“Jinghong, I…”
Shen Yaoyao wanted to explain.
But her heart was filled with fear, terrified that Bai Jinghong would be angry.
Seeing how agitated she was, Bai Jinghong affectionately ruffled her hair.
“Silly girl, do you think I only just found out?”
“I pretty much had it figured out the very first day I met you!”
Shen Yaoyao’s eyes widened in disbelief.
He knew from day one? Didn’t that mean from the very beginning, Bai Jinghong had been pretending not to know?
Bai Jinghong pinched her pretty face. “Did you think your man was an idiot? Or that, like his profile says, he’s just some uneducated, good-for-nothing Prodigal Son?”
Shen Yaoyao shook her head vigorously. “Of course not!”
“That’s more like it. But Yao Yao, I have to say, your acting could use a little work!”
“Maybe you didn’t realize, but when you sent those thugs after me and they were about to get crippled, they panicked and spilled everything in their desperation to escape.”
“You probably thought that since they were being gagged, they couldn’t talk. But you underestimated a person’s survival instinct.”
Shen Yaoyao fell silent for a long moment before whispering, “Are you angry? That I lied to you like this…”
Bai Jinghong chuckled. “It’s less that you lied to me, and more that I lied to you. I knew the truth but deliberately didn’t expose it—isn’t that a kind of deception too?”
“But we’ll call it even and never speak of it again!”
“That idiot Chen Lin could never have imagined the mole he planted beside me would become my woman!”
The massive stone weighing on Shen Yaoyao’s heart finally dropped.
What she feared most was Bai Jinghong’s anger. If he drove her away because of this, she truly would have broken down.
“Jinghong, then what about the Bai Corporation’s investment plan…” she suddenly remembered and asked urgently.
“A fake. I used your position to my advantage and had you deliver a false plan! But the fact that you could tell me this under a different identity… it makes me very happy!”
Shen Yaoyao was completely stunned.
The Hell Organization’s intel had been disastrously wrong from the very start. One wrong move, and the whole game was lost.
But thankfully, this was the outcome Shen Yaoyao had hoped for.
Now, she was utterly disgusted with the Hell Organization, not to mention there was still a Death God who had killed her family.
“Yao Yao, from today onward, you’ll continue to be at my side under your Hell Organization identity.”
“I still have a grand gift to deliver to Chen Lin!”
Shen Yaoyao’s current identity was perfect.
Chen Lin still had no idea that she had betrayed the Hell Organization and believed she was still diligently working for them.
That meant all false information could be funneled through her.
When the time came, even if Chen Lin survived, he’d be stripped of a layer of skin.
And by the time he realized what had happened, it would be way too late.
“Right, Yao Yao, Chen Lin and that Death God—they’re both leaders. They probably don’t get along very well normally, do they?”
A devilishly wicked idea suddenly occurred to Bai Jinghong.
Shen Yaoyao nodded. “They disagree on many things.”
“On the surface, the Hell Organization appears united, but it’s actually been split into two factions for a long time.”
“Of course, there are people in the middle who try to serve both, but originally, I was on Chen Lin’s side.”
“His faction is more radical, while the Death God is more conservative and prefers stable growth.”
“Because of that, the two factions clash often.”
Bai Jinghong nodded. A conflict was the best possible scenario.
Even in the original storyline, there was friction.
But that only happened much later. Chen Lin wanted to unify the Hell Organization, which meant the Death God had to relinquish his power.
In the original novel, the two had a direct confrontation, but Chen Lin, the Child of Fortune, proved superior, and the Death God was defeated.
However, to win people over, Chen Lin didn’t kill him. He merely kept him under surveillance, allowing him to retire in comfort.
But now, Bai Jinghong had entered the fray. He could stir up conflict between them early, make them bite each other like dogs, and then reap the rewards himself!
Absolutely delicious!
“Alright, we’ll discuss all that later!”
Bai Jinghong smiled, then asked with concern, “Are you tired?”
Shen Yaoyao’s eyes were as soft as spring water. “I wasn’t the one moving… not really tired. But my body feels sore and weak, like I have no strength at all!”
