Back in the car, Tang Nan asked curiously: "What are you two talking about standing outside?"
"Returning the umbrella."
"Returning the umbrella?" Tang Nan was stunned for a moment, and then reacted slowly, widening her eyes: "No, what's going on? This, this umbrella couldn't be Pei Chi..."
Gu Yaozhi fastened her seat belt and said calmly: "Yes, he gave it to me."
"..."
Tang Nan was stunned for more than ten seconds to digest this situation.
She was just excited to save face for her bestie, but she didn't expect that the car would overturn the next moment.
"It's dead, sister."
Tang Nan sighed: "I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter." Gu Yaozhi said indifferently: "Anyway, we won't meet again in the future."
The car drove out of the old city and avoided the evening rush hour. The road was relatively smooth during this period.
The temperature dropped sharply at night, and a layer of light white mist floated on the car window glass. Along the way, Tang Nan secretly observed her emotions and wanted to speak several times, but swallowed it back.
Seeing her hesitant look, Gu Yaozhi smiled: "What do you want to ask?"
Tang Nan pursed his lips and smiled: "You see it."
Gu Yaozhi glanced at her, "Do you want to ask the question on the phone at the airport?"
Tang Nan didn't say anything, acquiescing.
"I proposed it."
Tang Nan sighed, and then said very hypocritically: "In fact, it doesn't matter who proposed the breakup or who dumped whom. Couples always break up and get back together. They quarrel and break up, and their personalities don't match. How many couples can stay together all the way to the end."
She suddenly remembered the man's face when he faced Gu Yaozhi in the exhibition hall. It was really not good-looking. Unlike the arrogance in his personality in high school, he was almost indifferent throughout the whole process.
Tang Nan thought about it and advised: "You shouldn't care too much about Pei Chi's attitude."
Gu Yaozhi smiled faintly and hummed.
The light of the street lamps shone through the foggy car windows, shining in a hazy light and shadow, and the picture in sight was a little blurry.
That night, the boy's absent-minded eyes also appeared in front of her. "Actually, I don't like you." She whispered.
The boy's figure was shrouded in the boundless night. His fists were so tight that they turned white, but he spoke to her in a soft voice: "Why did you agree to me?"
"You're too proactive. I'm embarrassed to refuse."
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In a bar in the city center.
The dark lights were somewhat ambiguous and blurred. The low-pitched voice of the man who played and sang on the stage echoed throughout the bar, and the glitz and noise faded away in the soothing.
In the separate small bar on the right side of the stage, the man threw down his coat and just sat down. Someone came up to him and looked at him.
"You dressed like a gentleman, are you going to see your father-in-law?"
Pei Chi glanced at him, unbuttoned two collar buttons with one hand, and said in a bad tone: "Stay away from me."
"Hey, brother, don't be like this," Xu Haotian poured a glass of wine, pushed it in front of Pei Chi, and smiled and flattered: "I didn't come here specially to apologize to you."
Pei Chi put his arm on the bar, picked up the wine glass with his fingers, and took a sip, "Don't treat me to your birthday in the future."
Xu Haotian saw him take the wine, just breathed a sigh of relief, heard the words, and said helplessly: "No, it's just a rumor , do you really need to do that! "
Pei Chi put down his wine glass and said coldly: "This shit is not your fault, so of course you won't do that!"
Hearing this, those who don't know would think it was something embarrassing. Xu Haotian pouted and muttered: "I would like to have a scandal with a popular female star."
"But," Xu Haotian smacked his lips: "She is a female star after all. If you do this, alas, it's a bit extreme."
"After all, I invited this person here. If you don't do it for my sake..."
The man raised his eyelids and glanced over.
Meeting Pei Chi's cold eyes, Xu Haotian immediately smiled and swallowed the next words back into his stomach.
"..."
Pei Chi ignored him and retracted his gaze.
Xu Haotian poured himself a glass of wine, drank a few sips, and glanced at the person next to him.
