Chapter 828: Someone is following her

"Ke Lin..."

Cai Xiaotang repeated the name softly, then smiled at him.

"I've remembered it. Thank you for the wine. I have things to do today, so I'll be going now."

She waved at the other person, turned around decisively, and walked down the stairs.

The bar's lighting was dim.

Holding the wine bottle in her hand, Cai Xiaotang couldn't help but bring it before her eyes and examine it carefully as she walked.

The bottle was covered in foreign text, interspersed with many words she couldn't understand.

In her mind, Cai Xiaotang couldn't help but picture the expression on Li Xiao's face when he saw the wine, and her mood became somewhat buoyant.

Suddenly, her shoulder was bumped by someone, not too lightly and not too heavily.

"Sorry!"

She instinctively shielded the wine bottle in her arms and apologized in a hurry.

"It's fine..."

The other party consisted of two men walking together; they were quite easygoing, simply waving their hands before continuing on their way.

Cai Xiaotang let out a sharp sigh of relief and had just intended to continue walking forward when—"Hey, tell me, do you think that trick of Li Beichen's will work?"

The man who had just bumped into her suddenly teased his friend.

Cai Xiaotang's footsteps came to an abrupt halt, doubting whether she had misheard something.

Li Beichen?

Wasn't that the younger brother of Li Beijue, the one who had been disrespectful to her and Baobao at the wedding earlier?

Cai Xiaotang turned around suspiciously, and seeing that the two seemed to be heading for the restroom, she followed them without drawing attention.

Both men seemed to have had a bit too much to drink and were still chatting casually.

Cai Xiaotang deliberately walked a few steps faster to follow behind them, and immediately heard—"Tsk, who knows? Anyway, it's not our family opening the ski resort, just watch the show."

The other person said in a disdainful tone.

Upon hearing this, Cai Xiaotang was stunned again, and suddenly thought of something.

A ski resort...

That should be the one Baobao mentioned to her today, right?

Could it be that Li Beichen wanted to do something to the ski resort?

The path to the restroom became quieter as they walked, and the sound of the two men talking became clearer.

Cai Xiaotang then heard the man who had spoken first say with schadenfreude.

"Right, just watching the show is enough! But it seems Li Beichen is really drunk today to dare to say such things out loud. He doesn't even think about what kind of person Li Beijue is. If he fails to trip him up and ends up losing his own shirt instead, that would really be a good show to watch..."

As the two men spoke, they entered the men's restroom.

Cai Xiaotang naturally found it inconvenient to follow them in, but she had already understood the gist of it.

For some reason, Li Beichen wanted to do something to the ski resort that Li Beijue was currently opening!

Li Beijue definitely didn't know about this!

It was fortunate that she was lucky today; not only did she get the wine she wanted, but she had also accidentally overheard this "secret"!

Cai Xiaotang almost wanted to laugh out loud, and hurriedly hugged her precious wine bottle and turned to leave.

Back in the car, she hurriedly started the engine, intending to call Jiang Baobao to explain this matter as soon as she got home.

On the road, Cai Xiaotang's eyes drifted from time to time toward the bottle of wine she had placed upright in the passenger seat.

Every time she looked at it, she couldn't help but smile.

Who said only Luo Wanwan could find things he liked?

She could too!

As soon as Cai Xiaotang thought of Luo Wanwan, she couldn't help but feel a bittersweet sensation in her heart.

Then, she suddenly felt a bit conflicted.

Giving the exact same wine really felt like she was competing for favor...

But she really, really wanted to give Li Xiao something he liked.

Forget it!

The wine was already in her hands anyway!

Whether he liked it or not was his business!

If he dared to say anything inappropriate, she would never give him anything again!

As Cai Xiaotang thought this, she saw a red light ahead and hurriedly slowed the car down.

Then, her gaze inadvertently swept across the rearview mirror, and she suddenly frowned slightly.

A few cars behind her, there was a black car that seemed to have been following her for two or three intersections.

The reason she had an impression of it was that on the road just now, she had wanted to yield and let the other car pass.

But when she slowed down, the other car had actually slowed down too.

Cai Xiaotang hadn't paid attention at first, but for some reason, she suddenly felt a bit uneasy now.

That car... could it be that it was deliberately following her?

She didn't know why, but just as this thought occurred, Cai Xiaotang suddenly felt her skin crawl.

She took a deep breath, looked at the few seconds remaining on the red light, and silently looked away.

Was she overthinking it?

Clearly, the previous incidents had already ended, and this period of time had been calm and peaceful...

But...

Cai Xiaotang pursed her lips, thinking of how Li Xiao seemed to have started acting erratically again recently, and she couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The green light turned on—the cars lined up together began to move one after another.

Cai Xiaotang also started her car, but she looked back at the black car behind her once more.

The car sandwiched between the two seemed to think Cai Xiaotang was a bit slow, so it directly overtook her.

The other two cars followed suit.

Cai Xiaotang's view suddenly opened up, but she discovered that the car remained unhurried, always keeping a distance that was neither too far nor too close.

She pondered for two seconds, and at an intersection where she should have gone straight, she suddenly turned right.

Immediately after, she saw that the car had indeed followed!

Someone was really following her!

Cai Xiaotang's heart skipped a beat, and her heart jumped into her throat.

She took a deep breath and quickly glanced around.

She simply made another turn, driving straight toward the brightly lit main road.

Not far from there was a large shopping mall.

She deliberately stopped the car at the entrance of the mall, without getting out, her eyes fixed on the black car behind her.

Then she saw the other party stop as well!

The car door opened.

A middle-aged man who could not look more ordinary stepped out.

Cai Xiaotang, however, dared not lower her guard, keeping a close watch on the other party's movements through the rearview mirror.

Then she saw him walk straight toward the convenience store downstairs in the mall, and not long after, he came out carrying a bag of water, bread, and other instant food.

Then he returned to his car.

In just a few seconds, the car started.

This time, the black car drove straight past Cai Xiaotang.

Everything indicated that the other party was just an ordinary middle-aged office worker.

Cai Xiaotang sat stiffly in her seat, and only after watching the other party disappear from her line of sight did she let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Then she couldn't help but want to laugh.

"Have I been scared silly? To actually think someone was following me..."

She shook her head with a smile, stared blankly at the road ahead for a while, and then turned the car around, driving in the direction of home.

Inside the bar—the man with a cold expression on his face put down his phone, leaned over, and whispered into the ear of Ke Lin, who was drinking.

"Our man was discovered; that woman still has some vigilance. Just as you thought, she might be playing the pig to eat the tiger. How could a woman Li Xiao has taken a fancy to really have no shrewdness at all?"