Chapter 7 – 007

Xie Yunjing: What are you doing?

Your Brother Xian: [Shy][Shy]

Your Brother Xian: When do you think is a good time to get married?

Xie Yunjing: …

Xie Yunjing: Is this not the real person?

Your Brother Xian: Oh, you’re so annoying, how can you not recognize me [Shy]

Xie Yunjing: [Location Information]

Xie Yunjing: The sooner you treat it, the better. Don’t avoid medical advice.

Xie Yunjing sent the location of A City Mental Health Center.

Gu Xian continued typing expressionlessly.

Your Brother Xian: Thanks for your concern, darling [Rose]. So, when are we getting married?

Xie Yunjing: Gu Xian, don’t joke around.

Your Brother Xian: Whimper, how can this be a joke? I’m clearly helping you. You had a falling out with your old man, so you can’t get out of this marriage [Smile].

Xie Yunjing: Is it worth it? Just to disgust me.

Your Brother Xian: Oh, what are you talking about? We’re both men, what do I have to lose? Young Master Xie, are you afraid? If you really don’t want to get married, find a way out yourself.

There was a pause before the reply came.

Xie Yunjing: Don’t regret it.

Your Brother Xian: Haha, whoever regrets first is a dog.

*

Gu Xian sat down at the bar and said, “The usual.”

Sheng Yi, who was lazily leaning on the bar, smiled and began to mix the drink with practiced ease, asking, “Is the news about you marrying Xie Yunjing true?”

Gu Xian rolled his eyes, “You’re the seventeenth person to ask me that today.”

“It’s true.”

Sheng Yi handed the prepared drink to Gu Xian and leaned back on the bar, “So, you like men. If I’d known earlier, I would have pursued you.”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

Other bartenders were busy coming and going behind them, but Sheng Yi continued chatting leisurely with Gu Xian, “Seriously though, you and Xie Yunjing don’t get along, so why are you getting married? And those photos from a few days ago, did you two really kiss?”

Gu Xian: “…”

The wound on his lips always healed quickly, and the bite marks left by Xie Yunjing had long since disappeared. Yet Gu Xian still used the glass to cover his lips, and said with a dark and sinister eyes, “Why do you care so much?”

“Alright, alright, I won’t ask.” Sheng Yi raised his hands in a surrender gesture, then propped his chin with one hand, and asked curiously, “Where’s Xiao Qiuqiu? Are you alone today?”

“They’re out catching people.”

“Damn, you’re not planning to cause trouble in my bar, are you?” Although Sheng Yi said this, there was no tension on his face, “You have a share in the profits of this bar, so take it easy.”

Gu Xian was very dismissive: “Do I look that idle to you?”

Sheng Yi chuckled, “Just thought you seemed a bit down.”

“Make way! Make way!”

The crowd behind Gu Xian suddenly parted, and Li Yuqiu led a group over.

Following behind Li Yuqiu was an odd trio. The man in the middle wore gold-rimmed glasses and a suit, with a red rose pinned to his chest. His whole demeanor screamed pretentiousness, except for the terrified, cowering look on his face. The two people flanking him had their arms around his shoulders in a seemingly friendly manner, yet it looked like they were escorting a prisoner.

Gu Xian hooked a stool with his foot, tapping the leg of the stool with his heel: “Sit.”

The suited man was practically pushed onto the stool by his two “guardians.”

“Gu… Gu Xian…”

Gu Xian looked him up and down: “Well, it seems Brother Wei has been living quite comfortably lately.”

The suited man pulled his lips into a forced smile, unable to genuinely smile: “No, no, I’m only a month older than you, just call me by my name…”

“Alright then. I remember you like Long Island Iced Tea.” Gu Xian turned his head back and tapped the bar counter. “Boss Sheng, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and make a Long Island Iced Tea for our Brother Huang Wei.”

Huang Wei sat uneasily, and frequently glanced toward the exit. If it weren’t for the crowd surrounding him, he would have probably bolted already.

