The 99th Divorce

Luo Zhan almost screamed. He stared at the string of words across his phone screen, and felt his heartbeat speeding up.

Go out for some fun tomorrow? Where? With who else? How many of them would there be? Is it only going to be the two of us?

Many thoughts flashed through Luo Zhan’s mind. After a moment, he calmed himself down and replied slowly: [What time tomorrow? I’ll be busy in the day with a project. I’m working overtime.]

Lu Yihan: [Tomorrow night, then. There will be many others there. You know many of them. Let’s have fun together!]

Um… There will be many others there… You know many of them…

Luo Zhan was innately disappointed. He waited for a full minute before replying: [OK.]

Fine, he’d go. So what if there were many others present? It’d been a long time. Luo Zhan put his phone down and turned to get back to work.

–

Time flew by in a flash. Luo Zhan had spent his entire day at meetings and was feeling exhausted. Nevertheless, at the thought of the gathering at night, he psyched himself up and gave a little care to his appearance. He asked Lu Yihan for the address.

The venue was a bar. It was teeming with crowds. Lu Yihan’s colleagues loved hanging out there to socialize and chat girls up. The number of pretty girls there were especially high, and there was no lack of handsome men. Business was clearly booming.

Luo Zhan had heard this place mentioned many times, but he had never been there before. He followed the GPS to the destination. Just as he entered the bar, a voluptuous beauty walked up to him. The smile on her face was charming and seductive.

When he saw that smile, and realized her eyes were trained on him, he smiled back instinctively. Unexpectedly, when met with a smile in return, the woman headed over to Luo Zhan and asked, “Why haven’t you been here in so long? I missed you so much!” As she spoke, she hiked her leg up and wrapped her arm around Luo Zhan.

Luo Zhan was in shock and asked, “What are you doing?”

When the beauty saw Luo Zhan’s reaction, her laughter was one of rebuke. “You won’t acknowledge me now? Previously, we went to Shangri-La hotel. Let’s go tonight again. Hmm?”

When Luo Zhan heard that, he knew this had to be the residue from Luo Ran’s mess. Exasperated, he untangled himself from the lady and rejected her firmly. “Miss, you’ve got the wrong person. The one you’re acquainted with is my twin brother. I don’t know you.”

The smile on the lady’s face froze. With a frown, she pushed at Luo Zhan and said, “How annoying. If you’re sick of me, just say so! Why bother with the whole act! What, do you have a new target now? Should I give you a hand with it?”

Luo Zhan replied, “Not at all. I’m here to meet my friends. I’ve said enough. Goodbye.” With that, he left immediately.

The woman was incensed and remarked, “F*cking d*ck of a man. You want out after f*cking me only once? Not that easy!”

Luo Zhan felt the hair at the back of his neck stand. He turned around only to see that same woman staring daggers right at him. He turned around instantly.

D*mn it, Luo Ran!

“Luo Zhan, over here!” A familiar voice drifted over. It was Lu Yihan’s colleague.

Luo Zhan walked over. In one glance, he picked out Lu Yihan from among the group. He seemed to have lost a lot of weight. He looked even taller and skinnier than before, and the veins on his hands and his Adam’s apple more pronounced.

The last I heard, he hadn’t met with Second Sister-in-law for a long time. He couldn’t have been suffering from lovesickness, could he?

At that thought, Luo Zhan felt a moment of distaste.

“Come on, Luo Zhan. It’s been too long! Bottoms up!”