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Chu Xiu's information-packed words were like a boulder, stirring up a thousand waves between Yu Jinli and Feng Jinxuan.
After the phone call ended, a long silence fell over the living room.
The air was thick with a heavy, impending storm.
“Keep an eye on me…” Yu Jinli muttered to herself, her face pale. “He said that Tianyan Pavilion isn’t here to protect me, but to keep an eye on me. Boss, what does that mean?”
Feng Jinxuan did not answer immediately.
He simply tightened his grip on the girl's small hand, which was tightly held in his palm.
He looked at her, his dark eyes deep and unfathomable, like two bottomless ancient wells.
“What I mean is,” he said slowly, his voice low and resolute, “that in their eyes, you are not a person. You are a… powerful, but uncontrollable 'weapon'.”
"They want to use your weapon against the Shadow Devouring Sect, but they are also afraid that this weapon will turn around and hurt them."
This explanation is cold, cruel, yet incredibly close to the truth.
Yu Jinli's heart sank.
She always thought of herself as an orphan who had been left behind.
Now it seems that she is clearly a human nuclear bomb coveted, fought over, and even feared by various forces.
This feeling made her very uncomfortable.
"Then... what do we do now?" she asked, somewhat confused.
Ahead stood the menacing Shadow Devouring Sect and Elder Ghost Hand.
Behind them are Gu Yanzhi and Tianyan Pavilion, whose motives are unclear.
The two of them were like beans sandwiched between two giant millstones, ready to be crushed to pieces at any moment.
"Scared?" Feng Jinxuan looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"No way!" Yu Jinli immediately straightened her back, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "The word 'fear' is not in my dictionary!"
"So what if you have enemies on both sides? It's no big deal! Back in the day, I single-handedly took on seven or eight burly debt collectors and I never backed down!"
She patted her chest with feigned bravado.
Looking at her adorable, fierce yet cowardly appearance, Feng Jinxuan's coldness finally dissipated somewhat, replaced by a helpless smile.
He knew that this girl was pretending to be strong in her own way.
It was also to... comfort him.
"Don't worry." He reached out and gently ruffled her hair, his touch incredibly tender. "The sky won't fall down."
"They want to play chess, so we'll... play a good game with them."
"I want to see if I, the 'pawn,' am stronger, or if these so-called 'chess players' are superior."
He stood up, took her hand, and led her into the study.
"Assistant Wang." He pressed the communicator.
"Boss, what are your orders?"
"Pass down the notice that the Feng Group's private museum will be holding a small-scale 'In-house Appreciation Event for Rare Treasures' next Saturday evening."
"The news that we would use the imperial green jadeite that we won at the auction last time as the final exhibit was 'inadvertently' leaked out."
"In addition, send invitations to all well-known antique connoisseurs and collectors in Yuncheng. Remember to make sure that these invitations reach Mr. Chu Xiu of the Metaphysics Association."
Although Assistant Wang was puzzled, he immediately agreed.
"Yes, boss."
As Yu Jinli listened to him issuing instructions methodically, her eyes grew brighter and brighter.
"Boss, are you... trying to lure us into a trap?"
"No." Feng Jinxuan's lips curled into a cold, controlling smile. "I'm going to trap them and beat them."
He walked to the center of the study and pressed a button.
The ground slowly opened up, revealing a huge holographic sand table, full of futuristic technology, which could be interacted with in three dimensions, and slowly rose from the ground.
On the sand table was a 1:1 scale three-dimensional model of the Feng Group's private museum.
Every floor structure, every room layout, and even every ventilation duct of the building is clearly visible.
“Elder Ghost Hand, since you like collecting ‘uncut jade’,” Feng Jinxuan looked at the sand table, his eyes sharp as an eagle, “then I will give him a ‘gift’ that he cannot refuse.”
"He thought he was the hunter. Little did he know that from the moment he stepped into Cloud City, he had already become... my prey."
Over the next few days, Yu Jinli felt as if she had become Feng Jinxuan's personal "combat advisor".
The two were almost inseparable, spending every day in the study, studying the battle plan for the night in front of the huge holographic sand table.
Feng Jinxuan was responsible for developing all business plans and security strategies.
He would act like the most meticulous general, simulating all sorts of possible emergencies on the sand table.
"Points A, B, and C, deploy our most elite security teams, equipped with electromagnetic interference devices."
"All ventilation ducts were sealed with ultra-high strength alloy mesh."
"I personally designed the security system for the exhibition hall. Unless you have my iris and fingerprints, not even a fly can get in."
Yu Jinli, on the other hand, was responsible for filling in the gaps in his knowledge from a "metaphysical" perspective.
"Boss, the security guards at point B are in the wrong position. That's an 'inauspicious location,' where negative energy tends to accumulate. If our people stay there for too long, it will affect their performance."
"And that exhibition hall, the overall layout is afflicted by a 'through-hall evil' (煞). I suggest placing a statue of Guan Yu at the entrance to ward off evil spirits."
“Oh, right, and most importantly,” she pointed to the display stand in the center of the model, where the imperial jadeite was displayed, her face serious, “I must personally set up a… super powerful ‘Koi Treasure Basin Array’ here!”
Feng Jinxuan listened to her nonsensical theories, and although he still found them somewhat absurd, he surprisingly didn't refute them. Instead, he asked his assistant, Wang, to bring paper and pen and carefully wrote down every single word she said.
Looking at the confident and certain expression on the man's face, as if he had everything under control, Yu Jinli's slight panic caused by Chu Xiu's warning gradually subsided.
Looking at the man before her, a man of strategic brilliance, decisive action, and deadly charm, she felt her girlish heart, dormant for over twenty years, pounding uncontrollably.
This man... doesn't seem so unlucky after all.
The way he's so focused on his career is so incredibly handsome it's almost unbearable.
Just as she was swooning over him again, the man suddenly turned his head away.
"Wipe your drool."
Yu Jinli: "..."
She subconsciously touched the corner of her mouth.
Dry.
She then realized that she... had been tricked by this cunning guy again!
"Feng Jinxuan!" she angrily pounced on him.
The man chuckled softly, opened his arms, and caught her steadily in his embrace.
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