The two of them frowned simultaneously at the sight of each other, and Lu Yuzhe seemed to be dining as well, as he was not wearing a suit jacket and he had his sleeves rolled up.
He was walking across, and he came from the direction where the private dining rooms were.
When he saw them, he stopped in his steps and after a few seconds of consideration, he walked over.
Xu Anyi turned around, a disgusted expression on her face, "Is he walking over?"
Shen Lili looked up and nodded.
"Xu Anyi," The familiar voice calling her name made Xu Anyi furrow her eyebrows together, and she sighed before turning her head around slightly, looking up at him.
She did not say anything and he waited for a moment before he continued, "What are you doing here?"
"The same thing you are doing here," Xu Anyi retorted as if she was talking to an idiot.
Lu Yuzhe's face darkened as he looked over at Shen Lili, and it took a moment before he remembered who she was, "Shen Lili?"
Shen Lili did not acknowledge him but instead pretended not to hear him as she took a sip of water casually.
Lu Yuzhe looked around, obviously upset and humiliated about not being acknowledged at all, and he turned his attention back to Xu Anyi, "Xu Anyi, what you did at Yiwei's birthday party was wrong. It was her birthday after all. Even if you have a grudge against her, you shouldn't ruin her party like that. Do you know how upset she w-"
"When did I ruin her party?" Xu Anyi raised an eyebrow as she stood up so she was looking straight into Lu Yuzhe's eyes, "Who was the one that walked over and started talking about my dress? Who was the one that 'accidentally' smashed a cake into my dress? Who was the one that pushed me into the swimming pool?"
Xu Anyi's eyes boiled with rage at the mention of what happened at the party, "Lu Yuzhe, I know you are dumb, but I am pretty sure you are not stupid enough to not know who the one causing problems is."
Lu Yuzhe was slightly taken aback by her strong reaction, and he was at a loss for words for a second, because he also knew that Xu Anyi was right.
He knew Xia Yiwei well, and although he liked her for her innocence and friendliness, he also knew that for some reason, she had a grudge against Xu Anyi. And at the party, it was indeed Xia Yiwei, or at least her friend, Yi Tingting, who caused all the commotion.
"I-" Lu Yuzhe started again, but Xu Anyi turned her head around to face Shen Lili as she scrunched her face together.
"I don't like the noise, smell, and view here. Do you?"
Shen Lili blinked a few times and then understood the hidden meaning behind Xu Anyi's words, and she smiled, nodding her head in agreement as she stood up, "Me too."
"Let's switch to a private room so there aren't any flies buzzing around and ruining the meal," Xu Anyi said as she grabbed her bag and Shen Lili did the same as the two of them turned around and walked away, completely ignoring the confusion and then anger on Lu Yuzhe's face.
The two of them found a waiter and switched into a private room, and after they walked in, Shen Lili burst into laughter, "Hahaha! Did you see Lu Yuzhe's face?! It turned green! Oh my, your tongue is so harsh!"
Xu Anyi shrugged as she sat down, looking at her with a soft grin, "What do you mean? I was just speaking the truth okay? And didn't you agree?"
Shen Lili continued to nod as she fell into her chair, taking a large gulp of water, "Yes, yes. Hahaha! I'm not very close with him, but I'm certain that I won't be able to look him in the eyes when I see him again."
Xu Anyi grinned and did not say anything as there was a knock at the door and the food they ordered was brought in.
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After eating lunch, Xu Anyi returned home. It was almost dinnertime but Si Mu was not home yet. He had messaged her, telling her that he might be home a little later tonight, so she locked the door and went up to her room.
She changed into her pajamas and grabbed her laptop, sitting down on the couch.
She looked through some of the recent news and then opened the social media network on her laptop. She was signed into her 'Xu Anyi' account, which had tens of thousands of followers already because of her work with Design and the news of her signing a contract.
She signed out of that account and clicked log in again, this time typing in a different account username and password.
She had to try several times before she finally got the right password. After all, it had been five years already and it was a miracle that she still remembered her username and password.
After several minutes, she was finally able to sign into her account.
'Welcome back, Yiyi.'
The top of the page read as she signed into her account with the username: Yiyi.
She smiled as she scrolled through her page, which still had the posts from over five years ago. They were all posts of her, but just showing her body and not her face.
In each picture, she wore a different outfit, showing off the clothes at different angles.
This was her old "modeling" social media account where she shared her daily outfits. Because in the past, Lu Yuzhe did not want her to join modeling, she could not go out and actually do what she loved, but she had secretly created this account where she would post pictures of her outfits without her face in it.
Surprisingly, it had blown up and she once had over 10 million followers in the past, but after five years of being inactive, she now only had a little over 2 million.
She scrolled through her old posts, remembering the background of her old closet and some of the old clothes she had.
She did not know where all of these clothes went, and she sighed in pity as she looked at all her lost babies.
After scrolling through all of her old posts, she jumped out of bed and entered her closet, randomly picking out a dress and a pair of boots.
She changed into it and set her phone up, facing the inside of her closet like she used to.
The angle and everything seemed so familiar as she struck several poses in the outfit, showing off the short white dress.
It only took her a few minutes to finish taking the pictures, and without editing them at all, she logged into the Yiyi account on her phone and posted the pictures with the caption:
'I'm back!'
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