Chapter 381: Chapter 370 Qiao Jing Is Angry Chapter 381: Chapter 370 Qiao Jing Is Angry However… the man before her might be even sillier.

It was just a two-meter-deep swimming pool, nothing to her, but Zhan Qipei had just jumped in and became a drenched chicken alongside her.

Qiao Jing lifted her gaze toward Zhan Qipei, whose wet bangs clung softly to his forehead, and his brows and eyes were misted with a layer of water.

The water droplets fell along his jawline to his collarbone, where his wet white shirt vaguely revealed his tight chest.

After seeing this, she silently withdrew her gaze.

Su Manhan and Zhan Nanqing rushed to their side and helped pull Qiao Jing out.

Upon seeing the scene, the waitstaff immediately brought over dry towels.

Su Manhan took a towel from the waitstaff and hurriedly draped it over Qiao Jing.

“How did you suddenly end up in the pool? What happened?”

Qiao Jing’s cool gaze deepened, a chill tainting her brows and eyes, and she looked expressionlessly around her.

Lou Xinrou ran away.

After Zhan Qipei returned to the ground, his dark eyes swept around with an inspecting and icy look, his face so gloomy as if water was about to drip from it, and the temperature around him dropped several degrees.

He took a dry towel handed over by the waitstaff and looked up at Qiao Jing.

Her black hair clung to her shoulders, and a few undried droplets remained on her fair face.

Her black evening gown was soaked, clinging tightly to her body, outlining her exquisite curves. She covered Qiao Jing with a towel, gazing directly into the woman’s phoenix eyes.

A flicker of obscure emotion passed through Zhan Qipei’s eyes, fleeting in an instant, as he draped the towel over the woman.

“Who pushed you in?”

When he had rushed over, Qiao Jing was already in the pool, but he hadn’t seen anyone else around the edge.

His wife wouldn’t go swimming in her dress.

As Zhan Qipei spoke, everyone present was stunned.

Pushed in?

Was Qiao Jing pushed into the pool?

Su Manhan’s face immediately darkened, as she used a towel to wipe Qiao Jing’s hair and wrapped her up.

Qiao Jing glanced at the man soaked through, took off the excess towel from herself, and draped it over him.

“Dry yourself off.”

Zhan Qipei felt a slight thrill in his heart when Qiao Jing draped a towel over him, but this thrill was quickly replaced by anger.

He narrowed his dark eyes and gathered his smoky brows, his lips tightly pursed.

“Did you see who pushed you?”

Lou Pinshu hurried over after hearing about the incident.

“What happened?”

Someone falling into the swimming pool during his birthday banquet wasn’t a big deal, and he wasn’t planning to get involved initially.

But after hearing that it was Qiao Jing who had fallen into the pool, he ran over almost using his hands and feet out of fright.

That was Professor Qiao who had fallen in!

Professor Qiao was a pillar of the nation. If any accident happened at his banquet…

The consequences were unimaginable!

Qiao Jing’s phoenix eyes were as deep as a pool of dark water. Despite being wet, she didn’t seem the slightest bit disheveled, but rather, her disarray added to her beauty.

Her emotionless voice rose, sending chills up Lou Pinshu’s spine.

“Mr. Lou should ask your granddaughter about it.”

Previously, she didn’t want to hold Lou Xinrou to account, but the other party had crossed the line.

This time it concerned her child, and she wouldn’t endure.

Lou Pinshu, burning with rage, sharply reprimanded someone by his side.

“Bring Lou Xinrou to me!”

The crowd was surprised. Lou Xinrou was the granddaughter that Lou Pinshu took pride in, and his calling her by full name indicated the intensity of Old Master Lou’s anger.

A bystander hastily responded, “Yes,” and ran off to find the person.

The guests around had not expected this scene to unfold, and after hearing Qiao Jing’s words, they all looked at each other in bewilderment.

“Is Qiao Jing implying that Lou Xinrou pushed her into the water?”

“Did anyone around here see anything?”

