After that night, Han Jun never appeared in front of Pei Yuan and the others again, and he never even stayed in the house they had worked so hard to move into.
Even when meeting Tang Ning at the company, he always maintained a cold and businesslike demeanor, as if nothing had happened that night, and that there had been no conflict between him and Tang Ning.
Even Tang Ning didn't know that, out of her sight, Han Jun's eyes had never left her, yet she never noticed.
Whether it was Han Jun's doing or the company's business was really busy, Tang Ning became busier than ever after returning from Wenshan.
Because of her absence, Pei Yuan and Su Mo no longer fought like two black chickens.
Because it was nearing the end of the year, Ningzhen also held their own internal annual meeting. Everyone was so enthusiastic that Tang Ning drank until she was drunk before she asked the driver to take her home.
At 9:30 p.m., Su Mo, who was busy in the kitchen, frowned subconsciously when he heard the doorbell ring. He couldn't figure out who would ring the doorbell at such a late hour. After all, Su Ya had chosen to live at school and would never come back except on weekends, while Tang Ning usually used her fingerprint to unlock the door.
Hearing the doorbell ringing more and more urgently, Su Mo quickly put down what he was holding and hurried toward the door.
"Who is it? So late at night..."
Before the boy could finish speaking, he opened the door and was greeted by Tang Ning, a cute little girl with flushed cheeks from being drunk, who gave him a big hug.
Caught off guard, the smell of alcohol, Tang Ning's unique perfume, and the chilly scent of the winter night wind all rushed into Su Mo's nostrils.
"Why are you so late? I've been waiting for you for ages..."
Just then, Tang Ning's slightly complaining and coquettish voice rang in his ears.
Su Mo, who had never been so intimate with Tang Ning before, widened his eyes instantly and subconsciously reached out to hug Tang Ning, who seemed to have no bones at all. His heartbeat, which had been relatively calm before, suddenly started beating rapidly, like a drum, thumping and thumping.
Especially when he met Tang Ning's hazy, dreamy eyes and her sweet smile that seemed to drown him completely, all of Su Mo's calm and rationality crumbled in an instant.
He was as if he had been poisoned by a curse called Tang Ning, completely losing all his consciousness. He could only listen to Tang Ning's giggles and follow her instructions, closing the door, helping her to the sofa, and pouring her hot water.
They moved mechanically, one by one.
When Su Mo finally came to his senses from that seemingly dazed state, he found that Tang Ning had finished drinking the hot water and was lying on the sofa, fast asleep with her eyes closed, completely peaceful.
Staring intently at Tang Ning, who was asleep before him, looking so different from her usual self with a rosy face and bright red lips, almost too obedient, Su Mo, kneeling in front of her, felt his heart melt into a pool of spring water, incredibly soft, gentle, and warm.
Just by looking at him, he could feel bubbles of happiness bursting inside him, making him know exactly what to do.
He couldn't understand how there could be such a person in the world, someone who could make him feel incredibly happy just by looking at her, as if all the suffering and torment he had endured in the past could be completely forgotten after meeting her.
Su Mo's current favorability rating: 90.
After watching Tang Ning sleep for an unknown amount of time, Su Mo suddenly raised his slightly trembling hand and gently touched Tang Ning's cheek.
Having only touched it once, Su Mo heard footsteps coming from the stairs on one side, and immediately withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
"Ningning is back, right?"
Pei Yuan, who was feeling his way down the spiral staircase, quickly asked this question.
Upon hearing this, Su Mo, knowing full well that Pei Yuan was blind, but still unable to hide her guilty conscience, immediately stood up and replied, "Yes, but Sister Tang Ning seems to be drunk and is asleep on the sofa now..."
"Yeah?"
Pei Yuan's brows furrowed instantly.
Then he slowly walked towards the sofa, and as soon as he touched Tang Ning's hand, he gently pushed it away, "Ning Ning, Ning Ning..."
No matter how he called out to her, Tang Ning only whimpered twice and showed no sign of waking up.
Pei Yuan frowned even more, then turned to look at a point in the void. "Su Mo, could you please go to the kitchen and make some hangover soup? I'll try my best to wake Ningning up in a bit, because I'm afraid if she just sleeps like this, she'll have a terrible headache tomorrow morning, and she'll feel awful..."
"Oh? Okay, I'll go right away."
Su Mo, whose face was still burning, quickly agreed upon hearing Pei Yuan's words. After glancing at Tang Ning, he turned and walked towards the kitchen without looking back.
Pei Yuan, who was left with a worried expression, immediately turned cold as soon as he disappeared from the kitchen. Even when he turned to look at Tang Ning, who was fast asleep on the sofa, his expression did not improve.
He didn't know how much time had passed before he slowly took out a pure white handkerchief from his pants pocket and raised it to wipe the spot on Tang Ning's face that Su Mo had just touched.
