Chapter 45

[What can I do? He's such a handsome guy, how can I refuse him?]

[Ahhhh, the handsome guy from the Shen family accidentally stepped on his foot and is doomed!]

[Yanxuan was poked several times by high heels and now walks with a limp.]

[Should I agree or not?]

[But being able to dance with such a handsome guy would make me wake up laughing even in my dreams.]

Mo Keyu hesitated, struggling madly in his heart.

The more excited she was, the harsher the voice in her heart became. Zhang Xiaoli smiled awkwardly and said:

"My cousin is a very easy-going person, and he is also very good at taking care of dance partners. Miss Mo, if you want to dance with him, just agree directly."

"This..." Mo Keyu was still hesitating.

[Shen Mingli is so handsome, of course I want to dance with him!]

Zhang Xiaoli chuckled. Shen Mingli still stood there with that poker face, but a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes at that moment.

"Oh, it doesn't matter, my cousin is a very kind and amiable person, he has never invited other women."

Zhang Xiaoli continued to make a fuss.

[Friendly and affable, is this referring to Shen Mingli...]

Mo Keyu couldn't help but complain in his heart.

[Although he has a poker face, he is still a nice person. Last time, he ordered all the food I like.]

[So the young lady who is a perfect match for Shen Mingli is really lucky.]

Hearing this, Shen Mingli's face changed slightly. What do you mean a well-matched young lady?

"Shen Mingli, it's a great honor to dance with you." Mo Keyu said, looking at Shen Mingli, meeting those incredibly beautiful eyes.

To be honest, if you just look at his eyes, Mo Keyu would find it hard to control himself.

Perhaps it was the result of long-term work, his eyes became sharp, and all his facial features formed a poker face, which made him the unapproachable Shen Mingli today. However, his eyes were full of affection, and Mo Keyu guessed that Shen Mingli before work was probably a gentle person.

No wonder Zhang Xiaoli said that Shen Mingli, who was only 17 or 18 years old, had his pockets filled with contact information!

[What a pity, what a pity, what a pity! I didn’t even get to see him, the young handsome guy he was ten years ago!]

I can’t imagine how beautiful a daughter born from such a person would be.

Mo Keyu averted her gaze, still feeling a little excited inside, but she didn't dare to have excessive thoughts about him. This person gave her the feeling that she could only watch from afar and not touch him.

The two of them were standing there like dumbfounded. Zhang Xiaoli, who was standing aside, found it a little funny. As an outsider, she saw it most obviously, but neither of them thought about it that way.

"Keyu, let me tell you, my cousin doesn't have a girlfriend yet."

Shen Mingli gave Zhang Xiaoli an approving look, but Mo Keyu hadn't reacted yet.

[Why did Xiaoli tell me this? Just because it doesn’t happen now doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future.]

[Shen Mingli has reached the age of marriage, and a marriage will definitely be arranged when the time comes.]

[Are you asking me to find a good match for Shen Mingli?]

Zhang Xiaoli: …

Shen Mingli: ...

"It doesn't matter if you don't have a girlfriend now, you will definitely have one in the future," Mo Keyu said, and even spoke up for Shen Mingli. "Master Shen is so popular. Although he doesn't have a girlfriend now, all the ladies like him."

Shen Mingli rubbed his brows and sighed: "Ms. Mo, just call me Mingli."

[Ah, how dare I.]

"Okay, okay." Mo Keyu responded in a low voice out of politeness.

Zhang Xiaoli gave her cousin a look that said "work hard on yourself": "Oh, I have something else to do. I also need to go to the restroom."

After saying that, he ran away quickly.

Now only Mo Keyu and Shen Mingli were left facing each other.

[This is a bit awkward. Should I also say that I have something to do?]

"Oh, I think I need to go to the bathroom too..."

"We are now..."

They both spoke at the same time and were stunned for a moment. Mo Keyu's face turned red and he suddenly felt a little stupid. This was too embarrassing!

Shen Mingli's face remained calm. He continued, "I would like to invite Miss Mo to wait in the ballroom. If you have something to do now, I can stay here and wait for you."

The other party was so polite that she felt bad if she lied again. Mo Keyu pinched her fingers: "Ah, ahaha, I suddenly feel that I don't really want to go to the toilet that much."

She just felt a little hungry, and she just heard someone talking about several carts of freshly made cakes being pushed outside.

"By the way, Shen...Ming, Mingli, can you wait for me for a moment? I want to go out and get a small cake," Mo Keyu said, and just as she was about to leave, she took a few steps back and walked back.

"Whatever flavor you like, I'll give it to you."

"No, I'll wait for you here," he said.

"OK."

Mo Keyu said, then turned around and ran outside in her high heels. She didn't know what was going on, but her heart was beating non-stop.

Could this be the legendary domineering aura?

But she always felt that she had such a special feeling towards Shen Mingli, not only because of the pressure from him as a manager, but also because of other indescribable things.

Mo Keyu ran to where the small cakes were placed, picked out two small cakes, and when she was about to leave, a woman came over quickly like the wind.

[Alert, alert, the other party is trying to splash juice on you. ]

The woman pretended to run towards here quickly, but actually she had no intention of turning around even though she knew she was going to bump into Mo Keyu.

[Oh my god, are we going to stage a scene where we accidentally bump into each other and ruin their dress?]

