In a rare incident, You Shulang organized a party to invite people to drink, and the theme of the party was to thank Xue Baotian for his care for Bohai Pharmaceutical.
Many guests were invited, including Fan Xiao and Shi Lihua, and Xue Baotian gave them face and did not cause any trouble.
The atmosphere was good. Some people howled with the microphone, while others touched the girls' legs and talked. Xue Baotian was flattered by the compliments and slowly dissipated the little anger left in his stomach. He clinked glasses with Fan Xiao and You Shulang several times and started talking more.
He hugged a girl and gave her a kiss, then sighed, "This is fucking life!"
"Let's play a few games?" You Shulang suggested.
No one objected, and the guests gathered together to play cards. You Shulang shuffled and cut the cards smoothly and beautifully, but for some reason Fan Xiao's eyelids twitched.
You Shulang was normal today, calm and composed, getting along well with everyone. He treated him normally, but the occasional glance he gave seemed to carry a light, elusive chill.
Fan Xiao blamed himself for being too suspicious and subconsciously stroked the four-faced Buddha on his chest to suppress the vague uneasiness in his heart.
"It's no fun to just drink after losing." You Shulang said as he dealt the cards, "How about something exciting?"
Xue Baotian's eyes lit up: "Director You, the more I like you, the better. Let's play with you. The more exciting, the better!"
Shi Lihua was also slightly excited. He changed the Bodhi bracelet to another wrist and raised his eyebrows and said, "Come on."
Only Fan Xiao frowned slightly. He knew You Shulang's personality best and he would definitely not take the initiative to suggest playing any exciting games.
This is very abnormal.
You Shulang, who never smoked in public places, took the cigarette from between his teeth and knocked it, knocking off the ash, revealing a faint red glow, before putting it back in his mouth and looking back at Fan Xiao, pinching his cards: "Where's Mr. Fan? Wanna play?"
Their eyes met, but Fan Xiao could not understand the deep meaning in You Shulang's eyes. He tried to appease him, so he replied in a soft voice, "I will follow Director You's orders."
Turning his face away, You Shulang continued to deal cards. He pinched the last card between his slender fingers and threw it out, then pushed the wine that had been poured in advance in front of the people.
There were six wine cups on a silver wine rack carved with intricate patterns. The brown wine soup seemed to be a fuse that was pulling at Yu Wang, dangerous and tempting.
You Shulang glanced at the wine and said slowly, "There are six cups of wine, one of which is spiked. The loser can take a cup at will. As for what you get, it's up to fate."
One sentence shocked the other three men!
This scene seems familiar!
Shi Lihua finally remembered that seven or eight months ago, it was also in this bar, and it seemed to be this private room. In order to punish You Dashanren, they asked the hostess to dress up as Xue Baotian's female subordinate, and deliberately spiked You Shulang's wine in front of him, pretending to have bad intentions towards the girl.
The whole night, they watched with great interest as You Shulang was secretly anxious. He tried again and again to find a way to save people, but failed. In the end, he had no choice but to drink the glass of spiked wine himself!
Now You Shulang was playing such a game abnormally. Several people were not stupid and knew that this was exposed!
Shi Lihua subconsciously looked at Fan Xiao, Xue Baotian sneered and also looked at Fan Xiao.
You Shulang looked at the expressions of the two people, and finally followed them and turned his gaze to Fan Xiao.
The man lowered his eyebrows, his expression unclear, and leaned forward slightly with his elbows on his knees to touch the matches on the table. Flipping the matches was a small action that Fan Xiao made when he was irritated or secretly angry, and only those closest to him would know.
As his fingertips moved forward in bits and pieces, You Shulang's heart sank in bits and pieces. When he clenched his fist, his hand stopped halfway and turned around to pick up a glass of yellow soup from the wine rack.
With a flip of his hand, Fan Xiao swallowed the wine in the glass!
Everyone: "!!!"
The man returned the wine glass to its original place with a relaxed expression, "Director You was joking. You don't know him yet. He is the most law-abiding person. He doesn't even drive in his own yard after drinking. How could he play these tricks to tease you?"
While speaking, he secretly pulled You Shulang's sleeve, which was a small gesture between lovers to give each other some advice.
At this time, the howler sang a high note. The sudden broken sound diverted some of Xue Baotian and Shi Lihua's attention. Fan Xiao tilted his head and whispered to You Shulang in the high-pitched tune: "Now is not the time to punish Xue Baotian. He just helped you with Bohai's matter. You can't touch him. There will be plenty of opportunities to teach him a lesson later."
"Do you think I want to discipline him?"
"What else?" Fan Xiao lowered his voice even more. "He is a bastard, but now is not a good time to touch him."
You Shulang looked at Fan Xiao coldly, recalling the conversation he had with the hostess in this room yesterday.
The girl was still pretty, wearing a white dress and a light powder on her face, which made her look very different from her peers.
She lit a cigarette, not disguising the vicissitudes of life in her eyes: "I am going for the pure route, and many men like this."
"I remember you." The girl puffed out cigarettes. "You were one of the few good people I've ever met. I thought you were stupid at the time. Is it worth it to help someone who has nothing to do with you?"
