Chapter 1051 - Helpless Uncle Lin Lin
Iris wanted the driver to stop and to return near the hotel where her husband was in danger of being contaminated by the desperate woman, Rose Young. This time, however, the driver hesitated in obeying her order. He glanced at Dom instead, silently asking him what to do.
Dom gestured for him to continue driving before facing Iris to explain the situation. "Boss, I called your doctor when you fainted. The doctor said to bring you to the nearest hospital and she'll follow us as soon as possible. I think that she already left the mansion and on the way to the hospital using sir boss' helicopter."
"What else did she say? Why do I need to go to the hospital? I can just have her examine me at home."
"Boss, the doctor is beginning to worry about your tendency to faint. If it's once or twice, it will still be okay since you have a history of fainting even before you got pregnant. But you're now collapsing too many times than she's comfortable with itâthan we're all comfortable with. She says that frequent fainting episodes during the first trimester might have negative effects."
Iris paled, her hand immediately touching her stomach. "Negative effects? What negative effects? Be more specific!" Her voice had become high-pitched and her eyes quivered with worry.
"Please calm down, boss. Don't stress yourself. It's bad for theâ"
"Tell me!"
Dom became even more worried seeing her starting to freak out but he still told her what the doctor said. "Like increasing the risk of you delivering earlier than your expected due date."
She relaxed a little but not completely. "That's still okay. I already expect to give birth earlier than my expected due date anyway because I'm carrying twins. Multiple babies tend to arrive early, I'm told."
"Twins?!" Jin Chonglin exclaimed. His shocked voice sounded almost like a shriek. "Y-you're having...twins? Twins?!!!"
"Ah." Iris forgot that her brother-in-law was still with them inside the vehicle. "Forget that I said that."
"How can I forget something like that?!" Jin Chonglin's eyes dropped to her still flat tummy. His shock was turning into amazement and excitement. "That small belly is really carrying twins? Like seriously? Whoa! Big Bro is really capable! Twins in one go. Wow. Holy shit. I'm going to be an uncle to twins. Twins! That's two babies! Wait till Mom and Grandma hear about this. They're going to treat you like their ancestor for giving our Jin family two heirs in one go. Oh, I almost forgot about the old man. Grandpa Lu will surely act more excited than Mom and Grandma Li."
She threw him a warning look. "Don't tell them! Not yet. Liwei and I want to keep it a surprise. You're not supposed to know it this early either." She started squeezing Little Liwei in her embrace while sighing. "Not only that, you aren't supposed to know about Ketchup and Bacon's existence either. If you get kidnapped and tortured someday because of your knowledge about my AI children, I'll feel guilty."
Jin Chonglin became dazed. "Kidnapped...t-tortured...."
She reached out and patted him on the shoulder. "It'll be fine. Liwei and I will surely do our best to save you."
Now Jin Chonglin felt like it was his turn to faint. He got a hold of himself but still shivered as several imaginary scenes of him being abducted by villains and torturing him in a dark place for days, maybe even months, to get information about his AI niece and nephew out of him played inside his mind. His head whipped to the dashboard monitor where the white and black cat AIs were staring back at him.
"Can you make me forget about the two of you?" he asked in a panic.
"Meow?" Ketchup tilted her head to the side and looked at her Uncle Lin Lin in confusion.
In contrast, Bacon threw his uncle a look filled with disdain. He didn't speak to him directly, turning his furry little head to his mother and asking her instead, "Mother, is Bacon's paternal uncle stupid? Does he think that Bacon and Big Sister Ketchup have the ability to make him forget about us? Father is so smart and yet his younger brother asks dumb questions like this. It's not classy."
"Y-you..." Jin Chonglin sputtered but was unable to say anything coherent as he was too taken aback by his AI nephew's poisonous tongue.
Bacon wasn't done yet. "Doesn't he also realize that his words are insensitive? He wants to forget about Bacon and Big Sister Ketchup the day he learned about us so that must mean that he doesn't like us. Bacon will ask Father later to help me demand compensation from this paternal uncle for emotional distress."
"Gasp! You're right, Bacon! Oh no! Now Ketchup feels so sad! Uncle Lin Lin doesn't like us little kitty babies even though the cute and mighty Ketchup and my little kitty brother Bacon are his niece and nephew! We are one big happy family but he doesn't want us! Wuwuwu! Ketchup will tell Daddy later that Uncle Lin Lin is such a big meanie to us kitty babies. Meowuwuwu!"
Seeing his nephew refusing to even look at him and his niece literally crying a river on the dashboard monitor, Jin Chonglin immediately felt guilty about his thoughtless words. Bacon's poisonous tongue was intimidating so he chose to comfort the sobbing Ketchup first. The problem was that he was helpless and had no idea how to deal with a crying AI kitten.
If it was Little Jun who was crying, Jin Chonglin could coax the little guy with some treats. How to coax virtual kittens? Virtual candies? He didn't have any!
"Uhm...I...uh." In the end, he could only turn to Iris in defeat and ask her for help.
She sighed at him and shook her head before murmuring comforting words to both Ketchup and Bacon.
Jin Chonglin could sense that she wasn't too pleased with him at the moment for upsetting her two AI children, making him feel even guiltier. Then his eyes caught Dom at the backseat staring daggers at him.
"Hmph! Making the babies cry! Are you still human?!" Dom turned his face away, also refusing to look at him.
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Chapter 1052 - Tell Me Everything
Jin Chonglin couldn't take it anymore. What was this? He was Prince Lin Lin, a certified superstar!
He won so many awards for his achievements that he could no longer remember all of them. Many considered him as one of the country's treasures. Literally millions of people loved him.
And yet his sister-in-law, her AI children, and her assistant slash best friend were all disdaining him? This was absolutely ridiculous!
Watch him give them a piece of his mind. He wasn't someone they could bully that easily just because they had his older brother's backing! He was going to show themâ
"Wuwuwu! Why does Uncle Lin Lin dislike Ketchup and Bacon? We kitty babies are so sad! The cute and mighty Ketchup wants to be a one big happy family with Uncle Lin Lin. Meowuwuwu!"
Jin Chonglin immediately felt his heart soften. His cat AI niece was so...so...so cute!
Then he looked at his cat AI nephew next. The black cat AI still had his furry little head turned away from him, but Jin Chonglin still caught Bacon stealing glances at him out of the corner of his golden eyes. Argh! Even this one with the poisonous tongue was quite cute as well.
He sighed, feeling defeated.
