Chapter 124: 124. Chapter 124: Tit for Tat

124. Chapter 124: Tit for Tat

The situation suddenly began to careen wildly in an unexpected direction, like a dog off its leash.

Luo Xixi's mind was a mess, and she prepared to find another place to talk. However, she did not forget the bewildered Luo Family parents. After walking into the hall under the gaze of the crowd, Luo Xixi walked toward Luo Zhennian and Bai Fengxia under the eyes of everyone again.

"Dad, Mom, I have something to take care of, so I'll be home a bit late. You and Dad go back first; I'll come back after I'm done talking."

Luo Xixi said to the two of them.

Luo Zhennian and Bai Fengxia were truly completely confused now, having no idea what had happened. Bai Fengxia's eyes widened, and she couldn't help but blurt out, "Xixi, what exactly is the situation here?"

Why would Sheng Tinglan seek out Xixi?

Hadn't he always wanted to harm her daughter?

And what about that big celebrity Yan Yu? Why had he also been sticking by Xixi's side the whole time?

Bai Fengxia carefully glanced at the two men behind her daughter. She saw two tall and incomparably handsome men standing on either side of her daughter like two guardian deities; the pressure they exerted was truly not ordinary!

Being asked this by her mother, Luo Xixi also felt overwhelmed, "Well, this…"

【Oh my, never mind you, Mom, even I don't understand what's going on. I felt like my brain was working fine, but good grief, tonight it's completely fried my CPU.】

Hearing her daughter's inner voice, her father Luo Zhennian pressed his wife Bai Fengxia's shoulder and said to her, "Didn't Xixi say she still has things to handle right now? Don't keep questioning the child. Once Xixi finishes dealing with things, I believe Xixi will tell us the whole story."

"Dad…" Luo Xixi was moved after hearing this.

【My old man is still the most considerate!】

Luo Zhennian felt a bit between laughter and tears. Although tonight's events had caught them off guard and left them completely without a plan, Luo Zhennian still unconditionally trusted his daughter, believing that she must have her own reasons for doing things this way now.

"Alright, Xixi, go ahead. Your mother and I will head back in a bit, you don't need to worry."

Luo Zhennian said to Luo Xixi.

"Mm-hmm! (⊙v⊙)"

Luo Xixi nodded heavily, smiled at Luo Zhennian and Bai Fengxia, and said, "Dad, Mom, then I'm leaving first."

Luo Zhennian: "Go on."

Luo Xixi turned her head and said to Yan Yu and Sheng Tinglan, "Let's head out first."

"Alright."

"Alright."

Yan Yu and Sheng Tinglan spoke at the same time. Hearing the other respond, they looked at each other again, their eyes full of displeasure, their gazes colliding in the air with a "crackle" of sparks.

"Luo…"

Sheng Yanqi watched the three of them leave and subconsciously wanted to chase after them, but when he wanted to pursue them, he realized he had no standing to go over.

Compared to those three, he was like a complete outsider, unable to insert himself between them at all.

Damn it!

Sheng Yanqi clenched his fists tightly, feeling deeply annoyed by his current powerlessness.

After everyone had walked out, Sheng Yanqi suddenly realized that Luo Shiqing didn't seem to have followed them. She had come with Sheng Tinglan; now that Sheng Tinglan was gone, what was she supposed to do?

But just as Sheng Yanqi was looking around for Luo Shiqing, he discovered that she was nowhere to be found.

"Huh?"

Not finding a trace of Luo Shiqing anywhere, Sheng Yanqi was puzzled.

Where did Luo Shiqing go?

Luo Xixi found a teahouse near the hotel where the birthday banquet was being held and had the owner open a private room. After the three of them went in, Luo Xixi held a cup of flower tea and stared at Sheng Tinglan, asking, "If you have something to say, just say it."

Sheng Tinglan was just about to speak when he suddenly noticed Yan Yu, who was sitting on Luo Xixi's side with a cold expression. His eyes darkened again, and he said with some displeasure, "Why are you still staying here?"

Yan Yu's thin lips curled slightly in a mocking smile as he said, "Who knows what you might do to Xixi? Of course I have to stay here to protect her."

"Could I possibly hurt her?"

Sheng Tinglan was almost angered into laughter.

As a result, Yan Yu laughed even more impolitely, "Is the number of times you've hurt Xixi few? Do you need me to give you some examples?"

"…"

Sheng Tinglan was speechless.

He couldn't refute it.

Whether in his previous life or in this world, he hadn't been good to Xixi…

Sheng Tinglan clenched his fist tightly, looked at Luo Xixi again, and asked, "Xixi, last time I didn't know your identity, which is why I took action against you. If I had known it was you, I absolutely would have…"

Luo Xixi, however, propped her chin in her hand and said coldly, "Oh, so if it were someone else, you would have killed them, right? How can you be so ruthless?"

Thinking of what Sheng Tinglan had done to her before, Luo Xixi couldn't find a way to have a good impression of him.

Sheng Tinglan saw Luo Xixi's resistance. He blinked, looking somewhat innocent, and said in a low voice, "Xixi, you came to find me with the intention of killing me at the time, right? In order to protect myself, of course I had to strike back, didn't I? You can't blame me for that."

"…"

Luo Xixi choked.

Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that was indeed the case.

But she retorted, "That was only because you attacked Yan Yu and hurt him! You hurt the people around me, so I wanted to finish you off once and for all! Wasn't that forced by you too?"

"Yan Yu?"

Sheng Tinglan looked at Yan Yu again, only to see this dog of a man putting on a weak act, coughing twice and saying to Luo Xixi, "Xixi, I'm fine. Didn't I tell you not to take revenge for me?"

Luo Xixi said angrily, "I was just in the heat of the moment! Everyone around me was being hurt and bullied to this extent; was I supposed to just keep acting like a coward?"

"Heh, that's true. This was originally because someone on the other side was unscrupulous, ruthless, and despicable."

Yan Yu took the opportunity to disparage him.

Sheng Tinglan was almost angered into laughter. He narrowed his eyes and looked coldly at Yan Yu, teasing, "I see your skills are quite good, how could you have been seriously injured by the people I sent? You're using a bitter trick on Xixi, aren't you? You knew who I was long ago and deliberately wanted to make Xixi hate me?"

?!

Upon hearing this, Luo Xixi was stunned for a moment, then immediately looked at Yan Yu again.

Yan Yu, however, put on an innocent expression and said, "Xixi, I didn't."

Sheng Tinglan: "!!!!"

This male green tea!!

"..." Luo Xixi watched the way Yan Yu and Sheng Tinglan were at loggerheads, one indignant and the other aggrieved and innocent, her mouth twitched, and her eyes swept back and forth between the two men.

Now she couldn't trust a single one of them; these two were both complete bastards!

Ptooey!!

Not wanting to waste any more time, Luo Xixi quickly put a stop to it, looked at Sheng Tinglan again, and said, "Gu... Sheng Tinglan, let's not waste each other's time. State the misunderstanding you mentioned; I still need to go home!"