Chapter 43 Part 2

Chen Qiuxue, who never let her phone out of reach: 【Okay, I’ll wait for you on his floor. Ring on?】

【Chi Yumo: Yes.】

In the elevator, she applied a fresh Inhibitor Patch to her gland. Xiao Wei was an S-Grade Alpha, one accustomed to asserting his status with Pheromones—Chi Yumo had experienced it several times domestically.

Her S+ rank was higher than most Alphas and Omegas, but she disdained using Pheromones to suppress them. Of course, special circumstances excepted.

She didn’t know which floor or room Xiao Wei’s was on.

But hotel luxury suites were usually on the upper floors, and the staff had pressed a high-floor button.

She arrived at a room door, where the staff member stopped. “We’re here. Knock and go in yourself. I’m just the guide.”

Chi Yumo heightened her vigilance and raised her hand to knock.

“Miss Mo, you’ve arrived. Please come in.” The door was opened by a tall, unfamiliar woman speaking clumsy Chinese.

Chi Yumo had never seen her in the MENAS brand team. Judging by her distinctive Western hair color and features, she seemed like a local woman of Lan Wei descent.

Having learned from past mistakes, Chi Yumo didn’t step forward immediately. Instead, she focused and listened to the sounds inside.

Seeing her hesitate, the woman was surprised and continued in her accented Chinese, enunciating each word: “Don’t worry, Miss Mo. There’s no danger here. It’s very safe. The person you’re waiting for is inside.”

Though the suite floor was quiet, Chi Yumo’s vision wasn’t impaired, and she couldn’t judge how many people were inside from their breathing. She only heard the clink of a glass hitting the table.

She held up her tablet: 【We’ll talk with the door open, or I won’t come in.】

She typed it in both Chinese and English.

The woman sighed helplessly, turned into the room, and said to the person inside: 【She says she wants the door open, or she won’t come in.】

Perhaps the person agreed, as the woman turned back and nodded to her: 【OK.】

After walking through the two-meter-long entryway, the view opened up. When Chi Yumo saw another blonde woman sitting on the sofa chair, her heart jolted.

“Congratulations. Not only did you win the domestic championship, but you also advanced to the second half of the international competition.”

The person before her was none other than the Fifth Miss who had once forced her to soak in an ice-cold pool for two hours. Was this a narrow path for enemies?

No, it wasn’t narrow—the Fifth Miss had come specifically for her.

What trick was she planning now?

Was this originally the Fifth Miss’s room? Or had she borrowed Xiao Wei’s?

After completing her task of opening the door, the stranger woman swayed her hips as she sat beside Li Longfeng, pressing her voluptuous curves against Li Longfeng’s arm. She whispered in heavily accented local dialect, occasionally throwing flirtatious glances at Chi Yumo.

Chi Yumo couldn’t understand and typed on her tablet: 【What does the Fifth Miss want with me?】

The room was filled with the smell of smoke and alcohol. Several bottles of foreign liquor that Chi Yumo didn’t recognize were placed on the TV cabinet and coffee table—not all the same brand, but all dark-colored.

Two glasses of strong liquor on the coffee table each held more than half a cup of brown liquid. There was also an ice bucket chilling two bottles of wine.

Li Longfeng lifted her chin slightly, and the stranger woman understood. She took a cigarette from the pack, lit it between her lips, took a puff, then exhaled smoke as she brought it to Li Longfeng’s mouth. She kissed Li Longfeng’s cheek and muttered something.

The erotic scenes and sounds from the villa half a month ago resurfaced like a resurrected evil spirit, accompanied by the stench of rotting flesh. They crept toward Chi Yumo along with the white smoke Li Longfeng exhaled, making her feel physically nauseous.

Chi Yumo lowered her head and typed 【I must excuse myself】. Before she could show it to Li Longfeng, she heard Li Longfeng say, “Come with me.”

Come with her?

Did Li Longfeng want to… keep her as a mistress?

In her moment of shock, Li Longfeng, cigarette in hand, walked toward her.

“Stay in Lan Wei as my lover. 200,000 a month. You won’t have to do anything to enjoy luxury and wealth, living a life of extravagance. Of course, if you want to do something, to prove you have skills, ambitions, and aren’t a waste, I can give you top-tier international runway resources.”

