Chapter 44 (1/2)

Chapter 44

Yi Zeyang gave Gu Anhao a tight slap across her left cheek that was already red and swollen.

Gu Anhao was surprised and she staggered backward after getting slapped by him. She fell onto the sofa in a state of embarrassment.

Her clothes were in a mess when she collapsed onto the sofa but nothing was revealed. Her hair was stuck all over her wet face, and her petite body and face suddenly looked abnormally pale.

Yi Zeyang suddenly came to the realization of what he had just done. She already had an injury on her left cheek and he had actually given her a slap on that exact same cheek.

Yi Zeyang looked at his hand with a stiff expression on his face. He could feel a warm burning sensation on his palm and this simply showed how heavy his slap was.

Yi Zeyang turned around to look at her, and Gu Anhao was getting up from the sofa. She had her head lowered and she was straightening out her clothes without saying a word.

Gu Anhao kept her head lowered and Yi Zeyang could not see the expression on her face. After a short while, Anhao pulled up the zipper of her coat before she mumbled, “I am sorry. I must have drunk too much… I almost forgot… that someone of my status would never be worthy of the young owner of the Yishi Group…”

The pain that Yi Zeyang was feeling in his heart was suffocating him, it was as if he could not breathe. He reached out and tried to help Anhao as she got up from the sofa but she deliberately avoided him, keeping her head down. After she stood up, Anhao felt as if she was floating in mid-air and she staggered as she tried to head toward the exit. When Yi Zeyang saw that Anhao could not even walk in a straight line, he turned around and quickly grabbed hold of her arm. “Anhao!”

Anhao gave him the cold shoulder and she did not even turn around to look at him. She simply allowed him to hold onto her arm as she said, “Yi Zeyang, if you really care about me, then just let me retain whatever dignity and self-esteem that I have left. You don’t have to do anything for me anymore. In fact, I knew what I was doing all along and I also know how you reacted. You are right. I am simply too naïve and impulsive, and I apologize for my inappropriate behavior…”

Yi Zeyang held tightly onto her wrist, with no intentions of letting go at all. “Okay, I promise not to say anything anymore. We will talk about this when you sober up. Please just let me look at your face first.”

Anhao shook her head and she turned away from him as he was about to walk in front of her. “I am fine.”

As soon as Gu Anhao spoke, Yi Zeyang caught sight of her left cheek and he could see that her left cheek was not only swollen but there was a glaring red mark on her cheek.

Her cheek was already red and swollen from the slap earlier, and she was probably already injured but he actually slapped her again because he could not control his anger. He could even see a trace of blood at the corner of her lips. Gu Anhao lowered her head as she continued avoiding his line of sight.

He had once doted on her and spoiled her, but he was the one who hurt her feelings today with his bare hands.

Yi Zeyang felt so distressed that he wanted to die! However, there was nothing that he could say. He knew that he should have just held her tightly in his arms and comforted her instead of pushing her away and giving her a slap across the face earlier on.

But the timing was wrong. Everything was wrong.

In this kind of situation, it felt as though his apology would be superfluous.

Therefore, he chose not to speak anymore. He wrapped his coat around her before he took her out of the night bar. Before leaving the bar, Yi Zeyang instructed the bartender to charge all of the alcohol consumption and any losses that they had caused to Yishi Group.

After getting into the car, Anhao felt her head throbbing painfully. She kept silent and sat quietly in the car, as though she did not exist at all. This was not her usual character.

“I will bring you to the hospital.”

“That is not necessary,” she replied.