You Owe Me, My Love novel Chapter 293

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.

“So Xingzhou wants to get rid of me 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 Rong solemnly.

“Xingzhou killed Chunxia’s family? What evidence do you have?”

“I don’t, it’s all just an assumption. Xingzhou made the hitman take a video on purpose so the police would focus their attention on the hitman instead of Lu Biao. But, he didn’t expect that Lu Biao would return to the scene of the crime to take his phone.

“The police arrested Lu Biao, but he didn’t tell them anything, and no traces of the video were found at the scene. So, Xingzhou guessed that the phone was already in Lu Biao’s possession.

“He understands Lu Biao’s personality and habits, so he found the phone that Lu Biao had hidden and saw the video.

“Then, he ordered someone else to kill the hitman and then wrote down the entire process of the crime, thus clearing Lu Biao of any suspicion,” Bai Rong explained.

“But he can’t be charged without solid evidence, can he?”

Bai Rong thought back to Xing Bachuan and Su Xuyan.

They had committed so many evil acts, but had not received their deserved punishment.

She had done nothing wrong, and yet she had to constantly fear for her life.

She pushed away Mingchen’s arm around her waist. “I need to go back.”

“You still refuse to be with me, Rong?” He stared down at her.