Chapter 57: Birthday Party (Part 2)

The reappearance of this thorn made Zhou Xiaoru feel irritable again.

Not wanting to say another word, she pulled Jiang Bufan along and left.

Whether they wanted to chat or rekindle an old flame, did they really have to show off in front of her!

Seeing them leave, Gu Liyan didn't even look back at the person behind him, simply throwing out a cold sentence.

"We have nothing left to talk about! Please have some self-respect!"

That one sentence, "please have some self-respect," completely shattered Fang Qingkong's heart; she hadn't expected Gu Liyan to be so heartless and cruel.

She couldn't help but secretly regret cheating after she started university back then.

The result of cheating was that she herself got cheated on!

If Zhou Xiaoru knew about this, she would definitely shout out loud, truly, the Dao has its cycles, who has Heaven ever spared!

Su Poyang just took a look at the person behind him, shook his head, and followed them away.

Originally, Fang Qingkong hadn't been invited to tonight's banquet, and no one knew where she had gotten the news, coming uninvited.

After all, everyone knew each other; there was no reason to turn someone away once they had reached the doorstep.

It was just that, since she came, she came, but why did she have to provoke Zhou Xiaoru!

Now look, she had made herself so embarrassed!

Although he was a man who cherished women, he had always despised women who were disloyal.

Although he was a playboy, he never did the thing of having one foot in two boats.

After Gu Liyan, this Fang Qingkong had reportedly dated several more boyfriends; how could Gu Liyan take her back?

Unless Gu Liyan had eaten too much green tea!

Over there, Gu Liyan had already caught up with the person who was walking with the wind, chasing and explaining at the same time.

"I didn't know she would come tonight." He knew this girl cared very much about Fang Qingkong's appearance.

Zhou Xiaoru threw out a sentence directly, "Whether she comes or not is none of my business!" She had already taken the revenge she needed to take; from now on, they would never meet in the world of the rivers and lakes!

"Xiaoru!" The man's long legs once again played their part, stepping directly in front of the two and blocking their path.

Jiang Bufan indicated that she was also a bit irritable at this moment; this man had been dawdling all night. He didn't say what he should have said, only spouting nonsense!

Zhou Xiaoru was the same; clearly she cared deeply in her heart, yet she always had to act cool and cold!

Sigh...

A certain Fan sighed in her heart; it seemed it was time for her to step in.

Before Zhou Xiaoru could curse, she got straight to the point.

"Gu Liyan! Do you like Zhou Xiaoru now!"

Such a direct question stunned Su Poyang, who had just arrived, let alone the person involved!

Zhou Xiaoru turned her head mechanically like an owl, looking at the person beside her.

She thought, has this person's brain broken too! Why ask such an awkward question at a time like this!

If the person opposite answered that he didn't like her, where would she put her face? Didn't she have any dignity!

She whispered.

"What are you asking blindly!"

Jiang Bufan shrugged her shoulders and replied.

"He is always pestering you like this, yet he never makes anything clear. You aren't his long-lost relative, so why can't I ask? Like is like, is it so hard to admit! It's not like it's something shameful."

"Besides, if he doesn't even have the courage to admit he likes someone, what will he use to love you in the future, and what qualifications does he have to love you! A man who is already thirty years old, why act like a green kid? Is saying 'I like you' something he can't say? Would he be shy?"

At this age, he had already seen countless women and had rich experience, so there was nothing he couldn't say.

This speech made Zhou Xiaoru once again admire her good sister in her heart.

And Su Poyang nodded in appreciation after hearing it.

It seemed this girl didn't just know how to pull at a man's bath towel; the things she said were also quite logical.

Brilliant!

A certain gentleman, after staring at a certain Xiaoru for a long time, finally opened his golden mouth.

Before opening his golden mouth, he first held a certain Xiaoru's hand affectionately.

Then he admitted, "You're right! I... like her now." He thought that even if he didn't say it, everything he did was enough to prove he was interested in Zhou Xiaoru.

But women are visual and auditory animals; what is done is not as good as what is heard in the ears.

Hearing him admit it personally, Zhou Xiaoru was still a bit surprised.

Before, no matter how she hypnotized herself, she turned a blind eye to everything this person did, but today, hearing him admit it personally...

It caused quite a shock in her heart!

How could Gu Liyan like her?!

A certain Xiaoru, feeling somewhat uncertain, pulled her hand away from Jiang Bufan's arm and waved it back and forth in front of a certain gentleman's eyes.

Then, she asked another mood-killing question.

"Is your... vision okay?" Like her? Was there something wrong with his eyes, or had his brain gone wrong?

Hearing this, Jiang Bufan and Su Poyang both laughed in unison.

And the man who had just confessed his love had his expression turn foul instantly!

Speaking of liking or not, Zhou Xiaoru suddenly remembered Du Feng's confession from a few days ago. It seemed she hadn't given him an answer yet.

She looked up at the sky in disbelief...

The sky tonight was still very dark, nothing special.

Could it be that the Old Man Under the Moon had dozed off and given the peach blossom luck meant for someone else to her by mistake?!

At this moment, Su Poyang walked over and said, "Let's go eat. We can chat while we eat. If we don't eat dinner now, it'll be time for a midnight snack."

He left the prepared banquet unattended just to be able to play matchmaker for this pair.

