Ye Guanguan froze, and she flushed. She forgot to throw away the phial!
"Uh... it's... it's my tablet phial."
"Mm? You're sick?"
As Lu Jinting asked, he took out the phial from her pocket and shook it. It was a light phial, and on it said "PHILTER".
With a guilty conscience, Ye Guanguan reached for it, but Lu Jinting lifted it high above his head.
"You got it from the club?"
Lu Jinting's face clouded. Ye Guanguan hadn't been completely defenseless yet. Seeing his dark face, she dodged as far as she could.
"It's not mine! I just picked it up!"
When Ye Guanguan closed her eyes less confidently and refused to admit it, Lu Jinting turned angrier. He seized her hand, taking her into his arms forcibly.
Ye Guanguan had thought Lu Jinting was going to be rude again. Unexpectedly, he just hugged her, whispering in her ears.
"Sorry, I should have found you earlier. You were staying out there for so long and you must be scared."
In Lu Jinting's mind, Ye Guanguan was a spoilt rich girl who knew nothing about the cruel world. When she had a car crash, she certainly cried. He felt upset when he wasn't there to protect her.
Ye Guanguan heard the thumping of his heart, and for the first time ever, she felt that Lu Jinting could also be gentle and communicative. He even showed full respect to her.
Tears welling up in her eyes, Ye Guanguan hugged Lu Jinting, too. At last, she no longer worried.
"Mister, I shouldn't have run away. I was just too angry with you..."
"I shouldn't have been rude to you."
Lu Jinting held Ye Guanguan in his arms, with the sweetest care he had never had before. It reminded Ye Guanguan that he greatly doted on her in the previous life, unless it was something about Lu Mingye.
Lu Mingye, perhaps, was a problem that Lu Jinting could never get over. That was why Lu Jinting was so agitated.
Ye Guanguan thought about it and she decided to tell the truth, "Lu Mingye threatened me with the only bequest my mother left me. I... I was so stupid that I gave it to him myself when I was younger. I asked to meet him only because I wanted to get it back."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? You should have asked me for help. What a man Lu Mingye is... Forget it... I'll get it back for you."
Lu Jinting scorned to speak ill of Lu Mingye in front of Ye Guanguan. Besides, it was better not to let her know too much.
"Mister," Ye Guanguan's eyes shone, and she said, "Now, I clearly know what a bad man Lu Mingye is. I'll no longer trust him. Trust me..."
"Sure."
Lu Jinting replied, but didn't sound confident enough. Speaking of Lu Mingye made him feel lousy and his heart began to ache.
Ye Guanguan had never seen him so unconfident before. Did she hurt him?
She remembered that she stubbornly asked for a divorce several times in the previous life. Yet she failed to find him. Regardless of cost, she even waited for him at the gate of the military region. She forced him so hard that he chose to go to a remote region for combat support and at last, he died a tragic death on the battlefield.
It turned out that she didn't cherish his love and it caused such a big tragedy. She only cared for herself...
"Mister, please trust me this time."
When Ye Guanguan willingly kissed him on the mouth, Lu Jinting was wide-eyed with astonishment. He froze, without a response at all.
Ye Guanguan thought he was still angry. She gave Lu Jinting a few more passionate kisses with her rosy lips, and she looked rather upset.
"Mister, do you still not forgive me?"
"Guanguan..."
Lu Jinting gave an embarrassed smile. The next second, Tuanzi, who had been hiding himself in the front passenger's seat for minutes, popped up. He slewed his eyes furtively from side to side, staring excitedly at Ye Guanguan and Lu Jinting in the backseat.
"Daddy, Mummy, I'm... I'm still here..."
Ye Guanguan blushed scarlet, feeling too shy to look up.
Lu Jinting chuckled. He pulled up the division plate with one hand, and made Ye Guanguan sit steadily with the other. He leant forward and kissed her. Ye Guanguan stuck out her tongue and kissed back clumsily. Pressed against the back of the seat, Ye Guanguan just enjoyed the kiss while Lu Jinting dominated it.
Lu Jinting was so immersed in the kiss that he stroked Ye Guanguan's breast unconsciously, but Ye Guanguan seized his hand tightly.
Thinking that Tuanzi was still sitting in the front passenger's seat, Ye Guanguan pushed him away shyly and said, "Let's go home."
Outside of the car, it was dark. Ye Guanguan ran away from home capriciously, and her adventure ended in Lu Jinting's sweetness. He got up from her side, but still kissed on her forehead greedily.
He whispered, "I'll continue after we arrive home."
He opened the right door and got out of the car. He unbuckled Tuanzi's seatbelt in the front passenger's seat and meanwhile he said, "Remember. The front passenger's seat is always mummy's. Got it?"
"Yes!"
Tuanzi climbed to the back seat obediently. He chuckled and rubbed Ye Guanguan's smooth face sweetly. It was not until then that he looked worried.
"Mummy, if you run away from home next time, take me with you, could you?"
Hearing his request, Ye Guanguan gave an embarrassed smile and held him in her arms. "Why?" asked she.
"Daddy is angry... I'm scared..."
Tuanzi stole a glance at Lu Jinting timidly who was sitting in the driver's seat. Lu Jinting paused as he fastened his seatbelt.
Was he so rude? Why were they both frightened?
Tuanzi felt the same way as Ye Guanguan did, and the latter nodded favorably.
"Okay. I'll tell you next time and we can run away together."
"You're the best, Mummy!"
Tuanzi jumped for joy as if he won a big prize. He didn't notice that his father was pulling a long face.
Ye Guanguan lowered her voice as if she were warning him, "Mister?"
"Fine, let's go home."
Lu Jinting was hopelessly outnumbered. In this case, he would just retreat, based on the military tactics he had learnt.
There was a busy traffic on the road where streetlights on both sides cast orange light.
Sitting in the front passenger's seat, Ye Guanguan teased Tuanzi happily who sat steadily in the backseat. Lu Jinting drove the car with one hand. What a happy moment they were enjoying!
Nobody noticed a big dispute in the underground garage of Jinghua Club.
BANG! Ye Qiuran slapped Lu Heng hard. The latter sat deathly still in front of her. He was topless and that looked rather ironic.
"How dared you! How dared you have sex with me!"
Ye Qiuran was too angry to say anything smoothly when she stared at hickeys and bruises all over her body. She had never expected a loyal man like Lu Heng to do such a thing to her!
Lu Heng was bloodshot, but he had calmed down. If he said he acted on impulse, he wouldn't even believe it.
Kneeling in front of her, Lu Heng lowered his head as far as he could.
"Sorry, you were drunk and you thought I was Lu Ming..."
"Shut up! How would I be mistaken? It's you! It's your ruddy fault!"
BANG! Ye Qiuran slapped Lu Heng harder! Then she trembled greatly. She wanted to kick him out of the car, but she feared someone would see them. She could do nothing to give vent to her anger, but slap him again and again.
Lu Heng, as if he didn't feel any pain, knelt before her, and apologized in a low voice.
"Sorry, I'll die ten thousand times to make atonement."