The aloof beauty always has weak legs; the crazy boss is too ruthless.

Chapter 111 Her Shining Points

Just as Lu Siqi was wondering what was going on, a taxi stopped outside the window, and the man who got out was Mu Sen.

Mu Sen had already seen her from the car. After getting out of the car, their eyes met for only a few seconds through the glass window before he walked towards the tavern.

The tavern owner seemed to know him well, and after greeting him warmly, he simply said, "Please have a seat, and your drinks and food will be served to you shortly."

Seeing this, Lu Siqi admired his social skills from the bottom of her heart.

Mu Sen walked over and sat down opposite her, smiling as he asked, "Why did you come so early this time?"

In the past, I always avoided him with various excuses.

Lu Siqi answered truthfully, "Because I need your help this time."

“That wasn’t a plea,” Mu Sen corrected, “it was an interrogation.”

Seeing the owner carrying side dishes toward their table, Mu Sen didn't continue speaking.

After the owner finished serving the side dishes and left, he invited Lu Siqi to eat first: "The owner is from Xiangcheng in Jiangnan. He is very good at making Jiangnan cuisine. Try it and see if it suits your taste."

After saying that, before Lu Siqi could even pick up her chopsticks, he had already placed a slice of lotus root into her bowl.

She had no appetite at all. "I didn't come here to eat and drink with you."

"Can you have dinner with me?" Mu Sen put down his chopsticks. "Do you know how popular my shop has been since I became an internet celebrity? I've been busy until after 10 p.m. these past few days, and my wrists are so sore."

Sensing his unspoken meaning, Lu Siqi picked up her chopsticks and put the lotus root slices back into his bowl. "Then you eat first."

"I didn't expect you to have such good judgment." After picking up a slice of lotus root and taking a bite, Mu Sen praised with satisfaction, "I've noticed that you've really become much more perceptive lately."

"I'm not enlightened, I just want to know the answer as soon as possible."

"You can't get off to the point." Putting down his chopsticks, Mu Sen looked up and met her gaze for a moment. Seeing her face, which remained unchanged, he knew that if he didn't give her the answer soon, she would continue to keep that stern expression. "Besides the question you asked on WeChat, do you have any other questions?"

Lu Siqi shook her head: "I only have this one question."

"Alright, now it's my turn to ask you a question." Mu Sen asked directly, "Why do you think I've never assigned you any tasks, from Jianghong to Bangnan Sanjiang now?"

"..." The question was thrown at her again? "I came to ask you because I couldn't figure out the answer."

“It’s not that you can’t think of anything,” Mu Sen pointed out the crux of the problem. “You just lack confidence in yourself and are completely unaware of your own strengths.”

Lu Siqi was completely confused, her eyes filled with bewilderment. "What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that from Jiang Hong until now, you have successfully completed all the tasks I assigned to you, but you just haven't realized it yet."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

“It’s okay if you don’t understand, let me remind you.” Mu Sen picked up his phone and sent her a message: “Read the message first.”

Upon opening the message and seeing the words "Huagui Fang," Lu Siqi frowned.

Why would this man bring up Huaguifang at this time?
Immediately afterwards, another message appeared on the chat page: 【Brother Kai】

What exactly does he mean?
"Lu Siqi." Mu Sen called her out of her thoughts. When she looked up, he stared at her intently. "You saved me twice. If it weren't for you both times, I, Lin Chen, would have been dead long ago."

He retorted, "Do you think you're a complete failure in this mission? If you're a complete failure, do you think I would entrust my life to you?" Lu Siqi couldn't believe what she was hearing, and astonishment was already showing in her eyes.

"Do you know why I asked you to meet me here tonight?" Mu Sen gestured for her to look out the window. "This isn't just a red-light district."

Seeing her staring blankly, he stood up, leaned down and whispered in her ear, "This is also my main location for gathering intelligence. The owner of this tavern is also my informant. I have nearly 20 informants on this street."

"They don't have to do anything. They just need to follow the routine every day and report what they see and hear."

After speaking, Mu Sen sat back down in his original seat.

At this moment, the owner brought over the mixed drink. Mu Sen took a small sip, glanced around at the other tables of customers, and then no longer tried to hide anything from Lu Siqi: "Do you know? The customers at these tables are all my people."

"..." They were all his people?

Lu Siqi looked at the people in the store in great shock, unable to believe what he was saying.

Knowing she wouldn't believe him, Mu Sen put down his wine glass and calmly said, "It's getting late, everyone should go home."

After he finished speaking, all the guests obediently stood up and left one after another.

After they were the only ones left in the restaurant, and even the bartender had disappeared, Lu Siqi heard Mu Sen say, "In your eyes, they are just eating, drinking and having fun, but in fact, each of them has their own job, because their task is to collect more information through eating, drinking and having fun."

"And you, Lu Siqi, the task I'm giving you is to use your special skills to save more people at critical moments."

……

After leaving the tavern, Musen ordered his men to stop in front of a remote temple.

After Lu Siqi got out of the car, she walked into the temple with him and saw that at this time, there were still several believers kneeling in front of the Buddha statue in the courtyard, praying devoutly.

Seeing that she was engrossed in looking at it, Musen took her hand and led her into the pagoda.

The pagoda has 18 floors and is equipped with an elevator.

After taking the elevator to the 18th floor, Mu Sen stood in front of the railing to get some fresh air. With his back to Lu Siqi, he asked, "What are your thoughts when you see those believers kneeling in front of the Buddha statue praying devoutly?"

Before Lu Siqi could answer, he had already turned around. "Isn't it ironic that a country that so devoutly believes in Buddhism is a paradise for gambling, prostitution, and drugs?"

He then added self-deprecatingly, "But what's the use of being sarcastic? We can only watch helplessly, unable to do anything, because this is Bonnam, not our own country."

"All we can do is prevent our country from becoming a second Bangnam, and prevent any criminals from exploiting legal loopholes to defraud our people."

"Because we can't change the world, we can only change ourselves."

After hearing his words, Lu Siqi realized that his personal image had become even more impressive in her mind.

He's as unpredictable as a cloud; you can never guess what he'll be like next.

Or perhaps, it was because of deep-seated prejudice against him in the past that these admirable qualities of his were overlooked for so long...

"Don't look at me like that." Mu Sen took a step forward, pulled her into his arms, turned her around so that she could face the city view outside the fence, leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Doing your job and doing what you like and are good at is the pursuit of an ordinary person's life. You have already done your best to use your skills to save the people you should save, so you can't always think of yourself as a good-for-nothing."

“You should know that your best skills are flying planes and skydiving; not strategizing. I, Lin Chen, don’t need your strategies, Lu Siqi.”

“Not needing you doesn’t mean I’m denying your abilities. It’s just that I already have too many soldiers with this skill under my command. What I need now is…” Mu Sen paused slightly, and the arms around her waist tightened a little more: “In case I’m unlucky and something unexpected happens, or the mission fails and the identities of the undercover agents are all exposed; you, Lu Siqi, will have to take my place, Lin Chen, and escort them safely back to the country.”