Chapter 89: A Fit of Anger for the Sake of a Beauty

Just as Zhou Xiaoru was still fantasizing in her mind about various possible outcomes, that gentleman made a show of fumbling around on the bed.

When he reached under the pillow and brought his hand back out, it was as if he were performing magic, having produced the key to the handcuffs.

Seeing the key suddenly appear in his hand, Zhou Xiaoru asked subconsciously.

"How is the key with you?"

Could it be that he had hidden the key right from the start! And then put on such a long act for her; he was truly too vicious!

(Author's note: Congratulations, you guessed it!)

But at this moment, Gu Liyan replied like this, "Didn't you see just now? This key was found under the pillow. We checked every place on the bed before, except for the pillow."

Hearing such an explanation, Miss Zhou was once again somewhat skeptical. Could all of this just be a coincidence?!

Why did she feel like it wasn't!

At this time, that gentleman was already unlocking the handcuffs that bound the two of them together, all on his own.

His manner looked as if he were desperately trying to get away.

With a *click* of the handcuffs, their wrists finally gained their freedom.

Just as Gu Liyan intended to take the handcuff key and go to unlock the handcuffs on Zhou Xiaoru's other hand, a series of knocks suddenly sounded outside the room door.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

Along with the knocking, there was also a man's voice.

"Open the door quickly, Yuhong! I know you're inside, open the door!"

Sitting on the bed, Zhou Xiaoru swallowed her dry throat involuntarily upon hearing this voice.

Where did this drunkard who knocked on the wrong door pop out from? And at this very moment, her urge to urinate had been completely suppressed by her.

Gu Liyan paced to the back of the door and replied to the door.

"You have the wrong room!"

Upon hearing this, the drunkard outside couldn't help but knock on the door even harder!

"Yuhong!! You actually hid a wild man outside! Open the door for me, you bastard! Open the door!!"

At this moment, the man turned his head to look at the person who was currently hugging herself, huddled at the edge of the bed, with the handcuffs still on her hand.

He asked, "Are you afraid?"

Zhou Xiaoru swallowed her saliva again and replied with a slight stutter.

"No... not afraid..."

Actually, if she were here alone, she would really be a little afraid.

She saw a flash of light instantly pass through the man's eyes, so fast that Zhou Xiaoru thought she had seen it wrong.

She clearly saw the hidden amusement in those deep eyes.

What did this smile mean?

Was it mockery? Or something else...

At this moment, that gentleman walked to the table opposite and pressed the landline phone on it.

Very quickly, the voice of customer service came through.

"Hello, good evening. How may I help you?"

"Outside the room I am staying in, there is an unknown person knocking on the door. Please find security personnel to come and handle it as soon as possible."

"Alright, alright! I'm sorry, I will have someone go over right now."

At this time, the drunkard outside who had been knocking on the door, unable to get a response, had already switched to kicking it.

Listening to this sound that grew louder with every strike, it was as if it were pounding in Zhou Xiaoru's heart, scaring her heart into thumping wildly.

Clearly, such a sound was also challenging that gentleman's patience.

Finally, after a few more strikes, the handsome Gu could no longer wait for the hotel staff to handle it.

He stepped forward and pulled the door open with a bang!

The drunkard outside, before his next kick could land, stepped into empty air and tumbled directly into the room!

And Gu Liyan stood behind the door, looking down at the middle-aged man lying on the floor!

That gentleman stretched out his long arm and flipped the switch on the wall; instantly, the entire room lit up.

And it was this light that allowed Zhou Xiaoru and Gu Liyan inside the room to clearly see the face of the person lying on the ground.

What is called "enemies often cross paths"!

And what is called "there is a path to heaven you do not take, and there is no gate to hell yet you insist on breaking in"!

This situation, this scene, and this person were the best interpretation of these two phrases!

The person lying on the ground was someone they both knew, and they had only just seen this person an hour or two ago!

A shareholder of Chaowei Group, Director Luo!

Director Luo lay on the floor, seemingly not wanting to get up yet, looking drunkenly at the man standing to the side.

He pointed his finger at him and said vaguely, "You pretty boy... how do you look... so familiar..."

Pretty boy...

Zhou Xiaoru on the bed almost laughed out loud upon hearing this address; she had known Gu Liyan for so long and had never dared to call him that.

One could only say that this old man Luo was truly unusually blunt.

And Gu Liyan's expression at this moment had darkened to an extreme.

If it weren't for the fact that he was still a person from a partner company, just based on what he had done and said to Zhou Xiaoru this evening, he would have almost given this old man a few punches.

They say alcohol gives a coward courage; before Gu Liyan and Zhou Xiaoru had left, Yan Qihua had already negotiated with this Director Luo.

Yan Qihua decided to buy back the shares he held in Chaowei Group and return his own original shares to him.

In an enterprise, the one thing you cannot afford to keep is someone who bites the hand that feeds them.

If he can accept bribes from others today, he can just as easily steal trade secrets and betray the company again for his own benefit in the future.

