Chapter 78: Proving – He’s Using Self-Destructive Methods to Make Her Turn Back

“Xu classmate, do you still remember me?”

Xu Muzhou looked at the person approaching him with an expressionless face, not hiding the contempt and disgust in his eyes, and lightly shifted his gaze elsewhere.

Completely ignored, the confidence on Zhu Xixi’s face froze. The reason she dared to come over and greet him in front of everyone was that she thought she understood him, believing he was still that famous good-tempered and nice vice president from New Star. Being able to talk to him at his most brilliant moment would undoubtedly be a face-gaining thing.

Before, when she was fat, she was too self-conscious to even have the courage to greet him. Now that she was full of confidence, she was met with cold indifference.

Those glances that looked over seemed to be mocking her for overestimating herself.

Zhu Xixi barely maintained the smile on her face and continued, “You might not remember me in my current appearance, I’m Zhu Xixi, I was also in Class 1 before…”

The young man directly ignored her and walked forward. Someone laughed, “Oh my god, how embarrassing, does she think this kind of pick-up trick works on everyone?”

Zhu Xixi clenched her fists, her face twitching unnaturally, and disappeared from everyone’s sight in a fluster.

In Xu Muzhou’s eyes, everyone except Fang Chuning was trash. He had no mood to deal with these wastes, he only wanted to find that person he had been thinking of.

But there were always so many obstacles between them. Looking at the little boy in front of him asking for an autograph, he heard his own impatient and cold voice: “Stay away from me.”

The little boy seemed very surprised, his eyes widening slightly.

The lights overhead suddenly dimmed, and everyone’s attention instinctively turned to the only lit stage. A long-haired, beautiful man stood on the stage, with a microphone placed in front of him. Just a light glance from those bewitching eyes could make your heart intoxicated and numb.

This was a man who interpreted beauty to the extreme.

Xu Muzhou stared intently at the person on stage, noticing that when he spoke, his gaze would unconsciously glance towards a certain place. He could almost be certain that Fang Chuning must be where his gaze landed.

Before he could look in that direction, he saw his beloved woman holding hands with another man walking towards the stage.

The color instantly drained from Xu Muzhou’s face, the pain in his left chest felt like it was tearing him apart. As if self-destructively, his eyes fixated unwaveringly on their intimately clasped hands.

The harmonious scene on stage was blessed by all, everyone was applauding.

No.

He absolutely wouldn’t allow this to happen.

…

Fang Chuning, having finished the procedures, was a bit tired. Once she sat on the sofa, she didn’t want to get up. She only perfunctorily nodded to those who came to greet her.

Li Yipeng had gone to busy himself, and Jiang Luoyu had also disappeared. Fang Chuning spread her arms freely on the sofa, comfortably twisting her neck.

“Do you want to eat this?” Tang Jiali picked up the cherry from the cake and brought it to her mouth.

Fang Chuning turned her head to avoid it, already too satiated to eat anymore.

“If you don’t eat it, I will.” Tang Jiali tossed the cherry into his mouth.

A soothing melody sounded in her ears. Fang Chuning closed her eyes, thinking the banquet had changed the music. She didn’t pay attention until the surrounding conversations suddenly quieted down.

A clear and pleasant singing voice flowed into everyone’s hearts like a spring stream, clear and sweet, lingering and moving.

On the stage, the young man seemed born to stand there, receiving the attention of thousands. But he ignored all this attention, his eyes only looking at one place, his love completely unhidden.

Everyone instinctively looked where he was looking, even the lights were searching, finally stopping on Fang Chuning in the corner.

There were only two beams of light in the entire banquet hall, one on the stage and one off the stage.

Everyone suddenly realized that this extremely beautiful young man was singing a love song to the female protagonist of this engagement banquet.

Fang Chuning thought this person must have gone mad. No matter what, he was now a public figure, doing this was simply forcing himself onto a dead-end road.

She should be thankful for him that Hong Jie and Tang’s mother had just left the banquet early due to some matters, otherwise she didn’t know what the consequences would be.