"I'm sorry," he told his niece and nephew, his tone sincere. "Your uncle had spoken careless words earlier. I didn't mean them. Of course, I like the two of you. You're my niece and nephew. Your names are...Ketchup and Bacon, right?"
Ketchup's torrent of tears slowed down. She sniffed. "Really? Uncle Lin Lin likes the cute and mighty Ketchup? Meow?"
He nodded.
"Yay! Ketchup likes Uncle Lin Lin, too! Ketchup accepts Uncle Lin Lin's apology. Now we're one big happy family! Meow~"
He smiled seeing his niece's happiness. Then he turned to his nephew.
The black cat AI finally looked at him straight in the eyes. "Bacon will forgive Uncle Chonglin but only if you give a first-time-meeting present. Bacon only accepts cashâ"
Iris gasped out loud, interrupting Bacon's next words. Everyone turned to look at her.
"I now remember what happened just before I fainted," she said with a frown, annoyed at herself. "How come I forgot it when it's so important?"
"What is so important, Mommy? Meow~"
"El Payaso," she whispered.
"El what?" Jin Chonglin asked, confused.
Dom, however, understood the words she said. "Payaso? Clown?"
Then he gasped. "Boss, did you see a clown, that's why you were so scared that you fainted?! Where did you see a clown?! Here? Inside the van?! Please don't say things like that, boss! I believe in ghosts and spirits and aswang. Boss, I'm scared!"
He rummaged through his bag in a panic. "My rosary. Where's my rosary?! My bible, where is it?! And the holy water that Momsy packed for me?!"
"Dom, calm down," Iris told him but he continued to freak out.
"Where did you see the ghost of a clown, boss? The only empty space in the van is beside me here in the backseat! Don't tell me that the ghost is attracted to my beautiful and handsome self?!"
"Dominic Chua, calm down!" Iris yelled. She was a singer and had excellent lung capacity whenever she was using her voice. And indeed, her yell caught her assistant slash best friend's attention.
Dom finally quieted down but continued to tremble in fright.
Iris sighed and massaged her temples. "I didn't see a ghost. That's not what I meant by what I said."
"Huh? Really? You're not lying just because you don't want to scare me, right?"
"With everything that's happening tonight, I'm not in the mood to joke around with you."
"Thank God!" Dom plopped his upper body in the backseat as if all of his energy had been drained from him.
"Where's my laptop?" asked Iris.
Dom sprang up again on his seat. "You're hacking again? No way, boss! What if you faint again?"
"I feel fine now. Just give me my laptop. I need to check something quickly."
He thought about it for a few seconds before finally agreeing and pulling out her laptop from another bag. Iris tried to take it from him but he was still holding it, refusing to let go. "You said to check something 'quickly', right? Quickly."
"Fine. Quickly."
Dom handed the laptop to her with great reluctance.
"Why did you give it to her?" Jin Chonglin asked in dismay. "If she faints again, see how Big Bro murders us!"
"What can I do? Boss is so stubborn sometimes." Dom pouted and started stress-eating on a chocolate bar that he got from Iris' pregnancy food stash. "Besides, we're almost at the hospital."
Ignoring the two, Iris once again focused on her laptop. Although her curiosity almost couldn't bear it and wanted to check on El Payaso, one of the old guys she frequently competed against back in the days when she was still active as Fantom in her past life, she restrained herself.
El Payaso's trail was important in uncovering the real identities and origins of the hacker team Eagle but there was someone more important than them who needed Iris' full attention and concern right now.
And that was her husband, Jin Liwei.
After frying Eagle in the power flood, she no longer needed to worry about having her attention pulled away from the danger that her husband was facing tonight. She now had full control of the hotel's surveillance and security system again. She accessed it like it was her own backyard.
"Motherâ"
"Bacon, I know that your father and Uncle Zihao must have made you promise to keep me away from whatever they're planning tonight on how to deal with Rose Young but don't try to stop me. This is my husband we're talking about. Before he's your father, he's my man. I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing as a wife."
Bacon blinked his golden eyes. "Mother, Bacon wasn't going to stop you. I was planning on telling you everything. Father and Uncle Zihao indeed have their own plan. Bacon analyzed it to be high risk, high reward."
Iris' eyes flashed with steel coldness. "Tell me everything."
"Understood, Mother. This is the plan that Father and Uncle Zihao devised."
Bacon spilled everything to his mother without missing any detail, feeling no guilt at all towards his father and uncle.
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Chapter 1053 - Let Me Out
"Stupid!" Iris snapped after Bacon finished telling her about her husband and older brother's plan.
Discomfort, worry and anger filled her at the very idea of her husband being molested by another woman, especially someone who already expressed her desire to snatch Jin Liwei so many times before. Although Iris was sure that Jin Liwei wouldn't allow the other woman to actually touch him, she still felt the urge to gouge out Rose Young's eyes for being able to look at her husband in such close proximity.
Iris didn't notice that she was strangling Little Liwei. Good thing that the big teddy bear was top quality and could endure abuse like this without losing its shape.
"If it were me who had this plan, those two overprotective cavemen would never allow me to execute it using myself as the actual bait, and yet here they are doing something like this!" she fumed.
"Bacon knows, Mother," the black cat AI agreed with her. "That's why Father and Uncle Zihao don't want to let you know and want you to go home instead."
Iris' nostrils flared as she forced her temper back. This wasn't the time to lose her composure. Now that she knew about the men's plan, a sense of urgency filled her. Her fingers once again flew into a blur on her laptop's keyboard.
On the other seat beside her, a curious Jin Chonglin peeked at her laptop's screen and almost became dizzy by the rapid succession of pop-up windows and string of running codes. He studied Iris and found that she was very focused, so focused that it was kind of scary. He had no idea how she was able to identify and work on whatever the hell was happening on her laptop when everything was moving so fast. Was the space around her in fast forward or something?
Iris didn't know that her brother-in-law was thinking like this about her, and frankly, even if she did know, she wouldn't care. Then her eyes flashed with a cold glint when she finally spotted what she was looking for.
Her laptop was now showing two livestream videos from two different perspectives of the same scene. Bacon so kindly revealed to her that the livestreams were being recorded from hidden body cameras that both his Father and Uncle Zihao were wearing.
The first livestream showed the scene inside a standard hotel bedroom from what seemed to be taken outside the window. Bacon revealed that it was from Lu Zihao's perspective. It showed a naked Rose Young playing with herself and then leaning over Jin Liwei on the bed about to take off his clothes.
