The Cold-hearted CEO's Unwanted Bride
Chapter 28: Is He Worried About Qin Yan?

Chapter 28: Chapter 28: Is He Worried About Qin Yan?

The room was packed, there were even reporters—so many people watching a bodyguard punching and kicking a woman, yet not a single one stepped in to stop it; they only cared to snap photos.

As soon as Bo Yunshen opened the door, everyone inside turned to look over, and upon seeing Bo Yunshen, Lin Han’s body stiffened for a moment!

The moment Gu Jinyan got close, he recognized the person lying on the ground. He nudged Bo Yunshen and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Old Bo, isn’t that the young lady from your company’s public relations department? Has public relations moved to the bedroom now?"

Bo Yunshen heaved a sigh of relief as he too recognized the person lying on the ground with a broken leg and a fading consciousness—she was Wang Jing from the public relations department.

"Young Mr. Bo—please, let me explain..."

Lin Han thought that Bo Yunshen had come to hold him accountable because his wife had beaten Wang Jing to this state. He stuttered for a while but couldn’t get a word out.

As soon as Bo Yunshen appeared, the reporters exploded with activity, stepping forward with their microphones aimed at him.

"Young Mr. Bo, why are you here? As everyone knows, the lady on the floor is an employee of Bo Group’s public relations department. Her appearance here with Lin Han—is it just a coincidence?"

"Mr. Bo, with you rushing over here in such a hurry, could it be because there’s a relationship between you and Miss Wang that goes beyond simply being a superior and subordinate?"

Seeing that the person wasn’t Qin Yan, Bo Yunshen pushed aside the layer of microphones in front of him and carved a path through the swarm of reporters, heading straight for the hotel exit.

After shaking off the reporters, Bo Yunshen sat in his car, his complexion as tranquil as water. Gu Jinyan glanced at him and asked in a low voice, "Old Bo, you came all this way, don’t tell me it was just to join the excitement!"

"The look on your face just now, it was clearly one of concern. Come clean, which lady did you mistake that public relations employee, Miss Wang, for?"

Concern?

The wrinkles in Bo Yunshen’s brows deepened. Was he worried about Qin Yan?

Impossible!

He admitted that when he saw Wang Jing’s silhouette in the newspaper and thought it resembled Qin Yan’s, he did feel a bit uneasy.

But it wasn’t worry for Qin Yan; it was only because Qin Yan was still, nominally, Mrs. Bo. If she became embroiled in a scandal of being the ’other woman,’ he would be the one to lose face in the end!

He is Bo Yunshen—countless women in Tong City would do anything for a chance to climb into his bed, yet they had no opportunity!

And the actual Mrs. Bo deigned to willingly become the ’other woman’ for somebody? He couldn’t afford to lose that face!

Exactly!

Bo Yunshen affirmed to himself once again, he wouldn’t worry about Qin Yan; the only concern was his own reputation!

He was worried that Qin Yan might be stirring up yet another scandal over his head!

"Old Gu, are you out of your mind? As a man, you’re more gossipy than women every day?!"

Bo Yunshen muttered under his breath, the gloom in his heart dispersing with his own thoughts, even forgetting about his previous concerns.

Seeing Bo Yunshen was even in the mood for a joke, Gu Jinyan’s eyebrows lifted again; his playful eyes swept over Bo Yunshen and he asked, "Truly nothing?"

The corners of Bo Yunshen’s mouth twitched, eliciting a sneer slightly mismatched with his handsome features.

The only woman who could make Bo Yunshen worry was Manman, and... Manman had already left Tong City three years ago.

When Qin Yan woke up, it was already daylight.

The ground beneath her was cold; she sat up abruptly, surveying her surroundings and her memories momentarily flooded back.

Yesterday, taking advantage of her trip to the restroom, Tang Tian locked the door from the outside.

The floor of Night Club was tiled, and her body couldn’t help but shiver from the cold as she propped herself up against the door and crawled up from the ground.

As soon as she moved, a searing pain tore through her head, making her gasp for air. She reached out to pat the door and shouted loudly, "Is anybody there? Open the door!"

During the day, Night Club was as silent as a dead city, not a streak of light penetrated inside. Even in daylight, it was as dim as dusk.

The faint smell of last night’s incense lingered in the air, and Qin Yan’s body grew colder and colder.

Ever since three years ago, when Bo Yunshen had locked her in the bedroom, she had developed a fear of this kind of suffocating silence that gave her the feeling as if she were the only person left in the world.

It felt as though ghostly spirits lurked behind her, and Qin Yan’s body stiffened further. Her fingers stretched out and she continued to slap the restroom door loudly.

"Open the door! Somebody help!"

There was nothing in the entire Night Club but her own unsettling echo.

Panic surged in Qin Yan’s heart, her palms stung with the heat from the forceful patting, and her throat also began to ache from shouting too loudly.

Having not changed position all night, her entire body was sore and achy, her bones emanated a bone-chilling cold, and her chest felt as though a gaping hole had been torn open, letting an inrush of icy winds.

"Open the door—"

No matter how Qin Yan called or yelled, there was no response except for her voice breaking, becoming hoarse and unpleasant.

Qin Yan pursed her cracked lips, her throat burned painfully as if on fire. She had been shouting for half an hour, during which time she had become utterly disillusioned and had to admit a harsh truth.

There was no one in Night Club.

Not a single person.

She forced herself to calm down and stood in front of the large mirror; she saw her own reflection, a solitary figure, even she herself felt pity looking at it.

Qin Yan just felt that her luck was unbelievably bad.

All night, no one had discovered that there was still a person in Night Club’s restroom!

She had been to Night Club a few times before and knew that it only opened at night, but she didn’t expect that there would be no one during the day.

It was a place frequented by the rich and powerful, a vast space, yet now only she was there.

Qin Yan felt it was both laughable and sad!

She pinched her swollen, painful throat. Standing in high heels for a long time made Qin Yan’s feet start to ache. In places like bars, partitions were added all around the room, originally intended to block sound.

But the resulting construction was cold and gloomy. This season, Qin Yan felt an early touch of biting, bone-deep cold.

...

By the time Bo Yunshen and Gu Jinyan got back to Bo Group, it was almost closing time.

Gu Jinyan was still curious about whether Bo Yunshen had any close female friends, but despite his curiosity, he did not ask. Instead, he kept discussing with Bo Yunshen whether they should acquire the stocks of GR Building Materials.

Gu Jinyan pulled up the stock market information for GR Building Materials for Bo Yunshen to see. He said, "GR’s stocks have dropped to an all-time low. After Lin Han and Mrs. Lin finish their debacle, they will surely need to do some PR, and their stocks will definitely recover..."