Chapter 51: The Grand Banquet
Chapter Fifty-One: The Grand Banquet （3）
As they reached the center of the venue, Qing Tian suddenly remembered something and said, rather dampening the mood, “How is Xia Yang?”
The man in black frowned and said with some displeasure, “You seem quite concerned about him!”
Without even thinking, Qing Tian blurted out, “He’s my brother. If I don’t care about him, who else would I care about besides you?”
Hearing the word “brother,” the man in black stopped and asked with doubt, “Brother? Are you and Xia Yang biological siblings?”
Qing Tian looked at the man in black with a distinct lack of cooperation, her expression proud as she said, “No, but if you want to know… I just won’t tell you! Hmph… you can guess all you want. I’m hungry, let’s go eat something!”
Before she could even walk away, she was pulled back by the man in black, who warned, “Don’t leave my side for even half a step, or you’ll be devoured by the wolves inside!”
Hearing the man in black’s words, Qing Tian looked around at everyone in the venue. They were indeed terrifying in appearance, but she was truly hungry. What should she do?
Seeing Qing Tian’s wronged little expression, the man in black finally relented. He reached out and patted Qing Tian’s head, saying, “Silly girl…”
This one phrase, “silly girl,” brought Qing Tian back to reality. Only one person had ever called her that.
Out of habit, she put up her cold facade. She reached out to push away the man in black’s hand and said in an icy tone, “The permission for this hair has already been given to someone else!”
The man in black asked disbelievingly, “I’m quite curious. You have exclusive permissions for everything about you, even your first kiss. I wonder who is so fortunate to have earned the favor of Miss Qing?”
Hearing the man in black say that, Qing Tian felt a sarcastic undertone in his words. She said with a sense of loss, “It’s not that he was fortunate to gain my favor, but rather that I was fortunate to have been able to silently love him for many years!”
The man in black probed again, “Does he know? Girls like you should be very popular!”
Qing Tian’s mood grew even more melancholic. Was she really as popular as he said? Recalling the people at school, it seemed everyone intended to isolate her. She said with a bitter smile, “We don’t know each other anyway, and you and he are not from the same world, but there’s no harm in saying it. He is Ji Xiangyu, the successor of the Ji Family in this city. Do you think someone like me, from a grassroots background, could have a future with him?”
The man in black seemed shocked by this answer. His tone became somewhat excited as he said, “The Ji Family is indeed very powerful, but how can you know the outcome without trying? Don’t you feel any regret?”
Qing Tian shook her head, looking at the man in black, who was also wearing a mask, and said, “If some things are known to have no outcome, why bother starting them? What regret could there be?”
The man in black disagreed, gripping her shoulders. The strength in his hands was a bit much, and he said with some excitement, “Perhaps things are not as you think?”
Qing Tian was confused. The grip was a bit painful, and she struggled to break free from the man in black’s hold. Why did he always insist on forcing her to speak? She said helplessly, “These things are no longer important. The most important thing right now is that I need to eat. I’m starving, Young Master Feng!”
The man in black hid the faint trace of sadness in his eyes and led Qing Tian to the dining area.
However, upon reaching the dining area, Qing Tian lost her appetite. She looked at the dazzling array of food but had no desire to eat. Finally, she went to the dessert section and asked for a strawberry mousse.
The man in black asked with concern, “Didn’t you say you were very hungry? Why did you only get a cake?”
Qing Tian’s eyes beneath the mask were filled with loss, and her voice lacked its earlier liveliness. She said, “Looking at it makes me not want to eat. Is there any alcohol? I’d rather have a couple of drinks!”
The man in black blurted out, “You have a low tolerance for alcohol, you’ll get drunk!”
Qing Tian looked at the man in black with doubt and asked, “How do you know I have a low tolerance for alcohol?”
The man in black avoided Qing Tian’s gaze and quickly explained, “Because you look like someone who wouldn’t drink!”
Qing Tian looked at the man in black, half-believing, and felt that his eyes were very similar to Ji Xiangyu’s.
She reached out and touched the man in black’s mask, her gaze more focused than ever. She said slowly, “Do we know each other?”
The man in black looked at her, not even blinking, and gently shook his head.
Qing Tian smiled softly and then began to eat her cake by herself.
If he didn’t want to say, then so be it. She, Qing Tian, didn’t like to force others.
Qing Tian’s sudden low mood made the man in black a bit flustered. He asked with concern, “Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to leave here?!”
Qing Tian simply kept a cold expression on her face, eating her cake, completely treating the man in black as if he were air.
The man in black directly reached out and touched Qing Tian’s forehead. The moment his warm palm touched her forehead, the familiar jasmine scent and the man in black’s habitual small gestures made Qing Tian even more suspicious. This man in black must know her, but she wasn’t sure if he was Ji Xiangyu, because their personalities were too different.
Qing Tian turned her head to look into the man in black’s eyes beneath his mask, gazing deeply into them, and silently thought, “Is it you? Ji Xiangyu…”
As if sensing her thoughts, the man in black turned his head to meet her affectionate gaze. In the venue, where only night lights were on, the people inside danced enthusiastically under the dim light, while they seemed to transcend time and space, with all surrounding sounds turning into a time tunnel.
In their world, only each other remained, gazing at each other affectionately in this magnificent castle.
Looking into each other’s hearts!