After finishing the love song that made people blush and their hearts race, a small portion of the audience wanted to simply applaud for the singing, but were stopped by those around them. In this situation, applauding would be indirectly supporting the third party appearing at this engagement banquet.

Whether it was the Fang family or the Tang family, they were not ones they could afford to offend.

The person on stage came down, and they instinctively cleared a path for him leading to Fang Chuning.

After singing the love song, Xu Muzhou’s face was very hot. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with this. In his heart, he had long been her person. The only thing he feared was that she might think he was too immodest.

He slowly walked over, the closer he got, the clearer the woman’s unpleasant expression became.

Xu Muzhou stood still in front of her, his eyelashes lowered, his eyes flickering, “Ning Ning, I love you.”

“Hiss—” The surrounding spectators were shocked by this blatant confession, their eyes unanimously turning to the woman sitting on the sofa.

Fang Chuning looked at him coldly, enunciating each word: “You love me? What does that have to do with me?”

This cold and heartless answer instantly made the surrounding women see her in a new light. To be able to reject such a beautiful man so decisively, it was truly enviable and jealous.

Guessing she would reject him, but hearing it personally still made Xu Muzhou’s eyes sore. He awkwardly shifted his gaze, biting his lower lip hard, his voice revealing a hint of choke: “I know, I just wanted to tell you, I won’t give up.”

This scene appeared differently in others’ eyes. The young man, heartbroken and at a loss, still pretended to be strong, expressing his determined heart. His infatuation was heartbreaking.

Of course, most of those who felt sorry for him were women.

The men, on the other hand, looked at him with strange eyes, pointing and whispering to their companions.

The contours of Fang Chuning’s eye sockets were filled with shadows. She exhaled lightly, her expression softening, smiling politely at the people surrounding them, “Everyone, don’t gather around here. The banquet hasn’t ended yet, please enjoy yourselves.”

The crowd, who had been watching with great interest, were unwilling to leave, but since she had said so, they couldn’t continue watching and dispersed.

Fang Chuning now really wanted to smoke a cigarette. She looked at the culprit, who had a look of knowing he had done wrong, head lowered, eyes lifting then lowering again, wanting to look at her but not daring to.

She really hadn’t thought that the once proud young man could go to this extent, more like self-destruction, using his last bit of possibility, not caring even if he ruined himself, doing all this just to make her turn back.

Did he really… like her that much?

“Tch” She didn’t believe it. If he really liked her that much, how could he betray her? Moreover, after five years apart, even she had almost forgotten this relationship.

Fang Chuning walked past him. Xu Muzhou and the silent Tang Jiali spoke simultaneously: “Where are you going?”

“Bathroom” Leaving these two words, she had already walked far.

Tang Jiali’s face was extremely unpleasant, his vengeful gaze seeming to want to tear his skin apart.

Xu Muzhou, changing his weakness in front of the woman, fearlessly met his gaze. In the end, he even said something that almost made him crack: “Ning Ning, the person she likes is me.”

Tang Jiali exploded, sarcastically mocking: “Oh really? If she likes you, why would she agree to marry me?”

Xu Muzhou’s eyes darkened, “She’s still angry with me.”

“Haha, why is she angry with you? Isn’t it because you were indecent, fooling around outside? Now you even have the face to come in front of her. She didn’t drive you away because of your former classmate relationship, but you’ve become so full of yourself.” Tang Jiali deliberately raised his voice, letting everyone around hear clearly.

The old matter was brought up, it was the stupidest thing Xu Muzhou had ever done. His face turned slightly pale, not knowing if he was explaining or comforting himself, “It wasn’t like that, I just cared too much about Ning Ning, I can’t be without her, I was afraid at that time…” Afraid that her feelings for him would fade.

All explanations became pale. He was quiet for a moment, when he looked at him again, his eyes became strange, “Ning Ning is mine.”

It was a kind of morbid obstinacy.

…

Fang Chuning, who had just finished using the bathroom, wiped her hands dry with paper, looking at herself in the mirror.

What was wrong with her?

