The next morning, Zhan received a text from Yibo on his way to work.

"I've sent Ayuan and A-yue to school. Don't worry."

Zhan toughly typed out a 'thanks' as he was squeezed in the subway. The corner of his lips slowly tipped into a smile that he didn't even realize.

Cheng stayed at Zhan's house after returning from his business trip. Yibo didn't even bother to evade him and often came for dinner.

On the very first day, Cheng asked so many questions about his family backgrounds. Zhan felt awkward listening to their conversation in the kitchen to the point where he wanted to come out of the kitchen and knocked Cheng head off with a spoon so that he could shut up.

During the night, Zhan closed the door of A-yue's bedroom.

Cheng was taking a rest on the sofa while playing with his cell phone. When he saw Zhan.

Cheng was about to ask something when Zhan's phone rang. Zhan took a glance at directly screen display and hung up.

"Why aren't you picking up?"

"It's not important."

After saying this, Zhan went to the kitchen to drink water.

The phone on the table lit up again as a text notification popped out.

Cheng got up from the sofa and he could see a part of the message content.

["The engagement party will be held this Saturday. Don't forget, Zhan...."]

There was engagement of Art-Director of Designer company. Zhan was hardworking and this impressed the art-director, who always praised Zhan for his work.

His successes, however, had aroused the envy and suspicion of colleagues. They want to humiliate Zhan in front of everyone in the party.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

Zhan walked out from the kitchen. When he noticed Cheng was still sitting on the sofa.

"Come here, sit down."

"What do you want?" Zhan laughed at his serious look,"Don't try to pull a prank on me in the middle of the night."

"What's this?"

Cheng pulled out a red invitation card from behind and placed it on the coffee table.

The invitation card was unsightly bright that it made Zhan frown, "How did you find this out?"

"I was looking for a magazine, but I found this instead." Cheng said "The question is, what are you planning to do?"

"I'm not planning to attend." Zhan expressed his attitude clearly.

"Why?" Cheng got up from the sofa, "I know, you still can't move on from Yibo. This is a great opportunity, proof it. I would make you a customised evening suit myself and make sure you looked extremely captivating. Besides, I've already promised on your behalf."

Cheng blinked his eyes as he was feeling self-righteous.

"What did you promise?" Zhan's face became stiff. He saw his phone on the table and quickly turned it on to have a look.

Colleague's text was followed by a reply, ["Oh, you're the one who called me? I thought it was an insurance agent though, since you called every day. I've received the invitation, of course I would go. I'll be there on time."]

"Anyway, I already made a promise. I don't care anymore. Besides, if you don't want to attend, you can call this bitch back anytime."

Cheng got up from the other side of the sofa. He ran into his room, and tried to annoy Zhan as he muttered through the door, "You have to proof Zhan. That little bitch must have thought you wouldn't dare to go. If you don't go, you're the one that's going to feel humiliated."

Zhan was so pissed that he couldn't say anything, and a message popped out on his phone, "I'll wait and see then."

Zhan clenched his phone and suddenly changed his mind. He looked towards Cheng's room and shouted, "Who says I'm not going? I've decided to go now, so you'll have to start preparing my evening suit."

Next day at work.

Yibo called Zhan.

"I'll pick you up at nine tomorrow morning."

Yibo's voice sounded. He meant their arrangement for a picnic at the tree farm this Saturday.

Last week, Kindergarten gave the kids their last homework before the summer vacation. They had to go to the tree farm on Saturday to collect different leaves. Then, they would have to draw a picture of those leaves.

Zhan was stunned for a moment before regaining his consciousness and apologised, "I'm sorry. I forgot to tell you that I suddenly have something to do tomorrow, so I won't be able to go. Since Cheng is free, he will take A-yue over for her homework. If you don't mind, you can come with him."

"Hmm" It seemed that Yibo wasn't reacting much, but his eyebrows frowned.

After Zhan hung up the phone, Zanjin followed Yibo back to his office while going through his schedule along the way.

"Mr. Wang, if you are certain that you're not attending Mr. Kim's engagement party tomorrow night, I'll arrange Mr. Qiyang to be your representative."

"Alright."

The next day, Cheng brought A-yue to the tree farm.

Yibo and Ayuan seemed to have arrived early this morning. They had picked up a large basket of leaves and sat on the picnic mat while fiddling with Ayuan's painting.

When Ayuan saw A-yue, Ayuan got up from a pile of leaves and his eyes were sparkling brightly.

