Chapter 316: Chapter 311: Phoenix Man
Ye Qiu once considered warning Zhang Meng, but first, Li Xin had not yet made any overt moves in this lifetime, and second, Li Xin was Zhang Meng’s childhood friend and a significant figure in her life whom she heavily relied upon. Moreover, he was confident that he would never again make a mistake, nor would he ever provide an opportunity for Li Xin.
However, Ye Qiu did not expect Li Xin to make her move so quickly, surprisingly collaborating with their university classmates and Zhang Meng’s childhood friends to throw him a celebration and an engagement party for him and Zhang Meng.
The group was full of classmates egging them on, and Ye Qiu truly had no way to refuse. After giving it some thought, he simply agreed. Since Li Xin wanted to harbor inappropriate feelings, he might as well let Mengmeng see her true face all at once, so she would not always use Mengmeng as an excuse to look for him.
Ye Qiu set the time for the event, and they chose a villa that Zhang Changfeng had bought in the suburbs many years before. There weren’t many university classmates who had developed their careers in City F, but Zhong Sheng, the eldest in Ye Qiu’s dorm back then, as well as the second oldest, Huang Lou, and the third son, Dan Bei, all made time to gather in City F. The rest were some of Zhang Meng’s close middle- and high-school classmates, along with a few young doctors from Changfeng Hospital who were close to Zhang Meng, and researchers from Ye Qiu’s laboratory—totaling around thirty or forty people.
Early in the morning, after picking up Ye Qiu, Zhang Meng directly drove to the villa. She forced Ye Qiu to rest in the room and, along with a few helpers, started preparing for the evening banquet.
Although Li Xin had swapped shifts with a colleague today, she still got up early. After waking up, she continuously chose the dress she wanted to wear for the evening dinner, with various dresses piled up on the large bed.
Because of the thoughts in her heart, she did not feel tired at all. After choosing back and forth, she finally picked out a bright red dress. It was a new model from the Y brand of this year, silky in material, fitting at the waist and featuring a flared skirt that was neither too big nor too small, ending about a dozen centimeters above the knees, which accentuated her long beautiful legs. The V-neck design was slightly revealing but not too much, outlining the curves of a woman and possessing an alluring semi-hidden beauty.
With her long wavy-curled hair hanging loose, Li Xin confidently twirled in front of the mirror. Then she put away the clothes again and drove to a chain beauty salon to have a full-body maintenance treatment. At tonight’s dinner, she had to stand out radiantly in front of Ye Qiu.
While applying a face mask, Li Xin thought, why did Zhang Meng encounter all the good things? Not only did she have a father who was both a hospital director and a chairman, but she also had a fiancé whom everyone envied.
At this moment, Li Xin’s thoughts returned to the year when Ye Qiu and Zhang Meng announced their relationship to their classmates. At that time, Ye Qiu was still a naïve youth, and his gaze towards Zhang Meng was full of tenderness. She had once envied that, even felt her heart flutter, but considering that Ye Qiu was just a poor student, she retreated.
Li Xin did not feel that she was wrong. Everyone is realistic, after all. It is just that the environment she grew up in forced her to develop a character that despised poverty and adored wealth, and she only wished to live a life better than Zhang Meng’s.
Now that Ye Qiu had achieved success and fame, and he and Zhang Meng were not yet married, why couldn’t she pursue him? She wanted to fight for her own happiness in love too.
Li Xin’s makeup was done by a professional makeup artist at the beauty salon. After she slipped into the red dress and put on high heels, she looked stunningly beautiful, with her seaweed-like long curling hair lazily draped over her shoulders, and her fiery red lips incredibly alluring.
Li Xin was very pleased with everyone’s astonished expressions, and then she drove to the suburban villa, without caring that it was still not time for the party.
However, apart from Li Xin, the three other dorm roommates from Ye Qiu’s university days were also on their way. It’s worth mentioning that Dan Bei finally won the heart of the girl he had longed for and had also come to City F with him.
As for the eldest, Zhong Sheng, and the second oldest, Huang Lou, they were still two poor single dogs.
"Thank you all for coming," Ye Qiu greeted at the entrance of the villa, expressing his guilt for not being able to pick them up at the airport.
"That’s alright, we brothers don’t care about that." Huang Lou, the second oldest, punched Ye Qiu’s chest and said cheerfully.
"Good lad, not bad at all," the eldest, Zhong Sheng, also patted Ye Qiu on the shoulder with approval.
The third son, Dan Bei, holding his girlfriend’s hand, a glint of admiration flashing in his eyes, sincerely said, "Impressive!"
"Hey, don’t hold on to me, I want to hug my idol," Dan Bei’s girlfriend, a very adorable girl with a round face, exclaimed excitedly upon seeing Ye Qiu.
Upon hearing this, Dan Bei’s face darkened: "He has a fiancée, be reserved."
"How am I not being reserved? Don’t you understand what an idol is? I don’t have any other intentions." The young girl pouted, angrily stepping on his leather shoe and only smiling with satisfaction after seeing a very obvious footprint on it, no longer insisting on a hug.
Dan Bei was used to it and did not even flinch.
Ye Qiu and the other two were simply amazed. They all knew how extreme Dan Bei’s germophobia was, and they never expected he would change all his habits for his girlfriend.
And this girl, is she even of age?
With just a glance, Dan Bei could tell what the three beasts in the dorm were thinking and gave each of them a sharp look. Was he, Dan Bei, such a beast?
The three tacitly shifted their gaze and Ye Qiu called them to sit inside the house.
"Fourth, wow, you’re living in a big villa so soon? From now on, I’m relying on you, buddy." Huang Lou sprawled on the couch, looking around at the interior decor.
"Loser." Dan Bei mocked him coldly.
"Thick-skinned." Zhong Sheng followed immediately.
This was also what used to be a daily occurrence in their dorm, not mocking Huang Lou felt like something was missing in their day. They exchanged glances and then burst out laughing together.
"Your brother here is also living off a woman now, this villa belongs to Mengmeng." Ye Qiu smiled easily, without the slightest sense of shame, and the three hissed at him again.
"Fourth can only rely on that face. If not for that face, how could he marry our campus beauty?"
"Just with this behavior and living off a woman, only Zhang Meng could tolerate you."
"Heaven is unjust!"
"God is blind!"
"Big brother."
"Second brother."
"Our hearts are suffering!" Zhong Sheng and Huang Lou held their heads and wept, singing with great emotion and sentiment.
"Hehe..." Dan Bei’s girlfriend watched them with an amused face, finding these two guys really interesting, different from Dan Bei, who’s always so cold, his only good point is his looks.
"Eh, why haven’t we seen Zhang Meng?" After finishing their play-acting, Huang Lou and Zhong Sheng began to look around again.
"She said she still needed a few things and went to the supermarket. She’ll be back soon."
"Have you set the date? Let me know in advance so I can take leave and join in as your best man," Zhong Sheng asked with a smile.
"We’ll have the reception at our hometown by the end of this year, and then hold the wedding in F City next spring."
"Alright, we brothers will definitely be there next year."
"Thank you guys." Ye Qiu sincerely said, the brothers looked at each other, and everything was understood without words.