Bo Yeyuan lowered his face, trapping her against the elevator wall, his devilish charm capable of seducing any naive girl.
No wonder she used to be infatuated with him to the point of no return. Any unguarded woman would be fooled by that face...
But she was no longer the fool she used to be!
Her heart skipped a beat against her will, and she scorned herself, "Only now you notice my beauty? Too late!"
"..." In the past, when he flirted and closed in like this, she would have melted completely. Was she acting tough today?
"Mr. Bo, you ignored me yesterday, and today I am out of your league." Li Qiyu said, her tone full of charm as she brushed aside the hair that had fallen over her forehead, her smile sweet. In the next second, her eyes turned sharp, "Take your filthy hands off me!"
She'd be damned if she ever looked up to him submissively and swallowed her pride again!
...
Ding-dong—the elevator arrived.
The hotel lobby, large enough to accommodate thousands, was grand and majestic, with Bin City's dignitaries all gathered.
Gentlemen and socialites mingling, holding their drinks, aristocratic young ladies gathered in small groups.
Li Qiyu made her entrance, arm in arm with Bo Yeyuan. She could feel all the women's eyes in the room on him, their gaze filled with infatuation.
"Is that Mr. Bo?!"
"I want to dance with him!"
Li Qiyu also attracted quite a few stares...
"Who is the woman with the Young Master? Li Qiyu?"
"Impossible, she looks completely different!"
Li Qiyu held her chin up proudly, her grace unmistakable, like a noble pearl illuminating the darkness with its glow!
The moment the Young Master entered the banquet hall, he was swarmed by the upper echelons of society.
Li Qiyu, cast aside, wandered casually around the banquet hall, aware of many hostile gazes.
"Young Lady, at the last banquet, you accidentally fell and knocked over the entire Champagne tower, making a spectacle of yourself." The servant followed closely, "The Young Master has instructed me to watch you to prevent any more mishaps."
"Then there was the time before last when you accidentally fell into the pool and became the laughingstock..."
"And half a year ago at the family banquet, your dress suddenly fell apart, nearly exposing you... Even though you had a petticoat on, it was a disgrace to the Bo family."
Li Qiyu's frown deepened with each account. One incident could be a coincidence, but such melodramatic episodes kept happening—clearly, she was being framed!
"...Last year at the cocktail party, you twisted your ankle in your high heels and tumbled down the stairs, leaving your nose swollen and your face bruised. It was very embarrassing for the Young Master!" The servant went on incessantly, "Every time the Young Master brings you to public events, you always cause problems, so he has grown to dislike taking you to social gatherings."
Li Qiyu bit her lip, realizing that the Bo family only cared about their image and not at all about her well-being!
Maybe it was for this reason that those women were emboldened, daring to bully her so blatantly...
The sweet facade that Bo Yeyuan maintained could only fool the journalists and the gullible public; did anyone in this circle not see through it?