Living Only For Myself: Make Those Who Hate Me Regret It

Chapter 373 - 372: But I Really Didn’t Expect Him to Be This Wild

Zhou Mochen could see it now. His Susu had quite a soft spot for beautiful women.

If she were a man, she’d probably be an even bigger player than Shen Chen.

Xu Su, who had been completely captivated by the beautiful woman, was caught red-handed by her boyfriend and felt a little awkward.

She quickly averted her gaze, cleared her throat, and said stubbornly, "Everyone appreciates beauty. It’s not like I was checking out a guy. Zhou Mochen, you’re not going to forbid this too, are you?"

Shen Chen was sitting right next to Xu Su and heard their entire exchange. His mood, which hadn’t been great, instantly improved, and he burst out laughing.

The moment he laughed, the woman who had just walked up to him looked as if she’d been given a shot of adrenaline. A soft, alluring smile graced her lips as she moved closer.

Xie Si was very generous with his friends. The girl was the club’s top hostess, and he was still enjoying her company himself. But seeing Shen Chen’s low spirits, he had specially offered her to him. To his surprise, when Shen Chen saw the woman approach, he simply extended a finger, tapped the seat next to him, and stopped her from getting any closer.

"I’ve been allergic to perfume lately. Don’t get too close." His tone was unhurried. "Either sit there, or go back where you came from."

He didn’t even glance at her, his attitude decidedly cold.

Xu Su couldn’t help but turn to look. Seeing a beauty with a figure like that was enough to make her phantom limb hard, yet Shen Chen was completely unmoved...

"Allergic to perfume? I’ve never heard you say that. When did you develop this problem?" Xie Si, who had offered the woman, couldn’t help his curiosity. "No wonder Pengzi and the others said you’ve had a complete personality change lately and lost interest in women. I thought you’d changed tastes like Baiyi and wanted to get with guys."

’...Get with guys!’

Xu Su’s eyes widened as she looked at Jiang Baiyi across from her. ’Heaven as my witness, I never heard about this in my past life!’

’Ah...’

’Then again, it made sense. Zhou Mochen would never have gone out of his way to tell her which of his friends was into men.’

Xu Su only knew that Jiang Baiyi was a player, but she never imagined he was *this* much of a player.

Her wide-eyed stare met Jiang Baiyi’s head-on, their gazes locking from across the room.

Despite being a seasoned player who prided himself on having seen it all, Jiang Baiyi was somehow filled with an inexplicable sense of shame under her gaze.

"Bullshit!" he said, embarrassed and angry, yanking Xie Si, who was beside him. "When have I ever been with a guy? Xie Er, are you asking for a beating?!"

"Didn’t you hire a young male model last time?" Xie Si was utterly astonished. "At the Emperor Bar, you forgot?"

Jiang Baiyi was so angry at his words that he laughed. He stood up, grabbed Xie Si by the neck, and started dragging him out. "Come on, you’re coming with me. We’re going to have a little chat and see if I’ve ’been with a guy.’"

Xie Si yelped for help, but Shen Chen, Tu Yu, and Liu Mingyu just watched with expressions like they were looking at their idiot son, smiling without a word.

Zhou Mochen didn’t even glance their way, letting the two of them roughhouse.

After the two left, Xu Su eagerly grabbed Zhou Mochen’s hand. "Is what Xie Si said true?"

When it came to gossip, she was always serious.

"...It’s hard to say." Knowing she was curious, Zhou Mochen explained patiently, "He might have just wanted to try something new. It’s not impossible he actually did."

When it came to romance, things like scruples had long ceased to exist for these friends of his.

Zhou Mochen himself didn’t fool around with them, but that didn’t mean he was unaware of how wild the group could get.

Forget about getting with men; they weren’t picky about even more stimulating things. For them, nothing was off the table.

Xu Su let out a little "Huh," gaining a whole new perspective on this circle of people. She couldn’t help but glance over at Shen Chen.

