Compared to its usual bustle, the bar tonight was particularly empty.
Gu Lili was huddled up on the sofa, clutching a bottle that was already half-empty.
She had been waiting here for two full hours as agreed, but her fiancé, Gu Xichen, never showed.
Gu Lili could no longer wait and dialed his number.
"Are you coming or not?"
"The rain is too heavy. Find a hotel to stay in for now, I'll come to pick you up early tomorrow."
At his words, Gu Lili grew annoyed, "If I didn't call you, were you planning to just leave me here waiting?"
"No, I was about to call you. Go rest early, see you in the morning."
"I have something very important to say, I must see you. If you can't come, I'll go to you. Where are you?"
As soon as she spoke, before hearing his reply, a delicate and soft female voice came from the other end of the phone, "Honey, I'm going to take a shower first."
Gu Lili's grip on her phone tightened, she asked with disbelief, "Gu Xichen! Do you have... another woman?!"
There was silence on the other end for a moment, then a faint voice provided an answer, "Shouldn't I have another woman? Lili, take a good look at yourself in the mirror, do you... even count as a woman? The old ladies on the street are more fashionable than you, are you aware of that? Haven't you felt that there is a huge gap between us in terms of knowledge, thoughts, and social status?"
"If you have a dirty mistress just say so directly, no need for all this nonsense..."
She was interrupted before she could finish speaking, Gu Xichen's voice dropped low as he warned, "Gu Lili, you'd better watch your mouth. Who's the dirty mistress?! You're not even worth a toe of hers! Meiwei even feels sorry for you, but I'm telling you now, I want to break off the engagement!"
She choked on her words, unable to breathe, tears streamed uncontrollably down her face, her voice shook relentlessly, "Fine, break off the engagement, as you wish! From this moment, you don't deserve to be Gu Lili's fiancé!"
The phone call ended.
Gu Lili felt like she had lost all her support.
Her master had passed away, and her fiancé was in love with someone else.
At this moment, she was truly alone in this world.
All she had was herself.
Lifting the bottle, she closed her eyes and gulped down the rest of the alcohol in one go, then tossed the bottle onto the sofa next to her.
Gu Lili hugged her knees, buried her face in them, and began to sob uncontrollably.
After crying for a mere minute, she stood up, settled the bill, and walked towards the exit.
Drunkenness clouding her mind, she stepped out and saw a red car parked not too far away. Her vision blurry, she mistook it for a taxi and ran over to open the door and got in.
The man who was in the car reading documents was startled by the unexpected visitor.
"Driver, take me... take me to the nearest hotel."
"This is not a taxi, get out."
His cold tone was unmistakable.
Long Yubei hated drunk people most, especially drunk women.
Gu Lili ignored his words, mumbling to herself, "To the hotel, I need to go to the hotel..."
At this moment, Tang Qingli came back and noticed an extra woman in the car as soon as he got in.
"Throw this crazy woman out."
Tang Qingli got out of the car again without even bothering to open an umbrella, opened the rear door, and bent down to pull Gu Lili out.
Feeling someone trying to drag her out, Gu Lili panicked and clung to the nearest pair of legs, holding on for dear life.
Long Yubei reached out to pry her fingers loose, but she clung to him even more tightly and eventually kicked Tang Qingli in the nose. Taking advantage of Long Yubei's unpreparedness, she crawled into the space between his legs.
Long Yubei set aside the documents in his hand, opened the car door on his side, planning to throw her out from there.
Just as he was about to reach out, suddenly, her face rested on his most sensitive and key area.
He... he actually had a physical reaction to a strange, drunken woman in a matter of seconds...
Long Yubei looked down at the bold and presumptuous woman and then changed his mind, reached out to close the car door, "Drive to the hotel."
The outside Tang Qingli hurriedly closed the door and quickly got into the car, taking off his coat and wiping his wet hair with a towel, "Young master, not throwing her out?"
"Seeing her in this delirious state, since she wants to go to a hotel, let's give her a ride."
Just as the car quieted down, Gu Lili felt something hard against her face and instinctively reached out to touch, "Eh... what's this, so hard."
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