Gu Ningyi lazily lifted his dark eyes, as if puzzled by his friend’s words, "What?"
Yuan Shen was even more confused, his brows tightly knit, "So what’s going on with you lately? I’ve been inviting you out for a drink for over a month now, only just managing to get you, Mr. Gu, out. I heard from A Zhi and the others that they haven’t seen you for over a month either. I thought you and Yalin were preparing to get married and start living a more restrained life."
Yalin, with the surname Zhou, was the precious daughter of the Zhou Group, Zhou Kuangtian’s beloved jewel. The Zhou Family and the Gu Family were old family friends, so the marriage between Gu Ningyi and Zhou Yalin had been arranged since they were in their mothers’ wombs.
However, Gu Ningyi seemed not to hear Yuan Shen’s words, concentrating only on the words "restrained life." Had he been living a restrained life for the past month or so?
In his mind, images of everything he’d done over the past month flashed by rapidly.
A little over a month ago, he learned that Dong Xin Yan was going to marry Cheng Ziyang, and one afternoon, while passing by a bridal shop, he saw Dong Xin Yan happily trying on wedding dresses.
The woman he had hated since childhood was actually going to be happily married? How could he allow that?
At that time, Cheng Ziyang was competing with him for a piece of land. To his company, that land was neither here nor there, yet he drove up the price, making it skyrocket. In the end, Cheng Ziyang stubbornly took the land at a high price, causing financial collapse and bankruptcy, and came to his company in frustration to curse him.
With many bodyguards and assistants by his side, and himself highly skilled in combat, Cheng Ziyang, a bookish and frail scholar, couldn’t even touch a corner of his clothes.
Yet at that moment, for some inexplicable reason, he allowed Cheng Ziyang to land a punch on him.
Afterward, he went to the hospital for a check-up, and the next day, the police came to the Cheng Mansion, arresting Cheng Ziyang for serious bodily harm without the chance of bail.
What followed... Dong Xin Yan ran around everywhere for Cheng Ziyang, hitting walls repeatedly until she finally found him.
Then inexplicably, he ended up sleeping with Dong Xin Yan, inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity with her, inexplicably tangled over this feeling for more than half a month, inexplicably being occupied by this woman in his mind for over a month.
Restrained life? Where’s the restrained life? Would he really lead a restrained life for Dong Xin Yan? What a joke!
The irritation that had just been soothed surged up again without warning. Gu Ningyi furrowed his brows, held his wine glass up, and downed it in one go.
Yuan Shen waited for a while but didn’t get a response from his buddy. He saw Gu Ningyi’s handsome face suddenly turn dark, his brows deeply furrowed. Sensing something was wrong, his curiosity piqued, "Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Gu, you don’t seem quite right? Something’s up!"
After a pause, his eyes lit up as he guessed, "Could something have happened with Yalin?"
"What does it have to do with her?"
Gu Ningyi gave Yuan Shen a cold glance, his voice equally chilly in response. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ Nove1Fire.net
But with this one sentence, Yuan Shen’s curiosity grew even stronger, "It’s not about Yalin? Then who is it about? A new woman?"
Gu Ningyi was choked by Yuan Shen’s words, as if he truly had been influenced by Dong Xin Yan.
Of all the women that could influence him, it could never be Dong Xin Yan!