Who I Like Is None of Your Business

Seeing this, the girl immediately took a defensive step back. Chu Qiunan hurriedly spoke up: "Yutong, I've missed you!"

"You... why are you treating me like this?" As he spoke, he reached out his hand, adorned with a Rolex, to grab the girl's hand.

Su Yang seized the moment, quickly took off his own Richard Mille and put it in his bag, then stood up and moved into action.

He strode over to the pair and swatted away Chu Qiunan's grubby hand.

"What are you doing?! Don't start causing a drunken scene!"

Su Yang turned to the girl with an apologetic look. "Sorry about this, miss. My buddy's had too much to drink and mistook you for someone else."

"Mistook her? How could I not recognize my own girlfriend?" Chu Qiunan put on a convincingly earnest face, playing his part rather well.

After saying this, he turned back to the girl, his voice heart-wrenching. "Yutong, why? Why are you doing this to me!"

The girl frowned slightly. "Um..."

Seeing this, Su Yang quickly interjected, "I'm really sorry, miss. He's drunk, causing a scene. Our apologies."

"Come on, let's get out of here. Don't embarrass yourself any further!"

"Embarrass myself?" Chu Qiunan stood up, pointing at his own chest. "Is it embarrassing to love someone? Well, I love her!"

Su Yang pulled Chu Qiunan over to their own seats. "How you feel about your ex is none of my business, okay? But can you please sober up?"

"Is this your ex? Is she the one you love? Stop harassing a stranger!"

Su Yang pushed Chu Qiunan down into his seat, then walked back to his own spot, picked up his drink, and took a sip.

The girl was still in a state of confusion, staring blankly at the two men sitting diagonally across from her.

Su Yang saw his chance and turned up the heat. "Old Chu, you know, you're pretty hopeless in every way, except for being way too devoted! So what if she's an ex? Do you have to be so dramatic over a breakup? Determined to die on this one hill, are you?"

Chu Qiunan, annoyed, grabbed a drink from the table and downed it in one go. "What's it to you? Who I like is none of your concern! I'm going to marry her and no one else!" He said, pointing at the girl.

Su Yang turned to the girl with an awkward smile. "Just ignore him, ignore him. He's had too much~"

"Pfft! Won't listen to reason, huh? Let me be straight with you. That Yutong of yours never liked you. She was just playing with you the whole time!"

"What did you say?" Chu Qiunan leaned over the table, glaring fiercely at Su Yang.

"I said she didn't like you. Understand?"

"This is why I hate going out drinking with you. You always start causing trouble after a few drinks. Come on! No more drinking!"

As he spoke, Su Yang got up, walked over to Chu Qiunan, grabbed him by the collar, and hauled him to his feet.

"I'm not leaving!! Let go of me!"

"You're leaving whether you want to or not today!"

"What? You wanna hit me?!" Chu Qiunan shoved against Su Yang's shoulder.

"We'll talk outside."

"No!"

As the two men struggled, on the verge of a fight, the girl nearby put down her glass, stepped forward, and separated them. "Stop arguing, you two."

"Um..." Su Yang looked at the girl apologetically. "Sorry about that, we disturbed you. We'll leave now."

But as soon as he finished speaking, Chu Qiunan seized the opportunity to grab the girl's hand. "I'm not leaving! I just like her!"

"Hey! Pushing your luck, are you? Let her go!!"

"No. This is my girlfriend. None of your business!"

"Are you letting go or not?!"

"No."

Su Yang moved to pry their hands apart, but the girl smiled and said, "It's fine, it's fine. Your friend's had too much. Let him calm down first."

"Um... okay, alright then."

The girl then helped steady Chu Qiunan. "Why don't you sit down and rest for a bit?"

"Mhmm, okay. I'll listen to whatever you say."

Hearing this, Su Yang turned away and scratched his head: 'This is torture!'

The two of them sat down together. As soon as they were seated, Chu Qiunan pretended to feel dizzy and rested his head on the girl's shoulder.

Seeing this, Su Yang yelled, "Hey! Don't you push it, you punk!"

"It's okay, it's okay. Let him calm down first," the girl said, nodding.

Su Yang gave an awkward smile. "Um, I'm really very sorry. Sorry for the trouble~"

"It's no problem."

"But... what exactly happened to your friend?" the girl asked, looking at Su Yang.

Su Yang smoothly delivered his pre-planned lines: "Sigh, this guy got dumped by his ex-girlfriend. Recently, a few of us friends took him on a road trip to cheer him up. Who knew he'd start up again after a few drinks."

"Dumped? That's hard to believe. Your friend is quite handsome."

"Handsome? Haha, yeah, he is handsome. But this guy has no backbone. He dated his ex for three years. Just recently, both families were about to meet to discuss marriage."

Su Yang shook his head at this point. "But one day, he and I ran into his ex-girlfriend on the street, all cuddled up with another guy. It was obvious, he got cheated on."

"But even after being cheated on, this guy still wanted to go find her. I don't even know what to say about him. Two words sum him up: simp."

Chu Qiunan, leaning on the girl's shoulder, smiled and kept giving Su Yang enthusiastic thumbs-ups.

After listening, the girl slightly turned her head to glance at Chu Qiunan and continued, "I didn't expect your friend to be so devoted~"

"De... devoted? He's a pure simp. You don't actually like that kind of simp, do you?"

"You can't really call him a simp~ At least he's very dedicated when it comes to a relationship."

Hearing this, Chu Qiunan closed his eyes, a smile on his face.

......

On the other side, Meng Wenzhou and the others watched, utterly dumbfounded, exchanging bewildered looks.

"What... what in the world is going on?" Ji Bo stammered.

"How did he end up leaning on her? And she's letting him?"

Liu Bo was equally confused. "There's some skill here!! What kind of slick move did they pull?"

A few of the girls couldn't help but laugh.

Meng Qianyu chuckled. "Not bad, you guys! I didn't expect it to be so easily done."

Zhong Qing: "That's terrifying!"

Su Qingci looked at the trio across the way. "I'm lost. I don't get it."

Meng Wenzhou laughed. "I think I roughly understand. Old Su is one hell of a wingman. Impressive, impressive~"

Zhang Ziming asked, "You understand? Then tell us, what's their play?"

Meng Wenzhou didn't answer Zhang Ziming immediately. Instead, he looked at Pan Ning with a smile. "Did you figure it out?"

Pan Ning nodded dismissively. "Tch. Such an old trick. It can only fool those naive, innocent types."

"That's true. It would be a waste of effort on someone like you."

"No, seriously, what's the trick? Someone just explain it!" Zhang Ziming urged impatiently.

Pan Ning looked at Zhang Ziming. "What's the rush? Want to try it yourself?"

"Um... no, no, no. I'm just curious, that's all. Hehe, curious."

Pan Ning shot Zhang Ziming a glare and turned away, no longer looking at him.

"Old Meng, spill it."

Meng Wenzhou smiled. "Actually, it's pretty simple. The two of them just put on an act together. Old Chu plays the part of that dedicated, hopeless romantic to win the other person's sympathy."

"But that kind of trick also depends on luck. Their luck was pretty good. Even though I think the girl must have seen through it, since she was willing to play along with their little act, it means she's taken a liking to Old Chu. At the very least, her first impression wasn't negative. This thing is pretty much in the bag."

"Holy shit!" Ji Bo couldn't help but blurt out the classic expletive.