The girl in the qipao was now sitting obediently beside Shen Chen. Reading the room was an essential skill for the girls working here. Sensing Shen Chen’s coldness, she wasn’t acting as casually coquettish as she had been with Xie Si. She just carefully poured him a drink, making no other moves.

Shen Chen didn’t refuse the girl’s service. He picked up his glass, took a silent drink, and, noticing Xu Su’s gaze, looked back at her. "What’s wrong?"

Xu Su quickly shook her head. "Nothing."

’She actually really wanted to ask him...’

"If it’s nothing, then drink up." Shen Chen tapped her glass with his and said with a smile, "Bottoms up. Come on, we’re buddies. Don’t just drink half a glass and call it a day."

Xu Su actually agreed with him. Regardless of her past life, in this one, she was closest to Shen Chen out of all of Zhou Mochen’s friends. So, without hesitation, she picked up her glass and downed it.

Tu Yu, sitting opposite them, wasn’t pleased. "What kind of relationship? Go on, tell us in detail. Why is it that when you drink with the rest of us, your ’Brother Zhou’s’ friends, it’s half a glass, but with Ah Chen, you down the whole thing?"

The old saying, "It is not scarcity that is to be feared, but unequal distribution," was quite applicable here.

Jiang Baiyi and Xie Si returned just in time to hear this and couldn’t help but join the protest.

"Do you think I flew to Chang City every other week for the past year just for fun?" Shen Chen said with a smug smile. "Xu and I have a revolutionary camaraderie. How can you guys even compare?"

"That’s right!" Xu Su chimed in, backing Shen Chen up.

Seeing them perfectly in sync, Zhou Mochen pursed his lips slightly.

After dinner, the group went straight to a private karaoke room.

Over the course of the meal, and with the help of her memories from a past life, Xu Su had already become familiar with everyone. After being pulled into a few rounds of drinking games and downing several glasses in a row...

...Xu Su was about to drink again when Zhou Mochen stopped her. He intercepted the glass and drank the penalty shot for her. Not only that, but he also took all of her subsequent drinks.

He was keeping track of her period, which was due in a few days. Her body had just recovered, and he couldn’t let her abuse it again.

When the young masters didn’t want to drink, the women beside them would drink for them. But when it came to Xu Su, it was the other way around...

The great Young Master Zhou was drinking for her. Yet, not only did Xu Su not consider this a great honor, she actually found it boring. What was the point of playing a game if you couldn’t drink when you lost?

Just then, Xie Si organized a game of mahjong. They were short one player, so he asked if she wanted to join. Xu Su didn’t hesitate for long. She got up enthusiastically, told Zhou Mochen to have fun, and went to the mahjong table herself.

Jiang Baiyi, sitting to Xu Su’s left, saw her sitting primly and asked with a smile, "Do you know how to play?"

Xu Su gave a light cough and nodded. "A little."

Jiang Baiyi assumed she was just being modest and started shuffling the tiles with confidence.

He soon discovered that when she said "a little," she really meant *a little*...

In her past life, Zhou Mochen had taken her to play a few times, so she knew a little about the rules. But it had been so long that she’d forgotten most of what she knew.

After she discarded the winning tile for another player three times in a row, Xie Si, sitting to her right, couldn’t take it anymore. He called out to Liu Mingyu, who was passing by with his arm around a female companion, "Brother Yu, come teach Miss Xu how to play."

As the player after her, he wasn’t getting to draw many tiles. Xu Su was either discarding tiles for others to make a set or giving away the winning tile. It was completely ruining his game experience.

"I’ll teach her. Brother Yu, take my spot for a few rounds." Shen Chen stood up. After having Liu Mingyu sit in his place, he moved a chair over to Xu Su’s side. The first words out of his mouth were pure mockery: "With skills like yours, how did you even have the guts to join the table?"

He had just won off a tile she discarded, and now he was mocking her like this. Xu Su felt a surge of irritation and didn’t want to deal with him.