Synopsis: Forced to play the role of the vicious adopted daughter in a period novel, He Changyi earned the title of "Ungrateful She-Deviant." At the end of the story, the puppet-like charac...
Chapter 130 The Clever Beauty Trap (Revised)...
Before He Changyi had figured out how to deal with General Manager Alexandra, the people from the oil company had already figured out how to get rid of her.
"I have inside information."
A young worker lowered his voice and said to the crowd, "She's not the real boss; she's just a talking puppet."
This was a secret meeting held at the home of an oil company employee, and the topic of the meeting was "How to get rid of private shareholders".
However, given the general trend of privatization in Eros, the hope of ousting the new boss was extremely slim, so they had to take a step back and study how to retain General Manager Alexandra.
"Therefore, we don't need to consider He; the one who truly has the power to decide is the big boss behind her."
Many of the oilfield workers who came to the rally were from families that had lived in Irbuyat for three generations. They were true locals with excellent eyesight and intelligence. Although they usually worked and lived in the wilderness far from the city, they were quick to get inside information.
"If we want General Manager Alexandra to stay with the oil company, then we just need to find a way to persuade the boss behind the scenes."
Someone asked, "But how can we convince him? Nobody here has ever seen him, and nobody knows what he likes."
The young worker confidently declared, "Of course I know what he likes!"
He waved his hand, and the crowd approached suspiciously, heads close together, as if a pair of ears from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were hidden in the air.
The young worker whispered, "My aunt saw the boss behind the scenes when she was collecting milk at the Far Eastern Development Bank."
The heads huddled closer together, their hair slicked together in a fluffy clump.
"She told me that he was a rather young and rather strong man."
Someone suddenly realized, "No wonder he chose this Miss He as his front man! If I were as rich as him, I would also prefer a hot stunner to a bald old man."
Another person asked, puzzled, "But does that have anything to do with what he likes?"
The young worker said with exasperation, "Of course it matters! Think about it, he's a strong young man, and whatever he may not like, there's only one thing he'll like most: beautiful women!"
The crowd fell silent for a moment, then began to chatter happily.
"You're such a clever scoundrel!"
“That makes sense. Even though my grandfather had lost all his teeth, he was constantly being called by the Lord, but it was still women who could ignite the flame of life within him!”
Some people offered a different perspective: "But General Manager Alexandra is no longer young... sigh, she wasn't exactly a pretty girl when she was younger... how can she possibly convince the boss behind the scenes?"
"This is absurd! The General Manager will not agree to this!"
The young workers lowered their voices even further.
"What if we hired a pretty girl to persuade the boss behind the scenes on behalf of the general manager?"
Everyone fell silent again, and after a long while, someone said uncertainly, "Will this work?"
"General Manager Alexandra will be furious..."
"Let's think of something else, this is just too undignified..."
The young worker angrily retorted, "How can you back down at a time like this?! Don't forget, this isn't for a few individuals, it's for everyone at the Irbuyat oil field! Do you really want to lose General Manager Alexandra and replace her with a guy who only knows how to flatter the boss? Like Paulshak, who would rather not pay us a single penny and make us risk our lives to get oil!"
The young worker took a breath and continued, "Yes, I admit it's a despicable idea, but can you think of a better one? Or are you going to choose to make your children and parents eat sawdust porridge for the sake of higher morality?!"
He said firmly, "I'd rather go to hell!"
After a while, someone finally broke the silence.
"Compared to Mosk's gang, we are as pure as angels."
"Forget it, it's not a bad thing. Maybe that strong boss will even thank us."
"We should be called gentlemen more than the gentlemen who do such things."
"I'll do it! Even if General Manager Alexandra criticizes me personally, I won't regret it!"
The young worker exclaimed with delight, "Brothers, this is it! For the Irbuyat oil field!"
"For the oil fields!"
On the other side, Alexei, the strong and young man the workers described, has been very busy lately.
As a dark hero who has returned after many hardships, Alexei publicly executed his rival who tried to frame him with the prosecutor's death, seized power, and swiftly integrated the divided gangs, becoming a new force to be reckoned with in the underworld.
But unlike ordinary gangs, Alexei bound himself to the state apparatus through his cooperation with Andrei.
Police and organized crime are like the light and dark sides of the same coin; seemingly unrelated, they are actually two sides of the same coin. After all, when a vacuum appears in social management, a new order must always emerge.
Alexei never imagined that one day he would be working with the most despised spies.
"Here's what you wanted: new information about human trafficking networks in Eastern Europe."
Hidden under an abandoned bridge, Alexei handed the brown paper bag to Andrei, habitually uttering a sarcastic remark:
"It makes me really curious, when will you finally stop those poor girls from being sold abroad like cows?"
