"Go down."
After the servant brought a pot of hot tea, Wan Yunting sent her away and then pulled Gu Luotang onto his lap. He wrapped his arms around the woman's boneless, slender waist and said gently, "Cold?"
Gu Luotang shyly glanced at the departing servant before relaxing and leaning into the man's embrace. She shook her head slightly and smiled, "Not cold."
"Let me rub your hands for you..."
Wan Yunting took her jade hands and rubbed them. Gu Luotang let him do so before saying, "I heard Miss Fang say that you have dealings with that doctor named Su Ke'er. Is that true?"
Wan Yunting's movements paused. He looked up at Gu Luotang, his heart skipping a beat, and his expression instantly became unnatural.
"It seems to be true."
Gu Luotang's gaze fixed on his unnatural expression, and she knew that Fang Yanxi hadn't lied to her.
Wan Yunting sighed softly and said, "I'm sorry, Luotang. I shouldn't have kept it from you."
Gu Luotang smiled and shook her head. She gazed into Wan Yunting's eyes, gently caressing his chiseled face with her hand, and said, "Brother Yunting, it doesn't matter if you tell me or not. I don't care how many women you're involved with outside, as long as you have me in your heart, I'll be happy!"
Hearing Gu Luotang's words made Wan Yunting feel even worse. He understood that this girl was simple, content, and not one to fight for things. But precisely because of this, he felt even more reluctant to hurt her.
"Silly girl, what can I say about you?"
Wan Yunting gently stroked Gu Luotang's soft, beautiful face, his right hand tightening its grip on her waist. He truly wanted to cherish her.
Gu Luotang gave people a feeling of tenderness, making all men want to dote on her naturally.
Gu Luotang's pretty face blushed. Feeling the man's restless hand, and no longer a young girl, she actively kissed the man. The two, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, couldn't suppress their inner desires. In the leisurely pavilion in the night breeze, a winter's spring fire began to burn...
Midway, Wan Yunting's phone in his trouser pocket rang. Holding Gu Luotang in his arms, he laboriously took out his phone and saw that the caller was Su Ke'er. His expression froze...
"Hmm, who is it?"
Gu Luotang, flushed in his arms, wrapped her arms around his neck, sitting completely in his embrace. Her voice was panting, and her hazy eyes glanced at the caller ID on his phone, which was marked as "Ke'er." Gu Luotang's charming eyes widened slightly.
Seeing this, Wan Yunting felt a bit awkward and was about to hang up. "I'll take it later..."
"It's fine, you can take it. I won't say anything."
Gu Luotang smiled and shook her head, resting her small head on his shoulder. She didn't mind him answering the phone.
This put Wan Yunting in a dilemma. However, feeling that Gu Luotang in his arms truly didn't mind, he answered the call. Su Ke'er's voice immediately came through: "Brother Yunting, what are you doing? You took so long to answer my call, I'm angry."
Wan Yunting, holding Gu Luotang in his arms with one hand and his phone in the other, said awkwardly, "Ke'er, I'm busy right now. Is there something you need?"
"Hmph, you only know how to be busy. You haven't come to see me since you returned to the capital. Have you forgotten me?"
At this moment, in a private villa, Su Ke'er and her elder brother Su Xing'an were sitting on the sofa, making polite conversation. Su Ke'er pouted unhappily and said.
Wan Yunting turned his head and glanced at Gu Luotang, whose small head was buried in his neck. He said unnaturally to Su Ke'er, "No, Ke'er, I just returned to the capital today and have been busy until now. How about this, I'll find time to visit you tomorrow, okay?"
"No, I miss you. Can you come find me now? If you're really too busy, I can come find you now!" Su Ke'er couldn't resist missing the man, as she hadn't seen Wan Yunting for a long time since the New Year.
Sitting beside her, her elder brother Su Xing'an watched his sister acting coy with another man, rolling his eyes. He was still very unaccustomed to it.
"It's too late now, and it's really inconvenient for me to find you. I'll find you tomorrow when I have time, okay?"
Wan Yunting, still holding a woman in his arms, was chatting with another woman, making him extremely awkward.
Gu Luotang's pretty face flushed. She raised her head, her hazy eyes cast a sidelong glance at the man, and her small hand pinched his waist fiercely. It hurt Wan Yunting, who let out a sound, which was heard by Su Ke'er on the phone. She immediately questioned, "Brother Yunting, who are you with?"
"Uh, no... no one..."
Wan Yunting gave Gu Luotang a pleading look and quickly explained to Su Ke'er, "Ke'er, I can't talk to you anymore. I'm really busy now. I'll find you tomorrow, okay? I'm hanging up now..."
"No, Brother Yunting, what exactly are you busy with? Hello..."
Before Su Ke'er could finish speaking, Wan Yunting had already hung up. This made her so angry that her eyes widened, and she pouted angrily, saying, "Brother Yunting is really something. He must be with that vixen again. I'm so angry..."
"Alright, Ke'er."
