Chapter Thirty-One Unequal Treaties

  Making a statement at the police station went smoothly, and half an hour later, Li Ruoxi and Wang Ke had finished making their statements with the police. Zhang Rui, who had been accompanying them all along, looked at Li Ruoxi and Wang Ke as they stood up and hurriedly smiled: "Miss Li, Mr. Wang, it's already late at night now, if you two don't mind, I'll arrange for a car to send you back!"

  Wang Ke nodded in agreement, but Li Ruoxi, who was standing beside him, turned her head to look at Wang Ke. Her bright eyes showed a complex expression as she shook her head and said, "No need, the night air is great, we'll just take a walk outside and then hail a taxi back. Don't bother you guys."

  Zhang Rui felt a little regret, but since the other party had already spoken, he couldn't be too proactive. Even if he wanted to make friends with someone of status, he couldn't lower his own status and fawn all over them, could he?

  Wang Ke followed Li Ruoxi out of the Public Security Bureau's gate, and only then furrowed his brow in puzzlement: "Why didn't you let Director Zhang send a car to take us back? I'm still in a hurry to recite my lines!"

  The vehicles flowed continuously on the highway, shining brightly under the neon lights. Li Ruoxi didn't make a sound, her face cold and expressionless as she walked forward with her head down. Wang Ke followed behind her, his mind filled with thoughts he couldn't understand, but he couldn't abandon this nominal boss of his and hitch a ride elsewhere. From time to time, he saw taxi after taxi whizzing by with their "vacant" signs lit up, and Wang Ke wanted to speak up several times to remind Li Ruoxi, but ultimately didn't say anything.

  Is she still angry about seeing her take a bath?

  Wang Ke withdrew his bewildered gaze, then raised his hand to place the printed paper in front of him. Since this woman was being unreasonable, he might as well let her be unreasonable; he still had to memorize these damn words after all!

  The night of Xianghu Lake is beautiful, especially under the illumination of lights. Even though it's almost midnight, there are still many pedestrians walking along the highway. With a gentle breeze blowing, the two people walked forward for about five minutes along the pedestrian path beside the road.

  Li Ruoxi's footsteps suddenly stopped, her gaze turned back to look at Wang Ke, then she walked through the zebra crossing to the other side of the road, where the lake surface was rippling with waves, under the starry sky, the lake surface seemed to be covered with a layer of silver light, the green trees on the lakeshore were swaying gently in the wind.

  Beautiful Li Ruoxi, who seemed to be untouched by worldly affairs, walked steadily to the edge of Xianghu Lake. With her back to Wang Que, who was following behind, she gazed out at the lake scenery for half a minute before turning around and saying with an icy expression: "Now it's time for us to settle our accounts."

  Settle accounts?

  Is this settling accounts after autumn? But autumn hasn't arrived yet!

  Wang Ke thought silently.

  "Boss, I'm a straightforward person, what's the point of beating around the bush? Didn't we already clarify that matter about the bathroom earlier? What more accounts need to be settled?" Wang Ke asked calmly.

  Rough guy?

  Li Ruoxi's eyes widened, could this guy be considered a rough man? Although he looked young, his mind was absolutely old and cunning. Earlier in the villa, when he explained to Zhang Rui, he lightly glossed over the fact that he had severely injured five criminals, but instead, with just a few words, he increased their guilt, such a dense-minded guy, could he be a rough man?

  Besides, which rough person can have an extremely awesome memory talent?

  In two and a half days, he can memorize 10,000 words that don't make sense by rote.

  "Wang Ke, you'd better not pretend to be stupid. Before those five thieves entered the villa, your hands..." She couldn't continue, even though she was filled with anger in her heart, and she couldn't bring herself to mention that shameful thing.

  Wang Ke stared blankly at Li Ruoxi, recalling in his mind the scenes of the five thieves sneaking into the villa:

  Li Ruoxi took advantage of herself answering the phone and being distracted, using an electric baton to sneak up on her and electrocute herself, while she approached her side, her hand grasped that soft, big... her... chest...

  Wang Ke's eyes widened in an instant, and his face even showed a stunned expression. His gaze moved with difficulty to the magnificent twin peaks on Li Ruoxi's chest, before he finally lowered his head with difficulty and slowly raised his own hands.

  What I caught earlier was hers...

  He swallowed hard, and the shock in Wang Ke's heart made him feel a kind of inexplicable panic, while his mind involuntarily recalled those scenes, recalling the softness, largeness, and tenderness of that towering place he had grasped at the time.

  "Cough...cough...cough..."

  Due to his loss of composure, Wang Ke was choked by his own saliva and coughed for several times, his face turned from numbness to embarrassment and complexity.

  Quickly thinking of a countermeasure in his heart, Wang Ke knew that no matter how he explained it, he would still be the one who offended Li Ruoxi. However, making him apologize was somewhat difficult, after all, the situation at the time was caused by Li Ruoxi's actions alone. If she hadn't used an electric bat to attack him, he wouldn't have counterattacked in a hurry, and if she hadn't mentioned it just now, he wouldn't have even noticed this situation.

