"Xue, did you forget the promise that you would come to see the crape myrtle flowers with me?" Shangguan Lin asked with a puzzled look.

Shangguan Mo clenched his fist when he heard the thing he did not know before.

Murong Xue's heart trembled at his words. She could not say no to him every time she saw his purple eyes, "I didn't forget..." Then the pain in her hand made her sober. She did not know what she was saying before.

Shangguan Lin smiled, "Xue, let's see the crape myrtle flowers again some other time. I still have work to do. See you." Shangguan Lin was very patient and he decided to take his time.

Shangguan Mo saw Shangguan Lin off in silence. After a while, he spoke to Murong Xue in a very serious tone, "Xue, don't see him anymore. Shangguan Lin is far more complicated than you think."

"Why?" Murong Xue wondered what happened to the two brothers.

"He is very dangerous. Promise me you will not see him."

Was he dangerous? Hearing his words, Murong Xue thought of Shangguan Lin's pure smile in the crape myrtle flowers, but she nodded when she saw Shangguan Mo's worried face. "Okay."

Shangguan Mo's heart was filled with an uneasy feeling.

After the conversation, they both kept silent for some time.

Having been serving Shangguan Mo for a long time, Ye Feng knew why he reacted like this. Even he would be frightened by Shangguan Lin sometimes and he always felt that there was something unusual about Shangguan Lin's purple eyes.

"Don't overthink it, Mo. I can protect myself." Murong Xue tried to comfort Shangguan Mo.

Looking at her tiny figure, Shangguan Mo was still very worried. "You... Just let me protect you."

Murong Xue felt she was despised by him and she pouted, "I'm awesome."

"Sure. No one is better than you at coquetry." Shangguan Mo reached out to squeeze her tiny nose.

Murong Xue gave him a glare. "Stop it. Don't get my nose out of joint."

"Ha-ha."

"Let's go over there and check the raw materials." Murong Xue breathed a sigh of relief when Shangguan Mo laughed.

"OK. Let's go."

Murong Xue lamented her bad luck again only after a few steps. She made up her mind that she would check her horoscope before she went out next time.

"Xue, what a coincidence." Fang Shihua looked at her, full of surprise.

Murong Xue was speechless. Fang Shihua had seen how she humiliated his mother last time. She admired that he pretended to be so surprised now.

Shangguan Mo was jealous. "What's going on? Why her suitors are everywhere? Am I going to deal with this all the time?" Shangguan Mo thought to himself.

"Excuse me, I've got to go now." Murong Xue only gave Fang Shihua a cold nod and wanted to leave. If she stayed with him longer, she feared that she would kill him.

"Xue, wait. I have something to tell you." Fang Shihua reached out to stop her.

Shangguan Mo gave Fang Shihua a push because his girl was not someone whoever could touch. Then he found Fang Shihua very familiar and wondered if they had met before.

"I have nothing to say to you."

Fang Shihua did not care about the push and continued to explain, "You misunderstood me that day. I just wanted to take you to the hospital because you didn't look well." He didn’t dare to offend Shangguan Mo. If he had known she was with Shangguan Mo, he would never have made the move.

Few had thought that Miss Murong would attract Shangguan Mo's attention. Fang Shihua felt that he had to explain to her. Otherwise, life would be much harder for a b*st*rd like him, and it would be impossible for him to go further if his family knew he offended the Shangguan Family.

Murong Xue did not expect Fang Shihua to mention it now. Although she was not sober that day, she remembered clearly that he was unwilling to let go of his hands and tried to force her. But she did not understand why Fang Shihua was here in one piece since Shangguan Mo had promised to give him a lesson.

Thinking of this, Murong Xue turned back and glared at Shangguan Mo.

Shangguan Mo felt wronged. He had wanted to blame her for stirring up trouble.

“You don't need to tell me anything. I know what happened. And don't call me Xue. We're not friends.” Murong Xue answered after giving Shangguan Mo a glare.

Shangguan Mo agreed with Murong Xue on how Fang Shihua should call her. He thought maybe this man wanted to die when Fang Shihua tried to be closer with Murong Xue in front of him. Shangguan Mo began to consider how he should deal with this man later.

