Chen Jiaojiao straightened the steering wheel and glanced over.
"Oh, isn't this Lu Mingzhe's new favorite? What are you doing here so late at night?"
"Yeah, she should at least look at where she is. And look at her expression, she's probably waiting for Lu Mingzhe, right?"
"Aren't Lu Mingzhe and her getting along famously? He even vowed to marry her, saying he loved her to death. It's only been a few days, and he's left her waiting alone at the door?"
"Who knows? Let's go take a look."
With curiosity, Chen Jiaojiao drove towards Xiang Wan.
The car window rolled down, and their eyes met. Xiang Wan recognized them too.
She hadn't expected them to show up here.
Thinking back to what happened that day, and considering her current state, it was indeed awkward.
She braced herself for Chen Jiaojiao and Zhou Jinbei to mock her, even ridicule and humiliate her.
To her surprise, Chen Jiaojiao's attitude was rather gentle.
"Xiang Wan, is that right? Why aren't you going in? What are you doing standing here alone?"
"Where's Lu Mingzhe? Is he inside, and he specifically asked you to wait for him here? That's really too much."
Chen Jiaojiao had a client who lived in this complex, a very demanding one.
She'd been having stomach pains for the past couple of days, so she didn't want to go out. However, she was bored lying at home, so she had invited them over for a beauty treatment. .oγg
It took them more than two hours to finish.
She hadn't expected to run into Xiang Wan.
The two young girls blinked their big eyes and craned their necks to look at her.
There was no mockery or disdain in their eyes, and their words sounded like those of ordinary friends.
As Xiang Wan breathed a sigh of relief, a wave of helplessness washed over her.
Perhaps, deep down, women shared many commonalities, making it easy to let down their guard.
As long as they weren't enemies, they could become friends.
She told them the truth.
"He didn't ask me to come. He said he was coming home for dinner, but his phone wasn't working. I ran into some trouble, so I wanted to find him."
"I see. They have a strict entry policy here. You can't get in without a pass from Lu Mingzhe."
Chen Jiaojiao said instinctively.
After speaking, she glanced at the back seat.
"Is it something urgent? Could his phone be out of battery? How about this, why don't you get in the car, and I'll take you in to find him."
Don't think of Chen Jiaojiao as being too good. She didn't genuinely want to help her.
In reality, she just wanted to add some spice to her otherwise mundane life.
Lu Mingzhe had been seeing her for so long, yet he didn't bring her home for dinner. He clearly hadn't disclosed their relationship to his family.
Suddenly sending her in would be like hitting the jackpot for some good drama.
Xiang Wan, her life hanging in the balance, clung to this last straw.
"Will it be too much trouble for you?"
Actually, she knew this wasn't appropriate.
What right did she have to ask them to bring her in?
Would Lu Mingzhe be awkward when they met?
But she was truly on the verge of an emotional breakdown and couldn't wait any longer.
Chen Jiaojiao said, "It's no trouble at all, just a quick drive. Hop in."
The car smoothly entered the complex, and Chen Jiaojiao, familiar with the route, guided her towards the house.
Upon reaching the entrance, she stopped the car and smiled sheepishly at Xiang Wan.
"I won't go in. Let Beibei take you. Beibei knows their family, and the housekeeper will let you in."
Zhou Jinbei also thought, here comes the good show.
Enthusiastically, she invited Xiang Wan to get out of the car and even linked her arm.
The door was knocked on, and upon seeing her, the housekeeper let her in.
However, the living room was eerily silent, with no one in sight.
"Where's Aunt Lu? Where's Mingzhe? Didn't they say they were coming home for dinner? Why is no one here?"
The housekeeper explained.
"The madam received a call this afternoon. Her brother became seriously ill in their rural hometown and had no one to care for him, so she rushed to go."
"Mingzhe, I don't know. He hasn't been back recently."
Zhou Jinbei clicked her tongue inwardly at the news.
Lu Mingzhe was too much of a scumbag!
In front of so many people, he had sworn that this woman was his true love. Yet, after only a few days, he was playing such tricks.
He lied to her, saying he was coming home for dinner, but where was he?
She had come to watch a show, but unintentionally, she had exposed his lie.
She wondered how he would explain himself tomorrow!
After saying goodbye to the housekeeper, the two got into the car. Zhou Jinbei said to Chen Jiaojiao with utter disgust.
"Lu Mingzhe is a scumbag. He must have gone to the bar to mess around again. To leave a pregnant woman waiting for him like this in the middle of the night is simply hateful!"
"Let's go to the bar and confront him. We need an explanation!"
"Xiang Wan, don't worry. We two have incredible fighting power. When we catch him, the three of us will go together and teach this scum a lesson!"
Xiang Wan followed them, rushing through the streets.
Looking at the rapidly receding streetscape and the bustling crowds outside, her heart suddenly felt so weary.
She had lived in this city for nearly ten years.
Was she familiar with it? Yes.
She knew the names of every street.
Was she unfamiliar with it? Yes, she truly was.
Apart from earning money, or being on the way to earn money, she had never stopped to enjoy life.
Every day was a rush, with the sole purpose of having what others had, to appear no worse than them.
However, fate always seemed to play jokes on her.
Her down-to-earth dreams, in the face of fate's taunts, seemed like a fragile joke.
If even Lu Mingzhe was toying with her, she didn't know what else in this world could be relied upon.
She hadn't eaten dinner and had stayed up until midnight.
Coupled with her heavy emotions, Xiang Wan leaned against the car seat, her thoughts drifting further away, her eyelids growing heavier.
When they arrived at the bar entrance, Zhou Jinbei turned back and called her to get out of the car.
Upon seeing her complexion, she was startled.
"Oh my god, why does she look like that? Her face is as pale as a ghost. Is she asleep or unconscious?"
"She's pregnant and angered by Lu Mingzhe. Could something have happened to her? Jiaojiao, could we have gotten ourselves into trouble?"
Chen Jiaojiao also panicked.
"I don't know. Let's go check on her quickly."
"You go find Lu Qingxu and ask him to call Lu Mingzhe out. I'll go check on her."
The two got out of the car separately.
Chen Jiaojiao went to Xiang Wan, calling her to wake up, while Zhou Jinbei called Lu Qingxu.
Before Xiang Wan could be awakened, Lu Qingxu ran out from inside.
"My brother isn't here. No one has booked a room for him at the club, so he shouldn't be out playing. What happened?"
Chen Jiaojiao was extremely anxious.
"Quick, come and check on your sister-in-law!"
"Late at night, your brother abandoned a pregnant woman at home. She was worried, came out to find him, couldn't, and now she's fainted."
"I've been calling her for so long, but she won't wake up. Please, don't let anything happen to her in my car. We need to take her to the hospital quickly!"
The few of them anxiously rushed Xiang Wan to the hospital.
The doctor examined Xiang Wan, while Lu Qingxu frantically called around trying to locate Lu Mingzhe.
After asking everyone, he finally learned from his mother's driver that Lu Mingzhe had gone to his maternal uncle's old home.
Chen Jiaojiao exclaimed, "Is your uncle's hometown that remote? Does the phone have no signal at all?"
"His phone was always unreachable, and we couldn't find him. Of course, she would worry a lot!"
Lu Qingxu defended his brother, "It really is quite remote."