The inside of the elevator instantly fell into total silence.
Gu Jingzhou backed up against the cool wall, his chin bumped by something fluffy.
The emergency call button on the elevator flashed, emitting a faint light.
Song Wan’s forehead throbbed with pain.
“Sorry, I didn’t stand firm just now…” Song Wan couldn’t see clearly in front of him for a moment; he only knew he had bumped into Gu Jingzhou.
However, when he raised his head to apologize, a sensation of itchiness brushed across his eyelids.
Song Wan froze.
Although he couldn’t see anything right now, he knew he must be extremely close to Gu Jingzhou.
Because the moment he raised his head, the breath of both people intertwined.
Gu Jingzhou’s breath sprayed onto his face, feeling a bit numb, and also a bit warm.
A surge of heat instantly flared up across Song Wan’s back.
It’s over…
In this terrible posture, it felt as though he was performing a wall slam on Gu Jingzhou.
Gu Jingzhou hadn’t expected things to turn out like this either.
The accident happened in an instant; his chin had been bumped, but it didn’t hurt.
The other person’s hair was very soft, the strands obedient, emanating a fresh fragrance of shampoo.
By now, both of them had gradually adapted to the dark environment.
Song Wan’s fingers pressing against the elevator wall abruptly curled up. Scrambling in a fluster, he stepped back, and then scrambled in a fluster to press the emergency call button.
Yet Gu Jingzhou had thought of the exact same thing as him.
Song Wan didn’t touch the round button, but instead touched a cool, curved, and slippery item.
Gu Jingzhou’s thumb ring…
Song Wan yanked his hand back as if receiving an electric shock. As if fitted with springs, his entire body instantly bounced off to the furthest corner.
A few minutes later, the elevator doors were opened from the outside.
Two elevator maintenance workers holding tools stood at the doorway, looking in astonishment at the two people inside.
It turned out the elevator wasn’t broken, but rather the maintenance staff were conducting routine inspections. It was just that the two maintenance workers had been careless for a moment, failing to notice that the private elevator was still operating just now.
Fortunately, no one was injured.
After getting into the car, once the vehicle had driven for a distance, Gao Xiang, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, glanced in the rearview mirror and softly reminded, “President Gu, your tie is creased. How about returning to the company first to change into another one?”
Gu Jingzhou closed his eyes, “No need.”
After a moment passed, Gu Jingzhou instructed Gao Xiang in a deep voice, “Send someone to look into Song Wan.”
“The one from the Song family today?” Gao Xiang was somewhat surprised.
“Mhm, mainly look into whether he has had any abnormalities recently, or whether any strange things have occurred around him.”
“Understood.”
Gu Jingzhou lightly rotated the thumb ring on his hand.
Although he hadn’t had much contact with Song Wan before, at several evening banquets he could frequently see Song Wan together with a guy with short red hair.
The Song Wan back then was somewhat different from the present one, and he always felt something wasn’t quite right.
In the evening, after hovering behind Song Hemian’s heels for a whole day, Song Wan was called out by Du Bingqiao to unwind at a bar.
The moment they met, Du Bingqiao began complaining to Song Wan, “It’s all your fault, my dad heard that you went into the company to learn, and today he’s been chanting the tightening crown spell in my ear all day long, even saying that if I continue like before, he’ll deduct all my living expenses.”
Song Wan stirred the ice cubes in his glass. Having been weak from illness in his previous life, he had habitually stopped drinking cold drinks, and this glass of Rose Garden was even ordered for him by Du Bingqiao.
“It’s fine, it’s not too late for you to turn back from your astray ways now.”
Just as they were speaking, a boy wearing a sexy black tight-fitting top that exposed his back lightly touched Song Wan’s hand.
At some unknown time, he had sat down in the empty seat beside Song Wan, his voice airy, “Handsome guy, want to have a drink together?”
Song Wan stared blankly at the boy with wide eyes, silently pulling his hand back, “No thanks, I’m not gay.”
The boy let out a light laugh, his fingers hooking over tightly, “I read people very accurately. Many closeted guys say that too, try it with me and you’ll know.”
Song Wan: “…”
Sitting opposite, Du Bingqiao let out a puffing sound, nearly failing to hold back the alcohol in his mouth and spraying it out.
The boy threw a flirtatious wink at Song Wan, not forcing the issue, but merely slipping a small slip of paper written with a number into Song Wan’s hand with great skill.
“This is my contact info, remember to come hang out with me when you have time.”
After speaking, he left behind Song Wan, who was petrified on the spot, and Du Bingqiao, who was laughing to the point of dying, as he turned around and walked away.
Song Wan pretended to hold his forehead, but in reality quietly covered his face, “Stop laughing!”
