Chapter 179 Even Professors Confess (25)

Sally, the intellectual center of that criminal organization, is cautious, ruthless, and skilled in scheming and manipulation.

Yu Ci pondered for a few seconds: "Tell me your plan."

Lin Shen nodded in acknowledgment, and Yang Wen, who had been prepared in advance, projected the computer screen.

In recent years, that group has become extremely rampant, going from being active only at the border to now daring to trade in other countries.

Thailand was the region where they traded most frequently.

“Deals are usually handled by the second-in-command, Sally,” Lin Shen replied casually. “He’s a very cunning person. He would never personally appear in a normal deal. We used our identity as an arms dealer to lure him in for several years before he agreed to a face-to-face transaction.”

Yu Ci raised an eyebrow and cut to the chase: "What do you need me to do?"

"You?" Lin Shen chuckled, exhaling a cigarette between his fingers, and said in a low voice, "You'll bring your guy who makes a living to be a lackey, and do whatever X says."

X, that must be Xi Huai.

Yu Ci glanced at the silent little fragment, nodded, and said directly, "Sali's head is mine. Is that alright?"

Xi Huai looked up: "Reason."

Yu Ci shrugged: "I like killing, is that a reason?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Shen chuckled: "Is this your reason for turning back to kill Sapa despite the danger?"

Yu Ci: "Fine. My bottom line is that the kills are mine, otherwise there's no need to discuss the rest."

"..." Lin Shen glanced at Xi Huai.

“Okay.” Xi Huai said in a hoarse voice, his gaze neither warm nor cold as he looked at the woman’s face. “As long as you can kill her and get her before we can, the head is yours.”

"Boss!" The monkey, who was clenching his fists, hesitated to speak, but was stopped by the fat man.

After everyone got back to the main topic and finalized the remaining plans, it was already late at night.

After half a day of chatting, everyone's attitude towards Yu Ci changed significantly.

Even Lin Shen, who was always unruly and disliked everyone, and Monkey, who always harbored resentment towards women, felt a strange sense of admiration and surprise for the woman in front of them.

Almost everyone noticed that she could keep up with Xi Huai's thinking and plans. The two were so compatible that it was as if they shared a single brain, their understanding and coordination were impeccable.

"If there's nothing else, I'll be going." Yu Ci stood up to leave.

"Miss K." A warm, hoarse voice called out to her.

Yu Ci turned around and saw a distinguished man in a white shirt standing quietly, extending his hand to her: "It's a pleasure doing business with you."

"..." Yu Ci looked at him for a long time, then grasped his hand, a half-smile on her face, "It's a pleasure to cooperate with you."

The man gripped her hand tightly as she tried to pull it away. Xi Huai smiled, his smile carrying a deeper meaning: "Miss K's hand is very cold."

Yu Ci calmly replied, "Ah, it's innate. Brother X, would you like to warm me up?"

She subtly hooked the man's palm, then released him the next second.

Xi Huai glanced down at the woman's prominent calluses on her hands and said, "Then I'll have to trouble Miss K to assist with the rest."

Yu Ci raised an eyebrow, lingeringly caressing the warmth of their handshake in front of the man, and smiled freely: "No problem, no problem."

Xi Huai pretended not to see it and said in a gentlemanly manner, "Then shall I see you off?"

Yu Ci: "Okay, okay."

The two exchanged barbs with forced smiles, while Lin Shen stubbed out his cigarette, put his hands in his pockets, and watched their performance.

The monkey choked up, saying, "Was she just flirting with the boss?"

The fat man pursed his lips in thought, then clapped his hands in affirmation: "Minor adjustments!"

Lin Shen lightly kicked him away, grinning roguishly: "What minor adjustment? I think he's quite special to that K. Maybe it really is a romantic encounter."

Yang Wen adjusted his glasses and asked hesitantly, "Didn't our boss have someone he liked?"

The others looked at him in surprise, making Yang Wen feel guilty. He adjusted his glasses several times before speaking again, "No, isn't that right..."

"What do you mean, 'is it or not'?"

Over there, Xi Huai, who had seen the woman off, walked in, his head bowed, pinching the bridge of his nose, looking unusually tired.

