Mrs. Password, A Gentleman's Revenge Is Never Too Late Even a Hundred Years Later The President's "Delivery"

Night.

Crackle, pop—inside the cave, the fire cast a flickering glow, occasionally letting out soft bursts from wood that had not fully burned away.

Drip, drip. Golden fat fell from the skewered chicken wings arranged around the fire, hitting the flames with an enticing sizzle.

“Ma’am, isn’t this a little inappropriate? Chew chew chew…” Ye Cheng voiced his doubts, then… chew chew chew.

“Inappropriate? Chew chew chew. What’s inappropriate about it? I think it tastes pretty good. Chew chew chew…” Du Wanyi paused, her cheeks stuffed full.

“That’s true. It is pretty good, chew chew chew… But shouldn’t we be worrying about something? For example, both our phones are gone. How are we supposed to get back?”

Ye Cheng gnawed on the chicken wing in his hands, speaking with a somewhat solemn expression.

Honestly, though—you really had to admit it. Whoever came up with chicken wings had done a great job. They were damn good. Loved them.

The only problem was that they could only eat them here. Back in the Dragon Nation, it would be illegal. This golden eagle seemed to be a protected animal, after all.

But they were abroad now, so that didn’t apply. Protected or not protected—I had no idea what that meant… Besides, even within the Dragon Nation, couldn’t you just sneak off somewhere and eat it?

It wasn’t like anyone would know, right?

Of course, he firmly condemned such vile acts of harming wildlife… But then again, these wild animals had attacked them first. At most, this counted as self-defense.

It was just that, in the course of defending themselves, they might have used a tiny bit too much force and accidentally made it “fall asleep.”

Look, in this freezing, snow-covered wilderness, how careless was that? Just lying down and falling asleep like that—what if it caught a chill?

They had no choice. They were kind-hearted people, after all.

It had been lying on the ground for so long; it must have gotten cold. In this icy weather… well, there was no helping it. They would just have to warm it up over the fire…

Eh? Wait. Why did it smell better and better the longer it roasted?

Brother Eagle, what’s wrong? Brother Eagle, why have you stopped moving? And Brother Eagle, why do you smell so good…

Chew chew chew. Brother Eagle, may you rest in peace.

Yeah, that was roughly how it happened. In short, they had been forced into this. The chicken wings had practically delivered themselves into their hands. Ah, Brother Eagle, you really put us in a difficult spot!

“I’m worried too, you know. But Little Chengcheng, haven’t you heard the saying? Worrying doesn’t help—especially pointless worrying. I’m trying my best to think of a solution. Chew chew chew…”

Although Du Wanyi claimed to be worried, she didn’t look worried in the slightest. She just kept chewing away, thoroughly enjoying herself...

“Oh, right, Little Chengcheng. Do you want this last chicken wing? If not, I’m eating it.”

Du Wanyi pointed at the final chicken wing skewered beside the fire and blinked.

Ye Cheng: “…”

Um, was there any chance that was *his* chicken wing?

The two of them had already divided up the spoils, but clearly Ye Cheng was nowhere near as fast an eater as Ma’am. Du Wanyi had already finished all of hers, while Ye Cheng was still gnawing away at his.

Clearly, when it came to tearing into someone like a hunting dog, Madam was still a notch above him.

“I want to eat it,” Ye Cheng said.

“All right then... You really want to eat it?” Du Wanyi asked again, looking utterly regretful.

Ye Cheng: “...”

“Yes.”

“All right then... Little Chengcheng, do you really, really want to eat it?”

“Yes, I really, really want to eat it. Madam, stop asking. I’m definitely going to eat it, so give up on the idea.”

“Oh, all right... Huh, it looks like someone’s coming?” Du Wanyi replied absentmindedly, her head drooping as though she were plotting something again. Then she quickly raised it and pointed behind him in surprise.

“Heh. Madam, do you really think I’d fall for such a low-level trick?” Ye Cheng sneered, the corners of his mouth shooting upward. It was as if he had seen right through her. Madam was still too young—trying to fool him with a move at this level was simply too—

*Bang!*

Du Wanyi punched a rock beside her. A boulder as large as her head exploded, and several fragments landed right by Ye Cheng’s feet.

Ye Cheng: “...”

“What? Someone’s actually coming? I’ll go take a look. Madam, wait here. I’ll be right back.”

Ye Cheng changed his tune at lightning speed. He suddenly realized that there was no way he could possibly see through Madam’s masterful tricks. Besides, Madam’s eyesight was so good—if she said it looked like someone was coming, then someone must be coming.

It couldn’t possibly be that she’d said it on purpose just to eat his grilled chicken wing, right?

All right, he couldn’t keep making excuses...

Damn it, Madam. Just you wait. A gentleman’s revenge can wait ten years—twenty years... thirty years... even a hundred years is not too late!

As Ye Cheng walked out of the cave, his face twisted into a mask of pain. A few minutes later, he returned the way he had come, only to find that his chicken wing was gone.

All that remained was a chicken bone.

Du Wanyi leaned against the cave wall with a blade of grass between her lips, picking her teeth. She rubbed her stomach, looking thoroughly content.

“Oh, Little Chengcheng, you’re back?”

“Did you see anyone?”

“Oh, right. You took so long to come back, and your chicken wing looked like it was about to burn. Well, what could I do? I’m kind-hearted, so I helped you eat it. Little Chengcheng, there’s no need to thank me. It’s only natural. As an elder, I have to act like an elder...”

Ye Cheng: “...”