Cheng held A-yue's hand and walked towards them. He greeted Yibo while sighing, "The weather is perfect today. It's a pity that Zhan can't make it today."

"Did he have an urgent matter?"

Yibo asked inadvertently while picking up Ayuan's leaves.

"Mommy went to attend a wedding." A-yue touched her head and blinked at Yibo.

Yibo stunned suddenly. He raised his head and looked at Cheng, as if he was waiting for Cheng's confirmation.

"Little girl, no one is going to say you're deaf even if you don't speak."

Cheng slightly pinched A-yue, and she jumped into Yibo's arms while screaming, "Dad save me!"

Yibo held her in his arms and he felt a little distracted, "He went alone?"

"Of course." Cheng sighed heavily.

"Zhan has always had a good temper. He didn't plan to go at first, but that shameless woman called and begged him every day. Even I can't stand her anymore. He had no choice but to attend it. With his good temper, he's probably going to feel intimidated there. I bet he will come back home crying."

"Cry? I don't think he would though."

It was hard for Yibo to imagine Zhan crying. In recent months Zhan's impression, a smart and stubborn man like him would never lose to others. He couldn't believe that he was an easy target to bully.

"Why not?" Cheng narrowed his eyes.

"Dad, I heard everyone goes to a banquet with a partner. Mommy will definitely get bullied if he goes alone."

A-yue also sighed in Yibo's arms.

Then, Ayuan quickly said furiously, "If you don't help Mom, you're not my daddy anymore."

Yibo couldn't help but laugh when Ayuan said that, "What now? He didn't even ask for my help himself. I might not be able to help even if I accompanied him."

"That's because Zhan doesn't like to trouble others." Cheng explained, "Besides, a man should take the lead at times like this. I bet you didn't know, Zhan's colleagues didn't like him. They will sure humiliated him in party."

Yibo had a ghastly expression on his face after hearing these words. After a moment, he looked at Cheng and said, "You send Ayuan and A-yue home then? I'll go find Zhan."

Seeing Yibo acted so decisively, Cheng was pleased as he replied, "Don't worry, I'll take good care of them. You should go now."

Yibo reluctantly gave Cheng a few reminders before he drove downhill.

Engagement Party.

After showing his invitation to the guard, Zhan walked into the banquet hall with the prepared gift in his hands.

The entire floor of Restaurant was reserved for the engagement banquet, which had been decorated magnificently with colorful ribbons and balloons all over the ceiling. Guests attended the banquet were either wealthy or powerful.

Zhan looked around but didn't see anyone he knew. He was not a fan of such kind of occasion usually, so he walked to the corner to enjoy the food in silence.

"Ahh" A loud sound immediately attracted everyone's attention.

They saw a woman in a long Strapless dress, and she was stunned with her eyes wide open. She uttered, "Zh... Zhan?!"

When Zhan frowned and looked over, he saw ChenXiao's incredulous expression.

ChenXiao hadn't met Zhan for three years, but she found Zhan even more beautiful than before. However, Zhan had obviously lost a lot of weight and was slightly sunken.

"Why? What are you doing here? Bitch, why did you come back?"

Suddenly, people in the crowd began whispering to each other.

Zhan gritted his teeth and stared at ChenXiao, whose face was distorted by anger and shock.

Before Zhan spoke, a strong wind swept by his side. Then ChenXiao was pushed away by Yibo and fell onto the ground. She covered her stomach and cried sadly.

"Yibo..."

"Shut up!"

Yibo looked at her fiercely. He looked furious and said, "Don't call my name. Now get out of here. I don't want to see you!"

As soon as he finished his words, the bodyguards came forward and dragged ChenXiao away. Yibo took Zhan's hands again and walked inside the hall. He did not even look at ChenXiao any more.

Zhan didn't know why Yibo came here suddenly.

"Yep. Open the champagne and let it sweep away the bad moods." Host of the party announced.

After opening the champagne, Zhan and Yibo walked abreast in the banquet hall.

Zhan kept down his voice and asked him, "By the way, how come that you were here? Aren't you supposed to go to the forest?"

"Your friend brought the two children back. I heard that you came here alone to an engagement banquet and I was curious."

"Curious?" Zhan's expressions froze.

"I'm curious about what you look like when you're crying."

"Cry? How could it be possible?" Zhan twitched his mouth, "It's all about the past. Do you think that I came here to make myself drunk and make a fuss over a banquet?"

