Chapter 37: Boarding the Pirate Ship and Being Harassed β “I can make you feel even better”
Hearing this, the “woman’s” face turned pale.
Lu Xunye clinked his glass against “hers,” took a sip right in front of Lu Yan, then slammed the glass down heavily and walked away.
The other party raised an eyebrow and stepped aside, not stopping him.
The intent was so obvious; one would have to be a fool not to see it.
This Lu Yan was truly interesting.
Lu Xunye walked for a while, sensing someone following him at a steady distance. He turned his face slightly, and the person immediately hid.
He pretended to stumble into the restroom, and the person indeed took the bait.
Lu Xunye spat the wine he had held in his mouth into the sink, then turned on the tap to wash his face.
In the mirror, water droplets slid from his face over his bobbing Adam’s apple and disappeared into his shirt. His bangs, previously styled with gel, hung down wetly, dripping water before his eyes.
Hurried footsteps came from outside.
The person rushed in and saw Lu Xunye slumped under the sink. He hurriedly opened his phone to report the situation: Target has fainted.
After sending the message, he kicked the leg of the person on the floor, sneering disdainfully, “Thought you were so capable? Just an unpresentable illegitimate son, really think you’re hot stuff? Who asked you to offend the Second Master? Just enjoy what comes next.”
Afterward, the man bent down to hoist Lu Xunye up by the arm to drag him away.
At this moment, his phone slipped out of his shallow pants pocket. He cursed under his breath, pinning Lu Xunye with one elbow while bending down to pick it up with one hand.
The phone screen was still lit. Just as his hand touched it, a pain struck the back of his neck, and he passed out cold.
Thud. A heavy object hit the floor; the man collapsed.
Lu Xunye stepped over him and picked up the phone. A message happened to pop up: Where is the person now? I’m coming to help you.
He lowered his eyes to look at the person lying on the floor, then saw a black plastic bag half-filled with trash in the corner.
After a brief thought, he sent a reply: The person is tied up, in the restroom.
Thinking for a moment, he sent another location pin.
Before long, Lu Xunye watched from the inner stall as two people came in and took away the person in the outer room, who was wearing his jacket and had a plastic bag over his head.
Ding.
Where are you?
Lu Xunye toyed with the other person’s phone, waiting for this message. He replied: Second Master asked me to fetch something for Miss Wen.
…
Lu Xunye deliberately walked from the stairs to the banquet hall on the second floor, turned off the phone, and threw it into a person-sized potted plant. He casually picked up a piece of candy from the table and tossed it into his mouth.
He wanted to see when these people would figure it out.
After swallowing the candy, a lingering, cloying sweetness filled his mouth. Lu Xunye frowned and opened a bottle of mineral water to wash away the taste.
The system’s warning came too late, stammering for a long time without forming a sentence: γHost… you.γ
Lu Xunye was just watching the crowd make way for an old man with a cane and the young people following him. The next second, his vision began to blur.
The system’s voice drifted in and out.
Lu Xunye braced himself against the table. “What… what do you want to say?”
γThere is… knockout drug in it.γ
Lu Xunye’s brain seemed to rust and stopped working, his thinking becoming sluggish. “The candy?”
Before the words fell, he tipped backward.
The system watched helplessly as two people came from behind the corner and dragged Lu Xunye away, before it slowly added: γ…The water.γ
Lu Xunye was supported and walked towards the hotel rooms upstairs.
One of them was puzzled.
“Are you sure this is the person the higher-ups want? Why do I feel he doesn’t look like the photo?”
“Why do you care? I actually think this guy looks much better than the one in the photo. Besides, wearing just a white shirt, he looks like cheap goods, not one of those big shots we can’t afford to offend.”
The other person looked at him like ‘you don’t understand’.
“That person has no taboos. Seeing such a top-quality catch might make him even happier. Who asked him to be unlucky and drink the water we prepared?”
“True. If we really kidnapped that ancestor and got found out, we’d all be doomed. You’re smart.”
The key card unlocked the door, and it was pushed open.
The room was dim. The light from the corridor shone in when the door opened. The next moment, click, the door closed, and everything fell into darkness again.
A bloated figure walked in carrying a wine bottle, swaying left and right, footsteps heavy and dragging.
