Melodies of Love and Loss

Jiang Yan saw her grave expression, and considering that Zhou Lu had also disappeared for a while, she couldn't help but make a connection.

After dinner, everyone clamored to go sing at the karaoke, and as hosts, Su Jian and Jiang Yan naturally didn't want to dampen the spirits.

Ye Nuannuan seemed to have drunk too much, hardly able to stand steadily, yet she insisted on going to karaoke with everyone. In the end, she was restrained in Zhou Lu's embrace, "We're going home."

Those brief three words were filled with endless indulgence.

Ye Nuannuan looked at him with a smile, and unabashedly planted a kiss on his face in front of everyone, coquettishly and forthrightly saying, "Okay, let's go home for some 'serious business'..."

The crowd, of course, couldn't help but tease them again.

Zhou Lu's lips curved slightly as he held Ye Nuannuan and left straight away.

Su Jian's expression remained unchanged, warmly inviting everyone to the KTV, and the looks she received seemed to shimmer with light.

Besides Ye Nuannuan, Su Jian was the woman most talked about tonight.

Su Jian not only had a face that was seductively enchanting, but her figure was also curvaceous and graceful; that slim waist of hers was irresistibly pinchable.

Though Ye Nuannuan was beautiful, compared in terms of figure, she fell far short of Su Jian, always lacking a certain charm.

In the room, except for Jiang Yan and Song Yan, no one knew that Su Jian and Zhou Lu had once had a relationship, so during the KTV session, the men were all eager to curry favor with Su Jian.

When someone asked if Su Jian had a partner, she smiled gracefully and said, "I already have a boyfriend."

Song Yan's eyes showed a touch of surprise as he joked, "Well, looks like you guys have no chance."

The gathering continued until one or two in the morning before everyone dispersed and headed home.

After Jiang Yan finished freshening up in the bathroom, she came out to find Su Jian sitting on the couch, lost in thought. Jiang Yan's towel-drying paused, "Are you thinking about Zhou Lu and Ye Nuannuan?"

Su Jian distractedly pinched her fingers, denying, "No."

Jiang Yan suddenly said, "The two of them won't last long."

Quickly realizing her slip of the tongue, Jiang Yan's face showed a trace of annoyance.

Surprised, Su Jian looked at her, "Why?"

Jiang Yan's gaze flickered as she briefly said, "Just a feeling."

Su Jian thought she was acting a bit odd but didn't think too much of it.

Ye Nuannuan was indeed a very popular girl, and the most important thing was, she knew how to handle Zhou Lu.

Even when Su Jian was with Zhou Lu before, she never felt she had a firm grasp on him, but Nuannuan seemed to have Zhou Lu completely under her thumb tonight.

In the private room, as soon as Su Jian mentioned her girlfriend, Zhou Lu's face changed immediately, which was also an indirect proof of Ye Nuannuan's significant status in Zhou Lu's mind.

Zhou Lu didn't want Ye Nuannuan to know about these dirty secrets, yet he had to come and revile her, which Su Jian found extremely ironic.

Su Jian's studio had just been established not long ago, and there were too many things she needed to handle, often busying herself to the point of forgetting to eat or sleep.

That day, Su Jian felt unwell from the moment she got up, but she didn't pay it much attention. As a result, she fainted in the conference room during a meeting that morning.

When she woke up, the first thing she saw was Zhou Lu wearing a white lab coat.

Su Jian frowned slightly, just realizing she was in the hospital receiving an IV, as Zhou Lu passed in front of her and went to check on the patient in the next bed, not sparing her an extra glance from beginning to end.

Su Jian touched her forehead, no wonder she had been feeling dizzy and blurry-eyed since the morning—it turned out she had a fever.

How did it happen that she was admitted to the hospital where Zhou Lu worked?

Su Jian closed her eyes in irritation, turned over, and faced away from them; out of sight, out of mind.