1121 Perplexed and Smitten 181 (2/2)

Instead of opening it immediately, she headed to the washroom anxiously and sat down on the cover of the toilet seat before reading the note.

She glanced at his curly handwriting.

”There's a bar 200 meters South of the hotel. Drop by later.”

Is he asking me to meet him in private?

Fang Erlan tore the piece of paper into shreds and dumped them into the rubbish bin, her heart pounding rapidly.

Xiao Chenyang and Xiao Yue were waiting for her outside the washroom. At the sight of her, Xiao Chenyang asked, ”Would you like to have supper?”

”Sure, sure. Sis Erlan, let's go,” Xiao Yue answered eagerly.

”Count me out. I'll gain weight if I eat at night. If you're hungry, go buy some food and have them inside the hotel room.”

”Sis Erlan, one meal won't matter. You're not going to gain weight. Let's go together.”

In fact, Fang Erlan was a little hungry. However, she decided to turn down their offer when she recalled the note Yan Ge had given her. ”I'm tired. I'm going back to my room to rest.”

”Alright, let Cousin escort you back to your room while I go buy some food.”

”Okay.”

When they arrived on the tenth floor, Fang Erlan exited the elevator and said to Xiao Chenyang without even turning around to look at him, ”You ought to go to bed too.”

”Aren't you going to invite me to your room to have a seat?”

”You may come and have a seat for as long as you want tomorrow. I'm really exhausted. I can barely keep my eyes open. I want to sleep.”

Seeing how lethargic she was, Xiao Chenyang walked her to the door of her room and instructed, ”Get some rest, then. Don't open the door to strangers at night. Call me if anything happens.”

”Alright.” She took out her key card and entered the room. She closed the door and looked through the peephole. She walked further in only after watching him leave.

She grabbed her phone and wallet, then left the room again.

As soon as Xiao Chenyang stepped foot inside his room, she was already in the elevator and on her way to the first floor.

She did not bump into anyone else apart from a few crew members.

Clad in a surgical mask, she walked out of the entrance of the hotel with a red umbrella in hand and began heading North.

Like Yan Ge had mentioned, she stopped in front of a bar after walking for about two hundred meters.

In order to ensure that she had gotten the right place, she stood by the entrance and took a few glances around the bar before entering.

The bar was especially crowded at night.

After Fang Erlan entered, she called Yan Ge. However, it was extremely noisy inside the bar and he did not answer.

She thought to herself that he probably didn't hear his mobile phone ringing.

Thus, she tried to search for him amongst the crowd.

She turned around abruptly when she felt a warm hand grabbing hers.

It was Yan Ge.

He brought Fang Erlan to a private room before she could even recover from the shock.

There was no one inside.

Yan Ge closed the door and locked it.

He then pulled her onto the couch.

”Why didn't you call me even though I didn't call you first? Are you not going to ask me out… just because I didn't ask to meet you?” he questioned, making her feel extremely flustered and nervous. His menacing glare seemed to be boring a hole through her heart.

”We're assigned to different rooms because of the difference in our salaries. Both you and Yu Caiwei get to stay in executive rooms on the twelfth floor while I'm staying on the tenth. It won't be convenient for me to visit you at your room.”

”Do you want to keep this up forever?” Afraid that she didn't catch what he meant, he added, ”Are you going to continue letting Xiao Chenyang control you? Do you want to live like this forever?”

Hanging her head low and staring at her hands, she shook her head and said, ”No, but do I have a choice?”

”Even if you don't now, it doesn't mean you never will.”

”I'll never have a choice,” Fang Erlan said with a lopsided smile.

”Why are you so sure?”

”Unless he sets me free out of his own accord, there's no better solution than to comply. You don't understand what he's like. I only know a few things about him and yet I'm already well aware that there's no way I can break free from his control. That's why I've been thinking about this ever since we returned from the seaside. Yan Ge…” she said, gazing at him.