The Time-Limited Love and Marriage
Chapter 171

Chapter 171: Chapter 171

After her performance at the charity banquet, Luoxia had been waiting for Si Lin to come up and present flowers, as Old Madam Si had requested.

But waiting left and right, Si Lin was nowhere to be seen, and she could only call him, only to be informed that he had entered the police station.

Luoxia was almost driven mad by anger, and without even changing out of her gown, she hastily went to the police station to bail Si Lin out.

Inside the police station, Si Lin had been smoking one cigarette after another since he arrived, looking extremely agitated.

The police personnel didn’t dare to provoke him, and they all kept their distance.

In fact, they originally didn’t want to take Si Lin at all, only wanting to take away a few thugs.

Who would have known, Si Lin took a seat in the police car himself...

Hence, there was the scene of the police chief, constantly bowing and scraping in front of Si Lin, admitting his fault.

But Si Lin told him expressionlessly, "I willingly came back with you all, it won’t affect you."

Yet it proved easier to invite the deity than to send him off!

With Si Lin here, they all felt their breathing was restricted.

By the time Luoxia finished the bail procedures, everyone was looking at her eagerly, hoping she would take away the imposing figure seated in their office as soon as possible.

"Si Lin, I’ve taken care of the procedures. Let’s go!"

Luoxia, holding back a bellyful of fire, feigned calmness.

But Si Lin didn’t give her a good look just because she was holding back her anger.

Not at all, Si Lin didn’t even glance at her, striding away on his own.

Luoxia watched his back as he left without turning, and the forced smile on her face instantly faded away.

She really couldn’t understand, if he looked down on her so much, even unwilling to exchange a few more words with her, why did he accept her confession in the first place?

Two minutes later, Luoxia followed Si Lin out of the police station.

But Si Lin refused to get into her car, intending to plunge into the night in the distance.

At that moment, Luoxia suddenly asked him, "Did you enter the police station because of Jiang Moxi?"

During the charity banquet, Luoxia stuck closely to Si Lin’s side, declaring her ownership.

Naturally, she found it easy to notice that Si Lin’s gaze was following a waitress, and then discovered that this waitress was Chu Xia.

Earlier, after her stage performance, while she had been waiting for Si Lin to show up with flowers and he had not appeared, she immediately searched for Jiang Moxi at the banquet.

But Jiang Moxi had disappeared as well.

Thus, Luoxia was almost certain, the reason Si Lin ended up fighting and getting arrested was because of Jiang Moxi.

And so without waiting for Si Lin’s reply, she raged again.

"I am your girlfriend, yet you treat Jiang Moxi so well in front of me, don’t you think you’ve gone too far?"

This time, Si Lin finally turned to give her a glance, a lazy yet elegant smile curling on his handsome face.

Under the dim streetlight, his deep features looked even more stunning and breathtaking.

Luoxia rarely saw Si Lin smile, and for a moment, due to his rare display of joy, she was slightly dazed with the thought of "perhaps he loves me too."

That was until the man’s warm smile was accompanied by cold and ruthless words.

"What are you, to compare yourself to her?"

Luoxia insisted in exasperation, "I am your girlfriend!"

"You could also not be my girlfriend; the Si Family won’t miss your cup of green tea."

Leaving those words behind, Si Lin walked away with large strides.

Luoxia knew all too well that Si Lin’s words earlier were a warning to her. If she dared to compete with Jiang Moxi again, that "girlfriend" position would have to be given up.

Luoxia stared at Si Lin’s retreating figure, her eyes filled with resentment and poison.

There was no way she could swallow this bitterness!

*

When Jiang Moxi returned to her new home, she discovered a new WeChat message from Fu Youhan waiting on her phone.

"Is everything settled? I came out of the banquet hall and overheard security talking about a fight nearby that had gotten out of hand, with the police taking people away?"

Reading this new message, Jiang Moxi’s pretty eyebrows creased slightly.

So, Fu Youhan had removed her from the blacklist?

But considering he might be worried about Ling Ye, Jiang Moxi replied.

"Don’t worry, I’ve received the final payment. I even personally made sure Ling Ye got home safely not long ago."

Jiang Moxi wanted to toss aside her phone and read for a while, but Fu Youhan responded quickly.

"May I come up and sit for a while?"

Seeing the message, Jiang Moxi thought of something and immediately walked to the window, drawing back the curtains.

As expected, she indeed saw a familiar business vehicle parked at the roadside.

Fu Youhan was leaning against the car door smoking, his silhouette under the dim light tall and slim, his suit forming perfect lines as if he were God’s most exquisite creation.

And on that sharply defined handsome face, it was unclear whether it was due to him smoking, the lingering smoke surrounding his contours, or because he saw Jiang Moxi looking at him through the window, his thin lips slightly upturned.

At this moment, Fu Youhan looked inscrutable and incredibly enticing.

Jiang Moxi felt that the smiling look on his face was not much different from that of an evil concubine who seduced and threw an empire into chaos.

Afraid of losing her composure and falling once again for his charming smile, Jiang Moxi quickly pulled the curtains shut and then replied on her phone: "No!"

Fu Youhan had anticipated such a response from Jiang Moxi; in fact, he didn’t expect her to forgive him so quickly.

So, he planned to continue texting Jiang Moxi to wear her down, passing the long night and at the same time, to ease their current tense relationship.

But what Fu Youhan hadn’t considered was that by the time he sent another message to Jiang Moxi, she had already blocked him again.

Fu Youhan, extremely frustrated, could only call Chi Jing: "I’m giving you one hour to acquire Four Seasons Cloud Top Building 3."

Chi Jing had just returned home from the charity dinner, grateful to be off work early and looking forward to a good supper of snail rice noodles, when he received this task.

"One hour might not be enough," he said.

"You now have fifty-nine minutes left. If you can’t manage it, I’ll take care of your parents on your behalf."

"Thank you, but I can look after my own parents," Chi Jing responded, hanging up and quickly starting the acquisition process.

But almost twenty minutes later, Chi Jing called Fu Youhan again.

"Third Young Master, the acquisition may not proceed. Because Four Seasons Cloud Top Building 3 is all under Young Master Si’s name. And I’ve also discovered that the house where Miss Jiang currently lives is specifically rented to her by someone Young Master Si arranged."

"Si Lin?" Fu Youhan hadn’t expected that Si Lin had also involved himself in the matter of Jiang Moxi moving out of Tianqin Bay.

"Correct, although Young Master Si himself did not appear, he had an agent landlord handle the contract signing. Presumably, Miss Jiang does not yet know that the house is in Young Master Si’s name."

Fu Youhan knew that as long as the house was in Si Lin’s name, the possibility of him buying the house to get closer to Jiang Moxi was almost nil.

He then hung up the phone and just stood there, continuing to smoke underneath Jiang Moxi’s building.

Accompanied by the flickering scarlet on his fingertips, the smoke once again shrouded his contours, making his deep-set eyes appear even more brooding.

Jiang Moxi was clearly not the type Si Lin would like.

But when did Si Lin start to care about Jiang Moxi like this?

A sudden sense of crisis kept Fu Youhan awake underneath the building until dawn...