As he wiped, he used a little more force, and only stopped when he saw Tang Ning's brows furrow slightly. A flash of anger crossed his eyes.
He could no longer tolerate Su Mo standing in his and Tang Ning's way!
Pei Yuan's eyes were dark as he thought this.
After the two of them settled the drunk Tang Ning down and said goodnight to her, Pei Yuan groped his way back to his room. Because it was almost midnight, the room was pitch black as the lights were off.
However, upon entering such an environment, Pei Yuan not only felt no discomfort, but on the contrary, he found it particularly comfortable.
He liked darkness, and even more so, this kind of darkness that seemed to conceal his entire being within it, leaving no trace of him.
Just then, his cell phone, which was on the bedside table, suddenly rang.
He walked over slowly, saw the number displayed on the screen, and answered the call immediately.
"Found it, okay, I understand..."
After hanging up the phone, Pei Yuan immediately opened the new email in his inbox. If Su Mo were here at this moment, he would probably be astonished, because the information about him found in the email was even more thorough than that he himself knew.
At this moment, Pei Yuan looked at the last frame of the email, which showed Su Mo wearing a black hoodie, with an arrogant and indifferent expression, completely different from the Su Mo he was in front of Tang Ning, and chuckled.
"One, a conman? Heh..."
After being busy for most of the past two weeks, Tang Ning finally had some free time after the annual meeting. It was then that she realized how much she had neglected Pei Yuan.
After all, her boyfriend was different from others; he was blind, and many pastimes that ordinary people enjoyed were of no interest to him at all.
In the huge villa, he could only sit quietly to the side, occasionally listening to the sounds coming from the TV. As the group of people on TV laughed together, the corners of his mouth also turned up.
When Tang Ning saw Pei Yuan like this as she went downstairs, a look of heartache welled up in her eyes.
She simply couldn't believe that Pei Yuan had spent the better part of the past two weeks while she was busy.
Thinking of this, Tang Ning quickly went downstairs and sat down next to Pei Yuan. She reached out and hugged his arm, rested her head on his shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry..."
Upon hearing Tang Ning's apology, Pei Yuan's fingers, which were resting on his knees, twitched slightly. He then turned around with a smile and asked, "Why are you suddenly apologizing to me?"
"It's just... I've been too busy lately and haven't spent enough time with you. It's my fault..."
"No."
Pei Yuan slowly withdrew his arm and gently put his arm around Tang Ning's shoulder. "It's nothing, I understand. You're busy with work and you're already very tired every day. You don't need to apologize to me for this."
Upon hearing this, Tang Ning reached out and hugged Pei Yuan's waist, letting out a soft hum, but her eyes were immediately drawn to the commercial on TV.
She had no idea that a new amusement park had opened in Qing City. Although the location was rather out of the way, the rides looked like they would be a lot of fun. Since she was off work today, maybe...
"How about we go on a date today? How about we go to this fantasy world? I heard it's a newly opened amusement park. The last time I went to an amusement park was back in college with my roommates..."
"You didn't...go with President Han?"
Just as Tang Ning was getting into her story, Pei Yuan's cautious question suddenly rang in her ear.
Hearing this, Tang Ning turned her head and saw the tentative and uneasy look in the man's eyes, and almost couldn't help but laugh.
She reached out and flicked the tip of his nose. "What are you thinking? After Han Jun and I got together, we started our own business very quickly. It seems like we haven't had any serious dates. So this is the first time you've gone to an amusement park with your boyfriend. Are you happy?"
Upon hearing this, Pei Yuan's lips immediately curled into a smile.
He was happy, he was genuinely happy...
All the unique memories he shared with Tang Ning made him so happy, as if his empty heart had been filled with some inexplicable substance.
At this tender moment, Su Mo, who had gotten up early and was busy in the kitchen preparing the most exquisite and perfect breakfast for the hangover-stricken Tang Ning, heard the noise outside and came out of the kitchen. He saw Tang Ning's profile, with her chin resting on Pei Yuan's shoulder and a radiant smile on her face.
A moment of bitterness swept through his heart, but he still forced himself to cheer up and asked with a smile, "What are you talking about? I've almost finished making breakfast, and it's already 10 a.m. If I don't eat soon, I'm afraid I won't be able to have lunch!"
Hearing this, Tang Ning immediately looked at her watch and exclaimed in surprise, "Really? It's almost ten o'clock! What can we do there? No, Su Mo, let's skip breakfast. I'll go upstairs and change now. Let's hurry up and leave. We can still do several more rides until five in the afternoon. Let's have lunch at the restaurant inside..."
After arranging the afternoon date in just a few words, Tang Ning went upstairs to change her clothes without hesitation.
