However, Meng Ruozhao didn't want to delve too deeply into things.
After all, she had already broken up with Yan Qiubai. She should cut all ties cleanly and avoid any contact if possible.
She didn't want others to think she was still lingering on their past relationship.
So she planned to ask Yan Sisi to call her family and have someone come pick her up.
Unexpectedly, before she could even open her mouth, Yan Sisi plopped down onto the empty chair next to her.
Then, she glared at Pei Jiangmu beside her in extreme dissatisfaction and gave him a hard push. "Get out of here! Stay away from her!"
Pei Jiangmu was stunned by the push and frowned.
Immediately afterwards, something even more astonishing happened.
Like a lost soul finding a haven, Yan Sisi hugged Meng Ruozhao's arm tightly and pressed her feverish cheek against it.
Then she tilted her head up, looking at Meng Ruozhao with bleary eyes, her tone full of grievance and accusation.
"Meng Ruozhao! Why didn't you reply to my messages?!"
Meng Ruozhao: "..."
What messages?
Seeing that she didn't say a word, Yan Sisi felt even more aggrieved and pouted her lips.
"Did you stop caring about me just because you broke up with my brother? Have you forgotten about me?"
Meng Ruozhao was utterly confused and tried to pull her arm back.
"Miss Yan, you're drunk. Maybe you've mistaken me for someone else. I'll call your family and have them come pick you up."
"I'm not drunk! I haven't mistaken you!"
Yan Sisi hugged even tighter and started to coquettishly babble nonsense.
"Don't call! I don't want to go home! I just want to be with you!"
She shook Meng Ruozhao's arm, her voice tinged with sobs.
"Breaking up is fine. That workaholic Yan Qiubai never deserved you anyway."
"It's okay that you broke up with him. We can still be friends."
"I want to be friends with you! The best friends in the world!"
As soon as she said this, not only Meng Ruozhao but also Pei Jiangmu, Yi Mo and the others were stunned.
What... What was this development?
Meng Ruozhao was even more surprised. In her impression, every time Yan Sisi saw her, she would avoid eye contact, as if saying one more word to her would lower her status.
She hesitated for a moment and then said, "You... Didn't you always dislike me?"
"Who said that!" Yan Sisi immediately retorted loudly. Due to her excitement, her alcoholic breath sprayed all over Meng Ruozhao's face. "I... I just liked you too much!"
Like finally finding an outlet, she rambled on incoherently.
"You're so good-looking, have such a great temperament, and can even design clothes. You're excellent at everything..."
"I... I didn't know how to get along with you. I was afraid that if I didn't behave well, you'd hate me..."
"So I... I pretended to hate you..."
"And my brother. Yes, it was my brother. He didn't want me to get too close to you for fear that I'd steal your attention."
"I was forced. It wasn't my real intention!"
Her voice grew softer and softer. Finally, she almost buried her face in Meng Ruozhao's arm, leaving only her blushing ear tips exposed.
Pei Jiangmu, Yi Mo, Ai Gao, Xu Lin: "..."
All four of them wore the same expressions of shock and disbelief on their faces.
Yi Mo twitched the corners of her mouth a few times, leaned closer to Meng Ruozhao, and looked at Yan Sisi hanging on her with a complicated look in her eyes. She lowered her voice and asked a soul - stirring question.
"Miss Yan... You're not... into girls, are you?"
Yan Sisi suddenly lifted her head. Her eyes were blurred but she denied it firmly. "Nonsense! I don't like girls!"
She paused for a moment and then hugged Meng Ruozhao tightly again. Like a little beast claiming its territory, she mumbled.
"I don't like girls... but I only like Meng Ruozhao! I want to be the best friends with her in the world!"
Everyone: "..."
Well, she was really drunk.
Looking at Yan Sisi, who was clinging to her, had such a cute yet illogical way of thinking, Meng Ruozhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She was completely at her wits' end.
What on earth was going on?
Yan Sisi's earth - shattering "confession" plunged the entire dinner table into an eerie silence.
Only the dry pot with burning alcohol was still bubbling, sending up hot steam with a spicy aroma.
Yi Mo and Ai Gao stared with their mouths open for a long time.
Their eyes darted back and forth between the drunk Yan Sisi, who refused to let go of Meng Ruozhao, and Pei Jiangmu, whose face had turned as black as the bottom of a pot. Their expressions were too complex to describe.
Xu Lin even lowered his head, his shoulders trembling slightly. It was obvious that he was trying hard not to laugh.
As for Meng Ruozhao, who was at the center of the storm, she felt extremely headache.
She tried to pull her arm out of Yan Sisi's embrace.
But the drunk girl held on tightly and rubbed her hot cheek against Meng Ruozhao's arm. She continued to mumble drunken words like "best friends in the world".
"Yan Sisi, sober up."
Meng Ruozhao helplessly tried to reason with her, although she knew it was futile to reason with a drunk.
"Let go of me first. I'll call your brother and have him come pick you up."
Although she didn't want to have any contact with Yan Qiubai, there was no other way at the moment.
"I don't want Yan Qiubai."
Yan Sisi immediately protested and hugged even tighter. She even lifted her head and glared at Pei Jiangmu standing beside them with her hazy eyes. Her tone was overbearing.
"And who is he? Tell him to go away! I don't like him being so close to you!"
Pei Jiangmu was already annoyed by Yan Sisi's sudden "rivalry for affection".
Now being so blatantly disliked and driven away by her, his anger flared up even more.
His jawline tightened, and his cold eyes swept over Yan Sisi. Then they landed on Meng Ruozhao's arm that was tightly held. He found the sight extremely unpleasant.
Sure enough, the Yan siblings were both annoying.
Could this be some despicable trick of Yan Qiubai's?
Was he trying to win Meng Ruozhao back through his sister?
He took a deep breath and told himself to stay calm and not to argue with a drunk.
But the sour and stuffy feeling in his chest was churning and couldn't find an outlet.
"Call the police. It's better to hand her over to the police."
Pei Jiangmu's voice was a bit stiff. He didn't want to watch Yan Sisi "pawing" at Meng Ruozhao any longer.
"Hand me over to whom?"
Yan Sisi had sharp ears and immediately shouted.
"Don't hand me over to anyone. I want to be with Ruozhao!"
As she said this, she even tried to pull Meng Ruozhao into her embrace, like a child guarding its food.
A vein on Pei Jiangmu's forehead twitched.
Seeing that things were getting out of hand, Yi Mo quickly tried to smooth things over.
"Um... Miss Yan, you've had too much to drink. It's not safe for you to be alone. How about we contact your family?"
"I don't care! I just want Ruozhao."
Yan Sisi didn't listen at all. Instead, she became even more excessive. She tilted her face up, looking at Meng Ruozhao, and her eyes suddenly became a bit pitiful.
"Ruozhao... You were so gentle with me before... Why don't you pay attention to me anymore..."
Meng Ruozhao was taken aback. When had she ever been gentle with Yan Sisi?
In their previous interactions, they had hardly said a few words to each other.
Was Yan Sisi really so drunk that she was hallucinating and mistaking her for someone else?
Hearing this, Pei Jiangmu was a bit surprised.
Before? Gentle?
Could it be that Yan Sisi had known Meng Ruozhao before?