I halted in my tracks and turned around to see Zhao Mengxi staring straight at me with intense focus.
My heart skipped a beat before she swiftly approached, taking three steps as if they were two, and blocked my path.
She asked if I'd gone mute.
I said how should I know, maybe those guys thought it was beneath them to rough up a woman.
No sooner had my words fallen than Zhao Mengxi's face darkened.
"Bullshit! I know a woman who lost tens of millions at their place last year, tried to weasel out of the debt because she couldn't pay, and they beat her face to a pulp! In the end, she still had to come crawling back to her paramour to pay the bill."
"Shen Chenhuan, you're not telling the truth! Or did something happen after you got on that boat that I'm not supposed to know about?"
