ACBNHTS Chapter 7

Chapter 7: That Day, I Wasn’t Drunk

“Bang!” A loud crash, followed by car and electric scooter alarms blaring alternately in the night, tore through the silence of the old residential area.

The three people who had just stepped onto the stairs were startled and turned back.

Zhou Zibai immediately saw his car deformed by a luxury car and his expression darkened.

Making the situation worse, the luxury car door opened and someone got out.

Zhou Zibai raised his foot to go forward.

Suddenly, a gust of cold wind swept past him.

A slender figure in a black down jacket darted out from beside him, but after a few steps, abruptly stopped.

Zhou Zibai was slightly stunned, and his gaze towards the luxury car owner changed.

Instinct told him—

It was a rival in love.

Sheng Yiguang, seeing that Pei Du was unharmed, didn’t go forward.

“What are you doing here?”

“Lost.”

Sheng Yiguang obviously didn’t believe him. “Lost to the point of ending up here?”

Pei Du said calmly, “Getting lost means you could end up anywhere. You don’t think I’m still hung up on you and following you, do you?”

Sheng Yiguang: “…”

He did think he was being followed.

But not because he was still hung up on him.

Pei Du took a step forward, leaned down, and a mischievous smile hung on his lips.

This way of speaking reminded Sheng Yiguang of the past.

Whenever this person looked like this, he would inevitably want a kiss.

His heart rate suddenly quickened, but Sheng Yiguang’s voice remained calm.

“I’m not that narcissistic.”

The smile on Pei Du’s face disappeared, and he slowly straightened up, looking at the rival in love behind Sheng Yiguang.

“Your car? Sorry, it’s too dark here, I didn’t see your car. How much is it? I’ll get you a new one.”

Zhou Zibai met Pei Du’s gaze.

Both of them could feel the hostility and assessment in each other’s eyes.

Sheng Tong walked to Sheng Yiguang’s side and tugged at his clothes.

“Sheng Yiguang, is this your friend?”

Zhou Zibai said, “My car is already several years old. Since he’s Mr. Sheng’s friend, there’s no need for a new car, just fix it.”

“You’re mistaken, I’m not his friend.”

Zhou Zibai looked at Sheng Yiguang.

Not a friend?

Then what were they?

Pei Du put his hands in his pockets and said with a smile, “He forcibly molested me last week. It’s hard to call that a friendship.”

As soon as Sheng Yiguang heard “last week,” his brow twitched, and with lightning speed, he covered Sheng Tong’s ears.

Sheng Tong struggled. “Sheng Yiguang, why are you covering my ears?”

Zhou Zibai’s brain short-circuited.

Forcibly what?

Molested?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zhou Zibai looked at Sheng Yiguang in astonishment, wanting to hear his rebuttal.

But there was none.

Pei Du added leisurely, “He even said just now that he was happy to see me.”

Zhou Zibai: “…”

Sheng Yiguang: “…”

That was clearly just a polite remark.

This person was overinterpreting.

Silence and awkwardness spread.

Sheng Tong, with his ears covered, looked back and forth between the three adults with innocent eyes, and finally tugged at Sheng Yiguang’s clothes.

“Covering my ears is uncomfortable.”

Sheng Yiguang didn’t immediately let go, and said to Pei Du, “General Manager Pei, if your phone doesn’t have Gaode Maps, I can help you download it.”

“Okay.” Pei Du took out his phone and handed it over, his voice faint. “You know the password, I haven’t changed it.”

Sheng Yiguang froze.

The ashes hidden in his heart seemed to be gently fanned by this sentence.

Revealing sparks.

Zhou Zibai, standing a few steps away, heard these words, his expression changed several times, the words circled on his tongue several times, and he didn’t know what to say.

Pei Du leaned down, “By the way, give me this gentleman’s contact information, I’ll have my secretary contact him about compensation. And…”

Pei Du leaned in close to Sheng Yiguang’s ear, lowered his voice, with a hint of ferocity.

“Tell him to get lost.”

Sheng Yiguang clenched the phone.

The phone left an imprint on his palm.

Right now, it really wasn’t convenient for Zhou Zibai to be here.

He turned around and said to Zhou Zibai, “Teacher Zhou, I’m sorry, I’ll make him compensate you for the car. It’s getting late, shall I call a car for you?”

Zhou Zibai’s face paled slightly. “No need, I can do it myself. I’ll go back first, you and Tongtong rest early.”

