《Return of the Soldier King》


 Chapter 1 The Hijacking

    In a Boeing 747 flying over the Pacific Ocean.


    "Dear passengers, we will be landing in Shanghai, the Pearl of the Orient, in two hours. We will now begin serving breakfast."


    After the short broadcast, a beautiful airline stewardess in a blue uniform wheeled the dining cart out to distribute breakfast for the passengers.


    "Sir, please wake up. It¡¯s time for breakfast."


    A young man with a sleeping mask on was leaning against the window as he slept. The airline stewardess saw no response from him, so she continued pushing the dining cart forward.


    Shortly thereafter, Ye Fei took off the sleeping mask and woke up.


    He was wearing a plaid shirt and worn jeans. He looked plain, but his black eyes were particularly deep, like ancient wells.


    "Sir, would you like noodles or rice?" The airline stewardess saw that Ye Fei had woken up and smiled politely.


    "I want three knives." Ye Fei sat up and looked around, an invisible light flashing in his deep eyes.


    "Excuse me sir, what was that?" asked the surprised stewardess, assuming she had misheard him.


    "I said... I want three knives, please." Ye Fei said seriously.


    "What''s wrong with that guy?" said a nearby passenger as he cast a puzzled glance toward Ye Fei.


    "Sure thing, Sir."


    Facing such a strange problem, the airline stewardess could only smile awkwardly and hand three plastic knives over to Ye Fei.


    "Thank you."


    Ye Fei sat down. As he fondled the light plastic knives, he muttered to himself, "Unbelievable? Today is not my lucky day."


    Bang!


    A gunshot.


    In front of the seats, two men with guns in their hands stood up, shouting, "This is a hijacking, don''t move!"


    "Ahhhh!" People began screaming hysterically.


    Bang bang!


    A tall man shot the two air marshals who had rushed over and barked, "Everyone shut the fuck up! Anyone who makes a sound will end up the same as them!"


    In an instant, the cabin became silent. No one dared say a word. After all, it was clear that guy meant business.


    A man with glasses walked out from the cockpit, holding a gun. There was blood on his body and his eyes were bloodshot; he came off as psycopath, "The pilot has been taken care of. Watch the passengers. Don''t fuck up."


    "Okay, Boss." The other two hijackers nodded.


    "Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you aboard this flight. Unfortunately, I have bad news. This plane is being redirected to Burma, and you are now my hostages. Your lives are under my control. You may have noticed we have no problem shooting holes in this flying bucket. While a few holes can be taken care of by the pressurized system onboard, a few more and I¡¯m afraid this whole show may come to a tragic end."


    The man with glasses then bowed formally. His tone sounded as if he was giving a speech on a stage. There was a neurotic smile on his face. "Now, I want you all to be absolutely quiet; or it will be the last sound you ever make."


    Wah! Wah!


    As soon as the man with glasses finished speaking, the sound of a baby''s cry filled the cabin.


    One of the passengers, a beautiful young woman, was holding a little baby.


    The man with glasses sullenly walked over and snatched the baby from her.


    The woman knelt in front of the man with glasses and begged. "Please?she... she¡¯s just a baby!"


    "Disobeying my orders is punishable by death. The baby must die."


    The man with the glasses held up the baby, ready to throw it to its death.


    At that moment, he felt someone tapping on his shoulder. He turned around and saw the shy smile of Ye Fei. "What do you think you¡¯re doing?" he said in amazement.


    "Brother, let''s have a little chat. Please don''t go to Burma, I¡¯m trying to get to Shanghai today." Ye Fei said with a serious expression on his face.


    "You must be a damn psycho with a death wish, huh? Are you trying to be funny? I''m a hijacker! "


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    The man with glasses was furious. He grabbed the pistol from his belt and pointed it at Ye Fei''s forehead, ready to pull the trigger.


    Ye Fei''s eyes suddenly became sharp. His hand shot out, stabbing the arm of the man wearing glasses with a plastic dinner knife. Ye Fei had anticipated the hijacker¡¯s lack of cooperation and had broken the plastic knife at an angle that would allow easier entry into the man¡¯s skin.


    A squeal like a dying pig¡¯s escaped from the man''s mouth. Both the pistol and the baby fell down.


    Ye Fei leaped to the ground and turned over, catching the baby in his arms.


    "Damn it!" said one of the hijackers as he and other one immediately raised their guns, aiming for Ye Fei.


    Fei was three meters away from the two hijackers and there was no chance of escape with the baby in his arms.


    However, Ye Fei was not in a hurry. Swinging his hand, the remaining two plastic knives flew out from his fingers, cutting through the air with a mournful wail.


    The plastic knives plunged directly into the throats of the two hijackers.


    The hijackers uttered a miserable sound, clutching their throats. Their bodies fell limp to the ground, their eyes full of disbelief.


    For some time, all the people in the cabin froze, staring at the big man with the shy smile.


    Was he some kind of legendary martial arts master?


    "All done." Ye Fei kicked the man with glasses and exclaimed. "Three knives, just enough."


    The airline stewardess was in shock as she stared at Ye Fei in surprise. "How did you know someone would hijack the plane? And that there were exactly three people?"


    "I could see it coming a mile away." Ye Fei pointed to his eyes, revealing a mysterious smile.


    Of the crew members, the two air marshals died, while the captain and copilot had only been injured. They quickly contacted the airport and two hours later the plane landed safely at Pudong Airport in Shanghai.


    Sirens blared. Eight police cars had already been waiting on the tarmac for quite some time. As soon as the plane stopped, a female cop leading a team of over 10 police officers rushed in to handcuff the hijackers.


    A policeman saluted and said, "Officer Murong, the hijackers have been captured."


    "Who subdued them?" Murong looked around, baffled.


    "It was me." Ye Fei stood up and looked at the beautiful female cop, grinning.


    When Officer Murong saw Ye Fei, her body suddenly became stiff. She frowned, "Take him away."


    "Yes, Ma¡¯am."


    A policeman walked up to Ye Fei and smiled, "Brother, you are so powerful you managed to take out three hijackers all by yourself. Come with us to the police station and make a statement. It¡¯s nothing major, you might even get a reward."


    "Did I say he would be coming in for a statement? If you don¡¯t want to die, cuff him!" Murong looked at Ye Fei as if he was the enemy, her slender fingers resting on the pistol at her waist.


    Upon seeing the man who had just rescued the plane being treated as a criminal by the female officer, not only were the passengers stunned, but the other officers as well.


    "Officer, you are mistaken! This is a good man."


    "Yeah! Without him, we might all be dead right now."


    "Just because you¡¯re a cop doesn¡¯t mean you can treat people like that! I''ve already memorized your police ID number, I¡¯ll be filing a complaint about you later."


    Murong''s face flushed red. She took out an arrest warrant and held it up in front of everyone. "Good man? This is Ye Fei, born in Huaxia. He¡¯s on Interpol¡¯s most wanted list for terrorism. He¡¯s wanted around the entire world."


    Everyone was amazed. Ye Fei¡¯s photo was indeed on the arrest warrant, but they could not believe that the shy boy would commit such terrible crimes.


    "Handcuff me, I''ll go with you." Ye Fei sighed.


    He was promptly handcuffed and escorted to a police car.

 Chapter 2 My Name Is Ye Fei

    In the police station in Shanghai.


    In the interrogation room, Officer Murong chewed on a pencil and looked at the smiling fellow in front of her. She frowned.


    She, too, did not believe that the young man who stabbed the aggressive hijackers and rescued the entire plane was a most-wanted terrorist.


    However, the arrest warrant had been sent over from Interpol. It couldn¡¯t have been a mistake.


    Was this just a good disguise?


    Officer Murong smiled coldly, ready to tear into Ye Fei''s deceit:


    "Name?"


    "Ye Fei."


    "Age?"


    "Twenty-one years old."


    "Occupation?"


    "Unemployed."


    Officer Murong asked quickly, and Ye Fei answered quickly. With his narrowed eyes and a permanent smile on his face, he seemed less like someone being interrogated and more like a tourist lying on a beach in Hawaii.


    "Unemployed?"


    Officer Murong rapped her fingers on Ye Fei''s case file with a sneer. "I think you¡¯re mistaken. Ye Fei, the sniper of the terrorist organization ¡®Falcon¡¯, code-named Eagle Eye. Proficient at using the Barrett XM109 anti-materiel sniper rifle and knife-throwing?"


    When Officer Murong read ¡®knife-throwing¡¯, she was slightly surprised. Could there still be anyone proficient at knife-throwing these days? Moreover, Ye Fei was one of the world¡¯s top snipers; why would he practice knife-throwing? However, she remembered the testimony of the eyewitness on the plane. Ye Fei used three plastic knives to subdue the three hijackers.


    Ye Fei''s face suddenly turned livid. He stood up sharply.


    "Ye Fei, what are you going to do? Assault a police officer?" Officer Murong was startled, taking out her pistol and aiming at Ye Fei.


    "Falcon is not a terrorist organization! You can insult me, but you can''t insult Falcon." Ye Fei grit his teeth, eyes burning with rage.


    Officer Murong saw Ye Fei had taken the bait, and loudly said: "How did I insult Falcon? Falcon planned terrorist activities in the United States to assassinate a State Governor. Interpol classified it as a terrorist organization, yet you still have objections?"


    "I¡¯ll say it again, Falcon is not a terrorist organization!"


    With sharp eyes, Ye Fei grabbed the pencil on the table and threw it toward Officer Murong.


    Whoosh!


    The pencil shot over Officer Murong¡¯s head like a missile.


    The next moment, her ponytail suddenly fell and long hair covered her face, giving her the appearance of a female ghost.


    Behind her, the pencil nailed her purple hairband to the wall of the interrogation room.


    "How dare you attack a police officer?"


    Two tall policemen came in at once, punching and kicking Ye Fei. He did not resist, and was soon spitting out blood.


    Murong was embarrassed. With one hand holding her hair and the other pulling at the pencil, she tried to reclaim her hairband, but it just wouldn¡¯t budge.


    The pencil was lodged too deep in the wall.


    Officer Murong''s was astounded. This young man was extremely dangerous. Anything in his hands could be a potential weapon.


    "Stop."


    The door was pushed open, and a tall figure came in. It was an old man in a military uniform. His spirit was as strong his voice.


    Officer Murong was surprised to discover that the director of the Public Security Bureau, Zhou Hongtao was standing behind the old man. She hastily saluted, "Director Zhou."


    The old man began, "Young lady, listen up. Falcon is not a terrorist organization, they¡¯re a group of heroes. You are young and there¡¯s much you still don¡¯t understand. Please leave us. I have something to say to Ye Fei."


    The old man''s expression was serious. He put a special emphasis on the word "heroes".


    Officer Murong did not question him and hastily evacuated the room along with the other officers.


    "Director Zhou, who was that old man?" Officer Murong asked as she slowly closed the door behind her. She could see the admiration Director Zhou had for that old man.


    Director Zhou said with a dry voice, "He is the central Leader."


    In the interrogation room, Ye Fei stood up with tears in his eyes. "Leader!"


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    The leader motioned for Ye Fei to sit down. "Fei, you''ve been wronged. Please, take those off yourself."


    Ye Fei nodded, walked over to the wall, and pulled out the pencil. Biting the pencil with his mouth, he carefully maneuvered the tip of the pencil into the keyhole of his handcuffs.


    Click.


    The handcuffs opened.


    Ye Fei stood at attention, giving the old man a military salute. "Falcon Ye Fei, reporting to the leader."


    "Fei, Falcon team is China¡¯s most outstanding commando team. Even you, the youngest, are incredibly skilled."


    The leader nodded, "This mission failed. Falcon¡¯s intel was not wrong, it was someone from within that betrayed us and unfortunately, you¡¯re taking the blame for it. All the members of Falcon were labeled as terrorists. I apologize on behalf of the nation."


    "Leader, thanks to you, the other six members of the Falcon team will rest in peace." Ye Fei shed a tear.


    "I want to know why you disobeyed the order of the organization. The organization has arranged for you to take refuge in South America. Why did you venture back home? Are you not afraid of being caught by Interpol?" The old man said gravely.


    "The airport in Rio de Janeiro was so chaotic that even hijackers could get on the plane, and Interpol couldn¡¯t catch me. Besides, I came back for a reason. Leader, the death benefits of the other six members of Falcon have not been paid out. Tie Tou''s dad has cerebral thrombosis; Huzi''s son, just three years old, needs to go to kindergarten. They all need the money." Ye Fei stood at attention, speaking loudly.


    "The death benefits haven¡¯t been settled yet?" The old man was surprised, "Wait a moment. I will make a phone call."


    As a sniper, Ye Fei not only had extraordinary eyesight, but was also extremely observant.


    On the plane, he just glanced around and noticed three passengers with bulging waists and furtive behavior, and surmised that they were armed hijackers.


    Now, Ye Fei observed that there was no shoulder board on the old man''s military uniform. Also, the issue about the death benefits not being settled? the leader should have known that. There would be no need to call anyone.


    Ye Fei frowned. What was going on?


    After a few minutes, the leader came back with a livid face. "Fei, the death benefits have been approved. However, the mole in our organization has leaked the information and the account holding the money has been frozen by Interpol."


    "Then what should we do?" Ye Fei said.


    "Now there is only one thing we can do - wait. The organization cannot arrange for another sum of money. However, the money has only been frozen temporarily. After a period of time, the death benefits will be settled." The old man frowned.


    "Leader, no! The family members of my comrades need to cover their expenses, which amounts to at least 50,000 Yuan a month. They cannot wait! I¡¯ve even sold my sniper rifle and throwing knives, but that¡¯s still not enough. Leader, can you think of a way, perhaps through individual contributions..." Ye Fei anxiously said.


    "Individual contributions?" The old man smiled bitterly, "Once, even a million Yuan wouldn¡¯t have been a problem for me to arrange. However, because of Falcon, I was also implicated, and have now been forcefully retired, with only 8000 Yuan a month for a pension."


    "What...? Leader, are you retired?" Ye Fei felt something was wrong, but he never imagined things were so serious.


    The old man frowned in thought. "Fei, now that you¡¯ve returned, you cannot go abroad for a while. You have no contacts in the country, and it is difficult to find a job. Although I am retired, I have a few strings I could pull for you. I have a friend who¡¯s looking for a bodyguard. The conditions are very good. I¡¯ll talk to him and I¡¯m certain he can offer you 50,000 Yuan a month. What do you think?"


    "A bodyguard for 50,000 Yuan a month? Okay, I''ll do it."


    As a Chinese elite Special Forces operative, Ye Fei would normally look down on this kind of work, but he would do anything for his dead comrades, even kneel down on the street and beg for spare change.

 Chapter 3 The Icy Chairwoman

    Central Shanghai.


    In the conference room on the twenty-first floor of the Ya Lai Group office building, a young woman in a business suit looked at the silent members of her company¡¯s board of directors seated around the table.


    The woman was very beautiful, smooth and fair. Her small lips opened and closed; she wanted to say something, but held herself back.


    Her cool eyebrows twitched slightly.


    The old men, who usually strived for fame and wealth, were stumped by a design problem.


    Lin Qingwan really couldn''t fathom why the company had recruited these idlers.


    "That¡¯s enough for today."


    Lin Qingwan saw her mobile phone''s screen light up. She took her notepad and immediately walked outside on a pair of exquisite black heels. Her graceful and charming figure made men do a double take when she passed. The old men in the meeting room looked at her cold back, not daring to say a word.


    It wasn¡¯t until Lin Qingwan had been gone for a while that the people in the conference room slowly regained their vitality.


    The normally prideful directors wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, relieved that Lin Qingwan wouldn¡¯t be asking any more difficult questions. Their tense hearts could finally relax.


    The Ya Lai Group was a foreign company that mainly dealt with cosmetics. For nearly five years, the company had been operating at a loss. After Lin Qingwan had come from the U.S. parent company and took over, she managed to save the company in a mere six months.


    Lin Qingwan had business wisdom and management skills that made the company''s top executives forget that she was only 22 years old.


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    When she arrived at the company president''s office, Lin Qingwan frowned. Two people were waiting inside.


    One of the men was Uncle Hu, her father''s old housekeeper. The other was a young man she didn¡¯t recognize. Her father, Lin Hongyuan, must have sent them.


    "Uncle Hu, what are you doing here?"


    Lin Qingwan threw her notepad on the table, stood in front of the French window, and angrily stared at the tall buildings below.


    Lin Qingwan didn¡¯t have such a good relationship with her father. Half a year ago they had a big quarrel, so she decided to go to Shanghai and take over a company on the verge of bankruptcy to prove her ability to manage a business.


    Uncle Hu lowered his head and said, "Miss, I believe you have received the master''s call this morning. He has a bodyguard for you."


    "Where''s the bodyguard? Have him come in." Lin Qingwan did not turn around, still looking out the window.


    "This is him, ma¡¯am." Uncle Hu pointed to Ye Fei.


    "Hello, Miss Lin. My name is Ye Fei."


    Ye Fei was immediately attracted to Lin Qingwan¡¯s slender, delicate, white legs.


    "This kid?" Lin Qingwan finally turned around, glanced at Ye Fei, and frowned. Her exquisite, small face was full of disappointment.


    His thin body made him look like he¡¯d suffered from long-term malnutrition. He also wasn¡¯t handsome, although his eyes reflected a fierce flame. He wore a plaid shirt and jeans worn at the knees. He looked like a migrant worker who had just arrived to the city.


    Lin Qingwan sighed. Her dad owed a lot of favors from the early days of his career. This young man was probably sent into the company by an acquaintance of her dad¡¯s. The Ya Lai Group was big, so recruiting a few idlers meant nothing. In any case, he would still be better than a guard dog, right?


    "Did my dad say how much I should pay him?" Lin Qingwan casually asked. For a simple bodyguard, it would be at most 1500 Yuan a month.


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    "How much?"


    Uncle Hu was a little flustered, he stayed in the United States for a long time and was unfamiliar with Chinese currency. Finally, he said, "Well, fifty thousand Yuan."


    "What did you say? Five thousand Yuan a month? I won¡¯t give a bodyguard five thousand Yuan. Does my father think I just opened a bank? No, no, absolutely not." Lin Qingwan heard wrong; she thought he said five thousand Yuan.


    "Miss, fifty thousand Yuan a month." Ye Fei said lightly. To be honest, according to his abilities, he thought that was not too much to ask.


    "Hah hah."


    Lin Qingwan let out a strange laugh. She tried to remember the date ¨C it was surely not April Fools'' Day. Why would Uncle Hu play this prank on her?


    "Miss, the master said fifty thousand Yuan. Provide him with free food, accommodation, insurance, and then pay him the fifty thousand Yuan salary." Uncle Hu wore a serious expression.


    "Wait a minute."


    Lin Qingwan was dizzy. She immediately dialed her dad¡¯s number. "Dad, hello? You sent me a bodyguard; how much is his salary? Uncle Hu said fifty thousand Yuan. Did his old age cause him to hear it wrong?


    "No. That¡¯s correct, It¡¯s fifty thousand Yuan."


    In his villa in San Francisco, Lin Hongyuan reclined on a leather sofa. The room was filled with a melodious symphony. He raised a finger and a maid immediately turned down the volume of the old record player.


    "Dad, the company''s performance has just improved! This isn¡¯t the time to be wasting money. You sent me this guy deliberately to embarrass me." Lin Qingwan almost cried out in anger.


    "Qingwan, fifty thousand Yuan a month is not that much. If you can''t afford it, you should come back home."


    Lin Hongyuan hung up the phone before she could say anything else.


    Hearing the flat signal on the other end of the line, Lin Qingwan was so angry that she threw her iPhone to the ground. She went over and sat on the Boss chair behind her desk. Her body couldn''t stop trembling.


    From Lin Qingwan''s point of view, her dad was making things difficult for her on purpose.


    However, she did not want to outright defy her father. Lin Hongyuan was a man who kept his word. If she didn''t recruit Ye Fei as her bodyguard, her dad might really take her back to the United States.


    "Humph."


    Lin Qingwan stared at Ye Fei. He took an apple from the fruit bowl on her desk and used a fruit knife to peel it. Lin Qingwan fumed. "A scrawny kid like you wants to be my bodyguard? If you can beat our company¡¯s chief of security in a fight, I''ll think about it."


    She pressed the intercom. "Send Zhao Tie to my office."


    She was quite confident in him. Zhao Tie was an army veteran, and he¡¯d also mastered free-style combat. This thin young man would certainly not be his match.


    "You think you¡¯re worthy of being my bodyguard? Once Zhao Tie takes you down, my father can see what a waste of time it was to bring you here."


    "Chairwoman, you called for me?"


    A two-meter-tall, tan man wearing a gray security uniform, a baton at his waist, pushed through the door.


    "Zhao Tie, this kid would like to apply to be my bodyguard. Fight him and remember - do not be merciful. If you go easy on him, I will fire you," Lin Qingwan sneered.


    "Alright."


    Zhao Tie said in a low, muffled voice.


    Swish!


    While Zhao Tie was talking, Ye Fei flung his arm. The fruit knife, tearing through the air, flew toward Zhao Tie''s throat before anyone saw what happened.


    Did Ye Fei want to kill this man?


    Lin Qingwan and Uncle Hu were stunned.

 Chapter 4 The Sniper

    Ye Fei swung his hand and the knife flew out, aimed at Chief of Security Zhao Tie¡¯s throat.


    Zhao Tie was a veteran. He had been to the battlefield and had seen life and death, but at that moment, he was unable to respond. The bright tip of the knife was inches from his face.


    "I¡¯m dead." Zhao Tie''s hope was gone. Only those two words were on his mind.


    "Ah!"


    Lin Qingwan screamed, covering her eyes, not daring to look upon the bloody scene.


    Whoosh.


    Ye Fei suddenly moved, overtaking the knife mid-flight. He solidly gripped the hilt, stopping the knife just as it made contact.


    A drop of blood fell from Zhao Tie''s throat. He was barely scratched.


    Everyone was stunned, looking at Ye Fei. Could a man catch up to a throwing knife mid-flight? It was obviously impossible, but Ye Fei was the exception. He caught the knife he himself threw. He was faster than a ghost. It was terrifying.


    Zhao Tie almost died of shock.


    His knees buckled and he collapsed to the ground, his entire body trembling.


    Lin Qingwan opened her mouth wide, gaping at Ye Fei, whose expression was indifferent.


    "Shame on you! Who let you use a knife? What if you¡¯d hurt him?" Ye Fei made Lin Qingwan shudder.


    "You said not to be merciful." Ye Fei made an indignant face, then winked.


    "No, no!" Lin Qingwan shouted angrily. "This time you can''t use the knife. Unarmed combat!"


    "There is no unarmed enemy on the battlefield. Even children and women may have a bomb hidden on their person," Ye Fei retorted gravely. "Of course, I can give him another chance."


    "No, I give up," Zhao Tie said, still trembling on the floor.


    Lin Qingwan did not understand, but Zhao Tie instinctively knew. He did not think the young man was a capable fighter at first and even had a little contempt toward him, but when he threw that knife, Zhao Tie knew he was wrong. This man could kill without flinching, and he was extremely fast. Even if they fought ten times or a hundred times, Zhao Tie would never beat Ye Fei.


    "Zhao Tie, why are you such a coward? I command you to get up, or I will fire you!" Lin Qingwan stomped her foot angrily.


    Zhao Tie shook his head. "Miss Lin, life is more valuable than money. Feel free to hire someone else." He would never fight with Ye Fei.


    "You..."


    Lin Qingwan pointed to Ye Fei, then to Zhao Tie. She was so angry she couldn''t speak anymore.


    When Lin Qingwan thought of the 50,000 Yuan a month, she felt like her heart was dripping blood. "No, no!¡± she shouted, ¡°Even if you¡¯re a good fighter, I have no enemies. I do not need a bodyguard worth 50,000 Yuan a month."


    Before she could finish, Ye Fei suddenly rushed towards her.


    She thought he wanted to attack her ¨C he seemed impulsive enough - and screamed.


    Ye Fei leaped at her and knocked her down to the ground. His hands pressed on her soft breasts; his one leg rested between her thighs, so that her lace underwear was a bit revealed.


    "Pervert!"


    Lin Qingwan freaked out, slapping Ye Fei with all her strength.


    A clear handprint immediately appeared on Ye Fei''s face.


    Fei was completely unmoved, as if he didn¡¯t feel anything.


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    Then¡­


    Bang!


    A bullet pierced the huge panoramic window, shooting through the spot where Lin Qingwan was just standing.


    If Ye Fei had not knocked her down in time, the bullet would have penetrated her body. He grabbed Lin Qingwan''s slender ankle and dragged her behind her desk.


    Ye Fei overturned the huge desk and didn¡¯t stop there. He threw himself over Lin Qingwan''s body, held onto her, and rolled them both across the floor until they reached the doorway.


    More bullets whizzed by, almost hitting them. The gunfire stopped when Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan rolled out into the corridor.


    Lin Qingwan''s small face was pale. She was so scared she couldn''t speak. The employees of the company, seeing such a situation occur, didn¡¯t dare do anything.


    Ye Fei opened the door a thin crack, looking past the broken glass of the window. Through the glass he could see the situation on the opposite side. The shooter was hidden on a higher floor in the building across the street.


    After a while, Ye Fei stood up and said, "It''s all right now."


    Lin Qingwan was terrified. Her body was numb and she simply couldn''t stand up. She still lay on the ground with an embarrassed expression.


    "The shooter has run away, but we have to call the police immediately. Ask the police to come over and deal with this matter."


    Ye Fei rushed back into the office and dragged out Uncle Hu and Zhao Tie.


    Uncle Hu was lucky. He wasn¡¯t hurt, just a little scared. His legs were too numb to walk.


    Zhao Tie, however, wasn''t so lucky - a bullet hit his leg. Fortunately, it was only a glancing shot, otherwise it might have taken off the limb. Even so, he was losing a lot of blood. He was strong-minded, gritting his teeth, but his forehead was covered in sweat like he¡¯d just come out of a sauna.


    Ye Fei took out the fruit knife and cut Zhao Tie''s trousers to have a look at the wound.


    Although the wound was very deep, the bullet did not hurt the bones or meridians. Other than losing a lot of blood, he should be OK.


    Ye Fei was a sniper, not a medic. His basic first aid skills were insufficient in this case. All he could do was tear off his shirt and use it as a tourniquet to tie around Zhao Tie''s leg.


    It was not long before the sirens sounded and the police finally arrived.


    Several policemen rushed over. Lin Qingwan was relieved, supporting herself on the wall to stand up.


    "Qingwan, what happened?"


    When the female officer, Murong, saw Lin Qingwan¡¯s pale face, she hastily rushed over and helped her to a chair.


    These two women clearly knew each other and had a good relationship.


    "Sister Murong, I almost didn¡¯t see you there..." Lin Qingwan cried out.


    "Qingwan, what happened? I received a report that said there was gunfire here." Murong looked around and suddenly saw a familiar figure - Ye Fei.


    "There are assassins trying to kill me!" Lin Qingwan sobbed into Murong''s shoulder.


    "Assassins? Was it this man?" Murong coldly pointed at Ye Fei''s nose.


    Although the Central Leader said Ye Fei was a hero, Murong still believed this man to be a terrorist.


    What¡¯s more, Interpol¡¯s arrest warrant was still in effect. Wasn¡¯t it possible that this man was, in fact, a terrorist?

 Chapter 5 Falcon is a Group of Heroes

    Facing Murong¡¯s accusation, Ye Fei could only smile bitterly, "Officer Murong, why are you always against me?"


    "Because you''re not a good man." Murong coldly growled. She stood up and touched the handcuffs on her belt.


    ¡°Sister Murong, it wasn¡¯t him. The shooter was in building across the street. Ye Fei saved my life!" Lin Qingwan wiped away her tears. She walked up to Ye Fei, touched the red handprint on his face, and apologized. "Sorry. That¡¯s my fault. Does it hurt?"


    "No, no," he said.


    Lin Qingwan''s cold fingertips making contact with the handprint felt pleasant on Ye Fei¡¯s skin. While he had been fighting abroad, he never had the chance to have such close contact with a woman. His face reddened slightly.


    Murong went into the office, saw the mess inside, and immediately made a phone call to the criminal investigation unit.


    Soon, a forensics team arrived. The scene was full of officers and there were also a few media vans downstairs, but the entire building had been closed off by the police. The reporters, unable to speak with the police, were interviewing a few witnesses who had been passing by.


    Shanghai was an international metropolis. There were many criminal cases every day, but this shooting was a major case. The higher ups attached great importance to it.


    The small conference room on the twenty-first floor became a temporary interrogation room. Several policemen asked Ye Fei about the situation. As soon as he came out of the room he met with Murong.


    She seemed a little anxious. "What''s the matter? Have you not found out where the shooter was hiding?"


    "The shooter must have shot from the opposite building, but we can''t find out in which room he took the shot." A policeman with a ruler was taking some measurements.


    Ye Fei walked over, carefully observed the surroundings for a while, stretched out his hand to touch the bullet holes on the ground, and looked out the window.


    "The shooter used a modified Soviet SVD sniper rifle, called ¡®Type 79¡¯ in China. The bullet hit the floor at 25 degrees, from a distance of 750 meters."


    Ye Fei calculated in his head for a while, then looked up at the opposite building, pointing to one of the windows, "The shooter was in that room."


    ¡°Huh?¡±


    The cops were stunned. They looked in the direction he was pointing at and one said, "How do you know? Did you witness that? Why didn¡¯t you tell me when you were questioned?"


    "I just figured it out. You may use equipment, but I use mental arithmetic," Ye Fei said seriously.


    As a world-class sniper, he not only needed to master camouflage and sharpshooting, but also needed to be able to counter enemy snipers. A counter sniper could calculate the location of an enemy sniper in the shortest possible time, and then counterattack.


    ¡°Ah.¡±


    The cops grinned. "Young man, don''t be such a big talker. We couldn¡¯t even calculate the sniper¡¯s position with our equipment, so how could you possibly figure it out on your own? Just stay right here, trust the police to catch the shooter."


    "When you figure it out, it''ll be too late." Ye Fei coldly said. He understood the police didn''t believe him, but he didn''t want to say any more.


    The other policemen left, but Murong came over shyly, saying, "Ye Fei, are you really sure the shooter was in that room?"


    ¡°Yep.¡±


    Since Murong had repeatedly wronged him, Ye Fei had a bad impression of her and therefore, ignored her.


    Murong licked her lips, pulled Ye Fei to the side, and said to him with a pitiful voice: "Ye Fei, I was mercilessly scolded by the Director General because of last time. Don''t be angry with me.¡±


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    "Ye Fei, I''ll tell you the truth. As a woman, I work very hard in a criminal investigation team full of old men, but they all think I am just some kind of decorative vase meant for eye candy," she whispered.


    "Aren''t you?" Ye Fei looked at Murong mercilessly.


    "Well... I may be attractive, but I¡¯m more than that. Help me solve this case. Not for myself; I want to help Qingwan figure it out. Please, just help me, okay?" Murong said meekly, and bit her lip.


    Ye Fei was not a pitiless person. Moreover, he quite enjoyed the official and beautiful Murong begging for his help.


    "I¡¯ll help you, but you must say ¡®Falcon is a group of heroes¡¯ 10 times," Ye Fei smiled.


    Murong looked at Ye Fei and wondered how a kid with such a childish temper could become a terrorist.


    Since Murong begged him, she had little choice but to fulfill this childish request.


    " Falcon is a group of heroes, Falcon is a group of heroes, Falcon is a group of heroes..." Murong quickly said 10 times.


    ¡°Hah.¡±


    Ye Fei felt the pores in his whole body open. He was as happy as a baby with a candy bar.


    "Let''s go. I''ll take you to find the shooter. And I¡¯ll give you all the credit, so you can hold your head high in your squad."


    Ye Fei led the way toward the opposite building.


