Chapter 296: Battle of Honor
It was a tranquil night at the Gao Family Manor, and the silence was unexpectedly profound.
Gao Min, fresh from her bath and wrapped in a towel, stepped out of the bathroom, only to find Lin Fan, who should have been dead drunk, leaning against the headboard, smoking and fiddling with his phone.
"Weren’t you drunk?"
Gao Min approached Lin Fan with confusion. When she had helped him return earlier, he had been staggering, and it was only with Gao Shan’s support that they had managed to get him back to the room. How could a bath have sobered him up so quickly?
"Wine does not intoxicate; people intoxicate themselves. There are some things, some words, that can only be said when one hides behind the guise of drunkenness."
Lin Fan smiled as he put down his phone. He had only pretended to be drunk earlier, whispering a few words in Gao Shan’s ear that only the two of them could understand. Of course, Gao Shan knew that Lin Fan wasn’t truly drunk. Only the twenty-three-year-old Gao Min had been taken in by the act, and that was the tempering of time.
"Alright, today I learned that this world is so complex, all my efforts are meaningless in the face of trickery."
Gao Min leaned her slightly cool body against Lin Fan’s, reminiscing about the words Lv Pingping had said by the poolside earlier. If Lin Fan hadn’t been there, all her efforts would have vanished overnight.