Chapter 484: This Is Your Love?

Chu Lingxiu stared ahead, shaking her head in disbelief. ’This... this isn’t the Gu Shuxin I know at all!’

’Why is she like this?’

’Did I see wrong, or did I come to the wrong place?’

However, no matter how many times Chu Lingxiu closed her eyes and reopened them, the scene before her didn’t change in the slightest.

Gu Shuxin was still Gu Shuxin, and her outfit was still her outfit. But this version of Gu Shuxin was vastly different from the one in Chu Lingxiu’s memory.

’Could it be true, just as my brother said? That Gu Shuxin only got close to me and became my best friend because she had ulterior motives, and this whole time she’s just been putting on an act?’

’Otherwise, how could I explain what I’m seeing right now?’

Shen Nian kept her eyes fixed on Gu Shuxin. Gu Shuxin didn’t look up, but it was Qi Chengliang, sitting beside her, who saw her first.

After spotting Chu Lingxiu, Qi Chengliang even gave her a nod before leaning down to whisper something to Gu Shuxin.

Then, Chu Lingxiu saw Gu Shuxin’s head snap up in surprise to look at her. The moment she saw her, Gu Shuxin’s expression changed instantly.

Gu Shuxin pushed Qi Chengliang away, stood up, and walked over to Chu Lingxiu.

"Lingxiu, what are you doing here?"

The last time Gu Shuxin was at the residential complex, after she saw Shen Nian, she had gone to the Chu Family’s home but hadn’t been able to see Chu Lingxiu.

The sense of crisis after seeing Shen Nian had grown, making Gu Shuxin more and more frantic. And at a time like this, she couldn’t even get any comfort from Chu Lingxiu.

In the past, she had always been so careful whenever she was with Chu Lingxiu. She never imagined that today, when she’d come out looking for some solace and a little excitement, she would be caught red-handed by Lingxiu herself.

Chu Lingxiu was still very useful to her, so of course Gu Shuxin was unwilling to lose a pawn like her.

’But I never thought about what I’d do if Chu Lingxiu saw all this. How am I going to explain it?’

"I was grounded at home. My brother finally let me out today, so I came looking for you. I didn’t expect that I wouldn’t find you at your house, or any of the places you like to go. Instead, I find you here..."

Chu Lingxiu didn’t finish her sentence. She glanced around the bar, then looked back at Gu Shuxin.

It wasn’t that Chu Lingxiu thought Gu Shuxin couldn’t come to a place like a bar. After all, she went to bars herself and had even tried to get Gu Shuxin to come with her before.

But the stark contrast between the resistance Gu Shuxin had always shown toward "complicated places" like bars, and how comfortable and in her element she seemed here behind her back, made it impossible for Chu Lingxiu to believe this was all just a coincidence.

"Lingxiu, don’t get the wrong idea. I..."

Gu Shuxin could clearly see the look on Chu Lingxiu’s face. ’I have to find a way to explain this properly,’ she thought. ’I have to preserve the image she has of me.’

"I’ve just been in a bad mood lately, that’s why I came here. I..."

"Then what about him?"

Chu Lingxiu didn’t wait for Gu Shuxin to finish, pointing at the wealthy young man, Qi Chengliang, who had been sitting beside her.

"Didn’t you say you don’t like him? Didn’t you say you only like Big Brother Lu Cheng? Is *this* what you call ’like’?"

At that moment, all the anger Chu Lingxiu had been bottling up finally erupted in front of Gu Shuxin.