Li Chi has met many different kinds of people. There were the good, bad, and those of both. But for the first time, he was shocked by a woman’s overly thorough gaze and his glib tongue was almost left speechless.
He had some regrets, why did he think that Xiang Yu would be a spoiled and arrogant woman?
At that moment, an expressionless Jin Fubai cast his gaze over after hearing Li Chi call “Xiang Yu” just now and was waiting for Li Chi to say something important. Under Li Chi’s silence, an awkward atmosphere started to spread.
Finally, Xiang Yu smiled and started a random topic, “The New Year’s chocolate at your hotel tastes very good. I have eaten quite a bit. Should I pay for it?”
It was also at this time that Li Chi who was sitting between two women realised that Xiang Yu was different from other women. She was honestly and seriously in love with Jin Fubai.
Based on Xiang Yu’s sincereness towards their love, she would take into account Jin Fubai’s face and also consider Jin Fubai’s friend’s face as well and ultimately, she relieved Li Chi’s embarrassment. Even though she knew Li Chi was not very friendly to her.
Li Chi accepted Xiang Yu’s kindness, his eyes narrowed and he smiled in a crooked manner, pretending to be drunk, “I’ve addressed you incorrectly, I should’ve called you sister-in-law. How can I ask my sister-in-law to pay? It’s good that you like it, next time you come by, I’ll ask someone to give you extra.”
Xiang Yu smiled, “Okay, thank you.” She didn’t have anything to add for the name “sister-in-law”, not even a special expression.
Jin Fubai fiddled with her earlobe, “Like to hear people call you that?” His hand was just holding an iced wine glass and his fingertips were cold. When he touched her earlobe there was a special flirtiness.
Xiang Yu shook her head, the diamond stud earrings fragmented the venue’s lights and shined in fragments, “It’s him who likes to call me that way, it doesn’t matter whether I like it or not.” She curled her lips and muttered, “If you had another woman with you, she would also be called sister-in-law.”
These words were scattered in the noisy nightclub, mixed with the echoing sounds her words were cut out and there was only a light and fluttering sound, like a swallow flying by an entrance in early spring.
Jin Fubai didn’t hear what she said but he had his eyes on her intently. After a few seconds, he figured out what she said through the movement of her lips. He smiled and poked at her earrings, “When has there ever been another person, aren’t you the only one?”
Xiang Yu didn’t expect him to hear her, she was a little surprised at his attentiveness. She turned her head and stared at him, “Who knows if there hasn’t been? “
“Want to eat this kind of fake vinegar?” Jin Fubai said with a smile.
She was in the area where the men gathered, seated at an oval table top surrounded by a circle of soft leather sofas. Later, a few men whom Xiang Yu didn’t know came to the table and the women they were holding automatically sat on the other side of the sofa, it was like a dividing line of classes.
The only exception was Xiang Yu who was held by Jin Fubai and sat in the middle of this “line”.
She wore a pair of basic jeans and a fluffy white sweater made from a blend of rabbit fur. She dressed differently from how the other women dressed and occasionally their attention wandered to her. Or perhaps it was because of Jin Fubai. This guy talked to others without letting go of her, clasping his fingers tightly with hers.
Xiang Yu was not interested in listening to what they were talking about and opened up snakes and concentrated on playing. With the mobile phone on her lap, one-handedly playing the game and her other hand tied. At that moment, she felt like Yang Guo, the disabled one-armed hero from The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
After playing snakes for a while, Xiang Yu carefully controlled the snake but Jin Fubai pulled her arm shifting the phone from her jeans to the sofa. She didn’t have to turn to look at the screen to know that her snake must have died.
Xiang Yu raised her eyes to stare at Jin Fubai and halfway through the stare, she suddenly lacked confidence. She knew Jin Fubai didn’t mean to interrupt her game. She didn’t know since when there was a fruit platter on the table but he had spotted a Zhangji strawberry, stretched his arms to pick it and brought it to her mouth.
Seeing her half-glaring at him, Jin Fubai laughed, “I picked a strawberry for you to eat and you are glaring at me?”
She couldn’t say that she blamed the person who delivered her fruit because of a game. Xiang Yu turned her eyes and said stiffly, “What if I wanted to eat grapes?”
She didn’t know what the men were talking about but Jin Fubai didn’t listen and simply leaned into her ear and in a lowered voice, “Oh, the strawberry I fed you was not as sweet as the one that your childhood friend fed you?”
Xiang Yu was startled by this and after thinking for a few seconds she realized the jealousy in Jin Fubai’s words. She bit the strawberry and said indistinctly, “It’s so sweet!”
Jin Fubai’s eyes were amorous, and with his lips right next to her ears, his warm breath lingered around her outer ear, and his lips rubbed against the top of her ear, “Is it sweet? Let me try it?” When the voice fell, he kissed her and he actually tasted the strawberry.
Because there were people around, Xiang Yu hit him with her fist but she didn’t manage her strength well and she hit a little hard. Jin Fubai held her wrist, “So cruel?”
Xiang Yu glanced at him with eyes of affection. In such a noisy place, with dim lights and an insincere gathering, they unexpectedly had sincere feelings.
In fact, how many people could have a love that lasts for eternity, but at this moment, all their words of love, all their affection and all of their tenderness in each other’s eyes were true.
