He had seen this license plate number before. It was the license plate number of the black car in Lao Lin’s photo, which meant that Gu Shen was in the hotel here. The Shen family only booked three floors of the hotel. There were also guests staying in other rooms of the hotel. The people in the banquet hall could keep a check, but it is not certain about other places in the hotel.
Xiao Zhou didn't know why his boss called him here so late at night. He rushed over as soon as he received the call. When he arrived at the place, he had to do as he was told. "What should I do after taking the photo of the license plate?"
"Did you bring your ID card?" Chen Qizhao asked.
"I brought it." Xiao Zhou suddenly became nervous, "What do you need me to do?"
Chen Qizhao said: "Go to the front desk to book a room."
Xiao Zhou: “?”
After explaining the matter to Xiao Zhou, Chen Qizhao returned to the banquet hall. Yan Kailin was still standing there with two glasses of orange juice in his hands, looking confused. When he saw Yan Kailin coming over, he was about to hand the orange juice to him, but suddenly noticed that his brother's eyes were looking somewhere else.
"Brother, what's wrong?" Yan Kailin said, "Brother Huai is over there."
Chen Qizhao's gaze stopped at a strange waiter who came in through the front door, "Did that person just get here?"
"I didn't notice it, maybe?" Yan Kailin looked over there, "What's wrong?"
Chen Shiming said that the waiters entering and leaving the banquet hall were all arranged by Shen Xuelan. In other words, the people in the banquet hall were actually fixed. After Chen Qizhao came in, he basically looked at everyone and had never seen this person before, which meant that this person was not on the original list of personnel arranged by Shen Xuelan.
The man only held a glass of wine.
Chen Qizhao put down the orange juice and took a glass of champagne from the waiter next to him. "Wait for me here."
The waiter serving champagne stood in the banquet hall, his eyes fixed on Shen Yuhuai in the distance, and his hand holding the tray tightened a little. Just as he was about to walk past the others and towards Shen Yuhuai, he was suddenly bumped by a force from the side. He managed to stabilize the champagne on the tray, and only a little bit of it spilled on the tray, but a complaint was heard from the side.
"What happened to you?" The young boy's face was gloomy. The champagne in his hand had spilled a little, just accidentally pouring on his shoes.
The waiter suddenly became nervous, "Sorry!"
Chen Qizhao looked at him and said casually, "Why are you standing there? No tissue?"
It was difficult for the waiter to let go of the tray, so he put the food down and took out a tissue from his pocket.
Chen Qizhao took the tissue from him and said, "Why are you so slow? Clean the ground."
When he saw someone bending down to wipe off the champagne stain on the floor, he put down the champagne in his hand and quickly replaced the champagne on the tray, not forgetting to say a few words: "We still have to deal with it. How do you get to the bathroom?"
"Turn right after you go out." The waiter quickly finished wiping and stood up.
Chen Qizhao ignored him and walked out with the glass of champagne. He glanced at the waiter and saw him pick up the tray and walk towards the Shen family.
At this moment, he suddenly heard Lin Xuyan's voice coming from a few steps away, and he seemed to be asking the waiter to bring him some wine.
Chen Qizhao raised his eyebrows slightly and shook the wine glass in his hand.
Yan Kailin waited for a long time, chatting with a few acquaintances who passed by. When Chen Qizhao came back, he asked, "Brother, why did you take so long?"
"I bumped into someone on the road and got my shoes wet."
Chen Qizhao said nonchalantly: "That person's quality is also poor. I don't know how he was trained."
"Juice is boring, do you want to drink?" Yan Kailin held two glasses of champagne in his hand. "Oh, by the way, Brother Huai didn't come over just now. He was always over there. I saw someone bring him some wine. I didn't expect Brother Huai to be so good at drinking?"
"Can't he drink?" Chen Qizhao asked.
"I heard from my brother that Huai's alcohol tolerance is average. My brother also asked him out for a drink before, and he only drank one glass and stopped." Yan Kailin continued gossipingly, "I thought he couldn't drink, but he seems okay?"
In another corner of the banquet hall, Lin Xuyan took the wine brought by the waiter and continued talking to the guests at the banquet.
The Shen family's birthday party was actually a large social occasion. Lin Xuyan never turned away anyone who came to talk to him. He had the same gentle face as Lin Shizhong, but secretly he labeled these people one by one. Some of them were worth making friends with, while others were just not.
After talking for a while, Lin Xuyan suddenly felt a little dizzy, and his hands and feet were slightly hot.
"Sorry." Lin Xuyan said to others, put down his wine glass and walked out of the banquet hall.
