Chapter 663 - I Can’t Be Seen in Public? (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The moment Shi Mengwan saw that person, she wanted to step back, but it was too late.

She didn’t expect to meet Chou Yanbo here.

She felt guilty for a moment. She wanted to step back, but Chou Yanbo had already seen her. She was on good terms with Su Qingsang and had seen Chou Yanbo a few times.

She nodded at him and walked past him to continue walking outside. She didn’t have a close relationship with Chou Yanbo, so she wasn’t worried that he would tell Su Qingsang.

Even if they met, it didn’t matter. However, when she took two steps forward, she saw that there were other people following behind Chou Yanbo.

Those people were none other than Su Chenghui and Huo Jinyao.

“Hello, Uncle.” She could avoid Chou Yanbo, but she couldn’t not say hello to Su Chenghui.

“Huo Jinyao. Hello.”

She had a good relationship with Su Qingsang, and became more familiar with Huo Jinyao after spending some time with him, so she called him by his first name.

“Yes.” Huo Jinyao nodded. He was the one who was most familiar with Shi Mengwan among the three of them. “Are you alone?”

“I’m here for a meal with a client.” Huo Jinyao then looked at Shi Mengwan. “What about you?”

“Same as you.” Shi Mengwan smiled. “I was wondering why you didn’t accompany Qingsang to Japan.”

“Yeah.” He really wanted to accompany Qingsang to Japan for fun. One of the reasons why he didn’t go was that he recently had a business negotiation. The other reason was that he had the same idea as Shi Mengwan. He also wanted to give Su Qingsang a chance to be alone with Xiang Caiping.

He glanced at Su Chenghui, who appeared as if he didn’t hear anything.

“You guys go ahead. I’ll just take a look around.” Shi Mengwan tried her best to smile like she usually did.

Huo Jinyao wouldn’t pay attention to women other than Su Qingsang, so he didn’t think too much about it.

The three of them said goodbye to Shi Mengwan and went to the private room in the opposite direction. Shi Mengwan breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she felt a little worried.

Lin City was only this big, yet she was so brazen as to follow Zhan Haoze out for a meal.

One had to know that Zhan Haoze and Huo Jinyao’s company seemed to be working together. If they met…

She didn’t dare to think about it.

She no longer had the mood to enjoy the scenery outside. Shi Mengwan returned to the private room.

Zhan Haoze seemed to be on the phone. Seeing her come in, he said something to the other end of the line before hanging up.

“Are you done?”

“No.”

Shi Mengwan walked to the seat opposite him and sat down. She glanced at him and took a sip of the tea in front of her.

The tea was already cold. Zhan Haoze looked at her and raised his hand to refill the teacup in front of her.

Shi Mengwan held the teacup in her hand. The warm tea made her worry a little less, but she was still a little worried.

She didn’t seem to be in a good mood. She was in high spirits when she went out just now, but now, her attitude had suddenly changed.

Zhan Haoze looked at her, but he didn’t say anything. He picked up the teacup in front of him and drank the tea.

After a moment of silence, Shi Mengwan bit her lip and looking at Zhan Haoze, she put down the teacup.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

Shi Mengwan wanted to say something, but the waiter had already started serving the dishes.

Three cold dishes, three warm dishes, and one soup. The portions weren’t much, but the dishes were delicious-looking and exquisite.

Shi Mengwan was a foodie. Although the dishes before her were the local dishes of Lin City, they were still appetizing.

She picked up her chopsticks. The incident with Huo Jinyao was temporarily thrown to the back of Shi Mengwan’s mind.

After dinner, Zhan Haoze got up and was about to leave, but he found Shi Mengwan sitting there without moving.

Zhan Haoze stopped in his tracks and looking at her as if he didn’t understand what she was thinking, she stood at the door.

“Zhan Haoze, wait a moment.”

She got up and not letting him open the door, she walked in front of him.

“Well, I met Huo Jinyao just now.”

“Huh?”

Huo Jinyao? What was he doing here? Zhan Haoze thought about it for a moment and immediately thought of it.

Li Junsheng came to Lin City. He and Huo Jinyao were childhood friends, so he took good care of Huo Jinyao.

There was a big project recently, and Huo Jinyao wanted to help his in-laws and get the Li Corporation to cooperate.

“Is there a back door here?”

“A back door?”

“Yes.” Shi Mengwan nodded. “I think, if it’s possible, it’s best if we don’t run into them, right?”

“What do you mean?” Zhan Haoze’s facial expression changed instantly. “I can’t be seen in public?”

“Isn’t that so?” Shi Mengwan didn’t back down like before. She raised her head to look at him. She cleared her throat with a hint of bitterness that she didn’t even notice.

“Alright, it’s not that you can’t be seen in public, it’s that I can’t be seen in public.”

Her gaze calm, she lowered her head to look at him. “You have a fiancée. Tell me, how am I supposed to appear in public with you?”

That was especially true for Huo Jinyao, who was Su Qingsang’s husband. If he saw her with Zhan Haoze, he would definitely tell Su Qingsang.

“I told you that I don’t have a fiancée.”

“What about Miss Chen?” Shi Mengwan didn’t want to be aggressive, nor did she want to question him, nor did she want to make others feel this way. However, she couldn’t help it.

“If she’s not your fiancée, then who is she? Your girlfriend?”

Zhan Haoze’s facial expression was very ugly now. His lips were pursed into a straight line. Anyone who knew him would know that this was a sign that he was going to flare up.

But Shi Mengwan didn’t know him. She knew the Dear Brother in her dream.

Not Zhan Haoze, who had been separated from her for more than ten years and had forgotten all the things that had happened in the past.

“Shi Mengwan, I’ll say it one more time. She’s not my girlfriend, and she’s not my fiancée.”

“Oh.”

Shi Mengwan responded with an ‘Oh’. It was obvious that she didn’t quite believe it.

Zhan Haoze looked at her face and suddenly pulled her into his arms. He lowered his head and kissed her lips.

She had just drunk Longjing, and there was still the fragrance of tea leaves in her mouth. There was a hint of bitterness in the fragrance.

Shi Mengwan didn’t move. She just stared at him with her eyes wide open.

Her eyes were clear and straightforward, and her emotions were clear.

She wouldn’t resist. She would let him do whatever he wanted. But she didn’t believe him, nor did she believe what he said. That was it.

Zhan Haoze seemed to be annoyed, and he increased the force on his lips. She was in pain, but she refused to give in.

She didn’t want to go out with him like this. It wouldn’t be good if she ran into Huo Jinyao.