Yu Lizhi left Bo Yanchi's villa in low spirits.
Zhou Ran saw her and asked in surprise, "What's wrong with you?"
"He... he scolded me." Yu Lizhi's mouth drooped, and she almost burst into tears.
"Huh?" Zhou Ran was dumbfounded.
Did they fight?
"He misunderstood me." Yu Lizhi was heartbroken.
"Oh?" Zhou Ran was puzzled.
"He doesn't trust me at all." Yu Lizhi felt wronged.
"Ah, I see," Zhou Ran nodded knowingly.
Isn't it completely normal for A-Yan not to trust her?
There isn't a single thing about her that is worthy of trust.
Her sudden pestering of A-Yan this time definitely had ulterior motives.
Yu Lizhi was still waiting for Bo Yanchi to chase after her. She kept looking back every few steps as she walked toward the villa, but Bo Yanchi never came.
Her heart was shattered.
A-Yan didn't care about her at all.
Does he not love her anymore?
"Well... do whatever you want, I'm going in to find A-Yan." Zhou Ran rushed into the villa and saw Bo Yanchi sitting slumped on the sofa, looking absent-minded with the corners of his eyes red and damp.
Zhou Ran hurried over and asked, "A-Yan, what's wrong with you?"
"Heh." Bo Yanchi let out a bitter, self-deprecating laugh, filled with anguish and sorrow.
"She got close to me for the sake of Fu Sichen, and even went so far as to sacrifice her own dignity just to steal my trophy. Don't you think she's ridiculous?"
"Huh?" Zhou Ran was stunned.
Is this woman Yu Lizhi really that outrageous?
Infatuated to this extent?
However...
Come to think of it, given the extent of this young socialite's waywardness, she was entirely capable of doing something like this.
After all, the number of bizarre things she had done for Fu Sichen was countless.
She entered the entertainment industry for Fu Sichen, begged her father for him, and squandered fortunes recklessly throwing resources at him, just to win a smile from him.
She had forcefully propped him up from a mediocre little star into a top traffic idol.
Taking a deep breath, Bo Yanchi suppressed the aching sorrow in his chest and asked Zhou Ran, "Where is she?"
"She should have left by now."
"Go after her and take her home." Even though she had broken his heart, Bo Yanchi still worried about her safety as a young woman.
Zhou Ran: "…Understood."
Sigh.
A-Yan really poured his heart and soul into Yu Lizhi, but unfortunately, she would never cherish it.
After waiting for a long time, Yu Lizhi didn't see Bo Yanchi coming after her; instead, Zhou Ran came out.
"Miss Yu, do you want me to take you back?" Zhou Ran walked over and asked flatly.
"Where's A-Yan?" Yu Lizhi bit her lip. "Is he really ignoring me?"
"Miss Yu, please stop treating A-Yan like a fool. He has tolerated you enough." Zhou Ran could no longer stand by and finally spoke his mind.
"Every time you meet him, how terribly you treat him—you know it best in your heart. You have hurt him deeply enough."
Yu Lizhi froze, a dull ache piercing her heart as tears welled up in her eyes.
She knew.
She knew how many times she had hurt Bo Yanchi for Fu Sichen's sake.
He had long since been battered and bruised by her, yet time and time again, he kept lowering his bottom line for her, tolerating her caprices.
In this lifetime, she would never do that again.
She was determined to make A-Yan clear up his misunderstandings about her and accept her completely.
At that moment, Wen Xin called again and asked with concern, "Lizhi, are you alright?"
"I'm fine."
"Best Actor Bo didn't do anything to you, did he?"
"No. A-Yan didn't do anything to me."
"I was really afraid he'd hit you." Wen Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said to Yu Lizhi, "Right, I wanted to tell you something. Should the celebration banquet be canceled?"
"What celebration banquet?" Yu Lizhi asked in confusion.
"Have you forgotten? You thought Fu Sichen was going to win the Golden Snake Award, so you booked a banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in advance to celebrate for him," Wen Xin reminded her.
"Now that Best Actor Bo has won the award, there's probably no need to hold the celebration banquet anymore, right?"
Only then did Yu Lizhi remember that she had done such a stupid thing. Wasn't this tantamount to telling everyone that she knew the results in advance and that the Golden Snake Award was rigged?
