Chapter 22: Mysterious Phone Call
No. 88 Nanjing Lane
Jing Yiyi looked up at the flickering neon sign of the "Enchanted" bar, then pushed open the door and walked in with a blank expression. The dim lighting was hazy, and the air was filled with a faint smell of smoke and alcohol. The music was not as deafening as expected, but rather like gentle flowing water, quietly flowing.
Under the dim light, her eyes searched hard but couldn't find Mo Wei's figure. Cheng Zhiyi couldn't help but feel worried - after all, Xu Shao Yan didn't look like a modest gentleman who "doesn't gaze or move improperly" at all.
Cheng Zhiyi took out her mobile phone and dialed the number from just now. A low, magnetic voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello... have you arrived?"
"Where are you?" Cheng Zhiyi asked displeased, with a hint of anxiety and a warning tone - Xu Shao Yan, if you dare to take advantage of the situation and be disrespectful to Mo Wei, don't blame me for being impolite!
"In the private room..." Xu Shaoyan said in a low voice, "She's lying on the sofa..."
Xu Shaoyan's words were cut off as the phone suddenly hung up, and Cheng Zhiyi was so anxious that she jumped her feet - what? Xu Shaoyan actually brought Weiwei into the private room? She was lying on the sofa... What does that mean?!
Cheng Zhiyi was both anxious and urgent, just about to search the private rooms one by one, when she saw that the door of the private room on her right hand side happened to be open. Xu Shaoyan walked out from inside, then smiled gently and walked towards her: "Hey! Prosecutor Princess, you're here!"
"Where's Vivian?" Cheng Zhiyi asked with an expressionless face, looking at Xu Shao Yan with displeasure.
"He's sleeping inside," he said with a smile, pointing to the private room they had just left.
Cheng Zhiyi brushed past Xu Shaoyan without saying a word, pushed open the door of the private room, and saw Mo Wei quietly lying on the long sofa, covered with a thin blanket. Her silver handbag and shoes were neatly placed together on the table.
"She's drunk, I asked the waitress to help her in and lie down for a while - it was a female waitress!" Xu Shaoyan hastened to emphasize, seeing the displeasure on Cheng Zhiyi's face.
Cheng Zhi walked straight to the edge of the sofa, bent down and gently patted Mo Wei's delicate cheek, softly calling her: "Weiwei, wake up! We're going home! Weiwei..."
Xu Shaoyan walked over to Cheng Zhiyi's side and said softly, "Let her sleep for a while! She cried so hard just now, I think she's exhausted."
"Cry?" Cheng Ziyue turned her head back and asked in puzzlement, "Why is Weiwei crying?"
"We don't know either..." Xu Shaoyan said with a guilty conscience, "We only heard her muttering something about Shi...Shi something...oh right, it was Shi Yixing!"
Is it Xi Xin? Has Mo Wei thought of Xi Xin again? Cheng Zhiyi understood, perhaps the thoughts in Mo Wei's heart had burst out again, and to get herself out of that surging sea of tears, she came to get drunk again!
But why did she run into Xu Shao Yan again? Oh, it wasn't just Xu Shao Yan...
Before he could even think about the issue, the door of the private room was pushed open again, and Xu Chen walked in with a cup of boiling water - oh, it turned out that there wasn't only Xu Shao Yan.
"When did Miss Cheng arrive?" Xǔ Chēn smiled and nodded towards Cheng Zhīyī, asking softly.
"Just arrived." Cheng Zhiyi also politely nodded in response.
"Oh, okay." Xu Chen lightly raised the cup in his hand and glanced at Mo Wei lying on the sofa. "Let her have a glass of warm water later, she's been crying for so long, I'm sure she's thirsty too."
Xu Chen put down the hot water in his hand and tactfully withdrew from the private room.
"What would you like to drink?" asked Xu Shaoyan.
"It's okay, thank you!" Jing Yi didn't lift her head to look at him, but instead sat down gently beside Mo Wei.
"Miss Mo seems to have something on her mind, you'd better comfort her." Xu Shaoyan said with some concern - to be honest, Xu Shaoyan didn't know that mentioning Shi Yixin would make Mo Wei so sad, he didn't intentionally provoke her, so he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.
"Don't bother, Mr. He!" Cheng Zhiyi said coldly - if the man in front of her knew that she and Weiwei were both losers in love, he would probably mock them mercilessly?
Jing Yiyi was cold and didn't want to bother with Xu Shaoyan, but then Xu Shaoyan's phone rang at the right time. However, Xu Shaoyan just impatiently looked at the caller ID and seemed unwilling to answer the call, letting the ringing continue, continuing...
"Would you mind answering the phone? It's really polluting my ears!" Cheng Zhiyi finally couldn't help but speak up, she was afraid that the endless ringing would wake up Mo Wei - she wanted to let Mo Wei sleep for a while.
Xu Shaoyan answered the phone with a gloomy face, speaking in an extremely displeased tone: "What's up? ... At the bar, where else could I be?! Hmph! What right do you have to control me?! If there's something going on, go tell my mom, don't bother me again!"
He rudely yelled out those few words, then viciously hung up the phone and called over a waiter: "Bring me a glass of whiskey! And bring that lady a glass of lemon water."
Looking at Xu Shaoyan's flustered expression, Cheng Zhiyi was secretly surprised in her heart: How did he know she liked to drink lemon water? Was this cup of lemon water intentional or a coincidence?
The wine was served quickly, and Xu Shaoyan leaned back on the sofa, sipping his drink in silence, as if he had transformed into a different person. The collar of his black T-shirt was slightly open, and his light blue jeans fit perfectly around his long legs. A pair of white casual shoes made him look youthful, and it was hard to believe that he was already a 31-year-old "old man".
Under the dim light, Cheng Zhiyi secretly sized up Xu Shao Yan. She saw that his thin lips were tightly pursed, and a hint of sorrow was revealed in his eyes, which seemed to be both sad and not sad at the same time. However, his sorrow seemed to have a magical power that could make people around him gradually become infatuated.
Jing Yi couldn't help but think to herself: Who was it that just called? She vaguely heard a woman's voice, and judging from the sound of it, it seemed like one of the women he disliked. Yet, he couldn't shake her off - could it be that she was one of the women he had "played with" before, and now she was sticking to him like chewing gum? Ah ha, what a comeuppance!
Ting Yi was exerting her rich imagination when Xu Chen suddenly pushed the door open and walked in. He went straight to Xu Shao Yan's side, sat down with a frown and said: "Just now 'Bai Jie' called me to ask if I was with you, I told her yes."
"Hmm!" Xu Shaoyan hummed softly, seemingly displeased and disdainful at the same time, saying coldly, "Don't bother with her from now on!"
