The burly men from the basketball team, who had been playing until 3 a.m., were all sprawled out asleep in the karaoke bar. But the girls couldn't settle for them, so Gu Yan called her driver to come pick her up.
The driver was taking Lu Yuzhi and Zhang Yuwen back to the Lu Group's Baixing Hotel.
Zhang Yuwen is the middle-aged man Li Peiyu mentioned, a consistently popular actor known for playing domineering CEOs. The "uncle" Gu Yan refers to is gay. At this time, Zhang Yuwen's new film had just finished filming, and he rushed back to S City overnight, where his friend Lu Yuzhi picked him up at the airport.
The driver turned to Lu Yuzhi and said, "Young Master Gu Yan just called and asked me to pick him up. He sounded like he was drunk."
Zhang Yuwen quickly said, "Please pull over and drop us off. It's not far, we can walk there."
Lu Yuzhi replied, "You said it's not far, let's drop him off first and then go pick him up."
“I mainly want to take a walk with you,” Zhang Yuwen explained.
Lu Yuzhi joked, "Aren't you afraid of being recognized? You're a third-tier nobody, after all."
"Third-tier? I'm a legitimate first-tier tier, okay? Besides, there's practically no one on the streets at this hour, how could anyone recognize me?" Zhang Yuwen said with some dissatisfaction.
At Zhang Yuwen's repeated insistence, Lu Yuzhi had no choice but to let the driver pick up Gu Yan first.
On the way back to the hotel, Zhang Yuwen said, "Gu Yan is already of marriageable age, what about you? Aren't you planning to get married yet? Don't you really want to leave an heir for the Lu family?"
Lu Yuzhi retorted, "Then when are you going to get married? Don't you plan to leave an heir for the Zhang family?"
"Why are you criticizing me? I'd like to keep you, but I don't like women." Zhang Yuwen shrugged helplessly.
"I don't want a shady woman to have my child," Lu Yuzhi said firmly.
“Su Wenqing is a really good woman, not some shady character at all. If you marry her and have a child with her, it won’t stop you from continuing your wild ways outside. She’s remained chaste for you all this time. If you don’t marry her soon, she’ll get old,” Zhang Yuwen continued to persuade him.
Lu Yuzhi didn't say anything, but a crazy idea popped into his mind: if Li Peiyu wanted to have a child for him, he wouldn't object.
Lu Yuzhi was startled by his own actions.
Then he thought again, even if he was willing, Li Peiyu might not be.
That woman probably never even considered marrying him. Lu Yuzhi couldn't help but smile bitterly as he recalled the day Li Peiyu forced him to delete their chat history and blocked him.
"What are you laughing at?" Zhang Yuwen asked, looking puzzled.
"Nothing much, I just slept with a woman a few days ago, and when we broke up, she forced me to block her," Lu Yuzhi replied casually.
"What? Afraid you'll pester me and beg to get back together? If she dares to dump you, I'd like to see what she's like." Zhang Yuwen said with wide eyes, a mixture of curiosity and teasing.
"Maybe she's worried I'll hold her back from finding another boyfriend," Lu Yuzhi said, trying to sound casual.
But when he talked about Li Peiyu, he couldn't suppress a smile. He could have completely avoided anything about Li Peiyu, and there was no need for him to talk about these trivial things with Zhang Yuwen, but he just couldn't help it and wanted to subtly mention her.
"If I ever run into her again, I must tell you. I have to get to know her." Zhang Yuwen thought to himself that Lu Yuzhi had finally met his match.
"When you broke up with her, didn't he try to stop you?"
Lu Yuzhi thought for a moment, "I guess you could say she tried to persuade me to stay. She said she wanted to spend one last night with me and sleep in the same bed with me, but she lied and said she had her period. I checked and she didn't have her period at all. The next morning, she even asked me to block her."
Zhang Yuwen laughed so hard tears almost streamed down his face. "This interesting soul is one in a million. I have a feeling you're going to fall for her."
Lu Yuzhi looked up at the starry sky and sighed, "We've already broken up. A good horse doesn't turn back to eat the grass it already grazed."
"Alright, good horse, let's just wait and see." Zhang Yuwen gloated, waiting to see the show.
Lu Yuzhi escorted Zhang Yuwen back to his hotel room. After a brief farewell, he strolled alone down the corridor, wondering if Gu Yan had come alone, or if he was with Li Peiyu. He wondered how she was doing.
Upon entering the lobby, Lu Yuzhi saw Gu Yan and several girls. He calmly searched for Li Peiyu, but to no avail.
"Dad, what are you doing here?"
"Pick up your Uncle Yuwen from the plane."
"Oh." Then Gu Yan introduced him to Lin Wanwan and the others beside him, "This is my dad."
"Hello, Uncle." The girls greeted him in unison.
Guo Jiahe is cheerful but a bit naive and doesn't know the occasion, saying things like, "Your dad is so young and handsome!"
"My adoptive father. He's only 38 years old."
"Oh," everyone suddenly realized and nodded in agreement.
"Dad, are you still coming home so late?"
"Yes, I'll go back." Lu Yuzhi said indifferently.
"Dad, are you in such a hurry to go back to see Auntie? Take it easy and take care of yourself." Gu Yan teased his father in public.
Lu Yuzhi's heart tightened, and he took a step forward. After walking a few steps, he saw a beautiful young girl lying on the sofa. Lu Yuzhi stopped and stared intently at the person in front of him. The familiar little face was flushed, as if she were drunk.
Behind him, Guo Jiahe whispered, "Gu Yan, is the Yuwen your father mentioned the same Yuwen I know?"
Lin Wanwan and Tian Yuan also widened their eyes and pricked up their ears, waiting for Gu Yan's answer. Guo Jiahe then voiced what they were thinking.
"Hmm," Gu Yan replied absentmindedly, looking in the direction his father had stopped.
"Oh, can you take us to take a group photo?" Guo Jiahe stomped her feet excitedly.
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