A secret tryst? Her brotherly love triangle backfired.

Chapter 24 Self-punishment with three cups
A rake?
Tang Wanwan pushed him away forcefully: "You don't need to be so sarcastic. Just say what you want to say."

Her tone was impatient, as if she genuinely didn't understand what he was saying, and she seemed particularly innocent.

It makes one wonder if they've really misunderstood.

Shen Xianyu looked down at her for a while, then spoke frankly.

"With so many people at the banquet, you and Jiang Yanzhi were the only ones who disappeared together. Don't you think that's too much of a coincidence?"

“And,” he glanced at the restroom, “this was the first place I looked for.”

But she wasn't there.

Tang Wanwan frowned: "So, just because Jiang Yanzhi and I disappeared at the same time, you suspect we were having an affair?"

She finally understood why he was acting so accusatory.

It turns out he had been to the restroom.

Fortunately, he didn't know that Jiang Yanzhi's gym had a direct connection to the restroom.

Tang Wanwan felt a lingering fear, and her voice immediately became somewhat agitated, "Is this how you think of me?"

Shen Xianyu shook his head. "No."

It's really unreasonable to suspect your girlfriend of having a secret date with her brother just because of this.

But people have a sense of crisis.

Shen Xianyu found that he would feel inexplicably irritable whenever this girl got involved with Jiang Yanzhi.

He regretted asking Jiang Yanzhi to help pick up people yesterday.

He didn't feel anything unusual when she disappeared.

Until they discovered that Jiang Yanzhi was also not there.

They both disappeared at the same time.

Almost instantly, an indescribable feeling of suffocation swept over Shen Xianyu's entire body.

This feeling reached its peak after he dialed her number several times in a row without her answering.

It nearly drove him mad.

But when he turned around, she came out of the restroom he had first looked for.

She said she was just walking around when she went into the restroom.

The timeline matches up.

And she appeared so open and honest…

Shen Xianyu was not a suspicious person.

Their relationship has been so stable over the years that there is absolutely no chance for outsiders to interfere.

Logically and emotionally, he shouldn't be so suspicious.

Shen Xianyu took a deep breath. "I didn't mean to make wild guesses about you. I'm just... a little uneasy."

"With a relationship like ours, your easy suggestion to break up makes me very uneasy."

Perhaps it was because he sensed her special treatment of Jiang Yanzhi, or perhaps it was because she broke up with him so decisively that morning that he was particularly sensitive and insecure today.

He was wrong; he should have believed her.

"I'm sorry, Wanwan, I shouldn't have thought of you like that."

He finally apologized and stopped pursuing the details of where she had gone for over an hour, but Tang Wanwan felt even worse.

He was expressing his unease.

If it were before, she would have hugged him tightly and comforted him.

But now, his unease is justified.

His suspicions were correct.

She was lying to him.

All she wanted was to break up.

She had even considered breaking up with him, but their years of friendship made her unwilling to act rashly.

She was waiting for the right moment to say the breakup, but how could she appease him?

Tang Wanwan fell silent, letting him hold her without saying a word.

The atmosphere was stagnant.

Just as someone walked towards them, Tang Wanwan nudged his shoulder, saying, "Let's not stand here."

It just looks weird to be hugging someone at the bathroom door.

Shen Xianyu gave a soft "hmm," pecked a kiss on her delicate neck, and straightened up.

The person who arrived was Gu Yunyi. He saw the two of them 'wall-pinning' each other in a sweet way and stopped not far away.

"We've found him, are you hiding here lounging around?"

As he spoke, he looked at Tang Wanwan and asked with a smile, "Where did you go? Xianyu was looking for you everywhere just now." "...I just wandered around a bit,"

Not wanting to go through another round of questioning, Tang Wanwan casually replied, changing the subject, "I don't know where I left my phone, please help me find it quickly."

Shen Xianyu said, "Think about where you went tonight."

There's no need to even think about it.

Tang Wanwan said, "I think I was in the living room, sitting on the sofa for a while."

……

The three returned to the living room, their expressions all showing surprise.

Jiang Yanzhi, who had disappeared all night, reappeared at some point.

Holding a wine glass, he was casually listening to the conversation around him, his posture relaxed.

Tang Wanwan couldn't help but sigh, "The protagonist is indeed the protagonist."

Among a group of playboys surrounded by beautiful women, he was the most eye-catching.

He can be spotted at a glance simply by standing there, without saying a word.

Noticing their commotion, Jiang Yanzhi glanced over casually, paused slightly, nodded to the person beside him, and walked over.

Shen Xianyu looked at him, and when the man got closer, he said, "You're the one who invited everyone to come and have fun. I haven't seen you show your face all night. Where did you come from?"

“I’m sorry,” Jiang Yanzhi said with a slight smile, “something important came up at the last minute, and I was delayed a bit.”

Looking at his calm and composed demeanor, who would have guessed that the 'important matter' he was talking about was meeting his brother's girlfriend?

Even just over ten minutes ago, they were holding the person in their arms, unwilling to let them go back.

Tang Wanwan was truly ashamed of her own mental fortitude.

Gu Yunyi, standing to the side, seemed oblivious to the subtle atmosphere.

He laughed and said, "That's no excuse. You'll be punished by having to drink a few more glasses later. But for now, let's help our junior Wanwan find her phone."

"Oh?" Jiang Yanzhi raised an eyebrow, his gaze naturally falling on Tang Wanwan. "Your phone is missing?"

Asking knowingly.

Tang Wanwan once again felt inferior.

She gave a stiff smile. "You guys chat, I can go find my phone myself."

As she spoke, she lifted her foot and walked back to the sofa where she had just been sitting.

The sofa was long, and there were a lot of things scattered on the coffee table in front of it.

The three men followed.

A moment later, Jiang Yanzhi pulled a cell phone out from the gap in the sofa. If he hadn't put it there, it might not have been visible at all.

He waved his phone in his hand and asked with a smile, "Is this yours?"

The screen lit up as he shook, displaying four missed calls from Shen Xianyu.

"..." Tang Wanwan didn't look at him, and thanked him softly, "Yes."

Shen Xianyu took the phone, glanced at her own photo on the lock screen, and her eyes warmed slightly.

He entered a few numbers, then frowned immediately: "Changed the password?"

They use each other's birthdays as their phone passwords.

This was planned long ago.

She actually changed.

All three men turned their gazes toward Tang Wanwan.

The expressions are different.

Tang Wanwan was relieved that he had changed her password that afternoon, as she was surprised that he would suddenly think of checking her phone.

She said, "That password was used for many years, and many people knew it, so it was changed."

Cell phones are a matter of privacy.

Of course, the password shouldn't be known by too many people.

That's a good reason.

Jiang Yanzhi chuckled softly, "Alright, let's drink."

Shen Xianyu was about to ask for the password, but stopped talking when he heard this.

He looked down. "Are you tired? Should we go back first, or play a little longer?"

Tang Wanwan shook her head without thinking, "I'm not tired, let's stay a little longer."

She was afraid that if she went back now, he would check her phone.

(End of this chapter)