In the end, Ailan had to bring Copper Coin to bail them out. Otherwise, Chen Yi and Wang Zhanbo would have been left as collateral at the restaurant.
As Ailan paid up, Wang Zhanbo finished his last bite of ice cream. His gaze suddenly turned serious. "You seem different."
Chen Yi was not surprised. "Yeah. Mind and body unified, moving as I pleased."
Knowing Chen Yi was fine, Wang Zhanbo became lazy again. "That's it? I thought you got bullied and were too embarrassed to come crying to me for help."
Chen Yi glanced at him. "I seem to recall someone asking me for help."
Wang Zhanbo picked his nose. "Huh? Did that happen? Why don't I remember?"
"You'd better genuinely not remember."
"If I say I don't remember, then I don't remember. Yi, you're so annoying."
"Come on, I'll take you to the next place."
Before they could even leave, a hand grabbed them.
Ailan's lips released icy words. "Trying to run? Have you figured out how you want to die?"
Wang Zhanbo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "No, it's not that. Well... right, Yi was the one who wanted to go."
To stay alive, he had already abandoned all principles.
"I said we shouldn't go, but he insisted on dragging me along."
Chen Yi simply watched him perform, ignoring Wang Zhanbo's frantic hints. "I never said that."
A few seconds later.
Wang Zhanbo walked beside Chen Yi with a huge bump on his head, constantly grumbling.
"No loyalty at all."
"You were the one who sold me out. That's loyalty?"
Though he said that, Wang Zhanbo forgot all about it the next second.
Ignoring Ailan's warning, he dragged Chen Yi to a bar first to make up the numbers, snagging a 20% discount coupon.
Then they