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

Chapter 116 Exploitation
When Musen returned to the tattoo shop, he was soaked in sweat.

Because it had just rained, he was too lazy to use an umbrella and walked back to the store in the rain. He saw Duanzi sweeping the floor, so he went over and sat on the leather chair.

Duanzi saw that there was water at his feet, so he quickly looked up and saw that his clothes were soaked. He grabbed a towel and went over to help him dry off, saying, "Brother Sen, didn't you bring an umbrella when you went out? How come you're still so wet!"

He glanced outside a few more times. "Where's Cuiying? Didn't you say you were going out to pick up Cuiying for a trip to Xiaomopo? Why did you come back alone?"

“She is no longer the Cuiying you know.” Mu Sen kept his head down, his eyes dim, and muttered to himself, “She is no longer the Lu Siqi I know either.”

"What Lu?" Duanzi didn't quite catch it.

"I'm going upstairs to take a shower. Keep an eye on things downstairs. If anyone comes looking for me, just say I'm not here."

He wasn't in the mood to see guests because he just wanted some peace and quiet.

……

At first, Mu Sen didn't realize what Lu Siqi was angry about; he just thought that she had misunderstood him.

When cold water was poured over his head, Lu Siqi's tearful face appeared in his mind, and he realized that he had been the one in the wrong all along, not Lu Siqi.

He was too autocratic and arbitrary, always believing that everything was under his control and that there was no need to explain the plan in too much detail to Lu Siqi. But in fact, not explaining in detail was his consistent style; all his informants had done it that way.

The less an informant knows, the safer they are.

Lu Siqi was the complete opposite; she longed to know everything and, even more so, to grow!
It was his arrogance that destroyed Lu Siqi's trust in him.

Therefore, no matter what he says next, Lu Siqi will never be able to trust him as she used to.

Especially... he is no longer the commander-in-chief of subsequent missions.

As Mu Sen was pondering how to explain things to Lu Siqi, one of the cell phones on the sink rang.

Only family members know the phone number.

I turned off the shower and quickly picked up the phone. My mother's voice, choked with tears, came through the receiver: "Chen'er, come back quickly. Your grandfather is in the hospital. The doctor said he might not make it through the summer."

Mu Sen ended his eight-year undercover mission in Bangnan so that he could go home and be with his grandfather, who was suffering from cancer, on his final journey.

However, Huaxi Group's fraudulent activities using internet celebrities were so rampant that Gu Shi repeatedly persuaded him to stay before he agreed to retire and return to Hong Kong after completing this final mission.

When Mu Sen brought Lu Siqi back to Hong Kong last time, he found that his grandfather's health was not very good, and at that time he had already begun to consider withdrawing from the mission.

Grandpa had long realized that he hadn't been studying abroad these past few years, but had instead become a soldier as he had wished.

I remember that night, my grandfather called him to his bedside and said, "You must finish what you start, and you must be honest in your dealings with others. I'm still feeling alright these past few months, so you can do whatever you like. Remember, whatever you do, I will support you."

It was at that moment that Mu Sen realized that his every move over the years had not escaped his grandfather's eyes.

Now that his grandfather is seriously ill and his mission in Bangnan is complete, he could fly to Hong Kong immediately to be with his grandfather, but he can't let go of Lu Siqi, who has misunderstood him.

Back in the bedroom, I took out two plane tickets from the drawer, both for direct flights to Hong Kong.

One was for himself, and the other... was prepared for Lu Siqi.

His original plan was to take Lu Siqi with him after the mission. Now, things have turned out very differently than he expected.

……

Gu Shi called Mu Sen and, after hearing about Bang Nan's situation, gave his advice: "You go back to Hong Kong to keep the old man company first. I'll explain things to Lu Siqi."

“No need to explain.” Mu Sen, a cigarette dangling from his lips, sat on the rooftop platform, glancing at the Jinhua Casino across the street out of the corner of his eye. “I’ll go back to Gangcheng first, visit Grandpa, and then come back.”

Come back again?
Doesn't that mean he'll still be involved in subsequent missions?

Gu Shi advised, "You should know that the reason you're not allowed to participate in the subsequent missions is to prevent your identity from being exposed."

“It’s already been exposed.” Taking a drag of his cigarette, Mu Sen smiled with a peculiar sneer: “Do you think Hua Dongchen is a pushover? That he wouldn’t realize I’m Lin Chen? He already had his suspicions about me back in Xiaomopo. The reason Hua Dongchen didn’t expose me this time is simply because he also looks down on Hua Yin for using internet celebrities to commit fraud. After all, it’s too conspicuous and will inevitably incur public wrath sooner or later.”

"He allowed us to destroy Qizhi in order to give us an explanation, hoping that we would stop and not try to kill him."

"After all, if the mission continues, either he dies or we all perish."

After listening to his analysis, Gu Shi also realized that dismantling Qizhi, this internet celebrity fraud company, was a bit too easy.

If what Mu Sen said is true, and Hua Dongchen chose to sacrifice his son Hua Yin's business to curry favor with them, it means that he already knew that his adopted son Hua Xu was cooperating with their Beicheng Special District police.

Gu Shi instructed him, "Before you return to Gangcheng, you must first tell Hua Xu this news."

Mu Sen stood up, threw his cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out, looking completely nonchalant: "Don't worry, Hua Xu is an old fox too, there's no way he didn't notice."

……

Luxury residence.

Everything turned out as they had hoped; Hua Dongchen did indeed know all along that Hua Xu was cooperating with their Special Administrative Region police.

However, he actually praised Hua Xu's actions.

"Thanks to you, Xu'er, Huaxi escaped a disaster this time." Hua Dongchen poured Hua Xu a glass of wine. "If you hadn't pretended to cooperate with them, I wouldn't have known that little brat Hua Yin had caused me such a big mess!"

Hua Dongchen said angrily, "I didn't approve of him starting out with becoming an internet celebrity, but he wouldn't listen. He insisted that cultivating internet celebrities was a faster way to make money than selling heroin. The money did come quickly, but it also attracted the attention of police in other countries. If it weren't for him, your cousin Yu Hui wouldn't still be in prison."

Mentioning Hua Dongchen makes me angry.

His younger sister, Hua Wanrou, disdained his dirty business and severed ties with him. She married into the Yu family and never had any contact with her brother for decades.

She originally thought she could ease her relationship with her sister Hua Wanrou through her nephew Yu Hui, but unexpectedly, she ended up getting her nephew imprisoned.

“Call your aunt another day and ask which prison your cousin Yu Hui is in. I’ll see if I can pull some strings to get him released early.”

After Hua Dongchen finished speaking, he remembered something else, "Oh right, stay for dinner tonight, Xiao Heng and Xue Ling will be coming too."

Hearing that his son would be coming, Hua Xu took a sip of wine, and his usually furrowed brows finally relaxed a little.

Hua Dongchen glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and noticed the change in his expression. He knew that as long as his grandson Hua Heng was in his hands, this "adopted son" could continue to be used by him.

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