Chapter Sixty-Five: Su Beiru Courts Disaster

"That's right, it's just a worthless watch—why are you so obsessed with it?"

Shen Lu was on the verge of tears from Su Beiru's clueless antics, while Chao Xu stood off to the side, making sarcastic remarks as if nothing was amiss.

Watching Shen Lu’s face turn pale, her body trembling as though she had witnessed the end of the world, Chao Xu couldn’t help but find it amusing.

If you knew it would come to this, why act that way in the first place?

[Is the original owner’s name really inside the watch?]

Seeing her host grinning like a mischievous little devil, the furball couldn’t help but ask.

"You mean that? Come on, use your head. How could that be possible?"

She shrugged. "I just made it up on the spot. Who would've thought she'd actually believe it?"

The furball’s mouth twitched involuntarily.

Forget Shen Lu—even it had nearly been fooled just now.

With a sympathetic glance at the two naive souls so easily duped by its naturally sly host, the furball silently mourned for three seconds.

Shen Lu still pressed her lips tightly together, looking as if she’d been gravely wronged, trembling with teary eyes. Chao Xu frowned.

Some men, plagued by lust, might find themselves deeply moved by such a pitiful display.

But, unfortunately for Shen Lu, Chao Xu wasn’t a man. She had absolutely no interest in the weeping, delicate-flower act.

She even found the remnants of tears at the corner of Shen Lu’s eyes rather unsightly.

Feigning frailty in hopes of stirring the youth’s chivalrous heart, Shen Lu tried for quite some time, but when her act met with no response, she couldn’t help but glance at her stoic counterpart in disbelief.

Was this person made of wood?

She had gone to such lengths, and he didn’t show the slightest bit of sympathy?

Was Chao Si even a man at all?

Her stomach rumbled. Chao Xu, who was clearly not a man, grew impatient and urged, "Have you decided yet?"

The moment those words fell, Shen Lu still wanted to shamelessly cling to the watch.

But to her surprise, Su Beiru was quicker, yanking the watch off and tossing it directly to Chao Xu.

She threw it with force, intending for it to fly past Chao Xu altogether.

But with effortless precision, Chao Xu raised a hand and caught it, then beamed at Su Beiru with a wave.

"Thank you so much for your help! If you hadn’t, who knows how long it would have taken for me to get it back."

The words made it sound as if Su Beiru had betrayed Shen Lu and intentionally sided with Chao Xu.

"No, that’s not what I meant at all!"

Su Beiru, who had actually intended to destroy the item Chao Si wanted right in front of him, now felt a surge of panic.

Looking back, as expected, Shen Lu was glaring at her with a face full of resentment.

Her once delicate and lovely features were now twisted in a strange, unsettling way.

For a split second, Su Beiru had the illusion that, were Chao Si not present, Shen Lu might have pounced and torn her to shreds.

But after blinking, Shen Lu forcibly suppressed all emotion and looked exactly as she had before.

Convinced it had all been her imagination, Su Beiru let out a sigh of relief.

She knew deep down that Lulu was such a good person—there was no way she’d get angry with her over a silly watch.

Little did she know, Shen Lu, whom she considered so kind, was at that very moment filled with the desire to kill her!

That damn idiot—was her head full of garbage?

How dare she take off her watch without permission!

If the fool weren’t still useful, Shen Lu would have cut ties and destroyed her in secret long ago!