Chapter 80 - Upright Boy (2/2)

She held up the teacup and covered her lips with a sneer. “I didn’t.”

Mu Xichen’s expression was calm as he sat opposite Li Beinian, and he crossed his slender fingers.

His amber eyes narrowed slightly and he seemed to be considering if what she was saying was true.

Slowly, the corners of his lips curled up.

“You seem to hate her.”

Li Beinian stayed silent, her eyes narrowing.

“Or more like, resent her deeply.”

Mu Xichen’s voice was gentle and held a sort of inexplicable magic, as if he wanted to penetrate her with a few words and hold everything in his hand.

Li Beinian looked up.

However, she wasn’t smiling anymore.

Her expression was cold as frost and sharp as an arrow.

Mu Xichen sat up straight and said with interest, “I guess it’s true.”

“What do you want?”

Li Beinian stared at him and set the cup on the table.

Her expression was cold and displeased.

“You asked me to invite you to dinner and brought me here…” Li Beinian looked at him with suspicion in her eyes. “Aren’t you being too obvious?”

Mu Xichen’s expression remained unchanged, and he stared at her deep with dark eyes. “It was a coincidence.”

“Do you think I will believe it?”

“Really.”

He gave a candid answer, his eyes without a hint of falseness.

Li Beinian looked at him suspiciously and then asked, “So it was also a coincidence that you met me in front of the filming station just now?”

“That wasn’t.”

“Oh… what were you doing?”

“I was there looking for you to eat with me.”

Li Beinian was full of vigilance and her lips twitched. “… It turned out you already planned for me to pay!”

Mu Xichen’s lips seemed to raise slightly and he responded, “Yes.”

Li Beinian almost flipped the table. She shouted, “Can you be more tactful when extorting me?”