Sheng Yi leisurely mixed the drink. Huang Wei had nothing to hold onto and could only awkwardly place his hands in front of him, listening to Gu Xian ask, “Dressed so flamboyantly, which girl have you set your eyes on this time?”

“No!” Huang Wei, like a startled rooster, immediately flapped his wings in a panic. “I just came to have a drink with my buddies, nothing else!”

“Drinking, huh…” Gu Xian smiled and pushed the Long Island Iced Tea that Sheng Yi had prepared over to him. “Then it’s perfect, drink up. It’s on me.”

Huang Wei looked at the cocktail in front of him and then at Gu Xian, hesitating to make a move.

“What’s the matter, afraid I poisoned it?” Gu Xian leisurely held his own cocktail, speaking in a joking tone. “We live in a society governed by law now. Poisoning someone would land me in prison. Just drink it.”

Huang Wei, as if hearing a terrifying threat, showed even more fear on his face, but that didn’t stop him from picking up the glass with trembling hands and slowly taking sip after sip under the watchful eyes of Gu Xian and the others.

When half of the drink was gone, Gu Xian spoke again: “By the way, I wanted to ask you something.”

Finally relieved from the ordeal of drinking, Huang Wei sighed in relief and quickly put down the glass. “Ask away, ask away.”

But upon hearing Gu Xian’s question, he froze completely.

“The drug you used last time, what exactly does it do?”

Huang Wei forced a smile. “Just a sleeping pill, just a sleeping pill…”

“Oh.” Gu Xian responded slowly, pulling a folded piece of paper from his pocket and lightly placing it in front of Huang Wei. “This is a report from the Kanglai Testing Center. Do you want to take a look at it first, or would you prefer to think carefully before answering?”

Huang Wei’s gaze fixated on the palm-sized piece of paper. After a moment, with a face on the verge of tears, he replied, “It has a slight aphrodisiac effect, really just a little bit, for enhancing the experience. There are no lasting side effects afterward…”

Gu Xian’s sudden and well-prepared confrontation seemed to trigger something in him, and his voice began to choke, with broken sentences. “I just… just like to have fun… never intended to cause any harm. I always buy the safest kinds of drugs… If I really caused any harm, my dad would kill me… I don’t want to go to jail either…”

Huang Wei’s pitiful explanation did not imply that he or his father were particularly kind-hearted. The so-called “not wanting to cause any harm” was likely just to avoid leaving solid evidence that could incriminate him. If Huang Wei’s father were truly a serious and upright person, Huang Wei wouldn’t have turned into a scumbag daring enough to drug and assault women.

Therefore, Gu Xian remained indifferent and simply continued to ask, “Where did you buy it?”

Huang Wei was stunned. “What?”

Gu Xian impatiently rolled his eyes at him. “I asked you where you bought the stuff.”

Huang Wei evidently misunderstood Gu Xian’s intentions, thinking he wanted to become an accomplice. The relief of surviving this ordeal overwhelmed him, causing him to completely relax.

A waiter hurriedly came over, somewhat rudely calling away the boss who had been eavesdropping on the gossip at the bar.

Huang Wei eagerly took out his phone and said to Gu Xian, “Let’s add each other as friends. I’ll send you the contact information.”

Gu Xian swiftly added him as a friend and then, through his push, also added the “seller.”

To solidify his “alliance” with Gu Xian, Huang Wei even tried to curry favor, “I talked to him, he’ll give you a discount, buy two get one…”

“Get lost.”

“What?”

Gu Xian lifted his eyelids slightly. “I said, get lost.”

Before Huang Wei could react, Li Yuqiu, along with the others, though smiling, unmistakably began to shove him out, “Come on, come on, didn’t you come to drink with your buddies? It’s not good to keep them waiting so long.”

The newly added “seller” was very enthusiastic, but Gu Xian paid no attention, putting away his phone and asked Sheng Yi, who had been pulled into a corner by the waiter, “What’s going on?”

By this time, the relaxed look on Sheng Yi’s face was completely gone, replaced by a frown as he replied irritably, “It’s a usual matter!”

He really couldn’t understand why those rich and powerful people, who had countless willing admirers, were so fond of playing the coercion game.