Mo Keyu was not stupid. The opponent was rushing in like a tank. She couldn't just stand there like a wooden stick waiting for him. When she saw him approaching, she jumped up gracefully and perfectly shook off the red juice that was flying towards her.

"Oh my." Another woman screamed from behind.

Mo Keyu not only dodged it perfectly, but also held the cake steadily in his hand, but unfortunately the juice seemed to splash onto another person.

The person who was hit was obviously a very noble lady.

Then, the culprit Pei Ying turned pale as if he had seen a ghost when he saw the other party, and apologized repeatedly:

"I'm sorry, ma'am. I was careless and didn't hold it steady. I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Even the arrogant Miss Pei Ying is so polite...

[But coming back to the point, why did Miss Pei throw juice at me?!]

The lady's face turned very unhappy. This dress was her favorite style, and now it was completely ruined.

Mo Keyu stood aside and secretly looked at each other.

The lady looked very young. After asking the system, I found out that she was a generation older than me. Not only that, but she also looked very familiar, as if I had seen her somewhere before.

[Oh~ It's Shen Mingli's mother. I was wondering why she looked so familiar. I saw her from a distance when I first came here!]

[So young, so young, so young, you look just a little older than me!]

[No wonder the son is so good-looking. It would be strange if the child of such a stunning mother was not good-looking.]

[So the situation now is that Pei Ying originally wanted to throw the juice at me, but accidentally threw it at Ms. Li Ru?]

[OMG, this is retribution, so when did I provoke her?]

[Oh~ So that’s how it is, because he’s not happy to see Shen Mingli and I together and wants to see me make a fool of myself.]

For some reason, Pei Ying suddenly turned around and glared at Mo Keyu fiercely.

Mo Keyu felt a little confused by being glared at like that. Shouldn't he be the one glaring at?

[No, you're so twisted that you're going to destroy my expensive dress just because you're unhappy!]

[I never thought that in this day and age, we still have to go through the trouble of looking for another woman for a man. Ahhhhh, why do the top girls still have to compete with each other?]

Mo Keyu complained madly in his heart.

[What? Is there something going on?]

[Oh~ So that's how it is, so that's how it is!]

Ms. Li Ru was in a good mood, but suddenly she was splashed with juice. There was also a strange voice in her head that kept chattering, saying that Pei Ying's juice was splashed on someone on purpose. She just felt extremely upset.

As for who was the narrator...she saw the lady eating cake nearby.

The lady in the blue dress was eating her cake and didn't seem to pay much attention to what was going on here.

The ruin of her beautiful dress was enough to affect her mood. She finally sighed and stopped caring about it: "Forget it, Pei Ying."

As soon as she opened her mouth, Pei Ying stopped apologizing and calmed down instantly. She looked at Li Ru with tears in her eyes and full of apology, as if she had really been careless.

"Be more careful next time."

Li Ru replied expressionlessly, and it was impossible to tell what his attitude was.

Pei Ying thought that the other party didn't care about this matter anymore. Just when she was about to mention Shen Mingli, she heard a scream.

[No way, these mother and son look so similar when they are angry.]

Pei Ying closed her mouth...

In fact, she didn't know much about the Shen family. She had seen Li Ru's smiling expression, but that was towards her own relatives and friends.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. I'll give you another identical dress later."

Pei Ying continued to apologize. Li Ru was not the type to be overly calculating, especially since the other party was the only daughter of the Pei family. She waved her hands:

"No, please be more careful next time and don't be so clumsy."

[I still have to give him some respect. Maybe we can work together in the future. But marriage... this might cause some problems, after all...]

After all?

The voice appeared in Li Ru's mind again. No one was talking around, and the lady in the blue dress next to her was eating cake, which made her feel a little confused.

Even if it was gossip about the Shen and Pei families, it was a bit too blatant!

"Ma'am, I'm really sorry." Pei Ying apologized a few more times.

Seeing that Mo Keyu had not returned for such a long time, Shen Mingli went out to look for her, but he saw a red stain in the middle of his mother's dress.

"Ming Li, I'm here," Li Ru waved at him, somewhat surprised, "Finally you can join us in this kind of event."

He stood there looking at the marks on his clothes and asked coldly, "Who did it?"

Before Li Ru could speak, Pei Ying answered with a trembling voice: "I'm sorry, Shen Mingli, I accidentally spilled juice on Madam's dress while walking."

[How can this be called "sprinkling"? This is obviously "splashing"! ]

Mo Keyu seemed to be eating cake and playing with his phone, but in fact he was listening to what was happening over there with Shen Mingli.

[The original target was me, but it just happened to splash on Madam Li, and now she is pretending.]

[If my dress gets dirty, it will not only prevent me from dancing with Shen Mingli, but also make me embarrassed. Oh my god, it seems that the power of genes is so strong that even decades of upper-class education in the Pei family can hardly change it.]

[No, if there is something wrong with my dress, does that give me a valid reason not to dance? Then I don’t have to worry about getting poked in the foot!]

Shen Mingli glanced at Mo Keyu who was pretending to look at her phone while eating cake, and shook his head helplessly:

"I'll have a driver come pick you up, and I'll have someone repair the dress."

"Okay," Li Ru's whole person instantly became lively. It was hard to imagine that this was the noble Mrs. Li. "By the way, son, do you have someone you like at this dance?"

Mo Keyu's ears stood up even straighter, and Pei Ying stared straight at Shen Mingli.