A Fatal Attraction from Lawyer A - Chapter 59

Traffic Police Team—

“Officer, this is my fault, and I will definitely take full responsibility. I heard I also hit a pregnant man, and I sincerely apologize. May I visit the other party?”

The police officer was handling the case. He looked up at He Xi in front of him: “Your full responsibility is confirmed. Hitting a Lamborghini means you have compensation to pay. Further matters will be discussed after the other party arrives.”

“Second Brother, that’s him!”

Just then, footsteps came from the doorway.

He Xi turned his head at the sound.

At the entrance of the police station, surrounded by several men in black suits, a tall and straight man in a silver-gray suit had a cold expression. The aura of a top Alpha, unaffected by any suppressants, rushed forward with an invisible sense of oppression.

He Xi saw the man raise his eyes and look toward him. The gaze that fell on him was like a cold scrutiny, or perhaps the disgust of a superior meeting something filthy—a feeling of being utterly despised and crushed in dignity. His palms quietly clenched.

This man was Gu Yuxi’s Alpha.

Hadn’t he gone abroad?

It wasn’t until the expensive, polished leather shoe stopped in front of the dirty, dust-covered mesh shoe that, as if condescending, it stepped on the filthy shoe.

He Xi’s expression under the mask instantly contorted. He felt as if his toes were being crushed. His eyes were stained with the fury of being humiliated, but he dared not show it too obviously, only lowering his head.

He had underestimated Gu Yuxi. There was actually someone so devoted to such a ‘deformity’.

Luo Panzhi stood in front of the man, who was wearing a hat and a mask and sitting down. He casually lowered his eyes: “You were the one who hit my husband, is that right?” As his voice fell, the leather shoe ground the toe of the dirty shoe again.

He Xi endured the pain, lowering his head: “… I-I’m sorry. It’s all my fault. I will definitely take full responsibility.”

“Take full responsibility?” Luo Panzhi laughed, as if he had heard a ridiculous joke, but his eyes were full of cold disgust: “Can you afford it?”

Jian Wenxing quickly nodded: “You obviously hit my car on purpose! And you almost injured my family member! Luckily he’s okay, but if anything had happened, do you think you wouldn’t be locked up? You could be eating prison food for the rest of your life!”

No one present dared to refute the words that sounded condescending. From the moment Luo Panzhi stepped into the Traffic Police Team, no one failed to recognize who he was, and no one dared to contradict such a magnate.

And the near middle-aged man in a black and gray jacket, hunched over and disfigured, looked exceptionally timid in front of the magnate, as if he was terrified. He lowered his head, held his hands together in a begging posture, trembling all over, his words stammering:

“… I will compensate you even if I have to work like an ox or a horse for you. Please, lift your noble foot. I promise I will compensate you.”

The police officer at the desk next to them seemed to feel that bullying a disabled person in this manner was somewhat cruel, but he did not dare to speak up.

Jian Wenxing hadn’t expected his Second Brother to do this, either. Normally, his Second Brother was definitely not the type to make things difficult for people, and he would never look down on anyone. So why was he doing this?

Luo Panzhi sneered. This person was quite clever, making it seem like he was bullying an honest man.

His gaze fell on the serpentine scar on the back of the man’s hand. He then scrutinized the man’s build from top to bottom. Although hunched, it was not difficult to see he was very tall. He remembered Gu Yuxi mentioning that Mo Wenbin was about 1.9 meters tall, with a large build, a tattoo of roses and vines on his arms, and a burn scar on the back of his left hand that looked somewhat serpentine.

The voice was supposed to be a murky, heavy sound, but now it sounded normal, just an ordinary voice.

“What is your name?”

He Xi answered truthfully: “He Xi.”

“Which ‘Xi’?”

“The ‘Xi’ from ‘yesteryear’ (xiri).”

Luo Panzhi’s eyes deepened. He chuckled: “What a coincidence. My husband’s name also has ‘Xi’ in it.” Then the curve of his lips faded: “But the net of heaven is large and wide, and it lets nothing through. The law is merciless. Isn’t it true that if you make a mistake, you must be punished by the law?”

