Chapter 1144 - Why She Left (2/2)

Yi Ran blinked as a handsome face appeared in her sight.

“Brother Xiao Yi, I don’t know if I had drank too much, but my stomach feels really bad…” Yi Ran said as she crouched down and cupped her stomach.

“Your stomach hurts?”

“Yeah!” Yi Ran pouted her red lips, looking as if she was about to cry anytime. “It really hurts. Brother Xiao Yi, do you have any stomach medicine?”

Right now, Yi Ran looked teary, pitiful, alluring and attractive…

The man standing by the door bobbed his Adam’s apple as Yi Ran glanced at him secretly.

Ha, men. No matter how calm and controlled they were usually, didn’t they just expose themselves in the end?

“Ah, Brother Xiao Yi, it hurts so much…” She stumbled forward and fell into the man’s arms. The man didn’t know where to place his arms at first and she heard him scold harshly, “You little vixen!”

In a matter of seconds, the man lifted her body and carried her into the room.

…

At the hotel’s car park, there were two men sitting at the back row of an SUV.

One of the men had a laptop placed on his lap.

“Boss, this woman’s moans are really… It’s such a treat for that service staff that went to clean your room. However, this woman only likes you. Do you really have to let her be touched by such an ugly man?”

Xiao Yi closed the video and glanced towards Xiao Feng, who was sitting beside him. “Why? Do you want her?” If Yi Ran didn’t use Tang Chao to drug him, he wouldn’t have added a hallucinogen into her drink when she toasted him, causing her imagination to run wild.

Xiao Feng hurriedly waved his hands. “I didn’t mean it that way. I only felt a little pity because this woman looks a little like Sister-in-law.”

Xiao Yi pursed his lips tightly. “Are you angry at me for asking you help me check some things on the low? Especially since you came to B City to visit me?”

“Boss, what are you talking about?” Xiao Feng took out a cigarette from the cigarette box. However, at the thought that Xiao Yi was trying to quit smoking now, he put it back in. “Although you’ve retired from the triad, I would do anything that you ask, no questions asked!”

“Don’t call me Boss anymore. Just call me Brother Xiao like Tang Chao does.”

“Sure, Brother Xiao.” Xiao Feng took out a thumb drive from his pocket. “This is the CCTV I got through my friends. That day, after Sister-in-law left your apartment in the early morning, she went straight to Lily Garden. She stayed there for a very long time, but because the place she went to has no CCTV, I don’t have a video of what she was doing there. I only have the record of her leaving the garden completely drenched, looking slightly dejected and soulless as well.”

Xiao Yi took the thumb drive and watched the video Xiao Feng had given to him. After he was done, he remained quiet for a very long time.

“Brother Xiao, what happened between Sister-in-law and you?”

Xiao Yi recalled about her coldness to him after they returned from the Capital, about her saying that she had something to tell him when he went to find her at Ning City, about her hesitation when he proposed…

When she left that day, he already felt it was very strange. If she went back to Ning City for work like Tang Chao said, why would she go to Lily Garden?

A darkness flashed in Xiao Yi’s eyes.

“Let me go and find Tang Chao.”

An hour later, Xiao Yi got off the car and called Tang Chao over.

When Tang Chao saw Xiao Yi, his heart seemed thud an extra beat. However, at the thought that it had been more than an hour later, Yi Ran had probably gotten what she wanted already!

“Brother Xiao, it’s so late already, why aren’t you resting?” Tang Chao stared at Xiao Yi with slight guilt.

Xiao Yi didn’t reply, merely taking a bottle of strong liquor and poured a cup for Tang Chao and himself each. “I did something unforgivable to Yanran.”

Tang Chao took the gla.s.s and took a gulp of the liquid, his throat hurting a little from the burn.

They toasted each other. “If you treat me as your brother, drink with me.”

Half an hour later, Tang Chao drank so much his ears were heated. He lay on the counter and muttered, “Brother Xiao, you don’t have to feel sorry towards Xia Yanran. S-She’s the one who doesn’t deserve you.”

Xiao Yi placed a hand on his forehead as his eyes turned completely red. “I’m the one who doesn’t deserve her. I haven’t been able to give her a home after so many years.”

Tang Chao was terribly angry as he slapped the table. “Why do you mean you can’t give her a home? She’s the one that cannot give you a home! Brother Xiao, I know how much you want a child of your own, but she can’t give that to you!”

Xiao Yi immediately furrowed his eyebrows as he glanced at Tang Chao with red and cold eyes. “What the f*ck are you talking about?”

Seeing Xiao Yi acting so agitated, Tang Chao knew that he still loved Xia Yanran. He felt even more wronged for Xiao Yi now, burping once before he mustered up his courage and said, “Brother Xiao, since you’ve already slept with Yi Ran, she might be able to give you a child. Forget Xia Yanran! She doesn’t deserve your love! She’s just a hen that cannot lay an egg!”

The veins on the back of Xiao Yi’s hand popped up and he felt numb. He remembered that Tang Chao had a very good impression of Xia Yanran after their first meeting and kept praising her. After he returned from the Capital, he was very busy with work and Tang Chao even reminded him to pay attention to his relations.h.i.+p instead of just focusing on work. However, he seemed to change recently…

When did it all start to change? It made no sense at all.

Closing his eyes, Xiao Yi tried to recall everything in detail.

Ah. It was after Yi Ran came to their company to work.

Xiao Yi knew Tang Chao’s character very well. He wasn’t like Ye Long who would do things to betray and harm him behind his back. They were good buddies and good partners. Something must have gone wrong for him to become like this!