Shen Fenghe still didn't react, and took a tissue from her suit jacket to wipe the lipstick that had been kissed off.
"Sister, do you need me to teach her a lesson?" Gu Yixue asked.
Shen Fenghe stared at her, her brows furrowing even more deeply. "Gu Yixue, you're almost thirty, not thirteen."
"So?" Gu Yixue asked in surprise, "Do you love Gu Chunmian? Answer me."
Shen Fenghe gave the same answer as always: "It's none of your business."
"Do you enjoy it when you have sex?" Gu Yixue asked.
Shen Fenghe was taken aback: "You've been abroad for a few years, and you're already talking about these things? You don't have to have love to get married. Even if I don't love Gu Chunmian, I don't love you either."
Gu Yixue looked into her cold eyes, licked her lips lightly, and suddenly changed the subject, "But sister's lipstick tastes very good."
Shen Fenghe pursed her lips, looked at her fair waist and abdomen, took off her suit jacket and threw it to her, "Go home early."
Shen Fenghe had only one thin shirt left, with a black tie neatly tied.
He was about to leave after saying that when Gu Yixue grabbed his tie and pulled him back.
Shen Fenghe stared at her impatiently, "Still making a scene?"
Gu Yixue leaned against the wall, her fair hand slowly moving up her tie, finally stopping at her collar. She looked as aggrieved as a stray dog whimpering on the street. "Sister, kiss me, kiss me, and I won't make a fuss anymore, okay?"
“Otherwise…” Gu Yixue licked her lips, “I’ll go to your house tonight and make a scene, saying I want to marry you…”
Before she could finish speaking, Shen Fenghe braced herself against the wall with one arm and forcefully kissed him.
In an instant, it took away all of Gu Yixue's breath.
Gu Yixue's head slammed against the cold wall, and she could hardly breathe.
This was a kiss so forceful it was suffocating.
Shen Fenghe did nothing, yet she made Gu Yixue shed tears.
Tears welled up in her eyelashes, making her look pitiful.
After a long while, Shen Fenghe straightened up, while Gu Yixue's lips were numb and she was almost unable to stand.
Shen Fenghe, however, did not react as strongly as she did; her eyes and expression remained indifferent.
"Gu Yixue." Shen Fenghe looked at her coldly, "Stop acting crazy."
Gu Yixue leaned against the wall, "If you kiss me, I won't go crazy."
Upon hearing this, Shen Fenghe glanced at her, then turned and left.
The sound of the door closing echoed in the stairwell. The light from the motion-activated lights was dim and yellowish. Gu Yixue's fingertips touched her lips, gently tracing her slightly numb lips.
Then she raised her hand to wipe away her tears, revealing a smile that was completely different from before.
That smile concealed a chilling coldness.
She was wearing Shen Fenghe's suit jacket, which still carried Shen Fenghe's scent.
Gu Yixue lowered her head and sniffed lightly; it was a scent she liked. Then she left a kiss on her clothes, leaving a faint red mark.
He clearly likes her, Gu Yixue thought.
//
When Gu Yixue returned to the private room, she was wearing a suit jacket and her hair was loose, no longer in a high ponytail, but all down, long enough to cover her shoulder blades.
But he still had the same expression as before, a smile tinged with indifference.
While waiting for everyone to finish eating, he lit a cigarette, smoked it by the window, and then returned to the table to ask the two girls, Qi Tang and Tang Zui, "Are you full?"
The two little girls nodded: "We're full."
Then the group went downstairs, and Gu Yixue went to the counter to pay.
As they were going downstairs, Liang Shi saw a woman in a white shirt looking at them from the first floor.
The woman's pupils were beautiful, but her eyes were too sharp, giving off a powerful aura.
Sitting opposite her was a girl wearing a purple sweater and tulle skirt, who looked gentle and quiet, forming a stark contrast to her.
Liang Shi glanced at it casually and quickly looked away.
Gu Yixue paid the bill, and then she heard someone call out, "Xiaoxue".
The group turned around at the same time and looked toward the source of the sound.
Liang Shi saw the girl in the purple sweater walking towards them, followed closely by the woman in the white shirt.
Gu Yixue saw the woman in purple nod and smiled, "Sister Xiaoxiao."
Distant yet polite.
"It really is you." Kong Xiaoxiao smiled and patted her shoulder. "I thought you looked like me... Hey, isn't that Feng He's dress? Looks like you two have already met."
Gu Yixue glanced at Shen Fenghe, who was looking down at her phone and didn't even look at her.
Gu Yixue said, "Yeah, I ran into her in the bathroom just now. Sister Fenghe saw that I was too cold, so she lent me her coat."
"I see," Kong Xiaoxiao said with emotion. "It's been several years since we last saw each other."
“I’ve been abroad for several years,” Gu Yixue said. “I just came back not long ago, and I haven’t been back much.”
"Then we can get together more often. I'm really looking forward to watching your movies. As expected of Gu Yixue, you really know how to direct!" Kong Xiaoxiao praised. "I watched it with Feng He last time, and she praised you too."
