Gou An slowly opened her eyes again and was caught off guard by a pair of calm, dark brown eyes.

There was no emotion in his eyes, but he was still captivating.

The man in front of her stood there motionless, just looking at her. In the sunlight, his naturally cold, white skin made him look as if he was covered with a layer of light.

Even though he had black hair that was so short that it couldn’t be any shorter—as if in an attempt to to deliberately ruin his good looks—it didn’t stop people from being a little amazed when they see this face.

For a bodyguard, Ye Lang’s face was indeed unnecessarily too handsome.

“…”

Facing this pretty face that was all too familiar, Gou An even suspected that she was dreaming. She threw off the quilt and climbed out in a daze. She sat up on the bed that was making all kinds of strange noises under her, “Ye Lang?”

She called his name again.

Ye Lang’s eyelids twitched, and he was a little confused as to how this young lady in front of him knew his name. She heard him call his name once last night, but he simply assumed that he was hallucinating…

But now she clearly called out his name again without hesitation.

He was certain he didn’t know her.

He was silent, only staring at her with a pair of very aggressive eyes.

Think about it carefully, could this be a rich girl who went to Endless Night just to spend money on him?

There were many rich girls like this in Endless Night who ‘charge forward for love, ignorant and fearless’ .

But there was no fear or fascination in her eyes. Ye Lang saw clearly how the expression on her face relaxed the moment she saw his face. She slowly sat up and looked at him.

“Why am I here?” Gou An asked in a natural tone.

Ye Lang felt that as they were only meeting for the first time, her tone should be more polite, so he frowned slightly and said, “Endless Night last night.”

Gou An hugged her knees and sat on the bed to think for a while. Sifting through her vague memories of last night, it seemed that she had really been unlucky last night. She was about to run away but a man suddenly showed up in front of her—the same ignorant oaf she had slapped half an hour ago on the first floor because he put his hand where he shouldn’t have…

The two soon started struggling.

Just as she picked up a wine bottle and was preparing to fight with this hooligan who was trying to take advantage of the chaos, another person unexpectedly came in from outside the door. Before she could react, the person had already grabbed the hooligan’s head and slammed it directly on the coffee table.

Spiderweb cracks ran along the glass top.

The hooligan slid down on the floor, his head bloody.

Seeing her opponent dealt with, Gou An was stunned. The man threw the gangster away like trash, walked directly to the window, opened it, stepped on the ledge with one leg, and was about to jump down.

Then he seemed to remember something, turned around and looked at her. As if he just realized that there was someone else there, he asked Gou An, who was still standing there in a daze, “Are you coming?”

At the time, Gou An’s brain was in a frozen state. When she saw Ye Lang, she instinctively felt that her savior had come. She didn’t even have time to think about why the so-called savior didn’t go up to her and ask if she was okay. She just said “Oh”, threw away the bottle of wine in her hand, and then followed him without hesitation to climb down the pipe clumsily.

After somehow landing on the ground, they found a public telephone booth, and she called home.

Don’t ask her why she didn’t just go home. At that time, she felt that if she went home in her current horrible appearance, she would scare her mother. What’s more, she was with Ye Lang, so what could go wrong?

She couldn’t remember anything that happened after that.

At this moment, Gou An looked at Ye Lang, feeling a little confused, and then amidst her confusion, she discovered that this person did not have the [I See The Ebb And Flow Of His Love] valuation system above his head.

What was the meaning of this?

Is it because he already has full favorability towards me so it’s no longer being displayed? Gou An thought rather naively.

Without even giving a fat cat who was howling “The tea eggs smell so good!” a chance to say more, Gou An stroked the thin quilt on the bed—which had been washed so often it had faded to white—as if it were some kind of silk. She raised her head and asked the person in front of her calmly and kindly, “So, did we sleep together last night?”

If she slept with him, she would take responsibility. Go home and break off the engagement with He Ran, then lie on the ground and roll around to get her mom to agree to her engagement with Ye Lang…

As she was seriously contemplating how to handle matters, she suddenly noticed that the air around them seemed to come to a sudden halt.

From a few meters away, Gou An saw that Ye Lang’s coffin face had cracked open, and he showed a rare puzzled expression.

“What did you say?” he asked.

Gou An: “…”

Gou An silently lifted the quilt and looked: Oh, we didn’t sleep together.

Judging from how she was still wearing ever single stitch of her clothes, this man probably threw her on the bed as she was, then never paid any attention to her again.

After all, her feet were still dirty and covered with rust from the water pipe…

He didn’t even wipe her down—

You can really do it, Ye Lang. You alone are worthy of it!

She was immersed in her current embarrassment when she heard Ye Lang’s voice again, “Leave now that you’re awake, I have something else to do.”

As always, he was very frugal with words. Given Ye Lang’s personality, he must have been extremely impatient to speak like this.

Thinking about the timeline she was in now, the two of them really didn’t know each other at all. Gou An gradually came to realize that her actions might not be appropriate in the eyes of strangers…

Which kind person would open their eyes and not say ‘thank you’ to the person who saved their life, but instead ask ‘well, did we have sex?’

How very rude.

Realizing her mistake in speaking, she couldn’t help but look above Ye Lang’s head again out of habit and found that it was still empty, as if the person in front of her was just a random stranger and completely uninvolved in the plot—

What’s going on?

[Jiao Jiao: You really don’t know what’s happening, Gou jiejie?]

Gou An emphasized: … I thought it meant he was already captivated by me and no more strategy was needed.

[Jiao Jiao: Oh yeah? Can you see the plot line related to him then?]

Gou An (chest puffed out) (righteously): What kind of plot line can he have? He’s my bodyguard, as pure as snow.

[Jiao Jiao: Wake up!]

[Jiao Jiao: I have confirmed information for you: None of the names that appear in the story text are innocent!!!! ]

[Jiao Jiao: Really, I’m so angry right now that I have to use a lot of exclamation marks.]

Gou An: …

From the Day the Engagement was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 21.3 — Ye Lang: the Already Captivated Man
Chapter 22.1 — A Little Wild Cat
Chapter 22.2— A Little Wild Cat