Lanxing Pavilion!
The moment Li Si learned the location from the bullet chat, she immediately called for a ride.
Lu Wenxi had deposited quite a bit of money into her account, telling her to use it for online shopping to pass the time when she was bored.
But Li Si hadn’t been willing to spend it—she’d saved it all, afraid that if Lu Wenxi kicked her out someday, she wouldn’t end up homeless on the streets.
So she could still afford the taxi fare.
Because she always stayed cooped up inside the house and never went out, she felt a bit timid once she was outside, not quite daring to face people. Luckily, the jacket of Lu Wenxi’s she was wearing had a hood, so she pulled it up.
She took a taxi to Lanxing Pavilion, and the bullet chat kept chattering away the whole ride.
【How does she know where the Male Lead went?】
【Don’t tell me she planted some kind of tracking device on the Male Lead’s phone? So scheming.】
【She’d better not cause any trouble—I’m still waiting to see the sweet moments between the Male and Female Leads!】
【But honestly, I’m shipping the Male Lead and the female supporting character right now!】
【What’s so great about the female supporting character? Besides being pretty, does she have any other redeeming qualities?】
【Relax, Lanxing Pavilion is an exclusive private club. Even if she goes, she won’t get in. Let her freeze out in the cold!】
Lanxing Pavilion was located in the bustling city center, but it occupied a huge plot of land—an imposing, magnificent building. Ordinary rich people couldn’t even get in; only members who were both wealthy and of high status were allowed inside.
The car stopped at the main entrance, and Li Si got out, pulling her clothes tighter around herself.
The courtyard was filled with all kinds of flashy, eye-catching luxury cars, including Lu Wenxi’s limited-edition sports car.
At that moment, in the luxurious private room on the top floor, a group of young, strikingly handsome noble young masters and ladies were raising their glasses in celebration.
“Xingye was so awesome—he took first place effortlessly, leaving those foreigners eating his dust!”
“Before the race, they were bragging that the championship was definitely theirs. And then what? The second-place finisher was nineteen seconds behind. Hilarious!”
“Right, let them eat dust. If I were them, I’d be too embarrassed to show my face—I’d crawl into a hole.”
“Xingye is our idol!”
“A toast to our idol!!”
Most of the people attending the celebration today were supercar enthusiasts, though a few of the girls had come just to see the four impossibly handsome guys.
Shen Xingye drained his glass in one go and laughed with wild arrogance: “If I’d known their skill level was so low, I wouldn’t have bothered entering such a garbage competition. Total waste of time.”
“Hahaha, it’s still a world-class championship, though. It wasn’t that bad!”
“The main thing is that Xingye is just too strong!”
“Exactly—he won without even trying. Incredible!”
Those people seized every opportunity to flatter him—partly because Shen Xingye really was that good, and partly to curry favor with him.
Although everyone usually hung out together, Shen Xingye and his three friends clearly occupied a higher status, and the others were somewhat obsequious toward them.
The atmosphere was lively, yet Lu Wenxi seemed to carry his own Barrier around him, curled up on the sofa, glancing at his watch from time to time, completely out of place with his surroundings.
He felt uneasy, with a nagging sense that something was about to happen.
He had promised to stay by Sisi’s side. He should find an excuse and head back soon.
He had mixed plenty of calming drugs into Li Si’s food—nothing that would harm her body, just enough to make her drowsy.
By rights, she shouldn’t have woken up—but for Lu Wenxi, rather than staying here drinking in all this noise, he’d rather go back and sleep alongside Li Si.
Suddenly, Si Yueying sat down beside him and asked, “Wenxi, have you seen that girl again since then? The one from the pet hospital.”
Lu Wenxi gave him a sidelong glance. “Why are you so curious about her?”
“…Just asking casually.”
After all, this was the first time he’d ever seen a girl who suited his tastes so well—of course Si Yueying wanted to know where she was.
Meanwhile, Li Si was lingering at the main entrance.
This was an exclusive venue, heavily guarded—not somewhere she could just walk into. Just as she was at a loss, a white Maserati drove up.
The barrier at the gate lifted, and Li Si seized her chance, slipping in behind the car.
The young guard immediately ran over to stop her. “Who goes there?! Stop!”
Li Si looked genuinely suspicious, and besides, this wasn’t a place just anyone could enter.
She kept her head down, her oversized hood concealing her face completely.
“I’m here to find someone…”
“No entry without an invitation!”
The guard grabbed her arm and started pulling her out.
In the struggle, her hood fell back, revealing a peerlessly beautiful face.
The guard was stunned. She was truly gorgeous—he had never seen anyone so beautiful in his life.
He also noticed that her clothes were top-tier luxury couture—the kind he seemed to remember Lu Wenxi wearing before.
Not daring to slight her, he asked with an obsequious smile, “May I ask who you’re looking for?”
“I’m looking for Lu Wenxi.”
The guard broke into a cold sweat—he had nearly offended Young Master Lu’s woman!
“Right this way, I’ll take you in!”
[I’m so excited! The Female Lead is finally about to make her entrance!]
[A beauty paired with a luxury car—as expected, only a rich heiress like this suits the Male Lead.]
[But the female supporting character followed him here too. I have a bad feeling about this.]
[Is that guard brain-damaged or something? He just let her in like that?]
[She’s definitely going to stir up trouble!]
The Female Lead’s name was Su Yumeng, the precious young daughter of the Su family.
As the world’s Female Lead, she was naturally stunning—fair-skinned and gorgeous, the number one beauty of the neighboring Alice Noble Girls’ Academy.
Plenty of boys at Lawinston were her fans.
The Su family and the Shen family collaborated frequently, and today she had come specially to attend Shen Xingye’s celebration banquet.
When Su Yumeng pushed open the door and entered, nearly every boy in the room erupted. They had long heard of Alice’s number one beauty—never expecting to see her in person today!
The Male Lead’s four-man group excepted.
To them, Su Yumeng was just an acquaintance, no different from anyone else present.
Only that her family background was closer to theirs.
Su Yumeng herself was long accustomed to being the center of attention. Graceful and poised, she said, “Sorry, Xingye, something came up and I’m late.”
[Ahhhhh! Female Lead Baby is so beautiful—she’s stunned the whole room!]
[Only the Female Lead deserves to sit with the Male Leads.]
[But honestly, I’m more into the female supporting character’s looks. Seriously, aren’t there three other Male Leads? Just let Lu Wenxi and the female supporting character be a couple!]
[What kind of values do you people up there have? Being pretty gives the female supporting character the right to steal the Female Lead’s man?]
The four-man group showed little reaction to her arrival—Lu Wenxi in particular didn’t even lift an eyelid. Only Shen Xingye exchanged a few polite pleasantries with her.
[What the heck! Why are the Male Leads so cold?]
【He’s just tsundere. Once the Female Lead sits next to him, he won’t act like this anymore.】
【Hehe, I can’t wait! Ship it, ship it!】
While the bullet chat cheered for the meeting of the male and female leads, Li Si followed the staff upstairs.