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    “Hey, he’s here.”

    As soon as Zhou Fan finished speaking, he saw Xu Shaochen looking around in the crowd. He quickly stood up and shouted, “Shaochen, over here.”

    Xu Shaochen nodded and then squeezed through the crowd to get over.

    “Sorry I’m late.”

    Xu Shaochen was the first to apologize, but when he saw Zhang Ling, he froze.

    “It’s you?”

    Zhang Ling was also surprised to see Xu Shaochen. She never expected it to be him.

    “Zhang Ling, you know him?”

    Li Min and the others were stunned, looking at Zhang Ling with puzzled expressions.

    “Of course I know him.” Zhang Ling glanced at Xu Shaochen disdainfully, a mocking smile appearing on her lips. “Remember that disgusting guy I told you about? He’s the one who picked up my half-finished drink.”

    “What!”

    Everyone was taken aback.

    The women were shocked, while Zhou Fan and the others were simply dumbfounded.

    “It’s actually him? How could someone like him afford a car? It’s probably just an electric bike!” One woman glanced at Xu Shaochen with contempt and sneered.

    “Exactly. Li Qi, how does someone like that end up in your dorm? It’s absolutely disgusting that he would take Zhang Ling’s unfinished drink.” Li Min waved her hand in disgust as if Xu Shaochen had some kind of smell.

    “This… What the heck is going on here?” Li Qi and the others exchanged bewildered glances, unable to believe that someone as wealthy as Xu Shaochen would pick up Zhang Ling’s unfinished drink. Who’s playing a prank here?

    Xu Shaochen furrowed his brows and said to Zhang Ling, “I think there’s been a misunderstanding. I saw you littering, so I picked it up and threw it away.”

    “Ha, an excuse is just a cover-up. Do you think I don’t know what goes on in a poor loser’s mind like yours? You wanted to drink what I drank, so you could imagine we were kissing indirectly, right?” Zhang Ling sneered, crossing her arms as she looked down at Xu Shaochen, acting as if she had figured everything out.

    “Exactly. You picked it up to throw it away? Who believes that? Go take a good look in the mirror. How could someone like you ever be worthy of Zhang Ling?”

    “Disgusting! Just thinking about it makes me want to throw up…”

    The other three women echoed her sentiments, viewing Xu Shaochen as nothing more than a perverted pauper.

    To them, sitting with someone like him was an insult.

    Li Qi, Liu Chao, and Zhou Fan’s faces darkened. They were already fuming at Zhang Ling and her friends for humiliating their brother like this.

    “What’s the matter? Having issues with your friend? Why don’t you drink with me, beautiful, and cheer up?”

    Just then, a young man with dyed red hair, reeking of alcohol, walked over with a glass in his hand, smiling flirtatiously at Zhang Ling.

    “Sorry, I don’t drink.” Zhang Ling took a step back, a look of disgust flashing in her eyes as she coldly replied to the red-haired man.

    The red-haired man was momentarily stunned, then his expression darkened. He casually pushed Xu Shaochen aside and stood in front of Zhang Ling. “What, you won’t even give me face?”

    “Bang!”

    “Ah!”

    Before he finished his sentence, a beer bottle was smashed right on his head. Blood mixed with alcohol flowed down.

    “Scram!”

    Xu Shaochen coldly spat out a word. He was already having a bad night, and this guy dared to push him? The man had a death wish.

    “Ah! He hit someone! He hit someone!”

    All around, people started screaming piercingly, forming a circle around Xu Shaochen and the others.

    “Kid, you dare to hit me? Just wait, all of you, just wait!”

    Holding his head, the red-haired man climbed up from the ground, gritting his teeth and spitting out threats before turning and running off.

    “Are you crazy? Who told you to hit him? How are you going to deal with this mess later?”

    It took Zhang Ling a while to react. She then shrieked at Xu Shaochen.

    “You’re the crazy one! Shaochen only hit him to help you. Yet instead of being grateful, you blame him here!”

    Zhou Fan glared at Zhang Ling, his eyes filled with unconcealed disgust.

    Zhang Ling glanced at Xu Shaochen with disdain at those words and scoffed, “Did I ask him to help me? This poor loser’s just being self-important. What’s it have to do with me? Do you know how troublesome it is to hit someone here? He’s just asking for it.”

    “And you all— Tonight, being out with you was already giving you face. Do you really think we’d date someone like you? Hah! What a joke.”

    “Slap!”

    In the next second, Xu Shaochen swung his hand and slapped her across the face.

    “Ah!” Zhang Ling screamed. Five red finger marks appeared on her pale face, and she looked at Xu Shaochen in disbelief. “You dare hit me?”

    “Shut your mouth. I never imagined a woman could be as disgusting as you.” Xu Shaochen coldly glanced at Zhang Ling. If it weren’t for the red-haired man pushing him, he couldn’t care less about Zhang Ling’s fate.

    “What are you doing! How can you hit a woman? Don’t you have any sense of decency?”

    “Right, you’re still just a loser! Poor trash like you will never find a girlfriend for the rest of your life!”

    Li Min and the others started condemning Xu Shaochen, as if he had committed a grave sin.

    “Shut up!” Xu Shaochen coldly barked at the three women, who looked at him fearfully but, reluctantly, closed their mouths. Their eyes, however, were filled with contempt.

    Zhang Ling felt the burning pain on her face and looked at Xu Shaochen with venom in her eyes as she gritted her teeth, “Fine! Let’s see how you handle this later! Hopefully, you’ll get beaten to death.”

    “There they are! It’s them!”

    At that moment, the red-haired man who had been hit earlier returned, but this time, he brought seven or eight more people with him.

    Zhang Ling and the other three women turned pale at the sight of this formation.

    “He’s the one who hit him. We had nothing to do with it.” Zhang Lin quickly pointed at Xu Shaochen, eager to distance herself.

    “Right, he’s the one who did it. We don’t even know him.”

    “If you want to beat someone, beat him. We have nothing to do with this.”

    “He’s always meddling in other people’s business…”

    Li Min and the other three women quickly followed suit, pushing all the blame onto Xu Shaochen.

    Zhou Fan, Li Qi, and Liu Chao were dumbfounded. They had never seen women as despicable as this.

    Thinking back to how they’d tried so hard earlier to impress these women, they felt nothing but disgust. All the money they spent tonight may as well have been thrown to the dogs.

    “Beat him to death!”

    The red-haired man looked at Xu Shaochen with venom, and, clutching his head, angrily ordered his men to attack.

    Chapter Summary

    Xu Shaochen arrives late to meet his friends but is surprised to find Zhang Ling there, who makes an unkind remark about him picking up her drink. Tensions quickly rise, resulting in a confrontation where Xu Shaochen defends Zhang Ling from an aggressive red-haired man but is scorned by her and her friends. The incident escalates as the red-haired man gathers reinforcements to retaliate.

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