Meng Ruozhao quickly returned to the banquet hall.
"What's wrong? Are you not feeling well?"
Yan Qiubai happened to come out looking for her. They met at the door. Seeing that her face looked rather pale, he immediately asked with concern.
"I'm fine, I'm fine."
Meng Ruozhao quickly shook her head, trying to conceal her panic.
But these two pale words couldn't dispel Yan Qiubai's worry at all.
He supported her and carefully examined her expression. "Are you really okay? You look really unwell."
Saying so, he reached out his hand to touch Meng Ruozhao's forehead to see if she had a fever.
Meng Ruozhao instinctively took a step back, dodging Yan Qiubai's hand.
"I'm really okay. Maybe there are just too many people here and I'm a bit uncomfortable."
Yan Qiubai remembered her situation and felt a bit remorseful that he shouldn't have brought her here.
He had originally booked the Cloud Top Restaurant, but the restaurant caught fire for no reason today and cancelled all reservations.
Coincidentally, his father told him that the Pei family might let their youngest son show up today and asked him to come and say hello.
He also wanted to make public Meng Ruozhao's identity as his fiancée, so he changed the dating location, but forgot that she didn't like crowded places.
"Then shall we leave first?"
Just as he opened his mouth, he saw Du Feng popping up out of nowhere.
He walked over with a beaming face. "Young Master Yan, Zhaozhao, why are you standing here and not going in?"
His eyes shifted between the two of them and then landed on Meng Ruozhao.
"Zhaozhao, how's your conversation with Young Master Yan going? Have you mentioned the new drug agency rights?"
Meng Ruozhao frowned instantly. She knew that Du Feng wouldn't let this opportunity slip easily.
But she didn't expect that he would actually come after them to ask directly.
He really couldn't hold his horses.
No wonder the Pei family looked down on the Du family.
Yes, just now, when she was about to take a closer look at the people on the terrace, she heard another voice sneering from inside.
"Since you're so unhappy, why don't you just bankrupt that Du Feng?"
"Why go through so much trouble just to cancel his 30 - million - yuan contract..."
She was shocked. Before she could see clearly what the person who turned around looked like, she was blocked by the bodyguard.
"Miss, you've gone to the wrong place."
The door of the terrace was suddenly closed, and all the sounds disappeared completely.
The bodyguard looked fierce, and of course she couldn't rush in and ask who the person was and why they said such things.
She could only pretend that she hadn't heard anything, said sorry, and then left in a hurry.
As a result, when she returned to the front of the banquet hall, two middle - aged men passed by her. One of them said that the young Master Pei was on the terrace and they were going to say hello.
She had heard Yan Qiubai introduce these two men just now. One of them was the organizer of tonight's dinner.
They couldn't be talking nonsense.
That meant the person who had just said they wanted to bankrupt the Du family might be this legendary young Master Pei.
Moreover, the cancelled 30 - million - yuan order that made Du Xixi get slapped might also be their doing.
Although Meng Ruozhao didn't feel a sense of belonging to the Du family, she was still living in the Du family now.
Suddenly hearing such a shocking secret, she was a bit dazed for a moment.
Before she could calm down, Du Feng came.
And he asked Yan Qiubai so straightforwardly about the agency rights. Wasn't he afraid of offending the Yan family again?
She couldn't help but glance at Yan Qiubai.
She saw that the worry on Yan Qiubai's face disappeared instantly, replaced by a polite smile.
"Uncle Du, Ruozhao and I just arrived. We haven't had time to talk about these things yet."
Du Feng rubbed his hands and still wasn't willing to give up.
"Oh, I see. Then, Young Master Yan, could you please give Zhaozhao some face and consider the new drug agency rights again?
"Our Du Group has always been very sincere in cooperation."
The corner of Yan Qiubai's mouth curled up slightly, showing a half - smile expression.
"Uncle Du, I can't decide this matter alone. The company has its own procedures.
"However, I will definitely give Zhaozhao face. I'll find a time to seriously discuss it with the company's senior management."
Hearing this, Du Feng's smile grew even wider.
"That's good, that's good. Young Master Yan, you must help more. Zhaozhao, you should also say some nice words to Young Master Yan."
Meng Ruozhao neither agreed nor refused. She just stood there expressionlessly, with the words she had just heard swirling in her mind.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the banquet hall. Someone shouted, "Chairman Pei and Young Master Pei are here!"
Du Feng's eyes lit up and he immediately walked over there.
Meng Ruozhao subconsciously looked in that direction.
Yan Qiubai noticed this and joked, "What, are you also interested in that young Master Pei?"
Meng Ruozhao came back to her senses and gently shook her head.
"I'm just a bit curious since everyone is talking about him."
Yan Qiubai raised his eyebrows slightly, and a fleeting, complex look flashed in his eyes.
"The Pei family in Haicheng does have the capital to arouse people's curiosity."
As he was speaking, the crowd automatically made way, and Pei Ting walked in side by side with a young man.
Pei Ting was tall and straight. Years had left calmness and dignity on his face.
The young man beside him had a cold and stern face. His deep eyes were like a cold pool, exuding an air of aloofness that kept people at a distance.
It wasn't Pei Jiangmu.
Meng Ruozhao secretly laughed at herself for being so muddle - headed just now. Just because they both had the surname Pei, she had let her imagination run wild.
If Pei Jiangmu were really from the Pei family,
even if he had been kicked out of the family for pursuing his artistic ideals, the Pei family wouldn't have allowed him to live in such a sorry state.
Meng Ruozhao was sure that she didn't know these two people.
But she felt that there seemed to be a strange sense of familiarity about them.
Du Feng had squeezed to the front and was greeting Pei Ting and Young Master Pei with a flattering face.
That look made Meng Ruozhao can't help but frown in her heart.
Yan Qiubai seemed to sense her mood and comforted her in a low voice.
"These social occasions are always a bit annoying."
Meng Ruozhao nodded, but her eyes still couldn't help but glance at Young Master Pei from time to time.
Young Master Pei seemed to feel her gaze and suddenly turned his head, looking straight at Meng Ruozhao.
His eyes were so sharp that it seemed as if he could see through her mind.
Meng Ruozhao was shocked. She instinctively wanted to avoid his gaze, but felt that doing so would be too obvious.
She could only brace herself and meet his eyes for a second, then pretended to casually look away.
"It seems that Young Master Pei is quite interested in you."
Yan Qiubai said half - jokingly, but there was a hint of jealousy in his tone.
As he said this, his eyes were always on her face, as if he wanted to find something from her expression.
Meng Ruozhao also withdrew her gaze and looked at him.
Their eyes met.
The cold light refracted by the chandelier above reflected the swirling eddies in his eyes, making him look a bit strange.
Suddenly, he spoke softly again.
"This is the eldest young master of the Pei family, Pei Jingdu. He's not the young Master Pei that everyone was just talking about."
When he said "that young Master Pei", his Adam's apple moved and he deliberately lowered his voice by half a tone, as if he was afraid of disturbing a precious secret.