Chapter 86 If I Knew You’d Be This Way After Drinking, I’d Have Brought You Out Drinking Long Ago (1/2)

Chapter 86: If I Knew You’d Be This Way After Drinking, I’d Have Brought You Out Drinking Long Ago

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Yan Beicheng squeezed her hand. “Don’t worry. You know Qi Chengzhi and Qi Chenglin, right?”

He saw Lin Chu nodding and continued, “Both of their wives are from normal families. Qi Chengzhi’s wife, Song Yu, could be considered as his childhood sweetheart. But her family went bankrupt and she lives just like the common people. Qi Chenglin’s wife, Ruan Danchen, comes from a family of intellectuals, but her family situation also turned better at a later time. Both of them are exactly like you, ordinary company employees. No one would say anything against them, and they don’t care for statuses. Besides, they are here too. You can chat with them later.”

Lin Chu felt better after hearing this. However, she still has some reservations about the meeting, especially since she did not really know anybody there.

They heard laughter coming from within the room when they arrived at the door. Sheng Yue’s private room has a pretty thick door, and the soundproofing was not bad. If one could hear a sound coming from the inside, the laughter must have been really loud.

Yan Beicheng did not knock, they would not have heard it anyway. Moreover, Yan Beicheng and his friends had never treated each other as outsiders.

As the door opened, the laughter inside was subsided. Yan Beicheng gave a slight smile with his hands on Lin Chu’s shoulders. He let her in first. Lin Chu was so nervous. She could feel her head going numb, and her legs felt like they no longer belonged to her. She had no idea how she managed to walk in there.

Lin Yuwen spotted Yan Beicheng standing outside the door and was momentarily stunned. She frowned.

“What is it?” Cheng Ziming asked curiously when he noticed that Lin Yuwen had stopped walking.

Lin Yuwen did not answer him, but she pulled his hand and rushed up to Yan Beicheng before he went into the private room. She called out quickly, “Master Yan.”

Yan Beicheng paused and turned around slowly. He saw Cheng Ziming and Lin Yuwen walking over. He raised one of his thick, dark eyebrows and nodded at Lin Yuwen. “Miss Lin.”

After that, he looked at Cheng Ziming wordlessly, as if asking who he was.

Cheng Ziming was momentarily embarrassed. Being a nobody in someone else’s eyes was a nauseous feeling, especially when they recognized your wife but not you.

Lin Yuwen said with a smile, “This is my fiancé, Cheng Ziming.”

Yan Beicheng looked at him and nodded again. His expression did not reveal anything in particular, but Cheng Ziming felt that Yan Beicheng was laughing at him with his clear, dark eyes, calling him a man who lived off a woman.

Lin Yuwen felt that the back of the woman who went into the room before Yan Beicheng looked familiar. Too familiar. The name Lin Chu popped up in her head, even though she found it ridiculous.

She knew it could not be Lin Chu. How could Lin Chu be with Yan Beicheng? How could there be so close to the point he was holding her shoulders protectively? She could not get the familiar back out of her mind though. She had to see this person for herself, so she called out Yan Beicheng determinedly.

Now that she was standing in front of Yan Beicheng, her eyes tried to wander past Yan Beicheng to look into the room. However, all she could see were numerous shadows moving about. She could not see anything. The other private rooms opened and closed constantly. Laughter and the sound of loud drinking could be heard coming from within. There was also the sound of waiters serving up food and pushing their carts of dirty plates mixed up in the rest of the noises. She could not tell if it was Lin Chu’s voice in the private room.

While she felt that this was a ridiculous thought that she could not believe, her heart did not feel good about it.

Yan Beicheng was much taller than Cheng Ziming, and he stood tall in front of her now. He had a slender frame but could still block everything from her sight. Lin Yuwen did not dare to look openly inside the room. She heard someone call out the name ‘Chengzhi’ faintly and knew that it was a gathering of Yan Beicheng’s circle of friends. None of them were people she could afford to offend.

“Hoho, Master Yan is here to have dinner with friends?” Lin Yuwen tried to strike up a conversation in an attempt to find out more from Yan Beicheng himself.

