Bai Yanfei turned her head away without showing any emotion, avoiding Lu Qianyi's hand: "General Manager Lu, you misunderstand. I'm doing just fine."
"You want to ask me about Bai Yifei? I'm sorry, I won't tell you that, but don't worry, I won't tell Ling Zeyu either."
"Then why did you tell me? General Manager Lu's behavior makes it hard for me to trust you." Bai Yanfei also responded to Lu Qianyi with a smile.
"I told you, I admire you and want to be your friend." Seeing Bai Yanfei's obvious disbelief, Lu Qianyi found it quite amusing. "You don't need to be so nervous. I just want to be your friend. As for the rest, good friends will naturally share everything."
"……good."
"Where does Yan Fei usually like to go? I'll come find you to hang out."
"Stay at home."
Ling Zeyu usually doesn't let him out, as it's not good for him to be exposed to public places for a long time.
"Oh, I forgot, President Ling is a doting husband and doesn't want you to appear in the media. You don't like the media?"
Bai Yanfei frowned slightly. He didn't like Lu Qianyi repeatedly poking at his sore spots.
"Brother Yu has his own plans."
"That's true."
The meal wasn't very pleasant, but when Bai Yanfei got home and saw Ling Zeyu's displeased expression, he suddenly felt that the meal was still quite worthwhile.
Lu Qianyi is a partner of the Ling family. Ling Zeyu cannot do anything to Lu Qianyi because of his own selfish motives, which means that today's incident will happen many more times, unless Lu Qianyi is no longer in the country.
Bai Yanfei didn't eat much at dinner. After returning to his room, Lu Qianyi chatted with him about some trivial matters. Besides Su Kai, this was the second person who would share his life with him.
Lu Qianyi asked him where there were fun places to go so they could go together next time.
The first place Bai Yanfei thought of was actually the Ling family's summer resort. Inevitably, he spent a very happy time there and learned quite a bit about Ling Zeyu.
But all of that is in the past; he will never be moved by Ling Zeyu again.
"I had no idea you and Lu Qianyi had become so close."
Ling Zeyu's sudden voice startled Bai Yanfei: "Why are you peeking at someone else's phone screen?"
"Remember who you are."
Ling Zeyu was reminding him that he was a member of the Ling family and shouldn't have too much contact with other men.
"General Manager Lu just wants to be friends with me," Bai Yanfei explained succinctly, but Ling Zeyu showed no interest in listening.
The person who had been chatting suddenly stopped replying, and Lu Qianyi asked what he was doing. Bai Yanfei typed a line, hesitated for a moment, and then deleted it.
He didn't know how much Lu Qianyi knew about their relationship, and there was no need for him to tell Lu Qianyi so much.
Ling Zeyu should have been happy that his little tagalong, who used to stick to him all the time, had changed completely. But seeing Bai Yanfei's avoidance of him, he admitted that he was annoyed.
Bai Yanfei would go to the hospital whenever he had free time. He was reluctant to visit Bai Yanfei's grandmother, but every time Bai Yanfei left, he would call his driver and go to the hospital.
Seeing the frail old man joking and chatting with Bai Yanfei and Lu Qianyi, and then seeing Bai Yanfei ignoring him, Ling Zeyu silently withdrew from the ward.
When did Lu Qianyi arrive? When did they become so close?
The usually calm Ling Zeyu even considered ending his cooperation with Lu Qianyi. He went to the backyard to smoke. He hadn't touched a cigarette in a long time, and the last few times he smoked were because of Bai Yanfei.
"what are you doing here?"
Wen Xiuyuan stood in front of him, wearing a white coat. Ling Zeyu felt that his friend was an eyesore.
"Did you win over Su Kai?"
"He needs to be dealt with? He's one of my men." Wen Xiuyuan sat down next to Ling Zeyu and asked uncertainly, "You wouldn't have become like this because of Bai Yanfei, would you?"
"Impossible. There's been a lot going on at the company lately, I need to rest after I'm done."
Ling Zeyu fell silent and stubbed out his cigarette.
"Why would someone who always follows you around suddenly stop paying attention to you?"
Wen Xiuyuan stared intently at Ling Zeyu, who didn't seem embarrassed at all. The two handsome men of different types stared at each other for a long time before Wen Xiuyuan sighed helplessly.
"Zeyu, you're really in love."
"impossible."
"Admit it, and I know some things you probably don't want to know."
Ling Zeyu threw his cigarette butt into the trash can: "Then you don't need to tell me."
Chapter 77 Toilet Adventure
Falling into? Falling into where? Bai Yanfei? How could that be? Bai Yanfei is the person he hates the most, the person he finds most disgusting. How could he possibly fall into Bai Yanfei's heart?
Ling Zeyu didn't take Wen Xiuyuan's words to heart. Standing at the door of the ward, he noticed that Lu Qianyi had already left, and Bai Yanfei was quietly scrolling through his phone.
I don't know when it happened, but now all I see is Bai Yanfei, and I don't even look at him anymore.
Pushing open the door, Bai Yanfei made a shushing gesture and pointed to the person on the hospital bed: "Grandma is asleep."
Ling Zeyu gestured for Bai Yanfei to go outside, and after gently closing the ward door, Ling Zeyu pulled Bai Yanfei into the bathroom.
"What are you doing? Are you trying to rape me in the toilet again?" Bai Yanfei's memories of toilets were not pleasant. Every time Ling Zeyu dragged him to the toilet, it was never a good thing.
"Rape? Don't forget, we're already married. This kind of thing is perfectly natural."
