The manager hurriedly followed behind her in a panic.
Meanwhile, Su Zhenyue strode into the nightclub with an icy expression. At a glance, she spotted Jiang Chen sitting in the most prominent VIP booth, dressed in a black suit.
At that moment, more than a dozen gorgeously dressed women surrounded the VIP booth, swaying their bodies as they danced. Three or four of the most beautiful women were nestled coquettishly in Jiang Chen’s arms, eagerly competing to feed him fruit and cocktails.
“Ah~ Brother, have some wine~ Is it good? Hahaha~”
“Brother~ Do you want to taste some red wine straight from my lips~?”
“Brother~ You’re so handsome~ Will you come see me again next time~?”
Every sweet cry of “Brother” made the aura around Su Zhenyue grow colder.
She stared fixedly at Jiang Chen in the booth, her blood boiling with rage. She felt that if Jiang Chen dared to open his mouth and accept even one sip of that wine, she would rush over and tear his face apart the very next second.
Fortunately, Jiang Chen sensed the murderous intent prickling against his back.
He shuddered. Instead of drinking, he instinctively turned around and glanced behind him.
‘Damn it. Why do I keep getting this ominous feeling from behind…?’
However, he saw nothing unusual.
All he saw was another nightclub promoter leading a row of beautiful women toward him.
Jiang Chen breathed a long sigh of relief.
‘Was it just my imagination…?’
“Keep them all!”
Before Jiang Chen could finish speaking, he finally noticed Su Zhenyue standing directly in front of his booth.
“Whoa!”
‘Damn, which promoter brought her over? Why does she look like someone owes her 1 million?’
Still, Jiang Chen could not resist taking another look.
That presence. That face.
Her cold, stunning beauty, her peach-blossom eyes filled with anger, her voluptuous figure, and that breathtaking red dress combined into an appearance even more beautiful than some of the celebrities from his previous life.
‘You had someone this incredible, and you didn’t bring her over sooner?!’
Suddenly, Jiang Chen felt that all the money he had spent on the other women had gone to waste.
“This girl is pretty good. Come sit here. What’s your name?”
Jiang Chen immediately gave her an appreciative look and patted his thigh.
He was just about to gesture for her to sit on his lap when he noticed the nightclub manager and Xiaosu staring at him in utter shock, their expressions overflowing with a desperate will to survive.
‘Wait… something’s wrong?!’
Before Jiang Chen could say anything, a slender, pale hand seized his throat.
Then a voice so eerily cold that goosebumps erupted across his entire body whispered beside his ear.
“Jiang Chen… is this why you hung up on me…?”
“Liar!! You should know that I hate being lied to more than anything…”
Back then, Jiang Haotian had deceived her in exactly the same way.
‘They’re all liars!’
“How do you want to die…?”
Su Zhenyue’s eyes were bloodshot. Jiang Chen felt her grip tighten around his throat, bringing with it an intense sensation of suffocation.
When he raised his head, he met the murderous intent in Su Zhenyue’s eyes, so intense that it almost seemed tangible.
Staring at the breathtakingly beautiful face before him, Jiang Chen was completely speechless.
‘Today, I finally understand how terrifying yanderes really are. She still managed to find me!’
‘Did she install a tracker on me or something?’
More importantly, the murderous intent in this woman’s eyes was real!
She genuinely wanted to kill him, all because he had hung up on her and then come here to flirt with women.
‘I’ve been simping for you for years! Even if I don’t deserve credit, shouldn’t all that effort count for something?!’
“I…”
“Are you crazy? If you’re not here to accompany him, then get lost. Stop bothering our customer, okay?”
Just as Jiang Chen’s mind raced to find a way out of this situation, one of the women could no longer sit still.
“Brother Chen, are you okay…?”
She stepped forward angrily, intending to stop Su Zhenyue.
However, before she could even finish speaking, a deafening crash suddenly rang out.
Su Zhenyue grabbed the wine bottle beside her and smashed it directly over the woman’s head.
Blood and red wine streamed down from the woman’s scalp. She screamed and collapsed unconscious.
Jiang Chen stared in stunned silence.
‘Girl, you really have a talent for getting yourself killed!’
Su Zhenyue did not even spare the woman a glance. She took a wet wipe and calmly cleaned the red wine from her slender, pale fingers. “Notify Finance. Transfer 1 million to her as compensation.”