She should have driven away the person who disrupted her engagement party, not just ponder his motives for doing so.

Wasn’t the experience from five years ago enough? Why was she still being soft-hearted? Fang Chuning brushed up her bangs, admonishing herself like this in her heart, her eyes gradually clearing.

Just as she left the bathroom, she caught a glimpse of a figure sneaking into the emergency exit. That person looked a bit familiar, seemed to be the slimmed-down version of Zhu Xixi.

Fang Chuning hesitated for a moment, but still followed.

She gently pushed open the emergency exit door, seeing the scene on the stairs through the gap. That person was indeed Zhu Xixi, and besides her, there was another woman wearing a waiter’s uniform.

Zhu Xixi took out a small medicine bottle from her pocket, “Here, put this in his drink. After you succeed, I won’t treat you badly.”

The woman was a bit hesitant, “Doing this kind of thing is very risky, and he’s famous. If someone investigates, won’t I be finished?”

“What are you afraid of, just do it. I have ways to make him obedient.”

Fang Chuning gently closed the door and quickly left.

Tang Jiali, who was full of anger, finally saw the woman return. His face was unpleasant, suspiciously asking: “Why were you gone for so long?” It had been almost an hour!

Fang Chuning didn’t pay attention to what he said, her gaze swept around, not seeing Xu Muzhou.

She walked towards the garden direction, and sure enough, saw him at the outdoor restaurant outside the garden. With him was Zhu Xixi, who was happily saying something to Xu Muzhou. Xu Muzhou’s eyes were lowered, his face cold.

Fang Chuning noticed the wine glass in front of him, it seemed he hadn’t drunk yet.

She walked over unhurriedly, sat down at a table one distance away from them, then watched as Xu Muzhou picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

Fang Chuning’s fingers lightly tapped on the table rhythmically, her calm eyes observing the two, until twenty minutes passed. Zhu Xixi’s expression became strange, quickly glancing at the woman staring at her not far away, cold sweat running down her back. She lowered her voice: “How come nothing happened to you after drinking the wine?”

She shouldn’t have agreed to be a tool in this activity, being caught in the middle almost scared her to death.

Xu Muzhou didn’t look at her, his long eyelashes lowered, using a fork to scoop up a small piece of cake and put it in his mouth.

“She, she’s coming over!” At this moment, Zhu Xixi just wanted to escape.

Fang Chuning stood in front of them, looking down at her from high to low, her face expressionless, looking even more terrifying. Her aura was even stronger than when she was the class president.

Zhu Xixi finally couldn’t bear it, “It’s not my fault…”

Fang Chuning opened her mouth, “Get lost.”

Zhu Xixi scurried away.

Fang Chuning took out a cigarette but didn’t light it, slightly squinting her eyes as she looked at him, “I never knew before that you were so deep. Have you changed, or have I never seen you clearly?”

Deliberately letting her overhear that someone was going to drug him, wasn’t it because he was certain she wouldn’t stand by and do nothing? Wanting to prove by this that she still cared about him?

Xu Muzhou didn’t make a sound, just took another bite of cake.

When he took the second bite, his complexion was already abnormal. He was gasping for air, falling sideways to the ground.

Fang Chuning’s expression changed. She crouched beside him, one hand cradling the back of his head, “Hey, what’s wrong with you?” There was no drug in the wine.

The young man’s breath was weak, his face as pale as paper. One hand still tightly clutched her clothes, as if grasping the last lifeline.

She looked up at the table. Besides the wine, there was only a cake with a few bites taken. The cake… Fang Chuning suddenly remembered, this cake was mango flavored, and he was allergic to mangoes.

“Where’s the medicine?” Fang Chuning searched through his clothes pockets but couldn’t find it.

“Didn’t… bring it…” His voice was as thin as a thread.

Fang Chuning was exasperated. She picked him up by the waist, bypassed Tang Jiali who had come over, and quickly walked out.

At this critical moment of life and death, the burning sensation in his chest made him deeply infatuated. Xu Muzhou knew this wasn’t the cause of his attack.

He had proven that she still cared about him.