Lin Shen waved his hand and laughed: "It's nothing. I was just saying that you don't bloom for hundreds of years, but when you do, you bloom two at once."

Xi Huai paused, pinching the bridge of his nose, and looked over with a dangerous gaze: "Don't talk nonsense."

Another message came through on his phone about the people monitoring the apartment. Xi Huai glanced at it a few times and then called the woman, drawing snickers and teasing glances from the people behind him. Yu Ci had just returned to her room when she received Xi Huai's call. Yes, the phone was still with her, but the location tracking would only show China.

After confirming the status of the mannequin with the system, Yu Ciqing cleared her deliberately lowered voice and pretended to be groggy as she answered the call—

"Hey?"

The woman's voice on the phone was soft and sweet. The question that Xi Huai had been holding back turned into a gentle one as his Adam's apple bobbed. He whispered, "Hmm? Going to bed so early today?"

Lin Shen and the others silently moved closer.

Yu Ci: "Yeah, I'm tired after a long day of classes."

Upon hearing this, Xi Huai's voice became even gentler: "Then you should get some sleep. I'm hanging up now."

Yu Ci called out to him, "Teacher Xi, have you been having affairs outside?"

"Pfft-"

The monkey couldn't help but chuckle softly.

Xi Huai frowned and turned around, only to see the monkey being beaten up by several people who covered his mouth, choked him, and kicked him. They all had expressions like, "Oh, I'll teach him a lesson for you," "You continue, we didn't hear anything," and "He's a student, you beast!"

"..." Xi Huai didn't have time to deal with these immature kids. He spoke softly into his phone, "How could I be flirting with other women? Don't you know where my heart is?"

Yu Ci, lying on the sofa, almost burst out laughing, but managed to say through gritted teeth, "Hmph, what a guilty voice you sound. You must have been in contact with other girls."

"For example, you probably got offered your contact information by a girl, did you refuse?"

Xi Huai: "..."

"Did you spend the night alone in a room with other girls?"

Xi Huai: "..."

"You didn't intentionally make physical contact with other girls, did you?"

Xi Huai: "..."

"Swear it to me."

Xi Huai opened his thin lips: "I..."

Lin Shen was laughing so hard he couldn't even light a cigarette. The fat man was laughing so hard he was suffocating and collapsed on the sofa, unable to get up. Yang Wen, adjusting his glasses, looked refined, but the smile he was trying to suppress couldn't be hidden.

Needless to say, the monkey, still sprawled on the ground after being ganged up on, was laughing when a sharp pain shot through it, and it started to cry. Then, while crying, it listened to the two men's conversation and laughed again.

"..." For the first time in his life, Xi Huaiping lost his ability to organize his thoughts. He, who had always been in control of the conversation, did not know where to begin to explain.

Yu Ci trembled as she suppressed a laugh: "Hmph, you admit it? You're such a womanizer!"

“No…” Xi Huai’s thin lips were pressed tightly together, his fingertips awkwardly pushing up his gold-rimmed glasses, and he sighed, “You are the only one in my heart.”

Yu Ci: "I don't want to talk to you."

Xi Huai: "I want to talk to you."

Xi Huai: "It's my fault. Let me explain, okay?"

While Xi Huai was explaining, the others had already laughed several times.

After Xi Huai finally managed to calm the person down and hang up the phone, he turned around and saw several people giving him teasing looks.

"Ouch~"

"You're the only one in my heart," Lin Shen teased, changing his tone.

Seeing the man's dangerous gaze sweep over him, Lin Shen became more reserved: "But I still don't understand why you would target your student."

Fatty: "Yeah, at first I thought it was an older sister, but it turned out to be a little girl."

The monkey got up: "That's quite a big age gap, isn't it? Hmm... College students, we have something in common—"

Yang Wen, covering the monkey's mouth, smiled weakly: "I don't think age is a problem, and it's only a few years apart."

Realizing that age was indeed a taboo subject, the fat man chimed in, "Yeah, yeah, these days young girls all like mature and stable men, and our Boss Xi is the perfect fit!"

The group chattered on and on, while Xi Huai, holding his phone, glanced at them with a forced smile, his tall figure standing still.

Over there, Yu Ci, having finished teasing the little fragment, quickly drifted off to sleep.

Everyone waited quietly for this unknown journey.


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