Chapter 98 I'll play along with you until the curtain falls.

When Su Wantang emerged from the basement, the chilling aura emanating from her made Du Kangnian and Zheng Kai instinctively take a step back.

She didn't go back to her own room, but went straight to the suite where Lu Jingyan was being held.

Pushing open the door, the person on the bed fluttered their eyelashes, as if awakened by the sound of the door opening, and slowly opened their eyes.

Their eyes met.

Su Wantang's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason. She quickly suppressed the strange feeling, resumed the cold tone of the Hong Kong businessman, Mr. Bai, and walked to the bedside.

"Bodyguard Lu, how are you feeling?"

She looked down at him, her tone businesslike.

"If you don't die, go back to Beijing to recover as soon as possible. I don't support idle people here."

Looking at her hypocritical and aloof demeanor, Lu Jingyan felt both pain and tenderness in his heart.

His Wantang always did this, wrapping herself up in the hardest shell.

"No..." Lu Jingyan deliberately pretended to be extremely weak, his face was pale, and his breathing was somewhat rapid.

He reached out and grabbed Su Wantang's wrist.

His palms were burning hot, like branding irons, so hot that Su Wantang stiffened all over. She tried to pull back, but he held her firmly, making her unable to move.

"I was so badly injured, all to protect you."

Lu Jingyan locked his eyes on her, his gaze swirling with emotions she couldn't decipher, and his tone carried a hint of self-righteous roguishness.

"Miss Bai, you have to take responsibility for me."

"What responsibility?!" Bai Shu's voice sharpened for a moment, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

That bastard!

She heard him say "I've got you" clearly before he lost consciousness!

Still pretending with her!

Su Wantang cursed Lu Jingyan eight hundred times in her heart, but Bai Shu's expression remained cold and hard on her face.

"Commander Lu, let's get this straight, we're partners. You're my bodyguard, and protecting me is your duty. Now that you're injured, I'll cover your medical expenses and give you a generous bonus. Then we'll be even."

"We can't settle this amicably." Lu Jingyan held her hand tightly, not letting go, but instead tightening his grip.

He looked at her ears, which were red with anger, and felt a great sense of wicked pleasure.

"My injury won't heal for at least a year and a half. In that time, I'll be crippled. How am I supposed to go back to Beijing? I'll be laughed at!"

He started talking nonsense, his handsome face full of grievance.

"No, you have to take full responsibility for me. I'm all yours now, you can't just abandon me after starting something."

"you!"

Bai Shu's chest heaved with anger at his shameless and lewd words, her figure appearing particularly voluptuous beneath the form-fitting cheongsam.

She struggled, but couldn't break free. Instead, he pulled her so hard that she stumbled and almost fell on him.

"Let go!"

"I won't let you go." Lu Jingyan's act of shamelessness was blatant. "Unless you agree."

Su Wantang was completely speechless.

Trying to reason with this jerk is like casting pearls before swine!

She took a deep breath and finally squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth: "Do as you please!"

After saying that, she abruptly shook off his hand and rushed out of the room without looking back. Her back view clearly showed a disheveled state of fleeing in panic.

The door slammed shut with a bang.

Looking at the closed door, Lu Jingyan could no longer hide the smile on his lips. It slowly spread out and finally turned into a silent laugh, which made his wound ache again.

He didn't seem to care at all; his eyes were filled with tenderness and doting affection.

His Wantang has finally returned.

If you want to act, I'll act with you.

Until the day you're willing to tell me the truth yourself.

Thinking of this, Lu Jingyan's eyes softened considerably.

So he'll be a qualified spectator, and incidentally, also... the most competent bodyguard.

...

Su Wantang returned to her room, leaning against the door, her heart still pounding wildly.

She raised her hand to touch her burning cheeks and stomped her foot in anger.

It took her a few minutes to calm down completely.

Bai Shu walked to the phone and dialed Du Kangnian's internal line.

"Manager Du." Her voice had regained its calm and coldness.

"Boss, what are your orders?"

"The information extracted from 'Ghost's' mouth is that 'Mr.'s' next target is the Bai family's ancestral property on Hong Kong Island."

Bai Shu tapped the table rhythmically with his fingertips. "Since he wants it so much, I'll give him a chance."