    Murong was joyful as she followed Ye Fei. She knew he was a world-class sniper. Although she couldn''t catch the shooter on her own, she should be able to find some important clues with his help.


    Ye Fei took Murong into the building across the street and took the elevator to the twenty-third floor. When they exited the elevator, they ran into Captain Zhang Shuaipeng.


    Zhang Shuaipeng was searching door to door with a group of detectives. It was a very inefficient method. By the time he found the ¡°sniper¡¯s nest¡±, the shooter would have had plenty of time to escape Shanghai.


    "How did you get here, Miss Murong?" Zhang Shuaipeng looked at her impishly. He obviously looked down on officer Murong.


    "Captain Zhang, we''ve found the room the shooter was in," said Murong.


    "You found it?" Zhang Shuaipeng beckoned to five other detectives. He coldly laughed, "Murong says she has already found the shooter¡¯s room. Let¡¯s follow her and see where it is."


    This was an obvious underhanded scheme. If Murong really had found it, there would be nothing more to say about it, since Zhang Shuaipeng had assisted her in the search. If Murong couldn''t find it, then she would be mercilessly ridiculed.


    Murong understood Zhang Shuaipeng''s thought process and felt a little nervous. She pulled at Ye Fei''s sleeve, "Is that a problem?"


    "No problem whatsoever."


    Ye Fei led the way to the room, but he couldn''t open the door because it was locked from the inside. He took out the fruit knife, inserted it in the crack between the door and its frame. Within seconds, the door opened.


    Ye Fei walked into the room and found two people lying on the floor, a man and a woman, bound by ropes.


    "What''s going on here?"


    Zhang Shuaipeng rushed in and was relieved to see that the two weren¡¯t dead. He immediately called for an ambulance.


    Ye Fei went to the window. A few shell casings lay under the windowsill. This was where the shots were fired from.


    Seeing these shell casings, Murong¡¯s beautiful eyes stared at Ye Fei in amazement. "Ye Fei, you¡¯re really something."

 Chapter 6 Video Speed at 36x

    Murong was starting to admire Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei waved his hand, "It''s not a big deal."


    He was about to bend over to pick up the shell casings, but Zhang Shuaipeng came over and said loudly, "This is important evidence. In order to protect the crime scene, unauthorized civilians should leave immediately."


    "Captain Zhang, he¡¯s helping solve the case," Murong hurriedly explained.


    "Murong, does the criminal investigation team really need some boy to help solve this case? You''re a part of the criminal investigation team - don''t forget that."


    Zhang Shuaipeng coldly said, "Show him out quickly and do not hinder our work."


    Zhang Shuaipeng carefully picked up the shell casings, then drove out Murong and Ye Fei.


    The door hadn¡¯t even closed behind them before Zhang Shuaipeng was calling his boss to brag, "Director Zhou, I have found where the shooter fired from. Hah hah, well, we''ve found a major clue and we should be able to solve this case quickly. Thank youyou¡¯re your concern, I promise to complete the task."


    Seeing her credit robbed by Zhang Shuaipeng, Murong was so angry she kicked a cardboard crate lying around in the corridor with enough force that her shoe flew off her foot. She had to hop over on one foot to put it back on.


    "Humph! We didn¡¯t find a clue and we let those guys steal my credit," Murong grumbled.


    "It¡¯s only a few shell casings. The shooter left the shell casings behind because he was not afraid to be found by tracing this clue. Perhaps the shell casings were meant to lead us to a dead end."


    Ye Fei smiled nonchalantly.


    "What should we do now?" Murong looked to Ye Fei. She didn¡¯t have any ideas.


    Ye Fei thought for a while and said: "Interrogate the witnesses. However, since the shooter let them live, they certainly did not see anything important."


    At that time, the two people who were attacked were being taken out on stretchers by a medical team. Neither one of them had any injuries, but they were in shock. Their eyes were erratic.


    Murong walked over and asked a few words, before dejectedly returning. "Ye Fei, you are really clever. You were right, they said they couldn''t clearly see the shooter. They could only see that it was a man in a hat, probably 1.8 meter tall."


    "That''s enough; let''s go," Ye Fei lightly said.


    "Where are we going?" Murong was puzzled.


    Ye Fei glanced at Murong."To catch the shooter."


    "We have no clue where to look, yet you say we''re going to catch the shooter? Am I missing something?"


    Murong couldn''t believe her ears. Even if Ye Fei was extremely clever, he would have to know more information before he could catch the assasin.


    The only description available was a man 1.8 meters tall wearing a cap. How could they find they the shooter based off of that information?


    "Let''s go to the nearest store and get their surveillance footage," Ye Fei said.


    Murong didn¡¯t have a better idea. "All right."


    A member of the criminal investigation team had already made a copy of the surveillance footage from the neighborhood and Murong volunteered to take the surveillance copies back to the police station.


    In the screening room of the police station, Murong turned on the computer and began watching the 100 hours of footage.


    Close to the Ya Lai Group was a bustling commercial zone. Many of the shops were equipped with cameras, which would have been impossible for the shooter to avoid.


    In other words, the shooter''s figure had to be in the surveillance video.


    The problem was that there was no need for the shooter to hide, because there were thousands of people walking up and down the street all the time.


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    It was an impossible task to single him out from the crowd.


    "Turn it on." Ye Fei looked confident.


    Murong glanced at Ye Fei and turned on the projector.


    The large screen showed the footage from the time of the shooting to half an hour afterward.


    With surveillance footage from a hundred different businesses, even if they sat and watched day and night, it would still take them over four days to go through it all.


    "It¡¯s too slow; can you speed it up?" Ye Fei suddenly said.


    "Of course." Murong increased the speed by half. The pedestrians on the screen started walking a little faster.


    "Speed it up more."


    "OK..."


    Because the security camera footage quality was not very good, Murong already felt her eyes tire as she tried to keep up with the double speed.


    "Still too slow. Just set it to the maximum speed," said Ye Fei.


    "Ah? You think it¡¯s still too slow?" Murong was surprised, "The highest is thirty-six times normal speed. Any more than that and the video quality will be too low to see anything clearly."


    "Well, use the max speed anyway ." Ye Fei lightly said.


    Murong increased the playback speed 36 times, and the silhouettes of the people in the street turned into blurry lines. Her eyes started to tear up a little as she struggled to make out any details.


    However, Ye Fei just narrowed his eyes and watched carefully.


    "36 times normal speed¡­ Can you even see anything? Are you kidding me?"


    Murong yawned and looked away from the screen. She secretly looked at Ye Fei. The mysterious Ye Fei was a lot more interesting than the blurry surveillance footage.


    At thirty-six times the normal speed, it only took Ye Fei less than three hours to watch all one hundred hours of security footage.


    By that time, Murong had fallen asleep on the desk, softly snoring.


    "Murong."


    Ye Fei suddenly slapped the table.


    "Ah? Is dinner ready?" Murong jerked awake with some drool on her, but soon saw Ye Fei''s smiling face.


    "Well, I am hungry." Ye Fei''s stomach was already growling.


    "Let''s go. I¡¯ll buy you dinner, but you should know in advance ¨C we¡¯re going for Lanzhou noodles." Murong glanced at her flat purse.


    "Lanzhou noodles. My favorite," Ye Fei smiled. During his mission abroad, he just ate compressed biscuits, canned food, dry food¡­ that kind of tasteless stuff. It was a luxury to eat noodles, let alone Lanzhou noodles.


    "But¡­ we need to catch the shooter first." Ye Fei pointed to the screen, "Rewind to fifteen minutes and fifty seconds."


    "You mean you found the shooter?" Murong was shocked.


    "Not yet, but soon." Ye Fei had Murong rewind to an earlier timestamp and then slow down the footage. He carefully observed for a while. "Stop. I have confirmed it is him."


    The footage froze. Ye Fei walked over and used a pen to draw a circle on the screen. There was a man inside.


    Murong nervously zoomed in. That particular footage came from a decent camera, so the man¡¯s features could still be more or less made out.


    He was about 30 years old, about 1.8 meter tall, with tan skin. There was a huge bag on his back, but no cap.


    To be honest, Murong couldn''t see any particular difference between him and the other pedestrians on the street.


    She looked at Ye Fei in amazement, "How do you know he''s the assasin? Did you decide he was a bad man based on your female intuition?"


    Ye Fei gave her an arrogant look, "You really believe you and I are the same?"

 Chapter 7 The Shooter is Found

    "But how did you see it? Don''t tell me you¡¯re clairvoyant too." Murong half-joked staring at Ye Fei.


    "I wish I had that ability."


    Ye Fei was a little sad, if he really could forecast the future, the Falcon team would not have suffered such a miserable end.


    "I rely on skill. Everything I say has a scientific basis; it¡¯s not my intuition."


    Ye Fei pointed to his eyes: "When I was a child, my grandpa forced me to practice knife-throwing. To improve at knife-throwing, I had to practice my eyesight. Staying in a dark room, I would stare at a candle until my eyes hurt, even until I became temporarily blind. After a lot of practice, I now have vision as sharp as an eagle¡¯s.¡±


    "Oh, so that''s why your codename is Eagle Eye." Murong suddenly understood.


    "My skills all stem from my eyes. I can tell whether a fly a hundred meters away is male or female. For me, a video sped up thirty-six times is not a problem." Ye Fei slightly raised his head with a conceited appearance, "With my insight, it is easy to see there¡¯s something wrong about this man."


    Murong thought Ye Fei was just bragging. Never mind 100 meters, most people wouldn¡¯t be able to even see a fly just 10 meters away.


    Murong replayed the picture five times, but she still couldn''t see anything unusual about that man.


    "The general public doesn¡¯t have access to Soviet SVD sniper rifles. The man must be a professional killer from abroad and is likely a military veteran. If I remember correctly, only a few mercenary groups in the five warzones in Africa use this kind of sniper rifle these days. Looking at this man''s tanned skin, he must have recently come from somewhere very hot and sunny - like Africa," Ye Fei said seriously.


    Murong wasn¡¯t convinced. "What if he was just born with dark skin?"


    Ye Fei shook his head. "No, you can see patches on his face. That¡¯s not natural. This is probably because he didn¡¯t use sunscreen evenly and was frequently exposed to the sun."


    Murong still had doubts. "What if he just came back from sunbathing on a tropical beach abroad? This doesn''t mean anything."


    "Hey, do you see something hanging on his waist? Do you know what that is?" Ye Fei pointed to the man''s waist.


    Murong got closed to the screen and studied the image for a long time. There was, in fact something tied to his waist. It looked very heavy, not like a purse, more like a¡­ sandbag.


    "Who would tie sandbags to their waist? That really is strange. However¡­ he could still just be a fitness trainer trying to strengthen his abs." Murong continued to contradict Ye Fei¡¯s theory.


    "It really is a sandbag, but it''s not just for training. In foreign countries, every professional sniper carries a sandbag, also known as a cushion bag. It is standard equipment for any sniper. There are several postures for sniping. The prone position is the most stable, but the surface is not always necessarily flat, so the sniper uses sandbags for support."


    There was no doubt in Ye Fei''s tone.


    "I see, then he must be the shooter.¡± Officer Murong jumped up happily. ¡°Ye Fei, are you sure about this?"


    "I¡¯m sure," Ye Fei said.


    "Well, then I''ll call the captain, send the photo to the detective team, and add it to the city¡¯s wanted list." Murong already picked up the phone.


    Ye Fei stopped her. "Don''t tell anyone. The two of us are enough."


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    "The two of us are enough? You mean you''re afraid someone will steal my credit again? I said I am not in it for the credit; I just want to find out the truth for Qingwan. What''s more, we only know his appearance. Without help from other investigators, how can we find him in a huge, populous city like Shanghai?" Murong said angrily.


    Ye Fei replied calmly: "The shooter is a professional killer and a veteran with good camouflage skills and heavy firepower in his hands. Your criminal investigation team is too clumsy. He will definitely see them coming, not to mention, it may cause unnecessary casualties. I''m capable enough to handle this situation."


    Fei said the people of criminal investigation team were clumsy. Officer Murong was very bitter about that, but compared to Ye Fei, they really were clumsy.


    After thinking for a while, Murong opened her mouth, "Well, thank you."


    "As for how we¡¯re going to find him, we just have to think it over for a while. I¡¯m sure we¡¯ll come up with an idea." Ye Fei had Murong bring out a map of Shanghai. "Think about it - if you were the shooter, where would you hide?"


    "Well... I would find a hotel to stay in; definitely a five-star hotel. I would stay at the top floor, with a glass of red wine in my hand and a cigar in my mouth, and look over the whole city," Murong said with a serious expression.


    "Stop."


    Ye Fei looked doubtfully at Murong. This busty police officer wasn¡¯t the smartest; no wonder the others thought she was just eye candy. She must have had an influential backer to enter the police force.


    "Why are you looking at me like that? All the movies show assassins acting like this." Murong''s face went slightly red.


    "Well, an armed shooter who hasn¡¯t killed his target will not go too far. He must still be nearby. He was probably smuggled in and has no ID, so there is no way for him to stay in a hotel. So, where can he go?" Ye Fei coughed.


    "Will he just stay on the streets?" Murong reluctantly said.


    "Yes, he can only stay on the streets. You should put on something sexy, we¡¯ll go catch him together as soon as you¡¯re ready."


    Ye Fei smiled and said, "But first, you were going to buy me a bowl of noodles."


    Murong reluctantly, went to her office to change out of her uniform. Her skirt was very short. She examined her outfit for a moment and decided to add black stockings and high-heeled shoes before coming out.


    "Wow. You look hot."


    Ye Fei''s eyes brightened. Murong wore a light pink shirt and a black miniskirt. She had big breasts and a thin waist, so her translucent silk stockings made her legs appear more straight and slender. She already had a slim figure, but when she stepped into a pair of white high-heeled shoes, she became even more mellow and graceful. She really cleaned up well once she got out of her police uniform.


    The most eye-catching thing, of course, were her extremely stunning breasts.


    "Tsk-tsk, 34 D¡¯s and she¡¯s not very good at her job¡­of course."


    Ye Fei''s eyesight was perfect. With a single glance, he correctly guessed her bra size.


    Murong invited Ye Fei downstairs to eat noodles. Ye Fei asked for two big bowls. During the meal, Murong made a phone call to Lin Qingwan, "Sister Qingwan, how are you?"


    "Sister Murong, if Ye Fei is with you now, please hand him the phone." Lin Qingwan said hurriedly.

 Chapter 8 Night Vision

    "It¡¯s for you." Murong handed the phone to the Ye Fei.


    "Manager Lin, you asked for me?" Ye Fei said with a mouth full of noodles.


    "Ye Fei, where are you? What kind of bodyguard are you? Why did you run? You think I won¡¯t deduct your salary?" Even though Lin Qingwan was being protected by two policemen, she still felt unsafe.


    "Manager Lin, as I recall, you didn¡¯t exactly agree to hire me as your bodyguard." Ye Fei smiled. Lin Qingwan was in a bad mood. Even while begging Ye Fei to come back, she was still going on about deducting his salary.


    "Nonsense! I have hired you for 50,000 Yuan a month. I will pay you what you ask every month, just hurry up and get back here to protect me," Lin Qingwan hastily said.


    "Manager Lin, if I am your bodyguard, then I cannot go back yet. Offense is the best defense. I am going to find the shooter," Ye Fei said.


    Lin Qingwan was amazed. "Wait... You¡¯re going to find the shooter? The police haven¡¯t even been able to do that, what makes you think you can? Don''t be ridiculous, just come back soon, or you¡¯ll make me angry."


    Murong grabbed the phone away from him. "Sister Qingwan, Ye Fei and I already know what the shooter looks like. We¡¯ll catch him, don''t you worry."


    "Sister Murong? Why are you going around town with him? You should head back this way with him, I feel unsafe without him." Said Lin Qingwan.


    "Manager Lin, two hours. You only need to give me two hours, and I¡¯ll be able to catch the shooter," Ye Fei said casually.


    "Two hours?"


    Lin Qingwan looked at her watch - it was eight o''clock in the evening. Two hours from now it would be ten o''clock. That wasn¡¯t too late; she could wait.


    But...


    Lin Qingwan''s face revealed a businesswoman''s shrewd smile, "Ye Fei, I can give you two hours, but you have to make me a promise. If you can''t catch the shooter in two hours, I''ll actually deduct your salary. I¡¯ll give you 10,000 Yuan a month instead."


    "Deducting 40,000 Yuan at a time? Sister Qingwan really is ruthless..." Murong whispered.


    "OK. But if I catch the shooter, I don¡¯t want you to give me a raise. Just give me one month¡¯s salary in advance," Ye Fei replied quickly.


    "All right, deal." Lin Qingwan felt that she had made a good deal. She figured she¡¯d be able to save 40,000 Yuan.


    After dinner, Ye Fei and Murong went out of the restaurant.


    Murong was a little worried. "Ye Fei, two hours is such a short amount of time. You really think you¡¯ll be able to find the shooter?"


    "Rest assured, as long as you cooperate with me, just one hour will be enough. By the way, do you have a car?" Ye Fei looked at Murong. She really was beautiful.


    "Just a small scooter. I am wary of traffic jams, so I don¡¯t drive a car to work." Murong led him to a small pink scooter. The seat was very small, barely enough for two people to ride together.


    "Shall I drive, or would you like to do the honors?" Ye Fei narrowed his eyes.


    "Yeah right! My skirt is too short. I''ll ride; you sit in the back." Murong positioned herself to drive the small scooter and let Ye Fei sit behind her.


    Ye Fei licked his lips. Sitting behind Murong on the small scooter, he could feel her bottom against his lap.


    Ye Fei''s hands had no place for him to hold on to, he was a little unprepared, Murong didn''t care, she put his hands on her slender waist, "Hold tight. Safety first."


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    Murong twisted the steering handle, and the small scooter shot forward.


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t think Murong would be such a fierce driver. Surprised, he tightly wrapped his arms around her slim waist.


    Ye Fei had never hugged a girl since he was born, let alone such a beautiful girl. There was a soft feeling in his hands and his heart was beating violently, but Murong did not physically express any reaction.


    "It seems these days the girls in China are less shy than those abroad," Ye Fei thought to himself.


    The small scooter zipped down the street. Since Murong was wearing casual clothes, she had untied her ponytail and let her silky hair drape around her white shoulders, waving with the wind.


    Her hair tickled Ye Fei''s face, causing him to lose focus and think about her instead. "Her hair smells good, I wonder what brand of shampoo she uses."


    When Ye Fei finally snapped out of his daydreaming, he found that Murong had driven into an entrance to an underpass.


    "Why did we come here?" Ye Fei asked.


    ¡°Didn''t you say the shooter was on the streets? I thought he would have had to find a place to spend the night. Well, it''s a good idea to hang out with the vagrants. There are many homeless people in this underpass." Murong winked.


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t know whether to laugh or cry. "The homeless are very territorial ¨C they wouldn¡¯t let a random stranger hang out in their midst. The shooter is a newcomer and he is armed with a gun. It is impossible for him to hang out with this crowd. It¡¯s my fault, I forgot to tell you where to go. Let''s go to Green Town Park."


    "Ah? Is the shooter there?" Murong was very surprised.


    She was very familiar with Green Town Park. It was a big park nearby.


    There were hills, streams and lush vegetation inside; it was a good place to go on a date.


    However, because of the dense vegetation and complex terrain, robberies often occurred in the evenings. Murong had been there many times, but she never caught anyone in the act.


    Nowadays, Green Town Park was bleak place to go to at night. Pedestrians didn''t usually walk there at this hour.


    They soon arrived.


    In other parks there would be many old people dancing in the square in the evenings, but there no people in Green Town Park. The street lamps there were also misty and not very bright. The whole place had a gloomy and foreboding atmosphere around it.


    Ye Fei let Murong lead him around the park.


    They met the occasional couple on an evening stroll. They were likely outsiders who¡¯d just come to Shanghai and still did not know the stories about the place.


    In addition to them, there were also a few homeless people sleeping on the benches. Many had mental illnesses, forced to beg for a living during the day. At night they slept wherever they could.


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t bother looking at them. Instead, he was staring into the lush woods.


    Murong followed Ye Fei. She could see nothing but empty blackness. She couldn¡¯t even make out individual trees, let alone a figure hiding among them.


    "Do you have night vision?" Murong remembered Ye Fei said his eyes were very special.


    "Of course. I was locked in a dark room from an early age; the first thing I mastered was night vision."


    Ye Fei blinked his eyes and a strange silver light seemed to shine from his pupils, like those of nocturnal beasts.


    Ye Fei''s eyes could see the dark woods as clear as day. He licked his lips.


    "Found him."

 Chapter 9 I Was A Terrorist

    In the woods, there was a middle-aged man resting under a tree. His skin was dark, and under the cover of night, it would be difficult to see him even at close proximity.


    But Ye Fei''s eyes were unusual. Like a wolf, he could see in the darkness. He could clearly see that the man under the tree was the same as the man he had seen on the screen.


    "He¡¯s here, as I expected," Ye Fei thought to himself happily.


    Murong remained unaware. After riding the small scooter for another three minutes, Ye Fei whispered to Murong, "I see him, right here."


    Murong was surprised, and almost called out happily. She quickly covered her mouth with her hand, whispering, "Ye Fei, you¡¯re really clever. How did you know he was hiding in Green Town Park?"


    Ye Fei didn''t respond. He was able to find the shooter because he knew snipers well.


    Snipers were a lonely bunch. Most of the time, snipers had to hide themselves, even their comrades did not know where they hid.


    Eventually, most snipers would become habitually distrustful of others, and lonely.


    Besides, Ye Fei had undertaken similar missions before, so he was well aware that the shooter did not have many places to hide.


    Green Town Park was definitely the most suitable place in the area.


    It was easy for him to find the shooter''s position. The hardest step was actually catching him. The shooter was wary and skilled. Even Ye Fei would be shot if he tried to approach unprepared.


    Ye Fei looked at Murong. It was about time the female police officer stepped up to the plate?


    "Fei, why are you looking at me like that?" Murong became self-conscious under Ye Fei¡¯s stare.


    He whispered something in her ear.


    "Pervert."


    Murong''s face was red. She bit her red lips shyly.


    Ye Fei said reluctantly, "This is the best way to go about this. If you don¡¯t agree, we can just head back."


    "No, I agree. In order to seize this guy for sister Qingwan, I''m willing to do it."


    Murong touched her long hair, she was enchanting.


    ......


    Xu Biao rested under a tree, mulling over the day¡¯s events in his mind.


    ¡°It was supposed to be so easy to earn those 200,000 Yuan, I just had to shoot the chairwoman. But that guy saved her...¡±


    What rotten luck!


    Xu Biao touched the pistol on his waist and the sniper rifle on his back. He intended to lay low for a few days. He knew he had to find a way to complete the task and earn the money.


    Xu Biao was getting sleepy. Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming toward him. He straightened his upper body, his hand resting on the pistol¡¯s grip.


    "Oh! You¡¯re such a bad boy." Coming from inside the woods, he could hear a woman''s shy voice.


    "Well, women are only into bad boys, and let me tell you, I am much worse!" Said a man in a wretched voice.


    "Not here... There are lights everywhere... It''s too bright, let¡¯s go over there," the woman whispered.


    Xu Biao popped his head out enough to get a look. A man and a woman were standing under the yellow street lamp. When he saw the woman''s face, his heart began to beat violently. She was a really beautiful woman.


    The woman was in her early twenties. She had white skin, delicate features and long hair, and her eyes were full of charm.


    Xu Biao couldn''t see the man''s face, but his hands were rubbing the woman¡¯s plump buttocks.


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    "This world is not fair..." Xu Biao coldly huffed. He figured the couple must have been unbearably lonely if they were prepared to have sex in the woods.


    Xu Biao had been too busy in Africa to find a woman to his liking, and here was a beautiful young woman with a nicely toned figure. His mouth watered like a lion eyeing his prey.


    Seeing the couple stepping toward his hiding place, Xu Biao rushed to hide on the other side of a clump of bushes.


    Seeing this beautiful girl, had lowered his guard. He was hoping the couple would get it on and he¡¯d have front row seats.


    Sure enough, the couple went over to a big tree not far from Xu Biao and started kissing. Xu Biao started getting excited.


    "C¡¯mon, don¡¯t stop there. Take it further, feel her up?"


    Xu Biao''s eyes were red with lust. If he hadn¡¯t missed that shot today, he would have rushed out, killed this man, and probably had his way with this woman before taking the money and bailing.


    Xu Biao really was a monster.


    After a while, the woman''s face had blushed red. Her eyes were like curved springs, especially charming.


    Then suddenly, the man stopped kissing her and frowned. "Damn it, I need to pee."


    "You are such an idiot." Xu Biao scolded the man in his mind.


    "Just hurry." The woman was not happy.


    The man obviously had to go urgently. He ran to the bushes where Xu Biao hid, undid his belt, and started to pee.


    Xu Biao got piss all over his face. He was stunned.


    He wanted to rush out, kick over that wretched man, and shoot him dead.


    But...


    He couldn¡¯t move.


    If he moved, he would be discovered.


    Even getting peed on, he still couldn''t move. The deputy head of the Crazy Dragon Regiment, Xu Biao, had never suffered such humiliation.


    It didn¡¯t take the man long to finish, but to Xu Biao it felt like a century. Nevertheless, he endured. The man did his belt and was about to turn away.


    But the man suddenly smiled and said: "Hey, how¡¯s it taste?"


    "Damn it."


    Xu Biao understood immediately. The man already knew he was hiding here and had deliberately peed on him to humiliate him.


    Xu Biao was infuriated. He didn¡¯t bother to wipe the pee off his face before pulling out the pistol at his waist, "You bastard, I¡¯ll kill you!"


    Ye Fei was ready. The moment he saw Xu Biao touch the gun, he flicked his wrist, and his fruit knife stabbed Xu Biao''s hand.


    The pistol fell to the ground with a thud.


    Xu Biao was stunned. He instantly knew he was facing a master and tried to run away, but Murong had already ran over and proceeded to judo throw him down on to ground.


    Xu Biao was not going to go down without a fight. When he fell to the ground, he took out a knife from his boots and tried stabbing Murong.


    Ye Fei lunged forward and stepped on his wrist, kicking the knife aside. He smiled coldly, "You like knives, huh?"


    Although Murong wasn¡¯t the best at detective work, she was a good fighter. She mercilessly dislocated Xu Biao''s wrist.


    "Ah!!" Xu Biao screamed. He knew he had no chance to run now. He stared at Ye Fei and said, "You¡¯re not a cop. Who are you?"


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t say a word. People like Xu Biao were very dangerous; he could not give him a chance to get away. A solid punch to the head knocked Xu Bian flat on the ground. Ye Fei bent down to his ear and smiled, "I am a terrorist."

 Chapter 10 I’ll Take Your Last Name

    "Why are you so ruthless?" Murong said in amazement.


    Ye Fei looked at the shooter''s dislocated wrist and smiled, "We¡¯re not that different."


    Murong made a phone call to the Director General to tell him the shooter was caught.


    Because of the high-profile nature of the shooting case, several leaders of the public security system had become involved. Zhou Hongtao was in a meeting in the bureau when his phone rang. He saw it was Murong''s phone number and sighed in annoyance. He just rejected the call and said, "Sorry, my wife is just wondering when I¡¯m coming home."


    "Director Zhou, according to the rules of the bureau, the phone must be turned off during meeting," a high-ranking director said gravely.


    "Yes, yes, you are right."


    Zhou Hongtao cursed Murong hundreds of times in his heart as he turned off his phone.


    Murong felt helpless, "Ah, he turned off his phone¡­ I will call Captain Zhang and ask him to send a police car over to bring the shooter back to the station."


    "No, we worked hard to catch this guy. We can''t let him steal all the credit. Call a taxi." Ye Fei had gotten a bad impression of Zhang Shuaipeng.


    Murong nodded. She rode the small scooter out of the park, soon returning followed by a taxi cab. They put the shooter in the back seat. Ye Fei watched him while Murong rode the scooter behind the car.


    There was a traffic jam on the way. Murong was faster than the car, so she went ahead to the bureau. As she parked the motorcycle outside, Captain Zhang Shuaipeng met her, followed by a crowd of police officers.


    The police officers had been busy all day, but still did not find any useful clues. Now it was nearly 10 o''clock, they still hadn¡¯t eaten and they were getting constantly scolded by Director Zhou. They were waiting for him to come out from his meeting.


    Seeing Murong riding her small scooter with a smile on her face, they became angry, bitching about her as they smoked off to the side:


    "Fuck, we¡¯ve been working so hard, while this little girl rides around on her little scooter. She can''t do anything useful at all."


    "Yeah, but she looks hot. I bet she knows someone important who managed to get her on the force."


    "Bah! She can''t do anything to help us. She is just eye candy."


    Zhang Shuaipeng looked pissed. He crushed his cigarette butt on the wall and walked toward Murong. "Miss Murong, where were you and your playmate? Why are you coming back so late? Don''t you know that the Director General called for a meeting?" he sneered.


    "Captain Zhang, what do you mean? You are working and so am I. Why would you think I¡¯ve been playing around?" Murong was unhappy to be mocked in public like that.


    "You¡¯ve been working? You were supposed to bring a copy of the surveillance footage to the station, which should have taken no more than 10 minutes. How many hours were you gone? We were busy working all day. What about you?" Zhang Shuaipeng said coldly.


    "I went to catch the shooter," Murong winked.


    "Hah hah!" Her words provoked a burst of laughter from the surrounding men.


    All they had was a few bullet shells, which forensics had not sent back the results as of yet. The 100 hours of surveillance footage required at least four days to scrutinize ¨C and even then, it might not be enough to find the shooter. They didn¡¯t think it was possible for her to have gotten very far.


    "Just you? Miss Murong, if you can catch the shooter, no, if you can find any clues that lead to the shooter at all - I will change my last name to yours." Zhang Shuaipeng''s tone was dripping with sarcasm.


    "I¡¯ll remember you said that," Murong snickered.


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    "What is all this yelling about?¡± he barked, ¡°Isn¡¯t there any sense of discipline around here? You are the people''s police, not a bunch of street peddlers!¡±


    "Director Zhou... Here¡¯s what¡¯s going on: Murong left work without permission; I am disciplining her." Zhang Shuaipeng hurriedly said.


    When Zhou Hongtao heard that, he thought of the phone call from Murong earlier. She must have called him to ask for time off.


    This was an emergency and everyone had to work together, it seemed Murong was too unreliable. Zhou Hongtao was fuming.


    "Murong, write a report of what you did today." Zhou Hongtao maintained considerable restraint. If Murong hadn¡¯t had a high-ranked backer, the fiery Zhou Hongtao would have already been screaming at her in public.


    "Write a review? I went to catch the shooter! Why should I write a review?!" Murong bit her lip, her eyes tearing up a little. She hated being mistreated like this.


    On another day, Zhou Hongtao might have let Murong get away with it, but today the leaders of the public security system were looking over his shoulder. At the meeting, the leaders had criticized Zhou Hongtao¡¯s incompetence. His detectives were too inefficient - such a big shooting case and they hadn¡¯t picked up any good clues all day.


    If Zhou Hongtao covered for Murong now, his superiors would have an even worse impression of him.


    "Murong, you dare talk back to me? If you caught the shooter, where is he?" Zhou Hongtao wanted to show his incorruptible character in front of his superiors.


    Seeing everyone was waiting to call her bluff, Murong looked toward the gate and cried out, "What''s wrong with Ye Fei?"


    Just then, a taxi drove in and stopped in front of everyone.


    Ye Fei opened the car door and pulled out the shooter. Looking up to see so many policemen, he smiled and said, "So many people! Is this my welcoming committee?"


    Murong trotted over and dragged the shooter to Zhou Hongtao. "Director General, this is the shooter. I caught him about half an hour ago."


    The whole audience went silent.


