After get off work on Friday night, Zhou Li and Zhan Yubai went to the Hot Spring Villa together.
Zhou Li was driving the car on the road. He was no different from usual and spoke very little. Zhan Yubai kept looking for topics to talk about.
While speaking, Zhan Yubai did not forget to observe Zhou Li's expression.
Zhan Yubai had been confused about what happened at the police station last time. Although Zhou Li solved the trouble for her, she always felt that something was wrong.
Zhan Yubai was stopped by the police the day after she went to Hong Kong City. She had just come out of the hotel and was about to go to Lantian Welfare Institution.
Before setting off, he was taken away by the police.
The police said that she was related to a murder case and wanted to take her to make records and evidence. Only after Zhan Yubai was taken there did she learn that the police were still investigating the cause of Liu Pei's death.
Liu Pei was killed by Su Min. He had no power and was addicted to gambling. At that time, he also made a suicide scene. Zhan Yubai never thought that there would be follow-up to this matter.
Su Min was looking for the group of people captured by the police this time. The police found Zhan Yubai's number when checking their mobile phones.
Zhan Yubai couldn't sleep almost every day in the days when she was taken away. Later, she was taken to Beicheng, and Zhou Li was notified to go to the police station to find her...
Later Zhou Li also cross-questioned her some questions, and Zhan Yubai answered them flawlessly, but she didn't think Zhou Li would believe her.
Zhou Li really didn't believe it, but because Jin Rou called and asked him to suppress the matter, he suppressed it anyway.
With Jin Rou around, it was impossible for Zhou Li to really ignore her, but Zhan Yubai could never guess Zhou Li's own attitude.
After coming out of the police station, Zhan Yubai was too busy taking care of himself. He didn't pay attention to Jiang Mingzhu's news in the past few days, let alone kill her. Fortunately, Jiang Mingzhu has hooked up with Yuan Ye...
Zhan Yubai's cell phone vibrated, bringing her back from her wandering thoughts.
When Zhan Yubai came to her senses, she saw Zhou Li glance at her, and then looking at the messages on the screen, she subconsciously turned the phone screen upside down.
Zhou Li looked away and turned the steering wheel expressionlessly.
Zhan Yubai turned on his phone, and there was a sentence on the screen: [Sleep in a separate room with him tonight, I will go find you. 】
Zhan Yubai deleted the dialog box and put the phone back into his bag: "Doctor Su is back."
Zhou Li: "Isn't it tomorrow?"
Zhan Yubai: "Yes, just come back tomorrow. We will have dinner together tomorrow night, and he will report the progress to you."
Zhou Li: "You arrange it."
Zhan Yubai: "Okay."
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Zhou Li was soaking in the hot spring pool, and when he closed his eyes, Jiang Mingzhu's shadow filled his mind.
The body temperature is getting higher and higher.
Zhou Li was upset and stood up from the pool. He walked to the shore wet and picked up his mobile phone.
The top dialog box on WeChat belongs to Jiang Mingzhu.
Zhou Li sent Jiang Mingzhu a lot of WeChat messages in the past few days, but she didn't reply to any of them. When the dialog box opened, it was all messages from him.
Zhou Li could only understand Jiang Mingzhu's situation from his daily phone calls with his aunt.
After looking at the phone for a long time, Zhou Li sent another message: [Do you still want to check?]
In less than ten seconds, Jiang Mingzhu’s reply arrived: [Think]
Zhou Li squeezed the phone tightly, his eyes red.
Jiang Mingzhu had seen all the messages he had sent before, but she refused to reply to any of them.
She would only respond to him if it involved investigations and transactions between them.
His position in her heart has never changed, he is just a tool for use.
Now that her identity has been exposed, she will only negotiate deals with him.
Zhou Li stared at that word for a long time, his eyes hurt, and the temperature of his whole body dropped rapidly.
He responded with a sharp breath: [Then show your sincerity]
Jiang Mingzhu: [What do you want, just say it. 】
Zhou Li saw the meaning of breaking the jar from Jiang Mingzhu's words.
Zhou Li: [For Pei Ye’s sake?
Are you willing to do anything?]
Jiang Mingzhu didn't reply, maybe because she thought he was asking nonsense.
But it's strange. The more questions you don't get a response from, the easier it is to get into trouble. Even if you know the answer in your heart, you still have to persist.
Zhou Li: [Go ahead and take a photo for me]
These words were very disrespectful. Zhou Li thought Jiang Mingzhu would scold him or reject him outright.
Unexpectedly, a minute later, Jiang Mingzhu actually sent the photo as he requested.
The photo of her was taken in front of the mirror while taking a shower. The water mist was hazy, her hair was tied up, and her fair body was dazzling under the light.
As soon as Zhou Li opened the photo, his protruding Adam's apple rolled violently, and the flames in his body were stirred up.
How excited his brain was, how high the anger in his chest was.
Jiang Mingzhu is no longer struggling now, she is like a body without a soul.
Just like she said, as long as she can get revenge, she can do anything.
It was obviously him who threatened her, and her compliance was what he wanted, but Zhou Li couldn't be happy.
Jiang Mingzhu's words would always ring in his ears - "Don't say the other person is you, I will still do this even if the other person is a bad old man."
Zhou Li squeezed the phone tighter.
Yuanye and Zhou Yi had asked him before why he didn't confess to Jiang Mingzhu.
This is the answer.
When everything is put on the table, the relationship between them has completely become a deal, and Jiang Mingzhu will not even act again.
Zhou Li pressed the video call button with scarlet eyes.
When the system was about to cancel automatically, the call was finally picked up.
On the screen, Jiang Mingzhu was wrapped in a bath towel, her hair dripping wet.
Zhou Li looked at it with a sullen face and said nothing.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Wait for me, I'll find something to hold my phone on."
Zhou Li: "What are you doing with your cell phone?"
Jiang Mingzhu asked him mockingly: "Why did you send the video here?"
Zhou Li: "What do you think I should do?"
When she said to put up the phone, he already had the answer in his mind.
Jiang Mingzhu didn't answer him, the camera began to shake, and Zhou Li heard her rummaging around.
Almost two minutes later, Jiang Mingzhu put up her phone, got on the bed, took off her bathrobe, and showed everything in front of the camera.
Zhou Li's eyes became even redder and his intraocular pressure exploded.
Jiang Mingzhu had seduced him in this way before, but her state at that time was completely different from now.
Zhou Li always thought Jiang Mingzhu was fake back then, but seeing her now, he actually began to miss that time.
Zhou Li saw her slender, white fingers covering her collarbone, a very seductive movement, and he was indeed seduced.
But that's not right.
None of them are right.
Zhou Li took a deep breath and said in a rough voice: "Stop."
Jiang Mingzhu paused, opened her eyes and asked him coldly: "What's wrong, are you not satisfied?"
Zhou Li didn't give her an answer and hung up the video directly.
He grabbed his phone and went straight to the bathroom, took off his bathrobe, and let the cold water wash over his body from top to bottom.
Whenever she closed her eyes, Jiang Mingzhu looked like she was giving up on herself.
He would rather Jiang Mingzhu be as hypocritically enthusiastic in front of him as before, rather than see her be so cold and perfunctory.
