"I will never fall in love with anyone else. I only like Xiao Yuan——"
Song Xuanhe quickly snatched Zhou Nan's phone and saw the voice message that had been sent. He didn't even have time to ask Zhou Nan where Xiao Yuanmu's WeChat came from. He quickly retrieved the voice message before the time was up.
After seeing the message "You have withdrawn a message", he heaved a sigh of relief. He kicked Zhou Nan, who looked innocent, and threw the phone at him, saying, "Where did you get Xiao Yuanmu's WeChat?"
"The last time Song Jiabao went to the party." Zhou Nan glanced at Song Xuan and the wine in his hand and said, "That was when you got drunk."
Wasn’t that the time when he called Xiao Yuanmu “Dad”?
Song Xuanhe's expression froze, and he looked at Zhou Nan with a knife-like gaze. When Zhou Nan looked at him, his eyes curved and he smiled amiably.
"Now that you mention it, I suddenly remember that I didn't drink enough with you at the last party. This time, I must let you taste my cooking." Song Xuanhe smiled and waved to the waiter, whispering a few words in his ear. The waiter hesitated for a moment, responded and left.
For some reason, Zhou Nan always felt that Song Xuan and this handsome young man who was quite good at deceiving young girls looked a little weird under the occasional beams of light. Coupled with his words "Try my cooking", he always had the illusion that he meant "Try my skills".
However, all these thoughts disappeared instantly when he saw Song Xuan's neat and beautiful cocktail-mixing posture, especially when he saw the cocktail in the highball glass that gradually changed from gray to blue, he opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"This is a cocktail specially made for you. You must finish it." Song Xuanhe pushed the wine in his hand in front of Zhou Nan and said with a smile.
"Of course you have to finish it. But when did you learn how to mix cocktails? And you're so good at it?" Zhou Nan was amazed. He picked up the wine glass and looked at it from top to bottom. Even when he shook it, the gradient of the wine did not merge into one color. It was well maintained.
The waiter who had just helped Song Xuan deliver the cocktail tools and various drinks he needed was also very surprised. Even the bartender who followed to see which customer asked for a cocktail was also amazed. The fact that he could mix cocktails in such a place proved his ability, but he had been mixing cocktails for many years and even participated in several industry competitions, but he had never seen this kind of mixing method.
Such beautiful colors and gradient layers, plus those bottles of expensive wine, can become a signature product if you can learn how to do it.
The bartender looked at Song Xuanhe with a very enthusiastic gaze, but became disappointed when he remembered Song Xuanhe's identity. The person who could sit here and drink was definitely not someone he could easily get close to. He was different from those waiters. He was on this cruise ship just for work.
While Zhou Nan was marveling at the scene, the little girl sitting next to Xiao Shenglin also opened her eyes wide. She looked at the changing colors in the wine glass with fondness. It was like a cloudy day turning into sunny, or like a hazy breakfast without sunlight. Just looking at it would make her mood relax.
"Brother Xuanhe, how did you do this?" Xiao Ranyun was amazed. Her favorite colors were blue and gray. This cocktail made her eyes light up. If etiquette did not allow it, she would have wanted to take it from Zhou Nan and take a closer look.
Xiao Ranyun's question touched the heart of the bartender next to him. He wanted to ask the same question! But his identity does not allow it. Now someone is asking on his behalf. Isn't that going to make him happy?
"It's just a mixture of several kinds of wine, nothing special."
Song Xuanhe said it so easily that not only the bartender didn't believe it, even Zhou Nan and the others who were completely laymen didn't believe it. However, seeing that Song Xuanhe didn't want to say more, they didn't ask more questions even if they wanted to know.
Even the young Xiao Ranyun was very polite and did not continue the topic. Instead, he asked shyly, "Brother Xuanhe, can you make me a drink?"
Meeting Song Xuanhe's gaze, the girl who had always been graceful and elegant felt a little embarrassed, but her voice was still crisp and charming: "My favorite colors are blue and gray. This glass of wine is so beautiful."