"It's worth it." You Shulang unscrewed a bottle of water and pushed it in front of the girl. "If I can help, I will help. If I really can't help, I won't force myself to help."
The smoke died down, and the girl was silent for a while before she said in a seductive voice, "You came to me, do you have something to ask me?"
"Yes, can you tell me who played a trick on me last time?"
The girl smiled and taunted, "You only realized now that they were playing with you? You are such a fool."
She pondered for a moment and said, "You know, in our line of work, we have to keep our mouths shut, otherwise we won't have a job."
"I know and understand." You Shulang opened his wallet, "I don't know how much I should pay. Can you tell me what you know?"
The girl snorted and glanced at her wallet. "You still look down on us for doing this, don't you?" She pressed her slim lady's cigarette into the ashtray. "Buy me a lollipop and I'll tell you."
She looked up, desolate and sad: "You are the only good person I have met since I entered the industry."
You Shulang thought of the girl's last words: "They are all not good people. They are treating you like a clown."
"All of it?" He also remembered his hoarse voice at that time.
The girl thought for a moment before she said, "The man sitting in the main seat didn't say much, but I think he knew."
"Are you sure?"
"Not... I'm not sure, but our intuition as women is very accurate. Although he doesn't seem to be involved, he is definitely not a good person."
The girl stood up with a lollipop in her mouth: "Good man, you can't touch those people, they are all rich bastards, stay away from them, and don't think about revenge."
The girl's back looked lonely and desolate. When she walked out from the unusually large and gorgeous door, she looked like a vague line that could be erased at will.
You Shulang, who had come back to his senses, suddenly felt a little tired, and was fed up with this kind of probing and pretending to be nice. He stared at Fan Xiao deeply, and then asked Xue Baotian bluntly: "Vice President Xue, the female subordinate you had last time was fake, right? Did you find someone on the spur of the moment to fool me?"
He picked up a glass of wine and shook it gently: "The stuff added to the wine is real. When I drank it, did you think it was fun and exciting?"
"!!!"
The three men were all shocked, but Fan Xiao's expression disappeared the fastest. He raised his eyelids to glance at Xue Baotian who was still in a daze, and immediately said something in Thai to him.
"Sorry, I switched to Thai in a hurry." He switched back to Mandarin without any apology, and his slow tone seemed to ease the tension between You Shulang and Xue Baotian.
"Vice President Xue, Director You is a little bothered by that incident. What was the situation at that time? How about you, Prince, explain it to us. There will be no misunderstandings if we explain it to you."
"Fuck you..." Xue Baotian wanted to give Fan Xiao a big slap, peel off his skin to reveal his most evil heart. But the Thai words he just said reminded him instantly that if he revealed Fan Xiao's secrets, the path he had worked so hard to build would be ruined!
Just as he was hesitating, Shi Lihua's voice interrupted him coldly.
"Director You, I was the one who wanted to play a trick on you."
Everyone: "!!!"
Shi Lihua doesn't smoke, but now he has a cigarette in his mouth: "At first I didn't like you, I thought you were following Fan Xiao around for some purpose, and you were too pretentious, a small office director, but you put on airs and let Fan Xiao serve you, so that day I told the prince that I wanted to play a joke on you and tease you."
"The prince means no harm, but I do."
"I don't even look down on you right now." Shi Lihua lit a cigarette, "Do you know how much money Fan Xiao spent on your brother? Is this what you want?!"
"Shi Lihua!" Fan Xiao said in a deep voice, "You passed."
He turned around and pulled You Shulang up, glancing at the other people watching the fun, and whispered, "Let's go first. Now is not the right time to talk any further."
After You Shulang was dragged away by Fan Xiao, Xue Baotian finally realized, "No, what's going on here? Fan Xiao's grandson has become a good person again?"
As soon as he left the bar, You Shulang pushed Fan Xiao against the wall and asked him coldly, "Did you participate in playing tricks on me?"
Fan Xiao's muscles were tense, but his words came out soft and aggrieved: "How could I play tricks on you? I was protecting you the whole night that day, have you forgotten?"
The force of the shackles did not loosen but became heavier. You Shulang leaned closer to Fan Xiao and asked, "Then why were you so nervous just now?"
"Am I nervous?" Fan Xiao met You Shulang's oppressive gaze. "I'm afraid that you and Xue Baotian will have a falling out, and he will cause trouble again, right?"
You Shulang smiled gently, stretched out his fingers and placed them behind Fan Xiao's ear, and his cold fingertips slowly moved down along the skin there.
"You know, when you are extremely panicked, the tendons here will bulge. It will be the same when you hear the sound of waves, see the sea water, or sink into old dreams in the darkness. It has moved three times tonight. Don't say you are afraid that Xue Baotian will cause trouble. Things of this magnitude will not disturb you, Mr. Fan!"
Fan Xiao was silent for a moment, then raised his brows sharply: "Director You, is this the reason you convict me?"
You Shulang stood up straight and loosened the shackles: "Yes, I don't have any evidence, but I feel very uncomfortable."
He turned and left, leaving a message from afar: "Don't see you recently."