Stuck in a Chinese novel

Chapter 224: Another party member

[Who would have thought, huh?]

'Yeah, she was the last person on my mind.' Wei Jun replied as he remembered the conversation that took place between Zi Huan and him.

Zi Huan told him everything about the incident with Yan Rong and how he was trying to make up some evidence to protect himself from her.

'She's crazier than I thought.' Wei Jun mused to himself.

[Is that why you haven't refused her advances?]

'…' Wei Jun remained quiet because he himself came to a realization. Had it been any other woman, he would have long refused her by now but for some reason, he couldn't just say no to Yan Rong.

[Who would have thought that host had a type]

'Shut up.'

[How did you know he was trying to set you up?]

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'Because he didn't ask me to retrieve anything. I guess they already had a plan for that after getting evidence on me. A secretary or a mistress, perhaps. But the major goal was to get leverage on me.' Wei Jun replied.

[Who would've thought you would see right through it?]

[But if you did, then why did you do it?]

'Do you know how much money the prostitution and the drug businesses make?' Wei Jun asked.

[I don't know]

'The amount I got from the mayor candidate who received a small percentage of all of that is alone 200 million. Just take a wild guess how much it would be if I take it all.' Wei Jun said with a smile as he headed for his downtown warehouse.

~~

"Report." A narcotics detective got out of his car as he saw the extent of damage in the building burning in front of him.

"We failed to gather anything of evidence." The subordinate started with bad news before he continued, "The witnesses and the survivors saw a man in a biker outfit and a black helmet. And then there was a sea of fire."

"Survivors?" The detective asked.

"Prostitutes. He spared them while he killing the rest." The officer replied.

"So he has a soft spot for women?" The detective asked.

"I wouldn't say that." The officer replied before he showed him the corpses of several women and said, "These are the women who run most of the establishments. They're worse than many men in the same industry. Prostitution, slavery, drugs, blackmail, and more, you name it. If he was a feminist, he wouldn't have killed them."

"So what do we know about him?" The detective asked.

"Just that he was a man and that he was there to rob the places." The officer replied and added, "No evidence of any sort was left behind. We figured it was a cultivator but there were no Qi traces. However, a survivor saw him ripping the door of a safe with his bare hands so there could have been a mistake there as well."

The detective nodded and asked one final question, "How the hell did he destroy all these businesses in one night?"

"…" The officer had no reply to that question. After all, there were almost 200 such establishments all over the city that sold people and drugs, and in just one night, 105 of them were hit and robbed of their wealth with scores of people left behind lifeless.

Seeing the officer quiet, the detective knew there was no answer to that question so he relayed instructions, "One thing is for sure, we don't just have a vigilante, an arsonist, a robber, and a rival gang member but a mass murderer on our hands as well. I will report to the captain. It looks like this guy is a headache for the entire department."

~~

The guy that the entire department had to deal with was currently in a very good mood right now. But he was also a little disappointed but he didn't let it mask the good feelings.

[Shop GC: 403,180,703]

Wei Jun earned a whopping four billion in just one night. Of course, not every night would be like tonight, but it was still something and Wei Jun was quite happy with this much.

He could buy the Qi awakening elixir and still have plenty of leftovers for his own use. He wanted to purchase a body cultivation technique to raise his physical stats as well but the body technique in the shop was at SSS rank and it was a hundred times more expensive than what Wei Jun had right now so he didn't have money for that.

[You know you can sell treasures in the shop, right?]

The system suddenly asked.

'What now?' Wei Jun was suddenly assaulted with this information that he couldn't get it the first time.

[You can… sell… the treasures you don't have a need for in the shop]

The system hesitantly told Wei Jun as if it had just made a mistake.

'And you're telling me this now?' Wei Jun asked with a smile that scared the system as it said…

[You didn't have a sellable item in your inventory before but now you do]

[The Barghest corpses]

The system desperately gave a logical reason to not incur Wei Jun's anger and thankfully, it worked. Wei Jun found the reason reasonable so he didn't explode in anger.

'Still, you could have told me that before.' Wei Jun said but he didn't sell the Barghest corpses yet. He needed to see whether or not he would obtain stat points from eating them first and if he didn't, only then would be consider selling them to the shop because even if they didn't work for him, they could work for Natasha or could be sold for a higher amount outside.

He was a businessman in the end.

[Qi awakening elixir has been purchased]

[Cost: 100,000,000]

Wei Jun heart bled at seeing the price go down so fast but he still held it in. After all, he was doing all of this for a reason.

Without wasting much time, Wei Jun cleaned himself and made his way to the elevator. Xia Lu lived just a floor beneath Wei Jun's penthouse so it wasn't long before he arrived in front of her apartment door.

He rang the bell and stared into the intercom. When Xia Lu saw who it was, she suppressed her feelings of rushing out and remained inside.

Wei Jun felt it was strange so he rang the bell again but the response remained the same. If he hadn't been able to feel her on the other side of the door, he would have rushed inside but he knew that she was intentionally not letting him in.

He could guess why but he wasn't sorry for that. After all, he spent an entire day and night for her and if she was still mad at him for that, then he couldn't do anything about it.

Of course, he would do the wise thing and say sorry but he wasn't really sorry about this reason.

He rang the bell three more times and when he received no response, he sighed and turned to leave. Just as he got into the elevator, the door was blocked before it closed and Xia Lu entered, her eyes baggy and her face withered, but the frown on her face lively as always.

"You were going to leave." Xia Lu said as she stood next to Wei Jun. Wei Jun remained his gaze straight as he replied, "You didn't open the door."

"So every time I won't open the door, you will give up on me?" Xia Lu calmly asked.

"I believe relationships work when people talk. If they don't, even if they're angry at each other, then they need to let it go before it gets worse for any of them." Wei Jun straightforwardly said.

"How can I not be mad at you when you didn't even come to see me?" Xia Lu snapped but she kept her voice down.

"I was doing something for you." Wei Jun said.

"And did it ever occur to you that all I needed was to know whether you were safe or not?" She asked.

"You knew that I was safe. And you also knew that I needed time." Wei Jun said before he added, "I am sorry for what I did but I would appreciate it if you could look at it from my point of view."

Wei Jun wasn't rude or unreasonable but he was not going to be apologetic for everything he did.

"…" Xia Lu remained quiet as she didn't have a reply for that.

Wei Jun seeing her silent continued, "I would like to be with you. Actually I would love it. But I'd also appreciate if you could accept me for who I am. If you wouldn't talk to me, then I wouldn't know where we're going."

"Haa…" Xia Lu sighed before she turned to Wei Jun and without warning, hugged him tightly. Her soft body embraced Wei Jun's hard like stone body as she said, "I'm so glad you're okay."

A few moments passed like that and Xia Lu also cried during that moment. Wei Jun consoled her, telling her it wasn't her fault and such and finally, after a half an hour of the elevator being out of commission for others in the building, Xia Lu finally asked, "What did you get for me?"