Song Xuan and Wei Dun were lost in thought for a moment as they looked at the girl's shy expression. He was his only friend in the original world, and his favorite colors were also these two colors. At that time, he had tried to mix this cocktail many times just to trick him.
Seeing that Song Xuanhe had been silent, Xiao Ranyun realized that her request was a bit abrupt. She was already a little embarrassed, and her face was getting hot at this time. She tightened her hands on her knees and was about to apologize when Song Xuanhe smiled and said, "Okay, but after Zhou Nan finishes drinking and listens to his comments, if you still want to drink, I'll make you a drink."
Xiao Ranyun's eyes lit up and she quickly thanked him with a smile. The little girl smiled especially sweetly, like the little sister next door, sincere and cute.
However, Zhou Nan felt something was wrong. What did he mean by "if he wanted to drink more after he finished drinking and evaluating it", it sounded like the wine was not tasty.
However, Zhou Nan took a look at the extremely beautiful color of the cocktail and thought hesitantly, how could such a good-looking glass of wine be so unpalatable?
Seeing that Zhou Nan was slow to drink, Song Xuanhe said with a smile, "Didn't you just say you would finish it? Why don't you drink it?"
Zhou Nan looked at Song Xuanhe's smiling expression, and the feeling that something was wrong became even stronger. However, he had just promised Song Xuanhe to finish the drink, and no matter how unpalatable a glass of wine was, it was just the taste of alcohol. Maybe he was overthinking it.
"It's so beautiful, of course I have to take a few more glances." Zhou Nan picked up the glass and gently sniffed the aroma of the cocktail. It felt very good, so he put the glass to his mouth and wanted to drink it.
Song Xuanhe stopped him. He picked up the small lime that was used as a decoration on the side of the glass and squeezed two drops of lemon juice into the wine. The gradient-colored wine was layered with transparent lemon juice, and a transparent color was separated from the middle. After a few seconds, the separated wines gradually mixed and returned to the original gradient color scheme, but the gray became a little lighter and turned into gray-blue.
Xiao Ranyun stared at the cocktail in front of him with wide eyes, as if he was watching an interesting chemistry experiment. The light in his eyes was extremely obvious in the dark bar, and his love for it was beyond words.
After this beautiful demonstration, Zhou Nan was even more certain that the wine would not taste bad.
In front of everyone, he drank the glass of wine with a smile. The taste of the cocktail passed through the tip of his tongue and exploded in his taste buds. Before he could savor it carefully, his face quickly turned red and he started coughing.
"Wine is...poisonous!"
After saying this, Zhou Nan pinched his neck with one hand and retched hard, while with the other hand he fumbled around trying to find other drinks to get rid of the taste in his mouth.
Everyone looked at this sudden change in astonishment, their expressions very much at a loss. After all, Zhou Nan's movements and lines at this moment were too exaggerated, and it really seemed like he was acting deliberately and his acting was exaggerated.
However, his flushed face and coughed up tears could not be faked. After being surprised, everyone quickly looked at the direct cause of the incident - Song Xuanhe.
Song Xuanhe smiled lightly, handed the watermelon juice on the table to Zhou Nan, and then smiled at the others, "He just felt that the wine was not very tasty, so he wanted to have a drink to slow down, nothing serious."
Zhou Nan finally caught his breath after drinking the watermelon juice. He stared with his big eyes still shedding tears and complained in a hoarse voice: "Is it just unpalatable? Tell me honestly! Is it just f*cking unpalatable?"
Zhou Nan didn't even want to recall that glass of wine that looked amazing and tasted even more amazing!
The lingering bitterness that sticks to the tongue, the spicy taste that irritates the throat after the bitterness, and the sour taste mixed with astringency that makes the teeth uncomfortable as if they are about to soften in an instant. The moment he drank it, he even got goose bumps. It was simply a deadly weapon!
If Zhou Nan hadn't drunk the wine himself, he would never have believed that there was something so unpalatable in the world!
What is Chinese medicine! As long as I drink a glass of wine prepared by Song Xuanhe, it won’t be a problem!
