The Scheming Ex-Husband's Courtship-Chapter 566 - 496 This is a Conspiracy

Quan Jin returned to the dorm and looked around the room. "Where’s Susu?"

"Qi Hao called her away just now." Mu Chenxi lifted her head from a pile of books, "What’s with the rush, did someone rob you?"

Quan Jin opened her mouth, wanting to tell Mu Chenxi about her recent encounter with Qi Hao and Qiao Tong but just as she was about to speak, Mu Chenxi pulled her over, pointing at the documents on the table with a pleased expression, "Let me tell you some good news, Professor Luo has assigned me a new experiment and he is going to personally guide me."

"Really?" Quan Jin grabbed her hand excitedly. "Old Four, this is a blessing in disguise, do you know how many top students in our school are queuing up for Professor Luo’s guidance, but it seems like... none really get it."

Mu Chenxi touched her nose feeling a bit embarrassed, "Although Professor Luo will personally guide, this experiment is much more difficult than what I’ve done before, I’m afraid I might not be up to it."

"You know, with Professor Luo there, what can’t you finish? Just keep your heart steady, have some confidence in yourself, and more in Professor Luo." Quan Jin sincerely felt happy for her best girlfriend, "Old Four, it’s the fool’s fortune, you lose a sesame but gain a watermelon. If your paper really makes it into SCI, you’ll become famous in school."

"SCI, I didn’t even dare to think about it before. By the way, was there something you wanted to tell me just now?" Mu Chenxi felt that she had hesitated to speak just before.

"Let’s not dwell on those trifles then. Let’s go out for spicy hot pot tonight, my treat." Quan Jin was so happy as if Mu Chenxi’s experiment had already succeeded, "Old Four, celebrating your success with SCI in advance."

"It’s too early to say." Mu Chenxi chuckled twice, "But, even though I don’t trust in myself, I trust Professor Luo."

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The two of them had a big bowl of spicy hot pot that night. Mu Chenxi patted her full belly, belching with satisfaction, "So delicious, it’s been a long time since I had hot pot."

"Look at you, so happy over a bowl of hot pot that you’re losing your sense." Quan Jin stood up to pay the bill, "Hold my jacket and wait for me at the door."

"Okay." Mu Chenxi felt a bit stuffed and held onto the chair as she stood up.

Quan Jin wore a black trench coat today, which Mu Chenxi had been eyeing for a long time. Their styles are different; Mu Chenxi usually dresses casually and sometimes extravagantly. Once she wore a DEVIL NUT jacket, in big green with all sorts of colorful odd monsters on it, Professor Luo even sent her a message when he saw her in front of the teaching building: Are you out to collect honey?

Quan Jin, on the contrary, leveraging her good figure, switches between ladylike and passionate styles, and her closet is full of form-fitting clothes. Mu Chenxi took the chance when Quan Jin wasn’t around and slipped the trench coat on. It fit her well since she was slim too, but the canvas sneakers she wore didn’t match the passionate vibe of the trench coat.

"Yo, our Old Four cleans up pretty nice." As soon as Quan Jin finished paying and came out, she saw Mu Chenxi admiring herself in the glass door, "If you’d dressed like a lady earlier, Professor Luo might have noticed you by now."

"Really?" Mu Chenxi turned around and felt good about how she presented in the coat, "Can you accompany me to buy one this weekend? Ah, forget it, I still haven’t bought that hoodie I liked, I might run out of allowance this month."

"Your closet full of hoodies could open a shop, changing your style might give your dear Professor Luo a new spark." Quan Jin hooked her arm and walked her out, "Men like changes, sameness can bore them, I guarantee it’d make his heart blossom and he’ll have eyes only for you."

Mu Chenxi felt something was off as she listened, "Why would Professor Luo care about my look? He’s not my boyfriend."

"Not now, but what about the future?"

Mu Chenxi’s mood dropped again, kicking a little stone on the ground, "It’s unlikely."

"As long as you’re not married, anything is possible, don’t give up too soon." Quan Jin patted her shoulder.

"Sigh." Mu Chenxi let out a heavy sigh, hopped onto the raised curb and walked forward, arms stretched out to maintain balance, "It’s impossible in this lifetime."

After a few steps, she suddenly looked back, curiously asking, "Little Quan Zi, why do I feel like someone is watching us?"

"What?" Quan Jin also looked back, except for a few pedestrians, there was only a slow-moving electric scooter on the street at night.

Mu Chenxi shook her head, "Maybe I’m just imagining things, or perhaps it’s your secret admirer, I felt like someone was watching us during dinner too, let’s just go."

"Always so suspicious." The wind was strong at night, Quan Jin tightened Mu Chenxi’s hoodie, "This clothes is breezy, hey? Be careful not to fall into the ditch."

