The celebration banquet turned out to be an unexpected night for Chu Yu. He hadn't imagined things would develop this way.
Most people would have found the understanding between Zhao Qinyin and Su Ruo strange, but Chu Yu thought it was only to be expected.
After all, he wasn't normal by any ordinary definition. Anyone who could fall for him had to think differently from ordinary people—and that was normal in its own way.
At least after Chu Yu had taken the initiative and laid bare the secret between the three of them, he felt the atmosphere had changed.
The sense of constraint he'd felt all this time had mostly disappeared.
But in its place came awkwardness.
The two of them were close friends, and they'd sat there discussing Chu Yu with each other. But even the most interesting topic had to come to an end eventually.
Then they both suddenly realized what sort of situation they were in.
They were both in relationships with Chu Yu, and they'd been friends and besties for six or seven years. And before either of them, there was Gu Yan, Chu Yu's one and only official girlfriend, both in his personal life and in the eyes of the Dragon Country Animation Industry.
They used to watch all the juicy scandals in the entertainment industry and sigh, "What a mess." But now that they found themselves in the middle of one, they didn't know what to say.
There was only one thing: unlike the people involved in those entertainment-industry scandals, Chu Yu hadn't deceived them in any way. He'd even put up a token resistance for a while. It hadn't lasted long—he'd only held out for about two years of living together before finally falling completely—but at least he'd tried.
So while Zhao Qinyin