"I don't know what the president is insinuating here." Manager Ching tried to stay calm but the young lady's aura was so strong that he still stammered a bit.
"Some people don't learn until they see the coffin." Xu Mey waved her hand and Qin Hao played the voice recording.
"You don't have to worry at all. President Xu didn't share these designs with anybody at all. Even if she claimed, the designs belong to her, she won't be able to prove it at all. Don't forget my share at all. I've given you the whole collaboration plan and President Xu's personal designs. If Jade Stones betrayed me, I won't be foolish like President Xu. I'll take you down all the way." The recording ended there. Everyone heard Manager Ching's voice clearly.
"You can't put me in jail for this at all." Manager Ching snickered. "You're still a young little girl. You don't know how this world works at all. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy to steal from you." He laughed menacingly at the end.
Xu Mey was giving him a particular look like she was amused by him. She shook her head and said, "Mr Ching…" He looked at her standing from her seat and walking towards him. She stood face to face. "Do you think if I wanted those designs or my collaboration plan to be saved, they would have gotten into your hands?" He frowned at her words. She smirked. "You were able to get them because I let you. CoCo Jewels was a bait I threw and you along with Jade Stones caught it like hungry wolves." She clicked her tongue. "Tsk… My original goal had always been Sapphire Designs. Why would I choose a goldfish like CoCo Jewels when I have a whale like Sapphire Designs in my pond?"
Manager Ching understood her meaning clearly. She played him. And he didn't even realize it at all. "Security!" Her voice rang out and security officers dragged a stunned Manager Ching out of the conference hall.
Xu Mey sat back at her seat with her cold aura still present. "Let me say it again if you think I'm not capable, come at me from the front. I don't like backstabbers. And don't forget, when people say I have two eyes on my back, they are not kidding at all. What I hate the most is a betrayal. So, you all better remember, who I am and how far I can go." With that Xu Mey left the conference hall. She was seething in fury.
Qin Hao was walking behind her when she abruptly stopped. "You stay here. I have something to deal with." Leaving Qin Hao behind, Xu Mey left the company hailing a cab for herself.
She came to a deserted area in the northern district of the city. She asked the cab driver to drop her off in the middle of nowhere and started walking. After walking for about 15 minutes, she arrived at a warehouse.
Manager Ching was sitting on an old chair and 4 men were surrounding him. As they saw Xu Mey, 4 men bowed to her and Mr Ching was scared out of his wits.
"You can't take law in your hands, President Xu. Consequences will be dire." He warned her to scare her off. But the poor guy didn't know that the devil was not scared of any human.
"Oh, really… I didn't know that… Did you guys know?" She looked at the 4 men and all of them shook their head. "Let me tell you something Mr Ching, I am the law here." She enunciated her each word as her face was so close to his face that he could see her cold eyes freezing his soul.
There was some movement outside and after a while, a group of dozen people marched inside with guns in their hands. The guns were pointed at Xu Mey and her men. Facing the guns and the murderous aura of those people, Xu Mey was unfazed.
"Haha…" Mr Ching laughed loudly. "Are you scared now, Xu Mey?" He took her silence to be her fear. "But it doesn't matter anymore. Even if you beg on your knees, I won't let you go."
"Scared?" She snickered. She looked at their uniforms and said, "Since when did Qilin Group's people get so gutsy?" She pointed at the man at the front. "Hey, you! Your boss is on that earpiece right?" She pointed her chin at the earpiece in his ear. "Put him on speaker for this lady." The man didn't know why he listened to her. He thought her authoritative pressure was too strong for him to withstand.
"Wayne Kai, did you eat the guts of a tiger that you're pointing a gun at this lady?" Hearing a familiar voice, the man at the other side of the phone was stunned.
"Is… Is this… The devilish beauty?" He stuttered.
"What do you think, bastard?" She roared making him fall from his chair.
"Fu*k! Fu*k! Fu*k!" He cursed loudly. "Now I know why I had a bad premonition about this mission." He said softly. "Look, my great aunt, I didn't know it was you. If I knew that do you think I would mess with someone like you?" He was cursing the moment he listened to one of his acquaintances to help Mr Ching. As much as he was familiar with her, there was no way he had the guts or power to face her backer.
"You're people still have guns which are pointed at my head, " Her voice was calm and languid as if talking about the weather.
Wayne Kai gulped. "All of you rascals!" He roared at his people. "Put your damn guns down. Right now!"
All of his people shared a look and put their guns down. Seeing this, Mr Ching lost whatever energy he had but he didn't want to lose to her. "I'll pay you with as much money as you ask for. Any of you just have to get rid of this sl*t for me." That was his last resolve.
One of Wayne's people had a twinkling look in his eyes after he heard this. "I'll do it, " He announced.
"Didn't I say back off!" Wayne Kai was furious with a vein bulging out of his forehead. He was losing his mind just listening to them.
"Boss, I can take of her by myself." He pointed his gun at her again as he said that. With a murderous look in his eyes.
So, this marks the end of volume 1... *phew*
This is the last chapter of the day...
I fulfilled your wish for mass release on Chinese New Year.
