Actually, Yan Mingyue had also drunk quite a bit of alcohol. However, at the very least, he had not ended up like Jin Xi, who had hugged a pillar and refused to let go while insisting it was his beloved. Yan Mingyue’s head had simply been groggy. After handing the heart-shaped bento and the drunk Jin Xi over to Gu Yuebai, he had burrowed into Gu Yuebai’s arms, and he did not remember anything that happened after that.
By the time he woke up again, the dormitory was empty. Yan Mingyue sat up in bed while clutching his head, which throbbed with a hangover. His black blanket slid down as he moved, revealing snow-white skin. The dark fabric made his fair complexion appear even more breathtaking. It was a scene that should have set anyone’s pulse racing, yet he wore an expression of utter exhaustion.
The pleasant National Day holiday had arrived. Seven days were exactly enough time for him to move most of his luggage from Lu Beichen’s villa to the apartment where he occasionally stayed.
But he really did not want to get out of bed!
Yan Mingyue seemed to suffer from a chronic inability to wake up. He lounged in bed for a long time before reluctantly crawling out. He dressed, grabbed his phone and a charger, and happily headed out.
The apartment Lu Beichen had given him was located in the heart of the city where land was worth its weight in gold. It was a high-end, single-unit-per-floor flat with a total value of around twenty to thirty million yuan.
As an extreme hypocrite, he really wanted to comment on the evils of the rich. However, the moment he remembered that the house was his, he could not stop the corners of his mouth from curling upward.
“Young Master Yan is back? The Master has already instructed us to prepare your luggage. Do you need us to send you there?”
Just as Yan Mingyue sneakily stepped through the main gates of the Lu family villa, Lu Beichen’s butler appeared ghost-like behind him. Two maids followed, each dragging a suitcase. Although the young butler’s behavior was perfectly polite, Yan Mingyue could clearly feel the man’s intense desire to sweep him out the door immediately.
In that case, he would oblige.
“No need, no need!” Yan Mingyue reached out to take the suitcases from the maids. After bidding them farewell, he turned and left without a hint of hesitation.
Behind him, the bowing butler straightened up with a smile. His black-gloved hand adjusted his glasses, and the golden rimless frames flashed with a cold light under the sun.
In most old-school novels, overbearing CEOs almost always lived on mountains far from the city with beautiful scenery. Lu Beichen, however, liked to take a different path. His villa was only a few steps away from the main road, which was very convenient. This was exactly why Yan Mingyue could so firmly reject the butler’s offer.
On the other side of town, Gu Yuebai glanced briefly at the message sent by his father and closed his phone with some helplessness. He did not even need to read it to know it was simply an order to go home and stay there during the National Day holiday.
Unfortunately, he was no longer that child who spent every day hoping for his parents to return home. In his heart, his aunt and uncle felt more like parents than the mother and father he only saw once a year.
Jin Xi, sitting in the passenger seat, naturally saw the message from Gu Shi. He looked worriedly at Gu Yuebai, whose mood was clearly not great, and asked, “Brother, how are you?”
“I am fine.”
Gu Yuebai did not choose to go back to the old family residence. Instead, he turned the car around without hesitation and drove toward the apartment he had purchased.
When the two of them finished parking and emerged from the underground garage, they happened to see Yan Mingyue getting out of a taxi with two suitcases. Whether it was because their gaze was too obvious or because Yan Mingyue shared a telepathic connection with them, Yan Mingyue turned his head while carrying his luggage and saw the two people standing on the other side of the street. He looked closely and realized it was Gu Yuebai and Jin Xi.
Was this the legendary destined fate? To think he would run into the two of them here.
“Hi! Gu Yuebai!” Yan Mingyue’s hands were full, so he could only wink and gesture to greet them.
Gu Yuebai felt that Yan Mingyue was a rather magical person. His mood had been quite poor just a moment ago, but the second he saw Yan Mingyue’s smiling face, his gloom vanished into thin air.
Just as Gu Yuebai was about to respond to the greeting, Jin Xi hit him with an elbow strike that left him momentarily speechless. He glared at Jin Xi with a look that clearly asked if the boy was trying to kill him.
Unfortunately, Jin Xi did not notice. He watched Yan Mingyue pulling the suitcases and nudged Gu Yuebai again, clicking his tongue in wonder. “Holy crap, his love is truly deep. Brother, I think you should just give in to him!”
Hearing his words, a smile tugged at the corner of Gu Yuebai’s mouth. A low laugh escaped his throat before he spat out a single cold word: “Scram.”
He was a moody and arrogant man.
Yan Mingyue quickly walked toward them while dragging his suitcases. He looked at Gu Yuebai with a beaming smile and asked, “Gu Yuebai, do you live here too? Have you eaten yet?”
Gu Yuebai replied, “Yes, we just arrived. We have not eaten yet.”
Hearing this, the smile on Yan Mingyue’s face grew even brighter. He let go of his suitcases and rubbed his hands together excitedly. “Since you have not eaten, why not come to my place? My cooking is excellent!”
If Lu Beichen was the God of Wealth in his eyes, then Gu Yuebai was the Golden Goose, the kind of person who would drop gold coins at any moment.
“Forget it,” Gu Yuebai began to decline.