    Everyone looked at Murong with surprise.


    There were no leads. How had Murong catch the shooter?


    This had to be a joke!


    "Officer Murong... This man must be wrongly accused. Is he really the shooter?" Zhang Shuaipeng sneered.


    Ye Fei threw out a big bag from the car. The barrel of a rifle was sticking out of it. "A Soviet SVD sniper rifle, see for yourself. There is also a pistol, a German-made military utility knife, and ammunition."


    Everyone was stunned into silence yet again.


    "Murong¡­ did you really catch the shooter?" Zhou Hongtao''s voice trembled.


    He was happy - his superiors had asked him to solve the case within 72 hours. He was so worried about the case that his hair was beginning to turn gray. Now here was Officer Murong, not only with the shooter, but caught with irrefutable evidence.


    Zhou Hongtao was elated.


    "Take the shooter to the interrogation room immediately!" he commanded.


    The policemen went to work as if just waking up from a dream.


    Zhang Shuaipeng had originally wanted to ridicule Murong, but in the end he was the one who had looked foolish. He felt like he¡¯d been mercilessly slapped in the face. Blushing profusely, he just wanted to get away from this situation.


    Murong smiled, walked over, and patted Zhang Shuaipeng''s shoulder. "Captain Zhang... Oh, I mean Captain Mu - how did I do?"


    "Perfect¡­" Zhang Shuaipeng''s face was as red as a ripe tomato. He desperately wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

 Chapter 11 The Pinhole Camera

    At the Ya Lai Group building.


    Lin Qingwan was constantly looking at her watch.


    It was nearly 10:00 o''clock. Lin Qingwan revealed a victorious smile.


    "Incredible. You think you¡¯re so talented you could catch the shooter in two hours? There should be a limit to your boastfulness. Who do you think you are, Sherlock Holmes?" She thought to herself.


    Lin Qingwan looked at her two yawning security guards. "However... If you really can catch the shooter, I would feel more comfortable giving you the 50,000 a month,¡± she thought.


    At that time, the company''s electronic clock sounded 10 times.


    It was 10:00 o''clock now.


    Ye Fei had lost.


    Ding.


    At that moment, the elevator doors opened and Ye Fei stepped out. Behind him was Murong, a smile on her face.


    "Ye Fei, you finally came back. It is 10:00 o''clock now; you have already lost." Lin Qingwan was as proud as a queen addressing her subjects.


    "Excuse me, Manager Lin, but I have already delivered the shooter to the police station. I believe you¡¯ve lost," Ye Fei said nonchalantly.


    "What?" Lin Qingwan stood up. She couldn¡¯t believe it.


    Lin Qingwan looked to Murong."Sister Murong, is it true? Has the shooter really been caught?"


    "Sister Qingwan, it¡¯s true! Ye Fei is really good, he caught the shooter himself. Well, I helped a lot too! Ye Fei gave me all the credit, so I might even get a Class Three Merit," Murong said happily. She hoped she would get promoted to a lieutenant.


    "Ye Fei, you really got the shooter!" Lin Qingwan exclaimed happily.


    "Manager Lin, we had a deal. You owe me an advance on one-month¡¯s salary," Ye Fei smiled.


    "Give me your debit card number and I¡¯ll immediately transfer you the money." The shooter had been arrested and Lin Qingwan could finally relax.


    Ye Fei suddenly realized something. "I... I don''t have a debit card. I''ll do it tomorrow; then you can transfer me the money."


    "Well, then we''re going home. I''m tired."


    Lin Qingwan yawned. She felt safer when Ye Fei was around.


    "Sister Qingwan, you should stay in my house tonight; I will protect you. My apartment has a clean guestroom. Although the shooter was caught, whoever was paying him is still out there, so it''s better to be careful." Murong took Lin Qingwan''s hand with a worried expression.


    "Don¡¯t worry, Ye Fei will stay with me. You have roommates; it¡¯ll be inconvenient if I stayed in your apartment." Lin Qingwan looked at Ye Fei.


    "Ok, that¡¯s fine." Murong also looked at Ye Fei. Although they didn''t know each other long, she truly grown to admire him.


    ......


    Lin Qingwan lived in a lakeside community in a high-end villa with elegant surroundings and convenient transportation.


    The only drawback was that there were too few people. It was too secluded. When the night wind blew at the bushes, it even gave off a bit of an eerie feeling.


    In any case, Lin Qingwan was afraid to stay there alone.


    Ye Fei drove Lin Qingwan''s silver-gray BMW X6 to her villa.


    The villa had Spanish style architecture. The decorations were very luxurious and there was a touch of modern European elements. When Ye Fei entered the door, he saw a huge crystal chandelier on the ceiling and a hand-made Turkish carpet on the floor.


    "My bedroom is on the second floor. You can''t go up there. There¡¯s a bunk bed in the maid¡¯s room. You can sleep there." Lin Qingwan pointed to a room in the corner.


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    "If I can''t go upstairs, how can I protect you?"


    Ye Fei did not expect to be treated well, but it was inconvenient to live with the servants.


    "You can still protect me. If I encounter danger, I''ll scream." Lin Qingwan frowned.


    "Well, you''re the employer, so I¡¯ll do what you say, but I first have to go upstairs to get acquainted with the environment," Ye Fei reluctantly said.


    Lin Qingwan''s face blushed a little. She hesitated for a while, but eventually she nodded. "Fine, you can go up."


    Although Lin Qingwan grew up abroad, because of her upbringing, she was a very conservative woman.


    The second floor was where Lin Qingwan lived; in other words, it was her boudoir. To let a strange man she¡¯d just met today come into her boudoir naturally made her very uncomfortable.


    Ye Fei climbed up to the second floor and found the floor plan to be similar to the first floor. However, there were a lot of colorful clothes hanging on the balcony, obscuring the line of sight from the window.


    Ye Fei opened the glass door and reached out to take those things down.


    Lin Qingwan gasped. She trotted towards Ye Fei in her slippers and pushed him aside.


    The clothes hanging on the balcony were her underwear and nightgowns. The underwear included several thongs made of lace or with leopard print on them. She was clearly embarrassed.


    Ye Fei had just come back from abroad. He knew many foreign women wore stuff just like that, so it didn¡¯t really surprise him. That¡¯s why he didn¡¯t think Lin Qingwan would react like that. She rushed to pull down her underwear and held them to her bosom. Her face red, she stared at Ye Fei, "You saw nothing!"


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t speak.


    She quickly threw her underwear into a closet. Ye Fei moved over towards the bedroom.


    "No, no, absolutely not."


    Lin Qingwan shook her head resolutely. The bedroom was her forbidden area. She hadn¡¯t even let her father go into her bedroom since she was 12 years old.


    "Manager Lin, I need to protect you. If you won¡¯t let me look around, how can I protect you?" Ye Fei smiled bitterly.


    "I don''t like people, especially men, sticking their nose in my privacy." Lin Qingwan said decisively.


    "Privacy?"


    Ye Fei looked around, and his expression slightly changed. He walked up to the wardrobe, pointed to a drawer in the corner and said, "Manager Lin, if you pay such attention to privacy, why did you install a pinhole camera here?"


    "Pinhole camera?!" Lin Qingwan exclaimed. Looking at the cupboard, she couldn¡¯t see any pinhole cameras.


    "You didn¡¯t install this?" Ye Fei asked. In fact, when he had initially entered the house, he immediately felt that something was wrong. Looking around, he had found multiple spots around the house equipped with pinhole cameras. He figured she had done this for security reasons.


    "Of course not!" Lin Qingwan nearly cried, "Has someone installed cameras around my room?"


    Ye Fei frowned. He seized the corner of the wardrobe and fumbled around with it for a moment, only to reveal a tiny camera.


    When Lin Qingwan saw the camera, her expression changed.


    This camera was in her room? That meant... her movements, including bathing and getting dressed had been seen by others? Others had been able to see her body¡­


    To Lin Qingwan, being peeped on was just like being shot.


    Her knees buckled and she almost fainted.

 Chapter 12 The Purple Apartment

    Looking at the camera in his hand, Lin Qingwan helplessly sat on the sofa. She was speechless and looking at Ye Fei for help.


    "Can I go into the bedroom now?" Ye Fei smiled.


    "Go inside and have a quick look... Oh God." Lin Qingwan put her palms together devoutly, closed her eyes, and prayed.


    Ye Fei pushed the door of Lin Qingwan''s bedroom and his vision was filled with pink. The whole room was covered with light pink wallpaper with an overwhelming amount of cartoon character plushies on the bed including Garfield, Snoopy, and so on. It was quite astonishing.


    Ye Fei was a little surprised. Looking back at Lin Qingwan, he never imagined this cool and beautiful manager to be so childlike.


    Lin Qingwan no longer had the strength to scold Ye Fei, instead she just urged him, "Why are you taking so long? Hurry up!"


    Ye Fei looked around and found that the camera in the bedroom was better concealed. It actually was in Snoopy''s eye.


    It would have been nearly impossible to find the hidden camera if it weren¡¯t for Ye Fei''s amazing eyesight.


    In addition to the camera in Snoopy''s eye, Ye Fei found two more in other places, equally well-concealed.


    The cameras were positioned in a typical three-point triangulation pattern. It covered the entire room - no matter where Lin Qingwan stood, her every movement was recorded.


    Ye Fei bit his lower lip showing his concern. The person who installed these cameras was extremely professional and definitely not the average person.


    He looked around the room again, when he was sure there were no other cameras he stepped out.


    Seeing Ye Fei come out empty-handed, she figured there was no camera inside the bedroom and relaxed a little.


    Ye Fei said, "I have found three cameras in the bedroom, one camera in the suite bathroom, and two cameras in the living room. Altogether, there are seven cameras."


    Hearing this, Lin Qingwan almost fainted. She looked back at Ye Fei, "Why didn¡¯t you take the cameras down?"


    Ye Fei gestured for Lin Qingwan to follow him outside.


    After Ye Fei checked the car inside-out, he firmly said, "Rest assured, there is no camera or listening device inside the car."


    "Who the hell did this? Could it have been the shooter?" Lin Qingwan was restless.


    "Impossible. These cameras are installed in your bedroom. The shooter could have killed you a hundred times over if he had gotten into your house." Ye Fei shook his head, "The question now is not who put the cameras there, but what to do about it. We don''t know how long the cameras have been in place. It¡¯s likely that someone has seen you change changing in your room."


    Lin Qingwan''s face was red. Why had such a shameful thing happened to her...?


    If it hadn¡¯t been for Ye Fei, she would never have known about these cameras. If something embarrassing about her were leaked, she would be ruined.


    Lin Qingwan frowned, trying to recall how many times she had changed clothes recently and whether she had been walking around her room nude.


    Of course, the answer was yes.


    When Lin Qingwan was in her bedroom she was very comfortable, so she found no need to wear clothes and enjoyed the feeling of freedom that came with it.


    Now that feeling of freedom was gone.


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    "Ye Fei... I don''t know how long these cameras have been here. What if I''ve already been seen by someone? What should we do? Call the police?" Lin Qingwan frowned.


    "It''s better not to call the police." Ye Fei whispered.


    "Why?" Lin Qingwan was surprised. She didn¡¯t know what he meant.


    Ye Fei smiled, "Letting the police deal with this is a waste of time. As soon as the police arrive, the person who installed the cameras will surely know. Not to mention it will arouse suspicion, if they release the videos they secretly saved, the consequences... Manager Lin, you know better than I do."


    Lin Qingwan understood. "But you have already removed a camera; it will arouse suspicion."


    "I only took out one and it was in the closet. Whoever installed it will think it was broken while you were hanging up clothes or something. As long as we don''t move any other cameras, they will think nothing of it." Ye Fei smiled. He had already considered everything.


    "What should we do now? We have to find the man who installed the cameras and get back those videos!" Lin Qingwan worriedly said.


    "That''s for certain. But it¡¯s late now. It¡¯s impossible to find that person today. We first need a safe place to sleep."


    Ye Fei looked at his watch. It was already one o''clock in the morning.


    "Find a place to sleep? Where can we sleep?" Lin Qingwas asked.


    "Manager Lin, you are the chairwoman and president of the Ya Lai Group. Do you have only one house?" Ye Fei looked at Lin Qingwan expectantly.


    The Ya Lai Group probably had 400 or 500 million in assets. Lin Qingwan was a billionaire; it was normal for people like her to have three or more houses.


    But Lin Qingwan reluctantly shook her head, "The Ya Lai Group¡¯s profits are not high enough. I spend most of the money, and there isn¡¯t enough left over to buy real estate. Even this villa was given to me by someone else."


    "Then we''ll have to stay in a hotel." Ye Fei said helplessly.


    "I don''t want to stay in a hotel. Hotels are unsafe." The shooting incident made Lin Qingwan fearful.


    "Hotels are not very safe, but where else can we stay? We can''t sleep on the street." Ye Fei looked at Lin Qingwan and smiled, "I don¡¯t mind; give me a blanket and I can sleep on a cement pipe. But I presume you won¡¯t put up with that."


    Lin Qingwan blinked her eyes as a thought came to her, "Murong invited me to stay at her apartment today, but I didn¡¯t agree. Now we have no other choice."


    "You¡¯re the boss, I agree. Although Murong is a little slow, at least she is a police officer. She can help protect you." Ye Fei started the car.


    Lin Qingwan made a phone call to Murong and told her she had changed her mind.


    Murong wasn¡¯t sleeping. Hearing that Lin Qingwan was coming over, she was very happy, and said she would wait for Lin Qingwan and prepare a late-night snack for them.


    On the way, Lin Qingwan explained things to Ye Fei. Murong lived in a high-end apartment complex called Purple Apartments. She and three other beautiful women - a nurse, a college teacher, and a model - often went out late. There were five rooms in that apartment, and Lin Qingwan could live in the remaining empty room.


    As Ye Fei was driving the car, he suddenly thought of a serious problem... Five rooms - where would he stay?

 Chapter 13 Is He Even Human

    It was already two o''clock in the morning when Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan arrived at the Purple Apartments complex.


    The temperature difference between day and night is very noticeable in Shanghai. As Lin Qingwan got out of the car, she felt a cold breeze. Shivering a little, she told Ye Fei that Murong was on the eighth floor and hurried inside while he parked the car.


    Every part of Purple Apartments was nice, but it had no parking lot. People could only park on the sides of the street.


    In the middle of the night, almost all the parking spaces were occupied. Ye Fei drove around for 10 minutes before he finally found a spot.


    Before he could get out of the car, however, Ye Fei heard the sound of high heels tapping on the ground. Looking around, he saw a slim figure approaching.


    She was a beautiful woman wearing a sexy red skirt. Her shoes were similarly red and a light gray fur scarf was draped over her shoulders, increasing her sex-appeal.


    However, the beautiful woman was walking unevenly; she looked drunk.


    It was two o''clock in the morning. A sexy, drunk beauty stumbling around ¨C Ye Fei became a little concerned for her safety.


    Thinking she was likely to be a prostitute, Ye Fei followed her for a while with his eyes, but he chose not to intervene.


    Then, Ye Fei noticed the three thugs following behind the beautiful woman.


    These three men hid in the shadows behind her with greedy eyes, as if they wanted to peel off her clothes. They were whispering amongst themselves:


    "Boss... We came all the way here from the nightclub just to fuck her; why won¡¯t this drunk bitch fall down already?"


    "Yeah, at this rate she will make it back home, and we¡¯ll have gone out of our way for nothing."


    "Boss... Let''s just do it. She''s so drunk, she won¡¯t even recognize us."


    Sitting in the car, Ye Fei could clearly hear their words and understood what had happened. The beautiful woman had gone to a nightclub and those three men got her drunk. They were waiting for her to pass out so they could rape her.


    Since she was partying out in nightclubs this late, she was probably not a housewife. After they raped her, they would give her a few hundred Yuan, and as usual the woman would stay quiet. A common practice with thugs like these in the area.


    The leader thought for a while; he was ready to do it. "Let¡¯s go. She¡¯s so hot, we can''t let her go. C¡¯mon brothers, let''s use something to cover our faces and grab her."


    The three men pulled up their jackets to cover their faces, and crept up to the beautiful woman from behind.


    The beautiful woman saw their shadows on the ground and suddenly turned around. Seeing the three masked men, she exclaimed, "You... What are you doing?"


    "Honey, you can really hold your liquor. Why don''t we find a quiet spot to have a few drinks?"


    "How about my house?¡± Said one of the men ¡°I have a collection of red wine, and... I can teach you a few physical exercises. I am a fitness trainer, I can work all kinds of positions."


    The three men were shameless, especially the fitness trainer. With the coat covering his face, his abs could be seen through the elastic black vest he wore underneath.


    "No... What the hell are you doing? I''m not that kind of girl!"


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    The beautiful woman screamed out.


    "Cut the shit. Damao, cover her mouth, don''t let her attract any unneeded attention," the leader ordered.


    The fitness trainer used his strong arms to grab the beautiful woman''s white neck and covered her mouth. He grinned, "Scream all you like. Even if you break your vocal chords, no one will come to save you."


    These three men dragged the woman into the nearest alley. They didn''t care that the place was dirty, and started tearing off her skirt.


    Ye Fei wouldn¡¯t interfere in a messy sexual relationship, but this was obviously a rape in progress. He had to intervene.


    After all, Ye Fei was a soldier, with a sense of justice.


    He got out of the car and headed to the alley.


    The three men were very nervous. Looking around, they saw a man get out of the BMW and walk toward them. One of them suddenly pointed to Ye Fei and growled, "Mind your own damn business! Fuck off!"


    Thinking Ye Fei was just a young guy, the fitness trainer came out arrogantly. "Alright, you wanna play hero and save the damsel in distress? Look at these muscles! I¡¯ll crush you!"


    "Get the fuck out of here! If you keep standing there, we''ll mess you up," the leader angrily said.


    Ye Fei squinted his eyes. This was his first time seeing such arrogant rapists.


    "Are you deaf? Get lost!" Seeing Ye Fei did not intend to leave, one of the thugs raised his leg to kick him.


    Against these men, Ye Fei didn¡¯t even need to use a throwing knife. With his fingers extended rigidly like a bony club, he struck the thug on the shin.


    The man took a few steps back at once, his leg shaking.


    "Ow! This guy''s hand is made of steel! It hurts, it hurts..." the man wailed.


    The other two were stunned, and then the trainer roared, "Are you looking for trouble? I''ll kill you, man!"


    The trainer was very tall, much bigger than Ye Fei. He looked like a Chinese Arnold Schwarzenegger. With hands like sandbags, he swung toward Ye Fei''s chest.


    Ye Fei did not dodge. Rapidly closing with the fitness trainer, he stuck out his fingers and stabbed directly into his ribs.


    The fitness trainer immediately felt pain exploding from his chest. All his strength blew out of him and he dropped limp on the ground, convulsing in pain.


    The leader froze. His two brothers were normally good at fighting. The fitness trainer in particular, could often take on three or four men at a time. Why were they acting so soft when facing this kid?


    "I''ll kill you!"


    The boss took out a pocket knife, flourishing and swinging it around in front of Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei had a stone cold expression. With a quick strike forward, he grabbed the leader¡¯s wrist and robbed him of the knife. With his other hand, he delivered an ear-ringing slap, and coldly said, "Listen here, you do not deserve to play with a knife in front of me."


    The leader covered his face and struggled to stand up, trying to protest.


    Then, Ye Fei swung his hand, and the pocket knife shot past the tip of the thug¡¯s nose, embedding itself in the wall on his side with only the handle sticking out.


    The leader was stunned. If this flying knife had hit him, he knew what the result would have been.


    There would be a hole right through his body.


    How much strength did this guy have? Was he even human?

 Chapter 14 Dangerous Beauty

    Murong was in the kitchen, humming to herself while preparing some food. She heard a knock at the door, and knew Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan had arrived. She hurriedly opened the door, but saw only Lin Qingwan standing by herself. , "Sister Qingwan, where is Ye Fei?"


    "Ye Fei, Ye Fei, Ye Fei! It¡¯s only been a day, and your soul is hooked by Ye Fei," Lin Qingwan laughed. "He¡¯s parking the car. He will be here soon. Wow, Murong, it smells good in here."


    Lin Qingwan hadn¡¯t had much of a dinner, so she was quite hungry. When she walked to the table, she saw a whole array of dishes, and even a bottle of chilled red wine.


    It was not a late-night snack, it was a candlelit dinner.


    "Sister Murong, has a fairy moved your heart? Be honest - do you have a crush on my bodyguard, Ye Fei?" Lin Qingwan chuckled.


    "Sister Qingwan, what do you mean? I made these dishes for you!" Murong said with a red face.


    "You think I can''t see into your little mind?" Lin Qingwan ran over to tickle Murong.


    In the midst of their tickle fight, Murong suddenly said, "Hey, listen. Sounds like someone is fighting outside¡­"


    Lin Qingwan went over to the window. She could hear a commotion downstairs. "Sounds like Ye Fei''s voice!"


    Murong''s expression changed. She knew how impulsive Ye Fei was, having dared to throw a knife in the interrogation room. It would be bad if he hurt someone.


    Murong grabbed a coat from the couch and ran downstairs in her slippers.


    "Hey, that¡¯s my coat!" Lin Qingwan chased after her, but Murong was already in the elevator, the doors closing behind her.


    Lin Qingwan smacked her lips, looked at a table covered with food, and smiled. "Still trying to pretend? Murong must be fascinated by Ye Fei."


    Murong ran downstairs in Lin Qingwan''s coat, and followed the sound of screaming to the alley where Ye Fei was beating up three men.


    "Ye Fei... What''s wrong with you? Why are you beating them up?"


    Murong hadn¡¯t seen that beautiful woman in a red skirt. She thought Ye Fei was beating others for sport.


    "Oh, because they deserve it."


    Ye Fei glanced at Murong before giving one of the thugs another kick.


    "Why are you still hitting them? What if you end up beating them to death?" Murong grabbed Ye Fei¡¯s hand.


    "Ow, ow!"


    The three men lay on the ground moaning, unable to stand up as Ye Fei rained down blows upon them.


    "Murong... Stop accusing him, he saved me." When the beautiful woman saw it was Murong, she relaxed a little.


    "Manman?! What are you doing here? Ye Fei saved you? What¡¯s going on?" Murong was confused..


    "Ye Fei? Is he your colleague? He''s amazing! He easily knocked down these three hooligans on his own. Yes, these three men tried to molest me while I was drunk, but he came just in time." The woman walked over and mercilessly trampled the thugs with her high heels.


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    "Ye Fei is not my colleague, he is Sister Qingwan''s bodyguard, and an army veteran... Ye Fei, this is my roommate, Liu Manman. Thank you for saving her." Murong introduced the two people to each other.


    "Oh, Liu Manman." Ye Fei looked at Liu Manman. He surmised she must be the model that Lin Qingwan mentioned.


    Liu Manman was really beautiful. She had a great figure, but she liked to really cake on the makeup; Ye Fei didn''t like this kind of style.


    "What about those three?" Ye Fei looked at Murong.


    "These three men attempted a rape. This is a very serious matter, so I have to take them to the bureau. Ye Fei, please take Manman upstairs."


    "Huh? You''re a cop?" The three men were dumbfounded. They did not expect the police to show up so quickly.


    "Cut the chatter! Where do you get the nerve?"


    Murong called the station. After five minutes, a patrol car arrived.


    The driver of the patrol car knew Murong was the one who caught the shooter earlier. "Officer Murong, what big case have you cracked this time?" he asked in amazement.


    "I caught these three rapists."


    Murong pushed the three men into the back of the patrol car.


    "Officer Murong... you are really something. You¡¯re definitely getting a promotion after all this." The officer looked at Murong in adoration.


    Murong waved to Ye Fei and Liu Manman and the car drove away.


    "Let''s go upstairs," Ye Fei said.


    Liu Manman turned to Ye Fei. Suddenly, she frowned and covered her head. "I¡¯m... I''m dizzy. Can you help me?"


    "All right." Ye Fei answered decisively. Without hesitation, he put her slender arm around his shoulders.


    Ye Fei smelled a charming, refreshing fragrance.


    Ye Fei recognized it as Chanel No. 13. Liu Manman had very luxurious tastes.


    He supported Liu Manman over a few steps, but it felt very awkward. He smiled, "I''ll just carry you."


    "What?"


    Liu Manman was surprised. ¡°I ask you to help me and you just want to grope me! Shameless.¡±


    She was about to refuse, but suddenly felt herself fly up into the air.


    Ye Fei didn''t wait for her to say anything. He held her in his arms and ran towards the door.


    Liu Manman''s body was very light. Her skin was warm from all the alcohol in her blood. Ye Fei felt like he was holding a fleshy stove. Looking down, he saw her two big eyes were tightly closed, long eyelashes trembling slightly.


    She was a delicate, beautiful woman. Any man couldn¡¯t help but care for her. Her light pink lips, like a delicate flower, were irresistible.


    Even Ye Fei couldn¡¯t help but feel his heart rate increase for a moment. He hastily focused on his ancestral meditation technique and quickly calmed his body.


    " Liu Manman sure is a beauty," he thought to himself.


    Her smile and frown can move any man¡¯s heart.


    In ancient times, she would be a dangerous beauty, just like Daji and Bao Si.

 Chapter 15 The Throwing Knife

    Ye Fei took Liu Manman into the elevator and put her down.


    Her face was red. While she was being carried by Ye Fei, all that alcohol had made her want to vomit.


    As soon as the elevator doors opened, Liu Manman rushed to the toilet to throw up.


    Lin Qingwan had been waiting for a long time and Ye Fei and Murong still hadn¡¯t come back. She looked longingly at the array of dishes in front of her. She pinched a potato fry and was about to throw it in her mouth when Liu Manman suddenly rushed in and startled her, followed by Ye Fei.


    "Ye Fei, what''s going on? Who is that woman? What¡¯s up with her?" Lin Qingwan tossed the fry into her mouth.


    "Her name is Liu Manman, Murong''s roommate - the model. She¡®s drunk and three hooligans were picking on her outside. I beat them up and Murong is taking them to the police station."


    Ye Fei took off his coat and hung it on a hanger. When he saw the table covered with dishes, he said, "Did Murong make all this? She¡¯s all over the place, but seems she¡¯s a good cook, at least."


    "Murong cooked all this especially for you. I¡¯m just taking advantage." Lin Qingwan glanced at her mobile phone. "Murong said not to wait for her."


    "Alright." Ye Fei pulled out a chair and sat opposite Lin Qingwan.


    While carrying out missions in foreign countries, he occasionally had the luxury of a hot meal, but it was usually just junk food like burgers and fries. He was tired of eating that kind of food.


    He had only eaten two small bowls of noodles that evening, and by now he was so hungry that every one of Murong¡¯s dishes tasted like a delicacy.


    Lin Qingwan didn¡¯t have that much of an appetite. She soon got full and just watched Ye Fei gobbling up plate after plate, like a refugee at the end of a grueling journey.


    After a while, a flushing sound came from the toilet and Liu Manman walked out, supporting herself against the wall. Her face was pale.


    "Manman, would you like some?" Lin Qingwan hurriedly said.


    Liu Manman feebly waved her hands and went into her room. Before closing the door, she gave Ye Fei an accusing glance.


    Ye Fei saved her, and Liu Manman was originally very grateful. However, Ye Fei then proceeded to pick her up without her consent. In Liu Manman''s view, Ye Fei had taken advantage of her drunkenness to grope her.


    Ye Fei''s status in Liu Manman¡¯s mind thus suffered a disastrous decline. There was now no difference between him and the would-be rapists.


    Seeing Liu Manman''s resentful eyes, Ye Fei could only return a helpless smile.


    It was three o''clock in the morning when they finished eating and Murong had still not returned.


    Lin Qingwan yawned. She usually went to bed at 10 o''clock, but now she was staying up late waiting for Murong.


    "Where can I sleep?" Ye Fei scratched his head and asked the question that had been bothering him all night.


    Lin Qingwan shrugged, "You can sleep on the couch for now." She entered the spare bedroom, changed into pink Snoopy pajamas, and fell asleep on the bed without bothering to shower.


    Ye Fei lay on the couch and covered himself with a towel.


    He had just flown in from South America and was jetlagged, so he was not really sleepy yet.


    Ye Fei closed his eyes and went over the events of the day in his mind. He thought that this city was also like a battlefield in a way; full of crisis.


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    In any case, Ye Fei could not sleep. He took out a rectangular wooden box from his jacket pocket and put it on the table.


    "Ancestors in heaven!" Ye Fei''s put his hands together piously before the box. Then he carefully opened the lid.


    An exquisite throwing knife lay on a red silk cushion inside.


    The blade of this throwing knife was three inches long. Its whole body was made of iron, and the blade gleamed with star-like light. Holding his hand over it, even without touching the knife, he could feel its chilly aura; it gave him goose bumps.


    The most striking feature was a small engraving of the character ¡°Li¡± at the bottom of the hilt.


    This throwing knife was an heirloom of Ye Fei¡¯s family. He used to wonder why the character "Li" was engraved on it, and not the character "Ye".


    He once asked his grandfather this question.


    Grandpa Ye Chong was sitting on a rock, smoking his tobacco. His eyes lit up like stars. He said, "Fei, our ancestral knife-throwing skill was taught to us by a master called Li. He failed in love and his life was lonely. Thus, with no heir, our family became his spiritual descendants."


    Thinking of his grandpa, Ye Fei sighed.


    When Ye Fei was 12 years old, his grandfather gave this ancestral throwing knife to him and told him that on the day Ye Fei learned to use this throwing knife with his breath, he would know where his grandpa went.


    Ye Fei was now 21 years old and his grandpa had been missing for nine years.


    Ye Fei returned home now not only for his comrades'' death benefits, but also to look for his grandfather.


    Ye Fei fought on the battlefield for nine years, but he still couldn''t use the throwing knife with his breath.


    His grandfather had said that the state of the warrior was divided into talent and endeavor.


    Those with endeavor used the throwing knife with their strength.


    Those with talent used the throwing knife with their breath.


    After working hard for so many years and practicing according to his family¡¯s ancestral techniques, Ye Fei had cultivated the internal force in his body known as qi, and he could pour this internal force into other things.


    Ye Fei could pour his internal force into common things like plastic dinner knives and pencils, and he could deal a lot of damage with them in this manner.


    However, for some reason, Ye Fei was unable to pour his internal force into this ancestral throwing knife.


    Even if he held it in his hands and exerted himself until his face was red and his forehead was covered in sweat, he still couldn''t move this particular throwing knife.


    "Haste makes waste. It seems that I am far from that state of talent. The most important thing now is to protect Lin Qingwan. I can practice later."


    Eventually, night passed, and a red sun came out.


    "Ah, what a fine, sunny day!" A beautiful woman in black lace pajamas emerged yawning from one of the bedrooms.


    She seemed a little short-sighted and did not see Ye Fei on the sofa. She went past him into the toilet without closing the door. Squatting on the toilet, she was ready to urinate when she suddenly saw there was a strange man sitting on the sofa in front of her.


    Chu Mo rubbed her eyes in case she was still dreaming. There really was a strange man on the sofa.


    "Ah!!!"

 Chapter 16 Catch the Pervert

    "Ah!!! Pervert, pervert!"


    Chu Mo''s face was full of fear as she screamed in the silent morning.


    "Pervert? Where? I¡¯ll get him!" Ye Fei stood up from the sofa, ready to fight.


    Looking around, he couldn''t find anyone other than the terrified woman screaming her lungs out on the toilet.


    "Honey, are you OK? Do you have a fever? Where is the pervert?"


    Ye Fei walked over and stretched out his hand to touch Chu Mo''s forehead, and then touched his own. Surprisingly, they were about the same temperature.


    "Ah!"


    Seeing this strange man not only peeping on her but also stretching out his hand to touch her head, Chu Mo¡¯s snow-white body shivered in her black lace underwear.


