My gorgeous wife
Chapter 637 - 609: Are you leaving on your own or should I escort you?

Chapter 637: Chapter 609: Are you leaving on your own or should I escort you?

Li Chen played, and it wasn’t just piano music.

It was also a series of encounters he had after meeting Lin Yi.

Perhaps, at the beginning, this marriage was just a game for him, and he had long been accustomed to playing games with life.

But gradually, he realized that he had truly fallen in love with Lin Yi, fallen in love with this woman.

This piece perfectly captured his journey from their first meeting to falling in love.

As the piece ended, silence enveloped the surroundings until Li Chen walked down from the stage, prompting many people to come to their senses.

"Is it over already? But why do I feel like it’s still unfinished?"

At this moment, sporadic applause began to sound.

And as one person led the applause, more and more people awakened from the beautiful music, and enthusiastic clapping filled the entire bar.

If Zhang Wei’s performance was merely mechanical, then Li Chen’s was truly a performance, integrating life into the notes and resonating with everyone.

However, when people came to their senses and tried to find Li Chen, they discovered he was nowhere to be found.

At this time, Li Chen was sitting at the bar they had reserved, drinking.

"Brother-in-law, you were absolutely fantastic!" Lin Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but exclaim as she looked at Li Chen.

"Yes, you were amazing!" Ning Mei’er, sitting nearby, also couldn’t help but speak: "When I listened to you play, I forgot where I was."

Li Chen just smiled, took a sip of alcohol, and said nothing.

Only Zhang Wei, sitting next to Ning Mei’er, looked somewhat upset.

How could he not be upset?

The piano was his proudest skill, yet he had been completely overshadowed in his own area of expertise, and without a single word being spoken.

After Li Chen’s performance, no one even compared the two.

Because they knew clearly that the two were not on the same level; thus, there was no point in comparing them.

Zhang Wei’s expression was incredibly sour.

"Come on, don’t think too much, just practice more, right?" At this point, Ning Mei’er seemed to notice something was off with Zhang Wei and quickly spoke up to comfort him.

Li Chen also looked up at Zhang Wei, his eyes briefly flashing an unusual brilliance.

Perhaps others couldn’t see it, but he had noticed something peculiar about Zhang Wei.

"I know." Zhang Wei forced a smile and said, "This brother’s skills are indeed much superior to mine, I admit my inferiority in this respect!"

Having said that, Zhang Wei raised his glass to Li Chen: "Here’s to you."

Li Chen still did not speak, but he raised his glass and clinked it against Zhang Wei’s.

"Excuse me, I need to use the restroom." After drinking, Zhang Wei quickly excused himself and left.

"Sore loser." Sitting next to Li Chen, Lin Xiaoxiao muttered quietly upon seeing Zhang Wei’s manner.

Li Chen turned his head to look at Lin Xiaoxiao: "And what did you notice this time?"

"I’m not blind!" Lin Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at Li Chen: "That guy’s jealous, hehe, but my brother-in-law is so impressive! Not only can he fight, but he’s also amazing at playing the piano!"

Li Chen smiled and nodded; indeed, Zhang Wei’s performance had not been up to par, even Lin Xiaoxiao had noticed something off.

However, Ning Mei’er seemed not to have realized it yet.

It seems that a woman in love truly does have a lowered IQ.

Still, Li Chen didn’t say anything; if that guy kept to himself, he wouldn’t bother with him, but if he tried any tricks, that would be a different story.

"Are you ready?" Leaving Li Chen and others behind, Zhang Wei came to a corner of the bar’s corridor, where the seductive woman he had met earlier was standing.

"Don’t worry, it’s all set," the woman said earnestly, "But are you sure you won’t really end up with her after you get her?"

"Haven’t I already promised you? Why don’t you believe me?" Zhang Wei frowned upon hearing the woman’s words: "I’ve even recorded a video; are you still afraid I’ll renege?"

"Okay!" The woman nodded upon hearing Zhang Wei’s words: "I’ll send the drinks over later, and as soon as they drink them, they’ll collapse right away."

"You’re sure there’s no problem?"

"Positive!"

Zhang Wei nodded and then returned to the bar where Li Chen and the others were.

"I apologize for my earlier rudeness; now let me make it up to you." Zhang Wei’s face was back to smiling as he looked at Li Chen and the others: "After all, I’m the host here, yet I had you joining me for a drink; that was my mistake."

"I admit, seeing this brother’s piano skills earlier, I did feel a bit down, but now, I’ve recovered. I just ordered a few bottles of drinks, as an apology for my earlier rudeness."

Zhang Wei cheerfully addressed the three people.

Li Chen and Lin Xiaoxiao remained noncommittal, with only Ning Mei’er showing a touched expression: "It’s really good of you to do this."

At that moment, a woman suddenly appeared next to the bar.

"Sir, here is the wine you ordered." The woman and Zhang Wei exchanged a glance before she placed the wine on the table and quickly turned to leave.

