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The bright fireworks were fleeting in the air, and were quickly covered by the fireworks that were shot into the air again. It was not until 10 minutes later that the momentum gradually stopped.

Jin Tan's hand had been tightly clasping Zhixi's for those 10 minutes. Although there was no ups and downs on his face, he was tightly hanging in his heart, for fear that she would suddenly shake off his hand and walk away.

"Ah, Jin Tan, Liu Allie, what did Park Yingrong do here just now? He is still in a panic." Just after the fireworks ended, Li Baona, who was wearing a pure white knee-length dress, walked over with a glass of red wine.

After hearing Li Baona's voice, Liu Zhixi immediately pulled her hand out of Jin Tan's hand, and said nonchalantly, "He just said something he shouldn't have said."

Jin Tan was already upset when he saw Zhixi pull away his hand, so he said to Li Baona with a stinky face, "Ah, Li Baona, how can your company let such a person be an idol."

"Because he can make money for the company," Li Baona said without hesitation, swirling the red wine in her glass, "and Park Yingrong is also handsome, and he is also very popular among Hallyu stars."

Jin Tan smiled disdainfully, and said confidently, "Ha, is he as handsome as me?"

"Jin Tan, can you sing and dance on stage?" Li Baona breathed out exaggeratedly, looked at Jin Tan with raised eyebrows, and immediately made Jin Tan speechless.

Liu Zhixi couldn't help but also chuckled.

Seeing that Zhixi was laughing at himself, Jin Tan emphasized embarrassingly, "Ah... there is always a way out for other people in this world..."

Li Xiaoxin also came over when Jin Tan was speaking, looked them up and said, "What are you doing here, hurry to the main venue."

"Understood!" Li Baona readily agreed with a smile, then turned her head and said to Liu Zhixi, "Hurry over."

Liu Zhixi nodded with a smile, and then walked to the main venue with Jin Tan.

The kitchen of the Zeus Hotel seemed much quieter, only the sound of staff walking back and forth and cutting vegetables.

Cui Yingdao was wearing special dishwashing gloves, and the impatient and extremely depressed expression on his face did not match at all.

He put a freshly washed plate aside heavily, and was about to continue washing when the phone in his trouser pocket rang. He let out an impatient breath, took off a glove and threw it aside. Then he picked up the phone.

"Ah, Cui Yingdao, do you know who I saw?" The voice on the other end of the phone was very noisy, but Cui Yingdao could still hear Zhao Mingxiu's excited voice, "I saw Jin Shaneun, you know? I want more Her number, ah, is several years older than mine, but she has a really good figure!"

Cui Yingdao took the phone away, and waited until Zhao Mingxiu was over excited before sticking the phone to his ear, "Ah, Zhao Mingxiu, maybe...do you know where Liu Zhixi is?"

"Ah, Liu Zhixi," Zhao Mingxiu put the champagne on the table, then looked around before saying, "I saw her standing with Jin Tan just now, but now both of them seem to be gone... "

Before he finished speaking, Cui Yingdao hung up the phone. Zhao Mingxiu scratched his head with a depressed face, and saw Jin Shanen not far away with a bright smile on his face, holding a wine glass Just ran over.

Cui Yingdao's rebellious brows were tightly frowned, and he took off the other glove and threw it aside to go out.

"I'm sorry, the president said that you can't leave until you finish washing." The new manager dutifully stopped Cui Yingdao.

"Do I seem to be in a good mood now?" Cui Yingdao raised his eyebrows and looked at the manager standing in front of him, "Go away before I get angry."

"I'm sorry, I have to obey the president's order," the manager's face remained unchanged. "If you don't finish, the person at the door will not let you leave. Do you want to alarm the president?"

Cui Yingdao's eyes became colder, and he looked at the manager in front of him with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, "Okay, I'll stay, but... don't blame me for what happens to you in the future."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the sink, put on his gloves with a cold face, and threw the remaining unwashed bowls into the sink, and the water splashed all over the ground immediately...

"thump--"

A huge splash was set off, and the people who were thrown into the swimming pool emerged from the water surface, flicked the water droplets from their hair, and climbed up laughingly, and then someone came up with bath towels to wrap the drenched bodies of those people. live.

"Okay, the next loser will also perform diving!"

The booing sound suddenly sounded from the crowd.

Liu Zhixi looked at the happy crowd and rubbed his dizzy head after drinking a few glasses of wine.

Jin Tan also drank a few glasses of wine in such an atmosphere, but he often attended such parties when he was in the United States, and his drinking capacity was much better than Zhi Xi's. Although he also had a faint smell of alcohol, he was still sober.

