Chapter 374: The One Who Booked a Hotel Room Yesterday Was…

Jiang Muye

Boss Cutie

Leng Ruoli's heart was stabbed viciously.

"The one you wanted to repay was obviously me. You lost me, forgot me, and left me to guard this memory alone—that's cruel to me." Yu Xi tried hard to smile, but within that smile was a trace of sorrow.

Leng Ruoli couldn't put the feeling in her heart into words.

It was like a bottle of five flavors had been knocked over—she was especially conflicted, and especially hesitant.

"Come with me." Leng Ruoli drew a deep breath and shot Yu Xi a glance.

Yu Xi swept his eyes over her resolute appearance. In the shadows, he faintly curved his lips, and subconsciously followed Leng Ruoli to a secluded corner.

After reaching a quiet private room, Leng Ruoli stared intently at Yu Xi. "Take off your clothes."

"So you've decided to forget him?" Yu Xi was quite surprised.

He had originally thought that seducing Leng Ruoli would take a bit more time. He had never imagined she would take the bait so quickly.

"Hurry up!" Leng Ruoli's attitude grew a bit irritated.

Without paying Yu Xi any mind, she stepped forward and ripped open the buttons of Yu Xi's shirt. With that one tug, a large expanse of Yu Xi's skin was exposed.

His shoulder in particular was especially obvious—there was a very hideous scar.

Leng Ruoli was deeply shaken.

She nearly couldn't stand steady. "No, that's not right… something must be wrong somewhere!"

When it had come out of Yu Xi's mouth, she had still been a bit uncertain.

She had felt this might just be one of Yu Xi's lies.

But now, seeing this hideous scar on Yu Xi's shoulder, her eyes instantly turned red.

Jiang Muye didn't have a scar on his shoulder.

She and Jiang Muye had been intimate so many times—how could she not know?

Every time she looked at Jiang Muye's shoulder and pondered over it, stabbing at it so hard so many times with a fishhook—aside from skin grafting making it hard to restore it to its original state, the injury back then had been severe and soaked in seawater besides.

At the time, she had still been convincing herself.

Perhaps Jiang Muye had gotten scar repair, or perhaps he had used an especially good scar medication and healed completely.

But now, seeing Yu Xi's shoulder with a scar in the same spot, Leng Ruoli suddenly felt she might have mistaken the person.

The one who had borne the violent treatment for her back then was Yu Xi!

The one who had risked his life for her was also Yu Xi!!!

Leng Ruoli's heart ached terribly. She gripped her pants tightly.

She would rather she had never recovered her memories, and that Yu Xi had never come looking for her.

That way, she could still be happily together with Jiang Muye.

But today, when Yu Xi reminded her of everything from six years ago, the memories that had been sealed in dust all came rushing back at once.

Leng Ruoli had never imagined she would have forgotten it all so completely.

She had also never imagined such a melodramatic twist would happen to her.

How ridiculous.

The person she wanted to repay and make it up to turned out to be someone else—her own subordinate had found the wrong person.

As a result, after she transferred back from abroad, she had been observing Jiang Muye the whole time, and in the process of observing him, she had fallen in love with Jiang Muye.

Watching her look so severely shaken, Yu Xi silently buttoned up his shirt, the very picture of a refined scumbag, and said, "From the moment I learned you were with him, I knew you were treating him as my substitute."

Leng Ruoli's eyes turned red in an instant. She retorted, "He's not anyone's substitute."

"But I'm the one who saved you." Yu Xi walked closer step by step, his eyes fixed firmly on Leng Ruoli. "You saw it too—Xia Xiran is his White Moonlight, and he's still entangled with her."

Leng Ruoli's brows knitted tightly. Stubbornly, she clutched her skirt hard.

The scene from just now had deeply shaken her.

Even if she wanted to retort, Xia Xiran really had appeared by his side.

He would rather turn off his phone than let her find him.

Yet he allowed Xia Xiran to appear—did that mean that in Jiang Muye's heart, Xia Xiran still occupied a very important place?

Realizing this, Leng Ruoli's eyes were full of desolation and sorrow.

Yu Xi stepped forward and lowered his head to say softly, the picture of hypocrisy, "Only I would never betray you. We're people from the same world."

He wanted to pull Leng Ruoli into his arms.

However, when Leng Ruoli felt the chill of his hand, she was horrified.

She reflexively shoved Yu Xi away. Caught off guard, Yu Xi slammed into the wall. He clutched his waist with a faint ache and let out a pained sound. "Tch… that hurts."

"I'm… I'm sorry!" Leng Ruoli felt a bit guilty.

She tried desperately to accept him.

But she simply couldn't get past the hurdle in her heart.

So what if the one who saved her was Yu Xi?

But the one she loved was Jiang Muye—loved him to the point of being unable to free herself.

Leng Ruoli's eyes grew moist, and her heart felt like it had been stabbed, dripping with fresh blood.

"It's fine, I can give you time." Yu Xi smiled gently. "Back then, I took the punishment for you not because I wanted to gain anything from you. I just liked you, that's all."

Leng Ruoli bit her lower lip. Her heart was filled with unease, and after hesitating, she quickly left.

After Yu Xi watched that panicked, fleeing figure, his originally gentle eyes turned deep as a black pool.

…

Sunlight streamed in through the floor-to-ceiling window, stinging Jiang Muye's eyes.

So blinding.

Jiang Muye subconsciously raised his hand to shield his eyes.

He felt like his whole body had fallen apart. He was incredibly weak.

His head was also throbbing painfully—clearly the discomfort of a hangover.

No, he had gotten drunk last night.

Then he had slumped over the counter. What happened after that, he didn't remember.

How was he lying in bed?

Jiang Muye realized the surroundings were decorated like a hotel.

The worst part was when he lifted the blanket and looked.

Fuck, naked!

His shirt was gone, his trousers had vanished into thin air.

He was only wearing a pair of black boxer briefs.

Shit, he hadn't gotten drunk and been picked up like a corpse, had he?

A man or a woman? Fuck, if it was a man, he'd lost out completely!

No, even if it was a woman, he couldn't just let someone have their way with him so casually!

Who was it, so damn thirsty!

Jiang Muye really felt that drinking had ruined things. If he'd known, he wouldn't have gone to the bar—he should have just drunk at the villa.

As Jiang Muye grabbed at his hair in regret, he heard the bathroom door open.

"Clank."

The sound drew Jiang Muye's gaze over.

Jiang Muye immediately saw the young woman coming out with a bath towel wrapped around her chest.

Her long black hair hung down past her shoulders. Her delicate little face, as lovely as a warm pearl, wore a startled look upon seeing Jiang Muye awake, and her cheeks turned pink.

The bath towel made her figure look curvy and full, her legs long and slender.

After her eyes met Jiang Muye's, she looked terrified like a little rabbit. Dragging her hotel slippers, she darted into the bathroom in one go.

Jiang Muye was dealt a critical blow.

What the hell?

The one who picked him up was Xia Xiran?

Are you joking! Last night he had slept with someone—and that someone was Xia Xiran?

Hadn't she already given up on him? She'd actually taken advantage of him while he was vulnerable.

Damn, he had been careless!

Jiang Muye realized the gravity of the situation.

If it had been any other girl, it could still be passed off as a one-night stand, but Xia Xiran was a very innocent girl.

This was probably even her first time.

Jiang Muye felt the whole world spinning around him. Damn, was this some kind of game being played on him!

Now it had blown up into a real fire.