It was Liang Sheng!
Looking at that familiar face she had yearned for day and night in her memory, He Chuyan's fingers trembled. She loosened her grip on the things in her hand, and the shopping bag dropped to the ground, hitting her foot.
At that moment, she didn't feel much pain on the instep. Instead, she subconsciously wanted to chase after him.
But just as she took a few steps, the man got into a car. Then the car sped away mercilessly. He Chuyan watched helplessly as the car drove past her and slowly merged into the endless stream of traffic. It seemed as if a big hole had been torn in her heart, and the cold wind was howling in.
He Chuyan stood there dejectedly in the middle of the road. Amid the traffic, her gaze was always fixed on the direction where the car had disappeared.
She was sure that the face belonged to Liang Sheng no matter how she looked at it. But... Hadn't he gone abroad? Even Ye Yanxi had told her that he would never come back. So... Maybe she had just had a momentary visual illusion. It was also possible that the man just looked like Liang Sheng.
A harsh braking sound rang out, followed by the deafening blare of a car horn. He Chuyan's ears were almost deafened. Only then did she come to her senses with a start.
Only then did she realize that she had unconsciously stood in the middle of the road. The car behind her was almost about to hit her. Maybe the driver had also made an emergency brake and was really frightened. At this moment, the car was only a dozen centimeters away from her leg.
"What are you doing? Can't you cross the road on the sidewalk? Why are you blocking the middle of the road?" The car owner was quite good - tempered and didn't start scolding right away.
He Chuyan knew she was in the wrong and took a few steps back apologetically. "I'm really sorry!"
After the car passed, He Chuyan returned to the roadside to avoid causing a traffic chaos.
Back on the roadside, He Chuyan's mind was still wandering. She took a dejected look at the direction where the car had disappeared and self - deprecatingly curled the corner of her mouth.
Before this, she had casually joked with Ye Yanxi, saying that she no longer cared about Liang Sheng and had already let him go. But... It had only been such a short time, and she had relapsed into her old ways.
She said she had forgotten him with her mouth, but in her heart, why did she still remember that person?
In a daze, someone patted her on the shoulder.
She thought she was blocking someone's way, so she moved aside to let the person pass first.
But even after she had taken a few steps back, the person still kept patting her on the shoulder persistently.
He Chuyan was annoyed. Who was this blind person disturbing her when she was in such a bad mood? She looked up, ready to flare up, but unexpectedly met the smiling face of Chen Moshu.
"I saw you just now on the roadside. What's wrong? You look like you're in a daze. Do you have something on your mind and want to stand in the middle of the road?" Chen Moshu joked.
This was really walking right into the line of fire. As soon as she saw Chen Moshu, He Chuyan got angry. "Whether I'm okay or not has nothing to do with you. Who do you think you are? Mind your own business!"
Chen Moshu gave an embarrassed smile after being scolded without any explanation.
"What's wrong? Did you eat dynamite today? You're so angry!"
Chen Moshu's words made He Chuyan realize that her emotions were out of control. She took a deep breath to calm down, then glanced at him coldly. "What are you doing here?"
"I was just passing by. Then I saw you rush onto the road... to commit suicide!" Chen Moshu deliberately emphasized the last two words in a rather annoying way.
Sure enough, He Chuyan's anger was successfully provoked again, and her brows frowned tightly.
"Which eye of yours saw me trying to commit suicide?" She glared at him fiercely.
"Then why did you rush into the middle of the road for no reason? You scared that car owner so much. He probably thought you were trying to extort money from him."
He Chuyan felt a bit embarrassed. She didn't expect Chen Moshu to have seen her dejected look just now. She couldn't very well tell him that she had chased after the man because he looked like her ex - boyfriend and she had lost control of her emotions for a moment.
"I was just in a hurry to cross the road. I didn't expect a car to come." He Chuyan argued.
"I see."
"What's that tone? Don't you believe me?"
At this time, Chen Moshu took out the shopping bag that she had dropped on the ground from behind and waved it. All the things in the bag were intact. "If you were in such a hurry to cross the road, you wouldn't have even dropped the things you bought, would you?"
He Chuyan reached out awkwardly to grab the bag. "This is my stuff. Give it back to me!"
But Chen Moshu dodged backward, out of her reach. Then he took a long stride towards the roadside.