The other livestream only showed the ceiling at first. But when Rose Young leaned down, her face and her upper body including her two flat breasts and dark nipples appeared in the video.
"Ah, my eyes!" Dom immediately acted like his eyes were burning. "What in the devil's panties did I just see?!" Then he started gagging.
Jin Chonglin didn't react with exaggeration like Dom but his expression also showed clear disgust. "Yep, as flat as a board. Not that I discriminate against that body type because there are many beautiful women in the world with body like hers, but seeing what she's doing...dammit! Does that woman plan on raping my brother?!"
Iris' vision turned red. Little Liwei and the laptop were both thrown to the floor.
"Return to the hotel! Right now!"
The driver faltered but continued driving. The hospital was already in front of their sight, only about a hundred metres away.
Iris growled. Then she unlocked the door on her side and attempted to jump out.
"Xiulan!" Jin Chonglin reacted fast. He caught her and pulled her back, almost dragging her to his side of the van.
She managed to open the door a crack. Dom quickly jumped forward from the backmost seat and closed the door.
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The van eventually stopped, parking by the side of the road where it would be safe from the main traffic. The driver had been frightened by his lady boss' actions. If she fell out of the vehicle, it wouldn't only be his big boss Jin Liwei who would demand for his head but also Mr. Lu Zihao. One man was scary enough. Angering the two of them at the same time would be suicide.
"Let me out!" Iris was still trying to open the door and jump out of the van.
Both Jin Chonglin and Dom were holding her back. They were having trouble not because she was stronger than them but because they didn't want to hurt her by restraining her with more force. However, she was indeed quite strong for a woman of her size.
Unlike them, she wasn't controlling her force. And soon, she was able to momentarily stun them with a few deliberate hits on their pressure points. She became free and immediately tried to open the door but it wouldn't because the driver used the master lock.
"Ketchup! Open the door!"
"But Mommy...." her AI daughter whined and trembled on her fluffy white butt, unsure if she should listen or not.
"Bacon!"
A five-second pause.
And then....
"Understood, Mother."
The door unlocked to the dismay of everyone in the van, most especially the driver who felt helpless against the AI kittens that could override his control of the entire vehicle anytime.
Iris jumped out of the van. She was able to run a few steps before a group of people quickly surrounded her and restrained her with much greater expertise than Jin Chonglin and Dom.
"Miss Xiulan, please return inside the van."
"No! I need to return to the hotel and get to my husband! Get out my way!"
The group maintained their composure, not at all affected by her aggressiveness. They were Shadow Winds members sent to protect her.
"Please don't worry about Mr. Jin. Boss Hao will make sure to keep him safe."
Iris had now become too emotional to consider their reasonable points, her safety, and the current situation. They were on the side of a major road. Although there was no heavy traffic at this time of the evening, there were still a considerable number of vehicles driving. A few of them were curious enough to open their windows to see what was going on by the roadside.
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Chapter 1054 - No No No No No
The group formed a tighter circle around Iris, shielding her from the prying eyes of the other drivers and their passengers passing by on the road. Iris Long was a celebrity, her face and name extremely recognizable especially in recent days after the successive major bombshells dropped in the news involving her.
It would be bad if she was recognized while creating a ruckus in a place and at a time like this. The Shadow Winds members wanted to at least move her out of the roadside to a much more hidden place where she could act out all she wanted without any of them worrying about her being seen by the general public.
In addition, it wasn't only her that they needed to mind. There was a much bigger attention-grabber than her right now sitting inside the van. Jin Chonglin could send an entire nation into a frenzy and literally cause a wild stampede.
It wouldn't do either the two of them any good if they stayed in this place for a second longer. The Shadow Winds members communicated with their eyes. Then they all cooperated to immobilize Iris.
They underestimated her.
She evaded their sudden sneak attacks and countered with fluid but decisive strikes. The situation was reversed in an instant. She successfully immobilized one member instead of their original plan to immobilize her.
Her upper hand didn't last long, however. She was only one person against many after all, plus she wasn't in her best state. Not only was she pregnant but she was too emotional, decreasing the sharpness of her senses. She was also already tired from her battle against the Eagle hackers earlier.
"Let me go," she said through gritted teeth when they caught her and restrained her in what felt like an immovable limb lock.
"Miss Xiulan, please don't make it difficult for us."
Then one of the members noticed a faint flash from a distance. "Someone's recording us."
Iris stiffened and finally stopped her movements. She narrowed her eyes at the direction where the person allegedly recording them was located.
Three members were about to chase the person but they stopped.
"Bacon already took care of it," one of them said while continuing to listen to his ear piece, apparently listening to the black cat AI's report. "The police is coming. Someone seemed to have reported us causing a commotion by the roadside. We need to get out of here quickly."
Hearing the word "police" still made Iris anxious, even though she was no longer a Vetrov in this life. She was even more anxious now because these Shadow Winds members were with her. They were her older brother's people. She didn't want to be the cause in getting them in trouble with the authorities.
She clenched her fists and tamped down on her current wild emotions. "Fine."
They led her back to the van and carried her inside. The van was driving again to another direction away from their original destination, the hospital, to make it more difficult for the police to find them.
Ketchup was already controlling the traffic lights to speed up their escape while slowing down the police. At the same time, Bacon was in charge of wiping out their traces from the surrounding CCTV cameras.
Inside the van, Iris felt a little calmer. She was now beginning to realize the foolishness of her actions earlier. Despite this, she still wanted to return to the hotel and make sure that her husband was safe.
Although she trusted both her husband and older brother enough to deal with Rose Young by themselves using the dangerous plan that they devised, Iris still couldn't stop the urge to rush there and...and do something...anything! She didn't like this helpless feeling at all.
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"Mommy, we lost the police. Meow~" Ketchup looked proud of herself for manipulating the traffic lights but didn't overdo it. She was cautious around her mom after what happened.
"Mother, Bacon is also done with the CCTVs."
Iris was still distracted so she didn't hear them. Dom was the one who praised the two AI cats in her place.
"Xiulan?" Jin Chonglin called her.
No reply.
"Sister Xiulan, are you okay?"
Iris had a pinched expression. One of her hands was clutching her belly while the other hand was gripping her seat's armrest.
"Boss?" Dom squeezed himself in the space between her seat and Jin Chonglin's seat.
"It...h-hurts," she gasped and doubled over.
All of them paled.
"To the hospital!" Jin Chonglin shouted at the driver.
Tears were now flowing down Iris' eyes while she kept on murmuring a heartbroken "no no no no no" over and over again. She hung onto Dom and sobbed against his neck.