    "What''s with the noise? It¡¯s early, let people sleep!" Liu Manman yawned, rubbing her sleepy eyes as she walked out of her room. She went straight to the water dispenser and made herself a cup of hot water, covering her head with her hand as she drank.


    She was hung over. Combined with last night''s attempted rape, which scared her so much that she felt her head almost crack, she now had a splitting headache.


    She was only wearing very thin black silk pajamas. Her nipples could be clearly seen, but Ye Fei respectfully avoided looking.


    Ye Fei had no interest in looking at her. He already did not like women like Liu Manman, though now his eyes also revealed a hint of annoyance.


    Liu Manman had a headache and was in an extremely bad mood. Ye Fei¡¯s look also came off as one of disgust, and that thoroughly infuriated her. She threw the cup in her hands right at him and turned back to her room. Slamming the door behind her, she screamed, "Why are you shouting, damn it?!¡±


    Liu Manman''s bad attitude startled Chu Mo.


    She didn¡¯t understand why Liu Manman had no reaction upon seeing this pervert and then suddenly exploded like that, as if not against the pervert, but against Chu Mo.


    Chu Mo, who rarely interacted with strangers, did not know what she should do.


    Fortunately, the commotion outside woke up Lin Qingwan, who now came out of her room.


    Lin Qingwan''s appearance was completely different from Chu Mo and Liu Manman¡¯s.


    She was not as bewildered as Chu Mo, nor as untidy as Liu Manman.


    Although it was early in the morning, Lin Qingwan had quickly done her makeup and put on an elegant dress. With her cold and aloof expression, she was almost perfect.


    As Lin Qingwan walked out to the living room, she immediately dominated the situation with her imposing manner. "What''s going on?"


    "I don''t know. She just started screaming ¡®pervert¡¯. I looked around, but in the end there was nothing," Ye Fei said helplessly.


    "You... You..." Chu Mo pointed to Ye Fei''s nose and finally said, "The pervert is you!"


    "The pervert is me?" Ye Fei pointed to himself with surprise and scratched his head, "What did I do? Why are you insulting my virtue?"


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    "Miss Chu, this is Ye Fei, my bodyguard. Something happened to me yesterday, so I had no choice but to stay here with him. What did he do to make you so angry? Did he sneak into your room and steal your underwear? Whatever he did, say it. I will punish him severely."


    Lin Qingwan looked composed on the surface, but she was gloating in her heart. She was thinking, "Hey, Ye Fei, I couldn¡¯t find an excuse to reduce your salary before, but now I have the perfect opportunity. You creeping out Chu Mo is just the excuse I needed!¡±


    "No, no, no, he didn''t steal my underwear." Chu Mo waved her hands.


    "So what''s the matter?"¡¡Lin Qingwan asked.


    ¡°He...he...¡± Chu Mo''s face looked like a succulent red apple. She equivocated for a long time, but couldn''t bring herself to speak out.


    Would she say that Ye Fei was peeping on her while she was on the toilet?


    No matter whether Ye Fei saw her or not, if she spoke out, she would be forever ashamed to show her face in that apartment.


    Crystal drops appeared in Chu Mo''s eyes. She suddenly burst into tears and fled back to her room.


    "Ye Fei, think about what did! You made Chu Mo cry."


    If Chu Mo wasn¡¯t going to say anything, Lin Qingwan¡¯s plan to reduce Ye Fei''s salary was doomed to fail.


    "Oh, I guess she just had a nightmare." Ye Fei yawned. He had realized what happened. He had just seen her go to the toilet.


    Ye Fei simply taught her a lesson - if she did not close the door when she went to the toilet, she couldn''t blame anyone for walking in on her.


    Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan stood outside her door, staring at each other.


    The door of Chu Mo''s room suddenly opened.


    She now wore a white shirt, a black skirt, flesh-colored stockings, glasses, and high heels. She carried a satchel containing an economics textbook.


    Seeing Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan still standing outside her door, she blushed and lowered her head before running away. At the front door, Chu Mo ran into Murong, who¡¯d just returned. Murong looked tired, her eyes bloodshot.


    Chu Mo lowered her head and walked past Murong as if she did not see her.


    "What''s wrong with Chu Mo?" Murong was confused. Her relationship with Chu Mo was very good. It was highly unusual for Chu Mo not to say hello to her.


    Ye Fei glanced at Murong helplessly and said this had nothing to do with him.


    "Humph. No wonder everyone says she¡¯s a finicky teacher," Lin Qingwan grumbled. She passed Ye Fei a check, "This is an advance of 50,000 Yuan for you. Go deposit it at the bank. I am too tired to go to the office this morning, so I¡¯ll be here. Murong will stay with me, so you do not have to worry about my safety."


    Ye Fei grabbed the check and looked at Murong. Although this cop was a little slow, she wasn¡¯t bad in a fight. She could protect Lin Qingwan, so Ye Fei felt comfortable going out alone.

 Chapter 17 The Pickpocket

    Ye Fei went down to the street and went to the bank around the corner. He wanted to transfer the money to his comrades¡¯ families.


    Unfortunately, the bank was closed. The building was being renovated, and the next nearest bank was seven bus stops away.


    It was the morning rush hour and the bus was full of office workers, crowded together like sardines in a can.


    When the bus arrived, Ye Fei took one look at the crowd inside and decided he wouldn¡¯t even be able set foot inside, so he gave up the opportunity to take the bus and ran to the bank on foot.


    In a straight line, it was only four kilometers away.


    This distance was nothing to Ye Fei, who did regular strength training and jogged 10 kilometers at a time.


    However, Ye Fei''s movement was a little out of place in the fast-paced life of the big city and attracted the attention of all the passersby, who thought he was a freak.


    Ye Fei didn''t care about these people. He maintained a constant speed and soon reached the door of the bank.


    Since working hours had just begun, there weren¡¯t that many people in the bank. Ye Fei took a number from the machine and quickly transferred the money to his comrades¡¯ families.


    Seeing the money had been successfully transferred, Ye Fei thanked the clerk with a smile and left.


    Outside the bank, Ye Fei saw an acquaintance - the same university professor, Chu Mo, who¡¯d just accused him of being a pervert. "Oh! You again?" he thought.


    Chu Mo held an envelope in her hand, which probably contained a thick stack of bills. Ye Fei guessed there were several tens of thousands of Yuan inside.


    After carefully counting the money, she put a hand on her chest and sighed before putting the envelope in her bag.


    Ye Fei had just had a misunderstanding with Chu Mo, so he didn''t want to talk to her. He lowered his gaze and trotted away. Besides, he felt this woman had a bit of a problem. She wasn¡¯t quite normal.


    With her bad eyesight, plus being focused on her envelope, Chu Mo did not notice Ye Fei as he slunk past her.


    As Ye Fei turned the corner, he noticed two men walk out from across the street, their eyes tightly focused on Chu Mo.


    There was no doubt that Chu Mo was a beautiful woman, and her body had a unique scholastic flavor. No matter where she was, she would attract plenty of men¡¯s gazes.


    But Ye Fei saw something else in the eyes of the two men.


    Greed.


    Greed for money.


    The two men¡¯s target was the envelope full of money in Chu Mo¡¯s purse.


    Ye Fei knew there was a kind of thief who hid outside banks, and when they saw someone leave the bank with a lot of money, they would follow them and steal their money in a crowded, chaotic, noisy place.


    They hid across the street, which prevented the security camera in front of the bank from filming them.


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    These kinds of thieves were usually habitual offenders. Their success rate was very high and they could steal plenty of money every time.


    Chu Mo lowered her head and hurriedly walked toward the nearest bus stop.


    The two men glanced at each other and followed her.


    Ye Fei saw it all.


    Chu Mo, that silly woman, completely failed to realize that she was already being followed by the thieves.


    "Humph! None of my business," Ye Fei grumbled coldly. He was still angry at her and didn''t want to intervene.


    However, the words of his mentor, "Eagle Feather", suddenly echoed in his mind, "Ye Fei, the soldier¡¯s duty is dedication. As long as we can make people feel safe and happy, it¡¯s all worth it. Remember that. You should often ask yourself: ¡®if I do this, will I regret it?¡¯."


    Ye Fei''s face showed a bitter smile. He was a good soldier in the army, and he was also a good man in the city.


    If Ye Fei didn''t intervene, he would regret it.


    So, Ye Fei followed Chu Mo onto the bus. Rush hour had not passed yet, so it was still very crowded on board.


    Chu Mo soon noticed that Ye Fei, that nasty man, was on the bus with her, standing very close to her.


    Chu Mo was afraid, thinking this pervert wanted to assault her. She started retreating further into the bus, but no matter where she went, Ye Fei was close behind.


    "You..."


    Ye Fei''s shameless behavior made Chu Mo completely furious. Her face turned red.


    If they were in the wilderness, Chu Mo would be scared speechless. However, on the bus full of people, Chu Mo was brave. She pointed to Ye Fei''s nose in public and said, "Why are you always following me? What are you up to?"


    Chu Mo''s words caught the attention of many of the passengers, and they all looked at Ye Fei with surprise.


    Ye Fei wasn''t flustered at all. He smiled, "You go your way and I go my way. You don¡¯t own this bus. Why can¡¯t I ride it? Are you in charge of where I can and cannot stand?"


    "You..."


    Chu Mo was a university professor. Usually she was glib, but this time she couldn''t think of any words to rebuke Ye Fei.


    "You... You''re a pervert! I''m going to get off the bus. Please don''t follow me." Chu Mo had no other choice. She could only change buses to get rid of Ye Fei.


    This was Ye Fei''s plan. If Chu Mo moved to another bus, the two thieves would not be able to steal her money. Although Ye Fei was wronged, Chu Mo''s money would be saved, so he will have done a good thing.


    The next stop was coming soon.


    Chu Mo was a little nervous. She looked back and found that her bag was open.


    Her heart froze. She stuck her hand in the bag to feel around and realized that the envelope full of money was gone.


    Someone stole it!


    Chu Mo''s brain was blank. She just screamed: "Someone stole my money! Help!"

 Chapter 18 Catching The Thief

    Hearing the girl scream, the bus driver responded quickly. He pulled over by the side of the road and locked the doors in order to prevent the thief from leaving.


    All the passengers immediately looked in the direction of the screaming. It was time for work and they were in hurry. Most of them gave her dissatisfied looks.


    "What do you mean, Miss? Have you lost something?" A middle-aged man in a suit looked at his watch with an annoyed expression.


    Chu Mo''s face turned red as she struggled to speak through her tears, "I... I lost my money! 43,000 Yuan in a brown envelope... I put it in my bag."


    "More than 40,000 Yuan? You dummy! You thought you can go on public transport with that much cash on you and no one would try to steal it? Well, that¡¯s just great! Now we have to wait for the police to come and everyone will be late for work," the middle-aged man sighed.


    "Oh, that¡¯s just my luck! If I¡¯m late for work today, the boss will deduct my salary."


    "You had that much money and didn¡¯t take a taxi? What''s wrong with you?"


    The other passengers grumbled and complained.


    When the passengers realized they couldn''t get off the bus, they took out their phones to call their bosses one by one.


    "I have called the police. Everyone, just be patient. The police will be here in 10 minutes at the most!" The bus driver announced through the speakers.


    "Manager Xu, I am going to be a little late this morning, 20 minutes at most. It¡¯s not my fault; I just have bad luck today. Some girl''s money - more than 40,000 Yuan - was stolen by a thief on the bus. Now I have to wait for the police to come here."


    "Miss Li, please tell our supervisor I''m going to be late today. If he must deduct my salary, so be it, but please don¡¯t let him write up a complaint!"


    At the same time, the other passengers also made sure they still had their own wallets and digital devices. Knowing they were still on their bodies, the passengers relaxed.


    "Well, Miss, didn¡¯t you say someone was following you when you just got on the bus? Could that man be the thief?" a middle-aged woman said.


    "Yes, he followed you; maybe he is the thief!" Several men joined in, pointing at Ye Fei.


    Suddenly, everyone on the bus was looking at Ye Fei with contempt.


    Ye Fei smiled helplessly. He only wanted to help Chu Mo, and this was the result. Being a good person these days was hard...


    Ye Fei sighed. He did not say anything, only stared at Chu Mo and hoped she could explain things to the passengers.


    From beginning to end, Ye Fei was never close enough to Chu Mo to have a chance of stealing anything. He believed Chu Mo should be aware of this truth.


    However, Chu Mo only lowered her head and nervously fussed with her clothes. She seemed to not want to defend Ye Fei.


    This made Ye Fei even more frustrated. He coldly looked at the two actual thieves. He clearly knew these two were the thieves; one of them had the money on his person.


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    But this time, Ye Fei didn''t want to help Chu Mo catch these thieves. If it weren¡¯t for Chu Mo''s vigilance, when these men stole her money, Ye Fei could have caught them red handed.


    The thieves would not get away once the police arrived, so Ye Fei just had to wait.


    Just then, a college-aged girl bit her lips, took a deep breath, and said with a lot of courage, "I know who the thief is. I saw him."


    Then, the girl pointed to a man in a leather jacket standing beside Chu Mo, "He is the thief."


    First the man was stunned, then he angrily stared at the girl and said, "What did you say?!"


    The girl was startled, but she still said, "You stole the money! You thought your movements were well-concealed, but I saw the whole thing."


    "You¡¯re framing me! I didn¡¯t steal her money!" the man angrily said. "You should own up to your words if you¡¯re gonna speak. Where is the money, then?¡±


    The girl firmly said, "It''s you who stole the money. You were the only one who stood behind her just now."


    The man waved his hands angrily, "I¡¯m not going to stand here and listen to this! If you think I stole the money, then go ahead and search me. But, if you can''t find it, you¡¯ll be in a lot of trouble."


    "OK, I am not afraid you!" the girl showed her stubborn temper.


    "Little girl, don¡¯t bother," an old man said.


    "Why?" The girl was a little surprised. She was sure that the money was on this man''s person.


    "Yes, why not let her search him? If we can catch the thief, we won¡¯t have to sit here and wait for the cops," a woman whispered. "I just don¡¯t know if that guy is the thief."


    "I think you¡¯ll find it difficult. I¡¯ve seen this man before. He has been caught several times, but no stolen money was ever found on him."


    "Then he must have transferred the money."


    "These thieves are too well-organized. There¡¯s never enough evidence to have them arrested."


    Several old people started grumbling. Many of them had had their money stolen by those thieves and they didn¡¯t dare to carry any cash on their persons anymore.


    Not waiting for the girl to search him, the man took off his leather jacket and showed everyone there was no money hidden inside it.


    "Now you have nothing to say." The man put his jacket back on and glared at the college girl. "Satisfied?"


    "What¡­?" The college student was puzzled. She reached out to touch the man''s pockets, but there was really nothing inside. Her brain went blank. She did not understand where this man could have hidden the money.


    She not only failed to find the money, but that man was going to get her in trouble.


    "Maybe I was wrong. I''m sorry..." the girl apologized, nibbling on her lower lip. She knew the man indeed stole the money, but she couldn''t find the evidence. She felt very indignant and almost burst into tears.

 Chapter 19 Leeway

    "An apology? You just accused me of being a thief! You think an apology will cut it? If apologies meant anything, we wouldn¡¯t need the police!"


    The man stared at the college student superciliously. He smiled, "So what are you gonna do now, miss? In order to prove my innocence, I had to take off my clothes in public. I don¡¯t want you to compensate me - you just have to do the same thing I did."


    The college girl¡¯s expression changed. A man taking off his coat in public meant nothing, but it was shameful for a girl to take off her clothes.


    "Hey, she¡¯s just a kid, stop picking on her!" an old man said.


    "You trying to die old man? You can¡¯t talk to me like that, got it?"


    The old man felt a dagger poking at his waist. He immediately shut his mouth and retreated as much as he could. .


    "That sounds reasonable!" Joked a pervert on the bus.


    "If we don¡¯t hold people accountable, that isn¡¯t justice!¡± Said another, more serious than the first.


    "She accused him carelessly and he had to undress to prove his innocence. She even searched him in public - she violated his right of privacy!"


    A few young men were rallying against the college girl. Many people in the bus knew that these young men were probably accomplices of the man in the leather jacket, but they didn¡¯t dare speak out, not after seeing the man threaten the old guy who had spoken up first.


    Other passengers must have gotten braver seeing the support the man was gathering. Even though it was clear most people supported the girl, mob mentality and people underestimating how serious the situation was escalating had led to whoops and approval of the man¡¯s attempt to get the young lady to take something off.


    The female college student was innocent. She was slim, with bright eyes and graceful eyebrows; she wore a white dress and white boots.


    The college girl¡¯s face turned bright red. Her whole body started trembling, she felt helpless.


    Her pitiful glances at the other passengers'' faces found only indifference and fear.


    With so much support, the man in the leather jacket grew bolder. "Hurry up! It¡¯ll all be over when you take off your clothes."


    The female college student tightly held down her dress. She shook her head and said, "No way!"


    "No way? You¡¯re not going anywhere until you take it off! Here, let me help you..."


    He reached out to grasp the girl''s clothes, but a strong hand appeared and grabbed his wrist.


    The man felt like he was caught in a vice. When he looked up, he saw a young man standing beside him, watching him silently.


    This young man was Ye Fei, who was stigmatized as a pervert.


    "What''s he going to do?" The passengers were surprised to see Ye Fei act.


    Ye Fei looked at the man in the leather jacket, and glanced at his several accomplices. "Listen borther, you stole the money. Why are you making that girl take her clothes off?" he said softly.


    "Who the hell are you? What do you mean I stole the money? I already showed you, I don''t have any money. She framed me, alright?" The man in the leather jacket looked Ye Fei up and down and said, "What are you, her boyfriend? Are you trying to start a fight? Come on, I ain¡¯t afraid of you!"


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    Ye Fei''s expression did not change. He coldly said, "You know what you¡¯ve done. You just came here for the money, so you should leave this girl alone."


    The man in the leather jacket impatiently shouted, "What the hell are you talking about? Are you insane?"


    Ye Fei shook his head. He had given this man an opportunity to play nice, but the man chose not to take it. He was still being a jerk, so Ye Fei said, "I¡¯ll give you one last chance to let her go or you¡¯ll regret it."


    "Fuck you!" the man snarled. "You¡¯re just trying to frighten me, but I''m not scared. I¡¯m not going to let you tell me what to do!"


    "Yeah, tell him!!" a few men in the crowd shouted. They were obviously companions of the man in the leather jacket.


    Ye Fei frowned, "So, you don''t want to cut her some slack?"


    The man growled, "Screw you and your nonsense! If you don¡¯t mind your business, I¡¯ll break your face!"


    Ye Fei stayed quiet. He wasn¡¯t going to punch the man first. If Ye Fei had wanted to, he could thrash him in a heartbeat.


    Ye Fei just walked into the crowd and pulled out a young man with blonde hair.


    As soon as Ye Fei had brought the blonde to everyone¡¯s attention, the man in the leather jacket looked like he saw a ghost.


    Ye Fei pulled the young man over to the man in the leather jacket and calmly said, "I gave you a chance; you chose not to take it. Now, let''s make a few things clear."


    Ye Fei reached out to the young man and snatched the envelope from his pocket and threw it on the ground.


    Chu Mo exclaimed, "Hey, that¡¯s my envelope!"


    She hastily squatted down, picked up the envelope, and counted the money inside. When it was all accounted for, Chu Mo breathed a sigh of relief.


    "How is possible her money was in that young man¡¯s pocket?"


    "What''s going on?" The female college student looked with surprise at Ye Fei, then at the young man with yellow hair. "I... I swear I saw that man do it! The man in the leather jacket stole the money! How could he have given it to the other guy?"


    Ye Fei smiled, "Well, did you think he was just going to keep it on him after he took it?"


    The girl nodded thoughtfully, but she still couldn''t figure out when the pickpocket had transferred the money to his yellow-haired accomplice.


    The college girl wasn¡¯t the only one confused. The man in the leather jacket and the young man couldn''t figure out how Ye Fei saw them make the switch.


    Their skill was taught to them by their boss. It was so fast the average person wouldn¡¯t notice anything even if they stood face-to-face with them.


    It was like a magic trick.


    They had stolen plenty of money using this trick and the police had never found out who the thief was.


    But today, they were caught red-handed by a random young man.


    Who the hell was he?

 Chapter 20 Gang of Thieves

    At that moment, the police arrived, sirens blaring.


    Four policemen got off the car and asked the bus driver to explain what happened. Then they arrested the young man with blonde hair and put him in the back of the cruiser.


    "Officer, this man is an accomplice to the crime. Why aren¡¯t you arresting him?" An old man pointed to the man in the leather jacket.


    "Damn it, what the hell are you talking about? What the hell does this have to do with me? The money was on his body, he stole it, so what are you all looking at me for? How should I know what happened?" the man in the leather jacket protested.


    "You are obviously his accomplice! You don''t have any excuses!" the female college student shouted.


    A police officer ¨C his nametag said ¡®Dapeng¡¯ - came over and shut everyone up.


    "What''s going on? Can you elaborate on that?" he asked the old man. "Did this guy catch the thief?"


    Dapeng looked Ye Fei up and down. He had actually heard that there were highly-skilled pickpockets riding the buses in that area before. The police often dealt with this kind of thing, but they never caught the thieves, let alone found the stolen money.


    This was the first time the bus pickpockets were caught red-handed.


    Officer Dapeng looked at the man in the leather jacket a little coyly, "As the saying goes, ¡®catch a thief and you¡¯ll get the stolen money¡¯. Since the stolen money was found on another man... This kind of thing is very difficult to deal with. But since everyone says so, if you have a clear conscience, just follow me to the police station to make a statement."


    "I¡¯ll go; I am not afraid." The man in the leather jacket stared at Ye Fei. He held up two fingers and pointed to his own eyes, then at Ye Fei¡¯s.


    Officer Dapeng looked at Chu Mo. "The owner of the stolen property must come with us to the police station."


    "Officer, I have an emergency, I can¡¯t go to the police station with you right now." Chu Mo looked at her watch. She seemed very anxious to move on.


    Another young policeman came over. "An emergency? Everyone here is waiting to go to work; they all have emergencies. You have to go to the police station to leave a statement."


    "No, I really have an emergency."


    Chu Mo looked very restless. She could only call Officer Dapeng aside and explain her situation in whispers.


    "What? That really is an emergency. You are a great woman!"


    Officer Dapeng¡¯s expression changed. He saluted Chu Mo, "Professor Chu, there aren¡¯t enough kind people like you in our society. I will personally escort you, and after you finish your thing, you can go to the police station with me to make your statement. What do you think?"


    "Well... alright." At a lack for a better option, she could only nod.


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    As Chu Mo left, she looked back to Ye Fei with endless apology. Now she knew that she had misunderstood Ye Fei. He only wanted to protect her.


    However, she didn¡¯t have the time to properly apologize to him just then. In any case, Lin Qingwan was temporarily staying at Purple Apartments, so she intended to apologize to him later.


    With this event concluded, the bus started again on its route.


    Everyone on the bus looked at Ye Fei with admiration.


    An old woman even came and stood beside Ye Fei, whispering to him, "I know you''re a good man. I have a granddaughter... She is 24 years old this year, very beautiful. Do you have any interest in meeting her? I promise you¡¯ll like her, just come meet her."


    A few other old ladies overheard and began to crowd around Ye Fei, wanting to play matchmaker. Their enthusiasm embarrassed Ye Fei. He struggled to find a good excuse to get rid of them..


    The college girl noticed this with a smile. "Hey, that¡¯s my boyfriend. He¡¯s just shy; he doesn¡¯t like to talk."


    Then, she grabbed Ye Fei''s arm and nestled herself against his chest, making them look like an intimate pair.


    A peculiar maiden¡¯s scent rushed into Ye Fei''s nostrils, lingering in his nasal cavity. He looked at the girl. She was pure and pleasant, and she coyly stuck her tongue out at him with a wry face. Her cuteness moved Ye Fei¡¯s heart for a moment.


    "I see¡­ You two make a cute couple."


    The old women did not believe that they were lovers, but it would be impolite to challenge her claim, so they just smiled and left them alone.


    At the next station, the girl got off the bus with Ye Fei.


    "Hey, my name is Qin Xiaomeng," The girl introduced herself. She pointed to a huge campus further down the street and said, "I am a freshman in the economics department of Shanghai University."


    Ye fei scratched his head. "My name is Ye Fei."


    The girl looked at her watch and her expression immediately changed. "Ah, I am going to be late for class!¡± She found a piece of paper and a pen in her bag, scribbled something, and handed the note to Ye Fei. ¡°Here¡¯s my number. If you have time, call me."


    Seeing Ye Fei put away the note. The girl smiled at him and ran in the direction of the campus.


    Ye Fei thought for a while, looking at the pedestrians around him, then rapidly followed the girl.


    There was more than one thief on the bus. According to Ye Fei''s observations, it was a gang of at least five pickpockets all working together.


    Two men had been arrested by the police, but that still left three thieves unaccounted for.


    These three people got off the bus during the chaos and Ye Fei figured they would escape, given the opportunity.


    However, when Ye Fei got off the bus with Qin Xiaomeng, he looked around and found the same three men skulking across the street.

 Chapter 21 No One Will Come to Save You

    The three companions of the man in the leather jacket quietly followed Ye Fei and Qin Xiaomeng, completely unaware that their movements had already been discovered by Ye Fei.


    "This is all because of that girl and her boyfriend! We would have succeeded if it weren¡¯t for them!" growled the group¡¯s crew cut-sporting leader.


    "Boss, our two brothers were arrested by the police. There was nothing we could do!" one man whispered.


    "Boss, what should we do now?" another man said anxiously. "We have to find a way to save them!"


    "Of course we have to find a way to save them, but first, we need to teach these two college kids a good lesson. They¡¯ll learn to mess with us!" the man with the crew cut said coldly.


    "You¡¯re right. We have to teach them a lesson," the other two men agreed.


    The three men discussed their plan for a while, unafraid of being discovered by Qin Xiaomeng. Eventually, they walked into an alley to set their ambush. The spot was very secluded; people rarely walked through it.


    Qin Xiaomeng was talking to Ye Fei, so she was not aware of the danger awaiting her. She said goodbye and ran through the alley on her way to class.


    Although it was daytime, the alley was still a little gloomy.


    As Qin Xiaomeng entered the alley, she looked up and saw a man standing at the other end, cruelly glaring at her.


    The poor girl was scared. She had a bad feeling and hastily turned around, but two other men had appeared from behind.


    "What... What are you doing?"


    The three men smiled grimly. Anyone could tell that they were not good men.


    "What are we doing?"


    The three men slowly walked towards Qin Xiaomeng, backing her into a corner. "Because of your little intervention today, two of us were arrested. How do you think we should we settle this?"


    Qin Xiaomeng remembered seeing those three men on the bus. "You... You three are working together with the two thieves! Help! Help me!¡± She yelled desperately.


    "Hah, you can scream yourself hoarse, no one will come to save you here," the boss laughed.


    He wasn¡¯t worried at all. City people were timid these days. Even if someone did see them, they would probably just run away instead of intervening.


    "No one? I beg to differ." a calm voice suddenly came from behind the three men.


    It was Ye Fei. He had already been tracking the three men and had followed Qin Xiaomeng. Sure enough, he found the three men ready to attack her.


    "It''s you! Boy, we have a score to settle with you. I''m going to break you both in half!" the boss growled.


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    "You...? What are you doing here?" Qin Xiaomeng looked at Ye Fei in amazement.


    Ye Fei scratched his head and told the truth. "What do you mean what am I doing here? You called for help, so I came here to save you."


    "You idiot, if you heard me call for help, you should have called the police!" Qin Xiaomeng stared at Ye Fei harshly.


    Even though Ye Fei¡¯s sharp eyes could spot the two pickpockets switching the money, the gang of thieves believed in the old saying that claimed ¡°Even a hero will struggle against two men.¡± They were feeling particularly cocky, since they were three.


    Not to mention, Ye Fei looked rather thin. He looked like he couldn¡¯t put up much of a fight.


    "Hey, you bastard, you had your chance to get lost. Now, don¡¯t blame us for putting you in the hospital for a few months."


    The boss nodded and his two buddies picked up two bricks from the ground, ready to fight Ye Fei.


    Qin Xiaomeng was beautiful and cute. If These animals managed to hit her with a brick, her face would be disfigured forever.


    Ye Fei looked at them silently. Suddenly, he stepped forward and grabbed one man by the cheeks, squeezing his mouth open.


    Before he could react, Ye Fei shoved two fingers into the man''s mouth and took out a small blade.


    The man was dumbfounded. He really didn''t understand how Ye Fei could have known about the blade hidden under his tongue.


    He had practiced for many years and could now speak regularly with the blade hidden in his mouth without raising any suspicion from anyone.


    This hidden blade was meant to save his life in a tight spot.


    The man angrily stared at Ye Fei and snapped, "How did you know there was a blade under my tongue?!"


    Ye Fei had an indifferent expression. "I¡¯ve seen this kind of Kung Fu before. You haven¡¯t mastered it yet, so when you speak, your lips move unnaturally and your tongue is deliberately avoiding something. I could tell right away."


    The man was stunned. His lips moved quickly when he spoke; how could this young man see anything amiss?


    "Brothers, this guy has not only intervened with our plans, but also knows our secrets. Let¡¯s wreck him and cut his tongue out so he can¡¯t ever tell anyone!" The boss gave Ye Fei a murderous look.


    Qin Xiaomeng knew these three men wanted to kill Ye Fei. They were obviously ruthless. "Run!¡± she screamed and ran out in front of Ye Fei with her arms spread wide.


    Two bricks shot toward Qin Xiaomeng''s face, loudly tearing through the air.

 Chapter 22 Shattering Bricks

    Two big bricks cut through the air, flying towards Qin Xiaomeng''s face.


    Qin Xiaomeng closed her eyes and screamed.


    Even though she was afraid, she wanted to save Ye Fei, even if she barely knew him.


    Bang!


    There was a strange sound. She slowly opened her eyes, and found that Ye Fei had stopped the bricks with his fists.


    These were hard, tough bricks, but somehow Ye Fei¡¯s fists shattered them into fragments.


    A brick shattering from a punch? It was unheard of.


    The three men were left stunned, staring at Ye Fei incredulously. They had never seen anything like this outside of TV shows.


    They had heard of martial arts masters breaking through big piles of bricks with their hands, but they didn''t expect to see anything like that today.


    "Are you hurt?" Qin Xiaomong said worriedly.


    "I¡¯m fine, but you... I''ve never met a girl like you," Ye Fei marveled, shaking his head.


    He was really amazed. How many people would actually stand up for others in times of crisis?


    Ye Fei knew there were not many people who would do that. Even soldiers would want to save themselves first in a crisis, it was the courage and self-confidence brought by training that helped soldiers overcome this human weakness.


    Qin Xiaomeng was different. She was naturally inclined to helping and protecting others. People like that were almost nonexistent in modern society.


    To be honest, because of Chu Mo''s attitude, Ye Fei hadn¡¯t really wanted to help her. However, he was moved by Qin Xiaomeng¡¯s courage, and that¡¯s why he intervened back on the bus.


    "Damn it, this guy knows Kung Fu! Brothers, let¡¯s teach him a lesson!" the boss shouted, pulling a knife out from his pocket. The three men surrounded Ye Fei.


    Seeing the boss make a move, Ye Fei smiled coldly. He stuck out his index and middle fingers and quickly smacked the boss''s wrist. The boss''s arm went numb, causing the knife he was holding to fall towards to the ground.


    Not giving anyone a chance to react, Ye Fei kicked the knife into the other man¡¯s leg. The man who got stabbed fell screaming to the ground, blood pouring from his wound.


    These three men had no chance at beating Ye Fei.