He Xi suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He slowly raised his head, meeting Luo Panzhi’s smile, which held an unknown meaning.

“Officer, this limited edition sports car of mine costs over twenty million yuan. Based on the damage, I estimate the repair cost will be over five million yuan. In addition, he hit my husband and almost caused him to miscarry. The repair costs and all related medical expenses must be calculated.” Luo Panzhi looked at the traffic police officer.

The officer in charge of the incident immediately replied: “We have surveyed the scene and moved both accident vehicles to the Traffic Police Team. From the surveillance footage, it is determined that He Xi should bear full responsibility for the repair of both vehicles, compensation for road traffic facilities, and all related medical expenses for the pregnant man. Little President Luo, do you wish to proceed with a civil lawsuit or…”

“A private settlement.” Luo Panzhi “raised his noble foot,” moving his leather shoe away. He casually flicked He Xi’s hat brim with his finger, hooking his lips into a smile: “I’d like to have a serious talk with this Mr. He about the best way to handle this matter. No time like the present. Right now.”

He then glanced at the bodyguards next to him.

The bodyguards moved to the front, back, and sides of He Xi. They did not touch him but politely invited him to leave.

The police officers in the team saw the situation and felt something was wrong: “Uh, Little President Luo, although a private settlement is possible, please don’t—”

Luo Panzhi smiled gently and elegantly: “Don’t worry, Officer. Our family has been awarded the title of ‘Civilized Family’ for twenty years. Having been nurtured by this environment since childhood, I am enthusiastic about public welfare, respectful to parents and elders, united with neighbors, honest and law-abiding, selfless and devoted—I fulfill every one of these virtues. I will not bully the weak. Thank you for your hard work, officers. Goodbye.”

With that, he turned and left the Traffic Police Team, his face returning to a blank expression.

Naturally, he would not bully the weak.

But for a scumbag who attempts to escape judgment and commits multiple evils, he didn’t need to be too civilized.

Anyone who dared to touch the person he cherished most must pay the price.

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The rusty iron gate squeaked open. Dust flew up from the concrete floor. Looking around, it was an abandoned, old warehouse, with broken or obsolete medical testing equipment piled up all around.

The hunched He Xi was being pushed forward by the bodyguards behind him, both arms restrained. He tried to struggle, but the next second, he was slammed onto his knees by a fierce push on the shoulders, kneeling right in front of those expensive leather shoes.

A cloud of dust immediately billowed up from his knees.

Luo Panzhi slightly frowned, took a step back, and turned his face away, unsure if he was disgusted by the man or the dust. He lowered his eyes, looking indifferently at ‘He Xi,’ who was struggling to break free but was suppressed and unable to move. As if he remembered something, he coldly laughed.

“Heh, He Xi?”

He was expressionless. He hooked his hand to the side, and a cold golf club was immediately placed in his palm.

There was a ‘thunk,’ the cold sound of metal colliding. The golf club was held upright in front of He Xi’s knees, perfectly aligned with a broken window. The light streaming into the room reflected a cold glare off the golf club, momentarily blinding He Xi’s eyes.

He Xi slightly raised his gaze and saw the distinct, well-defined hand resting on the top of the golf club, casually rubbing it. The cuff of his sleeve inadvertently revealed an exquisite cufflink and wristwatch. He looked like a refined gentleman and an elite, yet he exuded an invisible pressure.

The next second, he felt the club lightly nudge his hat brim.

“Do you know what my favorite sport is?” Luo Panzhi leaned over, supported by the golf club. He looked at the man kneeling in front of him, his head bowed, his expression completely hidden by the hat and mask: “Take a guess?”

He Xi listened to the deep, smiling voice near his ear, which contained a hidden coldness, as if carrying an evil intent to devour him alive. Indifference surfaced in his eyes, but his voice could not help but tremble with fear:

“Golf.”

“Clever.” Luo Panzhi chuckled, tapping He Xi’s hat brim with the club, as if praising him: “Why do I suddenly feel like playing golf?”

