As expected, Chen Cheng took He Zhinan to a seafood restaurant with a very nice interior.

"Australian crystal lobster sashimi, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, roast goose with black truffle, salt-baked king crab, French oysters, oil-popped sea cucumber, Kung Pao shrimp balls with olive oil fragrant rice..."

Watching Chen Cheng order, the heart He Zhinan had been holding in her throat finally gave up.

Clearly, Chen Cheng was doing this on purpose.

Since she had taken advantage of him, shouldn't she get her money's worth?

The main thing was that she had money in her own pocket, so she didn't feel nervous when ordering. She ordered whatever she saw, without even considering whether two people could finish it.

Chen Cheng looked up at the exquisite and cute He Zhinan. "Want to drink something?"

He Zhinan widened her eyes, feeling a bit resigned and ready to just let things be. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Let's get a white wine, too."

She turned to the waiter and said, "I'd like a bottle of Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc."

Chen Cheng didn't say anything and handed the menu back to the waiter.

The waiter smiled, nodded, took the menu from Chen Cheng, and turned to leave the private room.

Drinks like white wine and champagne can enhance the sweetness of seafood and are well-suited for drinking while eating seafood sashimi.

Knowing the pairings and being able to accurately name the wine, He Zhinan was clearly someone who had seen and experienced such things.

[Medium sweetness, crisp taste; friends who haven't tried white wine can give it a go. It's about two hundred yuan a bottle, available on online shopping platforms and at places like Sam's Club.]

[For those Yan Zu who aren't short on cash, you can go for Egon Müller's late-harvest Riesling.]

Cloudy Bay and Egon Müller are both names of wineries. Cloudy Bay is in New Zealand and belongs to the LVMH group.

And although Egon Müller is called the "LV of white wines," it belongs to the Müller family.

Egon Müller is also one of the eight great wine kings of the world.

Although slogans like these "eight great" ones are just marketing.

But it's true that a great reputation is rarely unearned.

The widely known Romanée-Conti is also one of these eight, so you can imagine the weight of that reputation.

The dishes came out quickly. Chen Cheng didn't stand on ceremony at all and started gorging himself.

Seeing him eat so happily, He Zhinan was amused.

She smiled, reached out, and joined in the feast.

The two clinked glasses from time to time. It wasn't really about wanting to drink; it was mainly because they were eating so much meat that they needed some liquid to wash it down.

Before long, Chen Cheng had eaten his fill.

He tilted his head back, downed the wine in his glass, set the glass down, and wiped his hands with a napkin.

Looking at the cute-faced He Zhinan in front of him, he curled the corner of his mouth and said, "Tell me, why are you crying by yourself?"

He Zhinan's hand, holding her chopsticks, froze in place, and the air seemed to congeal for a moment.

He Zhinan put down her chopsticks, picked up her wine glass, took a sip, swallowed, chuckled, and said, "I was walking through Central after work and saw Gao Peng and Lawyer Hu walking arm in arm."

"Who?"

Chen Cheng was completely shocked.

He Zhinan laughed softly, "Yeah, Han Su's boss."

Chen Cheng's mouth twitched. How did those two end up together?

He frowned and thought about it, then felt it made perfect sense.

Han Su was doing the listing documentation and compliance work for Gao Peng's company, so Gao Peng had seen what an independent, ambitious career woman was like.

He immediately fell for Han Su, but who knew Chen Cheng would get there first.

Now that he's with Han Su's boss, that mature and tall Lawyer Hu, it suddenly made sense again.

Chen Cheng glanced at He Zhinan, who had a somewhat youthful, petite, and cute face.

He realized one thing.

This kid Gao Peng liked older women at his core.

Thinking about it, that was right; Gao Peng and He Zhinan's beginning was just the kid sending out mass messages to ask girls out.

It was just that only He Zhinan happened to reply.

It wasn't that Gao Peng liked any specific person; it was just his adolescent hormones acting up.

Chen Cheng couldn't help but laugh when he imagined the scene of Gao Peng getting together with Lawyer Hu.

At night, would Lawyer Hu be wearing a little leather skirt, holding a little leather whip...

That's hard to handle...

Respect and best wishes, I guess.

As He Zhinan spoke, tears fell. She took another sip of wine, "I've already broken up with him; he's my ex-boyfriend."

"Who he wants to be with, that's not my business..."

She sniffled, her eyes red as she stared at the wine glass in her hand, "But I'm just sad."

"Does this have anything to do with being magnanimous?"

"Can't I be sad?"

"Do I not even have the right to be sad?"

After asking herself these three questions in a row, He Zhinan poured herself another glass of wine and downed it.

Watching her being so heartbroken, Chen Cheng also found it hard to keep a straight face.

She had rejected the marriage proposal, broken up completely, and yet she still had to stay here.

When she saw him with someone else, she had to wipe her own tears.

Why bother?

Speaking of the reason He Zhinan came to Hong Kong Island. It was actually because after she kicked Gao Peng to the curb for Qu Yipeng, she was found out by Qu Yipeng not to be a real second-generation rich kid, then he broke up with her abruptly and disappeared completely.

Then He Zhinan ran to Hong Kong Island to find Gao Peng.

In this story, there are no good men or women.

Even the coldest-blooded Han Su became the character with the best persona.

Chen Cheng shook his head and raised his glass to join her for a drink.

Whether it was He Zhinan collecting bags from Gao Peng one by one, or her getting tired of Gao Peng and hooking up with Qu Yipeng.

Being dumped abruptly by Qu Yipeng, and then shamelessly running back to find Gao Peng.

Chen Cheng didn't mean to look down on He Zhinan.

He himself was a top-tier scumbag who had chained his ships together; he had no right.

He was just lamenting how rare the word "purity" is.

He Zhinan couldn't hold back anymore and started wailing, muttering to herself:

"No one cares~"

"No one cares if I, He Zhinan, am sad."

"No one cares... that I, He Zhinan, lost my bullshit love..."

"..."

Soon the wine bottle was empty.

Seeing that she wasn't done yet, Chen Cheng called the waiter to settle the bill and took her to the next venue.

This time, Chen Cheng didn't drink with her; he just rested his chin on his hand and watched He Zhinan down drink after drink.

He used to think Xiao Ye was a hopeless romantic, but seeing He Zhinan, he realized what "the lesser of two evils" meant.

Xiao Ye had a bad family situation, was an illegitimate daughter, and her mother was very strict with her.

For a girl from such a family, being sensitive and love-starved was very normal.

But He Zhinan was different.

Her parents had prepared a fully paid-for new house for her as soon as she graduated.

From this, one could see that He Zhinan was a child raised in a honey pot; her parents couldn't bear to let her suffer even a little bit.

Since high school, she had been pampered by Gao Peng, and even more so after Gao Peng's parents became successful and Gao Peng became a second-generation rich kid.

It could be said that He Zhinan was exceptionally well-off materially; she never ran out of luxury bags.

Logically, someone like this shouldn't be love-starved.

But the feeling He Zhinan gave him was that it didn't matter who she was with; she just couldn't live without being in a relationship.

And in reality, there are a lot of people like this.

They never treat romantic relationships with caution.

With their succession of ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends, a three-month tenure is considered long.

Changing twelve boyfriends in a year is nothing new.

Even Scum Cheng, who chained his ships together, was greatly shocked by the speed at which these people could detach themselves from relationships.

He might be a scumbag, but he actually liked them; he wanted them all.

Thinking about it, Scum Cheng was greedy.

Some people just have no heart...

[Got checked, meow, deleted a lot.]