    The last man was in a daze. Ye Fei swung out his hand and the blade he¡¯d taken out of the man¡¯s mouth earlier buried itself in his arm, damaging his nerves and paralyzing the limb. The man lost consciousness.


    The three heinous men were beaten by Ye Fei in an instant. He paid no more attention to them, but turned around to Qin Xiaomeng.


    She was amazed. She didn''t expect Ye Fei to be able to beat them all on his own. "That was incredible!" she blurted out.


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    "Hey, why are you still here? Don''t you have class?" Ye Fei patted Qin Xiaomeng¡¯s shoulder.


    "Right, I do." Qin Xiaomeng remembered she still had a lesson to go to and hastily ran toward the campus.


    "That girl is really kindhearted." Ye Fei smiled. He had gotten a very good impression of Qin Xiaomeng.


    When she had gone far enough, Ye Fei walked over to the three men on the ground and squatted down in front of them.


    "Brother... Please let us go. Don''t call the police."


    The boss wanted to kill Ye Fei, but he knew he couldn''t even touch him, so he could only beg for mercy.


    "I don¡¯t think you¡¯re ordinary thieves. You know a little Kung Fu." Ye Fei had an indifferent expression.


    "I learned a little Kung Fu from my master, named Old Li in Hebei. My name is Li Bin. I taught my brothers Kung Fu," Li Bin hurriedly said.


    "Your master would be rolling in his grave if he knew you were a common thief."


    The thief¡¯s master was also a thief, but he stole money specifically from corrupt officials and gave it to the poor. He had a code and morals.


    Li Bin''s face turned red. He tried to defend himself, "But my master was a thief too!"


    "If you think your master was a common thief, then I have nothing else to say to you. The nails on your right hand are longer and the nails on your left hand are short and neat, so I¡¯m guessing you¡¯re left-handed. I have just cut off the meridians on your left hand. Rest assured, it will not significantly affect your life, but your left hand won¡¯t be as flexible, so it will be impossible for you to perform your switching trick anymore. I won¡¯t take you to the cops this time; you can go." Ye Fei waved them away.


    Li Bin could feel his left hand was noticeably weaker and freaked out. "You destroyed my hand?!"


    With his left hand damaged, he couldn''t steal anything anymore.


    A thief who could not steal was a thief without a job.


    Li Bin immediately became as angry as a mad bull. He wanted to slap Ye Fei to death, but he couldn¡¯t even lay a hand on him. Li Bin thought for a while and decided it was wiser to retreat. "Let''s go!"


    Li Bin decided to go to the hospital immediately and get an X-ray. Modern medicine was so advanced that there was still a chance to save his hand.


    He limped away with his two brothers.


    Ye Fei looked at Li Bin¡¯s back and sneered, "I¡¯m letting you go this time. If there is a next time, you won¡¯t be so lucky!"


    With this matter dealt with, Ye Fei decided to eat out. He went to KFC and took a bucket of fried chicken with him back to Purple Apartments.


    When he returned, the living room was quiet. Lin Qingwan and Murong were still fast asleep.

 Chapter 23 Teasing Lin Qingwan

    As Ye Fei put the KFC bucket down on the dining table, Murong emerged yawning out of her room.


    She was wearing only underwear and completely forgot there was a man in her apartment.


    Murong was going to walk to the fridge to get a glass of iced Sprite, but when she looked up, she saw Ye Fei staring at her breasts.


    Murong did not respond the same as Chu Mo. Chu Mo immediately started screaming, but Murong''s face just turned red like a tomato. She hastily turned around and made a beeline back to her room.


    This was the first time in her life a man had seen her body.


    Lin Qingwan was still in her bed. When she saw Murong''s red face, she asked, "Sister Murong, what''s wrong? You look feverish, are you sick?"


    "No, no¡­" Murong shook her head and did not know what to say.


    "Well, Sister Murong, I know my living here is causing you problems, right? I have nowhere else to go. Be considerate of me," Lin Qingwan smiled gently. She knew exactly what had just happened. These girls were not accustomed to living with a man in the house.


    However, she had no other choice. She couldn¡¯t stay in her own house anymore.


    Lin Qingwan got dressed, walked out the door, and saw Ye Fei reclining on the sofa, watching TV.


    "Ye Fei, we need to go to the office now."


    Lin Qingwan didn''t really want to go to work. Yesterday''s shooting, although the shooter was caught, had left a deep psychological impression.


    But she couldn¡¯t get out of her responsibilities. The company just started to turn a profit. This was a crucial time, and Lin Qingwan wanted to manage her company well.


    "Manager Lin, let''s eat before we go." Ye Fei pointed to the KFC bucket on the table.


    "Humph, I would rather starve than eat the junk food that the poor eat," Lin Qingwan said arrogantly.


    "Oh." Ye Fei smiled and picked up the KFC bucket. "That¡¯s great, because I still haven¡¯t had my fill. I will eat the rest in the afternoon."


    Lin Qingwan gave him a scornful look.


    Ye Fei took the KFC bucket downstairs with him to the car. Lin Qingwan sat in the back while Ye Fei drove her to the company offices.


    The KFC bucket was placed on the front passenger seat, so that Ye Fei could eat while he drove. The smell of greasy fried chicken filled the car.


    With a mouth full of oil, Ye Fei said, "Domestic KFC is not the same as foreign KFC. It is more suitable for Chinese tastes; it''s delicious."


    Seeing Ye Fei chomping away, Lin Qingwan got hungry too.


    With everything that had been happening, Lin Qingwan had barely eaten anything since yesterday noon. She was positively starving by now.


    Ye Fei had only brought the fried chicken to tease her.


    Normally, she never ate junk food so she could maintain her figure, but that KFC was so fragrant Lin Qingwan felt her mouth water. She kept glancing at the bucket on the front passenger seat.


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    Ye Fei took out a piece of fried chicken and smiled, "Manager Lin, are you hungry? Do you want some chicken? It''s delicious!"


    Lin Qingwan was angry. She knew Ye Fei was just teasing her and there was no way she¡¯d fall for it. She coldly said, "I have a toothache. Just drive carefully. I have an emergency to take care of in the company."


    "OK," Ye Fei put the fried chicken into his mouth and stepped on the gas pedal, veering off onto the expressway.


    Five minutes later, they were stuck in a traffic jam.


    Ye Fei got out and asked the driver in front what happened. When he returned, he said to Lin Qingwan, "Manager Lin, there has been a traffic accident. A four car pileup. There is no way through now. The traffic police is on its way, but it¡¯s still going to take at least an hour."


    Lin Qingwan grumbled to herself. She didn''t want to go to the office. She only wanted to see her staff.


    Now she was stuck on the expressway.


    Lin Qingwan also got out of the car and saw the column of closely-packed, immobile cars stretching on into the distance ahead. She thought this would probably take at least two or three hours to clear up.


    Lin Qingwan returned to the car angrily. She looked at the KFC bucket and her mouth watered again. She was really hungry.


    Ye Fei had left the car again to chat with the driver in front, not paying her any attention. Her willpower was suddenly destroyed. She rapidly pinched a piece of fried chicken from the KFC bucket and impatiently bit into it.


    "It''s really delicious..."


    She was so hungry that the greasy chicken tasted like divine ambrosia to her. Having tasted such a delicacy, Lin Qingwan felt a new world open before her. Soon, the bucket was empty.


    "Delicious! I can¡¯t believe it tastes so good."


    Seeing Ye Fei return, Lin Qingwan hastily straightened her posture, maintaining an aloof air.


    "Manager Lin, it seems that the traffic police have cleared the road. We can probably continue to the office soon." Ye Fei sat in the car and started the engine.


    "Well, good thing this accident didn¡¯t delay me too much."


    Lin Qingwan was nervous. She was afraid Ye Fei would discover that she had stolen his fried chicken.


    Ye Fei suddenly turned his head and chuckled, "Manager Lin, how do you like the fried chicken?"


    "Well... Fried chicken? I wouldn¡¯t know." Lin Qingwan was surprised. How did he know she just ate all the fried chicken? Now she could only desperately deny it. Otherwise... She would be really embarrassed.


    Ye Fei handed her a paper towel. "Next time, remember to wipe your mouth."


    Lin Qingwan just realized - she had forgotten to wipe the grease off her lips.


    How embarrassing!


    She just wanted to find a dark hole to crawl into.

 Chapter 24 President Xue Bing

    At the Ya Lai Group office building.


    Lin Qingwan angrily stomped into the building on her high heels.


    "Hello, Manager Lin."


    "Good day, Manager Lin."


    The employees passing Lin Qingwan in the hallways didn¡¯t dare to speak too loudly in front of her sour face.


    Lin Qingwan was harsh. If she was in a bad mood, her subordinates would have a bad time.


    Sure enough, as soon as Lin Qingwan arrived at the office, she coldly announced through the PA system, "All high and mid-level executives, come to the conference room now. I have something to say."


    The executives hurriedly grabbed their briefcases and followed Lin Qingwan into the conference room.


    The whole company''s atmosphere suddenly became very cold. Everyone looked depressed, as if they had heavy weights on their hearts.


    Except for one person ¨C Ye Fei. He still wore casual clothes as he followed Lin Qingwan into the office.


    The executives came in through the door one by one. They were not surprised to see Ye Fei there, because they had already heard that Lin Qingwan had a bodyguard.


    Finally, a middle-aged man came in and smiled as he saw Lin Qingwan, "Qingwan, I have heard what happened yesterday, so I came here first thing in the morning. I''m relieved to see you''re all right."


    He looked at Ye Fei and asked, ¡°Is this a new security guard in our company? We are having a business meeting. Why are you in here?"


    No one spoke for a moment. Everyone looked at this middle-aged man, then at Lin Qingwan, and finally at Ye Fei.


    Lin Qingwan frowned slightly. This middle-aged man, named Xue Bing, was the president of the company.


    In fact, before Lin Qingwan¡¯s arrival, Xue Bing was the CEO.


    Xue Bing had already been working with her father since before he had made his fortune, so Xue Bing was the man originally charged with heading the company when it was first formed.


    Lin Qingwan had to admit, Xue Bing was indeed loyal. He stuck with her father through thick and thin.


    However¡­ Xue Bing didn''t have a mind for business.


    The Ya Lai Group had entered the Chinese market over five years ago and hadn¡¯t turned a profit since, which was sufficient proof that Xue Bing was incompetent.


    Despite his lack of skill, Xue Bing felt a sense of superiority toward everyone due to his more advanced age, and he was very mean when he talked to the employees.


    He even gave his boss, the young Lin Qingwan, the same treatment, which made her very uncomfortable. But as disgusted as she was by Xue Bing¡¯s behavior, he was still her elder, so she could not casually rebuke him.


    Lin Qingwan glanced at Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei''s expression was indifferent. He showed no annoyance at Xue Bing¡¯s words.


    There was a little difference between bodyguards and security personnel, but in Ye Fei''s view, the difference was not very big. As long as Lin Qingwan gave him his 50,000 Yuan every month, he would do whatever she needed done.


    Lin Qingwan said, "Let me introduce you. This is the president of the company, Xue Bing. This is my personal bodyguard, Ye Fei."


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    "Ye Fei?"


    Hearing the name, Xue Bing was surprised and looked Ye Fei up and down more carefully.


    Yesterday, he¡¯d heard that Lin Qingwan was attacked by a shooter in her office, and her new bodyguard not only saved her, but also helped the police catch the shooter.


    Now that he saw him, and Ye Fei unexpectedly turned out to be a skinny young man, Xue Bing immediately became arrogant.


    "Humph. Manager Lin, I have to say something. We are having a meeting; can your private bodyguard please leave? We are about to discuss sensitive trade secrets. If they are leaked out, who will be responsible?" Xue Bing said mercilessly and loudly.


    Lin Qingwan frowned again. She knew Xue Bing was getting more and more presumptuous. "You misunderstand. Ye Fei is not my private bodyguard; he was recruited for me by the company. One of the reasons I asked everyone to come here to have a meeting is to inform you that Ye Fei''s salary will come from the company¡¯s funds," she said coldly.


    The room erupted into loud chatter.


    "His salary has to come from the company''s funds?"


    "Manager Lin, how much money are we paying a simple bodyguard? You called a meeting to discuss such a trivial matter?" Xue Bing looked at Lin Qingwan. There was a little sarcasm in his tone.


    "Of course, I have already made a decision on this trivial matter. I just wanted to tell you Ye Fei¡¯s salary is 50,000 Yuan a month," Lin Qingwan coldly said.


    "How...How... How much?"


    "50,000 Yuan?"


    Several executives, including Xue Bing, gaped at the thought.


    These executes had good salaries. Not a single one was making under 20,000 Yuan a month.


    But the problem was that Ye Fei made more than twice that.


    The executives thought it was outrageous that the salary of a bodyguard would be more than double their own.


    "Manager Lin, this isn¡¯t good. We don''t mind if you pay a bodyguard 50,000 Yuan a month, but the staff will be outraged."


    "Yes. Manager Lin, for 50,000 Yuan a month you can recruit three or four top bodyguards. So much money, just for one bodyguard... It''s just not worth it."


    Lin Qingwan glanced at them, thinking, "You think I want to give this man so much money? No one can change my father¡¯s decision."


    Lin Qingwan was displeased with their attitude. After all, Lin Qingwan was the CEO of the company, and Ye Fei¡¯s salary had been set by her dad.


    However, after hearing all that, it was clear these people were incredibly reluctant to accept this.


    Especially Xue Bing. His expression was gloomy as his gaze swayed between Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan. He punched the table, stood up, pointed to Lin Qingwan''s nose and shouted, "Qingwan, I don¡¯t care how often you change boyfriends, but now you want to pay this guy all that money from the company funds? He is not worth the price. Our efforts have finally turned a profit, and now we need to spend our money wisely. And yet you want to give him 50,000 Yuan a month?!"


    Lin Qingwan was stunned. She knew what Xue Bing meant: he wanted to say that she was just giving away the company''s money to Ye Fei.


    Lin Qingwan had never been so insulted.

 Chapter 25 Observing His Expression

    After Xue Bing said that, the executives began to whisper amongst themselves, shooting disdainful glances at Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan.


    "You..."


    Lin Qingwan was typically eloquent, but now she was so angry she could not say a word. She looked around the conference room for support, and found none.


    Lin Qingwan was haughty and proud. She didn¡¯t make friends easily and in situations like these, no one wanted to stand with her.


    Of course, as a management genius, Lin Qingwan had already anticipated such a reaction. However, she was now so livid that her brain went blank and she forgot all her plans.


    She felt so lonely, so helpless, like she was alone in the whole world. All the executives had disgusting smiles on their faces, like they were joking about her behind her back.


    "Ah!"


    Lin Qingwan felt sick. She screamed and threw the documents in her hands toward Xue Bing.


    The papers dispersed in midair, and white sheets softly rained down on the heads of everyone in the conference room.


    Lin Qingwan stood up on her high heels, kicked open the door of the conference room, and strode out toward the elevator.


    Ye Fei, as Lin Qingwan''s bodyguard, naturally followed her out.


    As he left, Ye Fei snuck a glance back at Xue Bing and saw him snickering to himself. He followed Lin Qingwan into the elevator.


    The conference room was silent. Everyone was stunned.


    After a long while, someone whispered, "What do we do now? Manager Lin¡¯s really pissed."


    "Well, I didn''t think she would be this angry."


    "What should we do?"


    A few of the executives were quite pleased to see Lin Qingwan blow her fuse, but they didn''t want to show their true feelings in public.


    Xue Bing sighed, then stood up and made a downward movement with his hands. The room went silent.


    After all, Xue Bing was the original CEO, who oversaw this company for five years. He had many supporters, and even now that he was technically Lin Qingwan¡¯s subordinate, he still commanded authority.


    Satisfied with this result, Xue Bing looked around and said, "We all know Manager Lin''s mood is a little unstable because of yesterday''s shooting incident. I think she needs a break. I will take charge of all operations in the company for the time being. Any objections? OK. Now, let¡¯s continue this meeting. I have a few tasks to assign."


    "All right, President Xue."


    No one questioned Xue Bing''s leadership.


    He was very pleased. Unbeknownst to anyone else, he hated Lin Qingwan.


    Xue Bing had managed this company for five years. He thought he had overcome a lot of difficulties, so he didn''t understand why Lin Hongyuan sent his daughter to take over and demoted Xue Bing to president.


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    Xue Bing pretended not to care, but he was very uncomfortable with this situation and hated Lin Qingwan for stealing his job. He always sought opportunities to be the one in charge again.


    Now was his best chance.


    Xue Bing thought to himself, "Lin Qingwan, you are just a twenty-year-old girl. You are naive, but I have life experience. I will hold you in my hands and you¡¯ll work for soon enough."


    He lit a cigarette, leaning back in his chair. Narrowing his eyes, he couldn¡¯t help but let out a laugh.


    In her car, Lin Qingwan was still fuming. She sat silently in the back seat.


    Her mind was preoccupied with Xue Bing''s words.


    She involuntarily glanced at Ye Fei and felt her blood boil, "Did Xue Bing actually say Ye Fei was my boyfriend?" she thought to herself.


    She was furious.


    Although Ye Fei had saved her life, Lin Qingwan still looked down on him. If not for the fact that her dad, Lin Hongyuan, forced her to hire him, she would have dismissed him without a second thought.


    "Where are we going, Manager Lin? Let''s go to the bund, I know a quiet place with a beautiful ocean view."


    "I don''t want to go there. Take me home, I''ll go to sleep," Lin Qingwan said coldly.


    Ye Fei knew Lin Qingwan was not joking; she really wanted to go home to sleep.


    When most people are in a bad mood, they drink or go shopping, or even go to a nightclub, but she just went back home to sleep.


    But sleeping was good. If Lin Qingwan went out, Ye Fei would have to protect her. If she went back to the apartment, Murong could protect her there and Ye Fei could go out and do some other things.


    "Manager Lin, that President Xue Bing was acting strange... In my opinion, he did something bad," Ye Fei suddenly said as he drove her back.


    "Did something bad?"


    Lin Qingwan straightened up. She was surprised, "Ye Fei, if you have no evidence, don¡¯t go casually accusing people. What, do you think he was behind the shooting?"


    Ye Fei frowned as he slowly explained his observations: "Well, I don''t know about that, but I do know that he looked really nervous when he saw me, like he was hiding something. He tried to get rid of me, and he even quarreled with you. I think he¡¯s suspicious."


    All good snipers had eagle eyes. In the execution of their mission, not only could they see far, but they could also accurately identify the target.


    Ye Fei was better at analyzing facial expressions and body language than Lin Qingwan. He had a good idea of Xue Bing¡¯s character.


    Now that Ye Fei mentioned it, Lin Qingwan started to feel that there was something strange about President Xue too. "You¡¯re right. Even though you are a bit expensive, 50,000 Yuan a month is not that big a deal for this company. Xue Bing''s reaction was indeed strange."

 Chapter 25 Observing His Expression

    After Xue Bing said that, the executives began to whisper amongst themselves, shooting disdainful glances at Ye Fei and Lin Qingwan.


    "You..."


    Lin Qingwan was typically eloquent, but now she was so angry she could not say a word. She looked around the conference room for support, and found none.


    Lin Qingwan was haughty and proud. She didn¡¯t make friends easily and in situations like these, no one wanted to stand with her.


    Of course, as a management genius, Lin Qingwan had already anticipated such a reaction. However, she was now so livid that her brain went blank and she forgot all her plans.


    She felt so lonely, so helpless, like she was alone in the whole world. All the executives had disgusting smiles on their faces, like they were joking about her behind her back.


    "Ah!"


    Lin Qingwan felt sick. She screamed and threw the documents in her hands toward Xue Bing.


    The papers dispersed in midair, and white sheets softly rained down on the heads of everyone in the conference room.


    Lin Qingwan stood up on her high heels, kicked open the door of the conference room, and strode out toward the elevator.


    Ye Fei, as Lin Qingwan''s bodyguard, naturally followed her out.


    As he left, Ye Fei snuck a glance back at Xue Bing and saw him snickering to himself. He followed Lin Qingwan into the elevator.


    The conference room was silent. Everyone was stunned.


    After a long while, someone whispered, "What do we do now? Manager Lin¡¯s really pissed."


    "Well, I didn''t think she would be this angry."


    "What should we do?"


    A few of the executives were quite pleased to see Lin Qingwan blow her fuse, but they didn''t want to show their true feelings in public.


    Xue Bing sighed, then stood up and made a downward movement with his hands. The room went silent.


    After all, Xue Bing was the original CEO, who oversaw this company for five years. He had many supporters, and even now that he was technically Lin Qingwan¡¯s subordinate, he still commanded authority.


    Satisfied with this result, Xue Bing looked around and said, "We all know Manager Lin''s mood is a little unstable because of yesterday''s shooting incident. I think she needs a break. I will take charge of all operations in the company for the time being. Any objections? OK. Now, let¡¯s continue this meeting. I have a few tasks to assign."


    "All right, President Xue."


    No one questioned Xue Bing''s leadership.


    He was very pleased. Unbeknownst to anyone else, he hated Lin Qingwan.


    Xue Bing had managed this company for five years. He thought he had overcome a lot of difficulties, so he didn''t understand why Lin Hongyuan sent his daughter to take over and demoted Xue Bing to president.


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    Xue Bing pretended not to care, but he was very uncomfortable with this situation and hated Lin Qingwan for stealing his job. He always sought opportunities to be the one in charge again.


    Now was his best chance.


    Xue Bing thought to himself, "Lin Qingwan, you are just a twenty-year-old girl. You are naive, but I have life experience. I will hold you in my hands and you¡¯ll work for soon enough."


    He lit a cigarette, leaning back in his chair. Narrowing his eyes, he couldn¡¯t help but let out a laugh.


    In her car, Lin Qingwan was still fuming. She sat silently in the back seat.


    Her mind was preoccupied with Xue Bing''s words.


    She involuntarily glanced at Ye Fei and felt her blood boil, "Did Xue Bing actually say Ye Fei was my boyfriend?" she thought to herself.


    She was furious.


    Although Ye Fei had saved her life, Lin Qingwan still looked down on him. If not for the fact that her dad, Lin Hongyuan, forced her to hire him, she would have dismissed him without a second thought.


    "Where are we going, Manager Lin? Let''s go to the bund, I know a quiet place with a beautiful ocean view."


    "I don''t want to go there. Take me home, I''ll go to sleep," Lin Qingwan said coldly.


    Ye Fei knew Lin Qingwan was not joking; she really wanted to go home to sleep.


    When most people are in a bad mood, they drink or go shopping, or even go to a nightclub, but she just went back home to sleep.


    But sleeping was good. If Lin Qingwan went out, Ye Fei would have to protect her. If she went back to the apartment, Murong could protect her there and Ye Fei could go out and do some other things.


    "Manager Lin, that President Xue Bing was acting strange... In my opinion, he did something bad," Ye Fei suddenly said as he drove her back.


    "Did something bad?"


    Lin Qingwan straightened up. She was surprised, "Ye Fei, if you have no evidence, don¡¯t go casually accusing people. What, do you think he was behind the shooting?"


    Ye Fei frowned as he slowly explained his observations: "Well, I don''t know about that, but I do know that he looked really nervous when he saw me, like he was hiding something. He tried to get rid of me, and he even quarreled with you. I think he¡¯s suspicious."


    All good snipers had eagle eyes. In the execution of their mission, not only could they see far, but they could also accurately identify the target.


    Ye Fei was better at analyzing facial expressions and body language than Lin Qingwan. He had a good idea of Xue Bing¡¯s character.


    Now that Ye Fei mentioned it, Lin Qingwan started to feel that there was something strange about President Xue too. "You¡¯re right. Even though you are a bit expensive, 50,000 Yuan a month is not that big a deal for this company. Xue Bing''s reaction was indeed strange."

 Chapter 26 Insight

    Was Xue Bing the mastermind behind it all?


    Thinking of Xue Bing¡¯s sinister smile, Lin Qingwan shook her head and said to Ye Fei, "Ye Fei, I know Xue Bing. He is a timid person. I don¡¯t think he would dare hire a shooter to kill me."


    Ye Fei nodded, "It¡¯s just a guess; there''s no real evidence."


    Lin Qingwan didn''t speak the rest of the way.


    When they were back at Purple Apartments, Murong was already up and about. She was eating potato chips on the couch and watching her favorite TV show with a happy smile.


    Once she noticed that Lin Qingwan was back, Murong held up her potato chips, "Sister Qingwan, want some?"


    Lin Qingwan shook her head and said to Ye Fei, "Murong is here, so I¡¯ll be safe. I want to invite her and the other girls to dinner this evening and apologize for what happened yesterday. What are you going to do? Chu Mo and Liu Manman seem to have it in for you, so I don¡¯t think you should go with us."


    Ye Fei yawned. He didn''t even want to go to something so boring.


    Even if he was Lin Qingwan''s personal bodyguard, he could not stay with her 24/7. He had other things to do. He wanted to find out more about the pinhole cameras, for one.


    Compared to waiting passively, Ye Fei preferred to take the initiative.


    "Manager Lin, I want to go to your villa now and see what I can discover about the pinhole cameras. This can''t be delayed any further," Ye Fei said seriously.


    Lin Qingwan gently bit her pink lips and worriedly said, ¡°Yes. You have to get that footage, or I will be disgraced."


    Murong threw the bowl of potato chips on the table, wiped her mouth, and trotted over. "Sister Qingwan, what pinhole cameras? Sounds interesting."


    "Sister Murong, this has nothing to do with you. Let Ye Fei deal with it." Lin Qingwan didn''t want to tell her about the whole embarrassing ordeal.


    "Fine..." Murong grumbled.


    "Manager Lin, I¡¯ll go ahead, then." Ye Fei grabbed the car keys, "I¡¯ll take your car. The car has been targeted, so it is dangerous for you to drive alone."


    "OK." Lin Qingwan pushed Ye Fei out the door and shut it behind him. Finally, for the first time in a while she felt the whole world was quiet for a moment.


    Although Ye Fei had shown extraordinary insight before, Lin Qingwan still thought he¡¯d have a hard time finding out who installed the pinhole cameras.


    She was in a really bad mood.


    Ye Fei went downstairs and got into the car. Before he could even start the engine, someone opened the door and jumped into the passenger seat. It was Murong.


    Ye Fei looked at her with surprise. ¡°Officer Murong, what are you doing?"


    Murong smiled, "Hey, I heard you earlier. Pinhole cameras? My keen intuition tells me there must be some unspeakable secret to uncover here."


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    Ye Fei said, "You can come, but I have one question. If you come with me, who will protect Qingwan? Isn''t she going to invite you out to dinner tonight?"


    "Yes, I certainly want to go have dinner with her, but I really want to know more about this pinhole camera stuff. I gave her an excuse about having something important to do at the police station. I also called two colleagues and asked them to protect Qingwan for me. Don''t worry, they are some of the best in the precinct; very experienced. Sister Qingwan will be safe."


    Murong chuckled. She was obviously very satisfied with herself.


    "Well, we''re going to Lin Qingwan''s villa. I''ll tell you about it on the way." Ye Fei started the car and drove towards the villa.


    !!!


    "Even in the bedroom and the bathroom?" Murong''s face was red as she exclaimed in amazement. "Does that mean someone has photos of sister Qingwan changing clothes?"


    "I don¡¯t know how much has been photographed, but according to my observation, those cameras haven¡¯t been there for very long," Ye Fei said gently.


    "Who could be this brazen? If I catch him, I¡¯ll teach him a lesson he won¡¯t forget!" Murong growled.


    Ye Fei parked in front of Lin Qingwan¡¯s villa and went over to knock on the door.


    It was late in the afternoon, but not time to get off work quite yet. The servants in the villa were still going about their duties.


    Murong often came to Lin Qingwan''s villa, so she was very familiar with them. The servants were forty or fifty-year-old men and women and they were happy to see her.


    ¡°Officer Murong, come and have a drink of water."


    "Oh, I just came here to grab something for Sister Qingwan; I will leave in a moment." Murong excused herself and followed Ye Fei to the second floor.


    Ye Fei pointed. "See there? Those are cameras."


    "Gosh, how did you find these?"


    Murong carefully looked at one of the cameras for a moment, "Such a tiny thing must have been installed by a professional. How did you find it? It''s unbelievable!"


    Ye Fei''s expression was calm as he slowly explained, "I often encountered things like these on my missions. I was trained to find surveillance equipment like this in the shortest possible time to prevent the enemy from spying on us, it¡¯s become habitual now every time I walk into a room."


    "Really?" Murong said, "I¡¯m a police officer and I know a few things about the army, so you can¡¯t fool me. We¡¯re trained to look for pinhole cameras too, but we need experts to come over and get things done. Are you saying you think the experts are useless?"


    Ye Fei smiled and did not elaborate. Indeed, not everyone could have found those cameras so easily. He was also impressed, perhaps she was smarter than she let on.

 Chapter 27 The World Is Full of Wonders

    "So what should we do, then?" Murong asked, "Maybe the person who put it here will think the camera is broken and come to fix it. Then we''ll catch them!"


    Ye Fei gave Murong a deep look and reluctantly said, "If all criminals thought like you, the world would be peaceful."


    Murong frowned, "What is that supposed to mean, Ye Fei?"


    "It means you''re very... kind hearted." Ye Fei was going to say Murong was foolish, but he knew she had very touchy self-esteem, so he switched to a euphemism.


    Unexpectedly, Murong''s face turned red as an apple, which made her look adorable. "Humph! I am not that kind!" she said coldly, giving Ye Fei a sidelong glance.


    Ye Fei opened Lin Qingwan¡¯s wardrobe and looked inside for a few moments. "Let''s go," he said in disappointment eventually.


    "Huh? Go where?" Murong asked in amazement.


    Ye Fei thought for a while and said, "I had deliberately broken the camera inside this wardrobe earlier. A full day has passed, but no one has repaired it. I assume whoever planted the cameras hasn¡¯t come to retrieve the footage yet."


    "Isn''t that a good thing?¡± Murong said. ¡°Perhaps no one has the footage of Sister Qingwan changing clothes yet."


    Ye Fei frowned. "Perhaps, but there¡¯s a downside. If I¡¯m right, it means there must be a traitor inside this villa. We have to find a way to flush them out."


    "But before that, we need to pick up the signal." Ye Fei continued, "Lin Qingwan rests at home at night, so if I''m not mistaken, these cameras should start sending and receiving signals at night. At night, we can find where they¡¯re transmitting to."


    Murong looked at Ye Fei with surprise. "What are you talking about, Ye Fei? How come I don¡¯t know about any of this, even as a police officer? How do you pick up the signal?"


    "You may be a police officer, but you aren¡¯t the brightest police officer," Ye Fei sighed. A pillow flew towards his face.


    "Ye Fei, I¡¯m warning you, call me stupid again and you¡¯ll regret it!" Murong shouted at him.


    "OK, OK, I won¡¯t." Ye Fei raised his hands in surrender. Then he said more seriously, "This camera has a single signal and its receiver is on the same channel. We only need a simple signal scanner. If we can tune into the right frequency, we can find the receiver."


    Murong didn''t understand any of it. She frowned at Ye Fei and said, "Just tell me plainly what we need to find this person."


    After a moment¡¯s silence, Ye Fei said, "A radio or a pager."


    "Radio or pager? Where can we find antiques like that?" Murong said. "I could go back to the police station and get a radio set. I don¡¯t know how to use it, but I bet you can."


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    Ye Fei continued to explain, "Any mobile phone is a signal receiver. It also has a location tracking function. Ordinary people don''t use these functions, but in reconnaissance operations these things are particularly important. If there is no mobile phone available, we often need to make a makeshift transmitter by ourselves."


    "Wow, Ye Fei, you¡¯re so knowledgeable! Is that how you make a cell phone bomb? Like those where you press a button and the bomb explodes? That¡¯s awesome!" Murong exclaimed, looking at Ye Fei with a kind of admiration.