Perhaps because he was surprised by Zhou Nan's overly sad and angry expression, even Xiao Shenglin couldn't help but ask, "Is it really hard to drink?"
"Is it fucking unpalatable?" Zhou Nan drank all the drinks on the table. He still felt the bitterness on his tongue. He bared his sore teeth and said, "I'm telling you, once you take a sip, everything you drink will taste delicious. Believe it or not, this is not a drink, it's a fucking chemical weapon!"
"I'm telling you, little sister." Zhou Nan shook his head with a vicissitudes of life expression: "Listen to your brother's advice, don't drink it, it will kill you, really."
Song Xuanhe watched the show for a long time with his arms crossed. Hearing this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Aren't you not dead?"
"You definitely have a grudge against me." Zhou Nan stretched out his index finger, pointed at Song Xuanhe tremblingly and said, "How have I offended you? Tell me, why do you want to hurt me like this?"
Song Xuanhe admitted it without any guilt, and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What do you think?"
Zhou Nan didn't know. He just glared at Song Xuanhe fiercely, then glared at him again, and then said fiercely: "I'm going to break up with you for one minute."
Xiao Shenglin raised his hand to look at his watch, smiling warmly: "Let me check the watch."
Zhou Nan was heartbroken: "You have changed, Lin Zi, you have changed. You have become as cold-blooded and unreasonable as Song Er."
Song Xuanhe turned to look at the little girl who had been looking at him and said with a smile: "Do you want me to help you mix this drink?"
Xiao Ranyun hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Can I just look at it without drinking?"
"Sure, but you have to give it back to me after you're done reading it." Song Xuanhe picked up the cocktail glass, his smile dimmed a little as his eyelashes half-drooped, and his expression gradually became serious.
Not long after, the same cocktail appeared on the table again. Xiao Ranyun couldn't hide his amazement. He carefully held the glass and looked at it again and again.
Song Xuanhe smiled faintly and said, "This glass of wine can only last for ten minutes. After ten minutes, the gradient layers will mix."
Xiao Ranyun exclaimed, nodded and thanked him, then looked at the cocktail more seriously. He couldn't help but take out his phone and took pictures again and again. When he found that the light was not good and the pictures were not good, he asked Song Xuanhe, "Brother Xuanhe, can I take it to the plywood to take pictures? The light here is not good. I will definitely send it back after I finish taking the pictures, okay?"
Song Xuanhe smiled lightly and nodded, "Go ahead."
After Xiao Ranyun disappeared from the bar, Zhou Nan said, "You are deliberately trying to harm Dad."
Song Xuanhe smiled and said, "Aren't you Noble Lady Nan? Have you heard that thunder and rain are the emperor's grace? Of course you have to drink the wine given by the emperor."
Zhou Nan choked and realized that Song Xuanhe was taking revenge on him for the palace drama he had written in the afternoon. Concubine Nan cursed him for being narrow-minded, drank a sip of watermelon juice and instantly changed the subject.
The bar was full of joy, but the deck was not peaceful.
Just after a young man with a calm temperament and striking appearance appeared, many people came and went to talk to him. Seeing his clothes, they knew that he should not be someone working on the cruise ship, so some people began to speculate about his identity, and it was very noisy for a while.
After Xiao Yuanmu impatiently sent away another wave of people who came to chat him up, tonight's target finally appeared in his sight. However, before the target came close, he saw a greasy, fat body moving quickly towards him.
The owner of the obese body raised his head, opened a pair of narrow eyes that were squeezed by the fat and could not be seen clearly, and said to Xiao Yuanmu with a lewd look on his face: "Little friend, where are you from? Otherwise, you can follow your uncle and I will give you whatever you want in the future, okay?"
The people observing this side were a little shocked. Anyone who saw such an eye-catching creature standing in front of such a god-like figure would feel uncomfortable, but the people here could not guess Xiao Yuanmu's identity, nor could they guess the man's identity, so they naturally would not step forward rashly.
Although Xiao Yuanmu's temperament doesn't seem like that of a kept lover, his appearance definitely makes him a possible lover. But that fat man, no matter how you look at it, can't possibly be someone's heavy-flavored lover.
