I was dragged back by him, walking to the entrance of the banquet hall, and I looked towards that corner.

The wine glass clearly had traces of being tampered with.

I pried open Zhou Te's hand, "It must be Lu Yinong."

Zhou Te looked at me, his expression weary, "Yi Zhou, why are you so stubborn? She's already dead, she died two years ago. Yi Zhou, you can't sacrifice your entire life for her."

I felt my breath being taken away again, and with the last shreds of reason, I said, "Tell the guests that I fainted from low blood sugar and can't toast everyone. Tell Fang Yao that I'm sorry and I'll make it up to her another day."

I couldn't say anything more.

I turned around and left.

The whole place was filled with joy and happiness. I didn't know what Lu Yinong would be thinking if it really was her sitting in that corner, witnessing the exchange of rings and me raising my glass from afar.

It's like the little girl in Yunnan more than ten years ago who lost her parents suddenly, what was she thinking when she heard the news of their death?

I can't imagine.

The receptionists at the front desk were the same few, and when they saw me again, their expressions became somewhat inexplicable.

I asked, "Excuse me, have any of you seen a girl wearing black clothes and a hat? She's thin and about this tall. Have any of you seen her?"

I could hardly speak, and I asked in a low, pleading voice, "Please, have any of you seen her?"

One of the receptionists quickly handed me a tissue, while the other hesitated for a moment and said, "We saw her..."

Someone next to her gave her a reproachful look, and she realized she had said too much and stopped speaking.

I tightly held her wrist, tears streaming down my face, "Did you see her? Tell me where she went, please? I'm begging you, I'm begging you."

I couldn't stand anymore and slid down the counter.

The receptionist hurriedly came around to the front, trying to help me up.

I looked up at her and said, "She's important to me, I can't go on without her. Please, tell me."

She finally said, "She told us not to say... sigh, after she left, she went to the left, we don't know where she went."

I leaned against the counter and stood up, bowing to her, and bowing again, "Thank you, thank you."

I rushed away.

To the left, to the left.

There was a pedestrian path to the left, a bus stop, and taxis waiting to pick up passengers.

I looked around, the passersby hurrying by, but no Lu Yinong.

I grabbed the owners of the shops along the street one by one and asked, "Did a girl in black clothes with a hat pass by just now?"

No one had an answer.

The autumn wind was so cold, it felt like my cheeks were about to shatter.

But I still hadn't found Lu Yinong.

Lu Yinong was gone, she would never come looking for me again.

At this moment, this thought inexplicably surged through my mind, but I was so certain.

Yes, based on Lu Yinong's personality, she wouldn't come to disturb me after seeing me get married.

My chest suddenly felt suffocated, and I leaned against a lamppost, gasping for breath.

In the sea of stars, I thought of a person.

My fingers trembled as I dialed that phone number.

"Uncle Yuan," I said, "Did Lu Yinong come back?"