The shout from the approaching person was quite loud.
Originally, everyone was still lost in the aftertaste of the recent dance. The identity of the male dancer wasn’t clear, but it wasn’t important. As long as they recognized the lady dancer, it was enough.
She was the Miss Gu who had just waltzed with Lu Tinglou!
At this mont, hearing soone call the male dance partner beside Miss Gu ’Young Master Quan’, everyone couldn’t help but look over curiously—
But there was no one there????
"Huh? Did I see wrong? I clearly saw Young Master Quan’s figure just now, or did I mistake him for soone else?" The person who ca over looked around but couldn’t see the figure of ’Young Master Quan’, utterly confused.
Soone nearby asked, "Which Young Master Quan are you talking about?"
The person shook their head and said, "I’m not sure if it was him, so I better not speak carelessly. I must have seen it wrong."
"You shouted so loudly even though you saw wrong!" Soone else laughed.
"I was just excited." The person was also quite helpless.
Not many people present knew Quan Jin or had actually seen him. Although Quan Jin was known as a notorious playboy in Yanjing, he was indisputably the famous Crown Prince of the Quan Family.
His reputation wasn’t good, and few had seen his true face.
...
At this ti, on the hotel rooftop.
Under the night sky of Luofu, the lights of thousands of hos reflected off each other, and the neon lights dazzled. The night breeze softly blew as Gu Yuan brushed the hair near her ear and glanced at the man beside her: "Did you hear soone shout Young Master Quan just now?"
Saying you didn’t hear it would surely dig a pit for yourself.
Chi Yu’s response was, "I heard it." He then asked Gu Yuan, "Do you know him?"
Gu Yuan was thoughtful: "There are many people with the sa surna, I don’t necessarily know him."
She had never seen Quan Jin in person, and even if she saw him tonight, she wouldn’t recognize him. But she did look around following the voice earlier, only to be pulled away by Chi Yu and brought here.
"Were you so eager to bring up here just to feel the cold wind?"
Chi Yu gazed up at the starry sky: "Yuanyuan doesn’t like it?"
Gu Yuan replied, "I don’t like it."
Chi Yu leaned closer: "Then Yuanyuan can tell , what do you like?"
Gu Yuan crossed her arms: "I like you staying away from ."
Chi Yu didn’t have many rits, but he was thick-skinned. He circled around Gu Yuan and, when standing behind her, raised his hand to cover her eyes, not too close to her face: "Close your eyes."
Gu Yuan pushed his hand away, but he covered them again imdiately: "Obey, there’s a surprise."
"Are you ordering ?" Gu Yuan didn’t move or close her eyes.
Chi Yu: "I’m begging you."
"Not sincere enough."
"I’ll kneel and beg you."
"No need for that."
"Yuanyuan."
"Chi Yu, let’s do it this way, you close your eyes first. I’ll count to six before you open them. As for your surprise, I’ll cooperate with you afterward." Gu Yuan turned around.
The night breeze blew softly, and so strands on her forehead were disheveled.
Chi Yu brushed her hair, then Gu Yuan raised her hand, using the gesture Chi Yu used to cover his eyes.
His hand was still close to her cheek as his vision gradually darkened. He stood motionless, waiting for her surprise.
"One, two, three, four,"
Gu Yuan counted to four and saw Chi Yu’s lips pressed tightly into a straight line, clearly nervous.
Chi Yu didn’t hear Gu Yuan counting, his nerves intensifying: "Yuanyuan?"
"Mm?"
"Why did you stop counting?"
"Because... seeing you nervous, I forgot to count."
The corners of his lips slowly lifted: "I wasn’t nervous."
Unknowingly, he smiled, and Gu Yuan’s mood improved as well. She completed the remaining count, and after ’six’,
She snapped her fingers by Chi Yu’s ear.
Gu Yuan removed her hand.
Chi Yu slowly opened his eyes. A burst of fireworks tore through the long night sky, blooming instantly under the night. Chi Yu didn’t react at all, but his eyes seed vacant, quietly watching each firework bloom in the night sky.
The fireworks rose from the direction of Victoria Harbour. There were many firework displays held there every year.
This particular firework display, which had been scheduled in the usual annual order, was still over ten days away, but it was advanced to tonight because of sothing Gu Yuan said.
Golden fireworks burst like teors, first blooming in the sky before falling back down, over and over.
Cluster after cluster, splendidly colorful, extrely magnificent.
Gu Yuan knew Chi Yu would be surprised, but she didn’t expect him to be this shocked, his open mouth could practically fit a duck egg.
"Chi Yu, do you like it?"
Gu Yuan asked him.
Chi Yu lowered his head, turned around, and faced away from Gu Yuan. It wasn’t hard to guess what might be happening to him; Gu Yuan left him so space, and about a minute later, he turned around to answer her: "I like it."
Although his tears were wiped away,
his eyelashes were still wet.
Gu Yuan found it amusing, didn’t he know how thick and long his eyelashes were?
She placed her hand near his cheek, and like a cat leaning in, he moved closer, holding her hand tightly, repeating what he just said: "I really like it, I really do."
Gu Yuan smiled sweetly: "This was prepared for you."
A few seconds after saying that—
With a ’plop’, a tear from Chi Yu’s eye fell onto Gu Yuan’s wrist.
It burned into Gu Yuan’s heart.
His first reaction was to wipe away the tear from her wrist. Gu Yuan withdrew her hand, and slowly, she placed her wrist near her lips...
The action heightened all of Chi Yu’s senses, tinting the corners of his eyes with a red flush: "Yuanyuan..."
Gu Yuan said, "It’s bitter."
Tears are salty.
But your tears are bitter.
—And what can I do for you?
Chi Yu suddenly embraced Gu Yuan, burying his face in her neck, in her hair, deeply inhaling every scent on her. He used so much force that it hurt Gu Yuan a bit, and she said, "Could you hold more gently? It hurts."
"Okay." He indeed listened and loosened a bit, but his grip remained firm.
Gu Yuan could feel how uneasy he was.
"Chi Yu, were the fireworks beautiful?" Gu Yuan asked him.
"Beautiful," was his reply, "very beautiful."
"Then do you like them?"
"Yes, I do."
Gu Yuan felt the ti was right.
She spoke to him from the heart about what she had been holding: "Confide in , Chi Yu, what’s really happening with you? If you don’t tell , I won’t know how to help you solve it. Or... if you don’t want to solve it, at least let be there with you."
As she spoke, Gu Yuan could clearly feel Chi Yu’s body slowly stiffening bit by bit.
Then he pushed her away.
Yes, pushed her away.
Without hesitation, decisively, and directly.
Even though he pushed her away, Gu Yuan wasn’t angry, she pressed her lips into a faint smile as she looked at him. Her gaze was filled with steadfast reassurance ant to comfort him; she hoped Chi Yu could feel her determination rather than trying to escape, hiding in a corner to lick his wounds alone.
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