Chapter 134: The Willing One Takes the Bait

The next day, early morning.

"The Baiqing Society started a war with the Qianjisuo people in the English Channel."

"They also exchanged fire with local mafia organizations in British airspace."

Sui Tang stood in the study, fiddling with the display screen remote control in his hand, pacing back and forth with a frown on his face.

"The timing of their war this time is too delicate."

"Right now is the height of the Thousand Machine Locks unrest. The situation in Britain is also very chaotic, with the black and white factions fighting each other. It's a complete mess."

Cheng Yi sat slumped in the sofa chair with his legs crossed, his face not looking relaxed.

Lu Qian leaned against the large solid wood table, listening to Sui Tang explain the information bit by bit.

Ever since Cheng Yi woke up, he no longer hid Tavia's affairs from Lu Qian. Lu Qian also gradually got used to it and naturally helped Cheng Yi analyze and deal with things.

Sui Tang walked to the display screen, raised his hand and knocked twice on the British area.

"The Baiqing Society's troops are clearly heading for the Thousand Machine Lock battlefield this time."

"Here, here, and this."

Sui Tang stretched out his hand and tapped a few times on the map.

"It's all because of the rebellion by their second-in-command's men."

"And according to the information I received, Bai Yao this time..."

Sui Tang smacked his lips twice, raised his hand to rub the tip of his nose, and an expression of extreme disbelief appeared on his face.

Seeing Sui Tang's hesitation, Lu Qian asked in confusion, "What's going on?"

Sui Tang frowned and looked at her, "He's going to help Luochuan this time."

"Help Luochuan???"

Lu Qian's jaw dropped in shock.

What's the relationship between Bai Yao and Luo Chuan? If you have to say, they're enemies, right?

"The Baiqing Society suppressed all the remnants of the second-in-command, and also took over a few small gangs. After consolidating their power, they stuffed them all into the Luochuan seat."

"Now Luo Chuan has more real power than the official boss of Qianji Lock."

"ah?"

Lu Qian now had no idea what expression to use to respond to Sui Tang's words.

Sui and Tang clearly spoke Chinese, so why is it so difficult to understand when put together?

Seeing Lu Qian dumbfounded, Sui Tang and Cheng Yi looked at each other meaningfully.

Sui Tang took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and lit it.

"It's a bit of a long story."

Sui Tang and Cheng Yi chatted with each other and explained the matter of Qu Le and Bai Yao to Lu Qian.

…

Sui and Tang crushed the last bit of ash.

"That's the thing...that's the thing."

Lu Qian's mouth was so open that an egg could be stuffed into it.

This piece of music really does great things quietly.

Looking at Cheng Yi's gloomy expression, Lu Qian seemed to have figured something out in an instant. He slapped his hands on the table and looked at Cheng Yi with his big eyes blinking.

"I was half asleep that day, and when you asked me about Lele and what I liked or didn't like, you weren't talking about Bai Yao, were you?!"

“…”

Cheng Yi looked embarrassed, his thin lips trembled a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it. He snorted heavily and slowly closed his eyes.

"?"

Lu Qian was dumbfounded.

Looking at Cheng Yi's expression, did she really guess it right?

This, this, this, this!

Although it was inappropriate, Lu Qian's first reaction was that she seemed to be really into Cheng Yi and Bai Yao.

Lu Qian raised her hand and quietly covered the corner of her mouth, which she couldn't suppress at all, and turned her face away, not daring to look at Cheng Yi.

"So, does he... like Lele?"

Lu Qian suppressed his smile and asked calmly.

“…”

Cheng Yi's expression now looked like he had eaten a fly.

How the hell would he know.

Originally, Cheng Yi thought that if Bai Yao dared to touch Qu Le, he would directly go to war with Bai Yao in Central Europe.

The problem is that now that Luochuan has happened, he is not sure what Bai Yao is thinking.

Even if Bai Yao really likes Qu Le, having such a...brother-in-law?

Fuck, kill him.

"puff……"

It was so rare to see Cheng Yi looking so deflated that Lu Qian couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

Hearing Lu Qian's smile, Cheng Yi wanted to kill even more.

Lu Qian suppressed her smile, pulled Cheng Yi's hand, gently comforted him, and asked coaxingly.

"Don't you know Bai Yao very well? What do you think he is thinking?"

"No matter how eccentric Bai Yao's actions were in the past, there were always traces of them. But what he did this time is simply inexplicable from any angle."

Cheng Yi lowered his head, a layer of sadness lingering on his cold and arrogant face, and shook his head sullenly.

"I can't guess what he's thinking."

——

Qu Le hurried along the corridor on the third floor of the villa towards the study.

When she woke up, she found that the three of them were gone. She also saw Qi Huang delivering a letter in the villa yard. She guessed that something had happened to Tavia.

She walked to the door and was about to knock on it.

"drop."

A short prompt tone came from the communicator.

Qu Le took out the pocket screen in his arms and looked at it, and a text message caught his eye.

Sent from the mainland?

Qu Le thought of Luochuan first.

She hurriedly opened the text message, she was really anxious to confirm Luochuan's current situation.

But as he browsed, Qu Le's expression did not relax. Instead, his brows were furrowed, and layer upon layer of anger appeared on his face.

She closed the pocket screen with a snap and walked straight out of the study door without looking back.

——

In the study room separated by a door.

Lu Qian looked at the two grown men with worried expressions and smiled helplessly.

Lu Qian suddenly felt that no matter how powerful these men were in the underworld, they were really not good at dealing with emotional matters.

Cheng Yi was stunned by her laughter, tilted his head, and looked even more confused.

"It's impossible to guess," Lu Qian stretched out her slender hand and tapped the table with her fingers, "but we can try."

Cheng Yijun's face twisted, "Try?"

Lu Qian raised his head and looked at the confused Cheng Yi.

"Let me ask you, if it weren't for me in the dungeon, would you have never taken the medicine that Takeshita Haru sent you?"

Cheng Yi paused for a moment and nodded hesitantly.

"Then you won't come to that iron prison to find me at all?"

He nodded again.

"Even if Bai Yao drugged you, you wouldn't have shot yourself without me, right?"

Cheng Yi didn't understand why Lu Qian asked this, but he still answered honestly: "That's for sure."

Sui Tang didn't understand either. He scratched his head and looked at Cheng Yi in confusion.

Lu Qian smiled, raised her hand to roll up her sleeves, and kept the question in suspense.

"Pass me the paper and pen."

Cheng Yi raised his eyebrows, obediently placed a piece of paper in front of Lu Qian, and handed her a pen.

Sui Tang and Cheng Yi walked behind her, each one moving closer to see what Lu Qian was up to.

As Lu Qian put pen to paper, a freehand little fox appeared on the paper.

Finally, he wrote a name in the signature imitating Qu Le’s handwriting.

Cheng Yi seemed to understand some of Lu Qian's thoughts. He raised his hand to his lips and asked thoughtfully, "Are you...leading me into a trap?"

Lu Qian closed the pen cap with a click.

"That's wrong."

A cute smile appeared on the cute doll's face, a cunning look flashed in her big eyes, and she proudly shook the paper with the little fox drawn on it in her hand.

"I call it, take the bait if you're willing."