Now, please don't ask for any more mass release until 14 Feb. There will be 10 chapters published on 14 without any exception.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
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XoXo!!!
Loyalty is often forsaken for greed. And greed is often born from ignorance. The biggest greed of a man is money and money has a tendency to make you a blind person. After all, money is love and love is blind. And love gets you killed.
Xu Mey's head hung low. Everyone saw her shoulders shaking. The guy with the gun smirked under his mask in victory taking it as a sign of her weakness. But the smug look was frozen the moment he heard her laugh.
Hanging her head backwards, the girl in complete white formal suit laughed delightfully. Her laugh was soft but pleasing to hear. With her black hair contrasting her white suit, she was the personification of a charming goddess. All of the people present couldn't help but stare at her in a daze.
But the daze broke all of sudden when she stopped laughing and closed her eyes. A thick savage aura sheathed her like encasing a fierce blade. There was pin-drop silence in the warehouse. No one even dared to breathe loudly.
Her eyes steadily opened like an Agapanthus flower emerging from its cocoon. But unlike Agapanthus flower which literally means love flower, there was no love or beauty in her dark orbs. There was only a sinister look. Her face was extremely solemn as if the earlier laugh was just an illusion.
The masked man with the gun was taken aback by her look. But he stubbornly held his ground. "Boss might be scared of you. But I can finish you off with just a bullet." He spoke with an air of gloating.
He barely managed to put his index finger on the trigger when abruptly a Quill Spike went through his hand making him wail in pain as the gun dropped with a thud. Xu Mey's movements were so nimble that nobody caught it when she pulled the spike from under her sleeve and threw it with perfect precision. Her aim was so perfect that the spike managed to pierce his hand and went across it.
The man fell on his knees holding his hand which still had the spike in it with heart-wrenching wails. The four men behind Xu Mey took a step ahead intending to hold him but Xu Mey's hand gesture halted their action. "You guys don't have to deal with him. The spike was laced with poison." Everyone's eyes widened at her statement. "John!" She called one of her men as he moved to her side. "Just put something in his mouth. He's too noisy."
The Qilin Group's people gulped looking at her serene expression. "Oh, and get that spike back. It's expensive." She smiled innocently at the end making everyone's already widened eyes to turn into saucers.
Whether she was being frugal or savage was unknown. The tall man, John pulled off the mask of the wailing man and stuffed his mouth with his own mask. Then he pulled the spike out brutally making him roll on the floor with pain as the blood gushed out like a fountain. John cleaned the blood off of the spike before presenting to Xu Mey.
"Is he going to die?" She heard Wanye's voice transmitted from the phone which was still connected. She held the Quill Spike in her hand rubbing her finger on its sleek threadlike body.
"Don't fret. He won't die." All of Qilin Group's people heaved a sigh of relief but the next moment choked on air at her next utterance. "But he won't live as well." Wayne Kai expected as much from her. There was no reaction from his side.
"What are you all still doing there? Get back right now!" Wayne Kai ordered his people. And the eleven people that were left didn't need to be told twice. They ran away as fast as they could.
After they left, she turned to Mr. Ching whose body was shaking terribly. Even though the girl looked like a beautiful fairy but for him, she was like a devil unhurriedly taking a step closer to him. Her every step felt like her crushing his soul with ease. Losing all hope, he fell on his knees and started kowtowing. He banged his head with so much force that blood was trickling down his face. But he didn't care much about it. "President Xu, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me for once. Please don't kill me."
His pleading had no visible effect on the girl in white. She calmly asked, "Who said I'll kill you?"
Mr. Ching looked up at her face with a hopeful gleam in his eyes. She sat down at the wicker chair that her subordinates placed for her and crossed her legs elegantly. She propped her elbow on the arm-rest and supported her chin on the palm of her hand. "Let me tell you a story, Manager Ching."
She closed her eyes in a thoughtful manner. "Once upon a time, a young girl had an evil step-mother. That step-mother used to add some medicine to her milk every night for 3 years. Do you know what that medicine was for?" Mr. Ching just stared at her languid look. "It was to make her turn into an aggressive and retarded person." Mr. Ching listened attentively.
"Then the evil step-mother locked her up in a cage. The cage was horrible and the young girl didn't like it at all. One day, she ran away from there... Before she could get caught, she met a person who saved her... The young girl started calling him her Sensei... One day, she told her sensei that she wants to kill her evil stepmother and her half-sister to take her revenge. Do you know what the sensei said?"
Mr. Ching shook his head instinctively. She leaned forward as her face came closer to his bloody one, she replied, "He said, 'Death is very easy...' When the young girl looked confused, he added, 'Living is the harder part. We all can die but to live, we have to die every single day.'" She sighed. "Do you know who that young girl was?"
She clutched his neck in her hand and replied, "That young girl was me." Mr. Ching's eyes widened with terror. "So, I won't kill you. I'll let you live, just so you can die every single day for the rest of your life." His breathing was getting harsher with the force she used.
Mr. Ching realized too late that the person he messed with was not an easy one. That medicine might not have turned her into a retard but it definitely made her an aggressive person.
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So, let's start a new volume with the new lunar year *yay!*
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