"I'm sorry. So very sorry. Please let my babies be okay."
Ketchup began sobbing again as well while Bacon muttered a series of threats about world destruction.
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Lu Zihao hung onto a narrow ledge outside the window observing what was happening inside the hotel bedroom, and of course, recording everything with his body camera. The room had no balcony so there was literally nothing preventing him from falling to his death from sixteen storeys high other than his own skills in hanging on the wall.
He continued to watch the scene inside the hotel bedroom, his facial expressions revealing nothing of his true thoughts, but his eyes showed quick flashes of disgust now and then.
Seeing Jin Liwei's fingers twitch when Rose Young's hair brushed his face while the woman was leaning over him, Lu Zihao spoke to him through his ear piece. "Stay still."
Obviously, Jin Liwei was unable to respond without revealing to Rose Young that he was actually awake all this time.
"You must feel like shit right now but wait a little longer before you make your move. I'll let you know when she shifts into the perfect position for you to turn the tables."
Jin Liwei listened and remained still.
Lu Zihao couldn't help but feel sorry for Jin Liwei, knowing that his brother-in-law basically lived as an asexual virgin when he was still a bachelor before meeting Evelinka as Long Xiulan. In short, the man was only ever sexually and romantically attracted to his sister, Evelinka. It must be torture for Jin Liwei to endure Rose Young's trap.
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Chapter 1055 C - Minus
Lu Zihao imagined that if it were him in Jin Liwei's shoes right now, he wouldn't feel the slightest bit affected by it at all. He already went through many similar missions in his past life as Nikolai Vetrov. Sleeping with a woman for the sake of completing a mission or gaining an advantage for the organization was nothing to him. After all, it was his duty.
What Jin Liwei was doing right now wasn't even close to the things he had to endure before in order to fulfill his duties as the heir of the organization. Jin Liwei only needed to lie on the bed and not move while Rose Young was getting ready to lay her hands on him. His brother-in-law didn't actually need to have sex with the woman. Compared to the things Nikolai Vetrov had to do before, Jin Liwei's job tonight was extremely simple and easy.
Emotions had no place in this kind of missions. For Lu Zihao, it was very easy, but obviously that wasn't the case for his brother-in-law. Even though Jin Liwei was doing an excellent job in pretending to be unconscious, Lu Zihao could still see the stiffness in the man's body and the violent throbbing of his veins which indicated that his endurance was almost reaching its limit.
Lu Zihao watched everything that was happening inside the hotel bedroom with a dispassionate expression. Deep inside, however, anger and disgust were quickly filling him. He recognized that some of these emotions weren't completely his own.
The original Lu Zihao's remnant couldn't help but react negatively at witnessing his third brother subjecting himself to such a deplorable situation. Fortunately, the remnant kept silent and didn't cause any fuss, probably because it didn't want to distract Nikolai while he was hanging on the wall with a sixteen storeys high drop.
Nevertheless, he could still feel the remnant's negative emotions inside him even though it chose to remain silent. He could blame the remnant as the cause of all the emotions he was feeling but he knew that wasn't the case. A portion of the emotions was his own, he admitted to himself.
Jin Liwei was his brother-in-law after all. It would be a lie if Lu Zihao said that he didn't care about the man. On the contrary, he indeed cared about Jin Liwei. He wasn't going to tell the man about it, though.
If given the chance, he would actually offer to exchange places with Jin Liwei tonight. Unfortunately, the plan wouldn't work that way. Rose Young, the nympho, only wanted Jin Liwei.
It was too bad. Things would be easier if Lu Zihao was playing the main role in tonight's mission. He was trained for this kind of things. An expert. Jin Liwei was not.
Even if a slut like Rose Young actually managed to lay his hands on Lu Zihao, he would still be able to shut down his emotions in order to ensure the successful completion of the mission. Lu Zihao was sure of it.
Then an image of a blushing, prim and proper, petite woman appeared in his mind all of a sudden. Accompanying her was an almost overwhelming sense of rejection at the idea of allowing another woman touch his body in a sexual way.
He was so taken aback by the image and the accompanying feeling that he almost fell down from his perch on the narrow ledge.
'Godammit, Long Jinjing!' he swore inside his head as he secured his hanging position on the wall.
Lu Zihao forced himself to focus on the present and not on the woman who kept on intruding in his mind in the most inopportune time which was basically almost the entire day, every day, since they broke up.
'Fuck. Get out of my mind, woman!'
The image of Long Jinjing in his mind, however, didn't listen. Instead, she gave him a shy smile, blushing in that usual way of hers which never failed to seduce him.
"Shit," he muttered under his breath.
His mind was once again filled with Miss Prim and Proper Long Jinjing that he almost missed the perfect moment to signal Jin Liwei. Fortunately, he still had some wits remaining about him and managed to spot the perfect moment when Rose Young moved in a good position over Jin Liwei.
"Now!"
Jin Liwei, who had been pretending to be unconscious all this time, finally opened his eyes and kicked Rose Young's neck. The stunned Rose Young wasn't able to react in time before she was thrown off the bed and fell hard to the floor.
There was dull thud followed by the soft sound of breaking glass. Then the window was forced open and a large, shadowy figure jumped in and flashed in front of Rose Young, frightening her so much that she opened her mouth to scream.
Before she could do so, however, the large, shadowy figure hit her solar plexus, knocking out her breath, then her consciousness.
Neither man caught her when she banged her head to the floor with a cringeworthy sound and fainted.
"Hah..." Jin Liwei pulled at the handcuffs, his expression ugly.
He was soaked in his own sweat but that wasn't his main concern. His eyes dripped venom as he looked at the unconsciousness Rose Young splayed naked on the floor. Bile rose in his throat as her disgusting scent remained in his nose. It felt like there were hundreds of spiders crawling on his skin from where her fingers touched his face, neck and upper body.
"C-minus for lack of accuracy." Lu Zihao easily unlocked the handcuffs with a small wire that popped out of his wristwatch.
Jin Liwei grabbed his hand and used it to pull himself off the bed. He still felt shaky from the remaining effects of the aphrodisiac in his body. The antidote that Lu Zihao gave him was unable to completely neutralize the drug that Rose Young had her minion put in his drink.
"My bad," he said. "My senses still feel dull and I wasn't able to make her unconscious with a single hit."
Lu Zihao grunted in response. He glanced down at the naked woman lying by their feet. "We're not done here yet. I still need you to draw out the best acting skills that you can muster."
"En." Jin Liwei was obviously unwilling but he still agreed.
