Qiao Hua was greeting the guests when a pair of arms suddenly wrapped around her from behind. That familiar, uniquely masculine scent washed over her, and she instinctively moved to push Gu Wenze's hands away.
"Still angry?" Gu Wenze sighed softly beside her ear, without a trace of the arrogance he had shown Yan Yu earlier.
Qiao Hua stopped struggling and snorted. "What good does being angry do me? You don't think you did anything wrong anyway."
Gu Wenze truly didn't think he had done anything wrong. Yan Yu taking secret photos of Qiao Hua alone gave him grounds to have the man hauled off to the police station.
But looking at Qiao Hua's angry face, Gu Wenze could only soften his tone. "I was wrong."
Qiao Hua turned to look at him with a hollow smile. "Oh? Then tell me what you did wrong."
Gu Wenze's face remained tense. "I shouldn't have picked a fight with him at our son's first birthday party."
He might as well have said nothing.
Qiao Hua pushed his hands away and turned to face him. "Why have you been targeting Yan Yu all day?"
From the moment Yan Yu walked through the door, Gu Wenze had been bristling with hostility and making one snide remark after another.
Whatever else he was, Yan Yu was a guest, and he had brought such a generous gift. Even if Gu Wenze disliked him, he shouldn't have given him a hard time on such an important occasion.
Gu Wenze frowned. "He pursued you, and you expect me to welcome him with a smile?"
Qiao Hua simply couldn't get through to him. "That's all in the past. He has a girlfriend now. Doesn't that make it clear he's moved on?"
Gu Wenze cut straight to the point. "If