For a moment, she didn’t know how to react and foolishly took the wine glass.
Lu Wei, seeing this, quickly took the cup from her hand and downed it in one gulp: “I deserve the punishment. Qiqi is my junior sister, here for the first time today. Yi, just give me some face, alright?”
Zhou Yi didn’t insist and smiled as he took the empty glass, nodding toward Qiqi: “Alright, alright, I know you need to look after your junior sister. I’ll make myself scarce, okay?”
Lu Wei nodded.
After greeting a few important people, Lu Wei considerately settled Qiqi aside to rest, since he had invited her to have fun, not to deal with guests.
Qiqi sat in the lounge area, eating a bit and curiously looking around, when that handsome Zhou Yi approached again. He elegantly bowed to Qiqi and extended a hand: “Miss Gu, would you do me the honor of a dance?”
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Seeing Zhou Yi approach her again, Gu Qiqi’s hair stood on end, and alarm bells rang in her ears, like a rabbit spotting a sly, smiling fox with ill intent!
Zhou Yi! This guy was Zhou Zhibi’s own brother! The vice president of the MD Group! Though born into a prestigious family with generations of glory, according to Zhuang Ruotong’s investigation (that girl was obsessed with high-society gossip), he was no mere playboy.
Rumor had it that the current head of the MD Group was the Zhou family’s highest elder—Zhou Yi’s grandfather, Old Master Zhou. The old man was advanced in age and in poor health, living year-round in the US, so although Zhou Yi held the title of vice president, he was already exercising the old man’s decision-making authority over the entire Asian region. The Zhou bloodline had always been thin; Zhou Yi’s father had died young, leaving only Zhou Yi and Zhou Zhibi. So, in a few years, Zhou Yi would likely smoothly take over the MD Group.
Such a battle-hardened capitalist, a seasoned old fox, was definitely the type who devoured people without spitting out bones! So when he walked over in his suit and tie, exuding charm, Qiqi immediately went into combat mode.
A fox was a fox. Even if he smiled as harmlessly as Senior Brother Lu, rabbits would always sense his danger.
Gu Qiqi shook her head and declined: “Sorry, Young Master Zhou, I don’t really know how to dance.”
The fox extended his hand, his narrow eyes smiling gently: “No problem, I can teach you if you don’t know how.”
Gu Qiqi shook her head like a pendulum: “Sorry, I promised Senior Brother Lu that he would teach me to dance tonight.”
A flicker of light passed through the fox’s eyes: “Oh? Is that so? Miss Gu’s bond with Brother Lu is truly enviable!”
Gu Qiqi clenched her teeth, thinking, *Misunderstand all you want, I’m not falling for your tricks!*
But Zhou Yi’s tone shifted, becoming unhurried: “However, Miss Gu might be disappointed tonight—Brother Lu may not be able to teach you. Look, the dance has already started, and he’s dancing with Miss Xianxian right now!”
He gestured for Qiqi to look at the dance floor.
Qiqi followed his gaze and, sure enough, saw the two embracing and dancing—Senior Brother Lu, in elegant white, was holding a stunning woman in a blue dress. The woman had alluring curls and a graceful figure, wearing a mermaid mask, with sparkling diamond ornaments on her neck and wrists, shining like fish scales. Her dance moves were as dazzling as a mermaid’s—when the music reached its climax, she spun around Lu Wei in a continuous 360-degree fast rotation, her rapidly flying skirt like a blooming blue lotus, tightly encircling Lu Wei, as if a mermaid in the deep sea had swayed her beautiful tail toward the prince of the ocean.