Damn it, Madam. Just wait until we get back—I’m telling the young miss that you bullied me.

Ye Cheng was nearly driven into depression. He squatted off to the side, drawing circles on the ground...

Outside, the snowstorm was growing fiercer and fiercer.

Both of them had bodies as tough as titanium alloy, so they normally ignored wind and snow altogether. Even rain barely mattered to them. But this blizzard had reached a terrifying level.

The blizzard was mixed with hail and thick mist... Visibility had dropped to practically nothing. Even if they went outside, they would not be able to find their way and could easily become lost in the storm.

Fortunately, Madam had killed quite a few randomly appearing small animals during the day, so food was not much of a concern. As for water, that was even simpler—they could just take a couple of mouthfuls of melted snow.

As for whether lighting a fire at night might attract large predators or something...

Oh? So there was even a bonus course?

The bad news: for the time being, they couldn’t leave.

The good news: with Madam around, at least he wouldn’t run into any danger...

The only danger was Madam herself, who would occasionally subject him to some physical bullying.

Another day of missing the young miss...

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Du Wanyi didn’t sit idle. She gathered some leaves and dirt, gesturing and arranging them as though she were making something.

A faint rustling continued for quite a while. Ye Cheng, who had been crouching in the corner of the cave, came over as well and watched from the side.

“Madam, could it be that you’re setting up some kind of powerful little formation?”

Ye Cheng asked uncertainly.

In a sense, Ye Cheng was a steadfast materialist. But after seeing Madam crawling all over the house, he suddenly felt that perhaps things weren’t so simple after all.

There were simply too many strange things in this world—for example, Madam...

“Little Chengcheng, you just don’t understand. I’m drawing,” Du Wanyi said, sounding rather proud of herself.

Ye Cheng: “...”

Drawing...?

Are you sure, Madam? All he could make out was a pile of inexplicable leaves, twigs, and dirt spread out in front of her. Calling it ghost scribbles would have been more accurate.

Ye Cheng had no choice. He had already given up on trying to communicate with Madam. He went off to one side, took out the parts and remains of Madam’s phone that had been laid out on a rock, and began repairing it.

Given the current situation, rather than waiting for Madam to break the deadlock through some mystical method, he might as well try to solve it with science...

Whew...

The blizzard outside grew more and more violent. The two people huddled inside the cave were completely unaffected, each occupied with their own task: one repairing a phone, the other “drawing”...

Meanwhile...

Several hundred kilometers away, inside a high-end camping tent.

A blizzard was raging there as well, though conditions were far better than on Ye Cheng’s side. Over there, stepping outside truly meant vanishing in a literal sense—one second you were there, and the next, you were gone.

As for whether you had been whisked off to your next life or buried beneath the snow, don’t worry about that... There wasn’t much difference anyway.

Under such extreme conditions, being buried in snow was practically the same as being dead... Even Du Wanyi didn’t dare act recklessly and leave the cave alone.

It wasn’t that the blizzard could do much to her. She simply had no sense of direction. What if she got lost, couldn’t find anything to eat, and fainted from hunger?

“Zhixia, let’s go back first. The blizzard is getting worse. We can hire people to keep searching here tomorrow, okay?”

Inside the tent, Su Su earnestly tried to persuade her daughter.

Dongfang Zhixia, dressed in a thick down jacket, sat beside the heater looking at her tablet. On it were updates sent by her subordinates—for instance, news about the two old geezers who had talked her and her mother into coming here in the first place. They had gone to the northwest?

But their search for someone had not gone smoothly either.

There was no record of the person anywhere...

“Hm?” Dongfang Zhixia suddenly noticed one of the messages sent by her people. She opened it, confusion appearing in her eyes.

The message said that monsters had appeared in a military district in the northwest—creatures suspected to be some kind of supernatural beast. The military had already called in people to investigate; practically every prominent sect in the Dragon Nation had been sent there.

They had been forcibly mobilized!

The order was extremely forceful. If they were calling them creatures akin to supernatural beasts, then it was almost certainly confirmed...

However, Dongfang Zhixia had no interest in any of that right now. All she cared about was where that bastard who had slipped away without a word had gone!

He’d better pray she didn’t catch him. Otherwise...

*Thud!*

Suddenly, something seemed to slam into the tent. It was no small object, either—the sturdy, high-grade tent visibly shuddered from the impact.

“What was that?” Su Su frowned and looked out into the blizzard raging outside. There, she spotted an extra “lump of snow” on the ground. It was still struggling, but its movements were growing weaker and weaker.

A golden eagle...?

It looked fairly small, probably not yet fully grown. Even so, its killing power was still terrifying...

Su Su did not rush outside. Instead, she called the bodyguards accompanying them to deal with it.

Footsteps sounded rapidly. Before long, several tents in the encampment opened, and several bodyguards bundled in thick clothing emerged to inspect the golden eagle, which looked as though it might die at any moment.

“Ma’am, this golden eagle still has faint vital signs...”

“Mm. Since we’ve come across it, it must be fate. Once it recovers, let it go free.”

Wrapped in a heavy coat, Su Su felt the biting cold pouring in from outside the tent. She folded her arms and looked at the shivering young golden eagle with pity in her eyes.

“Ma’am, we also found a phone. It seems this golden eagle carried it here.”

“A phone? What phone? Let me see.”

Su Su’s brows rose with interest. In this frozen wasteland, a phone had actually been delivered to them? What a coincidence.

This phone... was the very phone Ye Cheng had lost after being ambushed and taken away!