After saying that, she turned back toward Jiang Chen.
“Have you come up with your explanation yet?”
“An explanation… An explanation.”
The corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth twitched.
‘Come on, stupid brain! Think!’
‘Damn it, hasn’t Jiang Haotian, her precious first love, already returned to the Nation? Does this woman still not know?’
‘He’s the one you’ve always loved!’
‘Wait. First love?’
‘Got it!’
“Zhenyue, since you’ve already found out, there’s nothing left for me to say. Kill me.”
Jiang Chen wore an utterly hopeless expression as he spoke.
“What did you say?”
Sure enough, confusion appeared in Su Zhenyue’s eyes.
However, the next moment, she noticed a tear sliding down from the corner of Jiang Chen’s eye…
“Zhenyue, I’ve always known that you don’t like me…”
Jiang Chen’s voice was hoarse. Tears silently slipped from the corners of his eyes, and his voice carried a desolate sorrow.
“I also know how outstanding you are. I’m the one who was never worthy of you.”
“Even my pursuit of you was nothing more than a selfish disturbance in your life.”
“So… I never dared to hope that I could truly be with you.”
“I just… I just wanted to do something for you whenever you needed me, or maybe see you one more time… That alone was enough to make me happy.”
“But now, your eyes have finally recovered.”
“So I realized that I no longer have an excuse to keep bothering you.”
“If that makes you unhappy, then kill me… Originally, after seeing that you were living happily, I was planning to end everything anyway.”
“Dying by your hand would still be far happier than losing the woman I love and eventually dying while drifting through life without purpose…”
“Zhenyue, please let me call you that one last time, okay…?”
Jiang Chen finished speaking with reddened eyes and a choked voice.
He looked like a man whose love had become a lonely devotion. His eyes overflowed with affection as he gazed at Su Zhenyue. Slowly, he tightened his hand around hers, the one holding the broken wine bottle, and guided it toward his chest.
‘My life depends on this one gamble, brother!’
Although he looked perfectly composed on the outside, he was panicking like crazy inside.
‘Damn it. How did I never realize I had the ability to cry on command?!’
After hearing everything he said, Su Zhenyue’s expression finally wavered.
“I… I never told you to leave, nor did I ever say you were bothering me. Why would you think that?”
She was still confused when Xiaosu, standing behind her, suddenly looked at a message on her phone and exclaimed excitedly, “Young Miss! Young Miss! The Chairman just sent word that Young Master Jiang Haotian has returned to the Nation!”
“He even sent you a message inviting you to attend his welcome banquet later!”
Xiaosu looked delighted. “Young Miss, didn’t you say that once Young Master Haotian returned, you would listen to his explanation about everything that happened before…?”
Su Zhenyue froze.
A complicated mixture of hurt and joy flashed through her eyes.
However, when she saw Jiang Chen’s resolute tears, she instantly understood something.
‘So that’s what happened.’
‘Jiang Haotian came back.’
‘And the moment he returned, Jiang Chen decided to leave?’
‘He even said he was going to end everything?’
“Jiang Chen, did you already know that Jiang Haotian had returned to the Nation?”
Su Zhenyue looked at Jiang Chen with certainty.
‘That must be it!’
She had been wondering how Jiang Chen, who had always loved her so deeply, could suddenly seem like an entirely different person.
‘So… he already knew that Jiang Haotian had returned…’
The way Su Zhenyue looked at Jiang Chen gradually filled with guilt and complicated emotions.
‘Does he think the person I’ve always loved is Jiang Haotian, so he chose to withdraw before I even had to ask?’
‘What did he mean when he said that after seeing me happy, he planned to end everything?’
‘What did he mean when he said dying by my hand would be happier than losing the woman he loved and eventually dying while drifting through life without purpose…?’
‘This lunatic! Does he really have to love me this deeply? Can’t he live without me?’
‘He would rather come to a nightclub alone and drown himself in alcohol, planning to end his life once he was drunk, than kill Jiang Haotian.’
‘Or even fight for me himself?’
‘And he even asked for me? Even after coming to a nightclub, he still chose a woman who looked like me…’
‘Does he really love me that much?’
‘He even thinks dying by my hand would make him happy?’