Inside the VIP room of Crown Nightclub.
Peng Zhenglai and Iron Head were hugging each other and singing Double Baton loudly. Boss Peng’s sharp voice mixed with Iron Head’s hoarse voice was like the harmonious duo of characters from Investiture of the Gods, making the girls sitting on the sofa have a strong urge to smash their own heads with a bottle.
Fortunately, before they could turn that impulse into reality, Xu Xiangbei pushed the door open and unplugged the microphone cord from Boss Peng’s hand.
Boss Peng glared at Xu Xiangbei, looking as if he wanted to swallow him whole. Iron Head was trembling, unable to understand why the boss was so angry.
Suddenly, Boss Peng burst into loud laughter and hugged Xu Xiangbei: "Kid, you didn’t let down, I bet a million on you to win, and earned twenty million, haha."
Xu Xiangbei sat on the sofa with a smile, picked up a clean glass from the table, and poured a drink from a crystal-clear bottle of XO.
The amber liquid flowed slowly into the transparent glass like the spring of life.
The beautiful woman next to him kindly picked a few square ice cubes for Xu Xiangbei.
The ice cubes were tossed into the glass, splashing coffee-colored foam, fresh and natural.
Xu Xiangbei sipped lightly, the fragrant and sweet aroma mixed with ice water gave a feeling of sumr and winter alternating, a slight thrill spreading from the heart to the whole body.
Boss Peng sat beside Xu Xiangbei, gently clinked glasses with him, and laughed uncontrollably: "When I bought Emperor’s Pavilion back then, it was also twenty million. You earned another twenty million for . Drink this wine, and Emperor’s Pavilion is yours."
Xu Xiangbei chuckled: "You made twenty million, and you know what, I heard President Huang lost thirty million. He always tricks , saying he bet a million on to win. If he had your generosity and actually bet on to win, he wouldn’t have lost so badly."
"Don’t ntion President Huang to . He’s not a good person."
Iron Head also raised his glass and ca over with a grin: "Doctor Xu, please don’t hold grudges against . Don’t hold on to the conflicts between us. Actually, I also bet on you to win this ti. I didn’t have much money, only bet ten thousand, haha, I made so too."
"Though you’re quite ugly and simple-minded, simple-minded people like you are easier to make money. Congratulations on earning money. Our conflicts were over when we were in Earth Sea, rember?"
When Xu Xiangbei said this, Iron Head’s scar on his face twitched twice.
He looked ugly and normally wouldn’t let others say so. Anyone who dared to say it would get beaten, but when mocked by Xu Xiangbei, he dared not get angry, just his smile seed stiff.
Iron Head wore a hopeful expression: "Doctor Xu, when can you teach your skills, especially those four iron balls. They’re simply miraculous."
Xu Xiangbei sneered: "That’s called Iron Gall, not iron balls. That’s Ouyang Family’s secret, I have no authority to teach you."
Dongfang Bai accompanied Lei Ziming to Crown Nightclub, and they opened a separate room.
If it weren’t very late and Ouyang Jiahui hadn’t just moved and was arranging her place, Xu Xiangbei would’ve called her to co.
After Lei Ziming ca in, a bodyguard Zuo Mu followed him, standing respectfully behind Lei Ziming.
Upon seeing Xu Xiangbei, Zuo Mu nodded awkwardly.
Xu Xiangbei took a glass from the table, poured a cup of red wine for Zuo Mu, and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, acquaintance through fighting, we’re fate-bound, let’s have a drink together."
Zuo Mu initially wanted to refuse, but for him, receiving Xu Xiangbei’s toast was an honor, so he glanced at Lei Ziming for a sign.
Lei Ziming chuckled: "Zuo Mu, since my friend Doctor Xu asked you to drink, have a glass, we’re all friends here, sit down."
"Thank you."
Under Xu Xiangbei’s continuous toasts, Lei Ziming and Dongfang Bai couldn’t handle their drink and went to the bathroom, while Zuo Mu, being a martial artist, had a stronger tolerance, and like Xu Xiangbei, didn’t feel very drunk.
Seeing only Zuo Mu left in the room, Xu Xiangbei’s eyes grew sharp, staring into Zuo Mu’s eyes: "Tell , who made you steal the chip program?"
Zuo Mu’s face instantly turned ashen.
Since coming in, he had been avoiding Xu Xiangbei’s eyes, not daring to et them.
But since Xu Xiangbei recognized him as the black-clad person who broke into Ouyang Yude’s study, he instead dared to look Xu Xiangbei in the eye.
He knew it was useless to deny, so he drank the whole glass of wine, and his gaze turned hostile.
But soon, the hatred in his eyes turned into helplessness.
Despite getting beaten by Xu Xiangbei and losing three teeth, or today his junior brother being beaten till vomiting blood, he realized he was no match for Xu Xiangbei.
He shrugged off the cigarette ash on his black Prada suit and calmly said: "It was Lei Ziming who sent , there’s nothing to hide. I don’t plan to do it anymore, planning to take my junior brother back to Japan. I have no grudge against you, and I accepted being beaten by you, Huaxia has a saying ’a wise man submits to circumstances,’ I want to be a wise man. I want to know, how did you recognize ?"
Xu Xiangbei swirled the wine in his glass, feeling a little drunk, having drunk rounds with Boss Peng and Iron Head, as well as with Lei Ziming and Dongfang Bai.
He couldn’t discern how much truth was in Zuo Mu’s words, but Zuo Mu saying it was Lei Ziming who instructed him made sense.
He smiled and said: "It’s not wrong to want to be a wise man, but being wise isn’t just thinking it, it’s doing it. Firstly, you must follow public hygiene and not litter, and persist in your principles, don’t do bad things just because others told you to, do good by helping others instead. Be kind to others, take pleasure in helping others, act righteously, that’s being a wise man. Listening to others to do bad things, here we call it being a dog."
Zuo Mu stared at Xu Xiangbei in a daze, suddenly understanding how Xu Xiangbei recognized him.
His handso face turned red instantly, he placed the glass on the coffee table.
He bowed deeply to Xu Xiangbei, then opened the room door and walked out: "Thanks for the reminder, goodbye."
Watching Zuo Mu’s departing figure, Xu Xiangbei chuckled lightly, realizing Zuo Mu was just a pawn being used, the real mastermind was Lei Ziming.
Lei Ziming and Dongfang Bai talked cheerfully, walked into the room, noticed Zuo Mu wasn’t there, surprised and asked: "Where’s Zuo Mu?"
Xu Xiangbei leaned on the sofa, appearing slightly drunk: "He said he drank too much and left, where he went, I don’t know."
Lei Ziming took out his phone, tried calling Zuo Mu’s number, but after trying for a long ti couldn’t get through, his expression turned a bit angry, looking somber, it seed Zuo Mu truly didn’t want to work, not even answering the boss’s calls.
Xu Xiangbei surprisingly liked this senior nad Zuo Mu a bit, he truly wanted to follow his ideals and beco a truly good person, rather than a rich person’s lapdog.
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