Beauty and the Bodyguard

Drowning Grief In Drinking

With Lingshan’s rejection and shield bro’s appearance, Yutian couldn’t remain his composure!

After all these years of intense training, he still couldn’t do that! Looking at Lin Yi, his expression was senseless. It seemed like he wasn’t able to recognize him. Yutian sighed. The difference between them was just too great. There was no way he could catch up to his tier!

Yushu, on the other hand, was observing her brother’s attitude towards Lin Yi with doubtful eyes. Why wasn’t he picking a fight with Lin Yi? Was Shield bro too weak? Or was shield bro too strong for her brother to handle?

The group seated themselves. Meanwhile, Jianwen started calling for the waiter. He had ordered quite a lot of wine too.

Since the food was prepared beforehand and Jianwen was only waiting for their arrival, not a lot of time passed before the table was filled with delicacies.

“Yutian bro, it has been a while since all of us gather together. You’ve become major too. We are all grown up now, aren’t we! And,” Jianwen, as the host of the dinner tonight, stood up first and gave a toast to everyone, “In a blink of an eye, we are going to have our own families soon. I miss our old happy-go-lucky days!”

“Haha, we’ve to face the world at some point!” Yutian said lightly and gave a toast but he was bitter inside. If it weren’t for Lingshan, would he still choose this path? Or would he still be the old Yutian?

Yutian could never forget those eyes of Lingshan, her eyes full of disdain. Lingshan despised young masters like him the most. This was the main reason why Yutain chose this path, but he knew that he would never be as good as Lingshan. No matter how hard he tried, he had started late. He wouldn’t stand a chance in winning against her.

Much to Lin Yi’s surprise, Mengyao raised her cup and gave a toast too. She even finished the whole cup of wine!

The Miss was supposed to be sick of getting along with Jianwen, so why? Why would she drink all the wine under the toast of Jianwen? Lin Yi glanced into Mengyao’s eyes to find loneliness in her eyes.

Lin Yi startled as it dawned upon him. The Miss was still thinking about her mother. She hadn’t fully recovered yet from the breakdown, and she was basically drowning grief in drinking now! Lin Yi was used to not having parents, so he was able to accept it with an open heart, but things were different for Mengyao!

She had seen her mother before while Lin Yi didn’t even know who his parents were. Both of their feelings were different. Mengyao’s feeling towards her mother could only grow deeper while Lin Yi didn’t even have the feelings, to begin with.

Mengyao was held captive by the feelings deep down in her heart. Those feelings were released by Zhong Pinliang, so her emotions were out of control. They went berserk flowing in Mengyao’s veins.

The feelings were suppressed for a period of time. If they weren’t handled properly, she would never find happiness in life, so she used alcohol to numb her senses.

In fact, Mengyao was thinking the same thing. if she was out alone with Jianwen, she would never allow herself to drink. Who knew what would happen to her with a beast like him beside her? But now that Lin Yi was around, Mengyao let down her guard and started drinking.

Mengyao believed that Lin Yi would save her if anything bad happened to her. Since there was a shield here, she may as well fully utilize it!

Meanwhile, a trace of suspicion flashed across Jianwen’s eyes when he saw Mengyao drinking, but the excitement flooded soon after! He was afraid that Mengyao wouldn’t give him face and drink with him, but now that things weren’t going according to his plan. He decided not to drink too much. After all, his confession plan might go to waste if he was really drunk.

At first, Taizou and Jianwen had thought of a lot of excuses just to persuade Mengyao to drink but it seemed like it was no longer needed anymore. However, Jianwen was depressed. What was going with Mengyao today? Why wasn’t she acting like herself? They’d killed millions of their brain cells just for the excuses, but now those efforts were wasted in vain.

“Yaoyao sis, why are you drinking so much?” Yushu found out that something was up with her.

“Nothing, I just feel like drinking,” Mengyao said faintly, denying the fact that she was unhappy.

“Oh, can I drink too?” Yushu pursed her lips, staring at the wine with longing eyes. She didn’t have the opportunity to drink since there was no alcohol in the villa and Mengyao had forbidden her from drinking. Although, the couple of times she did try to have an alcoholic drink, she was stopped by Mengyao. She couldn’t believe that Mengyao started drinking first today.

“Okay, but not too much.” Mengyao hesitated and nodded.

“Oh!” Yushu didn’t give it a toast when everyone raised their cups just so now that she was given the chance to do so- she raised her cup and started savoring it.

All of them were used to Yushu’s randomness so they didn’t care much about her being weird.

“It’s sour and sweet, and it doesn’t taste bad!” Yushu had a sip first and soon was drinking down the whole cup. It might not be top-tiers of red wine, but since Jianwen ordered it, the wine wouldn’t be cheap, either.

“Drink up if you like it.” Jianwen was glad to hear that as he poured more wine for them. “Cheers, Shu, Yaoyao. I wish you guys forever pretty and young…..” Jianwen gave a toast again.

Yushu didn’t bother to listen Jianwen as she drank all the wine before Jianwen finished his line. She even poured another glass for Yaoyao, completely ignoring Jianwen, “Yaoyao sis, this is better than juice!”

“Well, we shouldn’t drink too much, even if it’s good. You will be drunk if you don’t control yourself.” Although Mengyao was saying like this, she wanted to get drunk as soon as possible- just so she could forget all the pain and get back to her old self the next day.

“What is this?” Yushu drank and asked.

“No idea. It doesn’t matter anyway.” Mengyao didn’t drink normally, so she didn’t have the knowledge about alcohol at all. She might be born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but as a 12th grader, there was no way Pengzhan would allow her to drink so often.

“This is a ’09 Lafite,” Jianwen said proudly. It seemed like Mengyao and Yushu were completely clueless about alcohol. His time to show off had arrived: “Lafite grape wine is produced in Lafite manor, Bordeaux is renowned for its wine, and Lafite is one of the best in that country! All wine lovers know that in the year of 1855 Bordeaux had evaluated all the manors and 61 manors were picked up from the rest as column level. Within that 61 manors, there are 5 tiers of manors. The first tier only consists of 4 manors which are Lafite, Latour, Margaux, and Obiang. Out of the four manors, Lafite is ranked number one!”