Night Fire Lingering

Chapter 252 With Luo Beiqing around, I'm even more worried.

Lou Qi unconsciously quickened his pace until he saw the familiar figure sitting by the roadside, at which point he breathed a sigh of relief.

The running speed slowed down slightly.

However, when he got behind the person, he didn't know how to start the conversation. He opened his mouth, but then stopped himself from speaking.

Jiang Xing noticed something and turned around.

Lou Qi thought Jiang Xing would lose control of her emotions upon hearing those words; at the very least, she would cry and make a scene, which would be a normal reaction and behavior. But she just looked at him calmly and indifferently, as if... as if he were an insignificant person.

This realization made Lou Qi's heart clench.

"Young Master Lou, are you planning to continue using Ying Kaian to threaten me into going back to put on a show for you?" Jiang Xing stood up and asked sarcastically.

Lou Qi wanted to say no.

But if not, then what is he going to say?

Are you coming to apologize?

"I'll take you home." Lou Qi took out his car keys.

Jiang Xing said, "Drunk driving is illegal."

Lou Qi tightened his grip on the car keys, as if he wanted to smash them.

"Since Young Master Lou has nothing to say, I'll be leaving now." Jiang Xing saw an empty taxi passing by and waved it down.

"Don't you have any questions for me?" Lou Qi felt a strange anger, and his heart ached.

She heard so many hurtful things, didn't she question him at all?

She's so aloof, shouldn't she just throw a tantrum at him and call him a womanizer who treats women like playthings? Then he can easily explain himself.

But... but Jiang Xing didn't ask anything!

Because I don't care, I'm too lazy to ask!

"No." The taxi stopped in front of him, and Jiang Xing got in without hesitation. "Young Master Lou, have fun, and thank you for your hospitality tonight."

Lou Qi suspected that her use of the word "hospitality" was a sarcastic remark directed at him.

The taxi disappeared from sight, and Lou Qi could only angrily kick the trash can next to him.

Back in the private room.

When the madmen inside saw that only Lou had returned, and that Lou Shao, who was usually all smiles, now had a face as black as the bottom of a pot, everyone tacitly stopped drinking and dancing and looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Young Master Lou, has Miss Jiang gone back?" Gu Yueyue seized the opportunity to strike up a conversation with Lou Qi.

Lou Qi ignored her, grabbed his suit jacket, and said to the others, "You guys have fun, put the bill in my name."

Before the words were even finished, the person had already walked out of the private room.

The group was even more confused.

Lou Qi was the one who organized the gathering, but now he's just offering to pay the bill and leaving. This scene... seems so familiar! Isn't it just like what happened when Gu Yanci and Wen Yan were arguing and talking about divorce?

Everyone seemed to have discovered the crux of the gossip, except for Gu Yueyue, whose face was extremely unpleasant.

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Wen Yan was surprised when she saw Lou Qi in Gu Yanci's office.

Although the Gu family and the Lou family did have a collaboration, Lou Qi's passion for work was nowhere near that of Gu Yanci, a workaholic. He actually came to Gu Yanci's office for five consecutive working days to talk about work, without saying a single word of idle chatter!

"Did Lou Qi and Senior Sister have a falling out?" Wen Yan asked Gu Yanci curiously after Lou Qi left.

I always felt that Lou Qi came every day just to make his presence known and see if he could run into Jiang Xing.

Gu Yanci shifted his gaze from the financial report to his wife's small face: "Mrs. Gu, you have repeatedly ordered me not to interfere in their affairs, how would I know?"

Wen Yan pouted, not believing his nonsense.

"You men only share the same pants with your brothers, and even if you knew, you wouldn't tell me!"

"..." Gu Yanci simply changed the subject, "I'll have Jiang Xing accompany you tonight's charity gala."

Charity galas are events within the elite social circles, where wives donate jewelry or antiques for auction, with the proceeds going to charity. Meanwhile, the men in power and female CEOs use these occasions to socialize, build relationships, and conduct business.

"No need, Bei Qing is going too." Wen Yan suspected that Gu Yanci deliberately sent Jiang Xing, because Lou Qi would definitely go as well.

Gu Yanci made no attempt to hide his feelings: "Even with Luo Beiqing around, I'm even more worried."

Wen Yan retorted, "No, we haven't caused much trouble together, have we?"

Gu Yanci raised an eyebrow, as if to say: Listen to what you're saying.

Wen Yan: "...Then you have to pay your senior for working overtime."