CEO Wants To Marry Me After Divorce
Chapter 177. How should we settle this account?

Chapter 177: 177. How should we settle this account?

"Four years..."

Lu Moqing looked at Qiao Xu’s blushing cheeks, his voice dry and hoarse. "You left me for four years, made me suffer for four years. How should we settle this score?"

Qiao Xu opened her mouth to speak but was forcibly silenced by him again.

At that moment, Lu Moqing’s mobile phone, which had been thrown to the side, suddenly rang, interrupting their heated moment.

Qiao Xu’s reason returned instantly, and seeing her exposed body, her face turned extremely ugly.

She pushed Lu Moqing away, grabbed the quilt to cover herself, but her body was already covered in Lu Moqing’s marks.

Lu Moqing picked up the mobile phone with a dark expression, glanced at a string of unfamiliar numbers, and reached out to hang up. However, his hand slipped and pressed the speaker button instead. Before he could speak, Su Rou’s excited voice came through from the other end.

"Mo Qing, are you still in City C? When are you coming back?"

Hearing Su Rou’s voice, Qiao Xu’s face darkened even more, but she quickly regained her usual indifference. She grabbed a bath towel, wrapped it around herself, and tried to make her way to the dressing room with the support of the bed and her other leg.

Her arm, however, was caught by Lu Moqing.

As Qiao Xu looked back at him, he had already hung up the phone without saying a word, and his face didn’t look too good either.

Qiao Xu’s eyes were calm, the previous passion and confusion gone. She just looked at him like that, making him feel extremely restless.

"Su Rou and I..."

He subconsciously wanted to explain but was interrupted coldly by Qiao Xu. "Not interested in hearing."

"Qiao Xu!"

"President Lu, why don’t you do me a favor and get me a set of clothes from the dressing room?"

With her brows and eyes drooping, Qiao Xu sat on the bed, suddenly losing all her strength. Chilliness emanated from her body, making Lu Moqing’s brows furrow tighter.

He didn’t say anything, only turned and went to the dressing room, fetching her a set of lightweight clothes to put on. Because she couldn’t move well due to her injured foot, putting on pants was especially difficult.

Without a word, Lu Moqing stepped forward and helped her put them on. Qiao Xu didn’t object, quietly accepting his help to get dressed.

Afterward, the two fell into an incredibly stifling silence.

After a long time, Lu Moqing couldn’t hold back and said, "What do I have to do for you to believe that Su Rou and I have nothing to do with each other?"

Lu Moqing pinched his brow, feeling a sense of powerlessness filling his heart. He had used Su Rou to embarrass Qiao Xu back then, but now he truly understood the saying, "shooting oneself in the foot."

Even if he was unwilling to admit it, he couldn’t deny that he cared about Qiao Xu, perhaps even more than he realized.

"And what do I have to do for you to believe that I don’t care at all whether you and Su Rou are involved?"

Qiao Xu smiled as she asked him, but her smile didn’t reach her eyes. Deep within, her gaze remained cold and clear, so cold that it made him uneasy.

"Lu Moqing, since I made up my mind to divorce, whether you and Su Rou are involved or not, it’s not something I want to be concerned with. Just tell Su Rou this for me, don’t use things I don’t want to disgust me any more. It only makes me a laughingstock."

After saying that, she got up and hopped on one foot towards the doorway. Even though her injured foot hurt terribly as she moved, she didn’t want to stay in the same space as Lu Moqing any longer.

With her back to Lu Moqing, Qiao Xu lowered her eyebrows, revealing a touch of self-mockery and bitterness in the depths of her eyes.