Under the dark light of the bar, the man lowered his eyebrows, his eyebrows were handsome, and his cold and serious appearance looked heartless and abstinent.
If he hadn't known that this guy had been with Gu Yaozhi in high school, he would have doubted this guy's sexual orientation based on his attitude towards women over the years.
Thinking of this, Xu Haotian, who is a talkative person, couldn't help but talk about the old saying: "You said that if you just had a normal girlfriend, wouldn't this matter happen? It would also save others from worrying about you, and your mother would be relieved."
"You don't know, your mother has already found out about it." Xu Haotian finished a glass and filled it up again: "That time when I was traveling abroad, we met in that British bar. That night you were drunk, I carried you back to the hotel, and took your mother's call."
"As a result, the next morning, your mother called me specifically and asked He has told me a lot of things, and he almost asked me about my relationship with you directly! "
"..."
Xu Haotian scratched the back of his head, "So you'd better get a girlfriend as soon as possible, otherwise I won't dare to go to your house, for fear of being misunderstood."
Pei Chi raised his eyebrows: "Don't worry, I will explain to my mother."
Xu Haotian nodded: "That's good."
"No matter what, I won't be hungry and eat anything," the man said with a very disgusted tone, and sneered: "With you."
"..."
Xu Haotian endured it, then took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket, took out a cigarette, and handed it to the person next to him.
After the man refused, he smoked by himself. In the smoke, he suddenly remembered the time when Pei Chi was drunk in the bar. He was alone, and there was no one around to drink, but he drank like that.
He knew Pei Chi's alcohol tolerance.
When he was in college, he and several buddies in Pei Chi's dormitory drank him together, but they didn't get drunk. In the end, two of his roommates got drunk.
Xu Haotian glanced at his side and suddenly asked, "Hey, brother, why did you get so drunk that time?" Pei Chi's fingers were lazily stroking the wine glass, and the beam of light from the bar's light disk passed over his face, his expression was gloomy. It was hard to tell what he was thinking. Before he could answer, a waiter came over carefully with a tray and handed Xu Haotian a cocktail: "Boss." Xu Haotian looked up. The waiter pointed in a direction: "This is what the female guest over there asked me to bring to you." Xu Haotian took the wine glass and looked in that direction. At the bar at the back, a beautiful woman was half leaning on the edge of the table. When he looked over, she smiled coquettishly and raised her finger to signal him to look at the tray. He then noticed the small note on the plate. He picked it up and saw that it was asking him to help pass the wine to Pei Chi again. "..." He had encountered this kind of thing many times. It was too rude to return it, so he just handled it according to the old rules. The wine was accepted and the money was waived for the customer. Finally, the wine went into his stomach.
After this episode, Xu Haotian wanted to repeat the topic just now.
Pei Chi's mobile phone on the table rang. It was a call from the company. He put down the wine glass, picked up the phone, stood up from the booth and said lightly: "Let's go."
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The car drove to the downstairs of Tang Nan's community.
After getting off the car, Tang Nan sneezed, sniffed and said: "My boyfriend must miss me."
As soon as she finished speaking, she sneezed again.
Gu Yaozhi took out the gift from the trunk, pulled the box and walked over, curved her lips: "Your boyfriend misses you twice."
"That's right." Tang Nan smiled and led Gu Yaozhi to the unit building, "You said, if someone always misses you, wouldn't you always sneeze?"
Hearing this, Gu Yaozhi's eyelashes trembled.
After two seconds of silence, he continued to chat with her: "Maybe, then he is probably a rhinitis patient."
"Then I don't have rhinitis," Tang Nan curled her lips: "It means my boyfriend doesn't love me enough."
The two chatted and laughed and went upstairs. After entering the house, Gu Yaozhi changed into slippers, and Tang Nan took the suitcase to the room prepared for her.
Just as she was about to take her on a simple tour, Tang Nan suddenly called.
Gu Yaozhi walked around alone, and then went to the kitchen and boiled a pot of hot water. While Tang Nan was on the phone, she asked if there were any effervescent tablets.