Since it was a social gathering, Jin Fubai couldn’t accompany her all the time. But these men didn’t always talk about business.
In this noisy area, Xiang Yu had also heard someone ask why Li Mao hadn’t come. Someone replied, “He was caught by a vixen.”
They talked about Li Mao’s new woman, saying that she had good skills, had a proper job and was a woman who understood things clearly. They also said that she had followed Mr. Shan previously, and later latched onto someone else before finally climbing onto Li Mao’s. She was a capable person.
Someone said, “That’s all?”
“Why, have you slept with her?”
“What’re you saying?”
This drew a burst of laughter.
Xiang Yu looked at Jin Fubai at this moment, he had no expression and she didn’t know if he had listened to this vulgar talk before. These wanton men shouldn’t be completely looked down on. Anyone similar to Li Chi would have gone abroad to study. She heard that Li Chi also received a masters.
She looked at these people and she had a feeling that Jin Fubai was the most unpredictable among them. She also whispered this to him. Jin Fubai just laughed and said jokingly, “Did I not take my girlfriend with me? So I dare not make trouble.”
It was late that day and at 1 o’clock, a waiter rushed in but didn’t rush to speak, standing respectfully by their side. When they finished discussing a topic, Li Chi meaningfully glanced at him, “What’s the matter?”
The waiter asked, “Mr. Li, there is a white BMW outside with the license plate W4751. Is it any of these bosses’ car?”
There are a lot of people who come to the venue, and some cars are parked badly, blocking others from getting out. Since there is no contact information on cars, the waiters have to look everywhere for the owner to move the car. Li Chi found these kinds of people the most annoying. Most of the people who come to the venue get drunk, and there are a lot of fights and car crashes. Every month, the police come to Li Chi because too many incidents happen.
Li Chi’s complexion was visibly impatient to the naked eye, but because the “owner of the car was unknown” his emotions did not erupt.
Li Chi asked around with a glass of wine and finally asked Jin Fubai, before he put a smile on his face again, “Brother Jin, is it Xiang Yu’s car?”
Jin Fubai still held Xiang Yu’s hand but Xiang Yu had already turned her head and was chatting with several other women.
Xiang Yu was a salted fish and because she is a salted fish, she appears to be easy-going in life. It’s not that she didn’t know the identity of the other women sitting on the sofa, nor did she fail to notice their gazes but when an almond-eyed woman asked about her clothing brand she answered very seriously.
The almond-eyed girl is a lover brought by one of the men. She looked to be timid and appeared to be more naive than the others. She took the initiative to talk to Xiang Yu saying that she was still in college.
When Jin Fubai called Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was talking to the almond-eyed girl about another brand of clothing, saying that it was a substitute of a big brand, and the quality of the style was also good. This kind of easy-going attitude that is neither arrogant nor pretentious was very pleasing in others’ eyes.
After she finished speaking, she turned her head to look at Jin Fubai, “What’s the matter?”
“Did you drive?”
Xiang Yu shook her head, “I didn’t drive. My old car always breaks down, driving is not as convenient as taking a taxi and I can’t have you seeing me off too.”
“Where are you going?”
“To home.”
Jin Fubai rubbed the small bulging bone on her wrist with his thumb, “Going home? Not sleeping with me?”
Li Chi didn’t listen to the following words, he only heard that it was not Xiang Yu’s car and he turned his head and waved to the waiter, “No, go ask other tables.”
Li Chii took his seat again, contemplating with a sip of wine. Jin Fubai’s attitude towards Xiang Yu was really hard to figure out.
Apart from the “newly arrived” women present here which one of those familiar-looking women did not carry a luxury bag? Which one did not drive a small sports car or sedan? For them, women were just another type of decoration for men to show their identity and status.
However, obviously, for Jin Fubai, Xiang Yu is not such an ornament. She dressed casually, there was no special bag or car and it didn’t matter because she was sincere in this relationship.
But Jin Fubai seemed to have deliberately jumped out of that certain inherent routine. Even when he heard her say “My old car always breaks down” he didn’t say “I’ll get you one”, and he also fed her fruit affectionately. Was Jin Fubai also sincere?
Li Chi was unsure about it. During the time that Xiang Yu went to the bathroom with the almond-eyed girl, Li Chi bumped Jin Fubai’s arm with his elbow and lowered his voice, “Brother Jin.”
“En?”
“I want to ask you something. ”
Jin Fubai raised his eyes in the hustle and bustle, “Yes.”
“It’s about Xiang Yu, I’m a little confused about your attitude towards her…”
On public matters, Li Chi’s and Jin Fubai’s relationship was based on shared beneficial interests. On personal matters, Li Chi’s and Jin Fubai’s were also close friends. He had to understand Jin Fubai’s attitude so that he could find a suitable approach for Xiang Yu.
Jin Fubai cast his gaze into the distance, Xiang Yu had just come out of the bathroom wearing a simple loose sweater and ordinary jeans. She walked across the party’s dance floor, her eyes softly meeting Jin Fubai’s eyes and she smiled lightly at him.
Her eyes fell into the pretentious area still as pure as stars.
Jin Fubai also curled his lips, still looking at Xiang Yu’s figure but he said to Li Chi, “Didn’t you call her sister-in-law? That’s a good name.”
Author: 殊娓
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