The moment he entered the door, Zhou Li's eyes were fixed on the opposite side and his jaw and lips were tense.
The person waiting for him was not Fu Xiaozhi, but Jiang Mingzhu.
There was a bar in the living room of the villa, with a wine cabinet next to it. Jiang Mingzhu was sitting at the bar, looking towards him with a glass of wine in her hand.
She had a smile on her face, the same smile she had on the day they first met.
Hypocritical and pretentious.
Zhou Li didn't like it very much.
He stood still, but his right eyelid twitched. Jiang Mingzhu, who had avoided him before, suddenly asked him to meet through Fu Xiaozhi, was really abnormal.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Here we come, come and sit."
Although she was inviting, her voice and attitude were not exactly enthusiastic.
Zhou Li closed the door and walked to the bar and stopped.
Jiang Mingzhu picked up a wine glass and poured half a glass of red wine for him. She pursed her lips and asked, "Aren't you going to sit down?"
Zhou Li sat down, but did not touch the glass of wine. He looked at her sharply, and there was a sense of solemnity around him.
"You're looking for me."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Yeah."
She only replied one word, but her eyes kept looking straight at him, half-smiling, with a fatal attraction, dangerous and seductive.
Zhou Li: "What's the matter?"
Jiang Mingzhu didn't answer, she picked up her glass of wine and shook it, "Would you like a drink?"
Zhou Li didn't move: "If nothing happened, you wouldn't come to me."
After saying this, he felt a little more self-deprecating in his heart, and his fingers tightened a little unconsciously.
After Jiang Mingzhu heard this sentence, he was even more sure of his previous thoughts. His complaint obviously had a double meaning.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Well, I have something to ask you."
Zhou Li: "Say."
Jiang Mingzhu: "When I was hospitalized, you were always very good to me. Why did you suddenly kick me?"
Zhou Li: "I have already answered."
Jiang Mingzhu: "But I'm not satisfied with your answer because it doesn't convince me at all."
Zhou Li: "I don't need a reason to do things."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Do you not need a reason, or is it because you can't let me know the reason?"
Her eyes narrowed, and the corner of her mouth curved into a mocking smile.
Zhou Li's brows suddenly wrinkled, and his heart kept sinking. He knew that Jiang Mingzhu couldn't ask such a question for no reason - what did she know?
There was silence all around, and the already quiet villa was now even more eerily quiet.
Behind all the calm there are turbulent waves.
Finally, Jiang Mingzhu broke the silence with a short laugh: "Can't you make it up, my good brother?"
Zhou Li looked at her expressionlessly, as if he had no idea what she was talking about.
Jiang Mingzhu had to lament Zhou Li's acting skills. He often said that her acting skills were good, but in fact they were nothing compared to him.
Enough foreshadowing, Jiang Mingzhu didn't want to beat around the bush anymore, she slowly opened her lips under Zhou Li's calm gaze.
"I've always been curious, how could someone as proud as you remain indifferent to being molested like this? Not only did he pretend not to know that he was engaged to Zhan Yubai, but he also invested a large sum of money in her lover."
"You disappeared for a few days before dumping me. No one knows where you went. What did you do?"
Zhou Li's face became increasingly ugly, his right eyelid was beating crazily, and his heart rate continued to increase.
Jiang Mingzhu tilted her head and looked at him, "It's only been more than two months since you dumped me. Do you remember what you said the day you kicked me away?"
No need for Zhou Li to answer, Jiang Mingzhu continued to type with a smile: "You acted so disgusted with me that day, as if you never wanted to see me in this life, and then a few days ago you liked me so much that you were willing to give me the card containing all your property. I--"
Zhou Li interrupted her sharply: "Jiang Mingzhu."
Jiang Mingzhu: "I think your acting skills are much better than mine, Zhou Li."
"The few days you disappeared, you went to check
Get rid of Zhan Yubai and Su Min. You kicked me out because you suspected that Zhan Yubai was using charity as an excuse to get children from the orphanage to do in vivo experiments on Su Min. She immediately showed her cards in one go, "You wanted to find out about this matter but you didn't want me to get involved because at that time Zhan Yubai had already had murderous intentions towards me. You dumped me so ruthlessly and then got engaged to Zhan Yubai. On the one hand, it can gain her trust to facilitate investigation, and on the other hand, it can temporarily dispel her idea of killing me."
Every time Jiang Mingzhu said another word, Zhou Li's face became uglier. He, who had always been unassuming, could no longer control his emotions. His eyes were bloodshot and his shoulders were extremely stiff.
Jiang Mingzhu: "You asked her to join Wanhua and invest in Su Min's laboratory. You just used Mrs. Zhou's excuse to fish for big fish in the long run. I'm right."
"This matter is risky. If it doesn't go well, any dangerous situation may happen. You are afraid of something happening, so you don't want me to get involved, but you didn't expect that after you kicked me out, the relationship between me and Yuan Ye would get closer and closer. , you became anxious when you saw how quickly we were developing, so you started sending gifts, and then went to the hospital to say that kind of thing to me."
Jiang Mingzhu moved a little closer to Zhou Li, staring directly at him: "You asked me to wait for you until you finish investigating this matter."
When Jiang Mingzhu is aggressive, she is more like a fox, smart, cunning and insightful.
For the first time in his life, Zhou Li was forced to feel like he had "nowhere to escape" by a person.
He picked up the red wine glass next to him and drank it in one gulp, his breath unsteady: "How do you know?"
It couldn't have been Zheng Linxu who told her.
When Zhou Li had talked with Zheng Lin on the phone before about cooperating in the investigation, the only consensus the two reached was to keep Jiang Mingzhu secret, so Jiang Mingzhu could not know that he was investigating Zhan Yubai and Su Min.
Jiang Mingzhu raised the corners of her lips, picked up the red wine bottle and poured him another half glass.
When she was about to stop, Zhou Li suddenly held her hand down and said, "Answer my question."
Jiang Mingzhu didn't struggle and said with a smile, "Because I have a brain."
"You kicked me too suddenly. At that time, you clearly started to check Zhan Yubai, but you suddenly stopped and wanted to get engaged to her. I thought she had done something shocking that moved you."
Jiang Mingzhu's statement is more in line with Zhou Li's preset development.
He squeezed her hand and said, "Continue."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Do you remember the WeChat message I sent you that day?"
When she mentioned it, Zhou Li immediately remembered it.
The only time during this period she took the initiative to look for him, three posts in a row, as for the content——
Zhou Li was enlightened, with a dangerous light flashing in his eyes: "You are here to test me."
What he said was an affirmation.
Jiang Mingzhu knew from Zhou Li's eyes and tone that he had already deduced it: "Yes."
"Even if you really trust her, you wouldn't be able to do something like a suspected murder investigation. I'm not naive enough to think that you are protecting your fiancée. Your relationship is not that deep."
Speaking of which, Jiang Mingzhu's mood is still very stable.
Zhou Li looked at her calm analysis and uttered a sentence between his lips and teeth: "This is your original appearance. Your previous collapse in front of me was all staged."