“And how does it feel?” Bai Jinghong teased.
Shen Yaoyao bit her lip and thought for a moment before blushing deeply. “It feels strange… sometimes like I’m floating on soft clouds, other times like I’m falling into a churning sea!”
“But as long as you felt good, that’s all that matters!”
“Ha! Who would’ve thought that the cold and peerless Enchantress could become so gentle and caring? Clearly, that’s my doing!”
Bai Jinghong teased her, but right then, his stomach let out a loud rumble.
Shen Yaoyao giggled softly. “Are you hungry?”
“A little. I didn’t eat anything tonight, and you haven’t eaten either!”
“You just lie there. You moved so much for so long, so… vigorously. You must be tired. Rest properly. I’ll go cook—the kitchen here can be used!”
Naked as the day she was born, she started to get up, but a sudden sharp pain made her sit back down.
“Alright, there’s no need for you to go anywhere. I’ll just contact Chef Yuan and have him deliver something!”
Shen Yaoyao didn’t refuse. She really wasn’t in a state to move around.
She nodded, her gaze at Bai Jinghong filled with nothing but profound love.
In her heart, she was also thinking it was time to eliminate some hidden dangers for Bai Jinghong.
Zi Yue and Impermanence were her top two targets right now.
She couldn’t move against Impermanence yet, because he was needed to carry out the false plan Bai Jinghong had leaked.
But Zi Yue was different.
Her poisons were simply too terrifying.
She was right here in Dragon Sea City. Knowing Chen Lin’s nature, he would definitely order Zi Yue to make a move against Bai Jinghong.
If Bai Jinghong accidentally got caught in one of her traps, there was only one possible outcome—death!
“Yue’er… for Jinghong’s sake, I’ll have no choice but to betray you.”
Shen Yaoyao secretly plotted.
When a woman becomes ruthless, she can be far more terrifying than any man.
What Shen Yaoyao never could have guessed, however, was that Zi Yue had been claimed by Bai Jinghong even before she had been. Right now, she was waiting in a hotel room, hoping Bai Jinghong would come find her.
But Bai Jinghong had absolutely no idea what was going through Shen Yaoyao’s mind at that moment.
He was currently on the phone with Chef Yuan.
“Chef Yuan, make a late-night snack and deliver it to my villa!”
“Do you have any of that red sausage? Bring me some of that too!”
“Right away, Young Master Bai. Would you like the red sausage cut into the shape of an octopus?”
“Ah? Sure!”
Soon, Chef Yuan delivered the snack, and Bai Jinghong carried Shen Yaoyao down to the dining room.
While they were eating, Bai Jinghong received a call from Ah Kun.
“Young Master, I’ve finished investigating the information regarding Gu Tianming,” Ah Kun said directly.
Ah Kun’s efficiency was extremely high. The moment Bai Jinghong gave the order, he’d started the investigation.
In just two hours, he had a complete picture of the whole situation.
Of course, the main reason for the speed was that the incident had taken place in Dragon Sea.
On Bai Jinghong’s own turf, investigating a few old matters didn’t take very long.
“Excellent. Tell me what you found.”
“Young Master, according to our investigation, after Gu Tianming fled to Dragon Sea back then, he was badly injured!”
“For some unknown reason, he was drugged and stumbled blindly into a villa. That villa belonged to the Xu family’s second daughter, Xu Sixin!”
Bai Jinghong understood immediately.
So it was that same old trope!
Gu Tianming had been drugged, and driven by the aphrodisiac, he must have forced himself on Xu Sixin.
“You said the Xu family—are they the ones who run the Righteous Group here in Dragon Sea?”
Bai Jinghong knew a bit about the Xu family. They were a wealthy merchant family, but not a major force, considered third-rate at best.
“Yes, Young Master. After that night, Gu Tianming vanished. A few months later, the Xu family’s second daughter was pregnant. She was scorned by her family because of it and was kicked out of the Xu family five years ago.”
“Excellent!” Bai Jinghong couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Wasn’t this the perfect setup for a brainless War God Returns story?