“Weren’t you very arrogant, daring to find someone to beat me up? Dared to think I’m dirty? Today I’ll f*ck you until you can’t get out of bed, show you whether I’m dirty or not.”
γHost! Still not waking up?!γ The system was so anxious its voice almost cracked. γIt’s over, this drug isn’t working well.γ
The bed beside Lu Xunye dipped, and a stench of alcohol wafted over, fumigating him awake. A cloth covered his eyes. He moved his hand to pull it off.
His wrist was seized. A hoarse, greasy voice came from above: “Little beauty, your bodyguards aren’t here. Be good, make me happy, and I’ll be gentler.”
“Gentle your grandpa!” Lu Xunye kicked the person off. A deafening scream instantly followed; no need to guess where he had kicked.
Lu Xunye ripped off the blindfold and fumbled to turn on the light. Seeing the person rolling on the floor in pain, he was stunned.
Isn’t this the fatty from Lanwine last time who got beaten up badly by Feng Chengyu’s bodyguards?
Lu Xunye turned his head and saw a blue syringe on the spot on the bed just now. He frowned in disgust. Aphrodisiac?
“Why is it you?!”
Hearing the roar, Lu Xunye snapped back and sneered, “Funny. Didn’t you kidnap me? Who else did you want it to be?”
“Good, you guys are in cahoots, playing me, right!”
The fatty stood up, raging.
His gaze suddenly paused on Lu Xunye’s handsome face illuminated by the chandelier. His slimy look clung to him unscrupulously.
“I suddenly find you’re not bad either.” The fatty’s mouth hooked into a malicious, lewd smile. His hand touched his belt as he slowly approached. “How about you follow me from now on? Coax me happy, and you can have whatever you want.”
Lu Xunye noticed his movement. His fist clenched abruptly, then loosened as he thought of something. He dodged sideways, and the man pounced on empty air, falling onto the bed.
The fatty was furious. He turned over to get up, but a leather shoe came into view, stepping on the side of his waist.
His gaze moved up from the long leg to a face as fair as polished jade. The long, narrow eyes slanted upwards, possessing an aggressive beauty stronger than any beauty he had slept with before.
The fatty felt light-headed, his tense back relaxing.
He raised a hand to tug at Lu Xunye’s pant leg flirtatiously, intending to go higher. “Serve me comfortably, and you can name any price you want. I won’t hold your actions just now against you, how about it?”
“Want to top me?” Lu Xunye slapped his hand away, raised his chin slightly, and looked down at him. “Who did you originally want to sleep with? Feng Chengyu?”
The fatty was ambiguous. “Jealous? I was just retaliating against him. Who asked him to rely on the Feng family and not know what’s good for him? Don’t be jealous; tonight I belong only to you~”
Lu Xunye took out the syringe he had hidden just now. Catching the sudden guarded look in the other’s eyes, he twirled it between two fingers. “But I only like thrilling things.”
The foot stepping on the bed shifted, changing to a knee pressing into the mattress. The sudden proximity made the fatty’s heart beat like a drum. A cold object was stuffed into his hand.
The beauty’s eyes were silky with charm. “I like it rough. Does Young Master Pang dare?”
The system didn’t dare to interrupt, its psychological state changing from O.0 to 0.O.
Pang Shao? What Fat Young Master?!
In his daze, the fatty felt a sting in his arm. Liquid was pushed into his body.
Moments later, the fatty felt hot and uncomfortable all over. A cold voice drifted into his ears: “Heard clearly? Looks like the lesson last time wasn’t enough.”
The other end of the phone remained silent. After a long while, a strange, deep male voice came from the receiver: “He fell asleep. I will handle this matter.”
Lu Xunye stared at the three words “Feng Chengyu” on the screen and fell into deep thought.
Ji Huaixu could not only access banquets and auctions of elite families but also seemed very close to Si Jinyan based on the previous conversation. Then who was the Professor Ji that Feng Chengyu mentioned?
“What is your relationship with Ji Huaixu?”
“…My younger brother.”
Lu Xunye understood. “You’d better not be just playing around.”
Receiving no answer from the other end, he hung up first because the fatty had stripped himself down to his underpants and was looking at him lecherously.
