Then, she directly took the wine cup from Tinglan’s hand, stepped forward to toast with Gu Ruandong, using the sake as a cover, blatantly looking at him.
Gu Ruandong raised an eyebrow, nonchalantly bumped his glass against hers, then tilted his head slightly and drank it all in one go. He finished with a simple, “You do as you please.”
His eyes never left her, a smirk playing on his lips.
Lu Yaoyao saw the warning hidden in his casual “you do as you please”. She backed down, holding her wine glass and taking a light sip, not daring to drink it.
Gu Ruandong was always stoic, and Lu Yaoyao, being an actress, was skilled at concealing her emotions. So, those present, including Lu Kuo and Ruan Ruan, failed to notice the subtle back-and-forth between the two.
As the wedding banquet was coming to an end, Gu Ruandong left early. When Lu Yaoyao finished her duties and looked back, he was gone, leaving her feeling a little disappointed.
At this time, the phone in the handbag rang twice. Opening it, she saw a message from Gu Ruandong: “Come out.”
A heart that had just been filled with despair was immediately flooded with joy. Ever since she had begun to feel romantic interest towards him, her whole being felt like it was on a rollercoaster, surging up and down violently and uncontrollably.
Seeing the message, she immediately picked up her skirt and ran outside.
At this point, the wedding banquet had nothing to do with her. The elders at home were chatting with Zhuo Hong and his wife. Lu Kuo was a bit tipsy, so Ruan Ruan went to take care of him. So no one paid attention to her at all.
She didn’t even have time to put on her coat before she ran towards the parking lot. She didn’t need him to tell her which car, because his driver was standing outside a black car waiting for her.
She ran to the car, a little out of breath. Actually, it was quite cold outside, freezing <<<
Even though it was quite a few degrees below freezing, she was still wearing that thin bridesmaid’s dress, but at this moment, she didn’t feel cold at all.
She ran over, the driver opened the car door, and automatically retreated to the trunk of the car.
Gu Ruandong sat in the back seat, stretched out his hand, and pulled her into the car.
She fell into his arms, not even realizing it until she was held tightly in his embrace. Then, a deluge of kisses rained down on her.
The car door shut, and the corner of her skirt was caught outside.
His lips still carried the taste of the red wine he had just drunk, mingled with a faint scent of tobacco. The combination, like a catalyst, caused Lu Yao Yao’s heart to crumble and fall irrevocably.
He was nearly suffocated by the kiss, yet she loved it so much that she couldn’t let go. All she wanted was more.
She wasn’t a coy person by nature. When she liked someone, when she loved someone, she would express it boldly. So later on, she even turned passivity into activity, taking the initiative to hook her arms around him and cling to him.
Instead, Gu Ruandong seemed to have had enough and stopped her.
His eyes were bloodshot, he buried his face in her shoulder, adjusting his ragged breath. He thought with a resigned air that this was all his own doing, that if he had gone straight to the airport there wouldn’t have been any of this.
Lu Yaoyao is so reluctant to part ways right now. She doesn’t want him to go back to Senzhou. Their bodies are still warm from their embrace. It’s just a little torturous, a little bit unfair.
“You said you’d give me time, wait for me, but you don’t keep your word at all, always provoking me.”
It’s all his fault, he’s bewitched her.
“My fault.” He helped her sit up, already catching his breath.
In the distant banquet hall, people were beginning to trickle out. Gu Ruandong took off his own coat and draped it over her.
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“Go back.”
Although it felt a bit like he was summoned and dismissed at will, his tone wasn’t his usual flippant indifference. Instead, it was concerned and gentle, as if afraid someone might see them together.
Many people had already come out. Lu YaoYao’s eyes sparkled, and her red lips were slightly swollen from the kiss just now. She glanced at Gu Ruandong, then suddenly grasped his neck with both hands and leaned down, burying her head in the hollow of his collarbone and taking a hard bite. Her mouth was instantly filled with a metallic tang, and there was a slightly bitter taste on her teeth.
Gu Ruandong let out a pained snort, but then smiled and said, “Turned into a dog, really?”
Lu Yao yao arrogantly said, “Make a mark, you’re not allowed to find other women in the future.”
Okay, no search.
“Don’t keep me waiting too long.” Though she knew she was completely captivated by him, her only pride and persistence was in never being the one to make the first move. She feared that if she confessed her feelings, this old man would stick to his passive attitude of “no initiative, no rejection, no responsibility,” accepting her passively. In the end, it would just be another case of her wishful thinking.
Then it would truly be as Lu Kuo said, devoured to the very bone.
Although Lu Yaoyao is a flower cultivated in a greenhouse and well-protected by the Lu family, she has been exposed to the flaws of men since childhood. Her father, Lu Shaohang, her brother, Lu Kuo, and many elders she knows, most of them, practice keeping the red flag at home while fluttering colorful flags outside.
Some are ostentatious and unrestrained, while others are low-key.
There are some like Zhuo Yu’an, but they are truly rare.
If you tell her that Gu Ruandong has no other women outside, she won’t believe it. She has seen him twice at his club, twice…
There are always different women around him.
But there was one thing she was sure of, if Gu Ruandong wanted to be with her, it would definitely be clean and above board. She had confidence in herself, and she had confidence in Gu Ruandong on this point.
Gu Ruandong, hearing her sovereign oath, smiled and replied:
“Well. Aren’t you going out yet? Or would you like to return to Senzhou with me?”
Shall we go back to Senzhou together? She was a little tempted. But the facts wouldn’t allow it. Like the Zhuo family, the Lu family had rules. It didn’t matter what they did outside, but during the New Year, they had to stay in Beijing with their elders. Even her father, who wasn’t very responsible, had to behave himself and stay in Beijing for the New Year.
She pushed the car door open and got out, then realized her skirt hem had snagged on the car door, suddenly remembering the scene of him pulling her into the car just now. Her heart skipped a beat again. She clutched his coat tighter and ran towards the courtyard with her head down.
Inside the car, the driver saw her leave and then returned to the driver’s seat to drive away.
“Go to the airport,” Gu Ruandong ordered, then fell silent.
At Zhuo Yu’an’s wedding, most guests drove away after the ceremony. Only a few close families stayed at this mountain resort hotel as if they were on vacation.
Lu Yao lived in a single-family courtyard, so no one saw her wearing Gu Ruandong’s clothes, nor did anyone see that the hem of her skirt was torn. After she changed her clothes, she carefully folded the jacket and skirt, put them in the box together, and looked at his jacket and her skirt side by side, especially the hole at the hem of her skirt, she couldn’t help but smile foolishly again.
“Can the performances after the Lunar New Year start soon? I can’t wait to get back to work.”
“What are you doing?” He just wanted to finish shooting early and return to Senzhou.
author=”Shan Gu Jun”
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Two chapters end.