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Chapter 1056 - Do It
Another shadowy figure jumped inside the hotel bedroom from outside the now broken window. Lu Zihao only gestured and his subordinate immediately set to work in moving the unconscious Rose Young because neither one of the two brothers-in-law wanted to touch the naked woman who disgusted them.
The subordinate arranged Rose Young in a prominent position in the entranceway where she would be the first thing to be seen once the door opened. The man didn't cover her nakedness. In fact, he positioned her limbs in such a way that her nudity would be in full display.
It was degrading for sure but she was the one who put herself in this situation. Were they supposed to be merciful and treat her with dignity when she planned on raping a married man?
They weren't saints. Far from it. They were already showing her mercy by not killing her for her repeated attempts to blacken Iris' reputation in order to snatch Jin Liwei.
If this was in his past life as Nikolai Vetrov, Lu Zihao would have already ended someone like Rose Young who made such a stupid and deadly mistake of targeting his beloved sister. Rose Young would have already mysteriously disappeared and turned into soil fertilizer.
It was too bad that the situation and his current identity weren't ideal for him to do that. Besides, they already agreed that Rose Young was still an important chess piece for them to uncover the true mastermind in the sinister plot to usurp Jin Corporation. She was still useful to them alive no matter how much they wanted her out of the picture for all the trouble she caused them especially tonight.
While the Shadow Winds member was dealing with the unconscious Rose Young, both Lu Zihao and Jin Liwei quickly set to work in messing up the entire room to make it look like there had been a fight.
Vases and glassware were broken. Bed sheets and pillows were tossed in a haphazard manner here and there. Curtains were torn and pulled down.
Then Lu Zihao stood in front of his brother-in-law while his subordinate continued to make the bedroom look like a total wreck.
"Ready?" he asked.
Jin Liwei gritted his teeth. "Do it."
Lu Zihao punched him in several parts of his body, ripped his clothes, and scratched him in noticeable areas like the face and neck. To Jin Liwei's credit, he took everything like a champ, only groaning low in his throat now and then.
"Not bad," Lu Zihao praised. "Your body feels stronger and sturdier compared to how it was a few months ago."
"I've...been...training," Jin Liwei said in a hissing breath.
Lu Zihao nodded. There was approval in his eyes. "Done."
"Thanks fucking very much."
"You're welcome."
Jin Liwei groaned as he carefully massaged his throbbing jaw and cheekbone. His brother-in-law didn't hold back at all. He felt like he got run over by a truck. He wasn't going to complain though because he agreed in this part of the plan from the very beginning. Since this was the case, there was no way he would run away from his own decision.
Doing his best to ignore the pain, Jin Liwei adjusted his state of mind and prepared himself for the next stage of their plan. His concentration was not in the best state due to the remaining effects of the aphrodisiac. He craved for his wife despite the current battered condition of his body and mind.
Lu Zihao gave Jin Liwei a final nod before jumping out of the window followed by his subordinate, disappearing into the dark of the night, and leaving Jin Liwei alone with the unconscious Rose Young.
Jin Liwei's lip curled in disgust as he glanced at her. Afterwards, he refused to look at her any longer.
He started counting in his mind.
One.
Two.
Three.
Fourâ
Loud banging and shouts sounded outside the door.
Jin Liwei recognized the most urgent-sounding voice and smiled. Then for the last time tonight, he drew out his best acting skills which weren't anything impressive, but thanks to the already developing bruises and scratches left by his ruthless brother-in-law, he looked very believable without even trying hard.
He hurried to the door and opened it before slumping with a pained groan onto his assistant who had much better acting skills than him.
Xu Tian caught him and "cried" in alarm. "President! What happened to you?! Why are you covered in wounds?! And oh no! You've been drugged, too?! Which evil thing kidnapped you and did this to you?! Unforgivable! Guards!"
Jin Liwei's bodyguards swarmed inside the room followed by the hotel's security personnel. The other Jin Corporation executives learned about what happened because of how much of a ruckus Xu Tian made at the front desk. They followed the group, concerned about their company boss' safety especially after seeing Assistant Xu's panic.
The hotel manager also came with them and was now shaking in his shoes upon seeing the seriousness of the situation. He already became anxious earlier when Assistant Xu Tian reported CEO Jin Liwei's disappearance at the front desk. If a bigshot like CEO Jin was harmed inside the hotel's premises, the manager might be forced to say goodbye to his job.
They had been looking for Jin Liwei all this time but with no success. Even checking the surveillance cameras yielded no results. It was becoming apparent to the hotel staff that this might be a planned crime against the head of Jin Corporation.
Finally, an "eyewitness" directed them to this hotel room. While they all rushed to the hotel room, the "eyewitness" disappeared before anyone could ask her to stay for official questioning purposes. She hid in an empty corner and tapped on a hidden earpiece.
"Boss Hao, it's done."
Back in the hotel room, Xu Tian unleashed an impressive level of acting. His eyes even turned bloodshot as he deliberately influenced everyone's thinking by his loud tirade that his boss, CEO Jin, was the victim. Xu Tian's shouting disturbed almost everyone in the floor. Several doors opened and out came the other hotel clients to see who was causing the ruckus.
One of the Jin Corporation executives gasped out loud. "Is that...is that Rose Young inside?!"
A camera flashed.
That was when they noticed that a paparazzo managed to follow them to join the fracas.
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Chapter 1057 - Is That Kind Of Person Normal?
The hotel manager ordered his staff to drive away the paparazzo but the man was slippery and managed to enter the room. In just a few minutes, the paparazzo was able to take hundreds of photos of the naked Rose Young lying unconscious on the floor and of the wrecked room. The camera flashed nonstop like lightning in a tempestuous storm.
Jin Liwei's bodyguards were too busy checking the room and the surroundings for additional hidden dangers to their boss that they didn't bother stopping the paparazzo's intrusion. At least, that was what it looked like to others.
The bodyguards acted hostile to the unconscious Rose Young on the floor but didn't touch her in any way. One of the hotel staff took pity on her and covered her naked body with a bed sheet to protect her from the growing number of prying eyes trying to peek inside the bedroom from outside the open door where Xu Tian continued creating a ruckus.
"This Rose Young has not learned her lesson after her termination from Jin Corporation!" Xu Tian shouted while continuing to support the "groggy" Jin Liwei.
The hotel manager tried interrupting him to suggest that they bring Jin Liwei to the hospital for a medical examination especially since the CEO was clearly injured with ugly bruises and scratches all over his body, not to mention his groggy and feverish state from being drugged. However, Xu Tian was too worked up to listen to anyone and continued his furious tirade against the shameless culprit, Rose Young.