After finishing her work, Shen Fenghe frowned upon hearing this and glanced at her friend, "When did you watch it?"
Gu Yixue smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment, Sister Fenghe."
"I praised you too, why aren't you thanking me?" Kong Xiaoxiao said, as if asking for a reward.
Gu Yixue paused slightly: "Thank you too, Sister Xiaoxiao."
As Gu Yixue was about to pay their table's bill, Kong Xiaoxiao stopped her, saying, "How can I let your little sister pay? I'll pay."
"It's alright." Gu Yixue had already finished paying her respects, then glanced at Chen Fenghe, "Consider it my treat. You and Sister Fenghe can treat me next time."
The way she spoke the name "Sister Fenghe" carried an inexplicable air of elegance.
But Chen Fenghe remained expressionless throughout, standing there like a life-size cardboard cutout.
Kong Xiaoxiao exchanged a few more pleasantries with Gu Yixue before the group left.
After they left, Kong Xiaoxiao and Shen Fenghe also took their things and walked out. "Sigh, time really flies. Gu Yixue was just a little kid back then, and now she's an internationally renowned director. Is she even younger than Shen Hui?"
"No," Shen Fenghe said, "He's a year older than Ahui."
“That’s younger than us…” Kong Xiaoxiao hesitated for a few seconds before calculating, “...six years younger.”
"Mm." Shen Fenghe nodded and put on her coat.
Kong Xiaoxiao sighed, "I still remember how she cried when Gu Chunmian bullied her back then."
“That was so long ago,” Shen Fenghe said. “You still remember?”
"What? Just because Gu Chunmian is your fiancée doesn't mean I can't say anything, right?" Kong Xiaoxiao wrapped a scarf around her neck. The two of them came out of the restaurant and stood on the street. Kong Xiaoxiao crossed her arms and looked at the traffic. She was still reminiscing with Shen Fenghe about their childhood. "If you ask me, Gu Chunmian has always been a bastard. Back then, she locked Gu Yixue in the closet for four days. She almost suffocated to death. If you hadn't found out, Gu Yixue would be a corpse."
"Oh, right." Kong Xiaoxiao stamped her foot and breathed on her palm, "Has Gu Chunmian broken up with that woman yet?"
"No," Shen Fenghe replied coldly.
Kong Xiaoxiao: "..."
"So, are you still going to get married?" Kong Xiaoxiao asked.
Shen Fenghe paused for a moment, then answered, "No."
Kong Xiaoxiao: "..."
"Then why don't you step in and make Gu Chunmian break up with that woman?" Kong Xiaoxiao knew about the arranged marriages between aristocratic families, but she particularly disapproved of this kind of behavior of messing around outside even after being engaged. "You'll really have Gu Chunmian running wild with you then."
Upon hearing this, Shen Fenghe frowned and walked towards the car, just in time to see Gu Yixue seeing off the young girls from their film crew.
After putting the little girl in a taxi, he paid the fare and then leaned out of the car window to tell the driver to drive carefully.
They're quite capable.
Shen Fenghe got into the car, and Kong Xiaoxiao followed.
You can just see Gu Yixue in the rearview mirror; she's standing under a tree chatting with a woman.
It's the one who was in the store just now.
Gu Yixue was dressed lightly, wearing only a wool coat over her suit jacket. The wind made her coat flutter in the air, along with her hair.
She took out a cigarette, lit it, and chatted with people with a somewhat indifferent smile.
The scarlet cigarette butt flickered in the air.
Kong Xiaoxiao glanced at it and said, "I've heard the entertainment industry is quite chaotic. I wonder if our Xiaoxue has been corrupted by it?"
Shen Fenghe lowered her eyes and thought to herself, "He must have gone astray."
But in front of her, why is he still the same child who never grew up?
She was crying.
Kong Xiaoxiao sighed before remembering to ask Shen Fenghe, "You and Gu Chunmian are not young anymore, why don't you hurry up and get married? If you wait any longer, she'll be pregnant with that woman's child when she marries you. What? Are you going to raise someone else's child then?"
Shen Fenghe pursed her lips and said calmly, "I'm not an idiot."
Kong Xiaoxiao: "..."
Feeling depressed, Shen Fenghe took out a pack of cigarettes from the car, put one in her mouth, and lit it.
His gaze was fixed on the person standing under the tree, chatting and smoking, and his voice was cold: "If I break it, won't Gu Chunmian turn on me?"
Kong Xiaoxiao: "Then what should we do?"
Shen Fenghe exhaled a smoke ring: "I haven't decided yet, should I let their family..."
He paused for a moment, then said that the Gu family had known for a long time that Gu Chunmian had a white moonlight (a term of endearment for someone special), and that he had even had an abortion for her.
Right now, he still has the temporary mark of the White Moonlight on his body.
When I marry Shen Fenghe, I'll have to remove the temporary mark.
However, Gu Chunmian was favored by the Gu family, so no one in the Gu family dared to touch her, and so for so many years they let her drag out this marriage.
It's only because her father is indifferent to worldly affairs and her mother doesn't interact much with the ladies in the circle that they don't know about Gu Chunmian's scandalous affairs.