"Don't be afraid, this is just a greeting." Gao Luo explained with a smile.
He didn't take Lin Qing's dodge seriously.
Seeing someone coming up behind him, Mu Li said to Gao Luo, "You go ahead and do your work. We'll talk later."
There was a hint of politeness in his tone.
The man patted Gao Luo on the shoulder: "Hey, long time no see!"
The conversation between Gao Luo and the Mu Li couple came to a temporary end.
Mu Li took Lin Qing to the side. Lin Qing hadn't eaten anything since he went out in the morning. Looking at the table full of desserts, he was so hungry that his chest was sticking to his back.
My stomach is growling.
"Are you hungry?" Mu Li saw her staring at the cake and holding a plate in his palm.
From the cakes of various shapes and flavors, pick out one with less cream and two strawberries on it and place it on a plate.
Handed it to Lin Qing.
Lin Qing looked at Mu Li gratefully.
Because she was not familiar with the environment, she actually hesitated for a long time about whether to eat a piece.
As soon as Lin Qing put a strawberry into his mouth, he felt satisfied instantly.
"How can you come here just to eat?" Suddenly, a voice broke in.
Lin Qing almost choked and looked back.
Her former best friend, Mu Li's ex-girlfriend, Xu Yuan, was wearing an eye-catching red dress and walking through the crowd.
"I think I need to explain what happened last time." Xu Yuan smiled at the two of them and pointed behind him. "Of course, I also brought a friend with me. You must want to talk to him too."
Following Xu Yuan's arm, Lin Qing looked over and saw that the person standing diagonally behind him was none other than Chen Qudong.
Chen Qudong seemed to have been waiting for a long time and walked over with a glass of wine.
"I knew you would come."
His voice was a little hoarse, probably because of the alcohol.
But he kept staring at Lin Qing.
Mu Li said coldly: "No need to explain, please do as you please."
Chen Qudong took a step forward: "I want to talk to Lin Qing alone."
"Let's talk about it right here." Lin Qing looked back at Mu Li, "There's nothing he doesn't know."
Chen Qudong seemed to find it difficult to speak again.
Lin Qing smiled faintly: "Senior, you want to say that this matter has nothing to do with you, right?"
Faced with such a calm Lin Qing, Chen Qudong was troubled for a while.
He seemed to care a lot about Xu Yuan who was standing beside him, and he glanced at Mu Li from time to time.
Mu Li, understood.
Most likely, Chen Qudong wanted him to send Xu Yuan away so that he could talk to Lin Qing.
However, Mu Li just raised his eyebrows, took Lin Qing's arm and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Chen Qudong shouted.
Just when I was about to make up my mind to tell him everything, I saw someone walking towards me.
Xu Yuan is friends with the host of today's banquet.
Gao Luo walked around the hall, greeted everyone and came back here, just in time to see Xu Yuan, who was dressed brightly.
A red dress is indeed her style.
Gao Luo walked forward with a smile and was about to say hello to Xu Yuan, but when he turned around, Lin Qing caught his eye.
He had seen that pretty face once before, but his heart still skipped a beat for unknown reason.
"Gao Luo, congratulations!" Xu Yuan raised his glass, "Happy birthday!"
Although today is also his 32nd birthday, most of the attention was focused on the takeover of the group mentioned earlier, and the congratulations were mostly polite and perfunctory.
At this moment, he couldn't help but relax his brows.
"Thank you." He drank his glass.
Mu Li knew about their relationship, but was too lazy to get involved, so he turned around and left with Lin Qing.
After taking two steps, he was blocked by Xu Yuan.
"Mu Li, don't you have anything to say?"
Mu Li opened his mouth and said, "No."
"After all, today is Gao Luo's birthday. You can't be so cold, right?" Xu Yuan reproached.
Mu Li and Gao Luo were not very close friends, and the gift was already presented when he came in.
Xu Yuan winked at Chen Qudong and walked away with Mu Li in his hand.
Mu Li didn't want to offend Gao Luo, so he followed him for the time being.
"I'm so sorry, let's have another drink!" Xu Yuan picked up a wine glass from the side and gestured to Gao Luo.
Gao Luo's gaze seemed to stay on Lin Qing for a second.
Mu Li noticed this and frowned.
Looking towards Lin Qing, Chen Qudong was already standing in front of Lin Qing.
In such an occasion, if Chen Qudong didn't have the relationship with Xu Yuan, he wouldn't be able to get in.
If Chen Qudong wanted to see Lin Qing without being left behind, this was the only place he could go.
So after hearing about this cocktail party, he managed to get Xu Yuan to agree to go with him.
"Give me a few minutes, okay?"
Looking at the face that had obviously become more and more old in recent days, Lin Qing finally let out a deep breath: "Whatever you want to say, just say it all at once today."
There will be no more chances from now on.
Chen Qudong got straight to the point: "We were all deceived by Xu Yuan."
Lin Qing thought for a moment: "What do you mean?"
"You should already know that I have done some bad things in order to get you." Chen Qudong admitted, appearing sincere at the same time.
Lin Qing listened quietly.
"I thought about teaming up with Xu Yuan to break you up. Yes, but I would never do it in a way that would hurt you. She probably saw it, so she kept in touch with me on the surface, but in fact she didn't let me participate in any of the actions."
Many times, although he is an ally, Chen Qudong is the last to know what happened.
"Including that exclusive interview, she found a familiar journalist friend to publish it in my name." This incident was also Chen Qudong's fault for being careless.
