What Wheel

The night passed quickly.

When Su Yang woke up the next day, it was already 10:00 AM.

He had gone back to his room to sleep at around 4:00 AM last night.

He stretched, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and then picked up his phone from the nightstand to check it.

There was an unread message.

Su Yang opened it and saw it was from Meng Wenzhou.

"Old Su, Qin He is hosting a supercar party at the Mandarin Oriental tomorrow, did you see?"

This message was sent to the group chat by Qin He last night, but Su Yang was busy with serious business at the time and didn't have time to look.

He only glanced at it later when he went to sleep.

Su Yang typed a reply: "I saw it. I got distracted by something later and forgot to reply."

"As long as you saw it. Tomorrow at 3:00 PM, bring your F80 and Senna over!"

"Alright. Actually, I also got two new cars~" Su Yang replied.

Half a minute later, Meng Wenzhou's message came again: "[Surprised] What new cars?? Tell me now!"

"I got myself a Tourbillon, and a W1 for Pan Pan. By the way, don't tell Pan Pan yet, she doesn't know the car has arrived."

Another minute passed, and Meng Wenzhou replied: "What billon????"

"Bugatti Tourbillon."

Meng Wenzhou: "!!!"

"Words cannot describe my shock right now, you know? Didn't it just get released not long ago? Where did you get it?"

"I have some minor connections, they shipped it directly to me," Su Yang spouted nonsense.

"!! Are you for real or are you joking?"

"For real~"

"Old Su, Old Su, I am understanding you less and less. Your background is a bit unfathomable."

"Uh, it's not really much of a background~"

"Stop pretending in front of me, it's absolutely insane! A Tourbillon and a McLaren W1. Good, good, good. Then you wait, tomorrow I'll drive my car over first and then come find you. You have to drive four cars, I'll come over and help you drive one. You must leave a spot for me!!"

Su Yang smiled and replied: "Alright, one for you, one for Pan Pan, one for Fatty... and one for me."

"OK, I'll call Fatty to come over together tomorrow."

"Alright, let's leave it at that for now~"

After their chat, Su Yang turned off his phone and got out of bed.

He still didn't know if Xu Zilin and the others had left yet. Lu Yun and Xia Zhiyu didn't have work today, so they probably hadn't left.

Su Yang went into the bathroom, took a shower, changed into fresh clothes, opened his bedroom door, and walked towards the girls' rooms.

He first came to Lu Yun and Xia Zhiyu's door. The door to their room was still closed.

He listened carefully and could faintly hear the sound of breathing from them sleeping inside.

"They haven't left yet. I'll go check on Zilin."

Xu Zilin's room was at the end of the hallway on the second floor. Before Su Yang even walked over, he saw that the door was still closed.

He approached the door and listened. Footsteps could be heard from inside from time to time.

"She hasn't left either, but she's up." Su Yang smiled and gently knocked on the door.

"...Who is it?"

"Me. Who else could it be?"

"Oh, oh, okay, just a second, I'm getting dressed."

"Okay~"

A minute later, Xu Zilin opened the door. As soon as it opened, Su Yang saw her with a bright red face, her head bowed.

He walked into the room and said, "Did you just wake up?"

"...Yeah."

"Alright. Do you have anything to do later?"

"Yes~ I'm leaving right away."

"In such a hurry? I was thinking of making some breakfast for you girls."

"Uh... no, no need. I have some things to attend to. Next time, I'll treat you to a meal next time."

Su Yang joked, "Every time you say 'next time,' you end up getting drunk, and I'm the one treating you in the end~"

Xu Zilin smiled awkwardly. "I promise I won't get drunk next time! Even if I do, I'll pay the bill before I get drunk. I will definitely treat you once."

"Haha, alright~"

"Then... then I'll be going now~" Xu Zilin said, preparing to flee the scene. Her heart pounded wildly just thinking about what happened last night.

Moreover, thinking about how she was the one who took the initiative to kiss Su Yang first last night made her blush even harder, and she just wanted to escape quickly.

Seeing Xu Zilin pull open the door and get ready to run, Su Yang called out, "Wait~"

"Wh... what is it?"

"You don't want your bag?"

"Oh, oh, right, right, right." Xu Zilin turned back into the room to grab her bag.

Su Yang leaned against the wall and smiled. "Didn't you just get up? Aren't you going to wash up?"

"Oh, right."

"Then... then I'll go wash up." Xu Zilin walked flusteredly into the room's en-suite bathroom.

Su Yang smiled and quietly left.

He went to the living room, sat down, and lit a cigarette.

More than ten minutes later, Xu Zilin finally came downstairs.