Yan Beicheng did not bother hiding his cynical smile. His message was clear, Lin Yuwen was not qualified to find out about his personal matters.

Yan Beicheng drawled as Lin Yuwen turned pale, “I’m here to have dinner with my friends.”

Lin Yuwen forced a smile and said hurriedly, “Oh yes, I’m about to be married to Cheng Ziming, so I’ve invited a few friends for dinner to pass them my wedding invitations.”

After that, Lin Yuwen paused in her moment and clenched her teeth. She took out a pink invitation that looked like a congratulatory card. It had a very intricate design. A 3D church would pop up when you opened the card.

“Master Yan, do drop by as well if you are willing. It would be the greatest honor of the Lin family. The wedding is held at Sheng Yue.” Lin Yuwen smiled as she passed him the invitation with both hands.

Yan Beicheng lowered his eyes and took a quick look. He did not open it but nodded. “I’ll check my schedule and come if I can.”

Lin Yuwen was greatly flattered. Yan Beicheng might not come, and he could be just being polite, but Lin Yuwen was happy enough that he was willing to be polite with her.

Yan Beicheng’s gaze turned distant. He looked like he wanted to send his guests away. Lin Yuwen could not stay any longer too, so she forced a smile again and said, “We won’t take up your time anymore, Master Yan.”

Yan Beicheng nodded coldly and did not say anything. He closed the door in front of Lin Yuwen, which surprised her long enough to miss whatever was going on in the room.

Cheng Ziming had wanted to get on Yan Beicheng’s good side, but he felt disgusted when he saw Yan Beicheng ignore him and gave him a condescending look.

He pulled Lin Yuwen along and moved on. He asked in a whisper, “How did you get to know him? You’re even taking the initiative to talk to him. Why did you even bother? He was obviously looking down on us.”

“It’s only natural that he looks down on us. I’m not feeling bad about it. An opportunity has opened up for us even if we can get a slight connection with him. I actually had no intention of calling out to him since he wouldn’t bother much with us, but there was a woman with him that I thought looked familiar from the back.” said Lin Yuwen.

“That’s nothing strange about that. Yan Beicheng bringing some rich man’s daughter to meet his friends. It would be natural for you to find her familiar.” Cheng Ziming did not think much about it.

“No, I thought it looked like… Like it was Lin Chu,” Lin Yuwen bit her lip. She still thought it was ridiculous but said it out loud anyway.

Cheng Ziming laughed the moment she said the name. He held his head high as he laughed ferociously like he just heard a very funny joke.

“That’s impossible. You must be mistaken. Lin Chu and Yan Beicheng’s status are miles apart. You could give her a ladder and she still would not reach Yan Beicheng’s level. How could she be attending a get-together with Yan Beicheng’s friends? She does not have the opportunity to be in that kind of social circle. She can’t even get into our social circle. You’re overthinking this.”

Cheng Ziming put his arm around Lin Yuwen’s waist. “You’re always concerned about Lin Chu’s situation. Always on full alert about it. That’s why you’re so suspicious about anything that has to do with her. I’d say you have a much too high opinion of her. She’s not worth all that attention you’re giving her. We are at a different level than she is, and the distance between us will just get further. Aren’t you placing her on a high pedestal by being so concerned over her?”

Lin Yuwen nodded. Cheng Ziming sounded right, even she had thought that it was ridiculous. It was not possible for Lin Chu to ever be with Yan Beicheng.

Nonetheless, she did not feel completely at ease over this. She needed to be sure, so she gave it a thought and took out her phone.

She wanted to call Lin Chu but thought that she could not be trusted. Her intuition told her that Lin Chu would not be honest with her, so she called Lin Chu’s house number instead.

Xu Moyan’s delivery had just arrived when the phone at home started ringing. There was something strange about it because the phone was left by the previous tenant of the house they rented together. They usually did not use it. They would contact each other via cellphones if needed. Even telemarketers called their cellphones and not the landline.

She picked it up and heard that it was Lin Yuwen. Xu Moyan was in no mood to speak nicely to her.

“Is Lin Chu there?” Lin Yuwen asked rudely.