Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Jin sharply questioned. "Who gave you the drink?"

"Well, it was my sister Mui but I don’t see how that is relevant," Alix tilted her head.

When all the gazes fell upon Mui, she felt her breaths stuck in the throat. Her heart was hammering in the chest the whole time since Jin first punched Yuze and demanded an answer.

"W-what? What sis saying is not true! I didn’t hand over any drink to her!" She blabbed out.

Alix blinked. "Then how did I get the glass?"

"I don’t know but I cannot believe that you would blame me sis," she gritted her teeth, her eyes getting teary. "Is it because Mom and Dad trust me with the family business and not you, so you are feeling jealous?"

"Excuse me? I am not interested in the family business. So I don’t see a point in being jealous when I don’t give a damn about it. Also, that was a nice try to divert the topic but I didn’t get the drink from a ghost," she smiled.

"Sis, please don’t lie. Yuze and Liu Jin might still forgive you if you come clean and apologize. But don’t drag me into madness! You don’t even have evidence that I gave you anything, but you are still blindly shooting arrows at me!"

Alix’s smile only widened which unnerved Mui for some reason. "Who said I cannot prove myself? You think that you gave me the drink away from everybody’s sight so nobody would really remember, but I am pretty sure you were touching the glass when I took it from you. I mean obviously it would look stupid if you hold the glass with a handkerchief or gloves to not let your fingerprints come on it."

She froze.

"So you see little sister, if you push my buttons too far, I will not hesitate to make a whole deal out of this, which includes calling the cops here and handing them the glass for fingerprint analysis. Since you were never even around the glass according to you, you shouldn’t feel so worried about the results, right?"

Mui gulped hard. Everybody’s scathing gazes bore into her as if urging her to deny Alix’s claims. But her mouth failed to open. Alix looked dead serious about taking it to the cops if she wanted and if they were involved then…

"It…It was just…"

The crowd was shell shocked.

"She drugged her own sister?"

"No, that’s not true! Why will I drug sis?" She cried.

Jin’s face blackened. "Then will you say now that the bartender spiked it? Just come out with the truth already or there will be serious consequences!"

"N-No that…"

His fury was the thing that Mui was afraid of the most. It was never a good idea to mess with the Liu family and blood thirsty expression was already on full display.

Jin took a step towards her, quiet but filled with alarming danger. "I don’t need to see anything else after your pathetic guilty expression, neither do I care about your equation with Ren Alix. But if Shui gets even remotely involved in your ugly schemes then…"

Mui was terrified of his black orbs exuding threat. Her shoulders contracted in utter fear.

"Mui, you really…" Yuze expressed shock. "Why the hell would you want to see your sister getting ruined? You were really planning for her to…"

He couldn’t complete his sentence.

"And because of you, Shui was going to…" he clenched his jaw, "You have gone too far, Ren Mui."

Jin angrily laughed. "You have a hell lot of price to pay, Ren Mui. Just wait and watch."

He was about to storm off the party when he realized something. He closed his eyes for a moment, bitterness swelling in his heart. He didn’t want to go through this but he had no choice.

He turned and faced Yuze. "I misunderstood you and punched you. You didn’t spike Shui’s drink. I am sorry."

Yuze’s eyes widened and so did everybody else’s too. Nobody had really expected Jin to earnestly apologize.

"Liu Jin, wait! Shui…where is Shui? I want to see her," he worriedly asked.

His gaze darkened. Though Jin surely apologized for his misunderstanding, he did hold another accusation in his heart too.

"I will take care of her. You…take care of your party and the people that you invited," he said icily. "Hopefully, you bring sensible people from next time or don’t bother dragging Shui in such parties in the first place."

Yuze narrowed his eyes. "I have invited only the known people in my circle. There are no strangers here, including Ren Mui. I have known the Ren family for years. How would I have predicted that she would slip up like this? Can the host really vouch for everybody’s intentions when they hold a party?"

Jin was well aware that it was a far fetched accusation and it was practically impossible to be a hundred percent sure. But when he remembered Shui tears, the fear in her misty eyes and her attempts to escape to protect herself, he couldn’t help but feel angry and sour. Fury blazed in his heart.

Surely, Mui was the main culprit but if Yuze hadn’t insisted Shui to come to the party in the first place, then she wouldn’t have gone through such horror that no woman should ever come across.

Jin simply stared at Yuze and walked away but not without his gaze warning him to back off for now. Yuze understood the same and didn’t insiste on see seeing Shui any further.

He squinted his eyes at Mui, making her jolt. "I think we should talk."

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Shui gently opened her eyes in a daze, the room still spinning in front of her eyes.

"You are awake!" Ai heaved a sigh of relief. She quickly brought a glass of water for her.

Shui suddenly woke up with a jump, remembering what had transpired. "How am I here?"

"Jin brought you. You don’t remember?"

She blinked twice. The last part of her memories before she passed out were fuzzy. But now, they were slowly coming back to her. She recalled seeing Jin’s face and collapsing in his arms a moment later. She held her aching temples.

At the same time, the door opened and Jin stepped in.