Su Xing'an, unable to watch any longer, waved his hand and said, "Her status now is with the Ouyang family, one of the five great families in the capital. It's normal for them not to fancy us."
"You're talking nonsense."
Su Ke'er turned her head and glared angrily at her brother Su Xing'an, pouting and humming, "Brother Yunting isn't that kind of person!"
Su Xing'an, holding a glass of red wine, crossed his legs and rested them on the coffee table in front of him. He shook his head and sneered, "But I really didn't expect that guy to be a scion of the Ouyang family in the capital, and the real chairman behind the Chaoting Financial Technology Group!"
Saying this, Su Xing'an turned to Su Ke'er and said very seriously, "Whether we can save the Su family depends on you!"
Su Ke'er frowned and huffed, "You might as well give up. I won't use my relationship with Brother Yunting to achieve your goals!"
Su Xing'an became anxious upon hearing this. He put down his legs, sat up, and said, "Ke'er, do you really want to watch our Su family decline and disappear?"
"That's what you deserve!"
Su Ke'er's eyes widened, her round, cute face hardened, and she pouted angrily and hummed, "If you hadn't forced me to marry that drug dealer back then, would we be in this situation now?"
"Sigh..."
Speaking of this, Su Xing'an leaned back on the sofa powerlessly, downed the red wine in his glass, and sighed, "Ke'er, our father regrets it now. Otherwise, he wouldn't have allowed you to come to the capital."
"That's because you want to use my relationship with Brother Yunting to get a loan from Chaoting Group!"
Su Ke'er directly exposed their intentions. She stood up, glared at Su Xing'an, and said, "I will absolutely not do that. If you really want Brother Yunting to help you, go find him yourself."
"Ke'er, are you really not going to care about our family's life or death?" Su Xing'an stood up and shouted at Su Ke'er, who was running upstairs.
"From that wedding onwards, I am no longer a member of the Su family," Su Ke'er replied, disappearing at the top of the stairs...
"Sigh."
Leaving Su Xing'an sitting on the sofa helplessly, he thought for a moment before taking out his phone and calling his father. "Dad, Ke'er refused."
A hoarse voice came from the other end of the line, "Forget it. We'll go find him ourselves."
"Okay, I'll pick you up at the airport tomorrow."
Su Xing'an nodded and hung up the phone with his father. He dropped his phone and leaned back on the sofa, tilting his head back. His eyes were vacant as he thought about how, since their Su family was implicated in Gao Zhe's incident, the largest drug lord in Southeast Asia, their Shenzhen Su family began to plummet.
The reason the Su family persisted until now was their accumulated network of relationships. However, they couldn't withstand society's rejection of their Su family enterprises. Consequently, their family's group experienced a crisis, the stock market continued to fall, and the Su family invested all their capital, but it couldn't fill this huge deficit...
Finally, the financial banks in Shenzhen dared not lend to the Su family, and they even directly rejected the Su family's father. The Su family, which was originally a first-class family group in Shenzhen, completely fell into a third-class group and was still falling, gradually heading towards bankruptcy.
During the New Year, Su Xing'an and his father Su Wenbai learned that Wan Yunting was the chairman behind Chaoting Group and also a scion of the Ouyang family. This gave the father and son a glimmer of hope!
Because of their daughter Su Ke'er's relationship with Wan Yunting, Su Xing'an wanted to use his sister's relationship with Wan Yunting to have Chaoting Group give their Su family a final push!
But now Ke'er refused. Moreover, she had severed her father-daughter relationship with her father before. Now, if she wanted to use her relationship with Wan Yunting to help the family business, Su Ke'er would absolutely not do it.
Therefore, Su Xing'an and Su Wenbai had no choice but to go find Wan Yunting to talk about it themselves!
Meanwhile, Wan Yunting was in the backyard. Under the hazy night sky, the garden lights were dim. A few branches of blooming red plum trees were adorned with snowflakes, creating a beautiful scene of red plums against the snow...
In the main guest courtyard, Fang Yanxi, in a white evening gown and a small jacket, was stunningly beautiful. Compared to the ladies from various families and the renowned socialites present, Fang Yanxi overshadowed all the other women. The powerful queenly aura she exuded, with her sharp radiance, made her the undisputed protagonist even when standing in a corner.
Ouyang Zhixin personally escorted Fang Yanxi into the main guest courtyard to greet the elder and the patriarchs of other families.
Facing the true power brokers of the capital seated inside, Fang Yanxi couldn't say she wasn't nervous, but she remained composed, with a gentle smile and sincere eyes. She first greeted and toasted Wan Yunting's grandfather, Ouyang Shenhe, and then toasted Kong Jingguo and others.
"Come, Yanxi, sit here."
Ouyang Shenhe could see that his son Ouyang Zhixin valued this prospective granddaughter-in-law very much, so he wanted to learn more about her and asked some questions about business.
Fang Yanxi's calm demeanor and her fluent, well-organized responses to Ouyang Shenhe's questions made it seem as if she were a senior assessing a junior family member in front of everyone. Her answers also caught the attention of the patriarchs of several major families, who nodded in approval.