Andrei took the paper bag and said calmly, "When there are no more gangs like yours in Oros."
Alexei smirked: "Then I might as well hope that Moscow becomes as hot as the equator."
As Alexei turned to leave, he suddenly heard Andrei's voice behind him.
"How...is she doing lately?"
Without needing to say her name, both men knew perfectly well who this "she" was.
Alexei said without turning his head, "If you're curious, you can go to Irbuyat yourself, instead of asking me."
Then he turned around, looked Andrei up and down, and said as if suddenly realizing something, "Oh, I almost forgot, how can our rising political star leave Moscow so easily?"
Andrei stared at him coldly, without saying a word.
Alexei said defiantly, "I have nothing to tell you. Didn't your little KGB report anything about her? Or has the little KGB also betrayed you?"
Andrei finally spoke: "I never asked Mikhail to report any information. I wanted him to help her, not spy on her."
Alexei replied dismissively, "Fine, fine, say whatever you want, but don't always put on that innocent act. There are no spectators here."
Andrei regretted asking the question, and as he turned to leave, Alexei suddenly spoke up: "Hey."
Andrei stopped and turned his back to Alexei.
She invited me to Irbuyat, but—
Alexei flashed an exceptionally bright and sunny smile, almost illuminating the dark little underpass.
"I won't pass on any messages for you, not even a greeting."
Andrei: ...
Actually, having an unidentified body under the bridge wouldn't attract anyone's attention.
Alexei took some time to visit Irbuyat at the invitation of He Changyi, to further solidify his image as the behind-the-scenes boss.
After all, once an oil company worth billions of dollars is successfully acquired, the hands behind the scenes will eventually have to taste the spoils themselves.
The banquet was a lively affair, attended by the dignitaries and politicians of Irbuyat.
Mayor Smolensky stood forlornly in the middle of the crowd, feeling lonely despite being surrounded by people who fawned over him.
The mayor's greatest wish had been to leave Irbuyat, but when the official transfer order was issued and he was about to leave, he suddenly hesitated.
Was leaving Irbyat really the right choice?
The nominal host of the dinner party was dressed in a sharp suit, with a slender waist, long legs, and red lips, and a huge diamond on her finger sparkling with fire.
She looked incredibly confident and moved effortlessly among the guests, like a rose made of sharp blades, so sharp it almost cut the eyes of the onlookers.
Wherever she goes, she stirs up a black vortex, and no one can help but be drawn to her.
However, some people focused their attention on the man beside her.
He was also wearing a suit, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. He would occasionally raise his hand to push up his gold-rimmed glasses, and the gray eyes behind the lenses looked like those of a wolf.
"Mr. Alexei, it is a great honor to meet you!"
“Mr. Alexei, this is my daughter. She graduated from the Royal Ballet Academy and has long admired you!”
She was a beautiful woman, like a heron, slender and snow-white, as sweet and tempting as buttercream frosting.
Mr. Alexei did not speak, but looked at the host of the dinner party with a half-smile.
Before the host could say anything, a quick-witted guest immediately said, "Miss He, this is my nephew. He has long admired you too!"
The blond, blue-eyed boy gave her a shy smile, his eyes sparkling as he looked at her, even his eyelashes were golden.
"Miss He, I study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Do you like the piano and poetry?"
Looking at this handsome young man who seemed to have stepped out of Oscar Wilde's poems, He Changyi smiled for the first time at the banquet and said softly:
"The piano is wonderful, and so is the poetry."
The handsome young man said shyly, "Perhaps I would have the honor of playing 'Moonlight Sonata' for you?"
Mr. Alexei's smile vanished in an instant, faster than snowflakes falling on a stove.
He abruptly interrupted their conversation: "She doesn't need it!"
The handsome young man looked at He Changyi for help, bewildered. She immediately comforted him with concern, saying, "There is a piano in the hall. You can play any piece you want."
Mr. Alexei suddenly scoffed, and then, in full view of everyone, he forcefully grabbed He Changyi's arm and dragged her out of the hall.
The guests looked at each other in bewilderment. After a while, someone whispered, "It seems Mr. Alexei still likes these white gloves very much."
"Don't worry, he'll get tired of it eventually."
"He's just trying it out for a while; eventually, he'll revert to his primal instincts..."
The VIP lounge outside the lobby.
"Is it fun?"
Alexei took off his glasses, loosened his tie, and stared coldly at the woman in front of him with his gray eyes.
He Changyi sat in a round-backed chair, lazily crossing his legs, almost as if he were holding a thin cigarette. He looked like a dissolute nobleman, with a lady's silk scarf wrapped around his long sword.
"What's wrong? Isn't it fun enough?"
