Pei Yang wasn't particularly keen to get involved in other people's family affairs, especially when... he had to pretend to be Gu Xin's boyfriend and deceive her family... It really was a little ridiculous.
He hesitated for a moment. Gu Xin was so anxious she was nearly in tears. "Pei Yang, please help me. Just think of it as a part-time acting gig. I can pay you by the hour. It's just that Gu Shiqiao came back so suddenly, I had absolutely no time to prepare."
"No need to pay me." They were colleagues, after all, and looking at Gu Xin's reddened eyes, Pei Yang couldn't bring himself to refuse. It was only a meal, nothing major. He might as well help her. He relented. "I'll go with you."
"Really!? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! Pei Yang, you're literally the kindest person in the world!" Gu Xin brightened instantly. "Then you're my boyfriend now! Come on... let's head out!"
Pei Yang remembered promising Xile that morning that he would stay at his house for a week. Wouldn't coming home late on the very first day be a little...
He instinctively took out his phone to let Feng Wanting know. Only after opening WeChat did he realize that he and Feng Wanting currently had no way to contact each other at all. The realization sent an inexplicable flare of anger through him.
Fine, fine, fine. Pei Yang briskly shoved his phone back into his pocket. Now Feng Wanting would have nothing to say about him coming home late, right? He wasn't the one who had deleted their WeChat connection, and it wasn't his fault they couldn't reach each other.
"Let's go," Pei Yang told Gu Xin, a little petulantly.
"Sure thing!" The two headed toward the