In the end, the other Jin Corporation executives stepped forward, intending to drive their CEO Jin Liwei to the nearest hospital. The problem was that Xu Tian's hold of Jin Liwei was too tight. No matter how much they tried pulling Jin Liwei away and pleading with Assistant Xu Tian to let the president go, Xu Tian refused to budge as if he couldn't hear anything other than his own angry speech.
"President Jin rejected Rose Young's several inappropriate advances and confessions so many times but she still insisted on creating trouble for both the president and his wife, Madam Jin! If she was really a respectable woman, she wouldn't continue pursuing a taken man! But it's now clear to all of us here that she's far from respectable! Now she dared to scheme against President Jin who only wanted to celebrate her marriage to Madam Jin with the other company executives tonight! Drugging a man and locking him up in a hotel bedroom to have her wicked way with him, absolutely shameless! Immoral! Evil!"
Xu Tian swept his bloodshot eyes to the growing crowd in the hallway. He spotted a random couple and pointed a finger at the female. "You! What would you do if a shameless woman drugged your man and tried to sleep with him without his consent?"
The female glanced at her partner and looked a little awkward at first. However, Xu Tian continued to goad her along with the other females with partners among the crowd. Eventually, they became affected by his emotional words. They imagined experiencing a similar situation and quickly became enraged. Those who had actual experiences before reacted the strongest.
"Shameless women like that deserve to be beaten!"
"Slut!"
"Immoral!"
Now the hallway had become even more chaotic after these enraged women joined Xu Tian in making the ruckus bigger.
"Thank goodness that President Jin woke up in time before that shameless woman succeeded in her evil plan! The president managed to protect the sanctity of his marriage to Madam Jin! Oh, thank goodness! Evil will never prevail against righteous people like President Jin!"
Jin Liwei opened an eye a tiny crack to peek at his assistant. Seeing the man going all out, he couldn't help but feel impressed. The man had talent. He decided to give Xu Tian a salary raise and a generous bonus after this was all over. Working this hard, Xu Tian deserved that much.
Thanks to Xu Tian creating chaos among the crowd, nobody had the time to notice the finer details of the situation. As a result, the paparazzo was able to complete his task basically unimpeded. The paparazzo slipped away after taking enough photos.
Xu Tian made eye contact with him but neither acknowledged each other. The paparazzo quickly made his escape, clutching his camera like a treasure, while Xu Tian continued manipulating the emotions and opinions of the crowd with his impassioned tirade.
A few minutes later, the paparazzo exited the hotel without encountering any major setbacks. A couple of hotel staff tried chasing after him after the manager alerted everyone about him. However, he managed to elude them.
The paparazzo jumped into a waiting car which drove away as soon as the door closed.
"Success?" the driver asked.
The paparazzo smirked. "What do you think? Boss Hao personally assigned this mission to me, so of course, I'm gonna make sure to make it a success no matter what." He examined the photos he took with his camera. "Tsk tsk. This woman is really courting death for scheming against Iris Long's man. We all know how protective Boss Hao is of Iris Long."
"Address her with more respect! Boss Hao prefers that we call her Miss Xiulan. He treats her like a precious sister. It's not only him who treasures her. The hacker team also worships her for some reason. I'm not privy to insider information about her because my rank is too low, but I heard from a few seniors that we shouldn't underestimate Miss Xiulan. Yes, she has the backing of Jin Corporation's head who's her husband, and of course, our Boss Hao, but those seniors say that she is more than her powerful backing."
"I know."
"You know?"
"Well, not really." The paparazzo pursed his lips and then shrugged. "I don't know the details either but my intuition as a paparazzo tells me that Iris Long, I mean Miss Xiulan, is more than what she appears. If not for me taking photos of her and Jin Chonglin back then to create a scandal about them having a secret love child, would I have become a member of Shadow Winds now? It's because of her that I met Boss Hao and I became who I am today. So many bigshots are on her side. Tell me, is that kind of person normal?"
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Chapter 1058 - Unexpected Arrival
Within half an hour, the incriminating photos of Rose Young's evil scheme against CEO Jin Liwei at the hotel were published online by the paparazzo. ShaWn spread the post and it became viral.
The paparazzo wasn't only an expert photographer but he was also a talented storyteller. His experience as a tabloid reporter was evident in this juicy story he wrote about Rose Young's wicked plot tonight against Jin Corporation's President-CEO Jin Liwei who was also the husband of multi-award-winning musician and celebrity, Iris Long.
He was also the one who wrote the most scathing reports about Rose Young's sex video scandal a few days ago, painting her as the worst kind of woman in society. Since CEO Jin Liwei rejected all her advances, the two of them didn't even have an affair, and yet she took desperate measures in her desire to become his mistress and homewrecker to his marriage with Iris Long. Truly a despicable female in the eyes of many fellow women in the nation.
Looking at her sex video and scandalous photos, many sneered at her face and figure. She couldn't even compare to Iris Long's stunning beauty and hour-glass body, and yet she still dared to make a move on CEO Jin?
Good thing that CEO Jin wasn't dumb to fall for the wicked woman's scheme. If he did, then it would be like abandoning a piece of prime beef for chicken feet. This was how most of the netizens thought while comparing Rose Young's appearance to Iris Long's beauty.
Rose Young wasn't ugly. To be honest, she was quite attractive and oozed confidence despite her flat figure. However, if compared to an extraordinary beauty like Iris Long, Rose Young couldn't even hold a candle based on physical appearance alone.
This sentiment was spread online, secretly by ShaWn, and loud and proud by the Black Stars, specifically its notorious troll unit, the Slippers Army.
"Shame on Rose Young! A wicked woman like her deserves to be whacked by our mighty slippers to the deepest level of hell!"
"CEO Jin, thank goodness that you're okay and managed to escape the clutches of that evil woman! You didn't allow her to taint your body and marriage with Boss Iris! Thank you for your loyalty to our boss, CEO Jin! Please choose me as one of the winners in your special contest!"
"Boss Iris, you've had it hard these days because of that Rose Young. The Black Stars will always support you!"
"And the Slippers Army will always defend you with our mighty slippers of justice!"
The fan club's officers all expressed their full support for their Boss Iris and her husband, CEO Jin Liwei, while condemning Rose Young. CaptainBlackStar and LittlePhoenix were there to lead the members. MrsLovePhantom, JJNumber1Fan, JJNumber2Fan and JJNumber3Fan also joined the fray online.