He Xi seemed to realize the terrible possibility. He snapped his head up, staring incredulously at the man in the suit and tie in front of him, who seemed like a refined rogue:

“… Sir, I have no feud with you.”

As soon as his voice fell, he felt a golf ball being placed on the top of his head.

“I particularly enjoy a high-difficulty challenge,” Luo Panzhi ignored what He Xi said, took a step back, and squinted, examining the position of the golf ball placed on He Xi’s head by the bodyguard. He then saw He Xi attempt to move: “Hey, if you move, I don’t know where my club will swing.”

He Xi’s body instantly froze, because the golf club was resting against his neck.

Luo Panzhi simulated a small swing motion near He Xi’s neck. He smiled gently: “If the ball falls, my club might very well swing somewhere else.”

“Sir, I promised to compensate you. I am willing to pay any amount. Please, don’t hit me…”

Luo Panzhi listened to the pleas, his face expressionless, and he was unmoved.

In his mind, however, he pictured what the younger Gu Yuxi must have gone through when he encountered this scumbag. How could a newly differentiated Omega resist the coercion and force of an adult Alpha? He must have been terrified; he must have cried. The pain of having the scent gland forcibly sutured due to a secondary differentiation—just thinking about it was agonizing.

So, how strong and brave must the secondarily differentiated Alpha, Gu Yuxi, have been to endure the suffering of the gland suture and break Mo Wenbin’s hand? He dared not imagine, but just the thought of it fueled his anger relentlessly.

It burned, making him want to lose his mind and tear the person in front of him to shreds.

But he couldn’t.

What he could do was rip off the skin of this so-called ‘He Xi’ and hand him over to Gu Yuxi, exposing this demon to the daylight to face righteous judgment.

“Remember, if the ball falls, your head will follow. Let him kneel on his own.” Luo Panzhi slightly lifted his eyelids, looked at the bodyguard standing next to He Xi, and nodded to the side, signaling them to let go.

The bodyguards released the man and circled He Xi. There was no path for escape.

In the dirty, dusty warehouse, Luo Panzhi took out a handkerchief and wiped his golf club. His movements were slow and meticulous, as if he were performing warm-up exercises on a vast golf course, elegant and leisurely.

The scorching summer heat made the warehouse unbearably stuffy. Time passed minute by minute.

He Xi, with the golf ball balanced on his head, dared not move. His back was drenched in sweat. The perspiration dripping from his hat brim passed over his eyelids and seeped into the corner of his lips, tasting sweet and metallic. The pain of his scraped knees was unbearable, but he dared not utter a sound. He could only endure the humiliation and suffering, which was undoubtedly torturing his dignity and his will, yet he was utterly immobilized.

He had no idea what this crazy man in the suit wanted to do.

Perhaps he would die here without anyone ever knowing.

That might not be so bad, except for the lingering regret of not having finished off that ‘deformity’.

After an unknown amount of time, He Xi saw the exquisitely made handkerchief tossed down near his eyelids. The expensive leather shoe took a small step back. The sound of the shoe echoed in the warehouse, as if crushing his heart. His heartbeat instantly jumped to his throat, and his breathing became rapid.

The bodyguards began to step back.

An invisible sense of oppression pressed down on him from all directions.

“I’m going to start now.”

An elegant, soft laugh rang out in the warehouse, like a greeting from a demon. This was followed by the sound of the golf club rapidly swinging over his head, friction against the air. He Xi closed his eyes, his body suddenly tightening.

With a ‘BANG,’ the golf club perfectly struck the ball. The ball smashed directly into the old, obsolete equipment behind him. The residual force contained within the ball pierced straight through the rusty wall of the equipment. The equipment made a loud clanging sound from the intense impact, and the ball finally bounced to the ground, kicking up dust along with the falling hat.

He Xi’s taut nerves snapped in his shock. He was gasping frantically, trembling all over. He then felt something warm flowing down the top of his head, running over his eyelids and seeping into the corner of his lips. He tasted something metallic and sweet.