He Changyi smiled and looked up at the man standing there, raising her hand to tug at the silk tie, the edges of the diamond ring catching a few fine threads.
Why are you so serious?
Alexei looked like he was about to laugh out loud.
Following the force of her hand, he slowly leaned down until their noses touched, their breaths mingled, and they could only see each other.
"serious?"
Alexei said softly, "Or have you become accustomed to flirting with different people at will?"
He Changyi looked into his eyes, raised her hand, and the diamond gently glided across his cheek, reflecting a dazzling brilliance under the light.
"Aren't you happy?" she said in surprise. "I thought you would be happy to meet new friends, whether they can dance ballet or play the piano."
"She is truly a rare beauty, isn't she?"
Alexei, instead of getting angry, laughed and said in the same affected tone:
"I also thought that after getting to know one blond kid, you wouldn't want to get to know a second one."
The words he spoke seemed to roll around on the tip of his tongue, creating a strange and ambiguous stickiness.
"Our respected boss."
He Changyi stood up, grabbed Alexei's tie, and pushed him to sit on the carpet.
Alexei slumped down with her force, bracing himself with his hands behind his back, and looked up at He Changyi with a blank expression.
He Changyi lifted her foot, her delicate high heels landing lightly on his chest.
"Knowing I'm the boss, why are you asking so many questions? Alexei, you seem to be meddling a bit too much."
Outside the VIP lounge, a pair of eyes peered out from under the door in surprise.
A pretty girl dressed as a maid pointed incredulously at the door and asked in a low voice, "This is the person you want me to seduce?!"
Another man dressed as a repairman replied in a similarly husky voice, "Of course! I told you long ago, he's a rather handsome young man, not old, not bald, not ugly, and not fat. This is a rare and good deal, you won't regret it!"
The maid's lips twitched, and she said with difficulty, "But—"
Someone was passing by in the hallway, and both of them were startled. The repairman hurriedly said, "Listen, we paid you three times the price, not for you to dawdle here!"
The maid hesitated, "But you didn't say..."
The repairman looked around nervously and impatiently interrupted her: "Anyway, we've already paid. If you dare to back out, you can forget about staying in Irbuyat!"
As a repairman, he had been lingering here for far too long, easily attracting the attention of security personnel. If he didn't leave soon, he'd be in big trouble once his true identity was discovered!
Before leaving, the repairman gave him a final, worried instruction: "You absolutely must seduce the boss. You absolutely cannot let him replace General Manager Alexandra!"
The maid, watching the repairman's retreating figure, asked suspiciously, "Him?"
The door to the VIP lounge was suddenly pushed open, and a tall man in a suit put on his gold-rimmed glasses as he walked out.
His collar was a little messy, as was his hair.
When he saw the maid at the door, he glanced at her expressionlessly, as if he were looking at a plant or some other decoration.
The maid stood close to the wall with her head bowed. Only when the man hurriedly walked into the hall did she straighten up, look at the half-open door, and take a deep breath.
That's 100,000 rubles... I'll risk it!
Inside the lounge, He Changyi was facing the mirror, slowly and methodically fixing her clothes and hair.
As she twisted her lipstick to touch up her makeup, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that the door had been pushed open. She paused, looked over with a hint of wariness, and saw that the person who came in was a hotel waiter.
They're probably here to clean...
He Changyi continued to apply her lipstick meticulously, but it seemed... that the waitress was there for more than just cleaning?
The classic black and white maid outfit, but the skirt seems a bit too short, revealing two firm and round thighs, black suspender stockings, and a section of snow-white absolute territory.
The other person was probably wearing a corset, which accentuated her slender, funnel-shaped waist and revealed a pair of large, prominent breasts.
He Changyi clicked his tongue in amazement in his heart; this was truly a wealthy and generous lady.
And a generous lady can be even more generous.
As He Changyi put away her lipstick, she saw in the mirror the waitress with seductive eyes, her slender fingers pressing against her plump red lips, then slowly sliding down, using slow and practiced movements to untie the ribbons covering her maid's outfit.
With a whoosh, the skirt was thrown into the air.
...Wait a minute, it seems you've contacted the wrong service recipient?
Just as He Changyi was about to turn around and remind the other person that they had the wrong person, an overly warm body pressed against her back, its breath as fragrant as orchids.
"I've admired you for a long time..."
He Changyi: ...
She cautiously asked, "I remember your religion doesn't approve of homosexuality."
The waitress paused for a moment before picking up her tone and continuing tenderly, "I love you, and it has nothing to do with faith."
He Changyi's lips twitched: "Then it should at least be related to me."
"Please don't do this, please love me!"