    "It''s not too complicated. In fact, the principles are very simple; a high school student could make it. However, censorship is very strict in this country, so common people don¡¯t have access to that kind of information."


    Ye Fei paused, closed his eyes, and remembered the battlefields of Iraq.


    Even 10-year-old children could make mobile phone bombs abroad. It was a terrible place.


    "Ye Fei, I read your file, but it¡¯s not clear when you became a soldier. You know so much.. you must have killed many people on the battlefield."


    Murong continued staring at Ye Fei with admiration. She was now getting more interested in his combat experience.


    "Wherever in the world there¡¯s a war, Falcon''s shadow is present." Ye Fei gave her an ambiguous answer. The subject involved state secrets.


    Murong was just an ordinary cop. It was best if she didn''t know these things.


    When Murong realized Ye Fei was not willing to say anything more, she grumpily threw him her phone, "Do it. I''d like to see how you pick up the signal."


    Ye Fei took Murong''s phone and found that it was already connected to Lin Qingwan¡¯s WiFi. He pressed the screen a few times and opened a strange website.


    Murong saw letters she didn¡¯t recognize, "What¡¯s this? I can¡¯t read any of it."


    Ye Fei smiled and said, "This is Arabic. It¡¯s a website run by terrorists in the Middle East. This is a good website to download certain applications that can''t be downloaded through normal channels. A comrade told me about it."


    Ye Fei downloaded a special application to detect the signal.


    "The world is full of wonders." Murong stared at Ye Fei. She had never heard of software like this.


    Ye Fei walked around the room with the phone, making adjustments to the program¡¯s settings. After a short time, the phone started beeping and a white dot appeared on the screen.


    "That''s the frequency!" The intensity of the beeping gradually changed as Ye Fei slowly walked in the room. The closer he got to the source, the faster the beeping became.


    Ye Fei went down the stairs to the ground floor and over to a utility room. "The receiver is in there."

 Chapter 28 Adult Video

    "In there?" Murong stared at Ye Fei. She couldn''t believe it. Not because this place was incredibly well-concealed, but because it was not concealed at all.


    This utility room was where the maid, Aunt Chen, kept her mop, broom and bucket. She probably opened it 10 times a day.


    Murong didn¡¯t believe the spy would hide the receiver in such an obvious place.


    "You better believe it. The signal leads here. Let¡¯s open it and see what we find," Ye Fei smiled.


    "But how can we get in?" There was a big iron padlock hanging on the door. Murong pulled it, but it wouldn¡¯t budge. "I will go find Aunt Chen and get the key..." she said helplessly.


    "No, if you ask her for the key, it¡¯ll be obvious what we¡¯re after." Ye Fei stopped Murong, preventing her reckless behavior.


    "Then what should we do?" she grumbled.


    "Don''t worry." Ye Fei went out to the yard and dragged down a thin iron wire from the railings. Then he went back to the door, squatted down, and threaded the iron wire into the keyhole.


    "You can pick locks? It¡¯s not nearly as simple as it looks." Murong looked at Ye Fei blankly, shaking her head.


    As a police officer, Murong was very familiar with lock-picking.


    Every month, Murong saw many thieves trying to unlock their cuffs at the police station. To be frank, they were nothing compared to Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei pushed the iron wire deeper into the keyhole, carefully feeling the internal structure of the padlock, and then took out the iron wire and bent it into a strange shape before slowly inserting it into the keyhole again.


    The big padlock clicked open.


    Murong involuntarily gasped. If she hadn¡¯t seen it with her own eyes, she would not have believed Ye Fei could do it.


    Ye Fei took out the iron wire and threw it aside, then looked into Murong''s eyes and said with a smile, "Give me a bag of instant noodles and I can get in and out of anywhere."


    "What on earth are you? Are you a soldier, a terrorist, or a burglar?" Murong stared at Ye Fei. "Are you a sniper or a secret agent? Where did you even learn to pick locks?"


    "These are necessary skills in my line of work." Ye Fei scratched his head. In fact, in his team, at least three people had mastered this skill.


    "Tsk-tsk, I can¡¯t imagine what your life is like." Murong gazed at Ye Fei. She had quickly developed a strong interest in this mysterious man.


    Ye Fei shook his head. "Actually, it''s very dull. Pretty boring." He felt a little bitter at the back of his mind.


    To be honest, in his life abroad, he had to train, fight, train, and fight every day, so most ordinary people would think his life was really boring. In fact, for a time, even Ye Fei thought so, and even tried to escape from this boring and dull life.


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    However, when Ye Fei returned to a normal life, he always remembered those times.


    Ye Fei quietly opened the door of the utility room.


    The inside of the utility room was very dark, but because Ye Fei had excellent night vision, he did not turn on the light. Murong, on the other hand, couldn¡¯t see anything. She held up her phone and turn on the flashlight.


    The utility room was small - only a few square meters in size - but it was clean. The mop and bucket were in good order.


    Murong looked around and didn''t see anything out of the ordinary, including any receivers. "Hmm, you must have been mistaken."


    Ye Fei didn''t say anything. He walked toward an overturned bucket and picked it up. Under the bucket was an electronic device, flashing with green and red lights.


    "Is that the receiver?"


    Ye Fei picked up the receiver and looked at the label on the side. "It¡¯s German. This was produced in Germany. Common people can¡¯t buy this kind of high-end device, so it seems that whoever installed the pinhole cameras is a professional."


    "Don''t brag. You didn¡¯t even go to college, yet you understand German?" Murong said with a jealous tone.


    Murong was at the top of her class in college, so she had always been proud and conceited, but since she met Ye Fei, she found that he was much better than her at everything, so she was naturally a little jealous.


    ¡°Officer Murong, I don''t really like it when you say things that. Life is the best school. So what if I don¡¯t have a formal education? I learn as much as I can and do all I can! I have been to many countries and have experienced many cultures. I worked in a German weapons factory for four months and I talked to the workers there every day, so why shouldn¡¯t I understand German?"


    "Alright, fine, that was wrong of me. Are Sister Qingwan''s photos inside?" Murong''s face flushed red. She didn¡¯t mean to offend him; she was just outspoken.


    Ye Fei glanced at Murong. He didn''t want to talk to her. He just snatched away her phone and connected it to the receiver with a USB cable.


    Ye Fei downloaded a file and opened it. The media player immediately played a video of Lin Qingwan singing in the bathtub under a mountain of white soap bubbles. Although the bubbles covered the important parts of her body, that only made it even more tentalizing.


    This German-made pinhole camera had really good image quality. It was much clearer than Ye Fei expected. Lin Qingwan¡¯s tempting smooth body made Ye Fei a little absent-minded.

 Chapter 29 Everything Under the Sun

    Ye Fei watched the video with rapt attention, while Murong''s face flushed red. She snatched the phone away. "Don''t look, pervert!"


    On the screen, Lin Qingwan had just emerged from the bath. Even a bath towel couldn¡¯t conceal her delicate, sexy body from the pinhole camera.


    When Murong took the phone, she unintentionally glanced at the screen. Lin Qingwan''s skin was absolutely flawless, like a newborn baby¡¯s. Seeing Lin Qingwan''s body, Murong couldn¡¯t help but feel a bit insecure.


    "We should call Sister Qingwan immediately. This is very serious," she said.


    Half an hour later, a taxi arrived at the villa. Lin Qingwan anxiously got off the car, threw a one hundred Yuan bill to the driver, and rushed upstairs.


    Lin Qingwan had invited Chu Mo and Liu Manman to a restaurant and was just telling them that she wanted to live in the apartment for a while longer. Just as she was sitting down at the table, Murong called her and said that the footage from the pinhole cameras had been found.


    Lin Qingwan dropped everything and rushed to the villa, leaving Chu Mo and Liu Manman waiting in the restaurant. She never expected Ye Fei would succeed so quickly.


    When she came in, Lin Qingwan immediately ran up to Ye Fei, "Ye Fei, where is the video?"


    Ye Fei pointed to Murong.


    Murong hurriedly stood up, "Sister Qingwan, I didn''t want to deceive you. I came with Ye Fei because I wanted to help you."


    Lin Qingwn waved her hands, "Sister Murong, I know how your head works. How can I blame you?"


    Murong took out her mobile phone and handed it to Lin Qingwan. There were many videos on the signal receiver, but Murong only managed to download ten of them before her mobile phone ran out of space.


    Lin Qingwan grabbed the phone. The moment she glanced at the screen, she felt dizzy. Her grip loosened and the phone slipped down from her hand.


    "Ah!" Murong screamed. This was her new mobile phone. She had only used it a few days!


    She was not like the affluent Lin Qingwan. She was just a common police officer and she would be devastated to lose her expensive, brand-new phone.


    Fortunately, Ye Fei rapidly lunged and seized the phone mid-fall, then put it on a nearby table.


    Lin Qingwan sat on the sofa, covering her forehead with her hand. She looked like she was about to faint.


    "Sister Qingwan, are you OK?" Murong hurriedly walked over.


    Lin Qingwan did not answer. She lowered her head and feebly waved with her right hand.


    Ye Fei also walked over, grasped Lin Qingwan''s wrist, and checked her pulse. "It¡¯s nothing serious, just a mild shock. The sudden blood vessel contraction caused a momentary cerebral blood insufficiency."


    "You¡¯re a doctor, too?" Murong stared at Ye Fei in amazement.


    Ye Fei was really amazing. He could do everything under the sun even though he had never gone to college! What kind of life experience allowed him to master so many skills?


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    "Don''t be silly. Just go and get some alcohol from the kitchen." Ye Fei used one hand to support Lin Qingwan''s head, massaging her neck with the thumb and forefinger of the other hand to stimulate her blood vessels.


    Murong wordlessly walked to the kitchen, opened the fridge, and found it was full of brandy, whiskey and other foreign liquors and wines. "There¡¯s only foreign stuff," she shouted.


    "Imported alcohol is the best. Bring over whatever¡¯s in there."


    Murong grabbed a tray and picked a few bottles and two glasses for Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei instructed Murong to support Lin Qingwan while he opened a bottle of whisky, a bottle of brandy and a bottle of vodka from the tray. A strong bouquet of aromas filled the room.


    Lin Qingwan had lived in the United States since childhood, so she never really developed a taste for Chinese liquor. The luxurious, expensive brands of alcohol she brought with her from abroad exemplified Lin Qingwan¡¯s quality of life.


    Although Ye Fei had also spent a lot of time abroad, he never really got to sample these kinds of high-quality liquors.


    He mixed a carefully measured amount of each liquid and gently shook the cup until they changed to a smooth amber color. Then he handed the drink to Lin Qingwan.


    Lin Qingwan usually did not drink. The variety of alcohol in her refrigerator was usually reserved for guests, but she was dizzy and felt a tightness in her chest, so she grabbed the glass from Ye Fei¡¯s hand and downed the drink in one gulp.


    Lin Qingwan burped. After a few moments, she started feeling better.


    "Ye Fei... What''s going on?¡± Murong looked at Ye Fei in amazement. ¡°Since when can alcohol cure dizziness? I have never heard of anything like this! Shouldn¡¯t booze make her even dizzier?"


    "Don¡¯t look at me like that, I only know a few basics. I¡¯m far from a proper doctor." Ye Fei modestly waved his hand. "Alcohol dilates the blood vessels and increases blood circulation, so moderate drinking can help with cerebral blood insufficiency and chest tightness," he explained.


    Lin Qingwan abruptly stood up and announced, "I¡¯ll castrate the bastard who dared to put that camera in my bathroom!!!"


    As the last word left her mouth, Ye Fei¡¯s fist hit the back of her head, knocking her unconscious.


    "Ye Fei, what are you doing?!" Murong jumped from the sofa.


    Ye Fei laid Lin Qingwan down on the sofa. "She was drunk, so she fainted."


    "I just saw you knock her unconscious!" Murong gaped at Ye Fei with disbelief.


    "No... She was drunk; it had nothing to do with me." Ye Fei shook his head with a serious expression. "Or... should I have let her yell and scream? The person who installed the pinhole cameras hasn¡¯t been caught yet. I suspect that they already have these videos."

 Chapter 30 The Key To Finding the Truth

    "They have the videos?!" Murong almost screamed, but covered her mouth just in time. After a long while, she frowned and said, "Ye Fei, are you sure? If these videos end up online, Sister Qingwan will be destroyed... I need a drink."


    She poured herself a glass of whisky and took a sip.


    She glanced at Ye Fei. She now understood why Ye Fei knocked Lin Qingwan unconscious.


    Lin Qingwan was a sensitive and delicate woman. Facing such a sudden shock must have been unbearable.


    At the same time, Ye Fei didn''t want to admit that he knocked Lin Qingwan unconscious. Perhaps because he wanted to conceal something¡­


    Ye Fei had Murong help him carry Lin Qingwan up to the second floor bedroom and put her on the bed. "Damn, I didn''t think this would happen. We really shouldn¡¯t have called her over."


    Murong called Chu Mo and Liu Manman to let them know they shouldn¡¯t wait for Lin Qingwan. Then she breathlessly asked Ye Fei, "Ye Fei, the videos are here. Why did you say they have been taken out?"


    "The timestamp," Ye Fei sighed. "I don¡¯t want these videos out either, but everything on the transmitter is from the last four days. Do you know what that means?"


    "No..." Murong''s brain was blank.


    "Two possibilities,¡± Ye Fei calmly said. ¡°First, this pinhole camera has only been here four days. I don¡¯t think that¡¯s very likely. Second, the videos from before that point have already been removed."


    "What should we do now? Let''s call the police!" Murong hastily said.


    "Call the police? You are the police!" Ye Fei laughed. He thought this cop was pretty absentminded, but in a cute, endearing way.


    "Oh, right, I am the police. I got so worked up I forgot..." Murong stuck her tongue out at him. "What should we do next? If these videos go online, Sister Qingwan is finished. She will do anything to get them back. But... if the videos have been copied, she might even have to pay with her body!"


    Murong knew about a similar case. Several high-profile women had been photographed in compromising positions and subsequently blackmailed for sexual services.


    "What can we do? It¡¯s a real tough nut to crack." Murong thought for a while, but she couldn¡¯t think of any good ideas.


    Ye Fei frowned. The situation was now indeed very severe. This was almost worse than the assassination attempt. If improperly handled, it could cause irreparable damage to Lin Qingwan¡¯s career and reputation.


    And if Lin Qingwan was ruined, Ye Fei''s job would be lost.


    Ye Fei thought for a while, then his eyes flashed with a confident light.


    He had dealt with far worse situations than this, and he had the confidence to settle it.


    "Obviously, someone in the villa is colluding with the sinister people in charge of this operation. Otherwise, someone would have seen through the half-assed attempt at concealing the receiver by now," Ye Fei said softly. "The first step is to find the traitor."


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    "OK, but what should we do? Who could it be?"


    "It¡¯s Aunt Chen, obviously," Ye Fei said solemnly.


    "No way! It can¡¯t possibly be her," Murong said. "Aunt Chen was Sister Qingwan''s nanny; she watched her grow up since childhood. I don''t believe she¡¯d ever do anything to harm her!"


    Ye Fei knocked on the table and said heavily, "Believe it or not, you should still call her over. I need to speak with her face-to-face. This definitely has something to do with her."


    Murong did not believe that Aunt Chen would betray Lin Qingwan, but she was the only lead. Murong nodded and went to find Aunt Chen.


    Working hours were already over, so the servants were resting and minding their own business. Murong looked for her for a long time, but she couldn¡¯t find Aunt Chen. Eventually, Murong went outside and asked the gardener where Aunt Chen had gone.


    "She took some time off. I think she¡¯s visiting her family back home." The gardener thought for a while and said, "She has been gone for 10 days."


    "Then who¡¯s been taking care of Aunt Chen¡¯s work in the meantime? The house is very clean and tidy, so Sister Qingwan wants to reward her," Murong lied through her teeth.


    "Xiaoyu, come over here! Our master wants to reward you!" The gardener shouted to a girl.


    The girl was over 20 years old, but her short and scrawny figure made her look more like a teenager. Her face was slightly gaunt, with dark bags under her eyes, as if she suffered from a lack of sleep. Her chapped lips, pale complexion, and fallow hair made her look sickly.


    She grabbed at the hem of her simple tunic and came over with a nervous look, like a frightened fawn.


    Murong was pretty surprised to see this little girl. She couldn''t imagine that she¡¯d be the one who betrayed Lin Qingwan.


    "Xiaoyu was sent over by Aunt Chen. She just moved here from her village. She¡¯s a good girl, just a bit timid," the gardener whispered.


    "Xiaoyu, come with me. I need to ask you something." Murong grabbed Xiaoyu¡¯s hand. It felt ice-cold.


    Seeing Murong coming back with a young girl in tow, Ye Fei frowned.


    Not waiting for Xiaoyu to sit down, Ye Fei threw the signal receiver on the table and coldly said, "You should know who we are. You should know what this thing is. So, who told you to do it? Tell me the truth, or we''ll take you to the police station."


    Seeing the receiver on the table, Xiaoyu panicked. She looked from Ye Fei to Murong and back, but said nothing.


    Suddenly, Xiaoyu covered her face and burst into tears, crystal beads flowing down her cheeks.

 Chapter 31 Good Cop Bad Cop

    Ye Fei slammed his fist on the table, pointed at the girl''s nose, and roared, "Why are you crying?!"


    "Ye Fei! What are you doing?" Seeing the young girl¡¯s terrified expression, Murong also hit the table and glared at Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei winked. After three seconds of awkward silence, Murong suddenly understood: he was playing the bad cop.


    She quickly sat down and said with a soft voice, "Xiaoyu, don''t cry. If you had anything to do with this, just tell us the truth and I promise the police will leave you alone."


    "I... I really don''t know anything." Xiaoyu''s eyes glistened with tears.


    "Stop lying, I don''t believe you!" Ye Fei scowled at Xiaoyu. "Lin Qingwan''s reputation and career are at stake. This situation must be resolved properly, so you''d better start cooperating. I advise you to confess now, or else the cops will come and put you in handcuffs and it¡¯ll be too late."


    Ye Fei stared relentlessly into Xiaoyu¡¯s eyes. He spoke slowly, but there was a kind of aggressive pressure about his tone.


    "Xiaoyu, tell us the truth,¡± Murong added softly. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll protect you."


    Xiaoyu lowered her head, not daring to look at Ye Fei. She stayed silent for a while. Finally, she looked to Murong with tears in her eyes and cried out, "I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m sorry! I will tell you everything!"


    Ye Fei and Murong were relieved. This pinhole camera business definitely had something to do with this young girl. However, she had only just come to the city and had a simple and kind-hearted character. If she was involved, she must have been coerced or deceived by someone else.


    Ye Fei was afraid the little girl had been deeply cheated. If she had refused to say anything, he would have been forced to send her to the police.


    This would have been the worst possible outcome and Ye Fei was not prepared to do it.


    Xiaoyu sobbed for a while, then slowly revealed the truth of the matter.


    As Ye Fei speculated, she had just come to the city. She didn''t know more than five people in all of Shanghai.


    A man named Qiangzai, one of the security guards at the villa community, was the one person she was closest to. He was the one who had installed the pinhole cameras.


    At first, Xiaoyu hadn¡¯t realized what these things were used for. She thought they were new security measures, but she eventually realized they were hidden cameras.


    Frightened, Xiaoyu went to Qiangzai, but he threatened her and said she was an accomplice to the act and that if she called the police they would go to prison together.


    This was more than the simple country girl knew how to handle, and she was easily brought to submission by Qiangzai¡¯s threats. He went on to buy her cheap perfumes and jewelry. Not just to bribe her and keep her quiet, but also in an attempt to become her boyfriend and get to bed with him.


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    Xiaoyu was good-natured and trusting. After she unwittingly helped Qiangzai, she felt very guilty and couldn¡¯t sleep well. Within the first week she already lost 10 pounds, and Lin Qingwan even gave her a day off to rest up and regain her strength.


    The better Lin Qingwan treated her, the guiltier Xiaoyu felt, but she just didn¡¯t know what to do.


    Hearing Xiaoyu¡¯s narrative, Murong felt her blood boil. Qiangzai was a rotten bastard. "Let¡¯s go find him!"


    "Wait a minute," Ye Fei stopped her. "I have one more question."


    "Fine..." Murong grit her teeth, imagining how she would beat up that bastard Qiangzai.


    "Xiaoyu, when were these pinhole cameras installed?" Ye Fei said softly.


    Although Ye Fei¡¯s voice was softer now, she was still afraid of him. Looked back to Murong, she murmured, "Ten days ago."


    "How many times did Qiangzai come back to take out the footage?" Ye Fei asked.


    Xiaoyu lowered her head and whispered, "Only once."


    "When was that?" Ye Fei continued.


    She thought for a while and answered, "It must have been three days ago."


    "Three days ago¡­ That¡¯s a long time." Ye Fei grew a little nervous. A lot could happen in three days. He only hoped Lin Qingwan had luck on her side.


    Ye Fei finally stood up and walked towards the door. "Let''s go. Let''s find Qiangzai."


    Qiangzai worked security at the villa. He was supposed to be on duty that evening, but after asking at the security office, Ye Fei learned that he hadn¡¯t come in to work.


    "Oh, Qiangzai? He asked for a day off. He should be at home, I guess," another guard suggested.


    "Xiaoyu, do you know where Qiangzai lives?" Ye Fei frowned. Things were not going as smoothly as he hoped.


    She lowered her head and whispered, "Yes. He took me there once."


    The area in which Qiangzai lived was not far from the villa community, but the environment was starkly different. There was sewage flowing in the street, filling the air with its sour stench.


    Qiangzai lived in a shabby house with no glass in the windows, which were boarded up with gray plastic sheeting and crooked wooden planks.


    Ye Fei frowned. He had seen many poor areas in his years abroad, but he didn''t think that the gap between the rich and the poor was so large back home.


    "Xiaoyu, go call him out, then run back here," Ye Fei said.


    Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, but she still walked to the front door of the house and raised her hand to knock.


    Just then, she heard the sound of a man''s rough breathing and a woman¡¯s moaning and giggling.


    She even clearly heard the woman say, "Oh, you¡¯re amazing! Get back here and do that again!"


    Qiangzai''s voice laughed wretchedly, "Hah, wait till I finish this cigarette; then I¡¯ll let you have another ride on this bull!"


    Xiaoyu was stunned. Tears streamed down her cheeks again.

 Chapter 32 Morals

    Ye Fei and Murong heard the voices in the house too. They looked at each other, a flash of righteous fury burning in their hearts.


    Qiangzai really was a bastard. Xiaoyu was a good girl, but he didn''t cherish her. He was clearly cheating on her with another woman.


    What a scumbag.


    Hearing movement outside, Qiangzai opened the door.


    He was wearing only a pair of briefs and there was lipstick smeared all over his face and neck. He looked surprised when he saw Xiaoyu standing outside. "Xiaoyu, what are you doing here?"


    Xiaoyu took a deep breath, choking back her anger and whispered, "Qiangzai... What the hell are you doing in there?"


    "Nothing¡­ Hah, I ain¡¯t doing anything." Qiangzai stepped outside and reached behind him to close the door.


    Just then, a slim and sexy woman in matching red underwear walked out and draped her arm around Qiangzai''s shoulders. "Who is this bumpkin? You never mentioned her."


    Seeing that he¡¯d been totally busted, Qiangzai didn¡¯t panic at all. He stared at Xiaoyu and said, "You wanna know what I was doing in the house? Isn''t it obvious? I was fucking her. You know, just like I did to you."


    "You..." Xiaoyu was completely stunned. Her body became stiff, her mind blank. She could not believe there could be such a brazen person in the world. She couldn¡¯t believe she ever had sex with him. "You are shameless!"


    Mustering what little courage she could, Xiaoyu swung her palm into Qiangzai¡¯s face.


    Pah!


    With a resounding slap, Qiangzai''s cheek immediately turned bright red.


    "Bitch, how dare you?!" he exploded, stretching out his hand to choke Xiaoyu¡¯s slender neck.


    "You idiot, I never liked you! Believe it or not, I''m going to tie you up and let a dog have his way with you. You¡¯ll learn how bad I can be!¡± Qiangzai shouted with a hideous grin. ¡°I can¡¯t believe you actually dared to hit me."


    Xiaoyu¡¯s tears streamed down Qiangzai''s arm. He licked them up and spat on the ground, "Damn it, they¡¯re bitter."


    Suddenly, a powerful hand squeezed Qiangzai''s wrist, forcing him to loosen his grip.


    Ye Fei supported the faint Xiaoyu, helping her back to Murong. "Murong, take care of her for me."


    When Ye Fei grabbed Qiangzai, his whole arm suddenly went numb, as if struck by an electric shock. Qiangzai was startled, he began to think Ye Fei was some kind of martial arts expert, but then he saw Ye Fei¡¯s thin, gentle figure and became emboldened. "Hey, boy, don¡¯t shove your nose in other people¡¯s business!"


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    Qiangzai aggressively rushed at Ye Fei, wanting to kick his skull in. He had practiced some Taekwondo and Sanda, and had a really strong kick.


    Behind him, the sexy woman gleefully applauded, "Get him!"


    Ye Fei stood his ground. As Qiangzai¡¯s kick rose toward his head, he suddenly lunged downwards and kicked Qiangzai¡¯s supporting leg.


    There was a tangible bone-crunching sound, followed by Qiangzai collapsing to the ground in a mangled heap.


    "Ah, fuck!!!" Qiangzai howled, holding his leg and rolling on the ground.


    "How dare you hit my man?! I¡¯ll show you!"


    Seeing Qiangzai go down, the woman ran back inside and quickly reemerged with an empty beer bottle, which she threw directly at Ye Fei¡¯s head.


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t bat an eyelid. He snatched the beer bottle from the air five inches from his face and threw it right back at her.


    The glass bottle clunked the woman on the forehead, shattering from the impact. She swayed for a moment and fell flat on the ground, out like a light.


    Qiangzai gasped. Who was this guy? He¡¯d even hit his woman!


    Not waiting for Qiangzai to react, Ye Fei bent down and pulled his head up from the ground by his hair.


    "Who are you?! I don''t even know you!¡± Qiangzai cried. He thought Ye Fei was just a passerby. ¡°Why are you getting involved in my business?"


    "I don''t know you either, but I think you¡¯re familiar with Lin Qingwan."


    Ye Fei pointed to Murong and Xiaoyu, "I''m in charge of the case with this policewoman. You know what this is about, don¡¯t you? Don''t pretend."


    Hearing Lin Qingwan¡¯s name, Qiangzai looked to Xiaoyu and knew that he was busted. "I don''t know what you¡¯re talking about," he growled nervously.


    "You don''t? Allow me to enlighten you."


    Ye Fei¡¯s features turned into a grimace. He dragged Qiangzai into his house by the hair, locking the door behind them.


    "What... What are you doing?¡± Qiangzai squealed. ¡°You¡¯re a cop! If you hit me I¡¯ll report you, I¡¯ll get you fired! If you dare to touch me, I will make you regret it!"


    "When did I say I was a cop?" Ye Fei sneered. "The police have too many restrictions; they can only punish you according to the law. I don¡¯t have that problem; I can deal with you according to morals."


    Without further hesitation, Ye Fei began pelting Qiangzai¡¯s face with his knuckles. He had very good self-control. He was going to make sure Qiangzai didn¡¯t pass out. He needed to feel all of it.


    "Ouch!!" Qiangzai squealed like a pig. Soon, his face looked like a painter¡¯s palette; there was red, purple, green¡­

 Chapter 33 The Burning Bar

    Five minutes later, the door opened and Ye Fei dragged Qiangzai out.


    "Whoah!" Murong and Xiaoyu gasped.


    Qiangzai¡¯s face was bruised and swollen like a steamed bun. Even his mother wouldn¡¯t recognize him. Somehow, he was still conscious.


    He crawled toward Murong and wheezed through lips swollen like sausages, ¡°Officer... I was bad, just send me to jail. I know I was bad."


    "Ye Fei, you''re ruthless!" Murong shot him a glare and fulfilled Qiangzai¡¯s wish.


    She made a phone call and five minutes later Qiangzai was taken away in a police cruiser, straight to a small, dark interrogation room in the police station.


    "Ye Fei, what happened? Did he have Sister Qingwan''s videos?" Murong softly asked, watching the police cruiser disappear in the distance.


    "There¡¯s good news and bad news. Which do you want first?" Ye Fei went and found a towel and wiped the blood from his knuckles.


    Murong was restless like an ant on a hot plate, "You¡¯re still in the mood to joke?"


    "Alright, bad news first," Ye Fei''s expression darkened. "Qiangzai is just a nobody. Someone else made him do it.¡±


    "There had to be someone else,¡± Murong nodded. ¡°Qiangzai is just a security guard with no higher education or special training. He wouldn¡¯t know how to install a pinhole camera. Besides, he couldn¡¯t have gotten his hands on such advanced German-made gear."


    "Right. Qiangzai was extremely uncooperative at first, but he told me everything after I rearranged his face a bit. His boss is known as ¡®Fire Dragon¡¯. Does that ring a bell?"


    Murong was astonished. "Fire Dragon? The Fire Dragon of the Burning Bar. God, that guy? Really?"


    "What, does he have a history of this kind of stuff?"


    Murong thought for a while and said, "Hmm... How shall I put it?" She bit her lip, "Simply put, Fire Dragon owns a nightclub. He is forthright and likes to keep his friends close, and has 36 sworn brothers. He also gets into fights practically every day. He¡¯s very difficult to deal with; a real scoundrel.


    "In short, Fire Dragon is an aggressive bastard. He and his buddies all know how to fight. If this has something to do with him, I suggest we report to my superiors first."


    Ye Fei understood why she was hesitant.


    Even if Fire Dragon was strong and had a lot of friends, he was just a nightclub owner. To make Murong so scared of him meant he had some powerful backers. Going after Fire Dragon meant offending whoever was behind him.


    Cops like Murong had too many scruples and restrictions, so criminals like him committed their crimes boldly with no fear of repercussions, casting doubt on the credibility of the police in the eyes of the common people. Things were like that nation-wide, and there was little that could be done about it.


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    But Ye Fei didn''t have any reservations about getting his hands dirty, and he was fearless.


    "Is Fire dragon that powerful?¡± he scoffed. ¡°Well then, go ahead and report to your superiors. But be careful; don''t let word of this reach him. If Fire Dragon feels threatened, he might put Lin Qingwan''s videos online and all our efforts will have been for nothing."


    "I know. Don¡¯t fret, my channel is absolutely secure."


    Murong took out her phone and dialed a number.


    After the call, Murong remembered something. "Ye Fei, you only told me the bad news. What¡¯s the good news?"


    "The good news is that Qiangzai is a really unreliable guy. He took Lin Qingwan¡¯s videos out of the villa three days ago but he only sent them to Fire Dragon today," Ye Fei sneered.


    "If he only sent them to Fire Dragon today, Sister Qingwan''s videos may not have been exposed to anyone yet. That''s great! I''ll make another call."


    Murong dialed again.


    Ye Fei looked at Murong helplessly. What was the point? Even if she passed on the news, they were already too late. By now, these videos were in the hands of someone who could use them to blackmail Lin Qingwan.


    If they wanted to get the footage back before it did any harm, they had to do it tonight.


    When they returned to the villa, Lin Qingwan was still unconscious, so Murong went to the kitchen to cook her a bowl of hangover soup. After pouring it into Lin Qingwan¡¯s mouth, she felt a little better and opened her eyes, but was still in a daze.


    "Murong, take Manager Lin back to the apartment. I do not think she can live in this villa anymore."


    Ye Fei stood in front of a window and looked outside. The villa was built on disadvantageous terrain and the security personnel were unreliable. It would be very easy to attack it. For the sake of security, Murong had to take Lin Qingwan back to Purple Apartments.


    "All right." Murong called for a taxi.


