Su Xiyan found the name of the girl in the red dress from the guest list of the dance party and sent it to Cheng Xinran.
As the best intelligence officer among the Demon Hunters, Cheng Xinran soon sent Su Xiyan detailed information about the girl in the red dress through email.
Su Xiyan's fingers slid across the screen. This girl was the daughter of a certain company's chairman. Her family's company had business dealings with both the Haiyuan Group, which was hosting this dance party, and Su Xiyan's company.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary so far. However, Su Xiyan noticed in the information about the girl's company that it had been operating at a loss for years already and was completely unable to continue operating this year. Yet recently, a sudden capital injection saved the company from bankruptcy and liquidation.
The funds came from overseas, but the account was very familiar to Su Xiyan!
It was the Tang Zhiyuan Company's overseas dedicated account.
Su Xiyan had previously helped Tang Zhiyuan process some overseas transfers, so she was very familiar with this account.
Upon seeing this, Su Xiyan already understood the main purpose of why Tang Zhiyuan wanted her to attend the dance party!!
What a cunning old fox!!
Su Xiyan suppressed her anger and didn't want to show it in front of Chen Shuo.
After returning home, Su Xiyan lay in bed thinking about what happened at the dance party. In the information Cheng Xinran gave her, there was contact information for the girl in the red dress.
Su Xiyan called the girl. After just a few sentences, she was able to get the girl to talk.
On the other end of the phone, the voice of the girl in the red dress still trembled a little: "All I know is that a company was willing to do business with us and the profits were very high. They even paid a deposit which saved our family's company. The condition was that I had to try probing a person named Chen Shuo at the dance party according to the script they gave me."
Su Xiyan continued asking, "What results were you trying to probe?"
The girl in the red dress replied: "I don't know. The other party said to just treat it as rehearsing for a play and follow the script. As for Chen Shuo's reaction, I didn't need to worry about it. They said they could see everything through the surveillance."
It seemed that this girl in the red dress was just a pawn who knew nothing.
Previously, Su Xiyan had wondered why Tang Zhiyuan would have a human girl try to probe whether Chen Shuo was a vampire at the dance party.
It turned out that this girl was not very smart, easy to manipulate, and wicked. This could be seen from her deliberately stepping on Su Xiyan's dress hem.
So there was nothing worth sympathizing about her.
Recalling how Chen Shuo had deliberately stepped on the girl's dress in retaliation, making her fall into the pool, Su Xiyan couldn't help but want to laugh.
He was avenging her!
After hanging up the phone, Su Xiyan lazily leaned back on the bed and replayed the events of the dance party in her mind. She had guessed the gist of the whole story.
The girl's family business had run into difficulties. And she just happened be stupid and wicked and easy to fool. Tang Zhiyuan helped her get through a tough time, just so she could take the opportunity at the dance party to probe Chen Shuo.
Judging from the probing, Tang Zhiyuan still did not know Chen Shuo's vampire identity.
Nor did she know why Tang Zhiyuan had gone through so much trouble.
Spending money and effort, while deliberately hiding it from Su Xiyan.
Just what was the purpose of this whole scheme?
While Su Xiyan was still guessing whether Tang Zhiyuan specifically targeted Chen Shuo or did this with all suspected vampires, her birthday edged another day closer.
Although he had been busy until late into the previous night, Chen Shuo still got up early in the morning.
While Su Xiyan was still asleep, Chen Shuo reheated breakfast on the stove then returned to his room to continue preparing Su Xiyan's birthday present.
The most beautiful thing Su Xiyan had missed out on could no longer be bought, so Chen Shuo would make her something unique in the whole world with his own hands.
His desk was covered with tools, circuit diagrams, and some patterns he had hand drawn himself.
These things had to be tidied up and hidden before Su Xiyan got up to eat breakfast. They couldn't be seen by her.
If a surprise was spotted prematurely, it would lose its meaning.
While busily assembling the birthday gift, Chen Shuo pricked up his ears to listen for movements outside.
Hearing Su Xiyan's door open, Chen Shuo swiftly tidied the desktop. The half-finished pieces and components were all stored away in an inconspicuous cardboard box and shoved to the very back of the closet.
"Chen Shuo, what's for breakfast this morning?" Su Xiyan knocked on Chen Shuo's door.
Chen Shuo opened the door and saw a groggy-looking Su Xiyan.
It seemed she hadn't slept well last night.
"It's autumn now, so I made some red bean paste buns, sweet and warm." Chen Shuo brought out the reheated breakfast from the kitchen. "Go wash up first! I'll cook some mixed noodle sauce."
After washing her face and brushing her teeth, Su Xiyan patted some skincare water on her face while watching Chen Shuo busy about.
The corners of her mouth couldn't help curving up into a sweet smile as she secretly made up her mind——this was the life she, Su Xiyan, wanted and no matter what, she would do her utmost to protect her little world.
The piping hot red bean paste buns and warm soy milk dispelled all the autumn chilliness.
Sitting at the table watching the minced meat in the mixed noodle sauce, Su Xiyan frowned. "Isn't it too oily to eat something so greasy this early in the morning?"
Chen Shuo scooped another spoonful of minced meat from his own bowl into Su Xiyan's. "You're too thin. You need to eat more, otherwise how will you get through winter?"
"This is the wisdom of our ancestors about growing fat in autumn. Do you understand?"
Su Xiyan: "If I eat so much, I'll get fat."
Chen Shuo smiled faintly. "So what if you get fat? I won't dislike you for it."
Su Xiyan's frown relaxed as she finished all of the mixed noodle sauce Chen Shuo had served her in one go.
Only after eating did she suddenly remember to pat her tummy, thinking she would have to double her training today!
The morning classes were quite packed. Su Xiyan sat in the classroom holding a pen, seemingly taking notes. But her gaze was wandering absently.
Looking at the questions on the notebook, Su Xiyan's pen unconsciously wrote two words——Chen Shuo.
Coming back to her senses, Su Xiyan quickly covered her notebook with some scrap paper beside her, as if she had done something improper.
Fortunately, the other students around her were all listening carefully to the teacher and no one noticed Su Xiyan's odd behavior.
The events from yesterday's dance party were still lingering in Su Xiyan's mind, unable to dissipate for a long time.
She still didn't know if Tang Zhiyuan specifically targeted Chen Shuo or did this with all vampires.
Just then, her phone buzzed in her pocket.
Su Xiyan took out her phone and saw a message from her bestie Cheng Xinran.
【Xiyan, big trouble!】
Although she was in class, Su Xiyan still sent a question mark to Cheng Xinran using her book as cover.
The words Cheng Xinran sent next made Su Xiyan's whole body burn with alarm!
【I saw Chen Shuo's resume on Boss Tang's desk.】
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
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transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