His trembling hand reached for the top of his head. He felt the warm wetness, and when he brought his hand down to look, it was stained with blood. His pupils constricted.

“I haven’t played in a long time. My skill seems to have declined.” Luo Panzhi sighed in disappointment. He held the club shaft and walked to He Xi’s front, using the club to pull down his mask, and then forcing the man to raise his head to look at him with the club.

He Xi glared at the man in front of him.

Luo Panzhi smiled, hooking his lips: “My apologies. I’m out of practice from not playing for so long. Does it hurt a lot?”

He looked at the face beneath the mask, which was monstrously scarred from burns. Despite the visible skin graft repair marks, indelible scars remained. Apart from his eyes, his brows, ears, nose, and mouth were all unrecognizable.

“… You are deliberately inflicting injury,” He Xi finally felt the intense pain in his head.

Luo Panzhi acted as if he had heard a joke. He patted He Xi’s face with the club: “This little bit of pain is called deliberately inflicting injury? Then what do you call what you did? You certainly know how to calculate.”

He lowered his gaze, focusing on the serpentine scar on the back of He Xi’s hand, his height, the serpentine scar, and the extensive burn damage to his skin. All that was left to confirm was the rose and vine tattoo on his arms.

“Take off his top.”

The bodyguards immediately moved. In three quick moves, the top was ripped off, and the small device attached to his body fell to the floor. The skin beneath the clothing was still covered in scars. The rose and vine tattoos wrapped around his arms were particularly dazzling.

The sharp-eyed Jian Wenxing stepped forward and picked up the patch device. He looked at it: “Second Brother, this is a humanized eye tracker. It can record the trajectory of a person’s eye movements when processing visual information, thereby simulating a human voice for conversation.”

So that was why He Xi’s voice wasn’t rough and unpleasant.

Luo Panzhi stared at the rose tattoo. His face suddenly darkened as if he had just realized something. His Gu Yuxi’s pheromone was Vanilla Juliet. Juliet is a rose. What the vines symbolized was self-evident.

“Mo Wenbin, do you even deserve to live in this world? You are worse than an animal.”

He Xi struggled, trying to stand up, but the bodyguard behind him immediately pressed his neck, forcing his face against the rough concrete floor, mixing with dust and blood. He put his hand on the floor to support himself.

But the next second, an expensive leather shoe stomped down hard on his hand.

“Aaaah—”

The pain of ten fingers connected to the heart made He Xi cry out in agony.

Luo Panzhi bent down, looking at the ugly face showing a pained expression: “It was you, you beast, who tried to provoke my husband by hurting others? Too bad, the person you have provoked now is me. It won’t be that easy for you to die.”

“… Heh, Gu Yuxi is an ingrate, a deformity. How could someone like him deserve to be liked—” Mo Wenbin cried out in pain. Mo Wenbin, whose voice was no longer being transmitted by the eye tracker, returned to his original rough voice, grating like sandpaper, which gave others goosebumps.

Luo Panzhi expressionlessly dislocated one of He Xi’s arms. Seeing the man unable to make a sound due to the pain, his eyes were full of ruthless coldness: “A beast like you is not fit to utter his name.”

Undoubtedly, this was Mo Wenbin.

It took no effort at all.

“If you want to kill me, just kill me!!! I’m not afraid!!!”

Luo Panzhi slowly stood up, removed his foot, and looked down at the scumbag struggling in the dirt. He looked as if he was watching trash: “Want to die? You don’t deserve it.”

If it weren’t for the rule of law, a thousand cuts would still not extinguish the hatred in his heart.

How dare he call his Gu Yuxi an ingrate? A ‘deformity’?

“Bandage him up and throw him to the police station. Tell them this person is Mo Wenbin.” Luo Panzhi handed the golf club in his hand to the bodyguard: “Please help me dispose of this.”

With that, he turned and left the warehouse, his face sinking, as this truly soiled his eyes.

“Yes, Little President Luo!”