Fortunately, the award had now gone to its rightful owner, Bo Yanchi.
It could also be considered as returning things to their rightful owner.
"Don't cancel it. Change it into a celebration banquet held for A-Yan," Yu Lizhi said softly.
She was going to use this banquet to completely clear up her relationship with Fu Sichen and, by the way, publicly announce that Bo Yanchi was her fiancé.
She knew he lacked a sense of security simply because she had hurt him too deeply in the past, which was why he had become so sensitive and suspicious.
Now, she was going to officially give him his rightful status.
"Huh?" Wen Xin was startled. "Are you sure? Aren't you afraid Fu Sichen will be angry?"
"I'm sure."
"Then when are you coming over?"
"Right away."
Ending the call, Yu Lizhi hooked the corners of her lips into a cold sneer.
Fu Sichen.
Since you look down on me so much, don't ever expect to get any more benefits from me from now on.
Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Banquet hall.
In order to celebrate for Fu Sichen after he won the award, Yu Lizhi had used her connections over half a month in advance to invite many major stars in the entertainment industry and some high-society aristocrats to attend.
Although she was not the true daughter of the Yu family, she had after all been a high-society socialite for so long, so she naturally had connections and resources.
Yu Haitang linked her arm through Fu Sichen's and appeared at the entrance.
"Does she think that by throwing me this celebration banquet, I'll forgive her?" The anger on Fu Sichen's face had not yet subsided.
"Yesterday I didn't even win the award, making me lose all my face. Playing the hindsight game now is fucking useless."
"Brother Sichen, don't be angry." Yu Haitang soothed his emotions, her soft little hand gently stroking his heaving chest.
"This is just some little trick my sister is playing to attract your attention."
"Does she think that after giving me a slap, she can just hand me a candy and I'll pay attention to her? In her dreams!" Fu Sichen said resentfully.
"When she comes over today, I'll make her kneel down and apologize to me in front of everyone!"
"Alright, Brother Sichen, calm down. Let's go in quickly." Yu Haitang intimately pulled Fu Sichen inside.
Just as the two of them stepped in, Zhou Ran drove over with Yu Lizhi.
Along the way, she had found a styling salon to do her hair and makeup and changed into an evening gown, her beautiful face striking and breathtaking.
She stepped out of the car gracefully in high heels, turned back to Zhou Ran, and said, "Thank you for bringing me here. Please go back and pick up A-Yan. Tell him I'm inviting him to a banquet here, and I have very important words to say to him. This is the invitation letter, take it."
She handed the invitation letter to Zhou Ran, lifted her slender white neck, looked at the characters "Grand Hyatt Hotel," and the corners of her lips curved upward.
There would be a good show to watch today.
Zhou Ran looked down at the invitation letter in his hand with complex emotions. Not knowing what kind of mischief Yu Lizhi was up to again, he still drove back and handed it to Bo Yanchi.
"Miss Yu asked me to give this to you."
"What is this?" Bo Yanchi was stunned and instinctively took it.
"The celebration banquet she hosted for Fu Sichen, thinking he would win the award." Zhou Ran observed his expression and answered cautiously.
His heart trembling, Bo Yanchi gripped the invitation letter with fingertips turned white, his voice muffled and hoarse: "Why did she ask me to go over? To humiliate me? Or to make up with Fu Sichen right in front of me? And trample on me recklessly all over again?"
"A-Yan, if you don't want to go, then don't go," Zhou Ran persuaded.
"I'm going." Out of spite, Bo Yanchi threw the invitation letter aside.
"Then I'll throw it away." Seeing this, Zhou Ran hurriedly picked it up, about to toss it into the trash can.
"Wait!" Bo Yanchi snatched the invitation letter back. He closed his eyes in pain, his voice turning slightly cool.
"I'll go! I want to see what on earth she's trying to do! Even if I'm humiliated, I accept it!"
If he didn't go, then given how Yu Lizhi had treated Fu Sichen yesterday and slapped him across the face, Fu Sichen, having failed to win the award, would no longer know how he might humiliate Yu Lizhi before being willing to forgive her.
Being humiliated together was better than one person being humiliated alone.