In such an unclear situation, most people would just watch from afar even if it was eye-catching.
Xiao Yuanmu's gaze swept across the man's face, whose facial features had been squeezed out by fat, and he found the existence of this man from a very distant memory. Thinking of the man's fate in the previous life, the corners of his mouth curled up into a wicked smile, but it came and went quickly, and almost no one noticed.
This is almost not limited to Boss Sun who was standing right in front of Xiao Yuanmu and kept staring at Xiao Yuanmu's expression.
When he saw Xiao Yuanmu's smile, he instantly felt a chill on his back and even his hair stood up. However, after the palpitations, his heartbeat became so strong that a greedy smile appeared on his face.
This man was the most perfect prey he had ever seen.
Boss Sun looked up at Xiao Yuanmu with his belly sticking out, and said with a smile: "I know you are following a young man now, but I have more experience than young people, and more experience can make you feel comfortable. Believe me, as long as you follow me, I will make you unable to leave me for one night, how about it?"
Hearing what Boss Sun said, everyone else on the deck was a little surprised. Although they had guessed that Xiao Yuanmu was a stranger when they saw him, and might have been brought here by a certain family, after seeing his powerful aura and calm demeanor, most of them denied their guesses and thought that he must be the heir of a family who rarely appeared.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Boss Sun met him, he said with certainty that he was following a young financial sponsor. If he didn't have the confidence, he would never dare to slander the young master of a family like this.
For a moment, everyone's gaze towards this side changed slightly.
Some people were disdainful while others regretted. Some disdainful of Xiao Yuanmu's dirty identity beneath his good looks, some regretted not being able to take down this overly handsome young man first.
Feeling the change in the surrounding gazes, Boss Sun's bulging belly bulged up. On this cruise ship where many dignitaries gathered, how could he be so stupid as to chat up a stranger without knowing his identity? He had just asked clearly, and the young master of the Song family said that the stranger was a plaything raised by his younger brother, an orphan without parents, and his family did not agree with them being together at all.
How could Sun Jinren miss such a good opportunity?
Seeing that Xiao Yuanmu didn't say anything, Boss Sun thought that he might be afraid, so he couldn't help but laugh, took a half step towards him, and said, "Be good, follow your brother, and you will have everything you want in the future--"
Before he could even utter the word "yes", he was kicked straight in the heart and flew away.
It is no exaggeration to say that he flew out. Boss Sun weighed at least 300 pounds. After being kicked by Xiao Yuanmu, he was directly smashed against the long table behind him. The fruits and pastries on the table fell to the ground with a crackling sound, causing Zhang Ban to scream.
One of the clear and angry voices was particularly eye-catching: "Sir! You almost ruined my wine!"
Xiao Ranyun was holding the wine that had changed and was about to mix. Although he had just avoided it, the violent movement still caused some of the wine to spill. A glass of gradient-colored cocktail also exacerbated the mixing, leaving only a misty blue-gray color.
Sun Jinren finally got up, holding his stomach, when he heard the little girl's angry scolding. He was about to curse, but when he saw the little girl's expensive clothes and the glaring bodyguard next to her, he restrained his expression and smiled apologetically, "Uncle didn't mean to do it. It was that man who kicked me. How much is this glass of wine? Uncle will compensate you, okay?"
When Xiao Ranyun came out, she saw the commotion over there, but she grew up in this circle and had seen a lot of such things, so even though she was disgusted, she did not meddle in it. Instead, she focused all her attention on her favorite cocktail. However, she did not expect that the wine, which was supposed to be mixed in two minutes, was mixed directly because of his interruption.
"Miss." A bodyguard in black walked up to Xiao Ranyun and asked worriedly, "Are you okay? Do you need me to go in and call Master Xiao?"
"It's okay." Xiao Ranyun pursed his lips and shook his head. He looked at Boss Sun with fire in his eyes, but his tone was still polite: "Sir, I didn't buy this glass of wine, but a friend of my brother helped me mix it. Even if you pay for it, there won't be a second glass of wine. And I promised Xuan and my brother to send this glass of wine back. You made me break my promise."
