Boss Lu: A reborn life is destined to be without regrets!
Chapter 396 - 295. Echoing Slap in the Hall_2

Chapter 396: 295. Echoing Slap in the Hall_2

Zhou Sinning pouted her lips, feeling that her best friend wasn’t quite herself today.

Of course, she could vaguely guess a bit of the reason.

But she wasn’t sure.

"It’s hard to get a cab during the New Year’s holiday; have him lend you a car to drive you."

"Forget it, it’s too much trouble, and it’s far anyway, no need."

Guan Yongyi shook her head in refusal.

"This is also your first time traveling together; cherish the time and enjoy yourselves, and besides..."

She stretched out her index finger, pointing meaningfully toward Zhou Sinin’s chest through the air.

"You just exhausted yourself, you should take this opportunity to rest and recuperate."

"Oh, it’s okay, I’ll send him a message!"

Zhou Sinin insisted excitedly, determined to see Guan Yongyi to the station.

"Look, it’s too late now, don’t wait; I’ll just call a cab myself."

A few minutes later, Lu Jincheng seemed to be contacting Xie Yujia to borrow a car, but there was still no response.

Guan Yongyi waved her hand, pulling her suitcase toward the elevator while taking out her phone to call a car.

"I don’t know what he’s doing, so slow..."

Zhou Sinin also stood up, helping her best friend pull out the room card and they both entered the elevator.

...

First floor, Kempinski Hotel Lobby.

The receptionist, Xiao Li, was busily operating the computer, greeting one customer after another.

Due to the New Year’s holiday, the hotel was extremely busy, answering all sorts of customer queries required considerable patience.

The line was neither too short nor too long, but soon it was the turn for two new customers to check out, causing Xiao Li to brighten up.

A short-haired and a long-haired beauty stood side by side, one helping with the suitcase, the other handing over the room card, both stunningly gorgeous.

"Room 1302, right, Miss Guan?"

"Correct."

The short-haired beauty nodded, lifting her wrist to check the time, expressionless.

"Miss Guan, there’s an expense of 1,300 yuan from your room; would you like it deducted from the deposit or paid separately?"

As the room card was swiped, Xiao Li’s attention turned to the computer screen, asking with a smile.

"...What?"

Guan Yongyi suddenly seemed to recall something, her expression becoming extremely anxious, her voice immediately lowered.

"Take it from the deposit."

But as a receptionist, having a loud voice is a required skill and a basic competency.

Xiao Li’s question was heard loud and clear by the thoroughly bored Zhou Sinin standing next to Guan Yongyi.

She, too, was a gossip, standing right beside Guan Yongyi, asking with a smile.

"Eh?"

"What’s this bill about, what cost 1,300 yuan?"

...

Guan Yongyi’s heart tightened, still unsure of how to respond.

Suddenly, the voice at the reception rang out.

Deafeningly loud.

"That’s correct, it’s room 1302."

Seeing someone doubt her professionalism, Xiao Li couldn’t help but recheck the room number and bill, explaining again.

"One of the bed sheets was damaged; since all our bed sheets are imported, the compensation is 1,300 yuan."

"Alright, alright, just deduct it, let’s go."

Guan Yongyi tugged at her friend’s sleeve, her palms slightly sweaty.

She had accounted for everything but hadn’t expected a hitch at the last step of checking out.

But Zhou Sinning, who heard this conversation, didn’t seem inclined to move at all.

The brunette took two steps forward, positioning herself in front of Guan Yongyi, staring straight at Xiao Li at the front desk.

"Hello, I would like to ask again, if the bed sheet is damaged, why not just wash it?"

"Why... is full compensation necessary?"

Her usually soft voice was trembling.

"Just a moment, let me check the details."

Receptionist Xiao Li still wore a professional smile, her eight pearly white teeth gleaming.

"Housekeeping reported that the expense occurred on December 28th, when you cut out an entire piece from the middle of the bed sheet with scissors."

"I’m really sorry, but in this case, according to our policies, full compensation is indeed required."

