Chapter 1298 — Conflict at the Banquet
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Yet once the banquet began, many people still came forward with raised glasses to toast her. Xu Shilan could not put them all off, and so she could only substitute tea for wine, making her way among the assembled guests.
Xu Shilan disliked scenes like this. Of course, her dislike did not mean others disliked them; some stars with no popularity at all would have given anything to attend such a banquet and build up their connections.
"Miss Xu, what a coincidence, we meet again!" Zhao Qibing, seated in his wheelchair, came toward Xu Shilan together with Su Jiaonang.
At the sight of Zhao Qibing, Xu Shilan's expression changed slightly at once. She had never expected that Zhao Qibing would attend this celebration banquet as well. But the guest list had all been drawn up by the company, and Xu Shilan had not known beforehand.
Zhao Qibing's entrance made the young gentlemen who had been gathered around Xu Shilan step aside. Zhao Qibing's name rang loud in Songshan City; these sons and brothers attending the banquet on behalf of their fathers' generation all knew Zhao Qibing. Their purpose in coming was in fact quite simple: beyond harboring fantasies about Xu Shilan, they were mostly using the banquet to make more friends and accumulate connections for their families' business and enterprises.
Of course, since Zhao Qibing had already shown such strong possessiveness toward Xu Shilan, naturally no one else would cross him.
"Hello, young master Zhao." Xu Shilan nodded with a smile and greeted Zhao Qibing. Though she loathed him in her heart, she let nothing show on the surface.
"Miss Xu, I wonder whether I might invite you for a drink? Let us find a table, sit down, and have a chat?" Zhao Qibing came straight to the point with his invitation.
"My apologies, young master Zhao. I do not drink, and with so many guests here now, I am afraid I have no way to sit and talk with you alone. Another time, all right?" Xu Shilan politely declined Zhao Qibing's proposal.
"So many guests? Where? I do not see any. You all have business to attend to, do you not? Stop standing here, go do whatever you ought to be doing!" Zhao Qibing glanced at the young gentlemen around him, his tone faintly threatening.
These people had come here to make friends as well; who would cross Zhao Qibing over a woman? Even if that woman was a great star and beautiful as a heavenly fairy, she was not worth making an enemy over.
So once Zhao Qibing spoke, they all turned and dispersed one after another. Undoubtedly, of the whole banquet, Zhao Qibing held the highest station; even if Xu Shilan was not to be his, she could not belong to anyone else.
"Zhao Qibing, why is it that I find your conduct so unbearable? To take womanizing to your level is truly the pinnacle." The man who spoke was that young man beside Wu Chengtian whom Wei Zhao found somewhat familiar.
Hearing this mockery, Zhao Qibing was briefly stunned. He turned his head, saw who had spoken, and his face turned cold at once: "I thought who it was. Is this not the Sun family's second son? What, what, feeling stifled in the Sun family, unable to become the heir, so you ran out to take your mind off things?"
"So what if I am? A second son is still better than a bastard." The man gave a cold snort and said this lightly.