Lu Xunye picked up the half bottle of wine the fatty had left and poured it on his face, his voice cold: “Feel good?”
The drug’s effect surged. Like a thirsty man in the desert meeting sweet rain, the fatty tilted his head to let the wine flow into his mouth, mumbling indistinctly, “Good, good… Beauty~”
“I can make you feel even better.”
As the words fell, Lu Xunye dragged him by the leg off the bed and yanked off his remaining pants.
Using the pants to tie the man’s hands behind his back, he opened the door and kicked the man into the corridor.
Lu Xunye wiped his hands with a tissue, looking down condescendingly at the pile of fat on the floor.
Facing a pair of beady eyes that had sobered up in terror, he raised the room card in his hand. “Also, thank you for sending your people away.”
The clarity in the fatty’s brain was fleeting; his mind was conquered by lust again. “I’ll give you money, let me go, nngh~”
Lu Xunye threw the room card into the room and locked the door ruthlessly and completely. He waved his hand. “Have a happy night, Young Master Pang.”
He walked downstairs.
At the corner, he ran into an unexpected person. The person was equally stunned to see him.
Lu Xunye withdrew his gaze, preparing to leave, but was blocked.
He looked sideways. Shen Qizhao wore an ingratiating smile, pulling out a palm-sized sandalwood box from somewhere.
“Young Master Lu, this is a tribute to you. Hope you are a big person who doesn’t hold grudges against small people.”
Before he could speak, Shen Qizhao opened the box, revealing the agarwood Buddhist beads inside. “I looked for this specially. The string I had was just for casual wear; it wasn’t presentable.”
“Only the temperament of this Qinan agarwood suits a person like you.”
Lu Xunye looked at the Buddhist beads on his wrist. The man noticed and actually shrank back, clearly afraid he would snatch them.
Am I that kind of person! Lu Xunye was indignant.
“Sigh,” he sighed. “I accidentally went to the Shen family’s old residence yesterday. I saw a few nice flowers in the back garden and wanted to dig a few up to plant. Result was, I dug up a skull cap…”
Thudβ
The muffled sound of something hitting the ground interrupted Lu Xunye mid-sentence.
The box fell to the ground, and the beads tumbled out. Shen Qizhao’s face was extremely ugly.
Lu Xunye looked down and saw his legs shaking violently, his lips trembling constantly. He couldn’t help but be curious: “What are you afraid of?”
Seeing the other party’s fear, he deliberately spouted nonsense to scare him: “Could it be you buried it? Deliberately to scare me?”
Shen Qizhao’s eyes dodged. He hurriedly bent down to pick up the things. “How is that possible? How would I know your whereabouts to bury things deliberately? I’m getting old; my heart isn’t good. It just hurt for a second.”
Lu Xunye was suspicious. “Is that so?”
The item was handed to him again. He picked it up and looked, couldn’t see anything special, put it back silently, and closed the box.
Lu Xunye had a sudden flash of inspiration and looked at him. “Do me a favor?”
“Of course, of course.”
Lu Xunye looked up at the stairs leading to the upper deck with unclear meaning, leaned over, and whispered a few sentences.
“This…” Shen Qizhao looked hesitant.
“I say, Uncle Shen,” Lu Xunye put his hand on his shoulder, unhappy. “I see your attitude of apology isn’t very sincere. I heard your family’s company has some cash flow problems recently?”
Their eyes met, a mutual understanding forming. The person agreed with tears of gratitude and left.
The system couldn’t make heads or tails of it: γHost really wants to invest in him?γ
“Invest?” Lu Xunye pretended not to understand. “Did I say that? I was just asking.”
Immediately, he looked enlightened. “Does he think I’m going to invest in him?”
The next second, Lu Xunye said coldly, “What does that have to do with me.”
System: β_β
Ding.
γDetected the start of the physical abuse plot node “Cruise Ship Danger”. Location: East Deck, First Floor.γ
Lu Xunye closed his eyes: Fck, delayed things. How could he forget his purpose for coming here was for this plot? Blame Lu Yan for the interruption.*
Author’s Note: I’m such trash QAQ. No clicks, I’m crying to death. Scolding me a few sentences is fine too, sobbing [Melted].
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