Gu Xian glanced back at where Li Yuqiu and the others were, then stood up and said, “I’ll handle it for you.”

As the owner, handling such disturbances could easily bring trouble to the bar. Besides, Gu Xian was a shareholder receiving dividends from the bar, not just an outsider.

“Alright.” Sheng Yi unceremoniously leaned back on the bar and reminded sternly, “Don’t make a big scene.”

Gu Xian gave him a second eye roll since their meeting, then called over Li Yuqiu and the others, and followed the waiter.

The incident involved two guests who came together. The situation was simply that one wanted to do something inappropriate to the other, who was unwilling. The unwilling one smashed the other’s head, causing it to bleed, then ran out and grabbed a passing waiter for help. In such a case, the bar couldn’t just ignore it, because if they allowed the aggressor to drag the victim back to a private room, they would be aiding and abetting, and legally liable.

Both parties were confronting each other in the hallway, visible from a distance. Gu Xian patted the guiding waiter, signaling him to stay put, then swaggered over with Li Yuqiu and the others.

“Well, well, what’s all this commotion about?” he said.

Without waiting for any explanations, he glanced briefly at the angry man holding a towel to his head, then focused his attention on the person standing opposite him.

This was a young man who looked about eighteen or nineteen. His excellent appearance made it easy to see why he had ended up in such a troubling situation. At that moment, he was gripping a broken bottle tightly, and the terror on his face made it clear that if anyone dared to approach him, he would undoubtedly drive the sharp, jagged edge into them.

Gu Xian looked him up and down and nodded towards the other side. “You did this?”

The young man immediately raised the bottle defensively towards Gu Xian. However, in the next instant, he was dazzled by the smile that blossomed on Gu Xian’s face. Before he could react, Gu Xian had draped an arm around his shoulders, and a teasing voice whispered in his ear, “Spicy enough, I like it. He’s mine now.”

This series of unexpected actions left the young man stumbling as Gu Xian began to lead him away.

The man across from them suddenly reacted, and roared, “Who the hell do you think you are! I still need to settle the score with this little slut, get out of my way!”

“Who the hell…Tsk tsk.”

Li Yuqiu and the others stepped forward just in time, surrounding Gu Xian and the young man with an air of casual arrogance.

Li Yuqiu was at the forefront, arrogantly pointing his thumb back at Gu Xian. “This is the eldest son of the Gu Group. And who the hell are you?”

The others quietly restrained the young man, who had almost broken free from Gu Xian, preventing him from stabbing Gu Xian with the bottle.

“We’re here to help you,” someone whispered softly behind him, and the frightened young man finally began to calm down.

“Gu… Gu Group…”

Although the Gu family had declined in recent years, it was still a formidable force not easily offended by most people. The man across from them changed his expression when Li Yuqiu mentioned Gu Xian’s name.

Gu Xian’s impatient voice cut through, “Is there still a problem?”

The man wasn’t alone, and besides Gu Xian, Li Yuqiu and the others were also well-known second-generation rich kids. Confirming Gu Xian’s identity wasn’t difficult.

The man forcibly twisted the anger off his face, and smiled apologetically, “So it’s Young Master Gu. I didn’t recognize you…”

Gu Xian’s group turned and walked away, and the man awkwardly tried to save face, “I won’t spoil Young Master Gu’s mood then…”

Someone was keeping watch from behind, so as soon as they turned at the corner at the end of the hallway, Gu Xian let go of the young man, to avoid getting hit by the bottle he was still holding.

The appearance of the waiter finally assured the young man of his safety. He tucked away his previous apprehension and doubts, and blushed slightly due to his earlier distrust. He looked up at Gu Xian with shining eyes full of gratitude and guilt, “Um, Young Master Gu…”

“Gu Xian.”

“Gu Xian.”

Gu Xian introduced himself, but another voice simultaneously spoke the same name.

Everyone turned to the source of the voice.

Xie Yunjing stood at the center of their view, looked at Gu Xian expressionlessly and said, “I hope you remember that we’re about to get married.”