Chen Qizhao stood and drank with Yan Kailin for a while, then noticed some noise in the distance and said, "You continue to help me watch over Brother Huai. I'm going to the bathroom."
Yan Kailin said in confusion: "Brother, you were a little too diligent in going to the toilet tonight."
And why does he have to look after Brother Huai every time? ?
He was about to ask a few more questions when Chen Qizhao had already walked away.
"This is too fast..."
Yan Kailin took a sip of wine, and soon saw where Shen Yuhuai was, and found that he was gone, "Hey? Where's Brother Huai?"
Outside the banquet hall, Lin Xuyan asked about the location of the bathroom.
Not long after arriving at the bathroom, he suddenly felt dizzy and fell into the cubicle.
Chen Qizhao walked a few steps behind into the bathroom and saw Lin Xuyan fallen in the bathroom cubicle.
There was no one else in the bathroom, so Chen Qizhao went to the tool room inside and took out the sign that the staff had used to clean the bathroom and placed it at the door of the bathroom. He looked at the unconscious Lin Xuyan, picked up his phone and was about to call for help, when he suddenly saw the message Yan Kailin sent him a minute ago.
Chen Qizhao paused for a moment, and the phone suddenly rang.
"Boss, you asked me to stay on the 5th floor and keep an eye on the situation. I saw Mr. Shen." After Xiao Zhou was asked by Chen Qizhao to get a room on the 5th floor, he had been watching the situation here.
After waiting for a long time, no one was seen. As a result, not long after, a formally dressed waiter was seen helping Shen Yuhuai out of the elevator and turning into the room next to the elevator.
Chen Qizhao walked out, "Where are the people?"
"The waiter came out soon after putting the person in the room."
Xiao Zhou said: "I just walked over to take a look, the door was not closed, leaving a crack."
"Is there anyone else inside?" Chen Qizhao asked.
Xiao Zhou felt like he was a thief, and lowered his voice and said, “It seems not, I saw that person swipe the room card to send Mr. Shen in and left, it seems that he didn’t even take out the room card… Is there a problem with this?”
The bustle in the banquet hall continued, and Shen Yuhuai noticed the departure of the waiter at the door and opened his eyes in the darkness.
Today's birthday party was arranged by his family. He had already received the list of staff members in the venue the day before, a weird birthday gift that he had opened in advance, and a strange waiter who suddenly appeared in front of him and served him wine, so when the other party brought the wine over, Shen Yuhuai did not drink it.
They would send wine over, and it would probably be mixed with something.
Referring to the way the other party warned Yan Kaiqi before, they would most likely use some extreme means to teach him a lesson. Since the birthday present came first, the glass of wine was probably the real birthday gift. So when the time was almost up, he pretended to be drunk and left the venue. The waiter who brought him the wine came out from the corridor outside the banquet hall, asked him in a normal tone, and offered to take him to the lounge.
The timing and arrangement were just right, but the rest room was not the one arranged by the Shen family, but on the 5th floor below the banquet hall.
The other party put him in a room that had been booked in advance and left. Shen Yuhuai didn't know how the other party had squeezed him in through the layers of security, but judging from his current behavior, the other party sent him, the host of the birthday party, to this place, and there was a group of guests upstairs. With such a coincidental timing and arrangement, it was obvious that there was a trick up their sleeve.
Shen Yuhuai was thinking when he suddenly heard footsteps outside. He paid attention to the movement at the door of the room, but the other party did not seem to make any other movements. He stayed at the door for a moment and left quickly.
But this time, he had only been lying there for about five minutes when he heard a sound coming from the door, which seemed to be two people whispering.
Soon, Shen Yuhuai heard a familiar voice.
"I just checked the room, and it seems that there is no surveillance. The man was sent over and left." Xiao Zhou brought his boss to the room, "So what should we do now? Let Mr. Shen continue to lie here?"
"Where is the room you booked?" When Chen Qizhao entered the room, he saw Shen Yuhuai lying on the bed. After he walked over, he took a quick look at Shen Yuhuai's condition. The glass of problematic wine had been replaced by him in advance. Compared with Lin Xuyan who fainted in the bathroom, Shen Yuhuai's reaction was still shallow and he could still be supported to walk. He should have been simply drunk.
Then I was sent to this room in a daze.
Xiao Zhou came over to help, "Boss, do you need help?"
Chen Qizhao: "Give me the room card of your room, then go upstairs to find Chen Shiming and explain this matter to him clearly."
Xiao Zhou hurriedly took out the room card and handed it to Chen Qizhao, then hurried to the banquet hall to find Chen Shiming.
After everyone left, only Chen Qizhao and Shen Yuhuai were left in the room.