Even the usually busy MonkeyFace and iEatSlippers popped out and showed their powerful influence among the Black Stars members. Ever since becoming the CEO and CFO respectively of the gaming company, Planet Monkey, the creator of the hit online game "Supreme Ascension", the two had become like idols to the other Black Stars. MonkeyFace and iEatSlippers' status in the fan club were only second to Boss Iris in the eyes of the other members.
The Slippers Army felt like they had been injected with chicken blood as soon as iEatSlippers took charge as their commander tonight. They gained an even greater vigour to act as even worse online trolls than they already were normally and trash-talked Rose Young everywhere.
iEatSlippers took a prominent role as Commander while MonkeyFace operated behind the scenes with his skills as a hacker. He supercharged the entire Black Stars' online posts and protected the Slippers Army from being banned and reported in various forums.
Oddly enough, KittyBaby and PantherBaby, two of the most powerful current leaders of the Slippers Army weren't present during such an important time.
"Those two are still kids. KittyBaby always say that their dad is very strict so maybe the siblings have been sent to bed early tonight. She also mentioned that her brother PantherBaby is grounded again for upsetting their mom. Maybe the poor kid is still grounded until now."
"Well, PantherBaby is quite a vicious boy. He's the complete opposite of his bubbly sister KittyBaby. It's no wonder that their dad keeps on grounding him. That kind of kid needs to be disciplined as early as possible to prevent him from growing up into a nasty, lawless adult."
This conversation about the two young, absent leaders of Slippers Army didn't last long because the Black Stars became swept up again in their enmity against Rose Young.
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Back at the hotel, Jin Liwei's role in the play that he wrote with his brother-in-law would soon come to an end. He didn't really do that much in the final stages. His assistant Xu Tian did most of the work. He only needed to act like a drugged and injured victim.
"Fucking shit," Lu Zihao's voice swore through their earpiece channel. "The Chief of Police is coming."
Jin Liwei's half-closed eyes twitched but he forced himself to continue leaning "weakly" on Xu Tian who had now finished his tirade. Police presence was part of their original plan. However, they only expected regular police officers, not the Chief himself.
"Did one of your company executives contact the motherfucker?" Lu Zihao asked him, clearly pissed off at the unexpected development.
Jin Liwei tapped on his earpiece, replying in Morse code. 'No.'
He was also confused why the Police Chief would come in person. Perhaps it was because of his status as Jin Corporation's President-CEO. That position certainly gave him high importance in many elite circles.
Then he remembered something. It seemed that his brother-in-law also realized it at the same time.
"Ah, right. The motherfucker is the husband of Evelinka's fan. They even attended your wedding. Shit. How could we forget about this connection?" Lu Zihao let out a string of graphic Russian curses.
The essence of their plan would remain the same, but some of the details needed to be adjusted. Shadow Winds had to be even more careful upon the unexpected arrival of the Chief of Police, the very man who ordered the force to keep a close eye on the new rising power in the country's underworld.
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Chapter 1059 - That Kind Of Relationship
About ten minutes later, the hotel was swarming with the police. They took over the bedroom from Jin Liwei's bodyguards and the hotel's security, basically kicking all of them out.
The chaotic crowd was dispersed while the key people involved in the case were taken in separate rooms at the hotel for preliminary questioning. Everything was organized. The police officers were more serious and diligent than usual knowing that their chief would be arriving soon.
By this time, Rose Young finally regained consciousness. She was wearing a hotel bathrobe. At first, she was confused.
Where was Jin Liwei? Where was she? Why was she in a different place?
Then she realized that there were other people besides her in what looked like a small office. It should still be an office in the hotel though. The two strangers were a female and male wearing...dammitâpolice uniforms!
Her pupils contracted. She now knew that her plan failed miserably and that she was now in trouble.
Big trouble.
What she needed to do now was to keep as much of her wits about her as possible and to take extreme caution whenever opening her mouth to answer any questions. Impulsiveness at this time would spell doom for her.
Although she had an all-or-nothing attitude before and during her plan to trap Jin Liwei, now that her plan failed and the police had caught her, she was unwilling to surrender! This couldn't possibly be the end of her! No way!
After confirming her identity, the female officer who was acting quite friendly finally began questioning her about the incident with Jin Liwei at the hotel bedroom. Her partner, the male officer, stood a few steps away with a stern expression.
Rose Young knew that he was trying to intimidate her but it wasn't effective. She had to deal with the iceberg Jin Liwei for so many years. This male officer had nothing on her man! Despite her inner contempt at the male officer, she still pretended to act meek in order to make these officers empathize with her.
"Did you drug Jin Liwei tonight, kidnap him, lock him up in a bedroom, and then plan to have sex with him without his consent?"
She shook her head. "No, Miss Officer. I..." Tears formed in her eyes. "I know that so many people despise me and think the worst of me during this time, but the truth is...the truth is...I can't say it. I already promised to take all the blame and to bear the shame."
The female officer showed a sympathetic expression while Rose Young sobbed quietly as if suffering a deep grievance that nobody else in the world could truly understand. However, Rose Young knew that the female officer was only pretending to be nice in order to make her talk. She wasn't a fool. The female officer wasn't a friend. Far from it. Instead, the woman was a vicious viper who would swallow her whole as soon as she made the wrong move and spit her out into the fire pit.
"You're upset but we can't help you if you don't tell us what's wrong," the female officer coaxed.
The male officer clicked his tongue in irritation and glared at Rose Young. "Stop the waterworks and just tell us the truth! You drugged CEO Jin Liwei, didn't you? Yes or no!"
The female officer continued smiling "kindly" at Rose Young but she didn't stop her partner from roaring either.
Rose Young chose her words carefully. "An aphrodisiac drug is involved, yesâ"
"Hah! So now you're confessing, huh?" the male officer sneered at her.
The female officer maintained her kind smile while waiting patiently for Rose Young to continue speaking.
"âbut it's part of our...bed activities." Rose Young clenched her fists and trembled under the gazes of the officers. Tears flowed down her face, making her look pitiful. "People only believe what they want to believe. I know that now! I'm experiencing it now! What it means to fall in love with a man who only wants me to be his mistress, his hidden woman, while he holds another woman in public! I know that you won't believe me...but...but Big Brother Liwei and I...we're in a relationship! That kind of relationship. It's true!"
"Please be more specific, Miss Young," the female officer said in a gentle tone.
"You already know what I mean."