Zhou Zibai left.

Sheng Yiguang gave the cake to Sheng Tong. “Tongtong, can you go upstairs and wait for me?”

Sheng Tong looked at Pei Du with the eyes of a big bad wolf while holding the cake.

“Will he bully you?”

“No.”

Sheng Tong was a little worried. “Then don’t be too late, if you haven’t come home in half an hour, I’ll come down to find you.”

“Okay.”

Sheng Tong walked away with the small cake, turning his head back every few steps.

When the child was completely out of sight.

Sheng Yiguang turned to look at Pei Du.

Pei Du chuckled. “How do you know I won’t?”

Sheng Yiguang didn’t answer this question, and asked pleadingly, “What exactly do you want to do?”

What did he want to do?

There were too many things he wanted to do.

He wanted to ask why he gave him up back then.

He wanted to know if his child was an accident or if there really had been a relationship.

How important was that woman in his heart?

Did he love him more, or love her more?

Were the words he said that day when he was drunk sincere?

And…

“Do you regret breaking up?”

Sheng Yiguang’s long eyelashes trembled slightly, and his thin lips moved slightly, but in the end, he didn’t open his mouth to answer.

His silence was like a kind of resistance.

Pei Du wouldn’t allow him to resist.

“Last week, I wasn’t drunk.”

Hearing this sentence, Sheng Yiguang’s scalp tingled.

Pei Du wasn’t drunk?

Then why didn’t he push him away, or punch him?

Pei Du: “I remember very clearly, you grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go, dragged me into the room…”

Sheng Yiguang: “…”

According to the surveillance footage he saw, it shouldn’t be a lie.

“Called my name, called me husband, said you missed me with red eyes, asked me why I wouldn’t kiss you, and even took off my clothes, I told you to wait for me to get a condom, but you refused no matter what…”

The amount of information was too much.

The imagery was too strong.

Sheng Yiguang was so embarrassed.

What! Did! He! Do?!

Pei Du didn’t care about his embarrassment and continued to output.

“You thought we only had three times? You’re clingy, and greedy, tormented me all night, made me coax you, but as soon as it dawned, you turned your back on me, I couldn’t find anyone in the whole room.”

“…Stop talking.”

Some people don’t have mouths and make people anxious.

Some people have mouths and make people want to disappear.

Sheng Yiguang could imagine that that day, drunk, he personally pulled down his own pants.

“It was too slow to find a lawyer, so I called the police. If I didn’t call the police, would you admit it? I really regret not bringing a recorder that night.”

“…”

“If I didn’t follow you to the dinner tonight, I don’t know if you’d get drunk again and let history repeat itself, dragging that guy from just now up to sleep with you.”

“…You’re overthinking, I wouldn’t.”

“Then why treat me like that?”

Sheng Yiguang pursed his lips and refused to speak again.

Pei Du cupped his face, his voice low and hoarse. “Don’t avoid my gaze, answer me seriously, do you still like me, do you want to get back together with me?”

For a moment, Sheng Yiguang’s heartbeat stopped, his blood froze.

Pei Du: “You told me that day, you miss me so much.”

Everything around them quieted down, so quiet that Sheng Yiguang could hear his own chaotic heartbeat.

Pei Du lowered his head, extremely close, as long as he wanted, he could kiss him. His breath wrapped around him from all directions, enveloping Sheng Yiguang, the sound of longing winding into his ears.

“Sheng Yiguang, as long as you say yes, I’ll fulfill your wish.”

The distance that closed awakened sealed memories. Sheng Yiguang remembered when they were graduating, they leaned against the school wall, under the dim yellow light of the street lamps.

Pei Du told him, “Today the school beauty confessed to me.”

He smiled reluctantly and asked, “Then did you agree?”

Pei Du looked at him for a moment, and when he was about to lose his composure, he turned his head and kissed his cheek. “Sheng Yiguang, confess to me, and I won’t agree to her.”

…

The young Pei Du had a body of pride. Even though he was the first to fall in love, he wanted Sheng Yiguang to be the first to confess.

Now, it was strikingly similar to back then.

Back then, Sheng Yiguang did as Pei Du wished.

Now, Sheng Yiguang avoided Pei Du’s gaze and said,

“Sorry, you misunderstood. I just thought you were good in bed, a little greedy, so, I lied to you.”