My Co-renting Lady Boss
Chapter 631 Wine Trap

Chapter 631: Chapter 631 Wine Trap

Tang Ming sighed helplessly and recounted the event.

"If what you’re saying is true, then it means you’ve encountered a drink hustler, one that’s quite professional."

Dressed in sportswear just like Tang Ming, Tan Ruoxi furrowed her brows and spoke doubtfully, "Generally speaking, drink hustlers don’t have the guts to scam customers out of this much money, this one is really out of the ordinary."

"Officer, I don’t care if that person is a drink hustler or not, all the expensive liquors in our bar have been taken, that’s a fact, and since this guy is that woman’s boyfriend, he should be the one to pay the bill."

The waiter hurriedly looked at Lin Xue and Tan Ruoxi, solemnly reminding them.

"Hmph, usually drink hustlers cooperate with the bar, she’s responsible for selling the drinks and you provide her with a commission. Do you dare to say there are no drink hustlers in your establishment?"

Lin Xue stared coldly at the waiter, her expression blank as she asked, "Who are you?"

"I’m the bar manager Bai Chi, no matter if that woman is a drink hustler or not, this is a matter of several million, if there isn’t a proper explanation, I will definitely not let this person leave."

Bai Chi puffed out his chest and said with certainty, "Moreover, our bar has always operated legally, there’s absolutely no existence of drink hustlers."

Just at that moment, a beautiful girl with dyed yellow hair, wearing a tight leather outfit, walked into the bar and waved to Bai Chi with a giggly smile, "Brother Bai, the customer I brought in yesterday spent over five thousand, you should give me my commission today, haha."

"What are you talking about, I don’t understand."

Upon hearing this, Bai Chi’s face subtly changed, making endless eye signals to the girl. Discussing accounts in front of the police, isn’t this courting death?

"Hehe, brother Bai, don’t be like this, it’s no fun."

The girl looked unsatisfied as she glared at Bai Chi and took out a receipt, giggling, "The nouveau riche yesterday was so dumb, I told him if he drinks five thousand with me, I’ll spend the night with him, and he really did drink over five thousand..."

"Hmph, Bai Chi, is this what you call legal operation in your bar?"

Lin Xue scoffed, her gaze unfriendly as she looked at Bai Chi.

"I..." Bai Chi was at a loss for words, caught red-handed, what else could he say? Such bad luck.

"Hey, hey, are you two new here?"

The girl turned towards Lin Xue and Tan Ruoxi, her mouth twisting as she said, "You both look decent, but just having good looks isn’t enough to get by in this line. Did you also settle the bill with brother Bai, how much did you drink?"

"Not too much, just a bit over three million," Tan Ruoxi said with a weird look at the girl.

"Sss, for real?"

The girl was startled and turned to Bai Chi incredulously, "Isn’t that almost as much as my annual performance?"

"Sister, can you shut up?"

Bai Chi looked at the girl through gritted teeth, "These two are officers here on a case."

"Cops?"

The girl’s face drastically changed, and she immediately turned and ran towards the exit, shouting without looking back, "Brother Bai, I suddenly have a stomachache, I’ll come back to settle the account with you tomorrow, goodbye!"

The girl ran off like that, and Lin Xue and Tan Ruoxi did not chase after her, instead continuing to look oddly at Bai Chi.

"Ahem, officers, even if there are drink hustlers in our bar, there needs to be a proper explanation for this incident."

Bai Chi looked at Lin Xue and Tan Ruoxu with an embarrassed face, his tone no longer as firm as before, showing his guilt.

"You harbor drink hustlers here, conspiring to defraud customers, what more do you expect to be explained?"

Lin Xue said coldly, staring at Bai Chi.

"Officer, I now admit that we have shills in our bar, but the woman from before wasn’t one of our people—she actually took away those expensive drinks instead of consuming them on site. If she hadn’t claimed that this gentleman would pay the bill, we definitely wouldn’t have let her leave."

Bai Chi shook his head constantly with a wronged expression on his face.

"You mean to say, that person wasn’t an accomplice of yours?"

Upon hearing this, Tang Ming couldn’t help but speak up.

"Of course not. The rules of our business are for shills to bring people in and have them spend money on the spot. That woman just took the drinks away; that’s not how it works, understand?"

Bai Chi looked at Tang Ming, feeling helpless. If it weren’t for his previous contempt for Tang Ming, they wouldn’t have been exploited by that woman.

"If that’s really the case, I’ll accept the loss. Just give me the base price of those drinks, and I’ll pay the bill. After all, you are also victims here."

Tang Ming took out his bank card and prepared to settle the bill. The money wasn’t a problem for him; he just wanted to know the truth. Now it seemed that the bar wasn’t in cahoots with that woman, so he didn’t want to fuss about it, as the woman knew his name and background; she definitely targeted him!

Besides, if that woman were really a shill from the bar, Bai Chi would have to be out of his mind to call the police himself—that would just be asking for trouble, right?

"Okay, okay, you really are a great person."

Bai Chi nodded repeatedly and immediately took a calculator to start totaling the amount.

"No, how can we let Tang Ming foot the bill?"

Tan Ruoxi quickly stood up and grabbed Tang Ming, "The bar let that woman take the drinks without your consent and now they are trying to make you pay for it. That’s just unreasonable."

"Indeed, we can’t let you get scammed like this."

Lin Xue nodded and looked coldly at Bai Chi, "And you say that the shill isn’t one of your people, just like that? What if you are lying; what then?"

"I’m not lying, that woman really isn’t one of us."

Bai Chi looked at Lin Xue with a helpless expression, "Officer, how do we handle this situation then?"

"First, we need to try to catch that woman. The amount is big enough for an official investigation to be opened. You’ll just have to wait until the woman is caught to see if you can recover the losses."

Lin Xue said seriously.

"That could take forever." Bai Chi sighed helplessly, but with things at this point, he had no choice but to accept his fate and looked at Tang Ming with a sense of grievance.

"Don’t look at me like that."

Tang Ming shrugged, "Although I’m not short on money, I said before that if the police ask me to pay, I will pay. Now that the police aren’t asking me to, you’re out of luck."

"Sigh."

Bai Chi kept sighing in frustration.

"There are surveillance cameras in the mall; let’s go to the security room now and get a look at that woman’s face, then apply for a warrant."

Tan Ruoxi looked around and pointed to a camera, suggesting.

Afterward, a few people went to the security room. Lin Xue showed her credentials, and the security staff quickly brought up the surveillance footage for everyone to watch on the spot.

They indeed found surveillance video facing the bar, and the woman displayed considerable acting skills along with a certain level of counter-surveillance ability, as she never showed her full face. Moreover, her behavior indeed made her look like she was in a romantic relationship with Tang Ming.

"Officer, you all saw it. The two of them were so intimate that anyone would think they were a couple, right?"

Bai Chi pointed dejectedly at the video, showing Tang Ming and the woman whose face was unclear.