Chapter 396 You think I wouldn't bear to lay a hand on you?

Xie Nanzhi said, "Cui Xiao called me and said you had been drugged and asked me to pick you up, but when I got there, she was long gone."

Seeing his expression, Xie Nanzhi laughed even harder. "But I'm wondering, Cui Xiao already brought you all the way here, why did she just leave you on the side of the road?"

Zhou Mubin paused in his drinking, looked up at Xie Nanzhi, and his eyes held a hint of doubt.

Zhou Mubin's heart sank suddenly, and fragments of last night's memories instantly became clear.

He kissed her forcefully.

Later, Cui Xiao went to get the car, and he seemed to say something that made her instantly angry.

Zhou Mubin remembered that he seemed to have said something like, "You and Mo Ziqian could even have a breakup hookup, how come you're so heartless when it comes to me?"

After saying that, Cui Xiao stopped the car and threw him out.

A sense of loss instantly enveloped him, followed by a surge of anger.

He wasn't angry that she left him on the side of the road, but rather that she cared about Mo Ziqian.

You've already broken up, can't you even say something?

Before he could speak, Xie Nanzhi muttered, "I know Cui Xiao's personality. If you hadn't done something so ruthless, she would never have been so heartless."

Zhou Mubin's throat tightened, and his eyes held a hint of barely perceptible anger.

Seeing his expression, Xie Nanzhi stopped teasing him and sighed, "Old Zhou, sometimes I really want to slap you. You're such a jerk! When someone likes you, you ignore them, but when they don't, you're like a leech. Can't you just let Cui Xiao live her own life?"

Zhou Mubin didn't reply. His mind was filled with Cui Xiao's cold eyes when she left, and her back as she turned away without hesitation when he fell on the roadside and called out to her not to go.

He gripped the water glass tightly in his hand, his heart heavy with a mixture of disappointment and anger.

Zhou Mubin didn't say anything, probably because he wasn't listening.

If they could listen to reason, they would have let go long ago. Why are they so annoying?

Xie Nanzhi changed the subject, "By the way, who drugged you? I really don't understand, sleeping with you is so easy, why go through all that trouble of drugging you?"

Zhou Mubin glared at her. "Is that all there is to being a womanizer?"

Xie Nanzhi smiled and said, "Otherwise what? You've never turned down anyone all these years. If someone wanted to sleep with you, just beckoning would have been enough."

Zhou Mubin was speechless, and suddenly felt like breaking off all ties with her. "Nanzhi, have some decency."

He paused for a moment, then spoke again, his voice icy and his eyes filled with a hint of ruthlessness, "It's Liu Xiaojie."

Xie Nanzhi was stunned for a moment, then realized, "It's her. I ran into her a few days ago when I was having dinner with Cui Xiao. She even provoked Cui Xiao back then."

Zhou Mubin was surprised, "You were here at the last dinner?"

Xie Nanzhi raised an eyebrow. "Yes, I had dinner with Cui Xiao. Liu Xiaojie also happened to be at this restaurant. She said you two made up and that you were going to throw her a grand welcome-back banquet. Old Zhou, don't tell me you really threw her a welcome-back banquet, and that's when she got pregnant today?"

Zhou Mubin was completely dumbfounded.

My mind is a complete mess.

Then, he cursed, "When did I ever ask her to have a welcome party? She called me over, saying she had something to tell me about Cui Xiao, so I went. Who knew this woman would try to harm me? If I hadn't run into Cui Xiao, I would have lost all my innocence by now."

Xie Nanzhi said, "Stop! What innocence do you still have? You've long since lost your innocence."

Zhou Mubin: "What do you know? Ever since I started pursuing Cui Xiao, I've kept myself pure and chaste for her sake. I've even given up meat for a long time."

Xie Nanzhi made a vomiting face. "Old Zhou, can you please stop making me feel disgusted? I don't want to waste the food I'm going to eat tonight."

Zhou Mubin: "Don't believe me if you don't want to."

As he spoke, Zhou Mubin pulled out the IV needle from the back of his hand and got up to get out of bed.

Xie Nanzhi was taken aback and quickly grabbed him, asking anxiously, "No, where are you going? You just woke up, and your body hasn't fully recovered yet."

Zhou Mubin's eyes were blazing with fury, and he looked as if he wanted to tear someone to pieces. "Go settle accounts with Liu Xiaojie. She dared to scheme against me. She's tired of living."

Xie Nanzhi was speechless at his appearance. "It's so late at night, stop making a fuss. Can't we go tomorrow? Is she going to fly away?"

Zhou Mubin was furious. "No, I won't be able to sleep tonight until this is resolved."

"You're so old, yet you still have such a temper." Xie Nanzhi was speechless. "Fine, I'll go with you. But you have to calm down; we're good citizens."

Zhou Mubin walked in front, with Xie Nanzhi following behind.

After getting in the car, Xie Nanzhi didn't forget to send Wei Chizheng her location again, and then sent a voice message, "I'm going to take care of some things with Lao Zhou. If you're done, just go home. You don't need to pick me up."

Before he even fastened his seatbelt, Wei Chizheng replied instantly, "It's okay, I'm going the same way."

Xie Nanzhi joked, "Where are we on the same route? One is in the south and the other in the north, they're quite far apart."

Wei Chizheng said, "The earth is round, wife."

Zhou Mubin couldn't stand it anymore and propped his forehead with his hand. "Wow, how come I never noticed before that Wei Chizheng is so good at sweet talk? Isn't he a straight man?"

Xie Nanzhi fastened her seatbelt and started the car. "That's for other people, not for me."

Zhou Mubin: "So cheesy."

Xie Nanzhi complained, "If you were half as devoted as Wei Chi, Cui Xiao wouldn't ignore you."

In one sentence, Zhou Mubin was rendered speechless.

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Zhou Mubin walked into the First Club with a chill in his body. The air was filled with ambiguity and chaos, and the light of the crystal chandelier was now just blinding to him.

Xie Nanzhi followed beside him, looking at his tense profile. It seemed he was really angry this time.

They went straight to the private room they had been in before. When they opened the door, the room was still a mess. Liu Xiaojie was sitting on the sofa, drunk and touching up her makeup. When she saw Zhou Mubin come in, she paused for a moment while holding the lipstick, and then gave a charming smile.

“Zhou Lu, why are you back? Do you still think I’m good to you?”

Zhou Mubin walked up to her, looking down at her with a chilling tone, "Liu Xiaojie, you dared to drug me, you're something else."

Liu Xiaojie's smile froze. She put down her lipstick, looked up at Zhou Mubin, and her eyes showed a hint of panic, but she still tried to appear calm. "Lawyer Zhou, are you misunderstanding something? I wouldn't do something like that to you, would I? We've slept together before."

"Not that bad?"

Zhou Mubin sneered, then suddenly grabbed Liu Xiaojie's chin, his eyes filled with a sinister light. "Still not admitting it? Liu Xiaojie, do you think I wouldn't dare to lay a hand on you? Or do you think I'm someone who's easy to bully?"