"You stand here first, I'll get you a glass of ice water." Seeing that Zhixi's eyes were already a little drunk, he said, and went to the table not far away to find ice water to sober her up.

Jin Yuan was wearing a dark blue knitted sweater and a tan cashmere coat outside. When he was about to go out after meeting a major shareholder in the Crystal Hotel, he caught a glimpse of Liu Zhixi standing with Liu Zhixi in the venue on the first floor. Golden sigh.

He stopped in his footsteps, with a complex light in his eyes, and walked towards the venue.

"Sir, I'm sorry, do you have an invitation card?" The security guard asked Jin Yuan responsibly.

"President Kim," Lee Hyo-shin, who was wearing a formal suit, called out to Jin Yuan in surprise, and then said to the security personnel, "He is someone I know, let him in."

The security guards bypassed and let Jin Yuan enter the venue.

Jin Yuan just nodded lightly to Li Xiaoxin and then walked directly in the direction of Jin Tan.

"What's the matter, I always feel that the atmosphere... Be good." Li Xiaoxin took a sip of the wine in his glass, curled his lips and walked away.

As soon as Jin Tan picked up the ice water and turned around, he saw Jin Yuan standing behind him with a cold expression.

"What are you doing here?" Jin Yuan glanced at Jin Tan.

"Ah... Zhixi is a little drunk, I'll get a glass of ice water..."

"So I'm asking you, what are you doing." Before Jin Tan could finish speaking, Jin Yuan interrupted him directly.

"Brother..." Jin Tan called the expressionless Jin Yuan nervously.

There was a trace of disdain in Jin Yuan's eyes, "That's why I asked my father to send you to the United States, you look like this..." He raised his eyes and glanced at Jin Tan, "It's really annoying."

Jin Tan tightened his hands hanging on one side, and stared straight at Jin Yuan, "Brother, what do you mean, at the beginning...was it the brother who asked me to go to America?"

"Yes, what?" Jin Yuan snorted softly, "Are you allowed to continue to cause unfavorable public opinion to the Imperial Group? I have tolerated you and the in-laws of rs International, so don't... challenge my bottom line again. You should Do you know how much damage it will bring to the Imperial Group if you follow your own heart?" After saying the last sentence, Jin Yuan stopped looking at Jin Tan and walked out of the venue.

Jin Tan's fists were tightly clenched, and his knuckles were also white. After a long time, he let go of his fists, with deep frustration in his eyes.

When he walked towards the place where Zhixi was with gloomy eyes, he saw her curled up on the single sofa in the corner of the venue, with her face pressed against the sofa, her eyes covered with faint drunkenness.

There was a subconscious pause in her footsteps, and finally she walked slowly in front of her, and put the ice water on the table beside her.

He stood where he was, with little ripples in his eyes but just stared at her quietly.

As if she felt his sight, her slender eyelashes trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes. Her fair cheeks were now stained a little pink by alcohol, and she looked up at the man standing in front of her. Golden sigh.

Jin Tan's lips moved but he didn't speak. He stared at her with his head down, and suddenly bent down and kissed her lips gently.

With a cool wind, several circles of ripples on the surface of the swimming pool were blown across the entire open-air venue.

Her black hair fluttered in the air, slowly covering the expressions of the two of them...

Standing not far away with a wine glass in his hand, Li Xiaoxin looked at this scene with a look of surprise, "omo, did I see something I shouldn't have seen?"

"Senior Xiaoxin, the people in front are going crazy, what are you still doing here!" Li Baona also walked over from the front at this time.

Li Xiaoxin hurriedly turned around, put the wine aside and walked towards Li Baona, "Ah... let's go over there now, shall we?" He pressed Li Baona's shoulders and turned her around, and then pushed her She walked to the other side of the venue.

"Yah, what are you doing, senior? What should we do if we Canrong see you like this!" Li Baona dissatisfiedly wanted to slap Li Xiaoxin's hand away, but he still forcibly pushed it to the other side.

Feeling the warm temperature on her mouth, Zhixi tried her best to see the somewhat blurred figure in front of her, but finally fell asleep with her head tilted slightly when she was drunk.

Seeing her sleeping deeply, Jin Tan sighed helplessly, and gently hugged her who had fallen asleep into his arms, an elusive light flashed in his eyes.

"I... don't want the Imperial Group, nor do I want to stay in that family. I... just want to protect the people I cherish."

He murmured these words, looked down tenderly at her in his arms, slightly raised the corners of his mouth, and hugged her even tighter. l3l4