Crimson Instinct

Chapter 153: I don't give a fucking damn

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Dongcheng.

At Ying Yue's home, Rodey was just about to turn over her phone.

*Click*

Rodey narrowed his eyes. He took two large steps behind him and hid in the bathroom with the door slightly ajar to see who entered.

The door opened, and Xue Jingjing stepped in, nervously looking left and right and then at her back before she quickly closed the door.

"Phew!" She wiped her forehead covered with sweat out of sheer anxiety of breaking into Ying Yue's room.

Rodey silently kept on watching. He already figured out that she must be Ying Yue's cousin that she was talking about. She would be the only one close to her age living here.

"Well, thankfully that bitch is in the kitchen, so I can quickly do my work."

Rodey snickered.

Bitch huh?

His hand automatically went out to reach his pocket, where he felt his gun's bulge. He took it out and was lazily twirling it in his hand.

Unaware of the danger looming behind her back that was ready to shoot at her any second, Xue Jingjing quickly started to search around her room near the bedside table and in her university bag.

"Come on, where is your purse?" She muttered to herself.

She was always looking towards the door to check if she heard somebody coming towards here.

After much digging through Ying Yue's books and other stuff, she finally found her purse.

"Ah, thank God! Che." She sneered, "What useless books are that disgusting bookworm carrying around with her? Well, apart from reading that, she is so dumb anyway. So easy to fool her."

Xue Jingjing quickly opened her purse and widened her eyes as she saw a thick bundle of money notes in it.

Well, technically, it wasn't that thick as one was imagining but for her, seeing even ten-fifteen bills bundled together too was a great thing.

"Fuck!" She cursed. "That bitch. When did she get so rich? How does she have so much money lying here?"

Rodey tilted his head as he squinted his gaze.

She took out the bills and flapped them against her fingers. Her eyes sparkled in delight.

Rodey knew that it was the money given by the bar owner to her that night.

He sneered.

I told you that you wouldn't ever be able to pay them back.

"Damn Yue has so much money, and she only gives us a tiny bit of it! How dare she! If not for Dad, who paid for her surgery, then she would have been dead already. All this money should be mine! How didn't she hand it over to us? Even that aunt! Because she came shopping with me, I couldn't buy any dresses I wanted!"

Rodey raised his brow and stared at her like how a predator hunted his prey.

He more or less now understood Ying Yue's situation. He smiled and raised his arm straight until the tip of his gun pointed at the back of her head.

Heh~~ should I kill you now? Poor you. You wouldn't even know what got you.

Xue Jingjing unceremoniously grabbed all the notes and stuffed them in her pocket.

"Now I can go on a date with Yang Mo with no worries. Heh, this much money is more than enough to have a luxurious date in the mall." She chuckled.

Rodey's finger touched the trigger of his gun.

"Too bad it is me who is going out with Yang Mo and not that bitch. Poor her. She likes him, but I snatched him away from her." Xue Jingjing made a menacing face as she inwardly sneered at Ying Yue. "It was so easy."

Rodey suddenly withdrew his finger from the trigger and leaned in as he narrowed his eyes.

"Sorry, sis. You like Yang Mo. You even tried to meddle in his relationship with his ex to make them break up, but what did that get you? Nothing. Yang Mo is mine. Not just Yang Mo. Whatever is yours will always be mine, sis. Be it money or love. I will snatch everything from you." She said with a nasty expression.

Xue Jingjing carefully placed the purse in Ying Yue's bag as she found it. The gun was aimed at her, but Rodey didn't shoot, and just like that, she left the room.

Rodey stepped out of the bathroom with a dangerous and dark expression laced on his face as he saw Xue Jingjing's retreating back.

Heh~ she likes someone? This is interesting

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After dinner, Ying Yue helped Ying Lan wash the dishes while the Xue mother-daughter already left for their rooms. Xue Jingjing pretended as if nothing happened the whole time. She wasn't worried about the time when Ying Yue would find the money missing in her purse.

