Be Careful, Scum Dad! Mommy Is Back!
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Chapter 239: Chapter 239: Gossip? Tell me more! Love it! Chapter 239: Chapter 239: Gossip? Tell me more! Love it! In any scales that involved Lu Xining, he would always be unconditionally biased towards her.

It was a habit Zhou Jiawang had developed during his school days, and even now it remained unchanged, nor did he wish to change it.

Lu Xining’s gaze grew colder when she saw Gou Shanmu appearing here, further confirming her inner suspicions.

Whatever this woman’s motives were, they were clearly directed at her.

As for whether her father was involved, that was still to be determined.

Lu Xining could have easily ordered her meal to her room, but by doing so, she wouldn’t be able to identify the person behind the scenes right away.

Zhou Jiawang approached her with concern, asking, “Are you alright?”

She replied indifferently, “I’m fine.”

Lu Xining gently patted her daughter in her arms, worried she might have been scared, and softly said while kissing her cheek, “My treasure, don’t be afraid.”

Little Dumpling shook her head, “Mommy, Nuonuo isn’t scared.”

Her large watery eyes were filled with brightness.

Lu Nuonuo’s embrace around Lu Xining’s neck loosened, and she mimicked her mother by gently patting her back, in turn comforting her.

“Mommy isn’t scared, Nuonuo will protect you!”

Seeing that Zhou Jiawang hadn’t glanced back even once, Gou Shanmu was taken aback when a male waiter slashed her arm open.

Blood gushed forth.

Lu Xining’s gaze was deep and calm as she watched her; she also caught the fleeting panic in the eyes of the male waiter.

What kind of wound would make a thug, who dared to wield a knife and attack a woman in broad daylight, display such panic?

The answer was, without a doubt,

the boss who had paid and hired him.

The male waiter, noticing Lu Xining’s gaze, quickly adjusted his expression and approached them again with the knife in hand.

Wang Snake and his bodyguards blocked their way, kicking the waiter onto a table where he rolled off onto the ground, wailing in pain.

He stepped directly on the waiter’s face, pressing down hard as he scolded, “You little bastard, did you really think I didn’t exist?”

The rest of the male waiters were also caught by Wang Snake’s men, swiftly tied up with ropes and brought in.

Lu Xining stuffed their mouths with napkins from the restaurant tables, preventing them from biting their tongues in desperation to commit suicide.

Asking about the mastermind behind this was futile now; she didn’t expect to hear any useful information from these henchmen.

Rather than an assassination, this seemed more like a warning.

A warning for her to leave Port City quickly, or she might face deadly consequences.

Protected by two bodyguards, Lu Nuonuo watched Gou Shanmu with a continuous stream of blood running down her arm, then glanced at the expressionless Zhou Jiawang.

She thought to herself, “The adult world is so complicated.”

One hand clutching her wounded arm, eyes red and teary like those of an innocent rabbit, Gou Shanmu called out to Zhou Jiawang in a pitiful voice.

“Brother Awang, it hurts so much…”

The man’s gaze was gentle yet devoid of any emotion as he raised his phone and said, “I’ve already called 120 for you, please wait patiently.”

Gou Shanmu, feeling aggrieved, cried out, “But I got injured for your sake, Brother Awang, you can’t treat me like this.”

“Aunt Feng is already discussing marriage with my father, our wedding is as certain as nails hammered into a board. How can you treat your future fiancee like this now? Don’t forget, my mother died trying to save you! You promised my mother you’d take good care of me, is this how you’re fulfilling that promise?”

Hearing Gou Shanmu’s accusatory words, Zhou Jiawang had yet to respond.

On the other hand, Little Dumpling, who had been obediently standing by, eyes bright, quickly climbed onto a chair to sit, nonchalantly grabbing the baby bottle Lu Xining had placed on the table, and amusingly kicking her little feet.

Lu Nuonuo: “Gossip? Spill the beans! Love to hear it!”

Accompanied by the woman’s tender and helpless voice, Little Dumpling gurgled down a good half of the formula, his curious and clear bright eyes wide open, eagerly awaiting Gou Shanmu to continue with the rest of the story.

These words, Zhou Jiawang had heard not only once.

In recent years, whenever he rejected Gou Shanmu’s advances, she would bring it up again and again in front of him, using her mother’s life to pressure him.

And his mother also felt that he should take responsibility, bringing Gou Shanmu along to incessantly attend the social events in Port City.

Over time, outsiders truly came to believe that Gou Shanmu was his fiancee!

“I can take care of you as if you were my own sister for the rest of your life, providing money, resources, connections, I can even give you the status of the Zhou Family’s heir, but the only thing I can’t give you is affection; that’s something I can’t control.”

“Gou Shanmu, I don’t like you.”

“There was no such feeling in the past, there is none now, and there won’t be any in the future.”

His calm and straightforward words elicited a look of disbelief from Gou Shanmu, who, disregarding the knife wound on her arm, rushed over.

“What do you mean affection can’t be controlled? Why can’t you control your feelings, like me! Love me! Is it that hard?!”

Lu Xining was a doctor, and realizing something was off with her gaze and emotions, she had already held her daughter, who was drinking formula and watching the drama, in her arms.

Gou Shanmu’s hysterical appearance looked practiced, with tears spinning in her eyes, her gaze filled with sorrow as she looked at Zhou Jiawang.

“Do you have any idea how hard I’ve worked, how much I’ve struggled, how tired I’ve been chasing after you all these years!”

“Brother Awang, you can’t just say you’re going to abandon me and then do it; you caused me to lose my biological mother, you have to take responsibility for my life until the end!”

The real waitstaff of the restaurant were nowhere to be found, and the few who were impersonating them had already been tied up.

Wang Snake and his men arrived next to Lu Xining and Little Dumpling, and upon hearing Gou Shanmu’s words, he raised an eyebrow.

“Gou Shanmu, enough is enough.”

Zhou Jiawang always acted with courtesy in his dealings with others, and this was the first time Lu Xining had seen him be so indifferent to someone.

She didn’t care about the hidden story in between.

But out of basic medical professionalism, she still warned Gou Shanmu.

“Lady, stop pinching your wound; it was just a thin cut that could have scabbed over by now, but you’ve pinched it into a trench. If you keep this up, you really might faint from excessive blood loss.”

Gou Shanmu, whose thoughts were pulled back by Lu Xining, paused for a moment, hurriedly wiped away her tears, and then smiled gently and embarrassedly at Zhou Jiawang.

As if the earlier words had not come from her.

“Brother Awang, don’t be mad, I won’t talk like this in the future. I’m going to go to the hospital to get my wound bandaged right now, and I won’t let Aunt Feng know.”

Lu Xining raised an eyebrow: Multiple personalities?

Without a response from Zhou Jiawang, Gou Shanmu wasn’t upset and quickly got up and ran toward the elevator.

The bloodstains left on the floor, on her hand, and on the elevator buttons looked terrifying.

Before the elevator doors closed, she straightened her hair.

Gou Shanmu gave Zhou Jiawang a shy smile and called out loudly to him, “Brother Awang, I’ll come back for you.”

Hmm? That sounded familiar!

Lu Nuonuo’s cute and profound eyes rolled.

She suddenly remembered a cartoon she had seen recently, in which the villainous little wolf would say this line each time before leaving.

Little Dumpling turned to Lu Xining and said earnestly, “Mommy, let’s go home. This place isn’t fun at all.”

Hearing the child’s immature voice and the wish to go home, Zhou Jiawang hid the deep bitterness in his eyes, took a deep breath, and shared a secret with them.