Su Mo was left bewildered as Tang Ning's figure quickly disappeared around the corner of the stairs. When he saw Tang Ning come down from upstairs in a black coat, he immediately went to greet her.
"Sister Tang Ning, where are you and Brother Shen Yin going to play? I... can I come along?"
Su Mo asked this question with eager anticipation.
"certainly……"
Hearing his question, Tang Ning was about to agree immediately, but when she saw Pei Yuan's suddenly disappointed expression, she took a deep breath and changed the words that were already on the tip of her tongue, "No, I can't. You stay home and take care of the house. Your brother Chen Yin and I are going out on a date. What's the point of bringing such a big third wheel like you along? Be good, I'll bring you a souvenir from the amusement park when you come back tonight!"
Tang Ning smiled and took Pei Yuan's hand, who had cheered up again. Without giving Su Mo a chance to plead, she walked towards the garage.
Su Mo wanted to give chase, but by sheer coincidence, his phone rang right in his pocket.
While anxiously watching Tang Ning drive the car out of the garage, Su Mo answered the phone, his tone anything but pleasant.
"Who is it? If there's nothing else, I'll hang up."
As soon as Su Mo finished speaking, he was about to press the red hang-up button without hesitation.
Just then, a voice clenching its teeth rang out right next to Su Mo's ear.
"Su Mo, if I don't contact you, will you just pretend our deal never happened? I gave you so much money, where are the things I wanted? Why haven't you given them to me yet?"
It's Xia Yang.
Upon hearing this, Su Mo's legs, which were almost down the steps, stopped abruptly. He looked at Tang Ning, who was sitting in the car and waving happily at him, and a sense of fear welled up inside him.
"Let me tell you, I don't have that much patience. This afternoon at five o'clock, the usual place, I'm going to see you, whether I get what I want or not, or you'll face the consequences!"
After shouting those words, Xia Yang quickly hung up the phone.
At this moment, even though Tang Ning's car hadn't left the yard yet, Su Mo had already lost the courage to continue chasing after it.
Almost simultaneously, Pei Yuan, sitting in the passenger seat, saw Su Mo standing on the steps, frowning in thought, his eyes cold and distant, in the rearview mirror, and he slightly curled his lips into a smile.
Upon arriving at Fantasy World, Tang Ning found the queues incredibly long. After only two rides, she couldn't bear the thought of waiting an hour for ten minutes of fun at an amusement park.
He immediately pulled Pei Yuan and squeezed them out of the amusement park.
There weren't nearly this many people at the amusement park ten years ago, and it's not like that in TV shows and movies either...
All those beautiful and romantic scenes are lies. In reality, even a ridiculously childish carousel requires a very, very long queue.
Having learned her lesson this time, Tang Ning decided that she would never go on a date at an amusement park again—it was too terrifying!
But it was too early to go home now, so on Pei Yuan's suggestion, they decided to stroll around the nearby shopping street.
Unexpectedly, Pei Yuan's face turned pale after only a short while of shopping. Tang Ning asked him what was wrong and found out that he had been suffering from hypoglycemia. After being together for so long, how unfit was she as a girlfriend that she didn't even know about this?
Just then, Tang Ning saw a coffee shop not far away and quickly helped Pei Yuan over. Coffee shops usually have a lot of desserts. If you have low blood sugar, eating more sweets should help, right?
Helping Pei Yuan sit down in the private room, Tang Ning sat opposite him, peeled a piece of candy from the table and put it in his mouth before starting to flip through the menu in her hand.
Looking at the colorful cakes, pasta, fried rice, milk tea, coffee, etc., Tang Ning was just about to ignore everything else and order some desserts first.
The next second, a familiar voice rang out from next door—
"Su Mo, let me tell you, you've taken so much money from me, don't think you can just brush me off with a few words. What I want are those photos of you and that bitch Tang Ning in bed. You've been lurking around her for so long, with your skills, don't tell me you haven't gotten anything yet!"
Upon hearing this, Tang Ning's hand, which was on the menu, froze.
Sitting opposite her, Pei Yuan, who was eating candy and drinking lemonade, raised an eyebrow inwardly.
What a coincidence...
Originally, his plan was simply to make Tang Ning see Su Mo walking with Xia Yang, arouse her suspicion, and ideally provoke Xia Yang into accidentally revealing their secret plan, thus making Tang Ning completely disgusted with the impure-minded Su Mo. But now…
It would be more truthful and undeniable if Su Mo said it himself, wouldn't it?
What a pleasant surprise!
Author's Note: The next chapter will start to angst-filled on the scheming, manipulative woman, but that's just an appetizer. The real angst will come in the ending, you know what I mean. The ending is coming soon!
I think Pei is mentally unstable and has absolutely no sense of security. Believe it or not, if Tang Ning really wanted to be with him, given his personality, he could pretend to be blind to her for the rest of his life!
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