"Hehe, is it for that girl?" another even more sleazy voice sounded.
"To be honest, I've been watching that girl for several nights! Hehe." The first man's laughter grew more lecherous. Then Jimmy heard some rustling noises.
Jimmy came out of the bathroom and saw the two men messing with a cigarette—what they called "spicing it up" probably meant adding something to the cigarette, maybe some kind of drug or sedative.
Finding it interesting, Jimmy slowly washed his hands. After the two sleazy men finished preparing the cigarette, they hurried out of the bathroom. After waiting a bit, Jimmy also left through the bathroom door.
He slowly walked into the noisy bar hall. The crowd had grown even bigger as more office workers got off work. Jimmy immediately searched for the two sleazy men and soon found them in a corner. Following their gaze, Jimmy saw a charming figure sitting at the bar.
She wore a black OL (office lady) outfit, black stockings covering her thighs, and eight-centimeter-high heels. Jimmy quietly walked over and sat beside her. The woman seemed to sense someone approaching; she raised her head and saw a shy-looking teenage boy sitting beside her.
Jimmy was stunned for a moment. The OL looked about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with a slender face and smooth black hair. Her cheeks were flushed—whether from drinking or something else—and her eyes were captivating, as if glistening with moisture.
"Hehe, handsome, aren't you going to buy me a drink?" the OL raised her almost empty glass of red wine and smiled at Jimmy.
Jimmy paused, then said to the bartender, "Give her a juice."
Both the bartender and the OL chuckled.
"Hehe, handsome, you're funny. Isn't coming to a bar for a drink? Don't you drink alcohol?" the OL smiled.
Jimmy shrugged, "I like drinking, but I know my limits."
"Hehe, want me to buy you a drink?" the OL teased Jimmy.
"No thanks!" Jimmy shook his head. He casually glanced behind him and noticed the two sleazy men were gone.
Jimmy frowned immediately. "Beautiful lady, want me to have a drink with you?"
Just then, two middle-aged men sat on the OL's other side and smiled.
Jimmy recognized them instantly as the two sleazy men.
"Oh! Then I won't be polite!" the OL laughed.
"Give her a glass of brandy!" one of the sleazy men told the bartender, then pulled out a pack of cigarettes and lit one.
"Thanks!" the OL smiled. She sniffed the smoke but showed no disgust; instead, she took a deep drag. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out a ladies' cigarette pack, but it was empty.
Smoking and drinking — not signs of a good woman, thought Jimmy about this OL.
The middle-aged man grinned and handed a cigarette to the OL. After a "thank you," she looked for a lighter.
"If I were you, I'd throw that cigarette away!" Jimmy said coldly.
The OL was taken aback. "What's wrong?" she looked at Jimmy suspiciously.
"Kid, I advise you not to meddle!" the other sleazy man sat beside Jimmy and whispered.
"Heh," Jimmy curled his lips, "What if I do meddle?"
"You'll regret it!" the man hissed.
"Regret is the last thing I fear!" Jimmy smiled coldly and turned to the puzzled OL. "That cigarette has been spiked."
"What!" The OL's face changed. She glared angrily at the first sleazy man.
"Haha, no way! Don't believe me? I'll smoke it right now!" The man laughed nervously and took the cigarette from the OL, lighting it up.
The OL looked at Jimmy with doubt. "Hehe, I want to know what's in this pack!" Jimmy smiled and slapped down a plastic bag on the bar counter, about the size of a cigarette pack, filled with white powder.
"What!" The threatening man was stunned, quickly searched his pockets, and after finding one empty, his face darkened. "Damn it!" The man smoking the spiked cigarette cursed and grabbed the bag of white powder, running toward the bar's exit.
Jimmy quickly grabbed the OL's wine glass and without hesitation threw it at the man's head. The glass smashed with a "crack," and the man collapsed without a sound.
"Sh\*t!" The other man beside Jimmy pulled out a small knife and stabbed toward Jimmy's abdomen.
"Hmph!" Amid the OL's screams, Jimmy pinched the knife with two fingers, then with his other hand punched the man's stomach without hesitation.
"Ugh!" The man immediately fell to the ground, vomiting up his dinner.
Jimmy sneered and followed up with a strike to the man's neck. Instantly, the man's eyes rolled back, and he collapsed into his own vomit.
"Can I call the police?" Jimmy asked the stunned onlookers around him.
"Yes!" the bartender nodded. "But I warn you, those men have powerful backing."
"I'm not afraid!" Jimmy shrugged and quickly took out his phone to call. After explaining the situation, he hung up.
At that moment, Su Xiaoqin and Meimei came out from the bathroom and hurried over. "Jimmy, what happened?"
"Oh!" Hearing his name, Jimmy turned and saw Su Xiaoqin. "Oh! Nothing, just caught two drug addicts."
"What! You called the police?" Su Xiaoqin asked quickly.
"Yes!" Jimmy nodded.
"God, how could you call the police! Aren't you afraid…" Su Xiaoqin nervously began.
"I'm not afraid!" Jimmy looked confidently at his left hand.
"Alright, I'll stay and handle things. You guys take a taxi home!" Jimmy told Su Xiaoqin.
Outside the bar, Fan Weiqi and the bespectacled man were waiting, completely unaware of what had happened inside.
Jimmy saw off the four in a taxi, then waited in the bar for half an hour until a police car finally arrived.
Two police officers came out, took statements on site, and then took the two sleazy men away. As they left, one of the sleazy men gave Jimmy a fierce glare.
"Aren't you afraid of retaliation?" the OL asked Jimmy at the bar's door.
"If I were afraid, I wouldn't have stood up for you!" Jimmy replied and left.
"Haha, handsome, I'm He Lixing!" the OL called after him.
Jimmy left her behind with a cool silhouette.
"Hehe, quite a fine catch!" the OL smiled seductively, watching Jimmy's retreating figure.
For Jimmy, this day was just a chance encounter—but it would change his life forever…