“Kiss, kiss, kiss…” Everyone was jeering. Cheng Ruiyan shyly leaned on Li Weiyi’s arm, lifting her little face toward her boyfriend, about to close her eyes. Li Weiyi’s drunkenness was scared away by several degrees. She shouted, “Wait a moment, I have something to say.”

Everyone quieted down.

Li Weiyi looked at Cheng Ruiyan and said affectionately, “Let’s not do those tacky things and give them a show. If we’re going to kiss, we’ll do it behind closed doors later. I have some heartfelt words to say to you—words I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Cheng Ruiyan, I wish you happiness every day in 2014. I wish you academic progress. I wish you growing more beautiful. I wish your dreams come true. Most importantly, I hope all beautiful things will meet you, because in my heart, you are the most beautiful person in this world.”

To avoid kissing, Li Weiyi was really going all out!

These kinds of words would become cliché all over the internet in later years, but this was 2014, and they were still quite trendy. The entire private room fell silent.

No one expected that Brother Chan, who was always so reserved with words, would say such a long, deeply emotional speech. So Brother Chan was this devoted to Cheng Ruiyan?

Only Li Yunmo looked at his Brother Chan with very complicated eyes. He thought, has Brother Chan made up his mind? Is he still choosing the gorgeous peony queen of the mortal realm, giving up that little morning glory Li Weiyi? Or has Brother Chan decided to have one in each hand, refusing to be a decent person…

Everyone applauded. Li Weiyi also felt she had spoken very well and appropriately. She hadn’t made any rash promises on Zhang Jingchan’s behalf, yet had given his girlfriend plenty of face. She was truly too clever! Happily lifting her long legs to walk toward the sofa, suddenly her neck was grabbed by someone. A soft, fragrant body threw itself into her arms. She looked down and saw Cheng Ruiyan with tears streaming down her face. Li Weiyi was just about to comfort her in a flustered panic when two warm, full lips pressed heavily onto hers. A slippery little lilac tongue forcefully drilled into her mouth, plundering wantonly…

Li Weiyi was thunderstruck, frozen in place.

By the time she came to her senses, Cheng Ruiyan had already ended this passionate deep kiss and went shyly to cut the cake. Li Weiyi, mouth half-open, walked back to the sofa in a daze and sat down. Someone started jeering and poured more drinks for her. With her brain crashed, she drank it all. Already half-drunk, this time she couldn’t even open her eyes. In a hazy fog, she saw Cheng Ruiyan walking toward her again!

Li Weiyi was scared to death. No, don’t come over—she wanted to go home!

She tugged at Li Yunmo beside her, who was equally bleary-eyed with drink. “Drive me home.”

Li Yunmo stumbled as he was about to stand up, but was pushed back down by Li Weiyi. “No, you—you’d be drunk driving.” But Li Weiyi thought and thought, and couldn’t figure out who else in this world she could find to take her home.

She didn’t know how far Zhang Jingchan and Cheng Ruiyan had progressed before. If she passed out drunk tonight and something indescribable happened with Cheng Ruiyan, how should she face her own soul and body? And what kind of feelings should Zhang Jingchan have toward her?

In the end, she called Xu Yi. At this point, she couldn’t even hear clearly if he’d answered, but said to herself, “Brother Xu Yi, Brother Xu Yi, Brother Xu Yi, pick me up and take me home. I want to go home. Boo hoo hoo, I want to go home…”

After making the call, Li Weiyi hugged the door of the private room. No matter how others tried to persuade her, she refused to come back. When Xu Yi arrived, he was astonished to see his young boss hanging on the door like an octopus. Usually, the young boss was cold and indifferent to him, but today his eyes were shining, sobbing with emotion, making Xu Yi’s heart tremble. He inexplicably felt the youth before him was somewhat pitiful.

Then Li Weiyi flew over like a bird returning to its nest. That heavy weight made Xu Yi gasp and retreat two or three steps before he managed not to drop the young boss on the ground.

Li Weiyi’s memories of the rest of that night were fragmented. She vaguely only remembered clutching someone and not letting go. She seemed to have cried, and also seemed to have laughed nonstop.

A gentle and helpless voice kept comforting her in her ear:

“Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

“Okay, I’ll take you home. I’ll take you home right now.”

“Cheng Ruiyan isn’t coming. She’s not coming. Don’t be afraid.”

“Loyal, of course I’m loyal.”

“Okay, I swear to be forever loyal to you.”

…

On the morning of the third day, Li Weiyi woke with a splitting headache and found herself still lying in the villa.

She held her head in both hands and crouched on the bed in extreme self-isolation for a long time.

Two days had already passed. There was no progress on her sister’s situation, and she had been forcefully kissed by a woman. Finally, she had also acted drunk and disorderly. Trying hard to recall, she shouldn’t have said anything she shouldn’t have. She just felt bad for Xu Yi, making him run over for her and forcing him to pledge his loyalty. As the crown prince, these things… should… not be too outrageous, right?

Finally, face flushed, she thought viciously, it’s all Zhang Jingchan’s fault. If it weren’t for this person’s girlfriend forcefully kissing her, would she have lost her composure and made a fool of herself?

Zhang Jingchan, you废太子 (deposed crown prince), if you don’t come over soon, I’m going to let everything fall apart in your exquisitely beautiful campus romance.