Back Then, I Adored You

When Gu Yusheng had not yet totally comprehended these words, Lu Bancheng, who sat opposite him, repeated them. This time, he said them in affirmation rather than in questioning. “Brother Sheng, you’re falling in love with my sister-in-law.”

Gu Yusheng was stuck, as if his heart had stopped beating. Staring at Lu Bancheng for a while without any expression, he suddenly smiled. “Lu Bancheng, are you kidding me? How could I have fallen in love with her?”

As Gu Yusheng said that, he put down the necklace, then he leaned against the leather seat and took out a cigarette. Before he lit the cigarette, he added, “She’s a hellraiser!”

“You’ve had a sexual relationship with her for a long time, right? At the very least, was it before the rainy day you picked her up and settled into the Four Seasons Hotel?”

That night, it had been Gu Yusheng who became angry first. Later, she had been dragged into the room. At that time, the other people had all been afraid that Gu Yusheng would kill her, so Lu Bancheng had gone to their room. When he had just arrived at the door, Liang Doukou had opened it. He had seen the hickey on her neck first. Since he was an adult, he clearly understood what they had done.

Thinking about that, Lu Bancheng asked more sharply, “If you didn’t love her, why did you sleep with her?”

Gu Yusheng clearly froze while he was lighting the cigarette, but soon, he became calm again. Slowly lighting the cigarette, he took a drag of it, then raised his head leisurely. Through the smoke, he glanced at Lu Bancheng and said coldly, “You think too much. I’m just interested in her body, since it’s comfortable to sleep with. Beyond that, I have no other intentions.”

Lu Bancheng frowned and asked, “Really?”

“If that’s the truth, why did you choose to pick her up on that rainy day? Before that, I asked you many times whether you would pick her up, but you said ‘no’ decidedly.

“If the truth is as you say, why were you so angry that day when she was surrounded and bullied by those women? I remember that you’ve never been mad at a woman before.”

Continually pestered by Lu Bancheng, Gu Yusheng was annoyed. “Shut up!”

Lu Bancheng ignored his utterance and continued to say, “And, last night at the Majestic Clubhouse, Jiang Qianqian went up to you. She told you that Qin Zhi’ai was eating with another man, didn’t she? You vented your anger at Jiang Qianqian, but you’ve been restraining your temper after you saw her. According to your personality, when others cause you such embarrassment, shouldn’t you kill them directly? Why did you come to me to arrange the necklaces and the amusement park? Why do you have to do what the man did for her, thing by thing? And you wanted to be better than that man! In actuality, you’re much better than that man, but why are you still comparing yourself to him?”

“I asked you to shut up. Didn’t you hear me?” Gu Yusheng picked up a cigarette box and threw it at Lu Bancheng.

Lu Bancheng tilted his head, and the cigarette case swept past his ear, landing on the glass window and falling to the ground, the smoke scattering on the ground.

Seeing this, a waiter came over.

Lu Bancheng apologized to the waiter and let him clean the mess up. After the waiter left, he turned around to look at Gu Yusheng.