Actually, both people present understood Su Qing's words, and Lu Yang realized that this young guy was particularly troublesome. The plan he had today probably wouldn't work; he'd have to find another opportunity.

So, he wanted to hear what the other party had to say. Given his status, he certainly wouldn't be intimidated by a young guy.

Soon, Wen Nanqing came out of the room with a flushed face, making the waiter at the door look astonished.

It's rare for three people to book a couple's private room, but now that the female host has come out, what are the two men inside doing? Fencing?

The waiter was secretly excited, wanting to sneak a peek inside, but she held back. After all, she had seen both of the men inside before: one, a mature and stable career-type heartthrob, the other, a young and talented domineering CEO, both rich and handsome.

The other one, younger, looked more delicate, and especially with a beautiful woman with him. She couldn't help but imagine dozens of episodes of a workplace ethics drama in her mind.

A husband sacrifices his girlfriend to his boss for the sake of promotion and a raise, willing to wear a green hat for his career, but why did the woman come out? Shouldn't it be the man?

"Excuse me, where's the restroom?" Wen Nanqing's voice jolted the waiter back to reality.

"Ah? Miss, please follow me!"

The awakened waiter hurriedly led the lady of the house away. If Wen Nanqing knew what the waiter was thinking, she would definitely call her a pervert.

Inside the room, the two men were sitting face to face, staring at each other, neither speaking first. The looks exchanged between them seemed to contain hidden swords and flashing lightning.

Of course, this was Lu Yang's perspective, and he wanted to apply silent pressure on Su Qing through this gaze.

After all, he was confident in himself; he couldn't lose to such a young guy, or else wouldn't he have wasted all these years?

On the other hand, Su Qing felt that Lu Yang appeared to be seriously ill, thinking, "What is he staring at?"

Both were about to leave, but Wen Nanqing decided that since she couldn't stop them, she might as well let them chat. Before leaving, she reminded him softly not to act impulsively.

They couldn't really head to the restroom to compare sizes, which is why she left with a red face, silently cursing Su Qing's reckless mouth as she went.

After a long pause, unable to withstand the eerie gaze, Su Qing spoke up: "Stop staring. If you're unhappy, let's compete right now and see who feels inferior!"

Lu Yang: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

In one sentence, the pressure he had been building up for so long collapsed instantly.

"Weren't you the one who wanted to talk to me alone? I'm still waiting for your brilliant insights."

Upon hearing this, Su Qing shrugged: "What brilliant insights could I have? I'm young after all, not like you, forced into this at middle age, so I have confidence."

This was a blatant jab at his abilities, and Lu Yang only felt his blood pressure rising, but he held it in.

"There's no need for useless chatter. Name your terms, and just stay away from my ex-wife. I don't mind giving you some benefits," Lu Yang changed his strategy.

After all, in his view, a young guy in his early twenties involved in such a situation would naturally want to settle things, probably just wanting some benefits at most.

This was because he and Wen Nanqing had divorced; otherwise, in this situation, Su Qing would've likely been running away in panic by now.

"Benefits?" Su Qing asked back, then shook his head with a light laugh.

"What do you mean, kid? I'm warning you, don't be ungrateful," Lu Yang said, his face gloomy.

"As for benefits, I don't think you can offer more than Sister Wen. Besides, personally, I dislike you, so I suggest you go back to wherever you came from, or else I don't know what might happen," Su Qing said indifferently, while eating the Western food on the table.

"You're threatening me? Haha, did I hear you wrong? Do you even know who I am that you're threatening me?" Lu Yang laughed as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke.

He didn't think at all that a young guy in his early twenties could pose any threat to him, especially since he had investigated the person in front of him thoroughly.

A university professor's son, only graduated a year ago, without money or connections. How could he possibly threaten him?

But in the next second, Su Qing swallowed the food in his mouth and slowly said:

"Lu Yang, male, 33 years old, graduated from Capital Trade College, with a master's degree. Later, due to an affair during his wife's pregnancy, leading to a divorce, he took the family's assets to establish Juyang Company."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang sneered: "It seems your relationship with my ex-wife is indeed unusual, telling you all this. What, trying to scare me with this? Kid, you're far off."

This information was not much of a secret; his ex-wife knew most of it, nothing surprising.

In response, Su Qing continued: "To investigate my information, you probably went through Zhang Yuan, right? The deputy director of the North City Police Station."

Hearing these words, Lu Yang was startled internally but remained calm on the surface.