    When the cab pulled up to the villa, she helped Lin Qingwan into the back seat. Murong sat beside her, supporting her. "Ye Fei, why aren¡¯t you getting in the car?"


    "I want to go visit a friend tonight. You go on ahead," he waved his hand.


    "OK."


    Murong was not in charge of him and she had no right to interfere with his private affairs, so she said nothing more and left.


    Ye Fei went back to Lin Qingwan''s car. He activated the built-in GPS and drove straight to the Burning Bar.


    Shanghai was a city that never slept. All the high-end bars and clubs would be packed throughout the night, and the Burning Bar was no exception.


    Ye Fei parked outside the club and walked straight to the door.


    He was there for Fire Dragon.

 Chapter 34 The Goddess’ Favor

    When Ye Fei was on missions abroad, he often had to infiltrate clubs or bars to kill targets. He was familiar with those kinds of places.


    The signboard outside the Burning Bar showed a volcano with red magma flowing out. Business was hot, and many people were going in and out.


    They were all there for one reason: self-indulgence.


    Ye Fei passed through the door and the music struck him like a shockwave.


    There was a huge iron cage in the middle of the hall. Inside the cage was a small dance floor with several beautiful girls pole-dancing. Their revealing clothes and lithe forms made them all the more alluring under the colorful strobe lights.


    Throngs of young people were dancing madly around the cage like they were high on speed, shaking and swinging their colorful hair.


    Ye Fei lit a cigarette and walked around in the crowd. He didn¡¯t know nightclubs had become so popular back in China.


    Eventually, he came upon a door. Behind this door was a staircase that led to the second floor, and it was blocked by two bodyguards in black suits.


    A couple of drunk young guys came by, thinking this was the way to the toilet, and got pushed down to the floor by a bodyguard.


    Ye Fei could see these were no ordinary bodyguards. Their calloused hands indicated that they had trained in martial arts for many years.


    They were definitely good fighters, but Ye Fei still believed they were no match for him. True masters would be too proud to watch over a door for someone else.


    Even so, he knew the Fire Dragon of the Burning Bar was no ordinary character either. He probably kept many master fighters around him.


    Ye Fei smiled. Fire Dragon scared a lot of people, but not him. Even if it was dangerous, he wanted to have a look around.


    He was not in a rush to do anything. He just wanted to see if Fire Dragon was present. If he wasn¡¯t there, Ye Fei needn''t act rashly.


    "Hi!" He walked over to the bar, knocked on the countertop, and smiled at the young bartender.


    "Would you like something to drink, sir?" the bartender returned a friendly smile.


    "It depends on what you have."


    Ye Fei looked at the bottles on the shelves behind the bartender. They were mostly imported foreign brands. Glancing at the prices on the drinks menu, his tongue lolled out of his mouth in astonishment.


    Ye Fei was not ignorant. On the contrary, he was experienced and worldly. He had been to many countries and tasted countless brands of booze, but the price of everything at the Burning Bar really caught him by surprise.


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    He was a soldier. He carried out various missions year-round and had a hard life, but he had always paid attention to quality alcohol. He didn''t like the plain stuff.


    "A bottle of Budweiser, please." Ye Fei put the menu aside. He wasn¡¯t planning on getting a hangover anyway.


    Budweiser was nothing fancy, but at least he knew exactly what he was getting. Besides, even a small bottle of Budweiser would cost him fifty Yuan.


    The bartender handed over the bottle with cold eyes, like he was looking at an impoverished wretch.


    Ye Fei returned a light smile. He could care less about the bartender''s attitude.


    In fact, Ye Fei knew this was a kind of marketing trick. Vain young guys couldn''t stand that cold and scornful gaze, so they would order more expensive drinks to show off. It was a psychological trap.


    Ye Fei drank a sip of beer and casually blurted out, "Hey, Brother Dragon owns this place, right? Is he around tonight?"


    "Humph!" The bartender gave Ye Fei the cold shoulder.


    Ye Fei could only smile bitterly to himself. It was going to be as difficult to get any information out of that bartender as it was to get money from Lin Qingwan.


    "Two glasses of Hennessy, please," came a soft female voice by Ye Fei¡¯s ear.


    A glass of dark brown liquid slid across the counter to Ye Fei, and the soft voice said, "It''s on me."


    Ye Fei turned and saw a beautiful woman. Her oval face boasted a pair of large and pretty eyes, a softly raised nose, pink lips, and a sweet smile.


    He knew this woman; she was Murong''s roommate, the professional model, Liu Manman.


    Liu Manman''s appearance tonight was hot, but classy. Her getup was particularly sexy.


    The pale pink-blue silky blouse, fitting tightly around her large breasts, made men¡¯s hearts quicken their beat. Her black leather miniskirt, cutting off fifteen centimeters above the knees, and short boots, alongside her flesh-colored transparent stockings, revealed her snow-white, slender, shapely legs.


    With that figure, she was the focus of the entire Burning Bar. She was the object of countless men¡¯s affections, but these men had no idea how to approach someone like Liu Manman.


    She was dancing on the dance floor when she saw Ye Fei sitting alone at the bar. She left her dance partner and hurried over to buy him a drink to express her thanks for saving her earlier.


    In the eyes of the other men, her gratitude became flirtatiousness. Behind Ye Fei¡¯s back, they glared at him with burning jealousy.


    Many men stood gnashing their teeth, not knowing how this Budweiser-swilling yokel could have earned such a goddess¡¯ favor.

 Chapter 35 Meeting Again

    "What are you doing here?" Facing this beautiful woman, Ye Fei remained expressionless. Not because Liu Manman was not beautiful, but because he just didn''t like her style.


    "I should ask you the same. I come here a lot, but I¡¯ve never seen you here before." Liu Manman smiled and raised her glass with a slender hand, "Cheers!"


    Ye Fei smiled and took a little sip. When he put down his glass, he saw that she had emptied her whole glass of Hennessy.


    "Hey, are you trying to make me lose face?" Liu Manman''s cheeks flushed red, which only served to make her look more endearing. When she saw Ye Fei barely touch the glass with his lips, she felt a little peeved.


    "The drinks here aren¡¯t to my taste," Ye Fei shrugged. "If you come here often, you must be quite familiar with this place, right?"


    "Of course," said Liu Manman. "Not only the Burning Bar; I''m familiar with all the nearby clubs. Why do you ask? Do you want me to take you to a better place? Sure, I can take you... But..." A hint of trepidation flashed in her eyes as she glanced over her shoulder.


    "I was just wondering about Fire Dragon. You know him, right? Is he here tonight?" Ye Fei asked conversationally.


    Liu Manman seemed to see something alarming somewhere on the noisy dance floor. She looked a little panicky, answering absently, "Fire Dragon? Sure, he¡¯s here. I saw him upstairs just now."


    "Thank you! You''ve been a great help." Ye Fei drained the glass of dark brown liquor and stood up, ready to go upstairs to meet Fire Dragon.


    "Wait a minute." Liu Manman suddenly grabbed onto his arm, her chest tightly pressed against him.


    Ye Fei froze. He only met this sexy woman twice and they had only exchanged a few casual words. What was she doing grabbing him?


    Liu Manman''s slender white arm draped around Ye Fei¡¯s neck as she looked at him affectionately, sticking out her pink tongue to quickly lick her lips. Her sex appeal was irresistible.


    Ye Fei was right. If these were ancient times, Liu Manman would be a dangerous beauty just like Daji and Bao Si.


    A femme fatale.


    It must be a lot of trouble to have a relationship with such a woman.


    Still lost in that thought, Ye Fei suddenly felt a sweet and soft touch on his lips, mixed with the intoxicating bouquet of alcohol.


    Incredibly, Liu Manman kissed Ye Fei in full view of the whole noisy and disorderly bar. The various guys casting discreet glances at her were so jealous they wanted to beat Ye Fei to a pulp.


    ¡°How could that son of a bitch get so lucky?!¡±


    ¡°Is he that hottie¡¯s new boy toy?¡±


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    "He must be her boy toy!"


    They wanted to be her boy toys too.


    The sound of shattering glass rang out across the hall.


    "You looking to die, you fucker? How dare you touch my girl?!"


    A man in casual clothes angrily stomped over from the middle of the dance floor. He looked handsome, but his face was full of indignation. There was a broken beer bottle in his hand.


    Ye Fei slowly pushed Liu Manman aside, staring sternly into her eyes. "What¡¯s going on? Is he your boyfriend?"


    Liu Manman''s body trembled slightly, like a wounded fawn. "I... Ye Fei, please help me again. His name is Fang Mu and his dad is the CEO of the Heng Yuan Group. He¡¯s a rich spoiled brat. I don¡¯t like him, but he keeps harassing me because he thinks he¡¯s God¡¯s gift to women or something. Please, just get him to leave me alone! I will repay you."


    Ye Fei frowned. "That¡¯s none of my business!" He almost wanted to give her a piece of his mind.


    He didn''t know what happened between Liu Manman and the young man she called Fang Mu, but he knew he definitely didn¡¯t want to get involved in their dispute.


    Besides, he assumed she was just trying to play him.


    A woman like Liu Manman was as cunning as she was beautiful. Any man who helped her because he coveted her beauty would fall deeper and deeper into her web until he was completely under her thumb.


    Her act pissed Ye Fei off. Did she really think he was that much of a sucker? All she did was buy him a drink and now she expected him to offend the son of a powerful tycoon for her? Yeah, right!


    Of course, Ye Fei was not actually afraid of offending Fang Mu. He just didn¡¯t want to play along with Liu Manman¡¯s tricks.


    Did she think every man in the world would immediately lose his head over her because she was hot? Hardly.


    Ye Fei chose to retreat. He pushed Liu Manman away and turned to leave.


    Fang Mu thought Ye Fei was scared of him, so he allowed himself to become cocky. "Are you scared, you fucking coward? Stay where you are! I will make you bleed tonight!" he shouted.


    The crowd of onlookers around them gave Ye Fei scornful looks.


    "Ha-ha, what a coward!"


    "What a shameless guy. Even if he¡¯s afraid, he should at least put up a little resistance in front of his woman."


    "Is he a man or not?"


    "What did she even see in him?"


    Ye Fei stopped in his tracks and shot a humorless glance at Liu Manman. She had this all planned out from the beginning.


    He couldn''t retreat.


    And since he couldn''t retreat...


    Ye Fei had an idea. He was going to give this scheming woman a run for her money.

 Chapter 36 Elbow to the Face

    Ye Fei turned to leave.


    Fang Mu had studied taekwondo for three years; he knew it was foolish to turn your back to the opponent in a fight.


    His eyes shone with opportune light. He flung out his hand, stabbing at Ye Fei with the broken bottle.


    Even without looking, Ye Fei could hear the sound of rushing wind as the bottle pierced through the air toward him. He knew Fang Mu wasn¡¯t planning on going easy on him, and that pissed Ye Fei off.


    As the saying went, "Keep calm and look at the bigger picture." He had already retreated, but Fang Mu still attacked him. Now, Ye Fei wanted to teach that guy a lesson.


    However, rather than whirling around to face his opponent, Ye Fei¡¯s face showed fear and his legs went soft like boiled noodles.


    Seeing Ye Fei so scared, Fang Mu thought he was indeed a pitiful coward, and this only encouraged his aggression.


    Liu Manman was astonished. She couldn¡¯t believe her eyes. Last night, Ye Fei bravely took down three men on his own, but now he was so scared he wouldn¡¯t even fight? What a pansy.


    Suddenly, Ye Fei cried out, "No, please!" as his knees buckled and he stumbled to the ground, conveniently dodging the broken beer bottle at the same time.


    And then...


    Bang!


    With a surprised scream, Fang Mu''s momentum carried him face-first into Ye Fei''s elbow.


    The combined energy of leg, waist and torso was concentrated into his elbow, adding up to a ferocious impact.


    Fang Mu collapsed to the floor with a thud . Incidentally, his head ended up directly beneath a woman¡¯s skirt. "Ah, creep!" the woman screamed, stomping on his face with her high-heeled boots.


    Fang Mu barely managed to get away from her. He was exhausted, his face was covered in blood, he¡¯d lost seven or eight teeth, and his nose was broken to top it all off.


    "Ouch... Ouch... It hurts!!" He rolled on the floor in pain.


    Surprisingly, next to Fang Mu, Ye Fei covered his elbow with his hand and screamed at the top of his voice, "It hurts! You hit my elbow with your face, you crazy bastard! My arm is broken! It hurts!!!"


    Beaten and trampled half to death, it was Fang Mu who ought to have been the one uttering such words, but Ye Fei¡¯s sudden hysterics drowned out any sound that came from his mouth.


    To those in the crowd hearing the screams but unable to see their source, Ye Fei''s injury sounded ten times more serious than Fang Mu¡¯s.


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    Liu Manman rubbed her eyes in shock as she looked upon this bizarre scene¡­ and then rubbed them again just to be sure.


    It all happened so fast that no one had time to react before it was all over... but no one could have anticipated the result: both Fang Mu and Ye Fei screaming their guts out in pain.


    Liu Manman was speechless. She had no idea what just happened.


    "What is going on here? Don¡¯t you know Fire Dragon owns this place? If you want to fight, do it outside!" A bouncer showed up, drawn by the commotion. Seeing one man bleeding all over the floor and another screaming in pain, he didn''t know what to make of it.


    Whatever happened, fighting in the bar was forbidden.


    The bouncer, Hu Gang, looked around and said with a cold voice, "Throw them both out!"


    "I... I..." Fang Mu stammered through his broken teeth.


    Fang Mu''s family was rich, and he often partied in this expensive nightclub. He knew the bouncers weren¡¯t going to stand for any nonsense. Beaten and humiliated, all he wanted was to explain what happened to security and get Ye Fei thrown out.


    "Bro, hang on a minute. Don¡¯t you even want to know what happened?¡± Ye Fei said loudly, ¡°I understand throwing out people who start fights, but everyone here can tell you that I didn¡¯t do anything! I was just having a drink when this man rushed out of nowhere with a broken beer bottle in his hands, and then he just fell and almost crushed my arm. I didn¡¯t even demand compensation and you want to throw me out? Is this how the Burning Bar treats its customers?"


    "Er..." Hu Gang''s expression was stiff. The man on the ground was covered in blood and looked half-dead. Did he really fall down by himself? If he did, Hu Gang would be punished by the boss if he kicked out and offended a customer for no good reason.


    It seemed like an easy problem to solve - he would just ask the witnesses.


    "You all saw it. What happened just now?" Hu Gang asked a group of regulars he recognized nearby.


    The young partygoers looked at Ye Fei and then looked at Fang Mu on the ground, and said, "We didn''t see it too clearly, but it looked like he did bump himself into this guy¡¯s elbow and fell to the ground."


    Although they scoffed at Ye Fei¡¯s over-the-top performance, they couldn''t lie to the bouncer.


    As far as anyone saw, that¡¯s what happened

 Chapter 37 -Compensate Me With Your Body

    "He actually fell on his own? What a dumbass..." The bouncer waved his hand and two of his colleagues walked up to Fang Mu to throw him out of the club.


    Hearing that he was going to get thrown out, Fang Mu freaked out. Ye Fei''s elbow had broken his teeth and his nose. He was utterly miserable, but seeing the person who did that to him act like the victim? That made him furious!


    To make matters worse, those stupid bouncers couldn¡¯t even see through Ye Fei¡¯s act, and didn¡¯t even recognize Fang Mu!


    He felt like he was going to explode.


    "I...I..." he tried to explain, but he was in so much pain that he couldn''t speak. He felt his limbs grabbed and lifted up.


    15 seconds later, Fang Mu''s limp body hit the ground hard. A disgusting stench attacked his nostrils, probably coming from the dry splatter of vomit in front of him. A big rat scuttled over his back.


    He had been thrown out the back door of the club, into the sewage and filth.


    Fang Mu''s psychological trauma was far worse than any physical pain. Foaming at the mouth with rage, he fainted in that filthy alley.


    Back inside, Ye Fei chuckled to himself. Anticipating this result, he had pretended to be a wimpy coward.


    He was only there because he wanted to find Fire Dragon. If he got thrown out over a fight, what would be the point?


    Hearing the commotion downstairs, Chen Han, the manager of the bar, hurried over and questioned the security personnel about what happened. After being shown the apparently badly-hurt Ye Fei, he hastily walked over and said, "Sir, I am terribly sorry. You were hit by that man because of our negligence, so we will immediately send you to the hospital for treatment. Of course, we will take responsibility for your medical expenses."


    Chen Han displayed a good attitude; most people would agree with him. Of course, he didn''t really want to send Ye Fei to the hospital. He would have much preferred to give him a few hundred Yuan in private to get rid of him.


    However, now that he knew Fire Dragon was in the building, Ye Fei wanted to meet him. He shook his head with a bitter face and held up the supposedly injured arm, "Ugh, it hurts¡­ But you see, the problem is I invited a few friends here to party with me. I couldn¡¯t leave without them."


    In fact, if Ye Fei wanted to get close to Fire Dragon, he could simply start screaming and making a huge fuss until the man himself came down to see what was going on, but the problem with that was that Ye Fei came not only to meet Fire Dragon, but more importantly, to get Lin Qingwan''s videos. He had to find an opportunity to sneak onto the second floor and steal away the surveillance footage from her villa.


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    Chen Han was relieved to see that Ye Fei was taking the situation in stride and wasn¡¯t going to try to extort him for compensation. At the same time, he also confirmed to himself that Ye Fei was a timid coward.


    "Well, sir, in order to show our apology, you and your friends can drink for free here tonight. Thank you for supporting the Burning Bar." Chen Han raised a hand and loudly proclaimed, "Everything¡¯s alright now. I apologize for inconveniencing you all. By way of apology, the next round¡¯s on the house!"


    "Woo!" everyone within earshot cheered.


    The tense atmosphere became lively again and the crowd partied on to the blaring music.


    Seeing that everything was back to normal, Chen Han smiled to himself, very satisfied with his performance. Now he wanted to report this to Fire Dragon. He was about to head back to the second floor when someone suddenly grabbed his hand.


    Turning around, Chen Han saw that the person who grabbed him was that injured coward. Despite already being very impatient, he softly asked, "What can I do for you, sir?"


    "Oh, sorry, I have just bought a Budweiser. Can you give me the money back?" Ye Fei''s face was full of smiles.


    "What did you say?" Chen Han was stunned. He thought he may have misheard. He already drank the beer, and he wanted the money back?


    That guy just had no sense of shame. What was a cheapskate like that doing in the Burning Bar, anyway?


    Chen Han gave Ye Fei a disdainful look and took out a one hundred Yuan bill from his pocket. "Take the money and get out of here. You¡¯re not welcome anymore."


    Then, Chen Han turned around and went upstairs. However, he failed to notice Ye Fei surreptitiously lifting a key ring from his pocket while taking the money.


    "You got it," Ye Fei smiled. He had the manager¡¯s keys, which meant he could open all the right doors. Now, he just needed to get upstairs.


    Ye Fei looked at the bodyguards guarding the stairway. Slipping past them onto the second floor would be next to impossible. Other than the guarded stairs, there seemed to be only one other option to get to the second floor.


    Ye Fei looked at a door in the corner of the club - the girls¡¯ public restroom.


    "Hey, are you okay? Thank you, you just saved me again," Liu Manman whispered next to him.


    "What, you want to thank me again? Are you going to buy me another drink? Well don¡¯t worry about it, I can already drink for free tonight." Ye Fei didn''t like her at all.


    Now he had the perfect chance to punish her.


    "Of course not... Thank you so much."


    "Yeah, well, how are you going to thank me, then?" Ye Fei briefly eyed her plump breasts and slender waist and jokingly said, "Why don''t you compensate me with a little alone time?"

 Chapter 38 You Want It, Don’t You?

    ¡°Compensate you with some alone time?¡± Liu Manman was stunned, staring blankly at Ye Fei. Looking at this handsome and mysterious man, she felt her cheeks redden a little.


    Last night, when Ye Fei rescued her and carried her home, she was impressed with his manliness.


    Any woman would want a strong arm to protect her, and Liu Manman was no different. She was a beautiful girl, but she could not protect herself.


    However, Ye Fei was simply maddening.


    Thinking of the way he looked at her last night, she grew somewhat vexed.


    Women were always very concerned about their charm, especially beautiful and attractive women. They want people''s appreciation and recognition.


    Last night, when Ye Fei held her, he was a real man. But when he put her down, his expression was one of boredom. "Don¡¯t you like me?" Liu Manman thought angrily. Anyone else would be smitten by such a beautiful woman!


    There was little that could be said about Ye Fei''s sex appeal. For starters, he dressed in worn clothes like a peasant who¡¯d just arrived at the big city. In Liu Manman''s view, it should have been easy to wrap him around her little finger, but he seemed to have a heart of stone. He was simply unmoved by her feminine charm.


    "Humph, compensate you with some alone time, huh?" she sneered in her head, "I thought you were an upright gentleman, but it turns out you¡¯re just another perv. Your true nature is revealed! Since that¡¯s what you are, I¡¯ll just play with your head until you¡¯re completely exposed and you¡¯ll see, I¡¯ll make you my bitch."


    "Have you no shame?" Liu Manman''s face turned red. She said, "What were you even thinking? I am not someone you can just sleep with!"


    "Oh, well, forget it then." Ye Fei turned away with an indifferent expression.


    Just what was up with that guy? Liu Manman was stunned. Her mind blank, she hastily grabbed his hand, "Hey, where are you going? I¡¯m not done talking yet."


    Ye Fei turned back nonchalantly. "So do you want to thank me my way or not?"


    Liu Manman stared at him in disbelief. "Where could we do it, anyway? Here? There are too many people here. Even if I wanted to, this place is no good," she said, looking around.


    Ye Fei wordlessly shook his head.


    "What a shameless, unreasonable jerk!" Liu Manman thought. She felt faint. She didn¡¯t want talk to him anymore. She stood up and said, "Excuse me, I need to go to the toilet."


    Liu Manman left Ye Fei behind her and walked toward the restroom. She soon realized he was right behind her. "What a creep! Is he seriously going to follow me into the ladies'' room?"


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    She suddenly realized she was not familiar with Ye Fei at all. They only knew each other one day, and other than him being Lin Qingwan''s bodyguard, she didn''t know anything about him.


    She panicked, her heart pounding in her chest.


    Entering the restroom, she went to the sink and washed her hands. When she looked up to the mirror, Ye Fei was standing right behind her.


    "What¡­ What the hell are you doing in here?! This is the ladies'' room, you creep! Get the hell out!" Staring at Ye Fei in panic, she struggled to speak clearly.


    He leaned against the door, lit a cigarette, and sucked in the smoke. "I thought you were going to have sex with me here!"


    "What... Have sex? You perv, in the toilet?!" Liu Manman lowered her voice and stretched out her hands to push Ye Fei out the door.


    Ye Fei stopped smoking and put a finger over his grinning lips. "Shush! Listen!" he whispered.


    Liu Manman frowned, "What am I listening for?"


    "Just shush." Ye Fei pointed to one of the stalls.


    She was a bit suspicious, but she quickly picked up on the sound of a man and a woman making love. It sounded like they¡¯d been at it for a while.


    "Yeah... Oh! Right there! Harder! Oh!"


    The voices gradually grew louder as Liu Manman leaned in and carefully listened through the door. Her charming little face glowed red. In truth, she often overheard these kinds of sounds as a regular partygoer.


    People went clubbing for the thrill. This kind of thing was common in today''s world.


    Fire Dragon¡¯s Burning Bar was a particularly famous venue. It was frequented not only by models such as Liu Manman, but occasionally even by celebrities and young starlets.


    "Do you want to make love, too? No wonder you brought me here." Ye Fei stared at Liu Manman¡¯s long, smooth legs. The nightclub atmosphere made her all the more attractive.


    At first she had a surprised expression, but then she put on a determined look and exhaled sharply. With a charming smile, she clopped toward Ye Fei on her high-heels.


    Her slender arms slowly draped over his shoulders as she slowly breathed into his face.


    Her exceptionally soft and perky breasts pressed against him. Her cleavage was a rift that could suck in a man¡¯s soul. Her round buttocks, wrapped in a short skirt, formed a sharp contrast with her delicate and tender waist.

 Chapter 39 The Bait

    Liu Manman pushed Ye Fei to the wall and wrapped a slender leg around his waist as she caressed his cheek.


    A wide grin appeared on Ye Fei''s indifferent face, but when he reached to touch her waist, she suddenly stopped him.


    "I... I have a stomachache!" Liu Manman ran into an empty stall, slamming the door behind her.


    "OK, I''ll just wait for you here," Ye Fei''s voice rang beyond the door.


    "What should I do?" Liu Manman leaned against the door, exhaling loudly. She didn¡¯t think Ye Fei would actually go along with it.


    You think I¡¯ll have sex with you just because you got rid of a few bozos for me? Keep dreaming!


    ¡°But... what should I do now? This Ye Fei guy is a savage. If I push him away... he¡¯ll rape me.¡± Liu Manman''s mind was blank. Her body shivering, she didn¡¯t dare to follow that train of thought any further.


    "I have to call for help." She took out her phone with shaking fingers.


    She was acquainted with the manager of the Burning Bar, Chen Han. If she called him, he¡¯d send a few bouncers to save her, but she¡¯d be indebted to him. Chen Han looked like a good fellow, but he was actually Fire Dragon¡¯s right-hand man.


    However, Liu Manman had no choice but to call him and have him come and take Ye Fei away.


    She felt a little sorry for Ye Fei. "Damn it, who made you want to have sex with me? All you did was beat up a few good-for-nothings. I told you, I¡¯m not that kind of girl."


    After thinking about it for a while, Liu Manman was determined to call Chen Han.


    Toot... Toot... Toot...


    After a while, Chen Han picked up the phone. "Miss Liu, to what do I owe the pleasure? I just saw you on the first floor, do you want me to buy you a drink?"


    "Manager Chen, I am in the ladies'' room on the first floor. There¡¯s a creepy man lurking here," Liu Manman whispered.


    "Really? I will send someone down immediately." Chen Han was surprised. He knew the toilets in his nightclub could get pretty messy with people having sex there, but since Liu Manman complained about it, he had to send someone downstairs to look around.


    He pulled out his walkie-talkie and held the button, "Dahu, Xiaoqiang, take a few men and go check the ladies'' room on the first floor. If you find anything unusual, inform me immediately."


    "Yes, sir."


    Dahu, Xiaoqiang, and five bodyguards from the second floor ran downstairs and found Liu Manman hiding in the ladies'' restroom. Soon, Chen Han arrived as well.


    "Where is the pervert?" he asked. Ye Fei was nowhere to be found.


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    "I... I don''t know.¡± Liu Manman walked out from the stall confused. Ye Fei had said he would wait for her outside the door, so where was he? Did he walk away?


    Liu Manman repeatedly apologized to Chen Han, embarrassed to have put him to so much trouble for nothing.


    "It¡¯s nothing!¡± Chen Han smiled. ¡°Why don¡¯t I buy you a drink to take your mind off it?" He had actually coveted this beauty for a long time, and this was a perfect opportunity to have a drink with her and get on her good side.


    They walked out of the ladies'' toilet together, unmindful of the open window in the neighboring stall.


    While Liu Manman was on the phone with Chen Han, Ye Fei had opened this window, carefully climbed up the toilet bowl, and crawled out with the silent dexterity of a monkey.


    On the other side, he jumped up and clung to a second floor window. Looking in, he saw multiple guards patrolling the corridor. If he climbed in right there, he would be spotted immediately.


    Of course, Ye Fei could choose to fight past them, but he did not want to arouse suspicion. If Fire Dragon felt something was wrong, Ye Fei would lose the chance to find Lin Qingwan''s videos.


    Ye Fei was not in a hurry. Clutching the ledge, he slowly shimmied past the other windows to look into the other rooms of the second floor.


    There were several luxurious VIP rooms on the second floor, with a few men and many scantily clad women. In two of the rooms, the girls were wearing nothing but underwear, slender waists swaying to the music.


    After dancing for a while, they sat on a couch together. Two of the girls looks very young, possibly under eighteen. They took up straws and started snorting up lines of powder from the table in front of them.


    Ye Fei frowned. He¡¯d been around. He clearly knew those girls were snorting drugs.


    Sure enough, Fire Dragon was up to no good. Things were normal on the first floor, but there were all manner of criminal and immoral acts happening on the second floor.


    No wonder there were so many guards at the Burning Bar. It seemed that Fire Dragon''s crimes were more than just illegal surveillance and blackmail.


    Ye Fei hung on the ledge, waiting for the right moment. The white powder made the two girls excited and they began to undress in front of the men, who rushed up like hungry wolves to ravish them.


    Just then, Ye Fei heard Chen Han¡¯s voice from the corridor, ordering the bodyguards to go downstairs, and knew his plan was successful.


    He shimmied back to the corridor window and clambered over the windowsill, silent as a civet.

 Chapter 40 I Ask, You Answer

    Like a nimble cheetah, Ye Fei ran to the door Chen Han had just walked out of.


    It was the manager''s office.


    Ye Fei looked down and found that the lock on the door was not your usual pin tumbler deal, but a rare and complex mechanism. That type of lock was difficult to pick; Ye Fei would require at least a minute or two. However, someone could walk by at any moment, so he had to unlock it as quickly as possible.


    Fortunately, Ye Fei had already stolen Chen Han¡¯s keys.


    That fool still had no idea. He was still talking to Liu Manman downstairs.


    Ye Fei unlocked the door and jumped in before gently closing it behind him. The manager''s office was dark, but he did not turn on the light. His eyes shone dimly in the dark like the eyes of a wild wolf. He quickly walked over to Chen Han''s computer and turned it on.


    Ye Fei assumed that he, as Fire Dragon¡¯s right-hand man, knew about Lin Qingwan¡¯s videos and might have even been the one who arranged the whole operation. After all, Fire Dragon was the boss. He only needed to describe the plan, and could leave the execution to his subordinates.


    The computer was password-protected. Ye Fei tried two commonly used passwords, found that they were incorrect, and gave up. He was a sniper, not a hacker.


    He thought of a comrade called Xiaohei. If he were there, he could break into this computer in ten seconds. Unfortunately, Xiaohei died in a foreign land as a result of the failed assassination plot on the American governor.


    Ye Fei took a short moment to reminisce before getting back to the task at hand.


    He did not worry too much about the password. His objective was not to steal the Burning Bar¡¯s records, but to destroy the data.


    He found a letter opener on the table and pried the hard disk out of the computer, stashing it in his pocket.


    Before leaving, Ye Fei searched through the desk drawers, finding three USB flash drives and two magnetic cards. One of the USB flash drives made him do a double take - there was a Ya Lai Group logo on it.


    Ye Fei had seen a flash drive just like it at the Ya Lai Group¡¯s offices. Lin Qingwan had commissioned them from an advertising agency. There had to be some nefarious reason for this flash drive to have found its way into Chen Han¡¯s office. He didn¡¯t know what he¡¯d find on it, but Ye Fei knew it had to be related to Lin Qingwan''s videos.


    After finding the USB flash drives, Ye Fei felt relieved. He sat comfortably on Chen Han''s desk chair and closed his eyes for a moment.


    He couldn''t guarantee that Lin Qingwan''s videos were on the flash drive, and he also couldn''t guarantee that Fire Dragon had no copies of them stored elsewhere. If Ye Fei wanted to be entirely on the safe side, he had to ask Fire Dragon in person.


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    After about ten minutes, Ye Fei heard footsteps outside the door.


    Chen Han strode back, grumbling to himself, "I can¡¯t believe she refused me. Damn it." He was in an extremely bad mood. Women did not usually refuse his invitations, except for Liu Manman.


    Reaching into his pocket to get the key to his office door, he found that his key ring was missing. Thinking he must have forgotten it inside the office, he called over one of the bodyguards who had a spare key.


