Two months ago, at the Rose Bar.

Fu Zeyuan raised his glass and said to Kuang Ye, “Good buddy, tomorrow you’ll be engaged to the one you love. Congratulations, bro!”

Kuang Ye, however, wasn’t as optimistic as him. A hint of bitterness flashed in his eyes. “She might not come…”

This was an engagement he was looking forward to, but it was one-sided.

Fu Zeyuan patted his shoulder and comforted him, “Ye Shen^[1]Shen means, God, have a little faith in yourself. What’s so different about you from Kuang Shuyu? Mu Wan just hasn’t gotten to know you yet. Maybe once she does, she’ll see through his fake noble air and fall into your arms.”

“It’s an engagement with the one you secretly love. Be happy! Oh, right, your hands can’t drink or smoke. Waiter, bring a bottle of Sprite and stir the bubbles out to give my buddy a substitute for white wine!”

Kuang Ye: “…”

Such nerve.

But thinking about the engagement tomorrow, there was still a hint of anticipation in his heart. Maybe a miracle would happen.

Suddenly, a familiar female voice came from the bar counter. “Get lost!”

Kuang Ye instinctively turned his head and immediately saw the face he had been longing for.

Mu Wan was wearing a red Chanel-style suit, with her seaweed-like long hair cascading over her shoulders. The pencil skirt highlighted her figure, and her long, fair legs were unmistakably stunning. Her beautiful face was flushed with alcohol, giving her the look of a seductive fairy in the midnight light.

“Miss, you’re drunk. Let me take you home!”

Such a beauty in such a state—she was like a lamb in a bar, vulnerable to any man. A man grabbed Mu Wan and tried to pull her out, but she instinctively resisted, though without much strength.

Kuang Ye’s face darkened.

He quickly walked over and pulled Mu Wan into his arms. “Wan wan, sober up.”

The man who had grabbed Mu Wan, now losing his “prey,” looked up in displeasure. “What are you doing? I had my eye on her first—”

Meeting Kuang Ye’s cold and ruthless gaze, the man’s back shivered.

“Kid, I’ll let you go this time.”

He muttered a few words of disdain and left angrily.

Kuang Ye carefully helped Mu Wan into his car, his hand gently brushing her hot face in concern. “Mu Wan, Wan wan, do you want me to take you to the hospital?”

Drunk, Mu Wan grabbed his hand and rubbed it against her face, muttering, “So cool, bring me another bucket of ice.”

Kuang Ye looked at her with gentle eyes and a soft tone. “You’re so cute.”

“Wan wan, should I take you back to the Mu family home, or find a hotel for you to stay the night?”

Suddenly, Mu Wan became agitated.

“Home? I’m not going home. I want to keep drinking.”

“I’ve drunk abroad before. I won’t get drunk. Kuang Shuyu, that bastard, said he would never let me suffer, but now he’s cozying up with another woman…”

“Kuang Shuyu…”

“Kuang Shuyu, you bastard! I didn’t agreed to get engaged to Kuang Ye because of you, I had a huge fight with my dad, and yet you treat me like this…”

The tears on the woman’s face were like a cold splash of water, pouring down on Kuang Ye’s head. His fists tightened in his sleeves, and he couldn’t help but lift the woman’s chin, nearly cruelly demanding, “Mu Wan, after he treated you like that, why do you still like him? Am I not good enough for you?”

“Look at me.” Mu Wan’s mesmerizing eyes met Kuang Ye’s face. After a moment, she suddenly tilted her head and kissed him on the cheek. “Alright, I’m looking at you. Kuang Shuyu has a scandal with a well known actress, so I’ll just keep a pretty boy to piss him off. That’ll drive him crazy.”

—— By the time Kuang Ye finished speaking, Mu Wan’s face had turned deathly pale. She pushed Kuang Ye away, stood up from the sofa, and felt a heaviness in her head, as though she had a high fever. She felt absurd and ridiculous. Looking at Kuang Ye, she asked, word by word, “So you think that my getting engaged to you, actively approaching you, everything I’ve done these past days, is all just to get back at Kuang Shuyu?”

Kuang Ye saw her standing barefoot and hurriedly grabbed her slippers. “Wan wan, you’re still sick. Put on your shoes first…”

“Answer me first!” Mu Wan’s voice was full of anger.

Seeing her reaction, Kuang Ye realized things were not as he had imagined, but he still decided to be honest. “At that time, I thought, no matter the reason, if you gave me a chance to get close to you, I might slowly make you like me.”

Tears streaked down Mu Wan’s cheeks. Kuang Ye’s pupils shook, and a wave of panic suddenly rose in his heart. “Wan wan…”

Mu Wan tried to wipe her tears, but they kept falling. She choked up, clutching the fabric of her clothes tightly to suppress the wave of sadness rising in her chest. Through her tears, she hoarsely said to Kuang Ye, “Kuang Ye, I, Mu Wan, would never try to please one man for the sake of another. I’m not that cheap!”

Not to mention the reborn Mu Wan, even in her previous life, she could never do something so degrading.

“I like you. From the moment I opened the door to our engagement party, my heart and my eyes have been focused on you. There’s no room for Kuang Shuyu.”

“Because…” Mu Wan opened her mouth, then closed it again, not wanting to let the version of Kuang Ye who hadn’t been reborn share the same nightmare as her. But the overwhelming sadness of being unable to speak the truth made her tears fall even harder.

“Anyway, the person I like is you, not him.”

“Aside from you, I will never hold hands with anyone else, kiss anyone else, or sleep with anyone else in this lifetime.”

“Kuang Ye, when I say I like you, did you hear me clearly?”