"What do you mean?" Du Kangnian held his breath on the other end of the line.

"Spread the word that I, Bai Shu, a Hong Kong businessman, am about to depart for Hong Kong Island to handle a huge overseas inheritance left by my late mother."

Du Kangnian instantly understood her intention: "Boss, this is luring the snake out of its hole! But... it's too dangerous!"

"Fortune favors the bold," Bai Shu chuckled.

"Just spread the news as far as possible, make sure that everyone in Shanghai who wants to see me make a fool of myself knows about this."

"Yes, I'll take care of it right away!"

...

In a secluded teahouse in Shanghai.

Huo Sanniang slammed the telegram on the table in frustration, her knuckles turning white from the bright red nail polish on her hands.

"Go to Hong Kong Island? To take all the inheritance?" She sneered angrily, a twisted look of jealousy and greed appearing on her well-maintained face.

"She doesn't deserve it! What that bitch Bai Xiuzhu left behind should be mine!"

She thought that Lu Jingyan was seriously injured and Bai Shu was a toothless tiger, but she didn't expect that this woman would turn around and run away with the money!

No, absolutely not!

Huo Sanniang immediately went into the inner room, picked up the special telegraph machine, and her fingers flew across the keys.

[The target intends to procure goods from Hong Kong Island. We request the use of the Hung Society's resources to intercept them on the high seas and apprehend both the people and the goods.]

...

Thousands of miles away, in an office of a state-run farm in Northwest China.

A man who looked like a manager walked quickly to Su Yuting's side and whispered a note to her.

Su Yuting calmly took the telegram, unfolded it, and saw that it was a telegram sent by Huo Sanniang.

As she looked at the words on the note, a strangely eerie smile slowly crept onto her lips.

Su Wantang...you are still the same as in your past life, insatiable!

very nice.

Let's fight! Let's all fight! The better, let's fight to the death, until we both perish!

She took out the pencil stub she always carried with her and wrote only one word on the back of the note.

"allow."

...

Peace Hotel.

Lu Jingyan was leaning against the bed, enjoying an apple that Li Hu was peeling, when Li Hu walked in with a piece of intelligence he had just received, his face grave.

"Boss, I just received news that Boss Bai... is going to Hong Kong Island by sea." Li Hu's voice was very low.

"Moreover, the news has already spread throughout Shanghai, and Huo San Niang must know about it too. Going to sea at this critical juncture is just making ourselves a target, isn't it?"

Lu Jingyan took the apple, took a slow and deliberate bite, and made a crisp crunching sound.

He knew perfectly well that another big show was about to unfold.

How could he be absent?

Lu Jingyan threw the fruit pit into the trash can, then threw off the covers and was about to get out of bed.

"Boss, what are you doing! Your injury hasn't healed yet!" Li Hu was startled and quickly went to help him up.

"Let's go next door." Lu Jingyan put on his slippers, straightened the collar of his bathrobe, and made sure his face looked pale and weak enough.

He walked to Bai Shu's door, raised his hand, and knocked.

Bai Shu opened the door, saw it was him, and immediately frowned: "What do you want now?"

Lu Jingyan leaned forward slightly, one hand on the door frame, his tall figure exuding a sense of oppression, yet his tone was innocent: "I heard you're going to Hong Kong Island?"

"It's none of your business."

“How could it be unrelated?” Lu Jingyan said matter-of-factly.

"I need to rest and recuperate. The air at sea is fresh and will help my wound heal."

Bai Shu laughed at his twisted logic: "So what?"

“So,” Lu Jingyan looked intently at her, “as your personal bodyguard, I must protect you closely. Wherever you go, I will go.”

"Lu Jingyan, don't push your luck!"

“Miss Bai, you said you wanted me to take responsibility for you. Now, it’s your turn to take responsibility for me.” Lu Jingyan started acting like a rogue.

Bai Shu looked at the man who was clinging to her, her head throbbing with pain.

You can't drive them away.

But she also knew that with Lu Jingyan, this human weapon, around, the performance would be more realistic, and her safety would indeed be more guaranteed.

Finally, she took a deep breath and squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth: "The cost of the boat ticket will be deducted from your bonus!"

After saying that, he slammed the door shut again.

Outside the door, Lu Jingyan touched his nose, a fleeting smile playing on his lips.