The lights in the room were not on, and Chen Qizhao could only see the outline of Shen Yuhuai's figure in the darkness. He thought of Yan Kailin saying that Shen Yuhuai drank a lot of wine tonight when he left the banquet hall. Chen Qizhao seldom watched Shen Yuhuai drink, and he only took a sip of wine, let alone drank too much.
He didn't hesitate, just took a quick glance and went to help Shen Yuhuai.
Just as he put the other person's arm around him, he heard a voice in his ear.
"Brother Huai?" Chen Qizhao paused.
Shen Yuhuai responded, but did not make any other moves.
Investigating the Gu family is not a simple matter. The further Shen Yuhuai investigates, the greater the risk he will encounter. The wounding incident against Yan Kailin in the grilled fish restaurant half a month ago was probably related to Shen Yuhuai and his men, otherwise Shen Yuhuai and Yan Kaiqi would not have been able to arrive at the scene so quickly.
And today, Gu Shen’s scooter was parked outside, with waiters and wine arranged, obviously all for Shen Yuhuai.
Chen Qizhao paused for a few seconds, then used a little force to help the man up from the bed. The other person obediently followed him and put his strength on him. But when he just stood up, the force pressing on his body suddenly eased a lot, Chen Qizhao half closed his eyelids, and the strength he used to support Shen Yuhuai was a little less.
There were not many people outside the corridor on the 5th floor, and the room Xiao Zhou booked was two rooms behind this one.
Chen Qizhao helped the person swipe the room card and then closed the door.
There was no light on in the room, and Chen Qizhao took Shen Yuhuai to the big bed in the room.
He put the person down and was about to walk away when Shen Yuhuai, who was originally lying on the bed, suddenly grabbed his wrist.
The other person's hand didn't use much force, and the fingers on the wrist were just barely holding on. As long as Chen Qizhao took a few more steps away, this precarious contact would be immediately broken. Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the man lying on the bed. He seemed to see the other's open eyes in the faint light coming in from the window.
The other person's fingers were not cold, but warmly grasped on his wrist, like an unbreakable bond.
One of them was standing and the other was lying. As soon as Chen Qizhao moved his hand, the person lying on the bed suddenly exerted force, grabbed his wrist and pulled him down. Chen Qizhao fell on Shen Yuhuai, their eyes were so close that he couldn't see what was hidden in those eyes. He could only smell the faint smell of alcohol lingering between them.
Suddenly, Chen Qizhao saw Shen Yuhuai's throat move.
The last time they met was at a grilled fish restaurant, and then Shen Yuhuai went to City B. It had been nearly half a month since they last met.
When he saw Shen Yuhuai in the banquet hall today, he had an emotion that he could not suppress. Now that he was held by the other party's hand, it seemed that the feeling that was hooked at the tip of his heart came back again.
Neither of them spoke. After an unknown amount of time, Chen Qizhao said, "Brother, you're not drunk, are you?"
Chen Qizhao has helped too many drunk people, and drunk people basically cannot control the strength on their bodies.
So when he helped Shen Yuhuai up in the next room, he knew that the other party was not drunk and was just pretending.
Shen Yuhuai looked at him, and the wrists they held turned into interlocking fingers.
He raised one hand, and his warm hand fell on the back of Chen Qizhao's neck, his fingertips rubbing against the other's skin.
Even if you go further down and peel off the outer clothes, you will see the other person's beautiful back.
Shen Yuhuai paused, his hand fell on the other person's hair, and he could faintly smell the other person's scent.
“I was thinking about something after the early morning call.” Shen Yuhuai’s voice was a little hoarse, his fingers were light and gentle, stroking Chen Qizhao’s hair to the back of his neck, “At the beginning, Liu Sui said one less word, I was indeed chasing someone in S University, but I never told him.”
"I think I've caught up."
Chen Qizhao's heartbeat became uncontrollably intense. He asked, "Are we dating now?"
Shen Yuhuai's fingers stopped, stopped at a spot on the back of his neck, and scraped it slightly, "Isn't it?"
The atmosphere between the two seemed to become clearer and clearer. Perhaps it was Chen Qizhao's illusion, he seemed to see his own figure in those ink-black eyes.
In the endless future of drowning, for the first time, he wanted to push aside all his concerns and drag the person in front of him into the pool of black water.
Chen Qizhao said: "I may not be that good."
“I may need to correct some of your perceptions.”
Shen Yuhuai’s voice was very light, his hand pressed on Chen Qizhao’s neck, “I’m not that good either.”
The smell of alcohol was mixed with a faint mint flavor. Chen Yuhuai pulled the person into his arms and kissed her.
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