Right after she said that, the sound of the electric scooter came from behind, getting closer. Mu Chenxi, walking on the curb, was completely unaware of the approaching vehicle until the motorcycle sped past Quan Jin and then swiftly, someone from the vehicle stretched out a hand and fiercely pushed Mu Chenxi.

The slope below the curb wasn’t very steep, but falling down from there would definitely cause injury.

No one reacted in time, so Quan Jin instinctively reached out to grab her but only touched the edge of Mu Chenxi’s coat, "Old Four."

With Quan Jin’s scream, Mu Chenxi tumbled down the slope.

The slope was not very steep, but after rolling a few times, Mu Chenxi’s hands and face were scraped. Sitting on the ground and still dazed, Quan Jin had already rushed down, held her face, and shouted loudly, "Old Four, Old Four."

Facing her soul-calling like voice, Mu Chenxi giggled, "Little Quan, why are you shouting so loudly? I’m not dead yet."

"You scared me to death." Quan Jin looked at her scraped forehead with distress, "Are you hurt anywhere else?"

"It’s fine, seems like my knee also got scraped." Mu Chenxi tried to look at her leg, she suddenly gasped, and Quan Jin thought she was seriously injured, but she panicked and picked up a piece of torn clothing: "Oh no, your windbreaker."

Quan Jin breathed a sigh of relief, "You’re silly, it’s good that you’re fine, who cares about the clothes. Was that person crazy, why would they push you like that out of the blue?"

Mu Chenxi also found it strange, however, although she was also frightened, when the electric scooter passed by her, she heard that person whisper, "Mind your own business."

She repeated the words she heard to Quan Jin, "So weird, did he recognize the wrong person? I haven’t been talking badly about anyone lately."

Upon hearing this, Quan Jin suddenly turned pale, as if she thought of something, and she dashed to the road in three large steps. Looking again, the electric scooter was nowhere to be seen. It was dark at night and the street lamps were not very bright, plus the person wore a hat, so she didn’t get a good look at his face.

"Little Quan." Mu Chenxi walked up from below the slope, took two steps, and cried out in pain: "Ouch, it hurts."

Quan Jin didn’t have the mind to chase after that person anymore, and hurriedly supported Mu Chenxi, "Let’s go to the infirmary and have a look?"

"Why go to the infirmary? We’re medical students, these minor injuries don’t bother others, we can handle it ourselves." Mu Chenxi was still concerned about her clothes, "Such a nice piece of clothing, now ruined."

"Enough, don’t worry about the clothes anymore. Move your arms and legs, see where else it hurts."

As the two stood talking by the road, suddenly a beam of light came from afar, followed by the car lights dimming, and a car stopped beside them.

Luo Shangqing saw Mu Chenxi’s disheveled appearance, frowned deeply, and strode over to ask, "What happened?"

"Huh, Professor Luo?" Mu Chenxi obviously didn’t expect to see him here, surprised but suddenly she cautiously covered her face. She had swallowed a lot of dust earlier and guessed her appearance was truly a sight of "ash and dust".

"Get in the car." Luo Shangqing turned and opened the car door, "I’ll take you to the infirmary."

"No need." Mu Chenxi quickly waved her hand, "I’ll go back to the dorm and take care of it myself...."

Seeing Luo Shangqing squint his eyes somewhat menacingly, Mu Chenxi’s words gradually faded out: "just tidy it a little."

Luo Shangqing ignored her protests, grabbed her wrist, and shoved her into the car, then said to Quan Jin, "You get in too."

Quan Jin got into the car, kept winking at Mu Chenxi, who looked at her cluelessly, shrugged her shoulders indicating she was baffled and did not understand what she meant,

Mu Chenxi’s face turned red in an instance, what does she mean ’her family’ can’t afford it.

Mu Chenxi stealthily glanced at Luo Shangqing, just to meet his gaze in the rearview mirror. It felt like bumping into glass and bouncing back, Mu Chenxi immediately shrank obediently back into her seat.

"What happened?" In the end, Mu Chenxi was still dragged into the infirmary by Professor Luo. As the school doctor dabbed antiseptic on her wounds, Luo Shangqing stood leaning against the examination bed, watching her with his arms crossed.

"I accidentally slipped down from the road." Mu Chenxi thought, since she did not know the person’s intent, and it might have been just a spur-of-the-moment prank, she wasn’t severely injured and mentioning it would only add unnecessary trouble for him.

Luo Shangqing looked at Quan Jin beside him again, the usually eloquent Little Quan turned into a quail under Luo Shangqing’s imposing aura.

The school doctor finished treating Mu Chenxi’s wounds, "It’s nothing serious, just abrasions, no damage to the bones, were you looking at your phone while walking?"

Mu Chenxi quickly nodded, "I won’t dare to do it again."

Luo Shangqing looked at her meaningfully, making Mu Chenxi feel uneasy.

Only when they got back to the dormitory did Quan Jin say, "Old Four, this was a conspiracy."