Indeed, he had reached out through familiar contacts in the police station because he had no basic information about Su Qing and needed some connections to access his details.

Su Qing continued: "Arbitrarily investigating someone's personal information is not a big deal to you, but Zhang Yuan might face some troubles. And I happen to be a blogger, capable of making this matter go viral online quickly."

As a public servant, deliberately leaking someone's basic information without legal documentation is a matter that can escalate to varying degrees, although not fatal, it could still cause Zhang Yuan significant trouble.

"Where's the evidence? Young man, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want," Lu Yang was not flustered at all.

He did make that call, but there was no recording left, and who would bring down a deputy director over such a trivial matter.

"True, there's no evidence, but..." With that, he took the bottle of red wine, pulled out the cork, poured himself a glass, and continued, "An attempt of drugging and attempted rape, now that I have evidence for. What if I drank your wine and they found y-hydroxybutyrate in my blood. How would you explain that? Oh, I have a friend who's a detective, should I give them a call?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yang suddenly stood up, looked at him and couldn't say a word, utterly shocked. He was sure that only he knew about this plan.

"Fine, your little bottle just came out of your pocket. Want to take it along for testing?"

At this, Lu Yang instinctively glanced at his pant pocket, only to see the silhouette of a bottle, clear and distinct.

The Immortal Water is volatile, so he naturally carried it with him, but he didn't expect it to be discovered.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Lu Yang said stubbornly.

To this, Su Qing called Li Zijun in front of him.

"Hey, Sister Jun, is your station busy lately?"

"Spit it out if you have something to say, I've got a case to deal with," came Li Zijun's voice over the phone.

"Nothing much, just wanted to invite you to a meal at the Celestial Sea Restaurant."

"You want to treat me to a meal at the Celestial Sea Restaurant? Did you strike it rich?"

"No, someone's treating, and they've prepared a pretty good bottle of red wine they want you to try."

As they spoke, even though the room wasn't warm and was quite cool, cold sweat started appearing on Lu Yang's forehead.

From their conversation, he clearly understood that the person opposite him really was a cop. Of course, it could also be a bluff, but there's no need for that.

"Forget it, maybe another day, this case is pretty urgent here, I've got to go."

"Okay!"

After the call, Lu Yang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then said, "You know this can't do anything to me. Nothing's happened after all, you showed your hand too early."

Indeed, Su Qing spoke too early. If he had waited until Wen Nanqing drank it, brought the person upstairs to a room, and then broke in, Lu Yang wouldn't even have a chance to deny it. But nothing happened now, so it's not valid.

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that? But just for drugging the wine, I can still call the police on you. When things get exposed, what do you think Sister Wen will do?"

Since he got the hint, he naturally wouldn't let Wen Nanqing take the risk. Besides, in today's world, money and power are inseparable. As long as he calls the police now, Wen Nanqing will naturally take action, and he doesn't even need to worry.

"What do you want?"

"So, tell me why you're really back," Su Qing asked.

Lu Yang took a deep breath, "I don't have any objective, I just want to remarry."

[The scumbag husband is lying, his company has run into trouble, he needs a large sum of money to keep it afloat, and his tax evasion is about to be exposed. The back taxes and penalties could bankrupt him instantly, so now he desperately needs someone to bail him out, and Fengchu is his best option.]

Hearing the narration in his mind, Su Qing couldn't help but smile, what a scumbag indeed, still scheming against his ex-wife even now.

"For remarriage, there's no need to go this far, are you in a rush?" Su Qing sneered.

Facing his seemingly mind-reading gaze, Lu Yang couldn't help but swallow, "No... no."

By this point, Su Qing had already taken complete control of the conversation.

About ten minutes later, the landlady returned and found Su Qing alone, leisurely dining.

"Why are you alone? Where's that scumbag?"

"The ex-husband said he had something to attend to at home and left first. He said to take our time eating since he's treating. Oh, and he also said he won't be coming back to Jiang City anymore," Su Qing said with a smile.

To this, Wen Nanqing was incredulous, she knew all too well what kind of person her ex-husband was, how could he change so abruptly.

"What did you two talk about?" she asked, sitting across from him and pouring herself a glass of red wine.

She had always thought Su Qing was just a kid, but after this incident, she suddenly found herself a bit curious about this young man.

"Talked about his intentions, how he planned to drug the wine, take you upstairs, have a passionate night and then plan a perfect remarriage!"

As soon as the words were out, Wen Nanqing spat out a mouthful of red wine right onto his face.

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