“No, everyone was drinking and chatting, and there weren’t many people by the pool to begin with, so no one noticed.”

“…”

A girl in a light blue dress spoke up.

“There was nobody by the pool, so who could have pushed her in? Could it be that she deliberately fell in, hoping to gain Young Master Zhan’s sympathy?”

Upon hearing this, Zhan Nanqing’s temper flared up instantly, and she took a few steps forward, wanting to argue with that person.

It wasn’t as if she was pushed in by someone; could she have fallen in by herself? When they left, Qiao Jing was still a few steps away from the pool, how could she have fallen in?!

She recognized the girl in the light blue dress; it was the Tang Family’s Miss, Tang Qingli, who had pursued her brother before. The mockery was definitely deliberate!

She had only walked a few steps when Su Manhan pulled her back.

Su Manhan glanced at Qiao Jing and spoke softly.

“Qiao Jing, don’t worry, I’ve got your back.”

Qiao Jing nodded slightly in response to Su Manhan, her icy gaze like a blade, turned towards Tang Qingli, her expression chilled and sharp as a knife’s edge.

“Are you suggesting that in this dead of winter, I fell in just to make Zhan Qipei feel sorry for me?”

Tang Qingli was intimidated by Qiao Jing’s stare and subconsciously touched her arm, realizing she had broken out in goosebumps.

She was successfully silenced by Qiao Jing’s retort and, seeing the Zhan Family siding with Qiao Jing, muttered quietly to herself.

“I didn’t say that it really was like that, I was just guessing…”

She had never liked Qiao Jing, and although in her heart Lou Xinrou wasn’t any good either, she despised Qiao Jing more, especially since Qiao Jing had married Zhan Qipei.

Moreover, she had just seen Zhan Qipei being so kind to Qiao Jing, driven by jealousy, she had made those mocking remarks.

Just at that moment!

Lou Xinrou was brought over.

“Grandpa, did you call me over for something?”

Her face feigned confusion as if she knew nothing, unaware that her palms had already started to sweat.

She had never expected that Qiao Jing would react so quickly and turn around, catching her in the act.

But it didn’t matter, as no one had been paying attention to them, and the cameras by the pool hadn’t captured them.

So even if Qiao Jing insisted it was her doing, there was no evidence to prove it.

After all, the incident with Jiang Ling being pushed into the pool went by, she had stoutly denied involvement and it had passed–this time Qiao Jing certainly couldn’t do anything to her!

Qiao Jing withdrew her gaze from Tang Qingli, her face impassively void of any excess emotion, inscrutable.

Lou Pinshu, seeing Qiao Jing drenched, felt both fear and anger, berating Lou Xinrou.

“Where did you just go? Was it you who pushed Qiao Jing?!”

Someone like Qiao Jing wouldn’t make baseless accusations against his granddaughter; he had already been suspicious of her character.

Now that Qiao Jing had pointed out Lou Xinrou, it was very likely his granddaughter who had pushed her in!

Lou Xinrou, facing Lou Pinshu’s furious face, instinctively felt fear, her eyes starting to betray a look of panic.

“Ah? Grandpa, what do you mean ‘push Qiao Jing’? I don’t know–”
Before she could defend herself, Lou Pinshu slapped her across the face, producing a loud “smack!”

“You still dare to quibble?”

He saw the panic in his granddaughter’s eyes and guessed that she was the culprit.

If he didn’t show some authority, what if Qiao Jing became angry and blamed the entire Lou Family for this matter?

The dual identities of Professor Qiao and Divine Doctor Jing were not something the Lou Family could afford to provoke!

Moreover, the Zhan Family stood behind Qiao Jing.

Most importantly, he, Lou Pinshu, believed that the upbringing he provided to Lou Xinrou from childhood was no worse than anyone else’s, even stringent, and she should have grown into an upstanding person, yet she committed such filthy deeds!

It chilled him to the core, disgracing the Lou Family!

Lou Xinrou covered her slapped face, her eyes widening in shock.