Lin Yue walked into the room, and the door behind him slowly closed. He looked around the dining table, sat down next to Nan Xiang, who had a complicated expression, motioned to the waiter standing next to him to pour the wine, and then drank three glasses in a row without saying a word.
"Are you satisfied with this? Miss Gu."
"Satisfied, very satisfied." Gu Li smiled and clapped.
"Come, let's toast Lin Yue together and celebrate his... return as the king, how about that?"
Although they all felt that her words were strange, Lin Xiao, Jian Xi and others still picked up their cups and looked over.
"Isn't today your birthday? Why are you honoring me?" Lin Yue said this, but he still raised his wine glass to signal to everyone and finished the fourth glass of wine in one gulp.
"Drink slowly." Nan Xiang tried to hold back, but couldn't hold back in the end, and touched his leg with her hand underneath.
Gu Li noticed her little move and put down the cup.
"Lin Yue, should you have another drink with Nanxiang?"
"Gu Li, are you sincere?" Lin Yue put down the cup and looked at the birthday boy who was looking for trouble.
"You have been gone for nearly half a year without making a single call or leaving a single word. It has made Nanxiang very sad and made him lose weight. Shouldn't he be fined with alcohol?"
"First, I have business to attend to before I leave. Second, whether to make a phone call or leave a message is between her and me. It seems... it has nothing to do with you."
"Yes, it has nothing to do with me." Gu Li was a little dissatisfied with his attitude: "I just feel a little unworthy of Nanxiang. She used to be Xicheng, but now she is you. What sins did she commit in her previous life? How come she has become such a scumbag. "
Lin Yue frowned, but before he could return the favor to Gu Li, Nan Xiang threw the knife and fork on the table: "That's enough, Gu Li."
Gu Li said, "What? Are you soft-hearted again?"
Nan Xiang said: "Can I beg you, please stop interfering in our affairs? Not everyone is like you and Gu Yuan."
She never expected that when Gu Li said that he would help her see him with dignity, he would use this method of attacking in groups to make Lin Yue lose his power.
Gu Li glanced at Gu Yuan, picked up the cup and took a sip of wine: "This kind of thing should be yours. No matter how hard you try, it is yours. It is not yours. Even if you are as humble as dust, there will be no results."
Before Nan Xiang and Lin Yue spoke, Tang Wanru, who was sitting across from him, said, "So, you can torment Gu Yuan as much as you like, right?"
Gu Li turned away: "Tang Wanru, what does this matter have to do with you?"
The matter between Lin Yue and Nan Xiang indeed had nothing to do with her, but those humble words did not sting her. Nan Xiang's obsession with Lin Yue would not only cause Gu Li and Lin Xiao to comfort her, but also her feelings towards Wei Hai. She never fails to please her without telling her the consequences, and others always discriminate against her with a look that says you deserve it and you asked for it.
Moreover... Lin Xiao could have no grudges about Gu Li sleeping with Xicheng, but she couldn't.
"Gu Li, can you say a few words less?" Gu Yuan persuaded from the side. He felt that Gu Li had fallen into the same cycle as last year. He was confused when he saw Lin Yue and always wanted to give him some color. Proving that he is stronger than Lin Yue, he is so extreme that he is almost obsessive.
"I won't tell you, what about you?"
Gu Yuan was pushed back by her.
Jian Xi couldn't stand it: "Gu Li, Gu Yuan also means well. Today is your birthday, can you..."
"Is there anything you can do?" Gu Li was already unhappy with Lin Xiao and Jian Xi: "I think you should mind your own business first. You haven't even wiped your butt clean yet, and you are rushing to help others lift their pants."
Previously, Lin Xiao discovered that Jian Xi and a woman were kissing me in the studio, and even broke into tears. His behavior was so bad, but Lin Xiao could still endure it, pretending not to know, and left with Jian Xi laughing. To this day, what's even more outrageous is that he still begs her to leave it alone and give Jian Xi some time.
That's great. If this kind of thing happened to her and Gu Yuan, they would have been slapped with a big mouth.
"What's wrong with me?" Jian Xi woke up for a moment, frowned and looked at Gu Yuan, and lowered her voice and said, "Why did you tell Gu Li what happened to me?"
On the day when graduation photos were taken, Xicheng called Gu Li to extort money. Gu Yuan happened to overhear the conversation between the two. Gu Yuan was very sad and invited him to a bar to drink to relieve his depression. He persuaded her about sleeping in the house, and also told him about dating another woman behind Lin Xiao’s back.
The bad thing Gu Li was talking about now probably refers to this incident, and the only informant he could think of was Gu Yuan.
"What's your business? What's your business? Is it about you kissing another woman?" Opposite Lin Xiao looked at Gu Li and revealed the embarrassing incident. What could she do, pretend not to know?
