The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship
Chapter 193 - 183 Reward

Chapter 193: Chapter 183 Reward

The situation, which had already softened, became instantly tense with the appearance of this person.

Upon hearing the newcomer speak, Mickey’s dad’s anger flared up again. Pointing at the newcomer’s face, he indignantly said, "Do you even have any sense of reason? You haven’t paid us a month’s salary, and now you demand compensation from the employees who aren’t renewing their contracts? We have our own legs; we can leave or stay as we please. We won’t serve masters like you."

The more Mickey’s dad spoke, the more agitated he became, forcing Mickey and Gu Qili to grasp him tightly from the left and the right.

"Old fool, why is it always you? Weren’t you the one instigating the old employees last time too? Now you want to make more trouble for us?" The newcomer was the person in charge of the casino, which had just been acquired. An internal overhaul was currently happening, with orders to reopen in half a month. However, these old employees kept causing disruptions every few days, preventing normal operations.

Seeing the mess around, the person in charge was even more infuriated, and his previously suppressed anger exploded in an instant.

He walked up to the three of them, and pointing a finger at Mickey’s dad, he said viciously, "Old fool, it really is you stirring things up behind the scenes. It seems that if we don’t show you some color, you will really think we are easy to bully."

"Try it if you dare." Mickey’s dad didn’t show any signs of backing down.

"Dad, please say less." Mickey was so anxious she was nearly in tears. With the situation escalating to such an extent, she didn’t know how to resolve it. Since Qiqi had come to deliver the money, they should solve it with money first and deal with other problems later. But Mickey’s dad’s temper was truly deadly.

He motioned to the two bodyguards behind him, saying coldly, "Take this young lady inside."

"If you dare touch my daughter, I will fight you with everything I have." Mickey’s dad quickly shielded Mickey behind him, and Gu Qili also hurriedly tightened her grip on her hand. Gu Qili’s hands trembled nervously, nearly crying when thinking about what might happen.

The two bodyguards strode forward, grabbed hold of Mickey’s arm and tried to take her away, but Mickey was no pushover. Taking advantage of the burly man’s unguarded moment, he groaned and fell to the ground with a thud.

Suddenly, a bunch of people were fighting in knots. While Gu Qili shouted for them to stop, she continuously shook the card in her hand: "Don’t get physical, we can talk it over. You can take all the money here."

Now was not the time to clash head-on with them; not only would it be disadvantageous, but the consequences would be unimaginable if they really took Mickey away.

With her eyes red, she tried to pull those people away, continuously crying out in her heart, Shuoqian, Mu Shuoqian, why haven’t you appeared yet?

Just as a man was about to hold onto Mickey’s waist, Gu Qili rushed up and grabbed his arm, biting it hard.

The man’s arm bled, and he cried out, pushing her away with a turn and raising his hand to slap her."

But the slap hadn’t fallen when someone seized his wrist. A snap, the sound of breaking bones, suddenly quieted the previously noisy environment.

Gu Qili, scared, closed her eyes, but the anticipated slap never fell. Instead, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Nervously, she opened her eyes, looking up at the man standing in front of her who was so tall she had to tilt her head back to see his face.

Mu Shuoqian’s handsomeness was the kind that was overwhelming, commanding respect, shining in composure, in indifference. But this man’s charm was a playful, cavalier kind of handsome.

Gu Qili blinked twice, somewhat stunned.

The man flicked his hand, sending the bodyguard who had tried to hit Gu Qili flying to the side,

"What is your name?" he asked, his French flowing like a clear spring.

His roving eyes lingered on her face for a while, as if discovering some kind of miracle, shining with unusual brilliance.

"Mr. Tang..." The person in charge knew he would be coming today, but he didn’t expect it to coincide with this mess. Seeing the chaos, he was probably going to explode in anger.

However, he seemed utterly uninterested in everything happening around him, focused only on the girl in front of him who was still in shock.

Suddenly, amidst everyone’s held breath, he swept her up in his arms and strode towards the inner office.

As the door shut behind him, his words fell with the wind, resounding powerfully: "All of you, get out."

"Where are you taking Qiqi?" Mickey tried to rush forward, but was held back by several people. However, these people didn’t dare to make another move, especially since one of their own had his wrist broken by him. They were all cautious about this man’s temper and stance.

"Let go of me, bastard." Gu Qili hadn’t expected this reckless and domineering man to abruptly abduct her. She wondered if he had mistaken her for someone else.

"Hey, let go, if you don’t release me, I won’t be polite." Gu Qili slapped his shoulders with her hands, seeing that he still refused to let go,

Just as Gu Qili was struggling to sit up, she was pushed back down again. He quickly took out his phone and snapped a photo of her face, pressed something, and soon, a printer on the desk began whirring and printing, and shortly after, a photo appeared on the paper.

He picked up the photo, glanced at it, and pulled out a pair of scissors from the pen holder.

Gu Qili, frightened by his series of strange actions, didn’t dare to move and sat trembling on the sofa, watching him cut the photo into twenty irregular pieces.

Chopping up her photo for no reason, he must be crazy.

He stood in front of the desk, scrambled the pieces, then closed his eyes as if focusing. Moments later, he looked down again, his slender fingers moving the fragments around on the desk. His expression was highly concentrated, his sharp profile seemingly coated in a light golden hue.

Almost in one go, the shredded photo was reassembled. The expression on Gu Qili’s face in the photo was far from stunning, covered in horror.

And her current expression wasn’t much better, like watching a mentally unsound man doing incomprehensible weird things, cutting photos into puzzles as if it was the latest trend?

He was very pleased with his own masterpiece and came over with a good mood, leaning down, his arms propped on both sides of the sofa,

Gu Qili, terrified, shrank back on the sofa, stared at his approaching handsome face, and feigned calmness: "Have you mistaken me for someone else? I don’t know you, and I didn’t mean to cause trouble at your casino. I’m sorry for the damage outside. If you need compensation, just name your price, I...."

"Tang Tianyou." He spoke in a velvety tone, as if he hadn’t heard her words, his body carrying a faint scent of mint mixed with tobacco, an odd combination that was surprisingly pleasant.

"Ah?" Gu Gongli propped up her beautiful eyes in confusion, looking at him, "What Tang Tianyou?"

His lips curled up, emphasizing the last three words, "I like it when you say my name."

Oh, so that’s his name.

Gu Qili’s focus was different from his; she didn’t care what he was called or who he was, she only cared about Mickey and Uncle Mickey.

"Mr. Tang, my friends are still outside."

Apart from Mu Shuoqian, she wasn’t used to being this close to other men.

Fortunately, he finally slowly stood up, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. He smoked a very thin cigarette, the smoke had a hint of mint flavor, whereas Mu Shuoqian preferred the stronger cigarettes, the ordinary cigarettes in his fingers became a display of his domineering presence.

Tang Tianyou smoked half of the cigarette, his right hand resting on the desk behind him, right above the photo he had just pieced together.

Gu Qili, so her name is Gu Qili.

Such a strange name.

But, quite cute.