A beautiful summer night

"I do not know him."

"I'm not familiar with her."

Two people answer a question and arrive at essentially the same answer.

Yunli choked up, and after thinking it over, she stuffed the lychee and rose in her hand into Xia Wanzhi's arms: "Um... quarrels at the head of the bed are made up at the foot of the bed."

Xia Wanzhi's lips twitched slightly: "Are you mistaken? He's not..."

Yunli had never met Zhou Yu, so she probably mistook Xie Qiyan for him.

Xie Qiyan sneered: "Is there any need to explain?"

Yunli: "..."

"Where are you?" Xia Wanzhi gritted her teeth, suspecting that she had been having a particularly bad run of bad luck lately.

How come I keep running into Xie Qiyan everywhere I go?

Xie Qiyan chuckled lightly: "You're meddling in other people's business."

Yun Li opened her eyes wide in confusion. Not far away, Jiang Baichuan, who had been watching the two of them about to start a battle, strode in to save the day: "You two, why don't you talk outside?"

Xia Wanzhi glanced at the tall man in a suit and tie despite the sweltering summer heat, feeling that he looked familiar, but before she could figure out who he was, she heard Yun Li beside her say, "It's you again?"

Jiang Baichuan replied seriously, "It's me, Miss Yun. It's been a long time."

Xia Wanzhi recognized him as the one from the Jiang family. She frowned and was about to speak when Xie Qiyan patted her shoulder forcefully, signaling her to go out with him.

Looking at Yun Li and the other two, Xia Wanzhi hesitated, then followed Xie Qiyan with two bouquets of flowers in her arms, questioning, "You sent Jiang Baichuan to harm people?"

Xie Qiyan was suddenly amused and said, "Do you think I'm that free?"

Xia Wanzhi choked.

It was rare to see Xia Wanzhi calm down, so Xie Qiyan stared at her for a while with his gaze looking down at her.

I just passed by, and her eyes were wet with tears; she looked so pitiful.

After a moment, his voice deepened slightly: "You came out to buy flowers to curry favor with Zhou Yu?"

These words were utterly offensive. Xia Wanzhi didn't respond, but after a while, she threw the lychee and rose in her hand at him: "None of your business!"

He turned and left, the light-colored ends of his hair brushing against his clothes. Perhaps it was the wind, but I could smell a faint scent of gardenias.

It smells like gardenia, but also seems to have a medicinal fragrance mixed in.

The fragrance of the lychee and roses in his arms was more prominent, but it couldn't compare to the scent of Xia Wanzhi's hair that lingered on his clothes.

Xie Qiyan's gaze became somewhat indifferent. When he looked up again, he saw that Jiang Baichuan had already come out of the flower shop. He looked like he had been greatly shocked, and his face was eight shades darker than Xie Qiyan's.

"What's wrong? Haven't you managed to salvage your initial image?" Out of consideration for their superficial brotherhood, Xie Qiyan asked with a sense of morality.

Jiang Baichuan didn't reply, took a few steps, opened the passenger door, and got into the car.

Xie Qiyan followed and knocked on the glass: "Come down."

No way he'd be our driver.

Jiang Baichuan stared blankly for a moment, then slowly rolled down the car window: "I'd be so kind as to ask Mr. Xie to give me a ride."

Xie Qiyan's face immediately darkened.

Seeing this, Jiang Baichuan, undeterred by the prospect of death, said: "I can drive, if President Xie doesn't mind dying with me, I can."

Jiang Baichuan repeated and emphasized, "I can."

Xie Qiyan: "..."

Two days ago, Jiang Baichuan, as a major investor, attended a dinner party in Nancheng. When he arrived at the hotel that evening, he mistook Yun Li for the female lead of a newly invested film.

The female lead in the movie is a good friend of her older sister, and she was ordered to take extra care of her when she came.

He couldn't disobey his sister's orders, so he kindly led his two bodyguards forward to invite her upstairs.

Perhaps because the bodyguards were too serious and burly, Yunli thought they were going to assault her, so she quickly and ruthlessly pulled out pepper spray and sprayed Jiang Baichuan's face.

Jiang Baichuan only realized afterward that he had made a huge blunder.

It's because Yunli looks like a female celebrity.

Aside from glancing at his sisters, Jiang Baichuan never gave any other women a second glance.

But Yunli left a deep impression on her, a very deep impression.

He thought it would only be a fleeting encounter, but the earth is round, and the world is so small. Just now, he was driving through this intersection and recognized her at a glance while waiting at a red light.

Good brothers should stick together in times of trouble, so he pulled Xie Qiyan out of the car to cheer him on.

Unexpectedly, on their second meeting, before he could exchange many kind words, the young woman sensed his intention to approach her and bluntly said, "Sir, please have some self-respect. I have a boyfriend."

I was dumped before it even started.

-

Xia Wanzhi stayed at Yunli's place until closing time.

When she returned, Yunli's boyfriend, whom her family had arranged for her, appeared in a hurry and took Yunli to the hospital, saying that an elder was hospitalized and Yunli needed to take care of him.

Xia Wanzhi didn't want to interfere, so she told Zhou Yu to come pick her up, and Yun Li felt relieved and left with him.

But as Xia Wanzhi looked at her phone's contact list, she didn't press the call button.

The night wind stirred her thoughts, and because of recent events, she had been in a bad mood, so she wandered aimlessly through the streets.

Like a homeless little girl.

The wind suddenly became strong, and large raindrops began to fall without warning, enveloping the entire city in a curtain of rain.

Many pedestrians hurriedly sought shelter from the rain, but Xia Wanzhi was a unique outlier.

Perhaps he really is the reincarnation of a cursed god.

Xia Wanzhi thought to herself in despair.

She didn't even have the motivation to seek shelter from the rain.

It felt like carrying a weight of several thousand pounds, making it impossible to move quickly at all.

Summer night rain doesn't like to greet people. Xia Wanzhi got completely soaked and unknowingly walked towards the Xia family villa.

She stood there stunned for a long time until a car honked its horn and stopped beside her.

The back window rolled down, and the man looked at her calmly.

Xia Wanzhi suppressed the bitterness in her throat and struggled to look up, meeting those indifferent and aloof eyes. But just a moment later, as the other person slightly opened his lips to say something, her heavy eyelids drooped down, and she was completely plunged into darkness.

"Xia Wanzhi—" Xie Qiyan almost reflexively got out of the car faster than Yu Fei in the driver's seat and picked up Xia Wanzhi, who had suddenly fainted.

Fortunately, he didn't land on his head.

"Wake up." Xie Qiyan frowned and raised his hand to touch her warm forehead.

"Mr. Xie, should we take him to the hospital?" Yu Fei silently pulled his leg back from the ground, touched his nose, and asked.

Xie Qiyan carried the person to the car expressionlessly: "Drive to the nearest hospital and contact Zhou Yu to tell him to get over here immediately."

Yu Fei glanced back furtively and said, "Understood."

After a long pause, he spoke again: "Mr. Xie, isn't this the girl we met when we were catching Yang Datong in the alley a few days ago?"

Xie Qiyan narrowed his eyes slightly: "What?"

Yu Fei sniffed: "You still say you don't know them?"

"This month's bonus is canceled." Xie Qiyan's tone was slightly low. He didn't bother to straighten his soaked clothes and grabbed a blanket to wrap Xia Wanzhi tightly in it.

Yu Fei had no words to express his suffering: "..."