Li Longfeng’s approach and scent repulsed Chi Yumo from the inside out.

Seeing her step back, Li Longfeng masked her irritation, raised an eyebrow, and slowly exhaled a trail of smoke, persistently tempting her.

“So far, among the world’s top ten supermodels recognized globally, there’s only one Chinese person. It’s not impossible for you to become the second world-renowned Chinese supermodel. Everyone knows Lan Wei is the Fashion Capital, and my connections and resources here far surpass Shen Muxi’s. Look, both she and I are Alphas—I’m S-Grade, and she’s just A-Grade. You can be with her, so why not me?”

Li Longfeng’s tempting conditions sounded like filthy words and garbage to Chi Yumo—dirty enough to disgust her just from entering her ears.

If she’d known the person who wanted to see her was Li Longfeng, she wouldn’t have come.

Without hesitation, she typed: 【I only associate with clean people and earn clean money. Excuse me.】

After being rejected and essentially called “unclean in person and money,” Li Longfeng narrowed her eyes, grabbed the turning Chi Yumo, and released a powerful burst of Pheromones in provocation: “Did I say you could leave?”

Chi Yumo shook her off forcefully, without holding back.

Li Longfeng hadn’t expected such strength. Caught off guard, she stumbled several steps, steadying herself with her right hand on the cabinet to avoid crashing into the TV cabinet—a most embarrassing sight.

Looking at this Alpha who not only failed to read the room but also embarrassed her in front of her lover, Li Longfeng flew into a rage.

Fueled by malice, she grabbed an unopened bottle of foreign liquor from the cabinet and swung it at Chi Yumo to save face.

But she had miscalculated.

Anticipating her malice, Chi Yumo reacted faster. With a lightning-fast high kick, she effortlessly knocked down Li Longfeng’s right arm holding the bottle.

“Bang! Crash!”

“Ah!”

Along with the stranger woman’s scream came the sound of the liquor bottle and TV screen shattering together.

And from outside the door: “Miss Mo!”

“Mo Yu, you’re dead.” Li Longfeng growled through gritted teeth.

Like a pack leader whose territory had been invaded and fangs pulled, her eyes were bloodshot, trembling with humiliation and rage, her skin flushed dark with anger.

The S-Grade Pheromones in the air turned into deadly fangs, targeting Chi Yumo’s Glands with a fierce assault.

Without turning her head, Chi Yumo raised her hand to Chen Qiuxue in a “don’t come in” gesture. She stood steady as a mountain, her dark eyes inscrutable.

Assailed by the stranger woman’s aggressively provocative S-Grade Pheromones, the Inhibitor Patch was nearly useless—especially since she was in her Susceptible Period.

To prevent her Glands from erupting, Chi Yumo tore off the Inhibitor Patch and released a massive amount of S+ Grade Pheromones to counter and strike back, using both martial prowess and rank to suppress her quickly.

In mere moments of the Pheromone clash, Li Longfeng incredulously discovered Chi Yumo’s rank… higher than hers.

An S+ Grade Alpha?

From childhood, she had never bowed to anyone, let alone a lowly “peasant” like Chi Yumo?

She suddenly grabbed a shard of glass from the cabinet, gripped it viciously to steel herself with the pain, and advanced on Chi Yumo.

But she could only manage one step before the overwhelming Pheromones pinned her in place, unable to lift her feet.

In her life, she had never suffered such humiliation.

“It’s here, we’re checking the situation now.”

From the elevator, the sound of a walkie-talkie came. Chen Qiuxue, holding the doorframe, reminded her: “Miss Mo, hotel security is coming.”

The bottle-smashing noise, or the leak of S-Grade and S+ Grade Pheromones, had inevitably alarmed the other guests on the floor.

Someone had called the front desk.

That was normal.

Chi Yumo controlled her Pheromones and quickly typed: 【Everything has limits. I don’t attack unless provoked. Fifth Miss, stay put. Farewell forever.】

As she left, Chi Yumo supported Chen Qiuxue, immediately reapplying the damp Inhibitor Patch to the back of her neck. She closed her eyes to steady herself and hurried to the elevator.

She desperately needed a Strong Suppressant to cool her Glands and make her Pheromones recede into dormancy.

