A few minutes later, the waiter came in to serve the food, and Yu Xi followed the manager out of the restaurant.

“Thank you, Xiao Yu. You have been very helpful today. Remember to sign and collect your salary later.” The manager handed over a business card. “If you are willing, you are welcome to continue working here.”

Yu Xi took the business card and said thank you.

“By the way, Manager, can I ask who was in there just now?”

Generally speaking, temporary workers don’t need to know so much, but the manager could see that the bigwigs in the private room looked at this young man in a very unusual way.

“You are lucky today. Our CEO Gu is hosting a banquet for an important partner from Country D. This is the biggest project in the industry this year.” The manager stopped there and left his business card. It was not convenient to go into more details. If this young man had insight, he would know what to do.

Yu Xi gasped. He had no understanding! He only knew that what he feared would come true, and he had to leave quickly.

No wonder I felt so scared when we looked at each other, it turned out to be Gu Beilu!

Yu Xi hurriedly said goodbye to the manager and went to collect today’s salary.

This kind of high-end place is generous, enough for him to live on for half a month. He stared at the number in his account, feeling mixed emotions for ten seconds, then gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, locked the phone and put it back in his pocket. He couldn’t stay, so he went to the lounge to get his bag and left.

Even though he was given a lot, he didn’t want to take the risk! He didn’t even dare to eat the midnight snack prepared for the employees, because in the original text, he ate drugged food and was sent to Gu Beilu’s bed without knowing it.

There was not enough space in the employee bag storage area, and when he returned to the lounge, his backpack had been taken out and placed aside.

He was in a hurry today and didn’t have time to eat dinner. He was a little hungry now, so he took out the discounted sandwiches and mineral water he bought in the store in the afternoon from his bag.

*

After the dinner, Cheng Liang took Gu Beilu to the hotel’s VIP bar.

This is a place that provides beverage services specifically for black card members. Cheng Liang likes to come here to relax at night.

Gu Beilu took out a disinfectant wipe and wiped his hands. Cheng Liang laughed at him, “It seems that the cleanliness level of your own hotel is not up to standard, Mr. Gu. In my opinion, this place needs to be upgraded to a medical sterile area.”

Gu Beilu rolled his eyes at him expressionlessly: “Cheng Liang! Tell me, why did you drag me here so late at night instead of going home?”

Cheng Liang shook the whiskey in the crystal glass and said, “Can’t you come and relax if you have nothing to do?”

“If you’re okay, I’ll go home.” Gu Beilu raised his hand and looked at his watch.

Cheng Liang pushed the glass in front of him and said, “Don’t pretend. Lao Gu told me that you haven’t been home recently. Are you hiding in the hotel?”

Gu Beilu glanced at him and didn’t bother to pay attention to someone who asked questions even though he knew the answer.

Recently, the two elderly people in his family have become more and more worried about his marriage. He is too lazy to go back to face the pressure to get married, and stays in a hotel every day.

Cheng Liang looked at him with a nonchalant look and continued to tease him: “I say you can’t do this. You are not a child of 17 or 18 years old anymore. You should face the facts. Besides, you, Gu Beilu, are fearless. When did you learn to be an ostrich?”

“How dare you say that to me?” Gu Beilu sneered, picked up the wine glass and took a sip leisurely, “Isn’t it the same at your age?”

“How can I compare with you? To put it bluntly, a marriage in a wealthy family is no less than a large-scale merger and acquisition. If you get engaged, the stock market will fluctuate for three days.” Cheng Liang shook his head, “Born in the richest family, this is your fate, accept it.”

When they were in school, they all envied Gu Beilu’s background. How could someone have such a great family and such good personal conditions? He was simply winning at the starting line. What door did God close for him?

Later he found out that although Gu Beilu seemed to be the center of attention, he had no freedom at all and was very lonely inside. In the upper class circle, the eldest son of the Gu family had been targeted by various wealthy families since he was born, and he was not even allowed to have a romantic relationship.

Gu Beilu’s ears were callused from hearing these words, and he didn’t take them to heart at all: “They asked you to trick me, right? That’s great, you can tell them that I won’t get married.”

“Derek, I know the relationship between you and your parents is a little strained, but they came to me to tell you that they respect your choice.” Cheng Liang sighed and continued to persuade, “But you should also think about them. The day you don’t settle down, they will worry one more day. Besides, you know what those people outside think. If you don’t have a partner, people will always be thinking about you. I don’t know how many acquaintances who want to arrange marriage for you have been blocked by uncle and aunt.”

Gu Beilu was silent.

He had been disgusted with marriage since he was a child, because he had seen many business marriages in his circle. He could not stand letting an outsider live in his home for business purposes.

He is mysophobic and doesn’t like to be close to anyone.