He Chuyan followed behind him, shouting angrily. "What are you doing? Give my stuff back to me!"
Then Chen Moshu stopped in front of a car. He opened the trunk and directly threw the big bag of things into it, then simply closed the trunk.
He Chuyan cursed and ran to the trunk of the car, trying to open it to get her things back. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't open the lid. She didn't know if Chen Moshu had done it on purpose.
She stamped her foot angrily. "Mr. Chen, what do you mean? Take my things out for me."
Chen Moshu leaned against the car with a smile, leisurely shaking the keys in his hand. "Is it your stuff? I clearly picked it up on the street just now. How can you say it's yours? Is your name written on it, Miss He?"
He was simply shameless and a scoundrel.
"You're a young master who lacks nothing. Why do you want to rob a commoner like me? Do you have a natural penchant for robbing other people's things and taking them for yourself!" He Chuyan angrily slapped the trunk lid. Chen Moshu's smiling face really made her grind her teeth in hatred.
If only she knew Taekwondo. She would definitely give him a good beating. She had disliked him for a long time.
No wonder Ye Yanxi had tripped him hard on the road when she first met him. This guy really deserved a beating. He was so infuriating.
"What you said. How could I have such a strange hobby? You know what? It actually feels quite good to rob other people's things." With that, Chen Moshu opened the car door and got in.
Seeing He Chuyan still standing angrily beside the car, glaring at him, Chen Moshu rolled down the window and raised his eyebrows at her. "Aren't you getting in?"
It wasn't worth getting angry with a rascal like him and hurting herself in the process.
"What for? I'll just give you those things. Goodbye... No, never see you again!" With that, He Chuyan turned around resolutely and was about to go to the roadside to hail a taxi.
"Hey, don't be in such a hurry to go!" When Chen Moshu saw her leaving, he quickly got out of the car. Only then did he realize that he might have gone too far. So he shouted at He Chuyan's back, "Get in the car. You helped me last night. Come on. Seeing that you're in a bad mood, I'll treat you to a drink."
A drink?
He Chuyan stopped in her tracks, turned around, and glared at him. "If you're treating, I'll go."
She was really in a bad mood today and was looking for a way to vent. It seemed that drinking was a good idea. As the saying goes, nothing can relieve sorrow like wine.
Chen Moshu shouted with a smile, "Yes, I'm treating. You can drink to your heart's content."
He Chuyan was a straightforward person by nature, so she got in the car without a second thought.
That night, Chen Moshu and He Chuyan got really drunk and didn't go home all night.
The morning sun shone through the thick curtains into the room. The soft and large bed was in a complete mess. A man and a woman were lying haphazardly on the bed. The floor and the table were piled with empty wine bottles. The whole room was dirty and in a complete mess.
Suddenly, a light and cheerful ringing sound came. A slender hand stretched out from under the quilt, groping for the phone on the bedside table. Without even looking, He Chuyan pressed the answer button.
"Hello..." Still sleepy, He Chuyan answered with a slurred voice.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to let out a curious "Huh" after hearing this voice. After a long time, a middle - aged woman's voice came through again. "Hello, isn't this Chen Moshu's phone?"
He Chuyan impatiently tugged at her hair. Her mind was in a complete muddle. Without even looking, she pushed the man sleeping beside her and handed him the phone. "It's your call."
Later, drowsiness came over He Chuyan, and she fell back asleep. The man beside her, Chen Moshu, also answered the phone in a half - asleep voice, mumbled a few words, and then hung up.
Not long after, another distinct ringtone rang out.
This phone was closer to Chen Moshu, almost right above his head. So Chen Moshu groped for it and picked it up. Just having fallen asleep and being woken up again, anyone would be in a bad mood at this moment. He impatiently said into the phone, "Hello, who is this?"
On the other end of the phone, Ye Yanxi heard a man's voice coming from He Chuyan's phone. She looked at the phone number in confusion. This was definitely He Chuyan's number.
She didn't say anything for a long time. The man on the other end of the phone impatiently shouted again.
This really startled Ye Yanxi. She had been having breakfast, but now she suddenly stood up, almost knocking over the glass of milk in front of her. Obviously, her sudden movement also surprised Xiao Yu sitting opposite her.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Yu asked.
