At seven o'clock in the evening, Director Tang's birthday party was set in the hotel's Hidden Dragon Banquet Hall, with the main creative team arranged at one table. However, unlike before, the National Couple's seating arrangement was completely dismantled. Previously, Gu Chengyu and Chen Beini had been inseparably close wherever they went, but now Chen Beini's seat was moved to the left of Shi Lan.
There was an empty seat to the right of Shi Lan, and everyone tacitly knew to whom it belonged.
At a quarter past seven, Director Tang entered the banquet hall with his assistant and several deputy directors. After taking his seat, he pointed to the empty seat next to Shi Lan and asked, "An Lan, did Yan Shixiu say when he might arrive?"
Everyone at the table looked at Shi Lan because up to that point, they all took for granted the close personal relationship between Shi Lan and Yan Shixiu.
Although, in private, it was indeed some kind of indescribable relationship…