Chapter 67: What Happened?

Fu Sijue suddenly felt his whole body turn icy, and the woman before him appeared as a double image in his eyes.

How could it be like this…

"Your face… why has it become like this?" Fu Sijue forced himself to accept the news.

The woman before him merely shrugged indifferently, "It was burned in a fire, and I still have a competition later; President Fu, can you let me leave?"

Fu Sijue, disappointed, loosened his grip a little, and the sliver of hope he had finally found vanished without a trace.

Just as he was wandering out in a daze, he suddenly saw Lu Xiwán coming toward him, ready to go inside.

"Xi Wan, why are you here?" Fu Sijue slightly frowned as he looked at the composed Lu Xiwán.

Before Lu Xiwán could speak, she heard a familiar voice.

"What are you doing here? Miss Xi, you actually came to watch the design competition?" Gu Qingmeng walked over gracefully, slipped her arm around Fu Sijue's, and stared so sharply it seemed she could pin Lu Xiwán in place.

Lu Xiwán sized up Gu Qingmeng, "When I was abroad I got a bit of design knowledge; Miss Gu is wearing C family's new summer line, but unfortunately the shoes paired with it aren't very good—"

She deliberately elongated the last syllable, then gave a light laugh and continued, "Miss Gu really should watch the design competition more than I do."

Just the right excuse to improve her aesthetic sense.

"What do you mean by that?!" Gu Qingmeng's complexion flushed red then turned pale, clearly quite angry.

Lu Xiwán still wore a formulaic smile, "What else could I mean? Of course it's the literal meaning. Miss Gu can speak like a normal person; what's so surprising about me coming to a design competition?"

Lu Xiwán didn't want trouble; it was Gu Qingmeng who voluntarily stepped onto the firing line.

Fu Sijue brushed his hand off Gu Qingmeng's arm that had been draped over him, then turned to look at the unflinching Lu Xiwán.

"You should be in kindergarten now, why are you here?"

Lu Xiwán naturally picked up the thread, "Huacai Fashion Week doesn't happen every year; when I was abroad I couldn't see the venue, so now that I'm in the country I naturally took leave to come and watch."

Her words were logically clear, without a single flaw.

"I happen to have a designer I really like, so I wanted to go in and meet them. After talking with Mr. Fu for so long, the intermission time arrived, so I have to go back in later."

Seeing through Fu Sijue's doubt, Lu Xiwán just blurted everything out.

That way there's no mistake to be found.

After speaking, Lu Xiwán seized an opportunity to slip away, while Gu Qingmeng was left awkwardly embarrassed.

"I thought people who focus on work like Miss Xi usually don't pay attention to these things, haha…" Gu Qingmeng crossed her hands, gradually lowering her head under Fu Sijue's questioning gaze.

"Alright, I admit what I just said was indeed wrong, but how could you be alone with her!"

At that point, Gu Qingmeng suddenly straightened up, lifted her head and boldly met Fu Sijue's eyes.

"It was just a coincidence." Seeing Gu Qingmeng like that, Fu Sijue felt a mix of emotions.

Because of Yao Yao, the relationship between them has always been rather delicate.

She probably misunderstood.

"Did you find Lu Xiwán?" Gu Qingmeng turned her head, searching the backstage for Lu Xiwán's figure.

Fu Sijue's eyes darkened, a barely perceptible hint of disappointment flashing through.

"No, we mistook someone else."

In the end it was still nothing.

Gu Qingmeng exhaled, the weight in her heart finally lifted, and she once again affectionately looped her arm around Fu Sijue's, pulling him outward.

"Don't be too discouraged; as long as we never give up, someday we'll find Lu Xiwán."

Just as he sat down, Fu Sijue's phone rang; after answering, he stood up abruptly.

Gu Qingmeng also became inexplicably nervous and hurried outside with him.

"Did something happen? Are we leaving before the competition ends?" Gu Qingmeng, finally getting a chance to spend time with Fu Sijue, wouldn't miss this opportunity.