"Su Yang, I'm leaving now~"

"Are you really not going to eat breakfast?"

"No, my friend is urgently calling me over."

Su Yang naturally knew this was an excuse, but he couldn't say much. Some actions after young people drink a little alcohol are relatively hard to control.

It was inevitable to feel awkward the next day after sobering up and returning to normal.

Although Xu Zilin had a careless, cheerful, and extroverted personality, she wasn't an open-minded woman like Xia Li or Gu Xiaoman who wouldn't care about these things at all.

She would still feel embarrassed about this kind of thing.

"Then let me walk you to the main road. It's quite a long walk from here."

Xu Zilin had come here in Su Yang's car when she was sober yesterday. She thought about it and realized the distance from the villa to the main road outside was indeed a bit far, so she had no choice but to nod in agreement.

"Okay, alright then. Thank you, Su Yang."

"What's there to thank me for? Let's go." Su Yang said as he tossed his cigarette into the ashtray, stood up, and walked towards the door with Xu Zilin.

He casually drove one of the cars. The two of them didn't speak in the car, and the atmosphere was a bit subtle.

Driving out was fast, but these short few minutes were somewhat torturous, especially for Xu Zilin.

Originally, her relationship with Su Yang was very relaxed and comfortable, somewhat like sworn siblings.

Of course, this was only a superficial relationship; she was well aware of her own inner feelings.

But after all, no one had pierced that layer of paper before. However, after last night's impulse, this comfortable relationship was broken, and now it had become somewhat awkward.

Actually, it was very simple to solve. They just needed to wait for a while, or one of them could immediately confess to the other, taking their relationship a step further.

That way, the relationship wouldn't just stop being awkward and embarrassing; it would explosively improve and they would become a couple.

But... she didn't dare to speak up first because she was afraid of being rejected, or of receiving an ambiguous answer.

She actually knew that a man like Su Yang would have many women around him.

So from the very beginning, she never thought about having anything happen with Su Yang, but feelings are hard to control.

Even though they hadn't met many times, she had developed such a high level of affection for him, let alone last night's hot-headed state of waking up drunk.

A lone man and a lone woman, combined with physical contact with Su Yang under the influence of another persona, it was inevitable that a little accident would ultimately happen...

Lost in his thoughts, Su Yang had already driven onto the main road outside.

"Zilin?"

"Hmm?" Xu Zilin suddenly snapped back to reality. "Are we here?"

"We're here. Why don't you just tell me where you're going and I'll take you there? We're already out anyway."

"No, it's fine. I need to stop and buy some things on the way anyway," Xu Zilin said as she opened the car door and stepped out. "You should hurry back!"

"I'll be off then."

"Okay, I'll treat you to a meal next time," Xu Zilin smiled, standing outside the car.

"Sounds good. Bye." Su Yang agreed and drove back.

Watching Su Yang leave, Xu Zilin instantly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling her whole body relax.

She stood there in a daze for a couple of minutes, then gave a complicated smile before catching a cab and leaving.

......

A few minutes later, Su Yang returned to the villa.

As soon as he walked into the living room, his phone began to ring. He then noticed two figures coming down from the second floor.

"You guys are awake?" Su Yang looked at Lu Yun, who was the one calling him.

"Su Yang, where did you go? I thought this wasn't your house for a second."

Lu Yun remembered seeing Su Yang in her groggy state last night, but when she woke up just now and didn't see him, she thought it had been a hallucination.

"Zilin had something to take care of, so I just dropped her off outside."

"Oh, okay." Lu Yun hung up the phone and patted her still-heavy head.

Xia Zhiyu was doing a bit better. Since she knew they had been drinking with Su Yang last night, she figured he must have brought them to this unfamiliar place, so she hadn't panicked too much.

Su Yang walked behind the bar and turned on the coffee machine to warm it up. "Why are you two just standing there? Have a seat. Once the machine is ready, I'll make you some coffee to help you wake up."

"Okay. Is this the new villa you bought?" Lu Yun asked.

"Yeah, this is it."

"Wow, it's so pretty."

"It came like this when I bought it. Anyway, what do you guys want to eat?"

"Anything is fine."

"Let me think... How about I boil some noodles for us?"

"That works! It's been a while since I had your cooking, and I've been craving it."

"Me too!" Xia Zhiyu raised her hand and chimed in.

She had eaten Su Yang's cooking once before at her newly rented place, so she naturally knew how delicious it was.

Even though he was just making noodles this time, she was still really looking forward to it.

"Take a seat then, I'll go make the noodles," Su Yang said as he walked into the kitchen.

Now that they were certain this was Su Yang's house, the two finally had the peace of mind to properly look around the grand villa.

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