Chi Yan glanced at where Shi Yu had left and followed after him.
At the corner, Shi Yu was leaning against the wall with a cigarette in hand, the rims of his eyes slightly red, looking rather disheveled and pitiful.
A gentle breeze blew past, and the smoke shrouded his fair face, concealing his expression.
Who would have ever thought that the once high-and-mighty young master of a prestigious family could end up in such a sorry state?
Chi Yan rubbed her head, walked straight up to Shi Yu, snatched the cigarette from his hand, and stubbed it out.
Shi Yu was about to lose his temper when Chi Yan stuffed a lollipop into his mouth, cutting him off.
Shi Yu froze. The girl standing before him showed not a trace of fear, and her presence even overshadowed his.
Across the entire S City, there was no one else like her besides Chi Yan.
Chi Yan cupped Shi Yu’s cheek with one hand, her thumb brushing across the corner of his eye to soothe him.
“Hello, I’m Chi Yan. Yan as in flame.”
Shi Yu was so moved by those words that he couldn’t speak. He placed both hands on Chi Yan’s shoulders, the redness around his eyes deepening.
Memories flashed through his mind in an instant—
“Not bad, you actually beat me. What’s your name?”
“Then you’d better remember my name well, because it’s going to become your nightmare. Chi Yan, Yan as in flame.”
…
“Ah Yan…” Shi Yu spoke.
“It’s me.”
Shi Yu immediately hugged Chi Yan tightly, refusing to let go.
Chi Yan patted Shi Yu on the back. “As you wished, I’m still alive. Alright, I still have things to do, no time to comfort you.”
With that, Chi Yan pushed Shi Yu away and turned to leave.
Shi Yu instinctively grabbed Chi Yan’s hand, then slowly let go once he realized what he’d done.
Chi Yan curled the corner of her mouth, turned around, and pushed Shi Yu against the wall.
She wrapped one arm around the back of Shi Yu’s head and kissed him.
At that moment, a leisurely piano melody drifted through the air, perfectly fitting the scene.
After a brief pause, Chi Yan pulled away and returned to the banquet hall without saying another word.
Leaving Shi Yu alone in place to savor the moment. He touched the corner of his lips and smiled, like a child who’d just gotten his hands on cotton candy.
Chi Yan returned to her original corner and took a sip of red wine.
Although Chi Yan hid it well, Han Shu saw through exactly what she’d just been up to at a single glance.
“Oh, Chi-jie, you already managed to coax Brother Shi Yu back that fast?”
“Shut up.”
Come to think of it, it was strange. Her boyfriend had fled their engagement banquet right in front of her, and in the end, she still had to go comfort him herself.
Did that even make sense?!
**
At the entrance of the banquet hall, Jiang Hu and his brothers were still standing by the door.
A lackey: “Brother Hu, why doesn’t the boss recognize us?”
Brother Hu straightened his back and said, “What do you know? The boss must be on a special mission. It’s not convenient to reveal her identity, so she deliberately drove us away.”
The lackeys chimed in one after another: “Makes sense!”
A slightly scrawny lackey suddenly muttered in a low voice, “I just have this feeling that our boss is like a different person.”
Jiang Hu: “What did you say? The boss switched people? How’s that even possible?”
“Not many people know who we are, and given the boss’s personality, she wouldn’t go out of her way to avoid suspicion.”
“That’s true, but what if the target of the boss’s mission this time knows us?”
Two van drivers then came over and asked, “Are you the Jiang Hu gang?”
Jiang Hu glanced at the two of them and nodded. “Yeah, that’s us. What’s the matter?”
Van driver: “Someone who claimed to be your boss just transferred us twenty thousand yuan online and asked us to drive you all back.”
“Hahaha,” Jiang Hu laughed heartily, “I told you, Boss must have his reasons for not acknowledging us.”