They brushed past the tall, burly male security guards, who glanced at them several times but didn’t stop them.

With the door wide open, Li Longfeng slumped against the TV cabinet, sweat beading on her face, blood dripping from her right hand. She cursed bitterly: “Damn it.”

The other A-Grade Alpha on the sofa had gone limp as a puddle during the clash between the two S-Grade Alphas and obediently kept quiet, watching.

“Excuse me…”

“Get the hell out, all of you!”

As the security at the door spoke, Li Longfeng’s shout followed, and another bottle of liquor smashed on the ground.

The leg-weakened Alpha grabbed her bag and scrambled to the door. After talking to the security in the local language, the two left one after the other, closing the door behind them.

Li Longfeng collapsed back onto the sofa, venting by downing three glasses of strong liquor in a row. She answered Xiao Wei’s call with her bloody hand.

“My Fifth Miss, my ancestor, can’t you find someone else to play with? There are Alphas everywhere…”

“Someone else? Everywhere?” Li Longfeng interrupted Xiao Wei’s persuasion, sneering angrily. “Wei-ge, can you find me another delicious S+ Grade Alpha off the street?”

“…”

Mo Yu was S+ Grade? No wonder Shen Muxi treasured her. “Don’t go too far. Be careful not to get burned. That’s all I’ll say. Sigh.”

This was his third time advising her.

The first was after Shi Youwan asked if Mo Yu was worth investing in; the second after Shen Muxi wanted to raise the price for her.

He had plans outside tonight and was drinking heartily when he got a message from his subordinates: the Fifth Miss had used his name to lure Mo Yu to a room.

His alcohol-slowed brain suddenly raced at full speed.

Tipping off Shen Muxi was to distance himself. Wasn’t Li Longfeng openly putting him on the fire and roasting him, regardless of his life?

“Get burned?”

Li Longfeng savored the phrase, deliberately twisting Xiao Wei’s meaning. “Negative news about the brand ambassador herself—doesn’t that make MENAS go viral more than some irrelevant ranking? What do you think, Wei-ge?”

What the hell do I think? Xiao Wei broke into a cold sweat, cursing inwardly.

The profanity had come out.

“Do whatever you want.” He couldn’t control a spoiled young miss like her anyway. If she caused trouble, someone else would clean it up.

He wasn’t planning to return to the hotel tonight. If something happened, he needed an alibi.

When Li Longfeng went mad, she was reckless and lawless—she’d crash hard someday. Her dad couldn’t match others’, so he wouldn’t join her madness.

Lan Wei’s temperature was lower than Yinzhou City and Lingjiang City, with dark clouds obscuring the moon, creating a oppressive atmosphere.

Distant streetlights glowed like eternal flames, illuminating the midnight streets and injecting a trace of warmth. The buildings hidden in the shadows guarded people’s deepest secrets and hidden thoughts.

Shi Youwan had worries and secrets, many about Chi Yumo.

“President Shi, new updates.”

“Mm, tell me.” Shi Youwan held her phone, leaning against the bedroom window, listening quietly to Qiao Ke’s report.

“After Miss Mo and Chen Qiuxue returned to their rooms, neither has left again. But at Li Longfeng’s side, another local Lan Wei woman entered with a black briefcase—not the same one who left with hotel security earlier, and not hotel staff…”

From the moment Chi Yumo stepped out, their people had been tailing discreetly.

Though Li Longfeng’s door had been open, Chen Qiuxue had later stood guard outside, so the bodyguards couldn’t get close and hadn’t heard the specifics of Chi Yumo and Li Longfeng’s talk.

When the conflict erupted inside, Shi Youwan had nearly ordered a rush in.

Fortunately, Chen Qiuxue calmly waited at the door, so Shi Youwan and Qiao Ke relaxed, assuming no major issue.

“Have them watch everyone who’s contacted Li Longfeng closely—track their comings and goings. If manpower’s short, spend more to hire more. Report every hotel staff who’s touched Xiao Mo’s room, anyone or anything—food, drinks—that’s contacted Xiao Mo. Don’t miss a single suspicious person.”

“Yes, President Shi.”

On high alert, Qiao Ke knew the boss meant business this time, but she still prayed for no big winds or waves.

For whether a small boat adrift on the river or a luxury liner on the sea, big winds and waves made docking hard.