"Yes, but we still need you to be specific for the official records. Tell us exactly what kind of relationship you allegedly have with CEO Jin."
"We..." Rose Young bit her lower lip, letting more tears flow down her face. "We meet up in secret, sleep together, you know, have sex! That kind of relationship!"
"Ah, so you're alleging that you're having an affair with CEO Jin?"
"I'm not alleging. It's true! But he won't admit it. Not now that he married that...that other woman." She covered her face and started sobbing.
The male officer laughed with sarcasm. "Wow. The official wife is being called the 'other woman'."
"When did your alleged affair with CEO Jin start? Before he's married or after?"
"B-before...."
The male officer snorted but his female partner gave him a warning glance. He stopped. Rose Young almost scoffed at their acting but restrained herself and continued acting pitiful.
"Big Brother Liwei and I have known each other for a long time. We attended the same university in America. He was my senior there. We didn't have any romantic relationship at that time yet. We were...friends.
"Years passed and we only saw each other during social events. We maintained a...cordial friendship. He became Jin Corporation's head while I continued working hard to gain experience in the business world. Then a few months ago, I was hired as the new Chief Marketing Officer at Jin Corporation's main headquarters so I flew here from abroad. It was then that...that Big Brother Liwei and I reconnected and...it developed into something more."
"And then?" the female officer prompted her.
"And then we had an affair."
The male officer snorted. "Even if it's true that you really have a secret love affair with CEO Jin which is already very questionable, it still doesn't change the fact that you're intruding in an official relationship. He was already engaged to Iris Long that time!"
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Chapter 1060 - True Victim
"That's true," Rose Young admitted. "They were already engaged but that didn't stop Big Brother Liwei from making promises to me. And I believed everything he told me because...because I love him. I love him so much! I was blinded with my love for him that I believed him when he told me that he'll break up with that...with Iris Long, so that we can finally be together. I waited and waited but he continued to only assure me with kisses and sex. Lots of sex."
The male officer curled his lip. "Why would CEO Jin leave Iris Long for you?"
Rose Young felt triggered by the asshole's contemptuous gaze on her body, especially when it landed on her chest area. She straightened her back but then forced to make herself smaller again. This wasn't the time to flare up.
"Big Brother Liwei always tells me that..." She bit her lip as if unsure whether it was appropriate to say her next words or not.
"Go on, don't be afraid," the female officer assured her. "Just tell us."
"He says that Iris Long is...not fun in bed. That she's boring. She only lays there without moving."
The female officer raised an eyebrow but that only lasted for a second before smoothing out her expression again to show another kind but neutral smile. She gestured for Rose Young to continue speaking.
"Iris Long can't satisfy Big Brother Liwei's needs."
"So according to what you're saying, CEO Jin turned to you to satisfy his...needs?"
"Yes."
"Hah, unbelievable!" the male officer scoffed.
Rose Young felt the strongest urge to slap the asshole. Although this good cop, bad cop style was very common, it was still extremely infuriating especially since she was experiencing it firsthand. It was so difficult to restrain herself from scratching the asshole's face off but she still forced herself to not lose her temper. The situation was dire and she needed to do anything in order to save herself.
The female officer released a warning cough for show. The male officer became quiet again.
"Go on, Miss Young. Please tell us more about your alleged relationship with CEO Jin."
"It's not alleged, it's real!"
She took a deep breath and continued speaking about her secret love affair with Jin Liwei. She told them about her fantasies, weaving them as the truth, until it was becoming difficult even for her to differentiate what was real and imagined.
"Big Brother Liwei is a very virile man. He's also very...let's say adventurous. He likes it rough and to use toys with me. Iris Long refuses to even try new things with him, so that's why...he loves being with me. He knows that he can do whatever he wants with me and try new things without worrying about me judging his...rather heavy tastes."
The female officer leaned forward, the kind smile still on her face. Her eyes, however, couldn't conceal her true cunning to Rose Young. "Tell me, Miss Young. You came from a good background that is comparable to Iris Long. Like her, you're also an heiress to your family fortune in Singapore. I understand that your family operates the Singaporean branch of Jin Corporation?"
"Yes."
"Tell me then, Miss Young, if everything you said is really true, why would a woman like you agree to become a mistress?"
Rose clutched at her flat chest and cried in a heartbroken manner. "Because I love him! Do you think that I want to throw away my dignity like this? No! But for him, for Big Brother Liwei, for Jin Liwei, I sacrificed my dignity, my reputation, everything for him! Even if this is how he repays me, humiliating me to the entire world, betraying me and trapping me like this because he can't bear to continue lying anymore, and leaving me to fend for myself to the police, I still love him! I love him so much. It...it hurts so much...but I still love him."
The male officer dragged a chair, letting it screech from the friction against the floor, before sitting down in front of Rose Young with a loud thump. "You're saying that CEO Jin betrayed you, that he set you up tonight?"
She appeared unwilling to confess Jin Liwei's crime, but in the end, she gave a reluctant nod. "Yes. I don't want to betray him...but he betrayed me first. We arranged to meet up tonight. He wanted to apologize and to make it up to me for what I experienced in the past few days. He told me that he had to make a show of spurning me in public in order to appease Iris Long's suspicion and jealousy. We planned on making love tonight. He asked me to arrange the aphrodisiac and the handcuffs in advance for our usual bed play.
"But I never expected that he would double-cross me like this! That he would set me up and have the police arrest me! The truth is...I'm the true victim!"
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In another but more spacious and comfortable office inside the hotel, Jin Liwei was being treated for his injuries. The man treating him was a member of his security team tonight but wasn't actually his subordinate.
The man was wearing the same bodyguard suit as the rest of Jin Liwei's subordinates, but the truth was that he was a member of Shadow Winds that Lu Zihao stationed at Dragon Palace Home #10.
Half of Jin Liwei's bodyguards present tonight were actually Shadow Winds members. They were the additional security sent when Xu Tian revealed to him earlier that his wife might also attend the dinner with the executives at the hotel restaurant, earning the adorable ire of his AI daughter. Ketchup berated Xu Tian for revealing her mom's supposed surprise for her dad.
In the end, what should have been a nice dinner with the other executives and possibly his wife and even his younger brother was destroyed by that woman, Rose Young.
The police offered to bring him to the hospital first for treatment and then question him there but Jin Liwei refused. He remembered that he still had his brother-in-law's antidote in his bloodstream.
It would be too dangerous if he was sent to the hospital and had his blood drawn to be analyzed in a laboratory. He couldn't risk that so he insisted on staying at the hotel for the police questioning.
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