When Boss Sun saw the situation around Xiao Ranyun, he knew that she had an extraordinary background. His lust and anger just now were extinguished instantly, and he apologized repeatedly: "It's all my fault that I fell over and didn't find the right direction. I disturbed you and ruined your wine. How about this, you tell your brother's friend and I will apologize to him personally."
Xiao Yuanmu raised his eyes after hearing the familiar voice and familiar words. His gaze swept across Xiao Ranyun's beautiful face and paused for a moment, and finally his sight fell on the wine glass in her hand.
It was grey, like a gloomy rainy day.
He looked away and looked at Sun Jinren who was still saying nice things.
Sun Jinren broke out in a cold sweat when he heard the bodyguard say that Xiao Ranyun's brother's surname was Xiao. No matter how he thought about it, there could only be one person from the Xiao family who would appear here with so many bodyguards.
This is someone he absolutely cannot afford to offend.
Sun Jinren wiped the sweat off his head and apologized again. This time he was smart and put all the blame on Xiao Yuanmu. He said, "It's all because of that pretty boy. I just went over to say a few words to him and he suddenly kicked me. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have disturbed Miss Xiao. Otherwise, I will immediately contact the security department here to throw that man off the cruise ship and send him to the shore before we punish him when we dock."
Xiao Ranyun frowned. She really hated this greasy-looking and nonsense-talking man, but her upbringing made it difficult for her to say bad things. She could only say, "That's none of his business. You didn't mean to bump into the table. As long as you can make Xuan and brother forgive you, I won't bother with you anymore."
Even though she had a good upbringing and a gentle temperament, the education and influence that Xiao Ranyun received since childhood would not make her become soft-hearted when people spoke softly to her. She would naturally not let go easily of things that should be clearly regulated.
Sun Jinren nodded repeatedly, "It's my fault. I should apologize to the owner of this glass of wine."
Xiao Ranyun took a step back holding the wine glass, and after instructing the bodyguard beside him to go to the bar to call Xiao Shenglin and the other two, he looked at the gray-blue wine in the glass with disappointment, feeling a little depressed.
Sun Jinren glanced at Xiao Ranyun's expression cautiously, and was relieved to see that she didn't care. After all, she was young and soft-hearted. Otherwise, if a young lady of such status really cared about him spilling the glass of wine, it would be impossible for him to move into a higher level circle in the future.
Thinking of this, Sun Jinren looked at Xiao Yuanmu with resentment.
If it weren't for this brat, he would never have offended the Xiao family. Now that he has made a fool of himself in front of the young lady of the Xiao family, even if they don't care, they won't have a good impression of him. Even if today's incident is over, it will be much more difficult for him to climb up in the future.
Noticing Sun Jinren's gaze, Xiao Yuanmu glanced at him indifferently. After seeing the cruelty and greed in his eyes, there was not even a ripple in his eyes, and he looked away indifferently.
Dealing with the Song family might take some effort, but crushing Sun Jinren to death would be a piece of cake for him.
Sun Jinren also withdrew his gaze. As for that poor boy Xiao Yuanmu, he would naturally have thousands of ways to make him suffer once he got off the cruise ship and force him to beg to be with him. The most urgent task now was to get the forgiveness of the Xiao family.
Seeing that Xiao Shenglin and the others hadn't come out yet, Xiao Ranyun looked even more worried, and whispered to her life assistant, "It's a pity that no one drinks such a nice wine. I was planning to try a little bit, but Xuan and my brother said that I had to give it back. What if he gets angry?"
Before the assistant could persuade Xiao Ranyun, Sun Jinren, who only heard the first half of the sentence, said, "It's okay, it's okay, Miss Xiao, I can drink it, I'll help you drink it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a clear male voice angrily ask: "Are you qualified to drink this glass of wine?"
The author has something to say: Zhou Nan: Your Majesty, you have such a cruel heart. I have been with you for so many years, and you actually gave me a cup of poisoned wine. It's so poisonous!
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