"Miss, may I ask what you’d like?" the sales clerk asked enthusiastically.
"I... I’d like to buy a box of ergency contraception," Hua Xiaomo said, hesitating. Damn it! I absolutely cannot get pregnant with that man’s child.
"Okay, just a mont." The sales clerk quickly fetched a box of pills.
"Thank you." Hua Xiaomo took it, and then, thinking of sothing else, asked, "What about for long-term contraception? What dicine is best?"
"In that case, use this one. You just take one pill each month," the clerk said, handing over another box of pills.
"Alright, I’ll take both of these." Hua Xiaomo quickly paid, put the pills in her bag, and then swiftly left the pharmacy. Only then did she head to the bus stop and board the bus ho.
Not far away, a shadowy figure erged. Yu Bao watched the pharmacy for a mont, then quickly entered.
"Hello, may I ask, what did the short-haired lady in the skirt suit buy just now?" Yu Bao asked politely. Amid the clerk’s suspicious gaze, he smiled and said, "Don’t misunderstand, I am... her brother."
"Oh, she bought contraceptive pills."
Yu Bao was stunned for a mont. After leaving the pharmacy, he called Qi Longbing directly. "President Qi, Miss Hua went to the pharmacy and bought contraceptive pills, and then she went ho."
"What? Contraceptive pills?" Qi Longbing was sowhat surprised, a trace of enigmatic, dark brilliance flickering in his eyes. "Alright, I got it." He quickly hung up.
Clutching a pen, his thoughts were tinged with a slight, brooding annoyance.
Hua Xiaomo... you little devil... what on earth are you thinking? Qi Longbing’s handso features showed a flicker of intrigue. His hand couldn’t help but pull out the beautiful Butterfly Smiley Pin from the drawer, and he gazed at it, srized once again...
...
Upon returning ho, Hua Xiaomo imdiately hid in her room and took a contraceptive pill. Then, she hid the rest of the pills under her pillow.
Thinking of sothing, Hua Xiaomo imdiately rummaged through her bag again.
"Eh, where did the Butterfly Smiley Pin go?" Hua Xiaomo muttered in surprise, turning her whole bag inside out but still not finding the Butterfly Smiley Pin Brother Long had given her.
"This is so frustrating! Where did my Smiley Pin go?" Hua Xiaomo frowned, trying hard to rember sothing.
Her thoughts stopped at that bar.
Could it have been lost there? Hua Xiaomo wondered. She imdiately took out her phone. Just as she was about to make a call, she thought, Forget it. I need to go there in person.
When Su Ronghua saw Hua Xiaomo, who had just returned, now looking anxious and flustered about leaving again, she asked, "Xiao Mo, aren’t you on leave? Why are you going out again?"
"Mom, I have sothing to do. I have to go out for a bit. Don’t wait for for lunch; I won’t be back!" After saying this, Hua Xiaomo quickly hailed a taxi to the Lovebay bar.
However, once she got there and saw the closed doors, she realized she had made a wasted trip.
What kind of bar opens during the day? They all operate at night!
Hua Xiaomo’s eyes filled with worry, and she promptly dialed a number. "Jess, it’s , Hua Xiaomo. Are you at the bar now? I might have lost sothing there. I’d like to co and look for it."
"Oh, is that so... How about you co and look around eight tonight?" Jess said sleepily from the other end of the line.
"No way, Jess, that item is very important. I must find it now. Where are you? How about I co to you to get the keys?" Hua Xiaomo said.
"If that’s the case... well then. Co over. The address is..." Jess told her.
"Okay," Hua Xiaomo replied. She arrived at Jess’s place in record ti. The person who opened the door was a teenager, around eighteen or nineteen, with a delicate and charming face.
Moreover, his translucent, ornately patterned shirt was open wide at the collar, revealing a hint of his collarbones. This, paired with jeans, flip-flops, and long bangs that partly obscured his eyes, gave him an incredibly lazy and roguishly charming deanor.
"You? What are you doing here?" Hua Xiaomo looked at the young man, astonished. She just hadn’t expected that Dong Feiyu, after successively "parting ways" with Brother Lan and Su ina, the owner of the "Maxiu Stage," would actually...
When Dong Feiyu saw Hua Xiaomo, there was a flash of surprise, and a montary discomfort in his eyes quickly vanished.
Before he could speak, a voice called out, "Feiyu, has the person looking for arrived?"
Then, a handso foreigner with curly red hair ca over and opened the door wider. "Xiao Mo, you’re here! Co on in, co in!"
"Let introduce you. This is my... my cherished one, Dong Feiyu. Dong Feiyu, this is Miss Hua Xiaomo, a friend of a good friend of mine, and now a friend of mine too..."
Hua Xiaomo glanced at Dong Feiyu, her eyes swiftly moving past his face, a strong sense of disdain in her heart. Cherished one? How ironic. This is nothing more than a man who lives off others; whoever gives him money can keep him! The term ’kept man’ suits him, Dong Feiyu, far better.
Dong Feiyu saw the contempt in Hua Xiaomo’s eyes. She probably doesn’t have the slightest intention of greeting , does she? A dark shadow flitted across his delicate, handso face.
"I’m going back to my room first, Jess. You two chat," said Dong Feiyu, slipping a hand into his pocket and quickly heading towards his room.
"Feiyu, are you okay?" Jess, noticing his mood, stepped forward quickly and patted his shoulder.
"I’m fine. You entertain your friend," Dong Feiyu replied, then closed the room door behind him.
Only then did Jess turn back towards Hua Xiaomo and smile apologetically. "Sorry about that. He’s not usually like this; he’s very cheerful, and we get along really well. He’s probably just a bit reserved because he t soone new. Xiao Mo, please don’t mind him."
Hua Xiaomo smiled and shook her head. Looking at Jess, she suddenly felt a strong urge to tell him all about Dong Feiyu.
But seeing the smile on Jess’s face, she swallowed her words.
"Well, it doesn’t matter who you’re with. The important thing is that you’re happy," Hua Xiaomo said with a muted smile.
These words seed directed at Jess, yet they also appeared to be a reminder to herself.
A swirl of confused emotions stirred within her, quickly giving rise to a pang of sorrow in her heart.
"Thank you, Xiao Mo," Jess replied with a grin, then took a set of keys from his pocket and handed them to her. "These are the keys to the bar. Keep them safe."
"Okay," Hua Xiaomo said, taking the keys. She was just about to get up and leave.
"Xiao Mo!" Jess suddenly called out to her, then hesitated, as if wanting to say more.
Hua Xiaomo turned back, looking at him. "Do you have sothing to say to ?"
"About the incident a couple of days ago... your friend is quite influential, and he seems to really care about you, so..." Jess paused for a mont before continuing, "I think Ya Jun will have a hard ti dealing with him. You shouldn’t help Ya Jun anymore."
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