Therefore, Yan Qihua decided to cut the Gordian knot; if it weren't for the fact that Director Luo couldn't keep his cool this time and jumped out on his own, allowing Gu Liyan to notice something suspicious.

Yan Qihua would likely have been kept in the dark forever...

Director Luo, having had his shares revoked, flew into a rage and downed several more bottles of alcohol; when he called his young girlfriend Yuhong, he was told she was getting a spa treatment at a nearby hotel!

And this hotel was precisely the one where Gu Liyan was staying.

Old Man Luo didn't believe for a second that his young girlfriend was just here for a simple spa treatment.

So he tracked her down here, and he had just been following someone whose back looked very much like his young girlfriend's up to this floor, which was entirely filled with Love Hotel Rooms.

Little did he know, at this very moment, his young girlfriend Yuhong was staying in the room next to Zhou Xiaoru.

But Old Man Luo had mistaken the room, and without a word of explanation, he launched into a wild, explosive rampage.

Now, facing the familiar-looking pretty boy before him, he couldn't recall for a moment where he had seen him.

Gu Liyan, who had been watching for a while, spoke coldly.

"Director Luo! What kind of act are you putting on now!"

Seeing him in this state, he guessed that Yan Qihua must have taken some disciplinary action against him, otherwise he wouldn't have lost his composure to this extent.

Old Man Luo saw him call him Director Luo, but still couldn't remember who this good-looking pretty boy was.

He climbed up from the floor and looked at the person still cuffed to the side of the bed.

He squinted through drunken eyes, looking again and again, before revealing a lewd and somewhat obscene smile.

"Looks like I really went to the wrong room, terribly sorry, handsome!" He leaned on the side of the bed, struggling to stand up, and continued while swaying his somewhat portly body.

"How about this, the money spent playing here tonight is on me, my treat, that should be fine, right!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoru's face darkened!

She was already cursing him out in her heart!

Damn it! What does he take her for! Fuck! What a greasy, obscene, and shameless old man!

Just as she was cursing away in her heart, the Big Boss Gu's next move left her stunned!

She saw Gu Liyan swing a punch directly at that face, which was both obscene and wearing a lewd grin!

It caught Old Man Luo off guard!

This punch was not light; it forced blood out of the old lecher's mouth.

This Director Luo was no pushover; he was hit so hard by this punch that he sobered up by thirty percent.

At this, he finally regained his memory and was no longer suffering from amnesia.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said viciously.

"Gu Liyan! You hit me?!"

Conversely, the one who threw the punch was even more arrogant than the one who got hit.

The gentleman clenched his fist and retorted in a very cocky manner.

"I hit you, so what! I told you long ago, don't say things you shouldn't say. Since you don't understand human speech, I had to use my fist to make you remember! Director Luo!"

At this moment, in Zhou Xiaoru's eyes, Gu Liyan was handsome to a new degree.

Just then, Old Man Luo came up to retaliate, swinging a punch, but Gu Liyan dodged it easily.

Just as he launched another attack, a series of rapid footsteps echoed in the hallway outside.

Five or six security guards, as well as the hotel's lobby manager, customer service manager, and duty manager, had all arrived.

They happened to restrain the blustering Director Luo.

The restrained man shouted aggressively.

"He hit me first, didn't you see I'm injured? I'm the victim, why aren't you arresting him!"

Several hotel managers were busy apologizing profusely to Gu Liyan.

After finishing their apologies to the man, they turned to bow to the person on the bed, continuing to apologize.

But as soon as they saw the person still locked to the headboard, the group was first embarrassed, then proceeded to automatically ignore it.

Zhou Xiaoru was so embarrassed she almost died of shame on the bed.

As the shouting Director Luo was carried away by the security guards, Zhou Xiaoru hurriedly shook the handcuffs cuffed to the bed frame and called out to the man opposite her.

"Gu Liyan! Hurry and unlock me!"

This guy is really something, not even paying attention to his own reputation.

He is, after all, an elite in the business world, someone who frequently appears in financial news with extremely high exposure.

Appearing in this Love Hotel Room now, and like this...

If this got out, she is a nobody and would at most be drowned by the spit of gossiping women, but this guy is different; his fame is no less than that of an average celebrity.

And just as the aforementioned Xiaoru was still in extreme agony, and with the hotel managers still present.

She saw Gu Liyan walk over as if no one else was there, take out a key, and unlock her handcuffs.

Then he added a remark that made the hotel managers feel awkward all over again, and made the aforementioned Xiaoru feel so ashamed she couldn't show her face.

"Didn't you just say you wanted to go to the bathroom and were in such a rush for me to unlock your handcuffs? What's wrong now, not in a rush anymore?"

As soon as these words were out, Zhou Xiaoru's face turned as red as a monkey's butt, and she dove into the room's bathroom.

If he hadn't mentioned it, she would have forgotten about the bathroom matter herself.

But how could this person say such things in front of so many people!

She could already imagine that tomorrow, when she walked through the hotel lobby, she would definitely be watched by everyone!

And until everyone else in the room had left, Zhou Xiaoru remained in the bathroom and did not come out.