Zhou Sinning suddenly fell silent.

She turned her head, looking at Guan Yongyi beside her.

Guan Yongyi looked back at her.

Their gazes met.

The lobby was bustling with noise, but the two best friends who had grown up together suddenly found themselves simultaneously voiceless.

They say intelligent women have the best fate, but also the hardest.

Being too sensitive is actually a pain.

Soiling a hotel bed sheet is something that could happen to anyone.

It’s not uncommon.

But cutting out a piece of the bed sheet with scissors in the middle is odd.

Odd to the point that normal people simply wouldn’t do such a thing.

It’s unreasonable.

Why cut the bed sheet?

What use is that cut piece?

Unless...

Something of significant sentimental value occurred on that bed sheet.

Yongyi experienced for the first time what it felt like for every second to be drawn out like years.

Until Zhou Sinning spoke again.

"Guan Guan, why did you cut up the bedsheet?"

Her voice was hoarse, her fists clenched, her expression almost twisted together.

"I was in a bad mood, so I cut it."

Yongyi replied.

"In a bad mood?"

Zhou Sinning suddenly laughed.

"December 28th was the concert, right? You just watched your idol’s concert, why would you be in a bad mood?"

"Do I need a reason to be in a bad mood?"

Yongyi said coldly, her eyebrows furrowed.

It was difficult to explain.

She couldn’t explain.

"So, were you too happy because someone was with you at the concert, or were you really in a bad mood?"

Near the front desk, people in line behind started to mutter softly.

Zhou Sinning showed no reaction.

At that moment, she seemed not to see anyone else, her eyes just fixed on Yongyi.

Yongyi bit her lip and said nothing.

"Yongyi, tell me!"

Zhou Sinning suddenly raised her voice, disregarding social decorum to ask again.

"Why cut the bedsheet?"

"I cut it because I felt like it. Why do you care?"

Yongyi kept a straight face, turned her head, and grabbed her rolling suitcase.

"I’m leaving, the taxi is about to arrive."

"Yongyi, were you sleeping alone?"

"The bedsheet got dirty, right?"

"It got bloody, right?"

"You wanted to keep it as a souvenir, so you cut up a piece from the middle, right?"

Zhou Sinning started in a low tone and then gradually increased her volume like the sea level rising under the sunset.

Her barrage of questions came one after the other, her voice piercing like a dagger into the heart.

"Tell me! Is it right or not?"

"Think whatever you like."

Yongyi turned and walked away.

But Zhou Sinning grabbed her arm with a firm grip, rendering her immobile.

"Is it right?"

"Yongyi, is it?"

Over and over, as if without an answer, she would never let go today.

"It’s true."

Yongyi let go of the suitcase, nodded firmly, an unprecedented smile on her lips.

"That’s how it is."

"If you knew it, why did you ask?"

...

Zhou Sinning’s eyes widened momentarily, her chest abruptly tightened.

She admitted it.

Yongyi actually admitted it?

That means...

Her continual unease, jealousy, and doubts, this was the answer?

Lu Jincheng and Yongyi really had a relation?

Really?

All of this was true?

The bedsheet was really the first spoils of war?

This damn thing was true?!

The two of them really slept together?

Her first time, first hug, first kiss, first overnight stay.

She and Lu Jincheng...

Had it all really happened?

But I...

Her mind went blank, leaving only instinctive reactions.

Amongst the whispers of the surrounding crowd, she forcefully pulled the short-haired girl’s body, swung her right arm, targeting her best friend’s delicate profile.

Slap!

The sound of the slap echoed through the lobby.

Louder than their conversation.

The short-haired girl’s black-framed glasses were sent flying to who knows where, and her cheek quickly turned a deep red.

The slap was extremely harsh, encompassing all the girl’s strength.

The strength of eighteen years.

Yet Yongyi was still smiling.

She squinted her eyes, looking directly at Zhou Sinning and Lu Jincheng, who had just appeared in the lobby, her lips slightly upturned.

"You’re truly shameless!"

Zhou Sinning’s tears flowed freely.