Cheng Liang is one of the few people who can still talk to Gu Beilu, but he also knows that he cannot influence Gu Beilu’s thoughts, so he can only say that he has tried his best.

As he added ice cubes to the wine, he casually mentioned, “By the way, among the families that are looking for you to marry recently, there is the Qian family.”

The Qian Group caught up with the dividends in the past few years and expanded rapidly, but they did things in an unclean way, and Gu Beilu always refused to cooperate with them.

“Qian?” Gu Beilu frowned and suddenly picked up the phone.

Cheng Liang’s attention was still on the ice, and he didn’t notice Gu Beilu’s actions: “There is a big problem with the Qian family’s capital chain. They have been hiding it for the past year, but the truth is about to come out.”

The Qian family has no daughters, but they have a son. Gu Beilu has never been in a relationship and his sexual orientation is unknown, which gives many young men hope.

Many people asked Cheng Liang indirectly whether Mr. Gu liked men or women. Cheng Liang was helpless because he didn’t know.

But today he unexpectedly discovered that Gu Beilu’s eyes looked a little different when he looked at the mermaid actor.

Normally, Gu Beilu would not look at these people straight in the eye. But today, he has been staring at him since the performance, and even helped him block the wine. Others don’t understand, but he knows that this is not a normal Gu Beilu.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but test it out: “The little mermaid today is pretty good.”

Gu Beilu paused and looked up at him.

Cheng Liang observed the changes in his eyes and said, “You are not interested, right? If you are not interested, should I go?”

Gu Beilu didn’t say anything, but his eyes became a little colder.

“Oh? Really? You like it?” Cheng Liang understood and immediately said before he got angry, “It’s just a joke, don’t be so serious. I don’t like innocent boys, don’t worry.”

*

After leaving the bar, Gu Beilu still did not go home, but went directly to the top floor suite of the hotel.

On the terrace of the suite, he received an assistant

The assistant told him that what happened tonight was exactly as he expected.

The assistant said on the phone: “We have checked and found that several divers asked for leave at the same time today. Someone is behind this. It’s the Qian family.”

The Qian family paid a high price to arrange another urgent job for these divers tonight. After they all took leave, the Qian family “accidentally” heard that the Ocean Hotel was short of people today, and generously donated money to recommend their own divers to perform.

However, they were a step too late, as the restaurant manager had already found Yu Xi to take over.

Gu Beilu was not surprised at all. He didn’t take such small actions seriously at all.

The assistant asked: “Boss, do you need to deal with it now?”

Gu Beilu extinguished the cigarette in his hand: “Don’t alert the enemy for now, help me investigate another matter.”

He never thought that one day he would have to care about a small family like the Qian family.

Assistant: “Okay, boss. What’s up?”

Gu Beilu: “Today’s mermaid actor named Yu Xi.”

Assistant: “Got it, boss.”

After the call, Gu Beilu returned to his room and took a bath. Seeing the full bathtub of water, he thought of the mermaid again.

He didn’t quite understand why he liked a stranger so much for no reason, especially that frightened look in his eyes.

As he was thinking, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Gu Beilu stood up alertly and put on his bathrobe.

From the surveillance video, he could clearly see the person standing outside.

It turned out to be Yu Xi.

Gu Beilu frowned instantly and his eyes turned cold.

Unexpectedly, the beautiful mermaid who looks clean and pure is actually this kind of person in private.

It seems that he also makes mistakes sometimes.

He stood in front of the surveillance camera for a while in a bad mood and did not open the door.

It’s not like he hasn’t heard of this kind of thing. There are always young men and women trying every means to get into bed, some for themselves, some as tools for others.

But everyone in the circle knew his temper, and no one had the courage to knock on his door over the years.

In fact, no matter what the purpose is, as long as he doesn’t open the door, it can be easily solved by calling the bodyguard.

However, he still didn’t do it.

He didn’t open the door immediately, nor did he make a phone call. Instead, he stood in front of the surveillance camera, staring coldly at the young man’s slender figure. He wanted to know what the young man would do next.

But Yu Xi didn’t make any unnecessary moves, and even pressed the doorbell only once, then stood quietly outside the door and waited. Very well behaved.

Five minutes passed without movement.

Gu Beilu stared at the surveillance screen, and a strange feeling gradually came over him. Just as he was about to pick up his phone to call to get rid of the person, Yu Xi suddenly sniffed and sneezed on the screen.

Gu Beilu frowned, couldn’t help but walked to the door and pressed the doorknob.

The moment the wooden door opened, he was met with a listless look.

Yu Xi mechanically handed over the item in his hand, and with all his strength, he said in a vague voice: “Hello, this is the bathrobe you wanted…”

Before he fainted, a strong arm caught him steadily and pulled him into an embrace.

