No? Can I read the mind of my mortal enemy?

An hour and a half had passed since Pei Jingnian sat down in the bar.

But they didn't even see a trace of Shi Qiao.

He leaned back in the booth, his dark skin gleaming eerily, growing increasingly unsettling.

"Hey, Lao Pei, being a hunter requires patience, right?"

"You look so handsome today, how could you possibly be outshone?"

Pei Jingnian shook the dice in his hand, and the four dice instantly stacked into a tall tower.

"I can wait."

He opened his eyes and stared at the three people sitting opposite him, whose faces were flushed from drinking.

"But given the current situation, do you think they'll still be mentally sound enough to accuse that deadbeat?"

Lu Zhou felt a little guilty. "This..."

*Clatter!* Xiao Mei from the Victims' Alliance put down her large beer glass, spilling some beer.

"So... I'm saying, there isn't a single good man!" Xiaomei hiccuped, her face flushed.

The girl next to her immediately grabbed her arm, "Yeah! Do you know, do you know how much money I spent on him?"

"He told me... told me he had no money for food," Xiao Piao waved her hand, her eyes glazed over, "I gave him some money right away, and he... I think it was a lot!"

Xiaoli, who was next to her, chuckled and took out her phone from her bag. "You...you guys look at me, I give him almost all of my monthly salary."

"He told me that he treated me as his girlfriend... everything else was just work, and he only treated those women as his bosses."

Xiaomei buried her head and burst into tears, "Waaaaah, who, who isn't! He even told me he quit his life of crime for me!"

"And, she even came to my place in the middle of the night, saying something like 'Baby, you're all I have from now on.'"

"Which day?" Xiao Piao chuckled, glancing at the chat history. "Oh, that day, I had my period."

"So he said something suddenly came up, so... he went to your place."

Xiaoli suddenly stood up, tears and snot streaming down her face. "I... I've barely even held his hand more than a few times!"

Immediately afterwards, the three women inexplicably hugged each other, and then each of them held three straws and made a bowing gesture.

"Heaven bears witness that we, the three beautiful sisters, meet here today, all hurt by the same scumbag. We do not ask to be born on the same day, month, and year, but we ask to die on the same day, month, and year."

"I'll never trust men again! I'll never get involved in love again! I'll stay single forever!"

Many people cast curious glances, some even thinking that Pei Jingnian and Lu Zhou had toyed with the hearts of these three girls.

After all, they both look like top-tier models.

The two of them simultaneously covered their faces.

Pei Jingnian even used one hand to pinch Lu Zhou's thigh hard under the table, so hard that Lu Zhou thought he was about to see his great-grandmother.

He grabbed Pei Jingnian's hand and said in a low voice, "Old Pei! A little patience will calm things down."

"Get through today, and you'll be a hero again."

Pei Jingnian let out a long sigh of anger, "The more I think about it, the angrier I get."

Xiao Piao suddenly laughed and inserted all three straws into the brownie cake to start sucking it up.

"In truth, we can't really blame ourselves."

"When I first met Xia Tian, ​​he was so proactive, holding my hand and hugging me."

"And her sweet talk is irresistible, who can resist that?"

Xiao Mei propped her head up with her hand and said, "Hey guys, if you have a girl with you, you... hiccup, you really have to be careful not to let her be alone with Xia Tian."

"That guy is really good at flirting. He always uses a strategy of retreating to advance, and he gets handsy, specifically targeting young girls who don't have much dating experience."

Xiaoli lay down and said, "Yes, that's how I got scammed. I've never been in a relationship before. I went to their store with my colleague out of curiosity."

"Summer came when I was drunk and he suddenly took my hand, fed me mineral water and helped me drink more."

Xiao Piao was clearly drunk and didn't bother to hide it.

"It's been so long, and that scumbag still hasn't shown up. There are hotels all around, could he already be...?"

Xiao Piao buried her head in the cake and swallowed the next words.

Pei Jingnian suddenly stood up, his hands covered with bulging blue veins, his fingertips turning white.

The words of these three people kept replaying in my mind.

In case, he meant in case.

He was looking for Shi Qiao.

What a load of bullshit!

he does not want.

Whether you fear him, dislike him, or hate him, it doesn't matter.

He didn't want her to fall in love with anyone else.

Even if it's hatred, it's long enough to occupy a place in her heart.

He grabbed his car keys and had just stepped out of the booth when Xiaomei grabbed his shirt, muttering something mushy:

"Summer, you owe me..."

"Let go." Pei Jingnian took a half step back in disgust, but the corner of his clothes was gripped even tighter.

Xiao Mei burst into tears, grabbed Pei Jingnian's clothes with her other hand, and yelled:

"How dare you look at me like that! Didn't you say I was your favorite person?!"

"You clearly said that you would only call me baby and wife."

"Waaaaah, you've been lying to me for a whole year!"

"You heartless bastard! You big liar!"

The scene became chaotic for a moment, and Lu Zhou rushed over and patiently explained, "Sis, you've grabbed the wrong person, this isn't Xia Tian."

"Summer's on his way. When he arrives, you guys can skin him alive..."

A very soft thud rang in my ears, piercing through the chaos.

Pei Jingnian looked up and met Shi Qiao, who was holding a huge teddy bear outside the window.

Her smile froze, the drink slipped from her hand, fell to the ground, and spilled everywhere.

Her gaze lingered on Pei Jingnian's clothes, which were being tightly gripped by a girl who was also looking at him and crying.

Favorite thing? Calling someone "wife"? Lying?

So, Pei Jingnian said the same things to her to others as he did to her?

So, were those repeated calls of "wife" in his heart really only directed at her?

She's such an idiot.

She suddenly squatted down, clutching her teddy bear, her mind blank. With trembling hands, she pulled a tissue from her pocket and wiped the places on the floor that had been stained with the drink.

Her clear vision gradually became clouded with a sour mist of tears, and her attempts to hold it back only made the mist thicker.

The bitter taste of the lumps gradually climbed to the root of my nose, stinging painfully.

My heart, too, felt like it was being gripped tightly by something, beating too fast.

For the first time, she felt her blood was cold, as if she couldn't feel any temperature at all.

A shadow suddenly flashed across the floor tiles.

"Shi Qiao, no..."

Shi Qiao raised her head, her almond-shaped eyes filled with grievance, her entire eye sockets bloodshot and mostly red.

Tears were about to spill, but she held them back.

A night breeze blew by, lifting a few stray hairs that clung to her trembling red lips.

She threw the teddy bear she was holding at Pei Jingnian and ran straight out of the intersection to jump into a taxi.

*

Back home, she haphazardly went into her room and took out her suitcase.

She was really angry.

But she didn't know what she was angry about.

My mind was a complete mess; all I wanted was to get away from anything related to Pei Jingnian.

The farther the better.

She took out her phone, searched for nearby hotels, found one, and booked it directly in one go.

She opened the door to her home, dragging her heavy suitcase.

Its broad silhouette blocked all other avenues of escape.

You don't even need to look up to know who it is.

Shi Qiao sniffed, not wanting Pei Jingnian to see her embarrassment, "Let..."

A warm embrace enveloped her, completely covering her.

Pei Jingnian rested his chin on her shoulder, nuzzling her affectionately.

Salty liquid fell onto her shoulders, soaking down to her collarbone.

It's very hot.

He slowly raised his head, his hair disheveled, tears clinging to his dark eyelashes, forming clusters.

His voice trembled, and his large hand pressed on her waist, as if he were afraid she would run away.

"Please let me explain, baby, I beg you."

"No...don't want me."

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