Ou Yunchen followed the butler outside. By intuition, he felt the butler following him was a bit strange, but every time he turned back to stare at the butler, the butler would lower his head and hesitate to speak.
Ou Yunchen cautiously asked, "Do you have something to say?"
The butler did not look up, only raised his eyes for a quick glance, and continued to follow Ou Yunchen without a word.
They arrived at the parking spot where several servants stood beside Ou Yunchen's car. The passenger door was pulled open, and Ou Yunchen immediately saw Su Qianjin stubbornly sitting in the car. An aunt tried to pull Su Ruiyi out, but she refused to get out.
Only when Ou Yunchen walked over did the servants stop what they were doing.
Su Ruiyi quickly closed the car door, clasped the seatbelt, and sat motionlessly in the passenger seat.
Ou Yunchen took a deep breath. This rich girl was going to cause trouble again.
Before he could even prepare to open the passenger door, Su Ruiyi, holding the car keys, locked the door from the inside. No matter how much Ou Yunchen called from outside the car, Su Ruiyi inside refused to get out.
Ou Yunchen turned around and stared intently at the butler. This was the part he found strange about the butler. It seemed the butler had known for a while that Miss Su had clung to Ou Yunchen's car!
Ou Yunchen roared in a low voice, "Tell your young lady to get out of the car!"
The butler looked helpless. "Mr. Ou, I'm truly sorry, our young lady has had too much to drink, and we can't control her..."
"What time is it? Drinking in broad daylight!"
"Miss is in a bad mood. She went out on New Year's Eve and just returned after you arrived."
Ou Yunchen glared at Su Qianjin in the car. He remembered that Su Ruiyi had arranged a family dinner on New Year's Eve. Had she gone out drinking after the dinner?
However, he then thought of Mrs. Su in the study and suddenly understood!
Ou Yunchen sighed. "Go tell Mrs. Su that I'm taking Su Ruiyi to sober up."
With that, Ou Yunchen returned to the driver's seat and tapped on the car window. Su Ruiyi finally opened the door.
Once in the car, Ou Yunchen raised his hand towards Su Ruiyi's head. Startled, Su Ruiyi quickly raised her hand to protect her head, thinking Ou Yunchen was going to hit her.
Unexpectedly, Ou Yunchen's hand stopped in mid-air. Su Ruiyi cautiously poked her head out. The moment her eyes met Ou Yunchen's, she immediately lowered them, looking aggrieved.
Ou Yunchen gently took off Su Ruiyi's hoodie. He almost couldn't catch his breath. Just two or three days ago when he saw her, she had black hair. Today, she had dyed it a garish grass green, even more exaggerated than the red she had first dyed it!
Ou Yunchen tugged at Su Ruiyi's hair. It was indeed not a wig. This girl was really capable of messing with her own hair.
However, at this moment, Ou Yunchen didn't want to say anything. He slammed on the accelerator, the tires screeching against the ground. With a sharp turn, he swerved around half of the fountain and sped towards the Su family's main gate.
After driving for a while, Su Ruiyi asked in a small voice, "Where are you taking me?"
Ou Yunchen didn't even look at her, coldly stating, "To find a hair salon and dye this hair back to a normal color!"
"I'm not going..."
"You're in my car. Wherever I take you, you have to go!"
"Then I want to get out!"
"Too late. You got in yourself."
"You're yelling at me?!"
"I'm not."
"You are yelling at me..."
"If you say I am, then I am."
Su Ruiyi suddenly fell silent, which Ou Yunchen found a bit puzzling. However, he dismissed it as drunken ramblings and didn't want to argue with Su Ruiyi over who was right or wrong.
Su Ruiyi wiped away a tear and asked, "Are we friends?"
"If you say we are, then we are," Ou Yunchen replied indifferently.
"My parents seem to have given up on me..."
"Isn't that good? Do you want to be controlled or not controlled?"
"Sometimes I want to be controlled, and sometimes I don't."
"Then I can only say that if you don't want to be controlled, then act like a twenty-year-old adult, instead of getting yourself hungover and dressing bizarrely..."
"I just want them to pay more attention to me..."
Ou Yunchen tilted his head and looked at Su Ruiyi. She seemed to be genuinely crying.
"Since we're friends, I'll give you a piece of advice: this green hair really doesn't suit you..."
Su Ruiyi wiped her tears. Her mascara had smudged, making her look even more like a panda who had stayed up all night.
"I'm sorry, I was a bit harsh just now," Ou Yunchen sighed. Girls really do cry a lot.
"No, I like you taking care of me, it feels like..."
"Like what?"
"Like someone else's dad!"
Ou Yunchen almost laughed. He always heard adults nagging about 'look at other people's children,' and now he heard the comparison of 'someone else's dad' from Su Ruiyi.
"If I were your father, seeing you like this would make me furious."
Su Ruiyi mumbled softly, "I'm afraid he won't care about me anymore..."
Ou Yunchen sighed. So, this was Su Ruiyi's real concern.
She deliberately made mistakes, just hoping her parents would scold her severely like other parents, to show they truly cared about her.
It seemed Su Ruiyi's rebellious phase was later and longer than other children's...
However, unfortunately, in such a family, Su Ruiyi would never receive true care.
It was like when she made a mistake years ago, Xu Shuming exiled her abroad, and Mrs. Su immediately found the Wang family to clean up the mess. No one cared whether Su Ruiyi was framed or not.
When Ou Yunchen looked at the pitiful young lady again, she had already fallen asleep in the passenger seat.