The waitress's bare arms wrapped tightly around him, like two pythons. He Changyi frantically grabbed her arms to prevent her from touching him inappropriately.
The world is going to the dogs! It's a complete reversal of morality! The big spender is being taken advantage of!
"Wait, don't move, wait a moment!"
He Changyi tried to tear her off her body. In her entire life, apart from in a bathhouse, she had never been naked in front of another woman like this before.
The waitress panicked; that was 100,000 rubles!
With a determined heart, she wrapped her arms and legs around He Changyi and kissed him haphazardly.
"Don't be shy, I know you like this!"
He Changyi almost cried out in despair: "No, who told you that?!"
She can smash a man's balls without any psychological burden, but when it comes to women, she doesn't know where to start. Touching bare skin feels like being electrocuted, and she has to quickly pull her hand back.
The waitress gradually gained the upper hand, forcefully pinning He Changyi down, and complained breathlessly, "You're too shy. Are all people in Zhongguo as shy as you?"
He Changyi's gaze darted around, but she tried her best to remain calm and said, "I think there must be some misunderstanding..."
The waitress said firmly, "There can't be any misunderstanding. I've checked!"
The repairman said that she was a very handsome young man. Look at this lady, apart from the fact that her gender seems a bit off, isn't she young and pretty enough?
The waitress bent down heavily and tried her best to kiss the uncooperative customer.
She's really strong, like a big fish that's been fished out of the water!
At the critical moment, the door was suddenly pushed open.
"Aren't you done yet... What are you doing?!"
Alexei stood at the door in shock, almost unable to believe what he was seeing. He subconsciously took off his glasses, wiped them, and put them back on.
He Changyi struggled to extend a hand for help from under the waitress.
"Alyosha, help me!!!"
After being given an emergency rescue by Alexei, the waitress got dressed and sat dejectedly on the sofa.
“I was hired; they told me to seduce a young and beautiful boss.”
She glared resentfully at He Changyi and muttered, "That's 100,000 rubles..."
He Changyi quietly hid behind Alexei. He glanced down at her and said with a hint of mockery, "You're really popular."
He Changyi retorted defiantly, "But I'm the victim!"
Alexei nodded and said, "Yes, victim, that pianist is still waiting to play 'Moonlight Sonata' for you."
He Changyi: ...
She quickly got back to the point, leaning over to ask the waitress, "Who are they? Who sent you?"
The waitress glared at her resentfully but refused to answer. Alexei coldly snapped, "Speak."
She glanced fearfully at the tall man; he exuded a dark aura that was all too familiar, sending chills down her spine.
He Changyi urged gently, "Speak up, you can't wait until we get to the police station to talk, can you?"
The waitress said listlessly, "They're from the oil company... They made me seduce the owner of the Poplar Fund so they wouldn't replace General Manager Alexandra..."
He Changyi and Alexei exchanged a glance.
An oil company? General Manager Alexandra?
The next day, before it was even time for work, He Changyi led his men to storm into the oil company.
"It really surprises me, General Manager Alexandra. You are actually willing to pay 100,000 rubles for a job. That's no small sum."
He Changyi occupied the general manager's office, with a row of bodyguards standing behind him.
General Manager Alexandra, who was usually stern and unsmiling, showed a slight look of doubt when she heard He Changyi's words.
"I don't understand what you mean."
He Changyi clapped his hands, signaling the bodyguards to bring the person up.
"You may not understand what I mean, but you should at least know her."
The waitress walked in timidly, glanced at General Manager Alexandra, and then quickly lowered her head.
General Manager Alexandra looked even more puzzled.
"I don't know her."
He Changyi asked, "Don't you know her? But she seems to know you. She almost offered herself to me for your work. What a touching act."
General Manager Alexandra seemed extremely surprised by the implication in He Changyi's words.
Suddenly, the office door was pushed open, and several workers rushed in.
"This has nothing to do with the General Manager!"
The young worker in charge shouted, "I hired her, I told her to do it! Miss He, punish me however you like, but please let the general manager stay!"
The waitress exclaimed excitedly, "It's him! It's him! He gave me 100,000 rubles!"
General Manager Alexandra seemed to have figured everything out.
Her face turned ashen, and she glared at the workers before saying to He Changyi, "I'm very sorry, this is entirely my responsibility, and I will resign."
The workers cried out, "This has nothing to do with the general manager; it was all our decision! If you want to punish someone, punish us!"
General Manager Alexandra roared, "Shut up! You bunch of idiots!"
Amidst the chaos, He Changyi finally understood the cause and effect, stood up, and raised his voice:
"Resigning is not a solution to the problem."
He Changyi looked at the now quiet crowd and raised an eyebrow.
"But I have a better idea, would you like to hear it?"