Du Bingqiao replied, “Mhm, okay…”
Song Wan glared at him.
Du Bingqiao went, “Pfft… Cough cough”
“Forget it, laugh if you want to laugh.” Song Wan gave up.
A deafening burst of laughter instantly erupted by the island bar.
Once Du Bingqiao had laughed enough, Song Wan had effectively begun to doubt life.
He borrowed a small mirror from a girl nearby, scrutinizing his own face by the dazzling, colorful lights of the bar, “Don’t I look straighter than you?”
“What kind of fart are you letting out!” Hearing this, Du Bingqiao instantly got anxious, “You even have pierced ears, I don’t have pierced ears!”
Song Wan raised the mirror to take a careful look. The original owner had indeed gotten his ears pierced, but when he had just transmigrated over, he wasn’t wearing earrings, so he had been ignoring it all along.
Not only that, Song Wan also noticed a few small details.
His current hair was a bit long, the fringe in front of his forehead somewhat obstructing his eyes, coupled with thin arms and thin legs without much muscle on his body, he indeed appeared somewhat lacking in masculinity.
Song Wan touched his lower abdomen, which was so flat it couldn’t be any flatter, secretly swearing in his heart to go buy a gym membership.
When he worked out his abs, chest muscles, and biceps, let’s see who would still dare to question him.
This place was a cozy lounge bar, not that noisy, and if someone spoke a bit louder anywhere in the main hall, others could hear.
Rotating his chair, Du Bingqiao was attracted by a group of people arguing in the distance. He focused his gaze to look, “Oh damn, bro?”
Du Bingqiao patted Song Wan forcefully, “Look, look fast, the one over there seems to be Gu Xuan.”
Song Wan’s ears perked up, raising his head to look in the direction Du Bingqiao’s finger was pointing.
Gu Xuan was sitting in a booth by the window with another girl, surrounded by five or six boys. Judging from the clothes worn by these few individuals, they should also be rich kids.
Song Wan felt this scene was somewhat familiar, frowning as he tried hard to recall the plot in the book.
He remembered.
In the book, after he successfully drugged the male protagonist, the female protagonist heartbrokenly proposed a breakup with the male protagonist.
The female protagonist was in a very bad mood from being heartbroken, so she went to a bar with her best friend to drown her sorrows, only to run into a group of young rich kids who saw how pretty they were and insisted on sharing a table with them. After being rejected, they flew into a rage out of humiliation, preparing to get physical on the spot.
What followed was the familiar scene of the male protagonist heroically saving the beauty. The male protagonist escorted the drunk female protagonist home, then left quietly, racking up the readers’ tears in just a few short pages of text.
This matter actually coincided with them being in the same bar.
Song Wan looked over from afar and noticed that both Gu Xuan and her friend’s faces had a reddish flush, with several empty glasses placed on the table in front of them as well, seemingly having drunk quite a lot already.
Strange, nowadays Jiang Shen hadn’t fallen into the trap like in the book, so why would Gu Xuan still be drowning her sorrows in a bar with her friend here?
“I’ve already said we don’t want to share a table, can you get lost now?”
Gu Xuan raised her head coldly. She was a obedient girl in front of Gu Jingzhou, but in private she also had a lot of spoiled young lady temper.
Toward people she disliked, she couldn’t achieve a gentle tone and a welcoming smile.
“How are you talking!” The guy with the crew cut leading them had a darkened face, “Say that again if you have the guts.”
The surrounding chatting guests turned their heads one after another to look over toward them.
Gu Xuan felt a bit dizzy in her head, but she was still unceremoniously blunt, “I said, get lost.”
“Clang!”
The crew-cut guy picked up the wine glass on the table and smashed it forcefully onto the floor, the unconsumed liquor and glass inside splashing in all directions.
Du Bingqiao clicked his tongue; he disliked this kind of person the most.
Freak, insisting on sticking his face up to cling onto them and getting rejected, who is there to blame.
Du Bingqiao’s elbow nudged Song Wan, “Hey, should we go up and help out?”
Gu Xuan was Jiang Shen’s partner, and Du Bingqiao, influenced by Song Wan, also disliked Jiang Shen. If it were any other girl, he would have stepped up long ago.
Song Wan chewed on his straw indecisively, without making a sound.
Step up for what, he couldn’t wait to run right now.
Anyway, the male protagonist would come to heroically save the beauty.
“Hi Siri.” Taking advantage of Du Bingqiao not paying attention, Song Wan secretly summoned the system out, “Jiang Shen should already be on his way, right? He’ll come, won’t he?”
Siri spun in circles for a moment: [Apologies darling, due to changes in the plotline, I am unable to predict either.]
Song Wan: “So what use do you actually have?”
Siri: [Sob… You’ll know in the future.]