TLSOTMTKOGAYWHTDI Chapter 56

Chapter 54: Yan Mo – Grinding

Chapter 54: Yan Mo – Grinding

“Qi Yanwang is still living in your villa, you can’t get rid of him!” Yu Fengran said.

“Whatever!”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at Yu Fengran, “Find someone to help me get the things on my list back!”

Yu Fengran shook his head, “Can’t get them back, he chased everyone away!”

“Shameless to this extent!”

Zhuo Huaimo smiled, “Well, that’s the real him!”

“What things? Are they important?”

Yu Fengran was about to take the list, but he retracted it.

The list contained some of his clothes and important documents.

Zhuo Huaimo thought, if his documents were gone, Qi Yanwang would probably guess immediately, and the endless entanglement would begin again.

Although, there’s already plenty of entanglement now, at least it’s not enough to make him do anything drastic.

He thought about it, forget it, the fewer people who know about his going abroad, the better.

Ideally, even Yu Fengran wouldn’t know.

“Never mind, just some daily necessities, I can buy them again!”

Zhuo Huaimo inconspicuously took back the list.

Yu Fengran pulled a gold-lettered invitation from his pocket, “Li Yang is hosting a private party, if you don’t want to go, I’ll decline for you!”

Zhuo Huaimo stared at the invitation for a few seconds—

After all, Gu Chen Zhou suffered setbacks in several major domestic projects and reportedly suffered heavy losses.

Moreover, several units suddenly investigated his company’s account problems.

For people in their position, few companies can withstand investigation, so Gu Chen Zhou was frightened and used his connections to flee abroad.

And all of this, it is said, was personally handled by Li Yang.

Out of both emotion and reason, it’s necessary to go and say thank you in person.

Zhuo Huaimo took the invitation. Yu Fengran patted him on the shoulder, consoling him,

“Relax, I specifically inquired, they’re all outsiders!”

Zhuo Huaimo stood in the corner of the banquet hall, his gaze coldly sweeping over the mingling crowd.

He had a cigarette between his thin lips but realized he didn’t seem to have his lighter.

*Click*

A large hand with distinct joints held a lit lighter in front of him.

The tobacco touched the blue flame, sizzling.

“Thank you!”

Zhuo Huaimo looked up and met Qi Yanwang’s deep eyes.

He immediately lost all interest and turned to leave.

“Don’t go!”

Qi Yanwang grabbed his wrist, “Let’s talk!”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at him coldly, “Let go!”

He glanced at the hall, “I’ve retired from the industry, you’re different, I don’t want to embarrass you here!”

Qi Yanwang’s hand not only didn’t loosen but tightened even more,

“I don’t care, don’t go!”

Zhuo Huaimo sneered, cigarette in his mouth, and was about to punch him when Li Yang stopped him,

“Hey, hey, let’s talk it out, talk it out! For my sake!”

Zhuo Huaimo forcefully shook off Qi Yanwang’s hand and looked at Li Yang,

“I only came today for your sake, didn’t you say they were all outsiders? Why is he here? You know about my bad history with him, don’t you? Aren’t you a CP fanboy?”

Looking at the situation, it was clear that Li Yang had deliberately arranged this.

So, Zhuo Huaimo didn’t hold back when he cursed him.

Li Yang quickly pulled Zhuo Huaimo out onto the platform, with Qi Yanwang trailing behind him like an eager puppy.

“Hey, yeah, yeah, I didn’t think it through, my mistake, my mistake, but don’t start a fight here, if you make a scene, my old man will scold me again when I get home!”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at Li Yang, and his anger flared.

“Oh, just do me a favor, there are still several S-level dramas on the platform waiting for Qi Yanwang to sign, you know how difficult it is for me in front of those old guys!”

Li Yang smiled obsequiously, “I had no choice!”

Zhuo Huaimo threw away the cigarette in his hand and snorted coldly,

“So you’re selling out a friend for personal gain?!”

“Is this the first day you’ve known me?”

Li Yang wasn’t ashamed, but rather proud, and said with righteous confidence, “I’ve always been like this, you know that!”

Zhuo Huaimo was speechless at his shameless attitude.

Li Yang put his arm around his neck, playing the peacemaker,

“I know, you came today partly because of our years of friendship, and partly because you thought I took care of Gu Chen Zhou!”

Zhuo Huaimo’s eyes darkened, “What do you mean?”

Li Yang laughed, “Brother, I feel sorry for you, but even if I feel sorry for you, I don’t love you. I don’t even know what love is. Would I go to such great lengths to deal with Gu Chen Zhou for you?”

He looked back at Qi Yanwang, who was standing in the corner, at a loss,

“That was his doing. If he hadn’t taken action, would Gu Chen Zhou have admitted defeat so easily?”

Zhuo Huaimo sneered, “Without him, Gu Chen Zhou wouldn’t have had the chance to deal with me, right? So, you think I should say thank you to the person who schemed against me and then helped me?”

“This…”

Li Yang’s mouth, which was only good at coaxing people into bed, couldn’t possibly win against Zhuo Huaimo.

Zhuo Huaimo laughed, “It’s a good thing your old man didn’t put all his hopes on you, no wonder he quickly trained a smurf!”

Li Yang has a younger brother, who his mother gave birth to when she was 45 years old. People in the industry joke that the old man must have seen that the main account was useless, so he specially opened a new one.

