Clinging to Devoted Fiancé, Heiress Slays the World!-Chapter 45 Where is Your Woman?

Seeing Gu Moqian completely ignoring his words, Xi Nanfeng immediately exploded: "Old Mo, you said it yourself! If I found a girlfriend, you’d give me a big gift. Now you’re going back on your word?"

Gu Moqian paused in the act of swirling his wine and looked up, speaking coolly: "The money you spent renting a girlfriend was more than the gift I’d planned to buy you. Why bother?"

Xi Nanfeng deflated at those words, waved dismissively to the woman beside him, indicating for her to leave, then walked over with the intention of sitting next to Gu Moqian.

Gu Moqian disdainfully scooted further inside to avoid him.

Xi Nanfeng’s face twitched. He turned to the seductive man with long hair at the inside seat, who was quietly savoring red wine, and complained, "Ye Cheng, look at him! He’d rather sit next to you than with me. I’m a charming, dashing, carefree man—what’s so wrong with that?"

Ye Cheng raised his phoenix-like eyes to glance at him but said nothing.

"Are you jealous?" Gu Moqian shot a sidelong glance at Xi Nanfeng.

"I’ve never been jealous of another man," Xi Nanfeng said disdainfully. "After being friends with you two big shots for so many years, I’ve already developed an indestructible body."

With that, Xi Nanfeng raised a wine glass from the table and tilted his head back, downing it boldly in several large gulps.

Ye Cheng didn’t take Xi Nanfeng’s teasing seriously at all and turned to look at Gu Moqian. "Where’s your woman? Didn’t you say you were bringing her?"

Gu Moqian glanced at the exquisite Swiss watch on his wrist and suddenly placed his wine glass on the table.

Just now, Ji Wei had said she was going to the restroom, but she still hadn’t returned.

In Zimei Club, unexpected things happened frequently. He was worried something might have happened to her.

"I’ll go find her."

Gu Moqian said this quickly, stood up, and headed for the exit.

"Old Mo, you’re leaving before your seat’s even warmed up? At least have a few drinks with your brothers, huh? Don’t they say—women are like clothes, but brothers are like limbs? Are you giving up your limbs for a piece of clothing? Hey, I’m not finished..."

Xi Nanfeng watched Gu Moqian’s retreating figure and shook his head, sighing, "Old Mo has really fallen for that eldest daughter of the Ji Family. Who knows if that’s a good thing or a bad thing."

Ye Cheng also stared toward the doorway, his phoenix eyes narrowing slightly, though he said nothing.

...

When Ji Wei regained consciousness, she found herself lying on a cold, hard ground.

She lifted her head, staring blankly around her, and realized she was in a dimly lit space. The air was thick with a strong aroma of wine.

In the limited light, she vaguely made out the orderly rows of shelves in front of her, all stocked with bottles of red wine.

This was an underground wine cellar.

Why was she here?

As her mind gradually cleared, Ji Wei remembered she had been chasing after Xia Duoduo, who was being threatened by someone. Somehow, she had lost consciousness.

Thinking back, she realized she must have been deliberately knocked out and brought here.

Who was behind this, and why had they locked her up?

Struggling to her feet, Ji Wei tried to reach for the light switch on the wall, but the switch seemed to have been intentionally damaged—it was completely unresponsive.

She carefully felt her way along the wall, hoping to find another switch.

After only a few steps, Ji Wei suddenly stopped in her tracks.

She heard a faint rustling sound approaching her.

"Squeak, squeak... squeak, squeak..."

That sound—it was...

Rats!

A high-end, top-tier establishment like Zimei, with such an extensive collection of red wine in its underground cellar, couldn’t possibly have rats.

Which meant those rats had been deliberately released here!