"Yin...please tell me that you are not drunk," Chyou could see it before her but she desperately hoped his words would prove otherwise.
"Hm~?" Yin looked at her dazedly with a smile, "Hey Chyouuu~ You look so beautiful!"
Chyou bit her lip harder. She could see it clearly before her eyes. If Yin would meet her family in this state then it was over. There was no way anybody would tolerate this behavior.
Before anyone reached the living room, she quickly pushed him outside and urgently whispered while trying to reel her tears in.
"You need to go, Yin. Please leave. You cannot look intoxicated and staggering like this in front of my family."
Yin frowned. "What are you talking about? Just look at the number of messages you texted me..." he tremblingly showed her his phone, "and the calls too...Now that I am here, you want me to leave? That's so rude!"
"Yin, please!"
"Why are you still at the door dear?" Caihong asked, stiffening her. "Let him in already."
"I will finally get to eat!" Xiang raised his hands up in salvation.
Xiaosi tapped on his forehead. "You are getting influenced by Grandpa Liu a lot."
"I still cannot match the magnitude of his stomach, Dad," he solemnly nodded. "I need to up my game."
Xiaosi slightly craned his neck and furrowed his brows at Chyou's figure. He couldn't clearly see Yin whom she was blocking.
"Why are you still at the entrance?"
"A-Ah Dad. Actually, I was telling Yin to leave...He is feeling a bit under the weather so..."
Caihong's eyes widened. "Oh dear. Is that why he got late? Did he force himself to come while still sick? That's not good."
Xiaosi took one, slow and purposeful step forward which was enough to lower the temperature to frigidity. "You are already rude by how you have presented yourself intoxicated before us. You cannot get any ruder. So leave."
Caihong pinched the space between her brows. Xiang whispered in her ear. "Mom, I smell a war coming."
"And I don't want my daughter to see that war and get hurt. Please take her away, Xiang."
He nodded.
Yin's expression began to twist with annoyance. "That's so not fair at all! Here Chyou had been bugging and begging me the whole time to come and meet you all and now you are asking me to leave? That's so not done!"
Everybody froze. The temperature lowered to such an extent that the Zhu villa became a rival to the Arctic.
"...Excuse me?" Xiaosi uttered dangerously, alarm oozing out of every syllable. "My daughter...My daughter was begging you?"
Yin broke into another peal of laughter. "Why, yes! She was all so tense and nervous~ And why wouldn't she? After all, she was the one who asked for a break between us and now she herself asked me to meet you all if possible. That was some cute hypocrisy, haha. But since I am such a good and caring boyfriend, I agreed despite her shamelessness!"
Xiang's countenance turned further ugly. "Did you just call my sis shameless?"
"Don't you agree?" He gasped. "I mean who would have the face to put this request after making me go through so much stress and pain! She is the one who is flirting and hanging out with...with that Gu Yating late at night and I don't know what else she was doing with him. I got a little mad at her for that but I still apologized, keeping a big heart.
But then she says to me that she wants some more time! And after all this, she comes to me and says she wants me to meet you all. If that's not shamelessness, then what is?"
Everybody was too stunned to speak. Chyou closed her misty eyes in defeat and hurt. Her cheeks ached as tears slipped past them. There were differences between them but she never imagined she would hear such poisonous and cutting words from his mouth.
Shameless...
A hand suddenly grabbed Yin's collar and he met Xiaosi's chilling pair of dark eyes that sent a sharp shiver down his body. A suffocating sensation wrapped around his neck.
"You should exercise caution in what you are saying because if you utter a single more word that puts mud on my daughter's character, then you seriously don't know who you are messing with, Cheng Yin."