Chapter 5

Chapter 5

“Xue Fu.”

Zhao Rongzheng suddenly reached out and seized my chin.

His grip was a little too hard. “Tell me. How much money are you trying to scam this time?”

Heaven and earth as my witness.

I had retired from the game a long time ago.

This time, I had only come back out of retirement to help Chu Bao’s lifesaver.

Who could have guessed I’d be so unlucky as to run straight into my old lover’s hands?

“I don’t want money,” I said hesitantly.

“Then you’ve got quite the appetite. You want status?”

I shook my head. “I don’t want status either.”

“I just…”

“You just genuinely like Lao Qi as a person?”

God help me. Who would like a rotten, womanizing cucumber like him?

“Not that either.”

“Xue Fu, you’d better come clean.”

Zhao Rongzheng let go, his gaze sweeping over the red marks on my chin.

“Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to deal with you.”

After he said that, he seemed to finally remember my hand was still somewhere it shouldn’t be.

He tightened his grip around my wrist bone just slightly, and the pain made me let go at once.

Feeling wronged, I withdrew my hand. Sure enough, men had one face in bed and another out of it.

He wasn’t the same man who had once called me baby and begged so sweetly.

“I just can’t stand watching him toy with women, messing around and chasing anything that moves.”

“So I thought I’d toy with him too.”

Zhao Rongzheng seemed so angry that he laughed.

“Xue Fu, have you forgotten what you did five years ago?”

I felt a little guilty. “I… I’ve already turned over a new leaf.”

To be precise, after taking his ten million five years ago.

I finally did the one thing I had always wanted to do.

Then I buried the hateful, pitiful Xue Fu of the past for good.

“Turned over a new leaf?”

Zhao Rongzheng looked down at me from above.

“Throwing yourself at a man the moment you see him is what you call turning over a new leaf?”

“Has Miss Xue forgotten where her hand was touching just now?”

I glanced at him and argued in a small voice, “We’ve slept together before. That’s why I touched you.”

“It’s not like I touch just anyone.”

“I wouldn’t touch your Lao Qi.”

“And besides, you seemed to be enjoying it.”

“Just now, you were already-”

“Shut your mouth.”

Zhao Rongzheng felt as if his temples were throbbing.

Five years ago, she had been soft, weak, obedient, and sweet.

How had she become so unfiltered with her mouth and so brazen with her hands?

Seeing that he really did seem a little angry, I tactfully shut up.

But the truth was, none of them knew.

Not even Zhou Zhao would ever have imagined it, not in his whole life.

If it hadn’t been Zhao Rongzheng back then, those three days and three nights would never have happened at all.

If he had chosen someone else, I never would have given away the innocence I had fought so hard to preserve.

And I certainly never would have risked my life to give birth to Chu Bao.

My body had already been ruined by all those filthy drugs.

That I was able to conceive Chu Bao at all was a miracle I never dared believe in.

Thinking of all this, I couldn’t help looking at Zhao Rongzheng again, feeling even more aggrieved.

I had suffered so much during the pregnancy.

During childbirth, I had nearly died along with the baby.

And him? He’d enjoyed three comfortable days and ended up with a beautiful daughter for free.