"If you can do this, A-yue and Ayuan wouldn't have threatened me to come here."

Zhan was a bit stunned and asked in amusement, "So it turns out it is A-yue and Ayuan who asked you to come here?"

"Yep."

"..."

Zhan felt speechless while at the same time a bit disappointed.

He knew that Ayuan and A-yue wished so much that he and Yibo would become a couple, so these two clever children could probably have come up with some tricks.

But what disappointed him was that Yibo didn't come to find him on his own will.

When Zhan was lost in his thoughts, he heard Yibo's teasing words, "On the other hand, comparing to picking up leaves with Ayuan for the homework, I'm more interested in coming to see what mental preparation you have made that you actually dared to attend, the engagement banquet without telling me, and came alone."

"How could I know that ChenXiao was also present? I was caught off guard."

"Are you afraid of her?"

"Who's afraid of her?" Zhan widened his eyes and glared at Yibo with dissatisfaction. As if suddenly thinking of something, he asked in doubt, "How do you know that ChenXiao is here."

Yibo looked down at him and said righteously. "You're the mother of my kids. Don't you think that I should investigate whatever you do?"

Zhan coughed embarrassedly as he was rendered speechless.

Yibo took a step forward, "Don't you think that I've shown you great trust since even if you live alone, I didn't doubt that you would have some other intentions?"

"I have no other intentions." Zhan hurriedly shook his head.

Yibo studied him thoughtfully for a long while and suddenly raised his hand to tuck Zhan messy hair behind his ears, leaned slightly forward and said in a gentle voice, "I see."

Zhan blushed.

ChenXiao saw the romantic scene from afar. Staring at Zhan's bright smile and their intimate postures, she clenched her fists in depression. If she hadn't made that unwise decision, she should be the woman who marries him today.

Yibo was surrounded by several famous entrepreneurs talking about business, leaving Zhan to enjoy the food and beverage in a boring state.

"Zhan."

Zhan looked up and saw two women and two men who were his colleagues in the company.

"Zhan, we haven't met with each other for so long. You look more beautiful than before."

"Thank you." Zhan smiled politely. He had just lived for a month with them in the company, so they were not that acquainted with each other and he could barely remember their names.

After exchanging some pleasantries, one of them proposed, "We haven't met for so long and I think we should have a toast."

Zhan had no problem with the proposal. He raised his glass and gulped down the wine in it. But before he could put down the glass, the other woman raised her own glass, "Oh, and I want to toast with you too. Zhan, I'm the first one who worked with you when you joined the company. Do you remember it? Come one, drink it."

After finishing the words, she gulped down the wine and said, "You should drink this glass of wine."

"Yes, I remember it." Zhan nodded and gulped down the wine unwillingly.

They proposed toasts to Zhan again and again, which caused Zhan to be drunk. He couldn't stand steadily and felt dizzy. Suddenly, his waist was grabbed by an arm out of nowhere.

They had made an original plan to cooperate with each other and act to humiliate Zhan in public.

"Come on, one more glass."

When Yibo saw Zhan being surrounded by a group of people after glancing around the hall. They were toasting with each other and apparently Zhan had been drunk as he even couldn't stand steadily. A man was supporting Zhan and the people around him were still urging him to drink. They came to Zhan one after another and the scene was quite a mess.

Yibo's face darkened. He stroke over, pushed away those people, and pulled the drunken Zhan into his embrace. He kicked the man who was trying to take advantage of Zhan and looked at him fiercely.

Yibo looked furious and said fiercely, "You can still stand here if you don't want your life."

The man shivered in consternation when hearing the words and ran away quickly.

The others surrounding Zhan also dispersed as they hadn't expected that Yibo would come back so soon.

Zhan nestled himself in Yibo's embrace and waggled the glass at his hand in a dizzy, "Come on. I remember you. Drink it."

"Drink your ass."

Yibo snatched the glass in a gloomy mood and then put it on the table beside. With one hand on Zhan's waist, he patted Zhan face with the other hand, "Zhan, are you still sober?"

I just left him for a short while, and he actually got himself drunk. Was he brainless?

"I'm not drunk. Drink it!"

Zhan stretched his arms trying to struggle out of Yibo embrace, but he completely fell down feebly into his arms after a few movements.

Looking at Zhan's flushed face, Yibo's anger magically dispersed a little. He felt a bit angry yet at the same time a bit helpless. Picking him up into his arms, he walked out of the banquet hall under the gazes of the guests.

...............