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She turned around reflexively and saw a familiar figure. It had only been one day, but the person in front of her seemed totally different and unfamiliar. He looked calm and greeted her politely as if they were meeting for the first time.
“Miss Jiang? What a coincidence to see you here. Are you staying here too?”
Jiang Yule nodded slightly. She was polite but distant. She said curtly, “Mr. Ouyang, nice to see you here.” Then without waiting for his reply, she swiped her card and walked into her room.
Jiang Yule’s attitude toward Ouyang Xuan was still the same as before. However, Ouyang Xuan, who had been frustrated from everything going wrong yesterday, felt that she was looking down on him. He even imagined a hint of disdain in her eyes.
“How dare you act so high and mighty? I will make sure that you suffer later.” He rubbed the bottle of sedative hidden in his pocket and stared at the closed door of Jiang Yule’s room with a sinister smile.
Jiang Yule had just entered the room and was about to change out of her uncomfortable dress when she heard her phone vibrate. It was a message from an unknown number.
[Darling, wait for me.]
She deleted the message after a quick glance and then opened another message from an unknown number she received a few hours ago.
[Even though this kid has read so many books, he’s actually a simple-minded fellow. I only tempted him a little, but he completely fell for my trap. Send me your card number, and I’ll transfer the money to you right away.]
Her fingers quickly tapped on the screen. [Not now. Wait for me to contact you. Then, I’ll transfer double the amount to him.] By then, the original owner of the body would have returned.
Although they had only briefly exchanged a greeting just now, Jiang Yule had already noticed the embarrassment that Ouyang Xuan was trying to hide. The mud on the soles of his leather shoes gave him away. There was a section of the main road leading to the hotel that was under construction, and he had probably walked over from that area, which explained why there was mud on his shoes.
He could not even afford to take the bus here after paying to stay in the room opposite hers.
Wang Jianguo listened quietly to her host’s analysis. Its soft voice was filled with admiration for her. ‘Host, you’re awesome! You deliberately lured that snake here, so you can deal with him when he tries to do something, right!?’ It was indeed bound to a clever host!
The corners of Jiang Yule’s mouth curled up. ‘Him being here isn’t part of my plan. I didn’t lure him here, and I didn’t expect him to follow me here either.’
Wang Jianguo panicked. ‘Then how should we deal with him?!’
Jiang Yule unhurriedly removed her makeup and casually tied her long hair into a loose bun. ‘There doesn’t seem like there’s anything we can do about it, so let’s forget about it for the moment and get some food.’
In order to maintain the original character’s image of not liking to eat, she only drank a few sips of drinks on the journey and did not eat anything. She had been starving the whole time. Even when she saw Ouyang Xuan just now, the first thought that popped up in her mind was that his black and white suit looked like a chocolate sandwich biscuit.
She had originally planned to order room service, but there was something wrong with the hotel’s phone in her room. The line was busy no matter how many times she tried calling the restaurant. Therefore, she decided that she would just go down to the restaurant herself. She remembered Wu Bing mentioning that the Haiyue Hotel’s restaurant was on the third floor as she left.
Jiang Yule took out her phone on the elevator, but it only took a short while for the elevator to bring her from the seventh floor to the third. Jiang Yule then shifted her gaze away from the news on her phone that read, “The murderer is back!”. In another hour, the muscular man she was following would start streaming, so she did not have much time to waste here.
The third floor was exclusively for dining and had no rooms for guests to stay in. The whole floor only had a café that people visited to discuss their business and the restaurant itself. She went past the café and opened the door to the restaurant.
A pleasing artificial lake could be seen from the massive window that spanned the floor all the way to the ceiling. Sitting by the window gave diners a wide view of the hotel garden, and it was a very popular spot. However, there was no one in the empty restaurant, and it was very quiet. The only sound came from the screen hanging on the wall that was broadcasting the restaurant’s special for today, which was fresh Australian lobster.
Jiang Yule walked toward the seafood section without thinking. The restaurant had a section of the kitchen that was open for the diners to see, which allowed them to observe how the ingredients they had chosen were cooked into delicious dishes. Jiang Yule was looking for the big lobster shown on screen when she found a familiar figure.
“Li Sui’an?” Jiang Yule was a little surprised.
The child who had lowered his head looked up and was shocked when he saw Jiang Yule. She walked forward and looked at him. “What are you doing here? Where is Secretary Wu?”
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