Bitch would not dare doubt me anyway. But AuntIf she said anything, then I can just fool them with my tearful act.

Ying Lan smiled. "I will go and rest now."

She nodded.

As the kitchen and the dining area was empty, Ying Yue quickly took out one plate and filled it with the remaining food left after dinner. She had purposely made an extra serving.

She went upstairs and entered her room. Rodey was lying on the bed, playing with his gun that would scare anybody to run off.

"You must be hungry. I have brought some food."

Rodey raised his brow. "Ho~~"

He just wanted to lie low in her home. He didn't expect that she would take care of him like that.l, bringing food and all.

"You eat it first." He smiled.

Ying Yue blinked her eyes. "I already had my dinner just now."

"Only one bite of everything that is there on the plate."

She was puzzled and didn't understand, but she quickly took a bite of everything.

"Like this?"

Rodey observed her movements and expressions.

"Good. That means you didn't put any poison or sleeping pills in it to knock me out for the cops to catch me."

"I wouldn't do that." 

"Why wouldn't you? Am I not a criminal?"

"I would have directly taken you to the police station before if I had to. You were close to passing out when you grabbed me. I wouldn't go through the trouble now to knock you out. You were also unconscious for three hours in my room when I brought you here. I could have called the cops at that time too."

Rodey already knew everything, and his intuition told him that Ying Yue wouldn't do that, but he felt an urge to bully her somehow. He wanted to make her feel bad that perhaps he didn't trust her.

He sneered. "Don't expect me to say sorry for testing you."

"I am not offended either," Ying Yue stated.

His brow twitched.

After a moment of silence.

She looked puzzled. "Were you trying to offend me?"

He rolled his eyes. "Forget it. Oh, why don't you check your purse? Maybe you will find something missing."

"What?"

"Check it."

Ying Yue opened her bag and found her purse. She opened it and stared at it unblinkingly.

"The money...where is the money?" She panicked a bit and searched her purse throughout. She tumbled it upside down.

She looked up at Rodey and asked, "Thisdo, you know what happened? The money was just inside. I need it to buy mom's medicine."

She looked a little flustered. She checked in her bag again but didn't find it.

What now? Where did the money disappear?

Rodey laughed. "You dear cousin snuck into the room to 'take' some money which, according to her, should be hers."

She froze. "Jingjing came here? Did she see you?"

"That's what you are worried about? Would your dinner been so peaceful had she seen me?"

Indeed

But she felt relieved and nodded. "So it was Jingjing who took it. I thought somebody stole it."

Rodey widened his eyes in disbelief. "Idiot. Are you dumb?"

"I don't understand."

Rodey leaned back on the bed. "Your money 'is' stolen. By your cousin. What else do you call sneaking in someone's room and taking something without permission?"

Ying Yue was confused. "But she is my sister. She wouldn't steal money from me."

"I wonder how you survived until now in this house with two money-loving wolves on your back? How didn't you get eaten raw by them until now?"

She pursed her lips as she didn't miss his sarcasm. "Perhaps she needs it for her project"

He sneered. "Oh, she needs it, yes, but to go on a wonderful date with her boyfriend, Yang Mo, who 'you' like."

Rodey carefully gauged her expression as he said the last two words.

Ying Yue frowned. "She wants to go on a date? She should have told me. If she needed it, then I would have given her some money."

Rodey was silent. It was like that the last two words didn't even register in her mind.

"Such a nice sister, or should I say dumb? Your cousin said something about how you like that guy and how she snatched him away from you. And here you so nicely want to give her money for her date like a goody-two-shoes."

Ying Yue looked at him, perplexed.

Rodey narrowed his eyes and laughed with a sinister ring to it. "Didn't you say that you don't understand feelings? But you already like a guy. Isn't it contradicting? We are practically strangers. I don't give a fucking damn. You didn't have to lie to me."