  He moved his lips, and smiled bitterly: "Boss, as the saying goes: no one is perfect. And my mistake was not intentional. Think about it carefully, if I really did something wrong, then you should also have some responsibility, right? If you hadn't used an electric bat to ambush me, I wouldn't have... never mind. In short, this matter has put the girl at a disadvantage, I admit my mistake. If you want me to take responsibility, I'm not capable of doing so. But if there's another way to make up for my mistake, just say it, and as long as I, Wang Ke, can do it, I won't refuse."

  A real man should sometimes admit defeat and acknowledge his mistakes, which is also a true quality of a man.

  Moreover, there is a sentence that he has seen or heard in books or from others' mouths at least a hundred times: Never reason with women, because women are always unreasonable. No matter how reasonable you are, it's always your fault in the end.

  So, compared to arguing and making excuses, it's better to just admit defeat and apologize sincerely. She can't kill herself over this, right?

  Wang Ke's light and casual explanation, as well as his sudden change of tone in admitting his mistake, left Li Ruoxi's stunning expression momentarily stunned. Afterwards, she lifted her foot and lightly kicked Wang Ke's calf with a hint of annoyance.

  This bastard, as soon as he left the public security bureau gate, she began to think about how to scheme against Wang Ke. She even thought that if Wang Ke argued back, she could use her feminine chastity to refute him, making him speechless after being refuted, and then she could propose a series of unequal treaties, so that this powerful bodyguard and fighter would be firmly under her control.

  But he actually apologized and made amends?

  What should I do next? If I bring up those calculations in my heart again, isn't that just taking advantage of the situation and being a shameless scoundrel?

  That unfulfilled thought rolled around in her heart, and only then did a hint of a smile appear on her face. She glanced at Wang Ke, and a sly laugh began to form in her mind: even if she was taking advantage of the situation, what's wrong with making some excessive demands? What's there to be reserved about with this lecher? He's already taken all the advantages, can't she make some unreasonable requests too? She really hoped he would try to reason with her, but as a woman, whatever she said was reasonable. If he had the ability, let him try to persuade her out of those unequal terms she came up with. Even if it meant being unreasonable and overbearing, she had to get him to agree to her demands.

  Besides, since he has admitted his mistake, using those unequal treaties to control him doesn't count as bullying, does it? He himself suffered a loss and said he would compensate, so just use those unequal treaties to compensate!

  The abacus in her heart clicked away, and Li Ruoxi looked at Wang Ke with a hum: "You're a bit rough around the edges, but overall you're not bad. You're good at recognizing your mistakes, apologizing twice in one night is no easy feat. Considering how sincere your apology was, I won't make things difficult for you either. However, since we are employer and employee, to prevent something like this from happening again, I plan on adding a few more clauses to our previous agreement. Do you have any objections?"

  Wang Ke quickly nodded and said, "As long as you don't let me kill people or set fires, catch adultery or commit crimes, I absolutely have no problem. Now what I want to know most is whether you can let me go back quickly, I still have things to recite."

  Li Ruoxi nodded and said, "Alright, a gentleman's word is as good as gold. I won't ask you to do things like killing people or setting fires, even if you dare to do them, I wouldn't do them myself! Since you've agreed, when I get back, I'll have you sign that revised treaty with the added content. As for what happened before, let's just forget about it and not dwell on it. A prime minister can hold a ship in his belly, so I won't quibble with you over details."

  After finishing her speech, Li Ruoxi turned around silently after Wang Ke nodded helplessly. She stood quietly facing the Xianghu Lake scenery for a minute before stretching and saying: "I see you've been crazily reciting those things like you're possessed these past few days, it's exhausting enough, don't pull that string in your heart too tight, you should also relax properly sometimes. Look at the scene in front of us, how beautiful."

  As Li Ruoxi spoke, Wang Ke raised his head and looked towards the Xianghu Lake scenery in front of him.

  He followed Li Ruoxi here, but his mind was thinking about the content he had memorized, and he didn't really appreciate the beautiful scenery in front of him. Now that Li Ruoxi mentioned it, he seriously took a closer look at the scene before him.

  Beautiful!

  What a beautiful view!

  The lake's surface sparkled with a gentle breeze, and the rippling starlight reflected the lights along the lakeshore. The overhanging green branches added to the beauty, making it almost breathtaking. Nearby, a young couple leaned against a tree by the lake, lost in their own little world of love, chatting sweet nothings, adding an extra touch of loveliness to this picturesque scene.

  After a while, his gaze slowly turned to the night sky, where countless stars were suspended high in the darkness, and occasionally a meteor flashed across the starry map, bringing a visual shock.

  The vast universe is boundless, with countless stars. The most mysterious and profound starry sky hides how many mysteries?

  Wang Ke's spirit, in this quiet world, amidst the breathtaking scenery before his eyes, slowly dispersed. His body stood still like a sculpture, and those bright eyes emitted a bewildering glow.

  The vast starry sky made his heart completely relaxed, as if he had escaped the constraints of the world and left behind the desires of the mundane world. In this quiet realm, his soul seemed to have been sublimated. Threads of spiritual energy from heaven and earth poured towards Wang Qi at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye, coming from all directions. The true energy within him began to circulate according to the running route of the "Dragon Elephant" technique, without Wang Qi even realizing it. Meanwhile, the spiritual energy that had entered his body was being refined and transformed into part of his cultivation, all without his knowledge.