Chapter 60

Chapter 60: I Heard You Have a Problem Down There? Gu Zechuan finished his cigarette, but his agitation only grew instead of subsiding. He drove back to the hotel. Opening the door to his hotel room, he tugged at his tie in frustration and hung his jacket on the hook behind the door. When he looked up, he froze. On the large bed in the center of the room. Chen Wan lay there in a black lace slip dress, her figure alluring as she reclined on the bed. "Zechuan, you're back." Chen Wan's gaze was sultry, her voice seductive. The scene was extremely tempting. Gu Zechuan felt his blood rush, his mind exploding with a bang. He was already aroused, but he still held back, his expression displeased. "What are you doing here?" Chen Wan's eyes were seductive as silk. "Waiting for you." "Get out!" Gu Zechuan frowned, his tone icy. "No." Chen Wan's voice was dripping with allure. She got off the bed, swaying as she walked over to the man, grabbed his tie, smiled with charm, and leaned close to his ear, her breath like orchid. "Zechuan, let me stay with you tonight." Gu Zechuan tried to push the woman away. Chen Wan tugged at his tie, stood on her tiptoes, and pressed a kiss to his lips. Gu Zechuan let out a muffled groan but didn't refuse. The temperature in the room began to rise. Gu Zechuan shifted from passive to active, scooping Chen Wan up and roughly tossing her onto the bed. They indulged in a night of passion. The next morning, Gu Zechuan woke up naturally. The moment he opened his eyes and saw Chen Wan's face so close to his, he jolted fully awake in shock. He sat up with a sudden spring, demanding angrily, "Why are you here?" Chen Wan blushed and said shyly, "Zechuan, we indulged all night last night. You took me so many times—don't you remember?" Gu Zechuan was stunned. His gaze drifted downward, and he saw the clothes scattered messily on the floor and the torn black stockings. The absurd scenes from last night flooded back into his mind. Gu Zechuan cursed in frustration, got up, and began dressing. "Zechuan, where are you going?" Chen Wan quickly reached out to grab him. "Let go!" Gu Zechuan shook off Chen Wan's hand. "I warned you before—don't come seducing me again. Right now, the only person in my heart is Chu Tang!" "Heh." Chen Wan laughed. "Only Ruan Chutang in your heart? You were clearly happy when you were with me last night. Why deny your feelings for me? You still like me, don't you?" Gu Zechuan sneered. "Don't you know men can separate sex from love? Besides, when I was with you, all I thought about was Chu Tang. Otherwise, why do you think I wanted you so many times?" "You—" All the color drained from Chen Wan's face. "Gu Zechuan, you bastard!" Gu Zechuan took a clean shirt from the wardrobe and put it on. "I'm a bastard—didn't you already know that?" He laughed bitterly, a hint of desolation in his smile. "If I weren't a bastard, would I have gotten involved with you before breaking up with Chu Tang? If I weren't a bastard, would I have lost Chu Tang?" Hearing this, Chen Wan suddenly laughed. "So you knew all along." A hint of mockery flashed in her eyes. "You really are trash who knows exactly what he is." ... Jiang Group. CEO's Office. Jiang Shixu frowned slightly. "Well? Did you find out who took Chen Jingsu that day?" Assistant Lin Sen reported, "Based on surveillance footage, we can confirm that the people who kidnapped Miss Ruan Jiaojiao on the day of the engagement ceremony and the ones who took Chen Jingsu are the same group." "We've traced Chen Jingsu to having already fled the country illegally, but we haven't identified who took her that day. Neither the private investigators we hired nor the police have made new progress. Every time a new lead appears, it quickly goes cold—we hit a dead end halfway through." Jiang Shixu furrowed his brow in thought. "It seems the person behind them is not to be underestimated." His fingers tapped rhythmically on the edge of the desk. "Did you ask the Gu family?" Lin Sen said, "We did. Their story is the same as before—they claim the young master of the Gu family didn't know Chen Jingsu was your admirer, and that they were simply a casual couple." ... Friday morning. Shengke Law Firm. Chen Lili, the head of the Litigation Department, posted a message in the group chat. 【Department dinner tonight—Litigation Department colleagues are welcome to join voluntarily. I'll send the time and location to the group later.】 Not long after the message went out, Yu Jiaojiao came to privately message Ruan Chutang. 【Lawyer Ruan, are you going tonight?】 Yu Jiaojiao had always been close to Chu Tang. Ever since Chu Tang saved Yu Jiaojiao's life from the thugs, the young woman had been both grateful and admiring of Chu Tang, practically becoming her little fangirl. Later, Chen Lili, the head of the Litigation Department, assigned Yu Jiaojiao to be Ruan Chutang's assistant, and now the two had become friends. Ruan Chutang replied: 【I'll go. It's not like I have anything to do after work anyway.】 Kong Weijie had been formally arrested for suspected criminal activity. Chen Yangyang had also been sued by Chu Tang for defamation and rumor-mongering. After the court accepted the case, Chen Yangyang couldn't face staying at the firm any longer and resigned voluntarily. Now the colleagues at the firm were all easy to get along with, and Chu Tang quite liked them, so she naturally wanted to attend the department dinner. Yu Jiaojiao replied quickly. 【Great! If Lawyer Ruan goes, I'll go too!】 The dinner spot was a standard, no-frills Western restaurant. After the meal, someone suggested moving on to a bar for drinks. Chu Tang thought about everything that had happened recently—she'd been wound tight every single day, exhausted. She really did need to unwind, so she agreed to go to the bar. It was a quiet lounge bar they went to. A few colleagues drank, chatted, and shot the breeze. Chu Tang was in good spirits and had a few drinks along with them. She'd never had a high tolerance for alcohol, and after a few glasses, she started losing her senses. "Let me tell you all—I... I am the Monkey King of Water Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain! You, you better pay your respects to me right now!" Chu Tang was completely plastered, her little face flushed red, stumbling as she walked. A few colleagues were drunk, slumped over the table, snoring away. A few others with better tolerance laughed and pulled out their phones to record videos. Among them was Yu Jiaojiao. To be precise, Yu Jiaojiao didn't have a good tolerance—she couldn't drink at all. She'd come along just to keep Chu Tang company. She was worried Chu Tang might get into trouble if she drank too much, so she'd followed to watch over her. Little did she expect she'd made the right call. Chu Tang hadn't even had that many drinks before she was completely wasted. Seeing Chu Tang go on a drunken rampage, Yu Jiaojiao found it amusing and pulled out her phone to record, even playing along by shouting: "Pay respects to the Monkey King!" Chu Tang giggled. "Let me tell you all, my husband—he is... the best husband in the whole world. He's liked me for ages, you know? Hehehe..." Yu Jiaojiao laughed while recording. "Oh? That sweet, huh." "Let me tell you a secret. Don't be fooled by how handsome my husband is, but actually he..." Another colleague who was still sober asked with a grin: "He what?" The drunk Chu Tang let out two more silly laughs. "I'm not afraid of you guys laughing at me. My husband seems to... have a bit of a problem in that department..." At the bar counter. "Pfft—" A strikingly handsome, almost bewitchingly beautiful man burst out laughing the moment he heard Ruan Chutang say her husband had a problem in that department. After he'd had his fill of laughter, he pulled out his phone and sent a message. 【Heard you've got a problem in that department?】