Fang Shihua saw Shangguan Mo's ferocious face and became nervous. He did not expect that what he did would backfire and the so-called innocent Miss Murong would turn out to be so difficult to deal with.

Fang Shihua realized that the timing was wrong and he should talk to Murong Xue some other time. Murong Xue was more important to Shangguan Mo than he had thought, so he thought maybe he could take advantage of this. Thinking of this, Fang Shihua put on his signature gentle smile. "Miss Murong, I'm sorry. It seems that you're still angry with me. I wanted to tell you who set you up. I'll talk to you later if you're not in the mood now." He was trying to imply that Murong Xue had the wrong person and he was ready to sell Lin Ziqing out to protect himself.

"..." Murong Xue did not even want to talk to this hypocritical man.

Fang Shihua waited for a long time but Murong Xue still did not answer him. Then he became embarrassed and left.

Murong Xue was in a very bad mood now, so she told Shangguan Mo that she wanted to go back and have a rest. Shangguan Mo said nothing because he did not want to ruin it when they had just made progress in their relationship.

Shangguan Mo was very busy in the following two days, and Murong Xue decided to purchase more raw materials as the Stone Gambling Assembly would come to an end soon. She had to take the rare chance to buy more raw materials for her Baoyu Pavilion.

When she was picking the raw materials carefully, a female's arrogant voice came behind her.

"Hey, you know about the raw materials? Don't waste Mo's money." Qin Mengya guessed instinctively that Murong Xue was the kind of beautiful woman who wanted to live off Shangguan Mo. She knew all the Misses from well-known families in the capital, which did not include Murong Xue. Therefore, Qin Mengya thought that Murong Xue was just an ordinary person who earned her living based on her face.

"This lady, may I say it's none of your business?" Murong Xue was tired of her boyfriend's fans, who kept bothering her.

"You spend Mo's money as a matter of course. Shame on you."

"When do you see I spend his money?" Murong Xue was speechless and she began to doubt whether she looked poor or not.

Qin Mengya looked at Murong Xue contemptuously. "No need for that. You're not from the capital, so where does your money come from if you don't take Mo's money? Or, you have other men? You are shameless." Qin Mengya spoke loudly and people nearby began to whisper.

Qin Mengya's insult made Murong Xue unable to refrain from fighting back angrily. "I can support myself without my family’s support, not to mention the stone gambling. I'm not as shameless as some adult who still asks her family for money."

"Who are you talking about?" Qin Mengya wanted to tear Murong Xue's beautiful face apart.

"What? Are you that kind of person?" Murong Xue smiled with a hint of satire.

"Well, if you're that good, let's gamble on stones, and the one who loses has to leave Mo." Qin Mengya came up with a plan when seeing the raw materials. She grew up with good education provided by her family, and she was confident that the probability she could find a jade was at least a half. Therefore, she thought she definitely could beat the bumpkin Murong Xue.

Murong Xue gave her a cold laugh. "Huh, why should I have the bet with you? Shangguan Mo is my boyfriend, so it's unfair that you bet on him, and I won't allow it. I don't have your thick skin."

"You! Okay. So what do you want as our wager?" Qin Mengya made a concession because she wanted Murong Xue to lose face later. When Qin Mengya saw that Murong Xue picked the raw materials without a magnifying glass before, she was sure that Murong Xue was a green hand.

"How about one billion yuan from each of us?" Murong Xue smiled coldly.

"One billion? Are you crazy?" Qin Mengya was stunned. All of her assets only added up to two hundred million yuan, which was far from one billion yuan.

Murong Xue's ironic smile grew bigger. "Why? Don't you even have one billion yuan? Well then, you're worse than me."

Qin Mengya could not stand her mockery. "Who says I don't? Let's do it, but we have to write it down." She was not worried since she thought she would not lose.

"Of course. Let's go to the notary office first." Murong Xue snickered at her fearless opponent.

The notary office in the hall was the place for people who wanted to gamble on stones, and impartial international professionals were there to supervise it. People could start gambling openly after handing in the terms they decided. The notary office would enforce the terms when those who lost failed to keep their promise in ten days afterward.

“Okay.” Qin Mengya took the lead and left for the notary office. She could not wait to witness Murong Xue's failure.