Zuo Yue did not answer. Instead, she smiled lightly, but it was a bitter smile.
Yin Ruisheng didnât force her when he saw that she didnât want to.
âWhere do you want to go now? The weather outside is very cold. If it was summer, I could still accompany you for a walk. But now, Iâd better find a place. Itâs going to snow again.â
âI want to drink.â Zuo Yue said.
Yin Ruishengâs face turned cold.â
Zuo Yue glanced at him and turned to leave.ââItâs okay. Iâll drink it myself. You donât have to accompany me.â
Yin Ruisheng quickly caught up with her and grabbed her arm.ââZuo Yue, arenât you still recuperating? How can you drink?â
âActually, itâs not an illness. I just suffered some injuries. Didnât I say that I was injured?âZuo Yue continued to walk in another direction.
âWhat kind of injury is it?â
âMy heart hurts. Canât you tell? I need to drink to numb myself.âZuo Yue said vaguely while snorting a laugh.
âIf you want to drink something, Iâll take you to a coffee shop, orâ¦â Yin Ruisheng held her back forcefully.
âI only want to drink. If you want to accompany me, then accompany me to drink. If you donât want to accompany me, then Iâll go by myself.â
âOnly drinking is not allowed.â
âAlthough you brought me out, it seems that our relationship has not risen to the point where you need to control me. I just want to drink now.âZuo Yue turned to look at him.â Brother Rui Sheng, I wonât mention my gratitude to you today, but you donât have to worry about what happens next.ââ
Yin Ruisheng could tell that Zuo Yue really needed to vent her emotions, but he could also see that she was suppressing it.
âWhere do you want to drink?â he asked after a moment of silence.â
Only then did Zuo Yue smile.â Find a bar. Donât go near the school. Itâs easy to run into acquaintances. Itâs also easy for others to misunderstand.ââ
âI know one. Itâs quite quiet. It takes about ten minutes by taxi.â
Hearing Yin Ruishengâs words, Zuo Yue nodded.ââGo!â
Although he didnât want her to drink, Yin Ruisheng still sighed when he saw her emotional state. He held her arm with one hand to prevent her from running around while he hailed a taxi with the other.
*****
Yin Ruishengâs original intention was to let Zuo Yue find a place to sit down in the bar first, and then talk to her so that she wouldnât stand by the roadside in the cold wind.
As a result, this girl entered the door and immediately called for a waiter with a bold face. She directly ordered a pile of hard liquor. Yin Ruisheng wanted to stop her, but Zuo Yue warned him with a fierce expression that he was not allowed to stop her from drinking.
The last time she drank a few glasses of white wine, she was already so drunk that she couldnât even hold her liquor. In the end, she still wanted to get drunk.
After several attempts to stop him, Zuo Yue was about to leave with a blank expression. Yin Ruisheng forcefully pulled him back, and Zuo Yue only asked for a drink.
He really could not understand Zuo Yueâs state of mind and temper. Seeing that she wanted to drink too much, he finally allowed her to drink a little less, lest she hurt her body.
As the two of them chatted, they raised their glasses and talked about their own matters. He talked about his life in Korea, about the distance between him and his parents when he grew up, about how he ran away from home to register as a trainee and wanted to embark on the road of acting, about her life in the Zuo family, and about Xu Chengfeng.
As they drank, waiters kept coming in to serve them wine. In the end, Zuo Yue leaned on Yin Ruishengâs shoulder with a smile and burped.âBig Brother Ruisheng, why donât I have your boldnessâ¦You donât want to inherit your familyâs business, you can go if you say so, my brother is also good, he also has his courage, you can go if you say so⦠âHowever, Iâve never had any opinions since I was young. Now that I finally have my own opinions, Iâve embarked on a path that is equivalent to no return for myselfâ¦â
âBut what should we doâ¦I really, really like himâ¦â
âMy heart hurts when I like youâ¦â
âI canât stop liking youâ¦â
Zuo Yue cried as she spoke. She laughed as she cried,ââWhat if I canât control myself!â
After Yin Ruisheng took a sip of wine, he smiled and raised his arms to hug her like an older brother protecting his younger sister. He lowered his head and leaned into her ear as he asked with a smile,ââWhat about him? Does he like you?â
Zuo Yueâs head could not hold on any longer. Her head kept nodding down, and in the end, she leaned weakly on his shoulder.
She narrowed her eyes and suddenly smiled.âI think I like himâ¦It also seemed like he didnât like itâ¦I donât knowâ¦â
âDonât women claim to be the most sensitive animals in the world? You canât even feel this?â
Zuo Yue shook her head.â I really donât know. Sometimes, I feel that he likes me. Itâs just that there are too many restrictions that he canât overcome. Heâs too rational, so I thought that I would overcome his rationality sooner or later. But today, I realized that I had failed. I didnât expect that he would actually say such words just to stop me from pestering himâ¦â
âWhat words?â
Zuo Yue continued to shake her head, but she did not say anything else. She only smiled bitterly and buried her face in his shoulder.âBrother Ruisheng, Iâm so sadâ¦â
Yin Ruisheng sighed as he held her in his arms and patted her back gently.ââBe good, donât be sad anymore. If you really canât do it, then donât want him. Follow me in the future. Iâll protect you.â
Zuo Yue did not answer. She cried in his arms for a while and stopped moving.
Yin Ruisheng frowned. Although he had drunk quite a bit and was a little tipsy, he was not as drunk as her. He lowered his head and looked at Zuo Yue, who had fallen asleep in his arms. Yin Ruisheng sighed.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
Then, he smiled and called the waiter to pay the bill.
Ten minutes later, Zuo Yue was helped out of the bar by Yin Ruisheng.
The two of them reeked of alcohol. When they walked to the roadside, Yin Ruisheng looked at the passing cars and asked softly,âAre you going back to the villa or somewhere else?â
Zuo Yue leaned on his shoulder and shook her head.ââIâm not going back⦠Not going back to the villaâ¦I donât want to see him again⦠I donât want to see himâ¦â
Yin Ruisheng sighed softly and supported her, who could not stand steadily at all. Now that the cold wind blew, he was much more awake. He saw a seven-star hotel across the road, so he simply supported Zuo Yue and walked over.
When she walked into the hotel, Zuo Yue looked around in a daze.ââWhere is this place?â
âIf you donât want to go home, I canât just leave you on the road.âYin Ruisheng helped her into the room and held her waist tightly to prevent her from falling.
Zuo Yue was stunned. She leaned her head on his shoulder again, closed her eyes, and allowed him to bring her in.
âBrother Ruisheng, are you taking me to get a room?âZuo Yue closed her eyes and said with a smile.
Yin Ruisheng looked down at her and smiled helplessly. Suddenly, he leaned down and kissed her forehead gently, but did not answer.
The sky was already dark. On the snowy night, a dark gray Porsche was parked by the roadside.