Tang Nan said it was in the cabinet in the living room. "
Gu Yaozhi went to look for it.
The cabinet in the living room has several drawers. Tang Nan is now living with her boyfriend, so she couldn't turn it over by herself, so she asked which floor it was on.
The effervescent tablets were soaked, and Tang Nan finished the phone call. He took the cup of water and drank a sip: "It's so warm, thank you dear. "
It was late, and the two chatted for a while, but they were tired. After taking a shower, they went back to their rooms to rest.
Before going to bed, Gu Yaozhi opened her mobile phone and checked the rental information nearby. Although Tang Nan insisted that she live here first, she planned to let her boyfriend move out when he came back from a business trip and let her find a house slowly.
But Gu Yaozhi still didn't want to delay the young couple.
She browsed for a while and found two good houses. Then she put down her mobile phone, turned off the desk lamp, and lay down on the bed to prepare for sleep.
After sitting on the plane for more than ten hours and approaching late at night, all the cells in her body were She cried out in exhaustion, her body fell down as if heavy.
But her brain was not sleepy at all, and her thoughts were in a mess.
After turning over several times, she opened her eyes, reached out to touch the mobile phone on the bedside, opened a sleep-aiding app, and placed it next to the pillow.
The soft voice slowly came into her ears, as if to comfort her.
Gu Yaozhi curled up slightly under the quilt, and it was unknown how long it took before she slowly fell asleep.
This sleep was not very good.
When she woke up the next day, it was already past eight in the morning. Tang Nan had an appointment with a client this morning and had not left the house yet. Seeing Gu Yaozhi coming out of the room, she pointed to the kitchen, "Gu Gu, there is porridge in the pot."
Gu Yaozhi was not very hungry, so she filled half a bowl of red bean porridge and went to the restaurant.
As soon as she sat down, Tang Nan suddenly handed her mobile phone to her, "Look! The entertainment push I received this morning was the clarification of the scandal between Pei Chi and that female star!"
After Tang Nan finished speaking, he changed his words: "No, it's a lawsuit. "
"I went to pick you up yesterday afternoon, and I didn't watch the news at night. This lawsuit clarification was released yesterday evening."
Gu Yaozhi lowered his eyelashes and looked at his phone.
Tang Nan continued: "Generally, it's enough to clarify the rumors. Pei Chi not only sued the person who spread the rumors, but also dug out the instigator behind the scenes!"
Gu Yaozhi saw the text in the indictment. It turned out that the rumors were all directed and acted by the female star's company.
"Yes, being related to the son of the Pei Group, even if it is unclear, can bring some invisible resources." Tang Nan took a bite of bread and said vaguely: "However, apart from other things, I admire Pei Chi's style of doing things. It's straightforward!"
Gu Yaozhi hummed absent-mindedly, "It's quite straightforward. "
Hearing this, Tang Nan looked across and suddenly pointed at the screen of his mobile phone meaningfully, "Hey, didn't you meet Pei Chi at the airport yesterday? Look at the second clarification, it was posted not long after I went to the airport to pick you up."
Gu Yaozhi glanced at the time, "Well, what's wrong?"
Tang Nan slapped the table, "It's very telling!"
"Look, the first normal clarification was before you got off the plane, and the second forwarded was after Pei Chi met you, and the forwarded content specifically stated that he is currently single. "
Tang Nan blinked and said with a gossipy face, "I thought about it carefully. Do you think he could have sent it to you?"
Hearing this, Gu Yaozhi put the phone back across, "What are you thinking about?"
Tang Nan pouted, "Why are you thinking about it? Just clarify the rumors. He is not an idol star. Why did he specifically state that he is currently single?"
"Maybe he has other purposes."
"What purpose? "
Gu Yaozhi lowered his head and scooped a mouthful of porridge, thought for a moment and said: "Show off your preciousness."
Tang Nan: "?"
"Being single is precious."
Pei Chi: "..."
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