Qi Yanwang walked over and dragged Zhuo Huaimo towards the corner.

“Qi Yanwang, you motherfucker let go of me!”

“I won’t!”

The two eventually disappeared into the corner, leaving behind Li Yang, whose self-esteem had just been hurt, muttering to himself.

“Why didn’t you do this earlier? I already got the person here for you, just drag him over and force him! You made me get scolded too!”

“Oh, almost forgot the main thing!”

Li Yang quickly took out his phone, took a blurry picture of the two of them from behind, and quickly sent it to a fan group called “Yan Mo Forever”.

He captioned it,

“Chance encounter late at night, blurry backs, suspected holding hands, everyone, use your imagination!”

“The atmosphere on the scene is subtle, I feel like they’re about to kiss in the next second, but I don’t dare get close to take a picture!”

“Yan Mo CP fans, is tonight’s sugar sweet enough? Fake material guaranteed to be true, believe it or not!”

Suddenly, a large group of CP fans exploded,

“Group owner, you’re too amazing, you can even dig up this kind of late-night sugar!”

“Yan Mo CP having a secret late-night meeting, this sugar is so sweet, group owner, you’re my god!”

“I understand, fake material is usually just fake in name only!”

“After being abused for so long, is it finally going to be sweet?”

“Group owner, you’re the guardian of Yan Mo CP, I’m eating this sugar until I burst!”

“My CP must not BE, Qi Yanwang, you give me some strength. The ‘Grinding’ CP isn’t just for show, Qi Yanwang, how many knots have you not grinded?”

“Damn, upstairs, I’m going to fight you talented players!!!”

Qi Yanwang dragged Zhuo Huaimo into an empty VIP room and locked the door behind him.

The crystal chandelier cast dappled light on Zhuo Huaimo’s face, illuminating the sarcasm in his eyes.

“Let’s start over, okay?”

Qi Yanwang’s knuckles were pressed against the door, his veins bulging, “I’ll transfer all the Xingyue shares to you, you can take revenge on me however you want, as long as…”

He tightly grabbed Zhuo Huaimo’s wrist, using almost all his strength,

“As long as you come back to me, okay?”

Zhuo Huaimo didn’t speak but looked around the room.

“Huaimo, you, what’s wrong? What are you looking at?”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at him coldly, his tone calm,

“I’m looking to see if there are any cameras. In case Teacher Qi uses the same trick again and puts me on the trending searches, this time, I won’t be able to take out anything to compensate!”

Qi Yanwang’s pupils shrank, and he grabbed his hand and pressed it against his chest,

“Yes! I schemed against you! Because only by making you lose everything, by making you feel indebted, would you not break up with me!”

The heartbeat under his palm was frighteningly fast, “I’ve told a lot of lies, but my feelings for you are real! Real! Zhuo Huaimo, do you even have a heart? Can’t you feel whether or not I love you?”

Zhuo Huaimo yanked his hand back, “Love me? You’ve said that reason countless times, but you’ve never felt that you’ve made a mistake.”

“Then what about you?”

Qi Yanwang suddenly raised his voice, “Is it right for you to break up with me? Besides a tired excuse, how am I supposed to accept it?”

He cupped Zhuo Huaimo’s face in his hands, his voice breaking in the night wind,

“You clearly love me too, you clearly don’t want to break up with me, why?”

Zhuo Huaimo’s pupils contracted slightly.

He remembered those cold tombstones and hurriedly turned his head away, “You’re wrong, if I had any lingering feelings for you at the beginning, but now, all of this has been ruined by you, I won’t trust you anymore!”

“Don’t!”

Qi Yanwang hugged him tightly from behind, “I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, give me another chance, okay? You can’t completely sentence me to death because of one mistake, I won’t let you go!”

“Let go!”

Zhuo Huaimo pushed him away, Qi Yanwang staggered backward and knocked over the champagne tower.

Amidst the shattering of crystal glasses, he saw countless broken versions of himself reflected in Zhuo Huaimo’s eyes.

Fireworks suddenly exploded outside the window, the surprise performance arranged by Li Yang had begun.

In the colorful light, Qi Yanwang suddenly grabbed Zhuo Huaimo’s ankle.

“What do you want me to do to make you forgive me?”

His tears mixed with champagne, dripping onto the carpet, “I’ll give you my life, okay?”

Zhuo Huaimo squatted down and stroked his hair like he was petting a stray dog,

“Remember the Samoyed we raised? When it died, you rushed back from the set overnight, hugged me, and said, ‘Let’s raise another one.'”

Qi Yanwang trembled all over.

Zhuo Huaimo squatted down to look at him, “Remember what I said then? ‘Even if we raise another one, it won’t be the one we had before!’ Some things, once they’re over, they’re over. It’s the same for us, we can’t go back!”

When the fireworks formed a heart shape in the night sky, Zhuo Huaimo pried open his trembling fingers,

“Face reality, we’re completely over!”

Li Yang squatted in the fire escape for half an hour, finally waiting for the VIP room door to open.

Qi Yanwang walked out listlessly, his collar stained with blood and wine.

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Li Yang sent the blurry video to the fan group,

“The Grinding CP had a secret late-night meeting, confirmed! Their clothes were torn!”

The group message exploded instantly:

“Damn, that tie! It’s the one Zhuo-ge wore for his birthday last year!”

“Damn, battle-worn style, is it that exciting?!”

“The spring of the Grinding CP has arrived!!”