"Who... Who are you?" After being friends for so long, this was the first time Ye Yanxi had called He Chuyan in the morning and found a man answering her phone.
"I'm Chen Moshu. What's wrong?" Chen Moshu was still half - asleep and answered subconsciously. "Who are you? Do you have something to say?"
How dare he ask if she had something to say! Ye Yanxi never expected that the person with He Chuyan at this moment would be Chen Moshu.
At that moment, Ye Yanxi's head was buzzing. She stopped her wild thoughts and asked to confirm, "Isn't this Yan Yan's phone? Where is she?"
"Your call!" Chen Moshu's voice came from the other side of the phone.
Then Chen Moshu pushed He Chuyan, signaling her to answer the phone. But He Chuyan just randomly pulled the quilt over her head, acting as if she hadn't heard anything at all.
Chen Moshu had no choice but to say into the phone, "She's asleep and doesn't want to answer the phone."
Good for you, Chen Moshu! You're actually sleeping with her Yan Yan. Ye Yanxi immediately lost her cool. This Chen Moshu, a playboy, could have picked any woman, but he had to come and ruin her best friend.
"Where are the two of you now?" Ye Yanxi angrily questioned.
But Chen Moshu didn't even notice her angry tone. He stupidly reported the address.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Moshu just calmly went back to sleep. He had drunk too much last night, and his head was splitting with pain.
At the villa, after Ye Yanxi hung up the phone, she didn't even have the mood to finish her breakfast. She hurriedly dragged Xiao Yu out of the house.
On the way, Xiao Yu kept trying to console her, saying that since Chen Moshu and He Chuyan were already in this situation, the deed was done. Even if they rushed there, they couldn't change anything. But Ye Yanxi just wouldn't listen. She was so angry that she kept urging Xu Bei to drive faster. She wished she could get there right away.
Her He Chuyan couldn't be bullied by this playboy, Chen Moshu.
The address where Chen Moshu was staying was a hotel, next to a relatively high - class entertainment venue. As soon as the car stopped, Ye Yanxi opened the door and got out in a hurry. Seeing this, Xiao Yu had no choice but to follow her closely, afraid that she might bump into something in her anger.
Just as they reached the hotel lobby and were about to take the elevator, a woman rushed in like a gust of wind from the door and got on the same elevator with them.
Xiao Yu, Ye Yanxi, and the seemingly excited woman took the same elevator. Xiao Yu took a quick look at the woman and recognized who she was, while the other woman was too excited to notice Xiao Yu.
Xiao Yu stood in the innermost part of the elevator, looking at the two women in front of him with a helpless expression.
The situation in front of him looked exactly like a scene of catching someone in the act!
The elevator stopped at the floor where Chen Moshu's room was. Xiao Yu watched as the two women in front of him rushed out like a whirlwind. He followed them helplessly. Then he saw the two women walking up to a room door at the same time and raising their hands to knock on the door at the same time.
The two women glanced at each other but ignored each other and continued knocking on the door.
A few minutes later, someone came to open the door.
As soon as the door opened a crack, Chen Moshu stood there at the door with a sleepy look on his face. "Can't people sleep in the early morning?"
Seeing Chen Moshu, Ye Yanxi and the woman surprisingly pushed the door open at the same time and rushed in. Chen Moshu was completely ignored by both of them.
When Ye Yanxi and the woman rushed into the bedroom, they immediately saw a woman lying on the big bed, sleeping soundly with the quilt over her head. Who else could it be but He Chuyan?
Ye Yanxi almost took three steps in two and rushed to the bedside. She pulled the quilt off and pulled He Chuyan up.
Was He Chuyan out of her mind? How could she be bewitched by this scoundrel, Chen Moshu?
He Chuyan let out an unhappy grunt and opened her eyes sleepily. Suddenly, a magnified face appeared in front of her, glaring at her angrily. Who else could it be but Ye Yanxi? He Chuyan smiled. "Xixi, why are you here?"
Ye Yanxi looked at her in disappointment. "I should be the one asking you this question."
Mrs. Shen happily rushed over and grabbed He Chuyan's hand without any explanation, looking her up and down. "Daughter - in - law!"
Ye Yanxi and He Chuyan were both completely confused. They looked at Mrs. Shen with puzzled expressions in their eyes. "Who are you?"