*

That night.

After making two more phone calls on the stage, he tilted his head back, poured the spicy foreign liquor down his throat, then stood up and returned to the room.

When he saw the person on the carpet beside the bed, his brows furrowed again, and he bent down and carried the person back to the bed.

Yu Xi’s palm-sized face was twisted into a ball, and he looked very uncomfortable. Gu Beilu stroked his hair again and again, and it took a while to calm him down.

After so many years of intrigue in the business world, he didn’t expect that he would soften his heart when facing a college student he had never met before.

Just now, the assistant asked him what to do about Yu Xi, and he gave an answer that surprised the assistant.

He had investigated the relationship between the Qian family and Yu Xi. He knew that the Qian couple were not honest, but he did not expect that they could be so cruel to their adopted child.

He thought of this and prepared to make another call, but as soon as he stood up, Yu Xi suddenly had a nightmare, struggling and shouting “Don’t hit me”. Before Gu Beilu could react, he rolled off the bed again.

Gu Beilu originally thought that this was just a case of unconsciousness due to the effects of drugs, but this action was repeated several times. Every time he carried Yu Xi to the bed, Yu Xi would instinctively become uneasy, and would settle down after rolling onto the floor.

The last time Yu Xi rolled off the bed, his head hit the bedside table, waking him up with pain.

Gu Beilu reached out to hug the person, and the person he was hugging did so obediently, without making any noise or noise, with a dull look in his eyes. Gu Beilu knew that the person had not yet woken up.

His family doctor had just visited him an hour ago and said that Yu Xi had been drugged.

The effect of this drug can last for 12 hours, during which time the person who takes it can have a normal conversation and will obey commands and do whatever they are told.

That’s why Yu Xi listened and came to the top floor to give him the gift. He didn’t need a bathrobe.

Shortly after Yu Xi knocked on the door, Cheng Liang told him that the hotel’s surveillance system had been hacked into and someone was trying to retrieve the video footage from the top floor corridor.

This was a serious loophole, and Cheng Liang asked the team to work overtime to fix the bug overnight. He also reminded Gu Beilu that the video was retrieved right at the door of his suite.

Gu Beilu thought for a moment and said calmly: “Well, I will receive a blackmail call tomorrow.”

Cheng Liang said, “So calm? It seems like there’s no trouble. I worried about you for nothing. I’m hanging up now. I’m going to work overtime.”

*

At this moment, Yu Xi touched his forehead in a half-asleep state and said it hurt.

He looked at Gu Beilu, his eyes red with grievance.

Gu Beilu felt hot all over when he saw this look, and he said with his teeth pressed against his back: “Don’t look at me like that.”

The effect of the medicine had not yet worn off, so Yu Xi really stopped looking at it. He sniffed and lowered his head.

Gu Beilu sighed distressed, and then thought of his unusual behavior just now, and asked tentatively: “Why don’t you want to sleep on the bed? Do you want to sleep on the floor?”

Who would choose to sleep on a hard floor instead of having a mattress worth millions?

Yu Xi didn’t look up, scratched his knees, and seemed to be talking to himself: “Qian Dacai’s bed is also very soft, but I don’t want to live there anymore.”

Gu Beilu’s heart sank, as if he had guessed something bad.

“Tell me, are Qian Dacai and his wife very bad to you?”

Yu Xi nodded, still without looking up: “They beat me and scolded me, so I am not their child anymore.”

He was wearing a white bathrobe and curled up into a small ball like a piece of cotton candy. You couldn’t tell at all that he was nearly 1.8 meters tall.

“You are not a member of the Qian family.” Gu Beilu said with a heavy nasal voice, “So after you moved out, you never slept on a soft bed?”

Marshmallow shook his head: “The house I rented doesn’t have a bed, but sleeping on the floor is comfortable.”

The day he entered the story, he was picked up from the bed by the drunk Qian Dacai and beaten for no apparent reason. His resistance was useless at the time because he developed late and was still like a junior high school student in his first year of high school, and he could not beat the tall and strong fat man.

I left that horrible home and moved into a cheap rental house. Although I had no money to buy a bed, at least I felt stable and free.

“You won’t be afraid anymore in the future.” Gu Beilu’s nasal tone became stronger and he pulled the little boy over and held him in his arms.

The person in his arms was so fragrant and soft, and he suddenly felt a little scared. If Yu Xi had knocked on someone else’s door today, what would the consequences be? He simply didn’t dare to think about it.

He will make the Qian family pay double for the suffering Yu Xi has endured.

He picked up his phone and sent a message to the family group of three.

[Xiao Gu: I will go home tomorrow to get my household registration booklet]

[Lao Gu: Are you going to buy a house again? ]

【Xiao Gu: I want to get married】