"Lin Xiao, that girl...she...she..."
"What is she?" Lin Xiao didn't let him finish his words. He turned to look at Gu Yuan and said, "You two are really a pair of good brothers who work together. Calabash baby doesn't even have the same heart as you." She also has something here. Xiao Jiujiu didn't want to fight Jian Xi to the point of breaking up, because it was indeed her fault that she took away Gong Ming's ring last time.
Gu Yuan was annoyed by what she said. Originally, he had good intentions, and he was tolerant. Tang Wanru couldn't stand Gu Li's words about being so humble that there would be no results even in the dust. He couldn't stand what he said before. It's yours, no matter how hard you try, is this the reason why Gu Li went to bed with Xicheng behind his back?
"Jian Xi and I are in an affair? Do you think you and Gu Li are not in an affair?"
Gu Li understood something from Gu Yuan's eyes: "Lin Xiao, did you tell Gu Yuan?"
Lin Xiao was anxious: "Gu Li, you actually doubt me?"
Nan Xiang, who had been silent for a long time, said, "I said that."
The scene suddenly became very quiet.
Neither Gu Li nor Lin Xiao expected that she actually knew about their good sister sleeping with Xicheng.
"Have you all argued enough? If so, let me say a few words." She stood up with a goblet in hand and walked around the dining table to Gu Li: "The reason why we are gathered here today is to give Gu Li Celebrating my birthday. As for me, I had a miserable childhood. My family and relationships were not going well since I was young. The person who hurt me the most, Xicheng, I think everyone knows me. Fortunately, I met Gu Li. Over the years She takes good care of me. No matter how cold, inhuman or selfish others think she is, I know that she is not always like that. She likes to risk her own life to save me, or share my pain, and even taste it herself. My pain. To put it simply, she slept with Xicheng."
Gu Yuan lowered his head and said nothing. He really didn't expect that a good birthday party would turn out like this. Now that Nan Xiang and Gu Li have a showdown, what can he do? Say I don't care? The person surnamed Lin will laugh out loud, so... are you going to make trouble with Gu Li? If she moved Yuan Yi to sleep in the same room with him, there would undoubtedly be another fight.
"And the most ironic thing is." Nan Xiang weighed the goblet in his hand: "Now she wants to save me again, in a way that she thinks can help me regain my dignity. Do you think I should be grateful? Where is this good sister? Maybe in the near future, she will taste my pain again and share my life, just like she did with Xicheng."
Gu Li raised his head, pointed at Lin Yue and said, "Do you love him?"
Nan Xiang said nothing.
"Then do you know how he lied to you? Gu Yuan, tell her. Tell her!"
Gu Yuan was woken up by Gu Li's roar: "He is not a second-generation rich man. His parents are ordinary workers in third-tier cities. His only assets to his name are a house and a second-hand Volkswagen Lavida, so Nanxiang... you are taken by him Cheated."
Tang Wanru, Lin Xiao, and Jian Xi cast strange glances at Lin Yue.
He didn't explain or panic. He very skillfully cut a piece of steak into his mouth with a knife, picked up the goblet on the table and took a sip, not forgetting to use a napkin to dip the remaining red wine in the corner of his mouth.
"The Petit Mouton is good, and the M9 Australian Wagyu beef is okay, but as for the sirloin steak, it's better to go with the 2009 Merlot. Thank you for the treat."
Lin Yue folded the napkin and placed it on the table, turned around and walked outside.
When the door opened, he stopped and said, "The weather outside is bad. Give your dad a call. If it rains, don't rush back."
After Lin Yue left, Nan Xiang grabbed her hair and pulled her back: "Gu Li, do you want to use his downfall to prove how failed my life is? Or am I just someone you use to belittle him? , a tool to humiliate him? You didn’t expect it, didn’t you? I originally wanted him to make a fool of himself in public as the best birthday gift, but in the end, he watched a wonderful show. I really sympathize with you. If you don't walk on so many roads, why would you choose the most bumpy one like me? As a good sister, I sincerely hope that your future will be as difficult as my previous life."
After saying this, she poured the wine in the cup over Gu Li's head and left with a cold face.
A lovely birthday party turned into a farce.
Gu Li stood up against the flowing red wine and walked outside step by step.
Jian Xi, Tang Wanru, and Lin Xiao didn't move. Gu Yuan stood up and followed her footsteps with his eyes, but he didn't speak the whole time.
He didn't know what to say.
At the same time, Nan Xiang left the club and caught up with Lin Yue, who was one step ahead.
The drizzle of rain failed to extinguish the cigarette, and the lingering green smoke surged back and was knocked away by his shoulder.
"Lin Yue, stop! Is what Gu Yuan said true? Where have you been in the past six months? Why didn't you give me a call?"
Lin Yue slowly turned around and said to her: "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"