The expensive leather shoes kicked up dust but did not stain the perfectly tailored suit.

He Xi’s eyes were red. He glared viciously at the man leaving the warehouse. His right arm, dislocated again after fourteen years, seemed to conjure up past humiliation. Gu Yuxi was an ingrate! How many things had he done back then? How much money had he donated to the orphanage?

And he, an Alpha, was actually left scarred all over by a secondarily differentiated Omega, and then had his entire body’s skin destroyed by a major fire, forcing him to abandon his true identity and go into hiding, even being shunned by his family.

His father hadn’t even thought about protecting him during the Ruixing Hospital incident.

… Why? Why was Gu Yuxi so lucky?

Outside the warehouse, Jian Wenxing looked at Luo Panzhi standing in front of the car, adjusting his cuffs, his heart still shaken by what he had just witnessed: “You are truly my elder brother.”

How could he suddenly be so terrifying toward that driver at fault? He must truly care about Lawyer Gu so much.

Luo Panzhi looked up at him: “Don’t tell the family about this. If you do, I’ll be the one getting a mixed double beating. Yuxi can’t know either.”

Jian Wenxing pursed his lips to show he understood, then couldn’t help but ask: “You Pan, do you have some deep-seated hatred for this driver at fault?”

“Yuxi used to be an Omega. Fourteen years ago, it was because of this scumbag that he was forced to differentiate into an Alpha. Have you seen the recent news? It’s this beast. He was probably coming for Yuxi,” Luo Panzhi said, still shaken: “Luckily, Yuxi is okay. Otherwise, I would never forgive this beast, even in death.”

How dare he try to attack Gu Yuxi while he was gone?

Jian Wenxing widened his eyes. He had seen the news. The recent cases of forced secondary differentiation due to sexual assault, and the ninety-nine percent mortality rate, were all terrifying: “So… this person did it?”

“The characteristics all match up. It’s him.”

“Holy cow!!” Jian Wenxing jumped up in anger: “Then why did you still have the bodyguard bandage him? Why give a scumbag like that any humanitarian aid? He’s not even human! You should have just knocked his head off!!”

Luo Panzhi glanced at the frantic Jian Wenxing: “Remember, don’t say anything, and help me track Mo Wenbin’s case. Let me know immediately if there are any developments. I’ll buy you a new car.”

Jian Wenxing’s expression became serious, and he raised his hand to swear: “Understood, Boss! Mission accomplished, guaranteed!”

“Mm.” Luo Panzhi was just about to open the car door and get in when he heard his phone vibrate in his pocket. He immediately took out his phone. Seeing it was Gu Yuxi’s call, his eyes instantly brightened.

Jian Wenxing: “?” What was with those puppy eyes?

In the hospital, the awakened Gu Yuxi didn’t know where Luo Panzhi was, and Luo Yuchu didn’t know either, so he called him. The moment the call connected, he asked: “Where are you? Why were you gone when I woke up?”

He was actually worried about what Luo Panzhi might do.

Luo Panzhi heard the tone and perceived that Gu Yuxi sounded wronged. He immediately looked pained and quickly coaxed: “Baby, you’re awake! I’m out buying you fruit. I’m coming right back now, okay~”

Jian Wenxing: “???” Hello? CEO, are you still there???

“Or is there anything else you want to eat? Sweet, spicy, sour? Ah, you don’t want to eat any of them? My baby has such a poor appetite. What should I do? I’ll come back and make you something you like!”

Jian Wenxing: “?????????” Hey, suit-wearing tyrant, are you still there?

He stared blankly at Little President Luo, who had just been swinging a golf club at a man’s head, instantly transforming into a wife-slave. No one could change faces that fast! Had he been replaced by someone else?

Then he heard the sound of the car door closing, and the car drove off just like that.

A moment later—

“Hey Luo Panzhi, I didn’t even get in the car yet, ahhhhhhh!!!!!!”

The car tires kicked up a cloud of dust. Jian Wenxing stood behind, waving and wailing.

A Lament: What to do when you have a brother who has a wife and forgets his own brother.