Chapter 88: Why did you keep that bottle of soy milk?

The incident began when a street style blogger, by chance, noticed that Yao Guang’s employees were leaving work early and a large fleet of cars was heading in the same direction. Curious, they casually asked about it online.

Unexpectedly, Yao Guang’s official account responded.

“Our wife brought lunch to Mr. Gu today, and he was so happy he treated everyone in the company to dinner. Thanks to our wife for the afternoon tea and Mr. Gu for the delicious meal! Hee hee!”

The accompanying image was a nine-grid post, showcasing all the afternoon tea and the evening dinner prepared by Jian Yao.

As Yao Guang’s official publicity department, their photography skills were top-notch.

Each picture was like a blockbuster, capturing the food in all its color, aroma, and taste, with an extremely high aesthetic appeal, instantly conveying its exorbitant price.

This very unofficial response, along with the incredibly envy-inducing photos, quickly went viral on Weibo.

“Damn! This is definitely my boss and my boss’s wife. You guys are a bunch of damn human traffickers!”

“My envious tears are flowing from the corners of my mouth. This food looks so good!”

“Looking at the hotel’s decor, it seems to be the Black Buck Manor owned by the Gu Group. Although it’s a star-rated hotel launched in recent years, all the facilities are top-notch. Just the ingredients in these pictures, a single table would cost hundreds of thousands.”

Of course, if it were just that, it wouldn’t be enough to make it to the top of the trending searches amidst a slew of Lu’s scandals.

What truly pushed the incident to its peak was a video released by the official account later.

The video was short, only a few minutes long.

In the ambiguous atmosphere of a bar, Gu Zhiyan and Jian Yao sat side-by-side, with an overturned bottle of wine on the table, the mouth of the bottle facing Gu Zhiyan, clearly playing a game of spinning the bottle.

At the beginning of the video, a somewhat unfamiliar male voice asked, “Brother Gu, do you choose truth or dare?”

In the video, Gu Zhiyan’s voice almost didn’t hesitate, “Truth.”

The unfamiliar male voice sounded again, “Do you remember the first time you met your wife?”

Almost as soon as the words left his mouth, Jian Yao immediately turned to look at Gu Zhiyan.

Lu Chengze, who was holding the phone, saw this scene, his breath hitched, his jaw clenched tightly.

Wu Yue, who was watching from the side, also held his breath.

He wanted to run, but he was also curious.

He felt this must be a video that would cause a car crash.

How could someone like Gu Zhiyan remember such a boring thing?

His brain should be filled with all kinds of competitions, exercises, exams!

However, the person in the video almost didn’t hesitate, blurting out.

“In my first year of high school, I saw a few hooligans bullying a classmate and got into a fight with them. Your wife happened to pass by and gave me a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao and some anti-inflammatory medicine.”

His tone was as confident as if he had rehearsed it a million times in his mind, just waiting for the right moment to announce it to the world.

It wasn’t over yet.

He paused, turned to Jian Yao, and continued, “Oh, right.”

“There was also a bottle of multivitamin soy milk.”

He could even pinpoint the brand of soy milk.

Moreover, Wu Yue also remembered that soy milk.

Jian Yao loved to drink it, and it was indeed something she would have given him.

Wu Yue swallowed, stealing a glance at Lu Chengze beside him.

He was holding his phone, completely frozen in place, as if in a trance, muttering to himself.

“So, it was him that day?”

Wu Yue had taken a step back, so he didn’t hear clearly, instinctively asking, “What?”

Lu Chengze didn’t speak, just lowered his head and looked at the video.

He did have an impression of that day.

At that time, the school was holding a basketball competition, and he asked Jian Yao to go buy some water. It was a 10-minute walk, but she took a full half hour to come back.

He asked her where she went, and she said she had met someone on the way, who had gotten injured in a fight, so she went to help buy some medicine, which delayed her.

He didn’t pay much attention at the time, and soon forgot about it.

Now that he thought about it, Gu Zhiyan didn’t participate in the school sports meet that time.

No, to be precise, back then, Gu Zhiyan was just a good student with a good family background, and he was incredibly low-key.

It was only after that day that he suddenly seemed possessed. Whenever there was a competition at school, no matter what it was, as long as he signed up, Gu Zhiyan would always intervene.

And he would always surpass him!

Because of this, although the two didn’t interact on the surface, they secretly formed a grudge.

Later, at a school sports meet, Gu Zhiyan got injured during the competition. Jian Yao happened to have medicine on her and helped him out once.

He was already annoyed about losing the competition, and as soon as he came out of the competition venue, he saw Jian Yao handing medicine to Gu Zhiyan, who had just won against him, and he was almost driven mad with anger.

They even had a cold war for a week because of this.

After that, Jian Yao and Gu Zhiyan had no further contact.

He thought that was the only time Jian Yao and Gu Zhiyan had interacted.

It turned out they had already known each other for a long time.

Lu Chengze suddenly laughed at himself, feeling like a fool, handing Jian Yao over to Gu Zhiyan with his own hands.

The stomach is an emotional organ. His stomach hadn’t fully recovered, and now, under external stimulation, his stomach tensed up, and waves of intense pain came over him. Lu Chengze clutched his chest, his body swaying.

Wu Yue was startled and hurriedly put down the box in his hand to support him, his voice trembling, “Brother Lu, I’ll take you to the hospital?”

Lu Chengze’s face was bloodless, as pale as paper.

Wu Yue was terrified, afraid that if he didn’t pay attention, he would fall down.

He grabbed Lu Chengze’s hand, his grip tightening slightly, and he gritted his teeth, “I’ll go find her!”

He couldn’t stand it anymore!

He had also thought before that since Jian Yao was already married, he shouldn’t bother her anymore.

But if this continued, what if Jian Yao really ended up with Gu Zhiyan? Brother Lu would die!

He would really die!

He had never imagined that Jian Yao’s departure would cost Brother Lu half his life!

Lu Chengze swallowed the metallic taste in his throat, his fingers tightly clutching Wu Yue’s hand, “Don’t go!”

Wu Yue was unconvinced, “Brother Lu!”

Lu Chengze pulled at his lips, “I have nothing now, what face do I have to show her?”

Wu Yue’s eyes were sore, but he couldn’t say anything in rebuttal.

Lu Chengze closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, and when he felt better, he got up, picked up the box, and continued walking out.

He wouldn’t give up.

One day, he would get Jian Yao back on his own.

…

On the way back, Gu Zhiyan’s words “There’s one more bottle of multivitamin soy milk” kept echoing in Jian Yao’s ears.

No wonder Gu Zhiyan said last time that “she” wouldn’t be angry.

It turned out that “she” was her.

Jian Yao remembered helping someone, but he was too disheveled at the time, with a bruised and swollen face, and a fierce aura, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

If it hadn’t been for the school uniform on him that let her know he was a student from the same school, she might not even have dared to approach him.

At the time, she had just casually helped out, and if Gu Zhiyan hadn’t mentioned it, she wouldn’t even remember this incident.

So…

Jian Yao turned to look at the car window, looking at the reflection in the window and at Gu Zhiyan beside her, she hesitated for a moment, but still couldn’t help but speak.

“Gu Zhiyan, can I ask you a question?”

“Hmm?”

He had drunk quite a bit tonight, and his reaction seemed to be half a beat slower than usual. He turned his head, paused for two seconds, and then slowly spoke.

“Ask away.”

Jian Yao mustered her courage and turned her head to look at him. The alcohol in Gu Zhiyan’s eyes gave her some confidence.

“Why did you keep that bottle of soy milk?”