10 – Escaped?
Meanwhile, in the presidential suite of the Junhao Hotel, Lu Beicheng stared at the empty room, fury rising in his eyes.
The moment he woke up, he reached out to the space beside him, but it was empty—even the covers had already gone cold.
As if he couldn’t believe it, he rolled over to look, and when he saw the rumpled bedding and the woman who had long since vanished, his eyes widened in shock.
Without even bothering to put on clothes, bare-chested, he went to check the bathroom. In the end, after searching every corner of the room without finding any trace of Shu Yang, Lu Beicheng could no longer contain his rage and smashed everything in the room to pieces.
He simply could not accept it—the woman who had clung to him all night last night was gone by the time he woke up full of anticipation!
What was most infuriating was the two thousand yuan she had left on the nightstand. Did she think he was some kind of gigolo?! The room was instantly shrouded in dark clouds, the atmosphere growing more and more tense.
Lu Beicheng swore this was the first time in his life he had ever suffered such an insult.
He, the Young Master of the prestigious Lu Group, had actually been treated like a gigolo by an “old woman”!
Young Master Bei declared that he could not swallow this humiliation.
Lu Beicheng took a couple of deep breaths to calm himself, stood up from the sofa, picked up his clothes from the floor and put them on, then went to the bathroom to freshen up briefly.
When he was about to leave, he hesitated for a moment but still took the two thousand yuan Shu Yang had left behind.
He thought to himself: when he found that ungrateful woman later, he would throw the money right in her face and tell her that he was no gigolo!
He would even withdraw some money and throw it at her, telling her that he was the one who had slept with her!!
Lu Beicheng arrived at the front desk with a dark expression.
The receptionist was no longer the young woman from last night. When she saw Lu Beicheng, her eyes lit up. She straightened her outfit, put on a perfectly measured smile, and greeted him sweetly.
“Good morning, Young Master!”
The receptionist was a girl in her early twenties—how could she not be tempted by such a wealthy, handsome young man?
Unfortunately, her budding affection was destined to come to nothing.
Lu Beicheng, face dark, didn’t spare her so much as a glance and demanded coldly:
“Pull up the surveillance footage from last night until this morning for me.”
“Huh?” The girl seemed not to have processed it and let out a confused sound.
Lu Beicheng frowned in displeasure and, suppressing his impatience, repeated coldly:
“I said, pull up the surveillance footage from last night until this morning for me!”
Only then did the receptionist belatedly notice that something was off with Lu Beicheng—he seemed very angry. With an inward groan of regret, she quickly pulled up the footage from last night through this morning.
“Young Master, the footage is ready,” the receptionist said respectfully.
“Fine, go attend to your work.” Lu Beicheng waved her off impatiently.
The receptionist froze for a moment, then stepped back a few steps, somewhat disappointed.
She was the receptionist—how could she leave her post without permission? She would just wait nearby!
Lu Beicheng didn’t care whether the receptionist left or not. At this moment, all his attention was focused on the surveillance footage.
When he saw Shu Yang eagerly pulling at him and refusing to let go at the elevator entrance, his face flushed red again, and he couldn’t help cursing inwardly: this woman had no shame at all!
At the same time, he found an excuse for Shu Yang’s departure without a word. He thought, perhaps that woman had some urgent matter, which was why she had left without waiting for him to wake up.
As for those two thousand yuan… that was probably the money she’d left for herself to buy breakfast. After all, he’d put in quite a lot of effort last night—he deserved to eat something good to recover.
Lu Beicheng was successfully comforted by his own speculation. His expression improved considerably, and a faint smile could even be seen tugging at the corners of his mouth.
The young receptionist at the small front desk not far behind him clearly sensed Lu Beicheng’s good mood. She wondered what he had seen on the screen that could make him so mercurial.
But recalling how Lu Beicheng had just treated her, she immediately dismissed any thought of peeking.
Lu Beicheng reined in his emotions and kept watching. When he saw Shu Yang sneaking away furtively, his face darkened once again.
The excuse Lu Beicheng had come up with for Shu Yang earlier now became a joke.
Especially seeing her flee like a thief with a guilty conscience—the last shred of his hopeful thinking was instantly shattered to pieces.
Lu Beicheng was so furious that his temple throbbed and his chest heaved. At this moment, he wanted nothing more than to kill Shu Yang.
Very good! Very good! How dare you do this to me! Lu Beicheng thought, grinding his teeth inwardly.
The air around him instantly turned cold, scaring the young receptionist into backing up a few more steps. She was afraid of being caught in the crossfire.
The receptionist was also torn inside. Sure, the Young Master was handsome, and rich too, but his temper was far too unpredictable. A man like that wasn’t right for her—she’d better stop harboring any fantasies about him!
The receptionist wisely chose to cut her losses in time!
“Do you know…”
Lu Beicheng was just about to suppress his anger and ask the receptionist for information about Shu Yang when he remembered that he had been the one to bring her to the hotel last night—she had never left any information behind.
Lu Beicheng couldn’t help feeling frustrated. He angrily raked his fingers through his hair a couple of times and left the hotel under the receptionist’s full gaze of doubt.
Only after seeing the moody Lu Beicheng finally leave did the receptionist breathe a sigh of relief and slowly shuffle over to the surveillance monitor.
She just had to see what kind of incredible footage could make the Young Master so angry.
The surveillance footage was still frozen on the frame of Shu Yang running out of the hotel. The receptionist pursed her lips. It was just a woman running away—was that really worth the Young Master getting this angry?
Then something occurred to her. Her mouth fell open in shock, as if she had discovered something extraordinary.
She guiltily glanced around, and seeing no one there, immediately rewound the footage a bit. When she saw Shu Yang clinging to Lu Beicheng and refusing to let go, her mouth gaped wide enough to fit an egg.
The receptionist realized she had learned the Young Master of the house’s incredible secret. She patted her chest with lingering fear and quickly shut off the monitor.
She was just a humble little receptionist—better not to know too many of the family’s secrets.
After leaving the hotel, Lu Beicheng felt lost for a moment. His car had been left at Charm Bar last night—where was he supposed to go now?
Between picking up his car and going home, Lu Beicheng chose to go home.
Nowadays, the mere mention of a bar reminded him of that woman who ran away…
When Lu Beicheng got home, his elder brother Lu Dongzhan was sitting on the sofa wearing glasses, reading a newspaper.
Seeing Lu Beicheng, Lu Dongzhan asked irritably:
“Where were you last night? Staying out all night without even calling home to let us know?”
The moment Lu Beicheng saw Lu Dongzhan, he blamed everything that had happened last night on him.
If he hadn’t inexplicably made him deliver that stupid old document last night, would he have gotten tangled up with that woman? Would he have been mistaken for a gigolo?
Lu Beicheng’s expression instantly turned sour at the sight of Lu Dongzhan.