    Chen Han walked into the office and turned on the light. Sure enough, he found his keys on his desk. Relieved, he closed the door behind him.


    Unexpectedly, there was a man hiding behind it.


    Chen Han was stunned when he saw Ye Fei. "You? What the hell are you doing in here?"


    Ye Fei did not answer. Suddenly, the sharp letter opener was pressed against Chen Han¡¯s throat.


    "You... You coward, you dare to touch me?!" he yelled despite the sharp point digging into his throat. Not because he wasn¡¯t afraid of death, but because his first impression of Ye Fei was so weak. He was a coward, so Chen Han was not afraid of him.


    "Yep." A grim smile appeared on Ye Fei¡¯s face. He grabbed Chen Han''s wrist and stabbed the letter opened into his forearm, and twisted.


    ¡°Ah, fuck!!¡± Chen Han howled, pressing his wound. Chen Han had cut many people with a knife for his boss, but he never thought it hurt this much.


    "You maniac! You fucking cut me! Ugh, it¡¯s bleeding so much. Fire Dragon will have your hide for this!" he screamed.


    He forgot the walls of his office were soundproofed. Even if someone set off firecrackers inside, nobody outside would hear anything.


    Ye Fei looked at the letter opener in his hands with a cold sneer. "With all that bleeding, I¡¯d say you¡¯ll pass out in about three minutes if this cut isn¡¯t treated. In ten minutes, even a hospital won¡¯t be able to save you; you¡¯ll die of blood loss."


    "Who... Who are you and what do you want?" Looking into Ye Fei''s cold eyes, Chen Han realized that he was a killer who wouldn¡¯t even flinch before taking his life.


    Everyone is afraid of death. Watching the blood flowing out from his arm, Chen Han panicked.


    He had no choice but to admit defeat.


    Leisurely leaning back on the desk chair, Ye Fei said, "It doesn''t matter who I am. The important thing is you don''t have much time. So when I ask, you answer."

 Chapter 41 The Man Behind the Scenes

    "Let me ask you something. Do you know Lin Qingwan?" Ye Fei leaned back on the chair and took out a cigarette from the box on the desk, coldly staring at Chen Han.


    Chen Han¡¯s face was pale. "No... I don''t," he shook his head.


    Ye Fei took a picture out from his pocket. It was a photo of a pure and lovely Lin Qingwan in a white summer dress. "What about her? You must know her."


    When Chen Han looked at this picture, his expression immediately changed. His face was white as snow and his body teetered like he was about to pass out.


    If Chen Han would have actually fainted, it would be difficult to find out where the videos were.


    "Come here." Ye Fei stood up and grabbed Chen Han''s injured arm, using his thumb to press an acupuncture point on his upper arm. With his other hand, he tore off a strip of cloth from Chen Han''s shirt and used it as a tourniquet, mercilessly tightening it a few inches above the wound.


    The bleeding stopped almost immediately.


    Ye Fei had learned this first aid method on the battlefield. Although brutal, it was very effective.


    Color slowly returned to Chen Han¡¯s face. He lay limp and silent on the floor.


    "Say something!¡± Ye Fei kicked him. ¡°But if you bullshit me, I''ll stab you again."


    Chen Han knew he was dealing with a true killer. If he did not to tell him the truth, he could actually die. "Bro, we¡¯ve been secretly filming this chick. Keep it cool, man," he whispered.


    "You¡¯re smart to tell me the truth. You know I won¡¯t hesitate to kill you." Ye Fei sighed. Seems he really had the right person. Chen Han was not just an accomplice, but the one who had organized the entire plot.


    "Where are the videos?" Ye Fei asked coldly.


    "They... They are all on the computer!" Chen Han stammered.


    "Where else?" Ye Fei yanked the letter opener out of Chen Han''s arm, causing him to howl in pain.


    "No-nowhere! I just recently copied the videos! Even Fire Dragon hasn¡¯t seen them yet!" Chen Han lay on the ground with sweat trickling down his forehead, breathing heavily.


    Looking at his miserable appearance, Ye Fei knew he wasn¡¯t lying. "I''ll let you live today, but if I ever find out you have other copies, I will make you feel even more miserable than you do now, trust me."


    Ye Fei stood up and walked to the door. Earlier, he thought he would have to talk to Fire Dragon himself if he wanted to solve this situation, but it seemed he got lucky.


    Just then, voices came from beyond the door, "Chen Han, Mister Xue is here. Give him the USB drive so we can complete our deal."


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    "Hey, thank you, Fire Dragon. You¡¯ve really done me a huge favor with this. I will have to buy you a few drinks one of these days."


    Thinking of how the proud and beautiful chairwoman, Lin Qingwan, would be at his mercy once he had those videos, Xue Bing revealed a wretched smirk.


    However, when the office door was opened, Fire Dragon, Xue Bing, and the bodyguards behind them were stunned by what they saw inside.


    There was blood all over the floor and Chen Han was lying in the middle of it, his face pale. There was another young man in the office besides him, holding a sharp letter opener and showing Fire Dragon and Xue Bing a cold and fearless glare.


    Fire Dragon was a man in his mid-thirties, with red hair and a cocky temperament.


    "What''s going on here?!"


    "Fire Dragon, help... Save me!" Chen Han groaned before fainting from the excitement.


    "Ye Fei! What are you doing here?" Xue Bing was stunned to see Lin Qingwan¡¯s bodyguard. His first instinct was to run for it, but he felt a little reassured with Fire Dragon by his side.


    Fire Dragon turned to Xue Bing with a frown. "You know this guy?"


    "Brother, this is that woman''s bodyguard! I don''t know what he¡¯s doing here, I have nothing to do with him!" Xue Bing shook his head. "Brother, you have to get him. If he escapes, I¡¯m finished!"


    "Huh." Fire Dragon raised a hand, signaling his bodyguards to rush in and spread out in front of Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei frowned, glancing around the room. Finally, he locked eyes with Xue Bing and sneered, "So, Xue Bing is the man behind all this."


    "I do not know you, and I do not want to fight with you,¡± he said to Fire Dragon. ¡°Give him to me, and I''ll leave."


    "Are you fucking kidding me? Who do you think you are?!" Fire Dragon bellowed, "Do you even know where you are? You sneak into my space, hit my right-hand man, and you think you can give me terms of surrender? I¡¯m gonna kill you, asshole!"


    Ye Fei didn''t want to waste time talking to Fire Dragon. He started walking directly toward Xue Bing.


    Fire Dragon roared, "Take him down!"


    A tall bodyguard stepped forward, throwing a palm strike at Ye Fei.


    Common thugs fought with their fists or feet, but this bodyguard used his palms. He definitely knew some martial arts.


    Ye Fei just jabbed the letter opener into his palm, the blood-stained tip sticking out the back of his hand.


    "Ah!!!" The man screamed, grabbing his wounded hand.


    Ye Fei proceeded to kick him squarely in the chest, sending him rolling across the floor, still screaming, to knock down a couple of the other bodyguards behind him.

 Chapter 42 I Will Kill You

    The bodyguard, called Xu Zhanjiang, was a Shaolin disciple. He had practiced martial arts since he was a child and he was far stronger than the other bodyguards, but Ye Fei still incapacitated him with a single strike.


    The other bodyguards became nervous. Even Fire Dragon was taken aback. He knew Ye Fei must have some skill in martial arts, but he couldn¡¯t possibly be that strong.


    Fire Dragon knew Xu Zhanjiang''s abilities well. Few could match him in all of Shanghai.


    Of course, Fire Dragon assumed that Xu Zhanjiang had simply underestimated the enemy and Ye Fei had seized the opportunity. After all, it was stupid to strike at a knife with his bare hands.


    Seeing Ye Fei striding boldly toward Xue Bing, Fire Dragon raised a hand and coldly commanded, "Stop him!"


    The other bodyguards immediately surrounded Ye Fei. The bouncers downstairs were little more than thugs, but Fire Dragon¡¯s personal bodyguards were all expert martial arts practitioners.


    Ye Fei''s expression changed. No wonder the police couldn¡¯t arrest Fire Dragon. He must have had great resources and power to be able to employ so many expert fighters as bodyguards.


    Even Ye Fei couldn''t beat them all on his own, and he knew it.


    Nevertheless, his intention was not to challenge Fire Dragon, but to drag Xue Bing away. Now that Ye Fei knew Xue Bing¡¯s plan, he was probably going to try to run away. He would be all the more difficult to catch if he made it across the border.


    Fire Dragon''s temper flared. "Gang up on him! He can¡¯t fight you all at the same time!"


    Hearing the boss''s orders, the bodyguards all lunged towards Ye Fei simultaneously.


    Ye Fei didn¡¯t dare underestimate these men. He retreated, dodging several fists, until his back hit the wall of the office behind him. Then, he hopped up and kicked off the wall, sticking his elbow out toward the foremost bodyguard.


    Seeing Ye Fei flying towards him, this bodyguard immediately raised his foot to kick Ye Fei. However, Ye Fei was too fast, flying straight past him towards Fire Dragon.


    Destroy the head and the body will collapse.


    Fire Dragon smiled coldly. Ye Fei''s plan was pretty clever - even he did not expect it - but unfortunately, Ye Fei picked the wrong target.


    Rip!


    An icy grin emerged on Fire Dragon¡¯s face. His huge palms grabbed the fabric of his vest and tore it apart, exposing his bronzed musculature.


    He looked like a bodybuilding champion, muscles rippling with raw power in unison with his breaths. There was no doubt that Fire Dragon was stronger than any of his bodyguards.


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    "Ha! You think I hired these bodyguards to protect me? You are wrong. I keep them around to have someone to spar with!" he laughed.


    Hearing these words, the bodyguards couldn''t help but shudder a little. Fire Dragon said he had sparring sessions with them, but in fact, he just liked to beat them up. With his powerful muscles, he could easily take them all on simultaneously.


    "Whoah, he¡¯s ripped!" Ye Fei stopped in his tracks and stared at him. With his foresight, he surmised at first glance that Fire Dragon was also a martial arts master. Otherwise, he probably would have fallen into Fire Dragon''s trap. "Unfortunately, I¡¯m not here for you!" Ye Fei sneered. With a heavy breath, he leaped up from the ground, sailing over Fire Dragon''s head and landing in front of Xue Bing.


    Ye Fei glared into Xue Bing''s eyes. "President Xue, come back with me and explain yourself to Manager Lin and the police!"


    ¡°I have nothing to say to any of them, damn it!" Xue Bing was scared. He thought he¡¯d be safe at Fire Dragon''s side. He never would have believed that even this many people weren¡¯t enough to stop Ye Fei. "Fire Dragon, stop him!" he screamed as he turned tail and sprinted down the hallway. He wasn¡¯t going to let this Ye Fei catch him that easily.


    Ye Fei took off after Xue Bing, but just then, felt a gust of wind behind him.


    A tall bodyguard leaped towards Ye Fei with a flying kick.


    Southern Kung Fu styles were based on the fists, while northern Kung Fu preferred the legs. The tall man was probably a martial artist from the north of the country.


    In Chinese martial arts, only masters would dare to use such kicking attacks. Ye Fei did not underestimate him. He dodged this attack and slammed into the man¡¯s chest with a palm strike.


    The tall man felt like he¡¯d been hit with a sledgehammer. The blow was so painful that his arms went numb. He spat out a mouthful of blood, his face rapidly draining of color.


    The other bodyguards were aghast, at a loss for what to do next. While they were stunned, Ye Fei started again after Xue Bing, leaping down the stairs to the ground floor.


    He had wasted precious time fighting off the tall bodyguard, and couldn''t catch up to Xue Bing in time. When he ran out of the bar and into the parking lot, Xue Bing had already started his car and was gunning it straight towards Ye Fei.


    Ye Fei frowned. Xue Bing was trying to kill him to silence him.


    He calmly watched the car barreling toward him. He wasn¡¯t going to dodge.


    "I¡¯m gonna kill you!" Xue Bing roared, slamming his foot on the gas pedal.

 Chapter 43 Hit-and-Run

    The car roared toward Ye Fei like a raging bull.


    However, when it was just five meters away from him, Ye Fei suddenly jumped up and kicked off the windshield, his foot leaving a web of deep cracks in the glass. He ended up lying flat on the car¡¯s roof.


    Xue Bing was startled, but his foot stayed off the brake pedal. Instead, he stepped on the gas, zigzagging around the parking lot to shake Ye Fei off.


    Ye Fei couldn¡¯t move, just barely managing to hold on.


    Now Xue Bing went crazy. His foot still pressing down on the gas pedal, he steered the car toward the exit ramp from the underground parking lot, bursting out into the street above.


    Even though it was still early in the morning, there were already many pedestrians in the streets.


    Ye Fei groaned. Xue Bing was still zigzagging wildly, obviously caring little for the safety of the pedestrians in his way. Driving like this down the crowded street was insane.


    However, he was going too fast for Ye Fei to be able to climb into the car and take him out. Xue Bing continued gunning the engine, roaring at the top of his lungs.


    He was going to run over an innocent pedestrian any second now. With no time to lose, Ye Fei jumped down from the car and rolled onto his feet. The moment he regained his balance, he pulled the throwing knife engraved with a "Li" out from his belt, flinging it after the car.


    Swish!


    The throwing knife tore through the air faster than the eye could see, embedding itself in the rear wheel of the car.


    Bang!


    The tire burst with a loud noise, shooting the knife out sideways. The whole chassis tilted, emitting an ear-piercing scraping sound, but Xue Bing still showed no intention of stopping the car. He didn¡¯t even look back, his foot not leaving the gas pedal.


    "Is this idiot trying to get himself killed? This is nuts!" Ye Fei watched as the car roared down the street. He had no idea how to stop Xue Bing now, so he walked over and picked his throwing knife up from the asphalt.


    Bang!


    A sudden, loud sound came from the direction of the car.


    Xue Bing was out of his mind. He didn''t slow down even with a flat tire, and hit two passersby.


    Ye Fei hurriedly ran over to check up on the two pedestrians. They were badly hurt, but fortunately, Ye Fei had learned first aid in the army. He helped set the broken bones and then put pressure on the wounds to stop the bleeding while other passersby called for an ambulance.


    Five minutes later, two ambulances arrived and paramedics carried the victims inside.


    "Is anyone here a relative of the patients? We need someone to sign this first aid statement." A paramedic in a white coat held up a sheet of paper and a pen to the crowd of onlookers.


    No one came forward.


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    Perhaps Ye Fei had spent too much time abroad, but he did not understand why the paramedic was looking for relatives while the patients were dying right before his eyes.


    He came up to the paramedic and said, "Why are you wasting time with this? Don¡¯t you think it¡¯s more important to save their lives first?"


    "Yes, but someone still has to sign this statement!¡± Slightly annoyed with Ye Fei, the paramedic shoved the paper and pen into his hands. ¡°Maybe you can sign this first aid statement and accompany them to the hospital?"


    Ye Fei frowned and thought about it. He was partly responsible for what happened, after all.


    He glanced towards the stretchers. One of the victims was an old man, already unconscious, his face covered in blood. Sympathizing with him, Ye Fei signed the first aid statement and got into the ambulance.


    The two really had very serious injuries. They were taken to the ER as soon as the ambulances pulled over at the hospital. Minutes later, a doctor walked out and asked Ye Fei for a deposit of 5000 Yuan.


    Ye Fei had already transferred the 50,000 Yuan Lin Qingwan had given him to his comrades¡¯ families, and only had a few thousand left.


    Grumbling, he handed over the money, but the doctor said this was still not enough. Before the operation could begin, he needed Ye Fei''s ID.


    Ye Fei was uncomfortable about this, but he still gave it to the doctor.


    The operation began.


    Ye Fei starting feeling sleepy while he waited, eventually falling asleep outside the operating room.


    "Wake up, sir!" a sweet voice rang in Ye Fei''s ear.


    When he groggily opened his eyes, he could vaguely see something white in front of him. "Where¡­ Where am I? I''m not in the hospital?" Ye Fei reached out to touch it.


    It was warm and soft.


    Ye Fei felt something was wrong, but he couldn¡¯t quite put his finger on it. Then, he heard a scream.


    "Pervert!"


    The nurse in front of him covered her chest, her face red like a ripe apple.


    "Oh, oh, I''m sorry!" Ye Fei hurriedly stood up, his face assuming the same hue.


    "No... It''s okay." The nurse took a deep breath, restoring her calm. "Are you the relative of the two people who were brought in last night?" she whispered.


    "Yes." Ye Fei nodded. "How''s the operation going?" he asked nervously.


    "The operation was very successful. They are going to be fine, but you still need to pay the remaining hospital fees and surgery fees. They are waiting for their medicine," the nurse said.


    "I have to pay again?" Ye Fei sighed. He was so broke now, he couldn¡¯t even pay for a breakfast. He thought he might as well go to the police station and explain everything.


    Ye Fei turned to the door. Suddenly, a gang of middle-aged people ran over, angrily pointing fingers at him, "It''s him! He¡¯s the hit-and-run driver!"

 Chapter 44 Blackmail

    There were six people in the group; two men and four women, accompanied by a nurse. The speaker was a fat woman.


    The nurse interjected, "I don''t know whether he is the hit-and-run driver or not," before hurrying away to attend to other duties.


    The fat woman glared viciously at Ye Fei and shouted, "If he isn''t hit-and-run driver, why did he call an ambulance? Why did he take the victims to the hospital? It¡¯s gotta be him!"


    "Yeah, I bet it¡¯s him! He looks like a creep!" another woman shouted.


    "You hurt my husband, I¡¯ll kill you!" The fat woman screeched and scratched at Ye Fei with her long nails.


    Ye Fei was stunned. He didn¡¯t understand these people''s logic at all. If he was a hit-and-run driver, why would he call an ambulance and accompany the victims to the hospital? How was it a hit-and-run if he didn¡¯t flee the scene? Besides, he wasn¡¯t even driving!


    "Lady, I didn''t hit these two people," he said sincerely.


    "Then who did? Why did you take them to the hospital if you didn''t hit them? You even paid the deposit and gave your ID as a collateral," the fat woman shouted, pulling at Ye Fei¡¯s clothes so he couldn¡¯t run away.


    Ye Fei suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Lady, my car is a BMW and it is still in the parking lot. The car that hit these two was a Land Rover, and it¡¯s gone."


    "A BMW!" The group exchanged greedy looks amongst themselves. They all knew that anyone who drove a BMW must be loaded. They were going to seize the opportunity to blackmail Ye Fei.


    "Rich bastards like you never care about common people¡¯s lives!" The fat woman shouted loudly, as if she had picked up on Ye Fei¡¯s weakness.


    The nurse who woke up Ye Fei came up from behind him and whispered, "Calm down, please! Why are you harassing this Good Samaritan?"


    The fat woman glared at the nurse. "Oh, you have a lot to say about it, do you? Were you there when it happened? Did you see how it all went down?"


    "I..." The nurse was dumbstruck for a moment. She really wasn¡¯t there when it happened. Now she could only stand there with an embarrassed expression.


    However, the group was apparently not ready to let her go yet. A middle-aged man coldly said, "If you weren¡¯t there, why are you taking his side? When I just walked in, I saw you two being intimate. You¡¯re a couple!"


    "No! No, I have nothing to do with him! I don''t know him at all!" The nurse waved her hands defensively.


    "You don''t know him? Yeah, right!" another middle-aged man snarled, stepping forward to shove Ye Fei.


    A thin woman joined the fray as well. The nurse tried to appease her, but the woman tried to scratch the nurse''s face with her nails in return.


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    The nurse jumped back with a frightened yelp. Fortunately, Ye Fei stretched out his hand in front of her, catching the thin woman¡¯s nails on his forearm.


    At the same time, Ye Fei gripped the middle-aged man¡¯s wrist, a knowing grin on his face. He understood that these people were simply not concerned about facts or logic. They only wanted to blackmail him for some money.


    "Well, if you¡¯re so sure I ran them over, let¡¯s call the police and let them deal with me."


    Ye Fei had a lot of things to take care of. He didn''t have time to talk to these buffoons.


    "OK, let¡¯s call the police. We are not afraid of the police!" the fat woman arrogantly exclaimed.


    As soon as she said that, three policemen walked through the door. "What¡¯s going on here?"


    The cops came over after receiving a report about a hit-and-run, only to stumble upon this heated altercation in the hallway.


    The blackmailers immediately surrounded the three policemen.


    "Officer, this man ran over my husband in his car and he¡¯s denying it!"


    "My son is still unconscious. I only have one son; if he dies, I will have nothing left to live for! You have to punish this bastard and throw him in jail!"


    The leader was one Lieutenant Qin Peng. Seeing all this commotion, an angry vein began throbbing on his forehead. "Shut up!" he commanded. ¡°Tell me what happened - one at a time.¡±


    Then, Qin Peng pointed to Ye Fei ad said to another policeman, "Xiao Xie, you question this guy in the meantime."


    The young policeman called Xiao Xie nodded and beckoned Ye Fei over to an empty doctor''s office.


    Xiao Xie had a good attitude. He took out a cigarette case and asked Ye Fei, ¡°Smoke?"


    Ye Fei shook his head. "Smoking inside the hospital is prohibited."


    "All right," Xiao Xie smiled and put the cigarette case back. "So, what is going on here?"


    Ye Fei gave him a quick and concise rundown of what happened. Naturally, he made no mention of the Burning Bar. That was not for the traffic police to deal with.


    It was really simple. Xue Bing had committed a hit-and-run, and Ye Fei accompanied the injured men to the hospital. Now, the relatives of the victims were trying to blackmail him.


    "I¡¯ve heard enough. You can go." Xiao Xie stood up.


    "That''s it? You believe me?" Ye Fei was a little skeptical.


    "The police are not unreasonable. We saw the security camera footage of the accident before we got here. You clearly had nothing to do with it. You''re a hero. There are not many people like you in our society. I admire you, really."


    Xiao Xie walked over and patted Ye Fei''s shoulder, "Don¡¯t get too upset about this. We deal with these kinds of ¡®relatives¡¯ all too often."

 Chapter 45 Importune

    Relieved, Ye Fei followed Officer Xiao to a balcony to have a smoke. When they returned, Qin Peng had just finished questioning the blackmailers.


    He seemed a little annoyed. As soon as they left, he threw the statements he¡¯d recorded into a dustbin and whispered, "What a load of crap."


    One of them said she saw Ye Fei driving the Land Rover and running over her husband, another said he saw Ye Fei driving a BMW¡­ They were clearly lying.


    In fact, Qin Peng had watched the security camera footage too, so he already knew Ye Fei was nothing but a Good Samaritan. He only came by to follow protocol.


    "Captain, I¡¯m finished with him," Xiao Xie reported.


    Qin Peng nodded, "Does everything add up?"


    "Yes."


    "Well, that''s it, then." Qin Peng took an ID card out of his pocket and handed it to Ye Fei, "Mr. Ye, thank you for your heroic act. You are a role model for the rest of society. Here is your ID, and you can come back to the hospital to reclaim your deposit in a few days. Now, if you have anywhere else to be, you may go.¡±


    Ye Fei really did have other things to do, so he grabbed the ID card and headed towards the exit to find Lin Qingwan.


    Before he could make it out, the fat woman jumped in front of him and blocked his path, shouting, "You¡¯re a hit-and-run driver, you can''t go!"


    Ye Fei glanced helplessly at Lieutenant Qin.


    Qin Peng cleared his throat, "We have thoroughly investigated the incident and it¡¯s clear he had nothing to do with it. You should be thanking him instead of blocking his way."


    "Even the police say so. What more do you want?" the nurse from before added meekly.


    "You investigated thoroughly? All you did was ask him a few questions, and now you¡¯re letting him go!" A middle-aged man sneered. "I work for the government, I know what this is all about. He drives a BMW, so he is definitely rich. You cops are protecting the rich and oppressing the poor!" The middle-aged man walked over and, to everyone¡¯s surprise, shoved Lieutenant Qin.


    Qin Peng stared furiously at this middle-aged man. "You dare to attack the police?"


    "Attack the police?! I was taking a closer look at your badge number! I¡¯m going to file a complaint about you!" the man screamed.


    The angry vein popped on Qin Peng¡¯s forehead again.


    However, in Qin Peng''s line of work, he met countless equally unreasonable people on a daily basis. He took a deep breath and pulled out his mobile phone. "I¡¯m not supposed to show you this, but if you are going to keep making such a fuss, I will let you watch this security camera footage. After you watch it, please shut up and go home."


    Before Qin Peng left the police station that morning, he had copied the video to his phone.


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    There was a high-resolution security camera on the street near the Burning Bar, with a clear view of the scene of the accident.


    A black Land Rover with a flat tire could be seen hurtling madly down the road and hitting the two unlucky passersby without even slowing down. After a short while, Ye Fei ran into view and began giving first aid to the injured. The video stopped there.


    Anyone with a brain could clearly understand what happened there.


    "Ah, he really is a hero." The nurse looking at the screen over the group¡¯s shoulders glanced at Ye Fei with admiration.


    The relatives of the victims were dumbstruck, sharing awkward glances. They hadn¡¯t considered the possibility of there being security camera footage of the accident. With this irrefutable evidence at hand, they just looked like a bunch of shameless buffoons.


    Suddenly, the fat woman stretched out her hand and snatched the mobile phone away from Qin Peng¡¯s hand, screaming, "Do you think I was born yesterday? Anything can be faked these days! This video is fake! I¡¯m taking this to an expert to prove it!"


    Qin Peng quickly yanked his phone back out of her grip.


    "Look at your flustered face! I know the video is fake! You want me to believe this guy is a hero? Bullshit!" one man bellowed.


    The rest of the group immediately joined in, pointing fingers and accusing Ye Fei, Lieutenant Qin, and even the nurse of all manner of forgery, corruption, and breaches of ethics.


    It was mid-morning, and more and more people were coming into the hospital. A crowd began gathering around the commotion.


    "What''s going on?"


    "I don¡¯t know; I heard this man ran some people over but won¡¯t admit it."


    "Tut-tut, he¡¯s probably some rich guy and the police are covering it up!"


    Seeing more and more people arriving, most of them taking their side, the blackmailers grew bolder. They surrounded Ye Fei, the three policemen, and the nurse, backing them to the wall.


    Qin Peng and the other two officers looked like they wanted to take off their uniforms and give those idiots a taste of their fists, but in the end, they were policemen. If they did that, they would be kicked off the force.


    Lieutenant Qin could do nothing but stand there and take the abuse.


    "These people are not reasonable, brother; they just want to blackmail you. Take advantage of the chaos and get out of here," Xiao Xie whispered to Ye Fei.


    "Forget it, I don¡¯t have time to deal with you," Ye Fei sneered at the blackmailers. As pissed as he was, he wouldn¡¯t look too good if he beat up these shameless people in public.


    Ye Fei slunk back behind the three officers, trying to edge his way past the crowd. However, seeing him sneaking away, the fat woman roared and charged madly, body-slamming him into the wall.

 Chapter 46 Strike the Wicked

    The fat woman dropped to her knees and hugged Ye Fei''s legs, shouting, "He¡¯s trying to get away!He¡¯s trying to get away!"


    The rest of the group pushed past the cops and surrounded Ye Fei, the two men not only screaming into his face but even hitting and shoving him.


    Ye Fei stared at them with disgust.These people were nothing but bullies.


    They blackmailed their victims by harassing and embarrassing them in public, and they could care less what the police thought about it.If the police dared to arrest them, their families would protest to the government and raise hell until they were released.


    The local authorities really hated this kind of people, but they couldn¡¯t do anything about them.Eventually, they would have to let them go free.


    Ye Fei grit his teeth, "Think you can intimidate me, you bullies?I¡¯ll show you what a real villain is!"


    One of the men threw a sucker punch at Ye Fei''s abdomen to shut him up.


    Pa!


    Ye Fei firmly grasped the man''s wrist and twisted it to a bizarre angle with a bony crunch.


    The man screamed, his eyes tearing up.He didn¡¯t think Ye Fei would actually hit him in public, and even break his bones!


    Qin Peng didn¡¯t see it coming either.He glanced at Xiao Xie, and Officer Xiao quickly grabbed Ye Fei''s hand.Another cop clamped his arms around Ye Fei''s shoulders, and Lieutenant Qin stepped in front of him and loudly said, "Calm down!Hitting people is illegal. Just calm down."


    As soon as Ye Fei was under control, the fat woman pushed Qin Peng aside and started punching and kicking him, roaring, "You all saw it!He attacked my brother!"


    Her nails scratched across Ye Fei''s face.He¡¯d had enough.


    ¡°Fuck off!¡±He kicked her in the gut.


    She stumbled back to the ground, throwing up the soy milk and fried bread sticks she had for breakfast.


    "You hit a woman!"


    Some of the other relatives were going to attack Ye Fei, too ¨C one woman even raised a walking stick at him -but after seeing him lash out so aggressively, even hitting a woman in public, they were afraid to come near him.


    These bullies were unreasonable;they weren¡¯t even afraid of the police or the government.But they were afraid of one kind of people ¨Cthose who were even more ferocious than them.


    "Women? I never hit women.I only hit pigs!"Ye Fei snarled.His icy glare made them all shudder involuntarily. "Come at me if you dare!" he growled.


    Of course, they didn¡¯t dare to hit Ye Fei anymore.They just kept shouting from a safe distance, "Maniac! You¡¯re crazy, you''re a madman! We will call the police and put you in jail!"


    A woman pulled out her phone and shouted into the microphone, "Police, there¡¯s a man trying to kill people here!"


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    A wry smile spread across Qin Peng''s face. He was also the police, but he belonged to the traffic police. He could not control this brawl.


    By striking people in public, Ye Fei had already offended the law.If these people pressed charges, Ye Fe could get locked up for at least fifteen days.


    Ten minutes later, a few policemen burst into the hallway.After getting a brief rundown of the situation from Lieutenant Qin, they took Ye Fei and the relatives of the injured to the police station.


    Qin Peng got into the cruiser with Ye Fei and gave him a lecture on the way there, "Ye Fei, I do not know where you are from, maybe you do come from money and privilege, but you have to listen to me.You have to keep a lid on that temper of yours. We live in a cruel society that can''t tolerate that kind of behavior. Just hear me out.You started out obviously a good man -a hero! -but now, you turned yourself into an offender. A lot of people were watching you back there;a few of them definitely recorded a video of you fighting.If that ends up in the media, your family won¡¯t be able to do anything for you, no matter how rich or powerful it is."


    "That¡¯s the way I am and I''m not going to change," Ye Fei smiled.He admired Qin Peng¡¯s attitude.


    At the police station, Ye Fei was led to an interrogation room.After a moment, Murong entered.


    Murong¡¯s status as a downtown officer was roughly equivalent to that of a lieutenant in that small suburban police station.Of course, she was beautiful and most of the officers knew her, so they let her see Ye Fei without too much trouble.


    Seeing him handcuffed in the chair, she sighed, "What happened?You said you were going to see a friend.Why are we meeting in this way again?"As she spoke, she took out her key and opened his handcuffs.


    When the handcuffs clicked open, Ye Fei smiled and said, "I had some bad luck."


    Murong knew he wasn¡¯t going to give her anything more specific than that."Wait for me.I¡¯ll go ask the others what¡¯s going on."


    Returning to the office,she saw a group of middle-aged people making a fuss and shouting at anyone who came near,mercilessly cursing Ye Fei. Fortunately,Lieutenant Qin was there, and he told Murong everything.


    "Ye Fei has one hell of a temper¡­"She shook her head in frustration.


    She knew it wasn¡¯t Ye Fei''s fault.As a police officer, she faced this kind of bad-tempered and irrational people every day.She often got so sick of their crap she wanted to punch them in the face too.


    The problem was Murong only thought about it, but Ye Fei actually did it.


    So even if he was right, he became wrong.


    If these people pressed charges and did not agree to settle the matter in private, Ye Fei could end up in jail for a couple of weeks.