You Owe Me, My Love

Chapter 293 I Only Care About Whether I Can Be With You

Bai Rong awkwardly turned around, facing away from Mingchen. “I… I think I must have eaten something weird,” she stammered.

He wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace. “Lu Xingzhou drugged the herbal tea we drank.”

Shocked, she turned to look at him.

His face was a hair’s breadth away from hers, and her lips accidentally brushed against his when she turned her head, sending what felt like an electric shock throughout her body.

Forcing her noisy heartbeat to calm down in order to think straight, she argued, “But we weren’t the only ones who drank the tea; Lu Biao drank it as well. Lu Biao is Lu Xingzhou’s son, there’s no way he would harm him.”

Mingchen just stared silently at Bai Rong.

Detecting the determination in his gaze, Bai Rong guessed out loud, “Was that guy just now also acting upon Lu Xingzhou’s orders?”

He nodded. “Should be. He used a room key to enter the suite and probably intended on taking pictures of us together. When he couldn’t find you, he lied about writing for a newspaper, and then ran away when I said I wanted to call the cops on him.”

“But why did he do that? What benefit would pictures of us…” Bai Rong trailed off, scared to verbalize the idea in case it triggered flashbacks from the car again. “…What good would it do him?”

“Even though I never publicized my past incident, people can find out as long as they try hard enough.

“Lu Xingzhou believes that the land I put in a requisition for has some sort of treasure hidden on it. Besides that, he suspects that I came here to investigate Xiaojiu’s case, so he wants to chase me away.

“As for you, he just wants to get rid of you because he thinks you’re too smart. He had purposefully asked us if we were seeing anyone during lunch just now to check if his plans were still viable.

“If he got pictures of us, then he would be able to blackmail and threaten us to ensure his own safety,” Mingchen finished.

because he’s worried that I know about him murdering Chunxia’s family, as well as killing the hitman he’d hired for the job,” concluded Bai

Chunxia’s family? What

so the police would focus their attention on the hitman instead of Lu Biao. But, he didn’t expect that Lu

Lu Biao, but he didn’t tell them anything, and no traces of the video were

and habits, so he found the phone that

hitman and then wrote down the entire process of the crime, thus clearing Lu Biao

charged without

back to

so many evil acts, but

and yet she had to

away Mingchen’s arm around her waist. “I need to

be with me, Rong?” He

the incident in the car, her cheeks flushed as she lowered her head, replying quietly, “I hadn’t intended for the incident on the car

eyebrows furrowed together. “You still believe that

glanced up at him. “What

her hair gently, telling her, “Xuyan is making you suffer because of me. If I get married and distance myself from you, you’ll have some

dawned upon

Mingchen was doing was for her sake. Her heart clenched within her chest as her sight grew blurry with tears, everything she wanted to say to him getting stuck in her

no future with

Xuyan,” she forced

side the moment I got

to your side when you got injured because I’m a doctor. I stayed beside you when facing off an assassin because I think that being your side is the safest place to be,” she defended, feeling so guilty that she could barely

think that by my side is the safest place

you? I think of you and what you might be doing with Xuyan every hour of the day! And every time I do, I get so angry