Yun Wanqing's eyes were practically spitting fire. "What makes you think you can go up there?!"
"Gu Fanyan, I am Zhibai's fiancée!"
“I didn’t say you weren’t,” Gu Fanyan said calmly. “If you want to go up, let me go up first.”
"What... are you going up there for?" Yun Wanqing asked, her face full of suspicion.
Gu Fanyan didn't have time to say much to her and walked straight ahead.
There were several assistants between Yun Wanqing and her, so they couldn't be stopped even if they wanted to.
"Sister Fanyan, you've arrived." Shen Xinghui welcomed her into the room. "Zhibai is in the room."
"What's going on?" Gu Fanyan stopped in her tracks.
"...The business negotiations were going well, but a lot of people were trying to get him to drink, and he drank them all...and he got really drunk."
As Gu Fanyan entered the room, she indeed smelled a pungent and strong odor of alcohol.
Lin Zhibai lay half-reclined on the sofa, his face flushed and his eyes closed.
He looked extremely distressed, as if aggravated by the alcohol.
"Lin Zhibai, Lin Zhibai," she called to him.
He didn't open his eyes, but a smile appeared on his lips.
"Lin Zhibai, stop pretending to be drunk," Gu Fanyan said. "I'm here. What do you want to say?"
He suddenly reached out and pulled her, and she fell into his arms without any warning.
He held her slender waist firmly in his grasp.
She showed no sign of panic; her beautiful eyes remained calm and undisturbed as she watched what trick he was playing.
He slowly opened his eyes, which were seven parts drunk and three parts sober.
"Have you had enough fun?" she asked.
"Sister..." he murmured, and with a flip, she was pressed into the sofa cushion.
He demanded, he plundered... she was like a puppet.
He looked up, confused. "My sister doesn't love me anymore... What did I do wrong?"
"My sister is angry..."
He rested his head on her shoulder, looking like a child who had done something wrong, his face full of grievance.
Gu Fanyan then realized that he was truly drunk.
But no one attacked them.
Gu Fanyan tried to get up, but he held her even tighter.
"Sister, don't leave...don't be angry..." he said in a low voice, his tone seemingly pleading.
Gu Fanyan stared blankly at the ceiling.
So many things from the past came back to mind.
When did she gradually fall for this tenderness?
When did I become so wounded by this tenderness?
She eventually pushed him away and stood up.
A drunk person will only get more and more drunk, and their consciousness will become increasingly blurred.
Gu Fanyan walked out of the room and quietly closed the door.
"Sister Fanyan?" Shen Xinghui didn't understand why she had come out again.
"I'll have Yun Wanqing come up to take care of him. You should go home first," Gu Fanyan said.
"But Zhibai confessed..."
"Why bother?" Gu Fanyan interrupted him.
There was a calm resolve in her eyes that left no room for argument.
Gu Fanyan exited the building.
Yun Wanqing went inside.
On the way back, Gu Fanyan remained silent, like a leopard quietly licking its wounds.
Yun Suiwan slammed on the brakes, saying, "It's not too late for you to regret it now."
Gu Fanyan curled up in the chair, burying her face in it, her slender shoulders trembling incessantly.
She was crying.
Yun Suiwan felt particularly sorry for him.
She seemed to see herself struggling with unsolvable problems in the past.
She didn't say that if she couldn't let go, she should try to win him back.
She understood better than anyone that in this kind of situation, there weren't just two options: let go or fight for it.
Moreover, she could sense that Gu Fanyan had suffered even more serious injuries.
It took a long, long time before Gu Fanyan finally stopped crying silently.
Yun Suiwan silently handed over a tissue.
"...At first, my parents were satisfied with him..."
Gu Fanyan's soft voice could be heard inside the car.
"But he's so popular with girls, and a lot of rumors have reached my parents' ears. My mother is not happy about it, so she asks me to introduce someone to her..."
"Later, my parents said that the eldest daughter of the Gu family could not do without Lin Zhibai."
"And his parents also said, 'What kind of woman can't the eldest son of the Lin family have?'"
"...At a banquet once, he had a girl next to him, and I had a boy next to me...We broke up, the kind where we blamed each other."
"Later, I don't know why, he broke his leg while racing. I went to the hospital to see him, and we made up again."
"But rumors started around this time. His mother accused me of ruining him by throwing tantrums at him for no reason and distracting him while driving."
“My mother refuted her in front of many people, and said some really harsh things.”
“Our two families have fallen out. My mother threatened to kill herself to force me to study abroad… Before I left, I secretly went to see him. I had a lot to say to him, but before I could say more than a few words, both of our parents showed up at the same time.”
"...Because I was the one who went to see him, his mother was arrogant and domineering, and my mother lost all face..."
"After I went abroad, I kept waiting for him until... I realized that he would never appear. He had too many girls around him, and I was just one of them."
At first, Gu Fanyan was trembling all over, but she gradually calmed down as she spoke.
It was a kind of calm that came from utter despair.
Yun Suiwan noticed that she was hiding something.
The part she concealed was precisely what caused her to lose heart and despair.
It was also a place she didn't want anyone to touch.
"It's all in the past, don't think about it anymore," Yun Suiwan gently comforted her.
“It’s all in the past,” Gu Fanyan nodded. “I’ve also severed those lingering ties with my own hands.”
Yun Suiwan looked at her with pity.
I just hope she won't regret it later.
...
That noon, Aunt Zhang brought lunch to Yun Suiwan and told her a piece of gossip she had heard from a bird's nest shop.
Aunt Zhang and others who have worked for a company for many years also have their own social circles.
They often shopped for the owner at the same store.
"Yun Wanqing's marriage to the Lin family is probably a done deal this time."
Yun Suiwan asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Aunt Zhang said with a disdainful look, "Young Master Lin slept with her."
Yun Suiwan lowered her eyes; it must have been the night Gu Fanyan asked Yun Wanqing to go upstairs.
She held Lin Zhibai in utter contempt.
He kept calling out Gu Fanyan's name while drunk, but didn't he still sleep with other women?
"Our second young lady is a real oddball," Aunt Zhang said with even more disdain for Yun Wanqing. "Isn't it normal for two people to be in love? Why does she need to go around announcing it with a megaphone?"
"Anyone who didn't know better would think she lived in ancient times and was favored by the emperor."
"Women in ancient palaces who were favored by the emperor received rewards, but what did she get?!"
Yun Suiwan suppressed a smile; Aunt Zhang harbored deep resentment towards Yun Wanqing.
But I suppose this matter has already reached Gu Fanyan's ears, right?
Did she get what she wanted?
At this moment, Yun Suiwan received a message from Yun Wanqing.
Let Lin Zhibai tell you about Grandpa Lu.
She still remembers this matter.
Soon, Lin Zhibai called.
“Wanwan,” he said, “you’ve already given me face by not mentioning Yun Wanqing’s pill-switching incident again.”
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