If he weren't afraid that Gu Liyan would really send him off to South Africa, he wouldn't be willing to wade into these muddy waters.

By now, Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan were already so hungry their stomachs were sticking to their ribs.

They had spent the afternoon handing out flyers and fighting monsters, which had consumed quite a bit of their energy.

The two exchanged a glance, and everything was understood without a word.

They decided to go eat first; as for everything else, they would talk about it after they were full.

Zhou Xiaoru glanced at her hand, which was still being held by a certain man; the back of it was red, as she had truly used force to pinch him just now.

She shook their joined hands and said.

"Let go, I'm hungry..."

These words instantly earned a smiling face from a certain gentleman.

This contrast in his attitude not only stunned Jiang Bufan but also left Su Poyang, who was standing to the side, dumbfounded.

They both thought in their hearts at the same time that Gu Liyan had truly fallen for her this time.

It was just that they then compared Fang Qingkong and Zhou Xiaoru in their minds.

These two people were simply walking on two different paths; Gu Liyan's taste was truly impossible to fathom.

There is a good saying: like a person drinking water, only they know if it is cold or warm.

Whether a shoe is the right size and fits well is something only the person wearing it knows.

Regardless of how Gu Liyan took a liking to a certain Xiaoru, one point was critical.

If Gu Liyan didn't fall in love, that was that, but once he did, Zhou Xiaoru would never be able to escape his side for the rest of her life.

If Fang Qingkong hadn't cheated back then, perhaps he would have married Fang Qingkong right after graduation.

Maybe they would even have children by now...

But life is full of many accidents, and many times, it does not follow the path we have planned.

And sometimes, these accidents bring us different surprises and experiences...

Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan discussed it and decided to go eat skewers and drink some beer; just thinking about it was a truly delightful thing.

And eating skewers and drinking beer, which in the eyes of Zhou Xiaoru and Jiang Bufan was a very ordinary thing.

Seemed quite rare to the other two men.

Arriving at the snack street in Dachengfang, they went to a barbecue shop they had visited before.

The appearance of their group instantly caused the people on the snack street to turn and look over one after another.

The proprietress of the barbecue shop greeted them warmly and told them to go pick their food first.

Zhou Xiaoru took four vegetable baskets, preparing to distribute them to the others.

When she handed them to the other two somewhat awkward men, she realized that these two grown men looked extremely insecure, glancing around everywhere.

Zhou Xiaoru thought they weren't used to eating these kinds of things in such an environment.

She put down the basket for picking food and said.

"How about you go eat somewhere else?" She figured that Big Bosses like them usually ate at star-rated restaurants.

Su Poyang immediately took over the conversation, "No, no, it's quite good here, very lively."

As he spoke, he snatched the vegetable basket from Zhou Xiaoru's hand, took an extra one, and handed it to the silent Gu Liyan.

Gu Liyan stared at the vegetable basket for several seconds before taking it.

Only then did Zhou Xiaoru remember that this guy was a germaphobe. Was it a bit difficult for him to come eat barbecue?

After thinking about it, she took the initiative to say to the person who was already inspecting the vegetable basket.

"If you aren't used to eating this, we can change to another place."

Gu Liyan paused, turned his head, and looked at the person speaking beside him.

The tenderness in his eyes and the smile at the corners of his mouth were enough to show that the mood of the handsome Gu was excellent at this moment.

He even replied in a soft voice, "It's fine, from now on, no matter what you like to eat, I can accompany you!"

Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru felt a numbness on her face and almost dropped the basket in her hand from fright.

And on the other side, Jiang Bufan almost spat her saliva directly onto the skewered food.

Similarly, after hearing this, Su Poyang took his vegetable basket and automatically dodged to the side.

This person truly doesn't recognize his own kin when he's serious, but when he's being mushy, he's lethal!

The four of them ordered many skewers and a case of beer.

They sat in the open-air shed outside the barbecue shop.

The feeling of eating skewers in the open air on a night like this had always been something Zhou Xiaoru considered the most comfortable and pleasant.

Eating, drinking, and chatting in a place like this with a few close friends, time always passes especially fast.

And today...

There was only one close friend, and the other two...

One was a debtor of romantic debts, and the other was an enemy whose grudge had just been resolved.

Now, let them use this meal of skewers to draw a big exclamation mark on their past!

The four of them sat at the table, and before the skewers arrived, they had to drink beer dry.

They didn't know what to say or how to start.

After watching for a long time, Jiang Bufan picked up the beer bottle on the table and filled the glasses for everyone sitting there.

She took the initiative to raise her glass to liven up the atmosphere.

"Today I'm lucky to bask in our Xiaoru's glory and be able to eat skewers with two handsome men at the same time. I toast you both! Thank you both for deigning to come and dine with us common folk! I'll finish mine first!"

After saying this, she gulped down the beer in one go...

Zhou Xiaoru, who was to the side, watched with some worry; she was a very forthright person.

In her impression, this fellow was someone who would get drunk after a single bottle of beer.

Seeing her about to pour more wine, Zhou Xiaoru hurriedly stopped her and said.

"Take it easy, take it easy..."

Jiang Bufan, however, pushed away the arm that was stopping her, "It's fine, Big Sister is happy today, let's drink until we drop!"

Not long after these words, she would pay a 'heavy' price for them!