The whole private room fell silent. No one had expected that she would rather drink ten glasses of alcohol in a row than share a cross-cupped wine with Lu Qianzhou. Had the two of them quarreled?
It was not until Yan Xia said, "I've finished the ten glasses. You can start the next round."
Yan Xia's mind was a bit muddled. She wasn't a good drinker to begin with. With pauses between each of the ten glasses, it was even easier for her to get drunk. Two blushes had risen on her fair cheeks.
In a daze, she was suddenly grabbed by someone. A pair of arms tightly wrapped around her waist and pulled her into an embrace. An angry breath approached her.
Yan Xia smelled the familiar scent on Lu Qianzhou's body. When she looked up and saw his angry expression, she instinctively reached out to push him.
"Will you stop? Let go... mm..."
Before she could finish her words, he had already grabbed her head and lowered his head to kiss her deeply in front of everyone. It was like a declaration of sovereignty and also like a punishment for her willfulness.
The screams and exclamations from around were endless. The colorful lights kept spinning and flashing. Someone took out their phone to take pictures and videos, recording this romantic moment.
Yan Xia frowned tightly and pushed him, but his chest was like an iron wall. No matter how hard she pushed, she couldn't move him. In the end, she was instead held firmly by him and couldn't move at all.
Drunk but still conscious, Yan Xia's mind was still clear, but her body was not very obedient.
She remembered that he had kissed her deeply like this before. She remembered that they had once reached the stage of getting engaged, but why had they ended up like this?
Thinking of these, big tears welled up in her eyes and slid down Lu Qianzhou's hand.
Lu Qianzhou stopped what he was doing. Looking into her hazy tearful eyes, he seemed unable to bear such a sad look. Suddenly, he reached out and pressed her head against his chest, burying it there.
Then he wrapped his arm around her waist and led her outside. He still had some things he wanted to ask her.
Lu Qianzhou blatantly walked past someone with her in his arms. That person originally wanted to follow them out, but was called to a halt.
"Brother Jiang Yi." Peng Shiyi came to his side. Probably afraid that he would really follow them out, she tightly grabbed the cuff of his sleeve. "Are you still not willing to give up?"
Even though he had seen it with his own eyes, and even though Cheng Yanxia had rejected him many times in person, was he still not willing to give up?
Yan Xia was manhandled by Lu Qianzhou all the way. They walked through the long corridor, and he pushed her into an empty private room. The lights inside were not on. The dim light just managed to hide his angry expression.
Yan Xia was extremely angry. Why on earth had this man shown up here? Because of his appearance tonight, all her plans had been disrupted!
"Lu Qianzhou, will you stop? How long are you going to pester me?"
Lu Qianzhou propped one hand against the wall, as if protecting her in his arms: "Have you forgotten what I told you? Stay away from Fang Jiangyi. Don't live with him. Do you just turn a deaf ear to my words?"
This man was simply crazy!
Yan Xia reached out to push him: "Who I live with has nothing to do with you. You want to interfere in my work, and now you even want to meddle in my private life. Don't you think you're being too nosy?"
Did he want to live by the sea now?
"Until you pay me the one-billion-yuan breakup fee, you're still my girlfriend. You're not allowed to live with Fang Jiangyi in an ambiguous way!"
He always ordered her in a controlling manner. He used to be a decent person who would respect her opinions and ask for her thoughts. But now he was like a crazy dog biting randomly.
"Crazy."
Lu Qianzhou forcefully pinched her chin: "If I hadn't happened to come here tonight, you were going to share a cross-cupped wine with another man."
"So what if I did? What does it matter to you?" Yan Xia retorted.
"If you dare to do it, I'll immediately make Fang Jiangyi move out obediently. And that Lan Yuzhou who's following you will also take his daughter and leave here obediently. I mean what I say!" he threatened her.
"What does it have to do with Lan Yuzhou! According to you, every man around me is in an ambiguous relationship with me?" Yan Xia angrily grabbed her hair and simply went along with his words: "Yes, I'm in an ambiguous relationship with so many men. Yet you still follow me and don't break up with me. Are you waiting for your head to turn green like a prairie?"
Lu Qianzhou raised his eyebrows: "So you admit you're my girlfriend now."
This man was extremely good at arguing. Every time she argued with him, she basically never won.
Yan Xia became even more impatient: "Are you done talking? If so, get out of my way."
Since she couldn't see Long Tao, she didn't plan to waste any more time. She just wanted to leave immediately.
Lu Qianzhou pulled her back again. He pressed himself against her and scrutinized her expression in the weak light coming in from the outside: "Why did you come here today?"
Yan Xia had been feeling dizzy and was almost indulging in the drunken state. Hearing this, half of her drunkenness faded away. Her face instantly turned pale. She looked up at Lu Qianzhou's expression. Had he discovered something?
Lu Qianzhou saw all her expressions clearly.
He shouldn't have been here today. He had just suddenly heard that Yan Xia had come here, and coincidentally, Long Tao was also here tonight, so he had followed.
Since he didn't see her in the private room, he had chatted with Long Tao for a few words. When Yan Xia came over to eavesdrop, he had already seen her out of the corner of his eye, but he hadn't exposed her. Instead, he had come to her private room to find her.
Yan Xia raised her eyes and glanced at him: "You've already seen it. It's a colleagues' gathering to celebrate my reappointment as the deputy general manager."
Lu Qianzhou went straight to the point: "Really? I thought you came for Long Tao."
Yan Xia's hand suddenly tightened. She pretended not to understand completely under the influence of alcohol.
"What Long Tao? I don't know him. I don't know what you're talking about."
Lu Qianzhou's hand slid down ambiguously along the curve of her cheek: "I heard that you took over several underground casinos from Lord San."
He really knew everything. Did it mean that he also knew about the police's seizure of several underground casino suppliers? So it was understandable that he suspected her of having ulterior motives.
This man was too smart. All lies would fall apart automatically in front of him. Yan Xia suddenly buried her head in his arms and opened her eyes, thinking about how to respond to him.
She wondered if Shangguan Yao was around and if he had heard what Lu Qianzhou said.
"Lu Qianzhou, I've said that I'll kill you. To achieve this goal, I'll stop at nothing." She let out a soft laugh. "What? Just because Lord San gave me a few underground casinos, are you scared?"
"I hope what you said tonight is all the truth. Stay away from Long Tao, or you'll end up looking really ugly." His gaze was obscure. "Apart from that, I'll protect you no matter what you do."
Yan Xia let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Lu Qianzhou didn't really suspect her.
She raised her head from his arms. Her head felt dizzy. It seemed that she couldn't hold on any longer. Suddenly, she saw Fang Jiangyi walking past the door. Just as she was about to call out to him, Lu Qianzhou covered her mouth with his hand, preventing her from calling Fang Jiangyi. She watched helplessly as he walked past her.
"Lu Qianzhou, will you stop pestering me?"
After Fang Jiangyi left, Yan Xia turned around and punched and kicked him, venting all her anger on him.