100 Days Of Escaping My Wedding-Chapter 534: I’m Relieved It’s Him

"Director Feng, you flatter me!"

"Hehe, let’s stop with the pleasantries back and forth! Let’s all get together and hang out tonight!" someone suggested.

Having not seen each other for so long, Jinmulin had originally planned to have a private chat with Xiaoqiao, but it ended up becoming a gathering with a whole bunch of people.

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After the party ended, Xiaoqiao and Jinmulin drove to the foot of Mount Shaolin.

Smelling her clothes, Xiaoqiao said, "Let’s not go up after all. It’s fine to just chat here for a bit. We both reek of alcohol!"

Jinmulin reclined his seat slightly, opened the sunroof, leaned back, and looked at the stars in the sky.

"Who would have thought that so much has happened! You and Gu Hangshen really went through the proverbial ’eighty-one tribulations’ and finally made it. And I..."

"...am just one of your tribulations after all!"

The fact that Jinmulin, known for his arrogance and pride, would utter such self-deprecating words seriously surprised Xiaoqiao.

Xiaoqiao turned to glance at him and said, "You must really be drunk!"

Jinmulin just smiled lightly.

"Second senior brother, you can’t say that. In your eyes, you might be one of our tribulations, but maybe, in someone’s view, it’s actually me that’s one of your tribulations!"

"Silly girl, you have really improved a lot over these years!"

"Thanks for the praise!"

Suddenly, Xiaoqiao heard her cell phone ring. She checked and saw it was a call from Gu Hangshen.

Jinmulin glanced at her, half-smiling, and said, "What? Is Gu Hangshen hurrying you? You did promise to chat with me all night!"

Xiaoqiao’s phone had already connected when Jinmulin said this, and he was so close that naturally, Gu Hangshen heard him.

"Who are you with?" Gu Hangshen asked.

"It’s my second senior brother. We haven’t seen each other in a long time, so..." Xiaoqiao worried that Gu Hangshen might misunderstand something.

Unexpectedly, Gu Hangshen showed no sign of overreacting and said in a perfectly calm tone, "If it’s him, I’m at ease. Don’t chat too late and take care of your rest."

"Oh, got it!" Xiaoqiao replied, somewhat stunned.

Jinmulin immediately bristled at Gu Hangshen’s dismissive attitude towards him, angrily ranting, "What do you mean by ’if it’s him, you’re at ease’! Gu Hangshen, what gives you the right to trust me! Are you so sure I won’t do anything to this girl, huh? What if I did, would you believe that..."

Xiaoqiao, poor thing, took hundreds of words to calm him down after Gu Hangshen’s comment set him off.

The two of them talked from those three years all the way back to the days when they trained together, then returned to the present.

"Do you know how I searched all over the world for you?"

Jinmulin spoke with a hint of sorrow. He hadn’t wanted to bring it up, but keeping it inside was too suffocating.

"I know!"

"As if you knew!"

"I really did know! I knew about your world tour concerts. I listened to every single one, even for the one in Japan. Xiaoqing even bought me a ticket. That day, I was standing right under the stage..."

Jinmulin was shocked, torn between being moved that his efforts had not been wasted and being angry that she was so close, listening to his every word, yet had the heart not to reveal herself to him.

Jinmulin was aggrieved, "That’s really cruel! Don’t you trust me at all? Do you think I would betray you?"

Xiaoqiao hurriedly explained, "Of course not! If I didn’t trust you, I wouldn’t have told you everything!"