Upon seeing the wine that was served, a barely concealable excitement flashed in Zhang Wei’s eyes.

"Come on, let’s drink!"

Zhang Wei enthusiastically poured wine for the three of them and then raised his glass.

Lin Xiaoxiao and Ning Mei’er both raised their glasses, but Li Chen just looked at Zhang Wei with a half-smiling expression, without moving.

"Brother-in-law?" Noticing that Li Chen hadn’t moved, Lin Xiaoxiao also stopped and called out to him curiously.

"I mean, if you’re going to drug the drink, you could at least mix the medicine evenly into the wine." Li Chen swirled the wine in his glass, pointed to the white sediment slowly dissolving at the bottom, and said.

This guy is too unprofessional, isn’t he? Even if he drugged the wine, he did it so unprofessionally. Li Chen didn’t even feel like criticizing him anymore.

"What... what are you talking about? What drugging?" Zhang Wei stammered as he looked at Li Chen after hearing his words.

Li Chen shook his head somewhat helplessly and looked at Lin Xiaoxiao and Ning Mei’er beside him: "You might want to check the bottom of your glasses."

Upon hearing this, the two women looked at the bottoms of their glasses and indeed, just as Li Chen had said, there was still undissolved white sediment.

Clearly, this substance should not be present in the wine.

"You..." Ning Mei’er looked at Zhang Wei with a face full of disappointment.

Initially, she had a good impression of Zhang Wei. Although he had lost to Li Chen on the piano, she liked him, but Zhang Wei had clearly disappointed her.

"I... I didn’t do anything!" Zhang Wei, seeing the expressions on their faces, hurriedly denied everything as his face changed color.

"If you didn’t drug the wine, then would you dare to take a sip of it?" Li Chen raised his eyebrows as he looked at Zhang Wei.

This guy was really disgusting.

If he had been honest, maybe Li Chen wouldn’t have said much, but this guy was obviously not straightforward, having resorted to such a despicable technique as drugging.

Is this how you try to woo a girl?

This man was a disgrace to all womanizers!

Li Chen felt indignant in his heart.

"Come on, either you punish yourself with a bottle, and we’ll believe you didn’t drug anyone." Li Chen’s face suddenly broke into a smile, and instead of raising his glass, he picked up a bottle from the table and approached Zhang Wei.

"Come on, brave man, down this bottle. Actually, I was just kidding with you earlier." Li Chen laughed as he brought the bottle toward Zhang Wei’s mouth.

Seeing Li Chen’s actions, Zhang Wei’s face turned pale.

He knew that the wine contained a high concentration of sleeping powder; a normal person would pass out after just one glass.

And with a whole bottle of this liquor, even without the drug, anyone would be floored; if he really drank it, he probably wouldn’t be able to get up again.

"Uh... maybe we shouldn’t." Zhang Wei said with an awkward expression.

Li Chen shook his head: "I’m also doing this to prove your innocence, aren’t I? Look, Mei’er is still watching you. If you finish this bottle, you’ll be a hero, a real man, and Mei’er will definitely admire you."

"After all, no one likes someone who only pulls dirty tricks behind people’s backs, whose mind is full of dark and sneaky plots, and who resorts to drugging when he can’t woo a girl, do they?" Li Chen said with a smile.

Zhang Wei: "..."

Is this really the way to insult someone?

Moreover, he couldn’t even rebuke without playing right into Li Chen’s hands.

Which meant, no matter how Li Chen insulted him, he just had to accept it.

"I think... maybe we shouldn’t, right?" Zhang Wei said, his face looking quite unwell.

"Why not? Of course, we should!" Li Chen laughed.

"Oh?" Suddenly, a cell phone appeared in Li Chen’s hand, "Whose phone is this? There seems to be some interesting videos in here. Come on, let’s take a look!"

Seeing this phone, Zhang Wei instinctively reached into his pocket.

It was indeed his.

A sudden sinking feeling hit Zhang Wei’s heart.

By then, Li Chen had already started playing the videos on the phone, and Zhang Wei could no longer stop him.

"Ah~~ harder! Why are you so useless! Ah~~ you skinny shorty, did you eat dinner tonight?!"

Hearing the voices coming from the video, everyone couldn’t help but feel embarrassed because the video showed Zhang Wei being intimate with another woman.

"Uh... I played the wrong one!" Li Chen, seeing the two girls beside him blushing, quickly switched to another video.

And the content of the video now playing was the previous conversation between Zhang Wei and the woman about plotting against Ning Mei’er.

"Zhang Wei, I didn’t expect you to be such a person." Disappointment filled Ning Mei’er’s eyes.

At that moment, Li Chen also turned his head to look at Zhang Wei: "Are you leaving on your own, or should I send you on your way?"

Zhang Wei hadn’t even recovered when suddenly a leather shoe stamped on his face, and he was sent flying instantly.