The private room was too noisy. Qin Yilove sat next to Gu Yusen, but she couldn't hear what the two were talking about at all.

  Gu Yu's attention was all on the person talking to himself, completely unaware that there was an extra chair beside him.

  Until someone who knew Liang Doukou, holding a wine glass, ran over to greet Qin Zhi'ai and shouted "Liang Doukou", Gu Yusheng's action of extinguishing the cigarette butt in the ashtray suddenly stopped.

  After a few seconds, he slowly turned his head and looked at Qin Zhi'ai quietly.

  Noticing Gu Yu Sheng's gaze, Qin Zhi Ai's action of standing up and clinking glasses with others suddenly became somewhat stiff.

  Fortunately, however, Gu Yu Sheng's gaze didn't linger on her for more than a moment, just like when they left the airport, before he withdrew it.

  Gu Yu didn't mean to talk to Qin Zhi'ai, so naturally Qin Zhi'ai didn't have the courage to take the initiative to provoke him.

  He acted as if she didn't exist and continued to chat with people around him.

  Qin Zhi'ai pretended to be calm and toasted with the people who greeted her, downing the wine in one gulp. As she put down the cup, the corner of her eye stole a few glances at Gu Yu Sheng.

  She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that Gu Yu Sheng, who had just been carefree, now looked a bit cold.

  The person who was chatting with Gu Yu Sheng caught Qin Zhi Ai's gaze at Gu Yu Sheng, and when Gu Yu Sheng was taking out a cigarette from the pack, suddenly spoke up and asked: "Do you know each other?"

  Gu Yu Sheng had just stuffed the cigarette into his mouth when he heard the person next to him ask, and while holding a lighter to light it, he replied vaguely: "Don't know."

  "Really? I thought you two knew each other, she just looked at you several times." The person next to Gu Yu Sheng thought that Qin Zhi Ai, who was chatting with someone else, didn't hear what he said and added another sentence.

  Yu Sheng took a drag on his cigarette, then used his fingers to pluck it from the corner of his mouth, let out a snort of laughter with a hint of obvious disgust, and said: "Can't you just not bring up topics that make people want to vomit?"

  Qin Zhi'ai, who had been listening to the conversation between the two people with rapt attention, couldn't help but tremble violently at the tip of her finger when she heard Gu Yusheng's last sentence, causing wine to spill out of the cup and splash onto Gu Yusheng's sleeve.

  "Sorry......" Qin Zhi'ai hastily pulled out a handkerchief and wiped away the sleeve of Gu Yusheng's mouth.

  The paper in her hand was still a great distance from Gu Yu Sheng, but he shrank away like a snake scorpion, quickly moving his hand away, then kicked the chair and stood up, threw a "see you later" at the person who had just spoken to him, and quickly turned around and left the private room.

  Gu Yu left and never came back.

  Qin Zhi'ai certainly knew, it was because she was there that Gu Yu Sheng didn't come back.

  As the dinner party was nearing its end, Qin Zhi'ai used the excuse of being too tired from her long flight and said goodbye to Zhou Jing before leaving first.

  Due to drinking too much wine, Qin Zhi Ai returned home and fell asleep as soon as she lay down.

  It was almost evening when Qin Yilove was woken up by a phone call from Zhou Jing: "You've had too much to drink, come and pick me up..." After that, Zhou Jing gave an unclear address and then hung up the phone.

  The address Zhou Jing mentioned was a private villa. Qin Yilu had been there once, so she found the location easily.

  Qin Zhi Ai saw a car and through the villa's fence, she saw Gu Yu Sheng leaning against a Chinese parasol tree in the villa's courtyard, answering a phone call.