Chapter 472 - Ulterior Motive (2/2)

Her usual disdainful att.i.tude towards Xu Xiyan had done a 180; she was suddenly overly friendly, and kept urging everyone in the room to toast Xu Xiyan.

Xu Xiyan politely declined everyone who tried to toast her. “Sorry, I don’t drink.”

Xu Xinrou and Chu Yuhe had sabotaged her once, five years ago, and they had done it by plying her with alcohol. She had since learned her lesson, and was wary about drinking around people she didn’t entirely trust.

“How about a soft drink, then? You’re the guest of honor at this party, we’re celebrating the successful completion of your scenes. You have to drink up, or the rest of us will feel guilty about drinking.”

Zhao Ruiqi knew how to get other people to drink. She was being especially pushy now because Wen Li had tasked her with a special mission.

Everyone in the room was now waiting to toast Xu Xiyan, and she could not refuse them all. She was left with no choice but to raise her soft drink in a toast and drink it.

Halfway through the dinner, Xu Xiyan got up to go to the bathroom. She’d had a little too much to drink.

After relieving herself, she was about to exit the stall when she suddenly heard Xu Xinrou’s voice from just outside the door.

“Is everything ready?”

The voice that spoke up next was Wen Li’s. “Don’t worry, everything’s set. Little Zhao will take her upstairs, and the rest will be history.”

“She lucked out and escaped five years ago, but this time, we’ll teach her a lesson she won’t forget.”

Xu Xiyan waited for the click-clack of high heels to fade into the distance before coming out of the stall.

She gave a wry laugh.

Xu Xinrou and Wen Li had been talking about her, she was sure of it.

Was Xu Xinrou trying to sabotage her again?

With that same ol’ trick?

That would explain Zhao Ruiqi’s strange behavior: she had been trying her best to ply Xu Xiyan with drinks because she had an ulterior motive.

So their plan was to drug her, take her to a hotel room, and get a man to take advantage of her?

Why was it always the same clichéd trick? Would it kill them to be a little more creative, for once?

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