There was no one else in the restroom. Bai Yanfei struggled desperately, when suddenly footsteps sounded, and both of them fell silent.
The sound of rushing water filled the air, and Bai Yanfei didn't dare to breathe loudly.
Ling Zeyu just wanted the person in the way to leave quickly, but the person outside seemed to be going against him and refused to leave for a long time.
Suddenly, the phone rang. Bai Yanfei hurriedly pulled out his phone and found that it was Lu Qianyi calling.
Knock knock knock—
Bai Yanfei was startled and almost dropped his phone, but luckily Ling Zeyu caught it.
"Why didn't you answer my call?" Lu Qianyi asked from outside.
Bai Yanfei opened the bathroom door, and Lu Qianyi saw Ling Zeyu, her face showing a very surprised expression.
Did I disturb you?
Lu Qianyi said he was sorry for bothering him, but his expression showed no apology. He did it on purpose. The nurse said that Ling Zeyu and Bai Yanfei had gone towards the restroom, so he came over on purpose.
He hadn't expected Ling Zeyu to have such a quirk. His gaze towards Ling Zeyu held an added hint of mockery.
As expected, there was a reason why Bai Yifei was willing to run away. Who would want a man like that?
"General Manager Lu."
After Bai Yanfei came to his senses, he greeted them. It seemed that they all felt it was inconvenient to chat in the restroom, so the three of them tacitly walked outside.
"I have something to take care of, so I'll be going now. See you next time."
For the first time, Ling Zeyu failed to control his expression after his plans were ruined. He dropped his usual smiling mask and his gaze toward Bai Yanfei was filled with gloom.
After this little incident, Ling Zeyu would appear wherever Bai Yanfei went. On this particular day, everyone was out having fun again; they were all old friends, so Ling Zeyu naturally wouldn't refuse them.
In their eyes, a wife is there to serve a man, even if you marry a man, you still have to serve him.
Some people egged Bai Yanfei on to offer a toast. Ling Zeyu held a wine glass, the light shining on his inscrutable face. Bai Yanfei couldn't figure out what Ling Zeyu meant, but since he didn't say anything, no one was going to help him out of the predicament.
Lu Qianyi smiled and waited for him to come over. Bai Yanfei took the wine that Ling Zeyu had drunk and walked up to Lu Qianyi.
"Let's have another one."
"ah?"
Bai Yanfei didn't understand Lu Qianyi's meaning for a moment.
"Mr. Ling said you're not in good health, so you shouldn't drink alcohol. A glass of juice will do the same thing."
The waiter was also sensible; upon hearing Lu Qianyi's words, he quickly replaced Bai Yanfei's glass of juice.
"I believe that I and the Ling family will have a very pleasant cooperation."
Lu Qianyi raised his glass and clinked it against Bai Yanfei's.
The ambiguous and subtle atmosphere made everyone even more excited. Lu Qianyi's eyes were full of Bai Yanfei, and Ling Zeyu picked up his wine glass: "There is no reason not to drink when toasted."
Lu Qianyi understood Ling Zeyu's meaning. The two clinked glasses across each other, and Ling Zeyu's knuckles turned white as he almost crushed the glass.
Bai Yanfei was still standing there dumbfounded. Everyone knew what was going on in the business world. Ling Zeyu also remembered who had just caused trouble.
If that person knew that his suggestion to ask Bai Yanfei to offer a toast would lead to the company's bankruptcy, he would never have dared to provoke Bai Yanfei.
Bai Yanfei had drunk a little alcohol earlier, and the effects were starting to kick in. He felt dizzy, and on top of that, he was running back and forth between the company and the hospital lately, and he also had to prepare for his re-examination next semester.
The smell of alcohol and perfume mixed together in the private room, making him even more dizzy.
Everything went black before his eyes, and Bai Yanfei collapsed limply to the ground.
Lu Qianyi quickly caught Bai Yanfei. Everything happened so fast that no one had time to react.
Many people secretly glanced at Ling Zeyu's expression, and Ling Zeyu put away his usual playful demeanor.
"General Manager Lu, isn't it inappropriate to hold someone else's wife? If you have someone you like, I can have them delivered to you, but it's best not to touch someone else's wife."
Ling Zeyu took Bai Yanfei from Lu Qianyi's hands.
"Not at all. Yan Fei suddenly collapsed, which startled me. It was just an instinctive reaction."
No one could refute Lu Qianyi's smiling face and explanation, not even Ling Zeyu. He once again felt that cooperating with Lu Qianyi was a mistake.
However, the cooperation has already started halfway, and stopping it halfway would be bad for both the company and him.
After bringing Bai Yanfei home, Wen Xiuyuan rushed over. No matter how good his relationship with Ling Zeyu was, he would get angry if he was called over at the last minute several times like this.
“I told you that’s enough. I’ve told you before that Bai Yanfei’s health isn’t good, but you still insisted on making things difficult for him. You can make things difficult for him, but you also have to make things difficult for me.”
"She fainted at the bar. Go and see what happened."
Ling Zeyu ignored Wen Xiuyuan's complaints; he was only concerned about why Bai Yanfei had suddenly fainted.
Wen Xiuyuan lifted Bai Yanfei's shirt, but his hand was stopped just as it touched the hem.
"What are you doing? I'm just letting him hear his heartbeat."
"Do I need to lift my clothes to listen to auscultation?"
"When I listen to your heartbeat, don't I also put the stethoscope against your skin?" Wen Xiuyuan said helplessly as he listened to Bai Yanfei's heartbeat through his clothes.