Gu Shizhou!!
"The assistant by Mr. Gu's side is Miss Jiang, right? She's quite charming." The other person smiled and didn't pay much attention to her unfamiliar behavior of blocking the wine, but their curious gaze shifted between the two.
"I just got this job, please bear with me." Jiang Nuannuan smiled gracefully, feeling completely unrelated to the image of herself that he had formed through their online interactions.
After the others left, Gu Tingyan frowned at her. "What are you doing?"
"Drink less, your stomach isn't well." Jiang Nuannuan hooked her arm with his, firmly holding onto the hand that held the wine glass.
Gu Tingyan's eyes flickered. "How do you know?"
"I happened to see you end up in the hospital after drinking before." Jiang Nuannuan calmly replied.
"Mind your own business, understood?" He replied in a deep voice, wanting to reach for the wine glass again. Seeing a hint of desolation in his expression, Jiang Nuannuan stubbornly held onto his arm.
"Tingyan, don't drink anymore." Her voice was soft, her gaze gentle like warm water. The man's tense arm slowly relaxed, and the wine glass in his hand unconsciously lowered as it rolled down his throat.
"Alright." System 66: "Alipay received: 100,000. Gu Tingyan's favorability increased to 5%. Host, you're really good at pretending. He mistook you for Fu Shiliu."
The two held hands again, their gazes filled with tenderness. Fu Shiliu, who was with Zhai Heng, couldn't help but approach them. Before she even reached them, a soft voice had already arrived. "Tingyan, don't drink anymore."
Jiang Nuannuan blinked. "66, it seems like I stole someone's lines." 66 ignored her, and the alcohol-induced Gu Tingyan quickly regained his senses from Jiang Nuannuan's eyes.
As soon as the main character arrived, he instantly let go of her hand, lowered his gaze, and his tone turned cold. "Madam Fu, aren't you going to take care of your husband?"
"You know he's not in good health and can't be without someone by his side." Fu Shiliu took the wine glass from his hand.
"Don't drink anymore, your stomach isn't well."
"You remember?" Gu Tingyan sneered.
Fu Shiliu bit her lip. "I haven't forgotten it."
Jiang Nuannuan felt like an outsider watching the two torment each other. After a while, Gu Tingyan sarcastically pulled his lip. "Madam Fu, you seem to think highly of yourself. Do you think I'm drinking because of you?" He turned and walked away without any mercy.
Seeing the beautiful woman in cheongsam about to cry, Jiang Nuannuan felt a twinge of pity. Why did she provoke such a stunning woman for no reason? She stepped forward and patted Fu Shiliu's slender shoulder, comforting her. "Mr. Gu had too much to drink, but he actually misses you a lot."
In the other person's surprised gaze, Jiang Nuannuan lifted her skirt and followed Gu Tingyan's footsteps.
She ran past Zhai Heng, and the two inadvertently exchanged a glance—one filled with a smile, the other awkwardly avoiding it.
Fortunately, Gu Tingyan still remembered that he had left his female companion in the banquet hall and didn't drive away. Jiang Nuannuan opened the car door and slipped into the passenger seat.
Before she could fasten her seatbelt, he stepped on the accelerator and sped off. Her back pressed against the seat, she managed to buckle the belt into the slot and took a deep breath. The flickering streetlights turned into a straight line due to the speed, and the intermittent light outlined the man's cold facial contours.
The extremely low air pressure and the cold air conditioning caused goosebumps to rise on Jiang Nuannuan's arm. "Mr. Gu, may I ask a question?"
"Speak."
"When I had a tarnished reputation and entered the police station, you proposed to support me because my eyes resemble Fu Shiliu's, the young madam of the Zhai family. Do you like her?"
As the sound of the words faded away, the tires screeched on the ground, and the car came to a halt on the wide coastal street. If it weren't for the seatbelt restraining her, Jiang Nuannuan would have almost been thrown out.
The man's sharp gaze swept over her, no longer as indifferent as before, mixed with a fiery anger. "Jiang Nuannuan, I give you money. You just need to play your role well and keep your mouth shut."
Jiang Nuannuan took a deep breath and smiled, saying, "I just want to say that I don't mind who you have in your heart. You pay me, and I'll provide you with my services. If you need me to pretend to be your beloved, I can do that too."
His grip on the steering wheel tightened. "Are you worthy?" he questioned, doubting her worthiness to be compared to him.
"The insolence in his tone makes me want to slap him," Jiang Nuannuan cursed in her mind.
System 66: "One hundred billion."
Jiang Nuannuan maintained her smile. "Forget what I said."
"Get out of the car." Gu Tingyan didn't even look at her, his voice chilling to the extreme.
Naturally, Jiang Nuannuan had to comply with the employer's request. She obediently opened the car door without pleading. As the door closed, she was abandoned on the deserted coastal street.
System 66: "Why did you talk that? He's upset because of Fu Shiliu's closeness to Zhai Heng."
Jiang Nuannuan: "He initially only intended to use me as a substitute. My advice was correct, he's just angry because his mindset was exposed. He'll calm down soon."
"Then how are you going to get home? You're the supporting role, and there's no male lead descending from the sky."
"Do you think the police uncle is just for show?"
Indeed, no one had accepted the request to take a taxi back to Sunshine Residence. Jiang Nuannuan was about to call 110 and ask the police uncle for help when the sound of a motorcycle engine roared past her.
Her white dress was swept up by the wind, and the salty sea breeze brushed against her face. In the dim yellow light, a woman with a slender waist and clear eyes turned around, radiating charm.
"Oh, there's a fallen angel on this road."
"Shizhou, you must like this one."
"As the greatest actor, I've seen all kinds of girls, but this one…"
On the high-end gray motorcycle, the young man turned his head slightly, and with just one glance, he made his car turn sharply and stop in front of Jiang Nuannuan.
She stopped in her tracks, looking at the person who appeared in her field of vision. System 66 was shouting in her mind, "Damn, you are so lucky. This is Gu Tingyan's younger brother, the youngest movie emperor, Gu Shizhou. He's one of your substitute objects, but unlike Gu Tingyan, he's a playboy who always claims to be in love with beautiful women similar to Fu Shiliu. He's a super-duper scumbag."
The person took off his helmet, revealing messy short black hair. His peach blossom eyes curved as he smiled at her, captivating.
"Where are you going? Need a ride?"
"No way, you're competing with me for her?" The man on the green motorcycle behind him complained, his gaze sticking to Jiang Nuannuan, filled with astonishment.
Upon closer inspection, she looked even more beautiful, but he felt a sense of familiarity.
Jiang Nuannuan glanced at Gu Shizhou, who seemed to not recognize her, and spoke softly, "Is it on your way? I'm going to Yunkun Residence."
"Get on." He tossed his helmet to her.
Jiang Nuannuan hesitated for a moment, then took a photo of him with her phone.
"Why are you taking a picture?" the person on the green motorcycle behind him asked warily.
"I'm afraid you might have ulterior motives towards me, so I'm taking a photo to show my parents. If I don't arrive home safely tonight, they'll report it to the police."
Upon hearing her response, the group of people paused for a few seconds before bursting into laughter.
"It's truly amazing. There are actually people who don't recognize our Young Sir Gu."