But in order to gain Lin Qing's forgiveness, he would naturally omit some content.
"So," Lin Qing made a brief summary, "everything that happened before has nothing to do with you?"
"I can't say I have nothing to do with it, but at least I wasn't involved." Chen Qudong said in a deep voice, "Lin Qing, please believe me."
After a long while, Lin Qing took a step back and turned to leave: "I'm sorry, I can't trust you anymore."
Lin Qing wasn't sure whether he believed what his senior said.
But the damage has been done and there is really no point in talking about it.
Besides, she didn't care.
I no longer care about my senior or Xu Yuan.
Lin Qing turned around to look for Mu Li, but found that Mu Li was nowhere to be found.
She only saw Gao Luo holding a wine glass and chatting with two or three people she didn't know from a distance.
Looking around, Lin Qing realized that she didn't know anyone.
Feeling a little lost, Lin Qing walked straight along the path in front of him, hoping to find Mu Li.
Places with people around are always noisy, and the sounds of conversations around him kept coming into his ears, but Lin Qing could hardly understand what they were saying.
Finally, there were fewer people here. Lin Qing looked up and saw Mu Li.
Mu Li had his back to her and was with Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan seemed to see Lin Qing approaching and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Lin Qing stopped two or three meters behind Mu Li.
She clearly heard Xu Yuan sobbing, and she said in a delicate tone: "Why can't I?"
Mu Li looked at her coldly, then said: "I only love Lin Qing, you should know that."
"But I'm also a victim!" Xu Yuan grabbed Mu Li's sleeve, "Can't you just trust me?"
Her expression didn't seem fake.
Even Lin Qing was almost deceived.
"If you want me to believe you, you have to do something that will make me believe you." Mu Li pushed her hand away, "Don't do these useless things in the future."
"Didn't we date before?" Xu Yuan shouted before Mu Li turned around.
Mu Li was silent for a moment: "You are no longer qualified to use this excuse."
Xu Yuan froze in place.
When Mu Li turned around, he saw Lin Qing a few steps away.
"You're here." He smiled warmly and walked closer.
Lin Qing couldn't understand why Xu Yuan became like this.
The eyes that were staring at her were shining with a certain light.
Lin Qing really didn't want to use the word vicious to describe Xu Yuan.
Mu Li helped Lin Qing to smooth the bangs on his forehead.
Lin Qing's eyes were a little dim.
"Are you tired?" Mu Li asked gently.
Lin Qing shook his head: "Not tired. Let's go over there."
As she spoke, she pointed to the busy place behind her.
They were currently in a corner of the hall, which was a bit deserted.
Being stared at by Xu Yuan like that, Lin Qing didn't want to stay.
The guests came in groups of three or five, and some of them were familiar with Mu Li.
I had heard before that Mu Li would be participating, and I was looking forward to it.
The cocktail party was already halfway through, but few people had a head-on fight with Mu Li, which made him seem a little more mysterious.
I don't know which daughter was the first to mention: "I heard that Commander Mu came back today, but I haven't seen him yet."
The ladies looked around for a while but to no avail.
I couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
"I wonder who is so lucky to marry such a handsome and domineering man." One person sighed.
"I heard that they didn't even have a wedding, they just went to get the marriage certificate very simply," another person added.
Women love gossip after all, and they can't escape it even if their identities are revealed.
After a while, they started talking.
At this time, Mu Li was passing by with Lin Qing.
I don’t know if Lin Qing realized that the person being talked about was him, as he was obediently hugged by Mu Li.
Mu Li heard it clearly.
"What's wrong?" She looked up from time to time and saw Mu Li frowning.
He used to not care at all what people talked about.
But because of Lin Qing, he became very concerned.
When he wanted to do something, he suddenly felt that the atmosphere behind him was not right.
This time Lin Qing was very sensitive and turned around.
Behind them, Xu Yuan was crying silently.
"Isn't she Xu Yuan?" At this time someone recognized Xu Yuan.
"Yes, I heard that he just returned to China a while ago. But why did he come here?"
Xu Yuan is different from these socialites, she does not have such a good family background.
The reason why those people knew Xu Yuan was mostly because they had some friendship with Mu Li.
"Mu Li, I'm sorry..." Two lines of tears kept flowing out.
"No need to apologize." Mu Li's eyes turned cold.
Mu Li is not the type to be deliberately high-profile, but he won't hide it either.
Although he did not host a banquet for his wedding, most of the people present knew about it.
Especially the young ladies from rich families, who had never fantasized about marrying Mu Li? Today, they looked at Lin Qing with extremely cold eyes and were even more curious about Lin Qing's identity.
When Xu Yuan appeared at this moment, people all turned their eyes over here.
Xu Yuan covered his heart, as if it hurt so much that he couldn't breathe.
"Then, can you forgive me?" Xu Yuan asked again.
Raised his voice.
But it was intermittent and a little sharp because of sobbing.
Mu Li's aura made others afraid to approach him. Some continued to chat with their friends, while others watched from afar.
He didn't say anything.
Because no matter what is said at this time, Xu Yuan will have the upper hand.
Lin Qing also looked at Xu Yuan, with some emotion flashing in his eyes.
Xu Yuan sobbed again, "I was wrong. Everything I did was just because I loved you so much!"
She wasn't begging for forgiveness.
No matter how stupid a person is, he should understand Mu Li's attitude.
However, Mu Li never accepted the challenge.
The spearhead was directed at Lin Qing.
"Why did you force me to do such a thing and make him hate me!"
All relationships were severed.
There is no turning back.