After faking his death, he stopped pretending to be a substitute.

As soon as he got off the plane and got into the car, Song Yanxi received a call from Yu Xiao.

"Yanxi, are you back from your business trip?"

"Just got off the plane."

"Are you free to come to the party tonight?"

Previously, in order to avoid Bai Lian, he had always refused to attend gatherings among friends in recent months.

Almost everyone in the circle knows that Bai Lian drugged him at the Bai family banquet. Jing Xiuyuan probably won't ask Bai Lian to come to this party again.

There was no need for him to refuse gatherings with friends just to avoid Bai Lian.

"I'll go there later."

"Meet you at the same place at half past six."

"it is good."

"Have you made any progress with Yan Yi lately?"

When Song Yanxi heard this, he subconsciously glanced at Chu Yanyi, who was sitting next to him, and replied in a slightly lowered voice: "No progress, it's still the same."

"I want to invite him to the party, but I don't know if he is willing to come. Forget it, I'll call him later and ask him."

Song Yanxi paused: "You don't have to call him."

Yu Xiao was puzzled: "Why?"

Song Yanxi: "...He is next to me now."

Yu Xiao paused slightly, and then asked: "Why are you together?"

"He was also on a business trip to Hong Kong City. We happened to meet each other and came back together today."

"Give him the phone and I'll ask him if he wants to come tonight."

Song Yanxi handed the phone to Chu Yanyi: "Axiao's phone number, he has something to tell you."

Chu Yanyi was surprised for a moment and took the phone: "Ah Xiao?"

"Yan Yi, we are having a gathering at Qianweige Pavilion tonight. We are all people you know. Are you free to come over?"

Yu Xiao is a good person and a person worth getting to know. She took the initiative to invite him to the party because she wanted him to integrate into their circle.

Chu Yanyi also intended to get along with Yu Xiao, but he just heard Song Yanxi say that he was going tonight, so he declined politely: "Sorry, I'm a little tired today, maybe next time."

Yu Xiao didn't force anything, and was very considerate: "It doesn't matter, then you have a good rest."

After Song Yanxi asked the driver to take Chu Yanyi to Jinxiu Garden, he went to the company to handle a few urgent matters before rushing to the party location.

Jing Xiu saw him entering the room and said twice: "A rare visitor, Yanxi, I thought you would never attend our gatherings in the future."

Song Yanxi found a seat and sat down, raised her eyelids and looked at him: "You know very well why I am absent."

Jing Xiuyuan paused and sneered quickly: "I know you don't want to see Bai Lian, so I didn't ask him to come this time."

"I don't want to see him at any gathering where I am in the future. If you call him, then don't come again. Last time you helped him meet me in your own name because of our years of friendship. Come on, I won't argue with you. Xiuyuan, you'd better not have another chance." After speaking, Song Yanxi's tone became sharp.

Jing Xiuyuan stiffened slightly, twitched the corners of his lips, and said dryly: "It's not like he begged me to come here, and there's nothing I can do about it. After all, we have been friends for more than ten years, and I feel guilty if I don't help. Besides, he is Your savior, I thought..."

"What the Song family has given to the Bai family over the years has long been enough to repay the kindness of the past. I have nothing to do with Bai Lian now." Song Yanxi's voice was cold and aggressive: "If you do anything to deceive me again for Bai Lian, Don't blame me for not caring about friendship."

Knowing that he was really angry, Jing Xiuyuan quickly promised: "It won't happen again. I promise it will never happen again."

Song Yanxi glanced at him: "He has an impure mind. I advise you to have less contact with him in the future to avoid being plotted against."

Yu Xiao agreed: "Yanxi is right."

Cen Yang, who had been immersed in cooking, suddenly raised his head: "Did Bai Lian really drug Brother Yanxi?" He was referring to the last banquet of the Bai family.

"Bai Lian has known all of us for ten years. I don't think he would have done anything to drug Yanxi. Is it possible that it was a misunderstanding, or... that Chu Yanyi framed him...?"

Before Jing Xiuyuan finished speaking, Song Yanxi glanced at him coldly.

"We have known him for ten years, have you really understood him? I asked someone to check afterward. If Chu Yanyi hadn't bribed someone to change the wine, I would have been plotted by Bai Lian. Xiuyuan, if you want to interact with Bai Lian, I won't Stop it, but I don’t want to hear anything slanderous about Chu Yanyi from you again.”

Song Yanxi glanced at him indifferently: "Rather than say something that shouldn't be said, it's better to just shut up. If you don't speak, no one will think you are mute."

"..." Jing Xiuyuan quickly put his index finger on his lips and made a zipper motion: "Okay, okay, I shut up!"

"Let's eat, the food is getting cold." Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit stagnant, Yu Xiao smiled to smooth things over.

Cen Yang cooperated and said: "Qianwei Pavilion has recently changed its chef. Brother Yanxi, please try it and see how the taste has changed compared to before."

After eating, several people moved to the Disi Club as usual.

As soon as Song Yanxi stepped into the door, he stopped in his tracks the next second.

Chu Yanyi and Jian Huai walked in together. The two seemed to be talking about something. Jian Huai had a gentle smile on his face, and Chu Yanyi also curved the corners of his mouth slightly.

In order to show the mood, the lights in the club were not very bright. Chu Yanyi did not notice Song Yanxi and went straight to the box on the second floor with Jian Huai.

Looking at the harmonious atmosphere between the two of them talking and laughing, Song Yanxi felt that his chest was being hit by an emotion called jealousy, which made his heart hurt.

He wanted to pull Chu Yanyi away from Jian Huai and lock him tightly in his arms, but he was not qualified and was even afraid.

Afraid of seeing Chu Yanyi's indifferent eyes.

Seeing him stop suddenly, Yu Xiao looked puzzled: "Yanxi, what are you looking at?"

Song Yanxi looked away and answered the question inappropriately: "Do you think if I had treated Chu Yanyi well in those two years, he would have fallen in love with me?"

"Yanxi..." Yu Xiao didn't understand why he suddenly mentioned Chu Yanyi, so he could only sigh softly: "There are no ifs and no regrets in this world."

"Even if you treated him well in those two years," Yu Xiao paused and continued, "but it is an indisputable fact that you regarded him as a substitute."

Yu Xiao's words were like a sharp needle pricking his heart, making him feel like breathing was painful.

At that time, it was true that because he felt that Chu Yanyi was like the person in his heart, he kept him by his side as a substitute.

She was worried that after being with Chu Yanyi for a long time, she would gradually forget the person in her heart, deliberately ignore him, speak coldly to him, not care about his feelings, and disrespect him.

When he learned that Chu Yanyi was close to Pei Qingyue and Rong Yu, he angrily banned Chu Yanyi from interacting with them, but he never thought about why he was angry, let alone "jealousy", he just took it as a matter of course. He believed that since Chu Yanyi was sold to him, it was his property, and he had the right to control his thoughts and actions.

At that time, he never expected that one day he would fall in love with Chu Yanyi.

Maybe he had expected it, but he just didn't want to think about it or admit it.

Song Yanxi clenched her fists, lowered her eyes, and murmured in a low voice: "Yes, I shouldn't have regarded him as a substitute. If I hadn't regarded him as a substitute, I would have treated him well in the past two years, even if he didn't like me. You won’t treat me like a stranger like now.”