Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

"Uncle, have you seen Alix anywhere?"

Jing raised his head from his food plate and looked at him questioningly. "Alix? Wasn't she with you?"

"She is not…"

She excused herself for a washroom break but it's been too long!

His gaze worsened.

Don't tell me she is off to confront Kang Yuze all on her own!

Jian grinned. "Why do you look like you are about to kill someone?"

Liu Hai's ears perked up immediately. "Hey brat! That better not be Alix or I will kill you first!"

"Why will he kill…" Nian grimaced. "You just focus on your food, Grandpa!"

He peered across the guests with reporters swarming to interview Wang Ningli and Wang Tianhui. It was a whole nother mess at the other side with the Wang family's situation going out of control. But he couldn't just leave Wang Ningli amidst the chaos all by herself being the sponsor. Alix had already disappeared.

He threw another glance and didn't see Yuze or Mui anywhere, which confirmed his suspicions that Alix was definitely off to meet them.

But where?

Alix was unresponsive about his calls or texts, which only sank his heart.

He felt a poke on his shoulder and turned. Ai said, "I think I had seen her going that way."

"Really!?"

Jin craned his neck once and looked back at her.

"You can go look for her if you are worried. Jun will handle the reporters."

The twins gave a thumbs up too.

"Really?"

Ai beamed. "You can give me a feast treat in return."

The twins gasped. "Hold on! Us too! Us too! We want a treat too!"

"You can take whatever treat you want, but for now I will leave. Thanks Zhou Ai!"

Ai watched him rush off, placing her trembling hand on her chest.

"Did you see? He kindly thanked me. His gaze was soft too when he looked at me," she sniffled emotionally.

Jing waved his hand. "I told you that Jini-boy is a softie~ And he loves you a lot. He is just not too honest with himself."

"When will he call me sister-in-law?" she wiped her dramatic tears.

"Only when you and Jun get divorced. Ex-sister-in-law ahahaha!"

"..."

The twins merrily joked which didn't leave them too far from Jun's violence.

"How about I arrange for your divorced life first? Leina and Xing Bi will gladly be on my side," he coldly approached them from the back.

Liu Hai sneered. "I always knew that you two didn't deserve them. Yeah go ahead and get divorced. I already got my great-grandchildren so you two can shoo off now. Your work is done."

The twins - "..."

Life is harsh!

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"Life was harsh for my sister. She realized her sister's wisdom a tad too late and until then, she was already within your grasp."

Mui stared at her with blurry eyes, her heart pounding in her chest. Getting recorded in an intimate act was all too embarrassing and humiliating for her. She didn't want to know that Alix would have actually seen that video.

Her face flushed hard with a crimson hue of indignation.

"This is ridiculous."

The temperature dropped by a few notches as Yuze's expression darkened.

"First, you accuse me of being some obsessed lover and now you think I threatened Mui with such a…crass tactic?"

"Then give me a reasonable explanation as to why the younger sister, who adored her elder sister so much at some point in time, suddenly turned so against her? Why did I a find a vial with poison hidden deep inside her pillow? Why did she let our company go into losses despite being the CEO? Why did she never confront you about the faulty raw materials?"

"And why did she push you off the stairs?" He coldly smiled. "Isn't that something you should ask your sister too? Now don't tell me you will say that I ordered her to do so. If I love you so much then I wouldn't be an idiot to make you slip into a coma, now would I?"

And if Alix was being honest to herself, she had yet to decode the answer to that question.

She understood the timeline and mechanics of everything that happened with Alix until now, but she agreed with Yuze. He wouldn't go that far to put her life at risk. Plus, Alix was already pretty much under the influence of the drug. She was already weak and almost incapable to resist Yuze's control.

Then there was simply no need to plot her fall.

So Alix concluded that that part was solely Mui's decision.

But why?

She stared at her but Mui seemed to be lost in her own panicking world.

Yuze laughed. "I see you don't have an answer to that. Which makes all your theories until now quite pointless, doesn't it?"

"Not really? One disconnected event doesn't make you innocent. That is some serious convenience you are looking out there."

"And may I ask for evidence?"

"The test results for the poison are already back and it is not something that you will like."

"And it is something that Mui fed you. It doesn't have anything to do with me."

"It will when she confesses that you manipulated her."

"And will she?"

Alix sneered, her eyes glinting with frost. "You are an idiot if you think I came unprepared. Mui's incriminating video is already deleted from its existence."

Mui froze.

"You have nothing against her anymore. Please feel free to check all your backup locations where you had stored it. You will strangely see it empty."

"I don't have to check anything because I did not record anything," Yuze calmly said, though inwardly, his mind was a mess after this revelation.

"Perfect then~ You need not be afraid if Mui confesses because nothing can point towards you, right?" Her eyes twinkled. "Not even that useless guy who might also have to say some spicy stuff about you~?"

Silence.

"Or the fact that you are being recorded the moment you stepped into this room so whatever you said and acted towards Mui is also recorded?"

Silence.

"Or the fact that I also have the man with me who you colluded with to ruin Jin's deal."

Silence.

"Or that I will find a disposable burner phone if I search your body and find some interesting messages which could match the ones my sister received during the fashion show?"

Yuze said nothing.

Alix smiled. "Is this list of evidence enough for you, Mr. Kang? So now you do realize that you are completely and utterly screwed, right?"

Her eyes suddenly widened when his hand gripped her neck hard. A strangling and suffocating sensation rose in her chest and her hands immediately went to free herself. She looked at Yuze, who had now completely dropped his act.

"You…are one tough nut to crack, aren't you Alix? But that's what I have always loved about you so much, yet you never understood my sincerity towards you."