The Rebirth of the Socialite's Glory (GL) - Chapter 23

“How did you know that… girl was problematic?” Shi Kexuan looked at Ye Qiu with some confusion. She unconsciously recalled the person who delivered the gun, who could only be called a girl. At first, she didn’t think much of it, but recalling it now, it was indeed strange. Why would an underage girl be tasked with delivering a firearm? Although the gun had no bullets, it was not a fake gun.

Their attention hadn’t been on the little girl, and they had all collectively ignored the abnormality.

“A hunch. I felt something was off about her. Following her might lead to some clues,” Ye Qiu slightly lowered her eyes.

Shi Kexuan felt Ye Qiu was right. Feng Hua, however, immediately informed the people at Bluetone about the incident. The moment Ye Qiu spoke, she had already reached for the microphone.

Feng Hua believed Ye Qiu wouldn’t make baseless accusations. This was a conclusion she had drawn from the year or so they had spent together in the previous life.

“The people at Bluetone are already searching, but if this person is truly problematic, they might not be found,” Feng Hua said to everyone after putting down the microphone.

An Ye observed Feng Hua’s expression and found no trace of fear on her face. Her calmness was unlike that of an inexperienced socialite. He felt puzzled. While his own powerlessness from being frightened was indeed embarrassing, wasn’t Feng Hua’s reaction even stranger? This abnormal composure made him wonder: could it be that Feng Hua had actually arranged this? Otherwise, how could one explain that the problematic gun was only given to him, while she maintained an unnatural composure?

If Feng Hua was truly behind it, then it was too terrifying!

An Ye’s fervent gaze made Feng Hua aware of him. She expressionlessly glanced at An Ye, but instead of getting agitated, An Ye was scared stiff, as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes wide and his face pale.

“What’s wrong?” Ye Qiu handed An Ye a clean handkerchief. “Wipe the sweat first.”

An Ye mechanically took the handkerchief and then blankly touched his forehead. What he felt was a patch of wet sweat. It turned out he had been so scared by his own conjecture that he broke out in a cold sweat. After carelessly wiping it off, An Ye moved closer to Ye Qiu, which earned him a roll of the eyes from Shi Kexuan.

“I say, Young Master An, why are you acting like a little girl?” Shi Kexuan thought An Ye was a man, an adult man, and even if he was startled, he shouldn’t be so terrified, right?

“Don’t talk as if you know better. How about you try being me? That gun was pointed at my head. A slight slip-up could have seen it shot into my temple, and I would be utterly dead!” An Ye subconsciously avoided mentioning his suspicion of Feng Hua.

After being provoked by Shi Kexuan’s words, An Ye immediately sat up straight, slowly reigning in the panic and fear on his face. Apart from his still-pale complexion, he no longer looked significantly startled.

Shi Kexuan gave a cold laugh. An Ye was right. If a loaded gun [Used the term “gun with bullets” here in translation] was pointed at her temple and the trigger was almost pulled, the level of shock she would experience would certainly be no less than An Ye’s.

“Are we still on for the competition?” Feng Hua asked. “You didn’t dare to shoot just now, so you lost. Are we continuing the remaining two matches?”

“You’re still thinking about the competition at a time like this?” An Ye looked at Feng Hua as if she were a monster.

An Ye felt a chill in his heart, thinking, could it really have been orchestrated by Feng Hua?

Feng Hua did not miss the fear and suspicion in An Ye’s eyes and calmly said, “Since this is a competition with a wager, there is no reason to give up halfway.”

Although An Ye tried to hide it, he was ultimately a person without much cunning and couldn’t completely conceal his inner thoughts. Besides Feng Hua, the other two also saw the thoughts revealed in An Ye’s eyes.

An Ye was suspecting Feng Hua!

An Ye hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded. “Yes! We’ll continue the remaining two matches!” He absolutely did not want to marry this woman, Feng Hua.

“Have you thought of the challenges?”

“Not yet. Let’s take a day off. How about we compete the day after tomorrow?” An Ye’s mind was currently filled with chaos and conspiracy theories. He had no energy to think of a challenge for the competition.

Feng Hua nodded, reaching out to pull Shi Kexuan’s arm. “Then we’ll be heading back. We’ll meet at the coffee shop outside Bluetone the day after tomorrow at 4:00 PM.” She then pulled Shi Kexuan away.

An Ye felt relieved when Feng Hua left. Although there was no evidence to prove Feng Hua was the mastermind, he had already accepted this conjecture deep in his heart.

Ye Qiu tightly pursed her lips watching the two leave hand in hand. She turned to An Ye, looking at him with a serious expression An Ye had never seen on Ye Qiu’s face before. Her thin lips parted, saying something that made all of An Ye’s hairs stand on end. “You don’t need to suspect Feng Hua. It wasn’t her. Also, be careful recently. Always bring your family bodyguards with you. I think those people are targeting you… Your current situation is quite dangerous.”

“I apologize for dragging you into my personal matters.”

“It’s fine. It was just an accident.”

Shi Kexuan took Feng Hua’s apology lightly. It was just an accident; what did it have to do with Feng Hua?

“Um… will you still be joining us the day after tomorrow?” Feng Hua tentatively asked.

Shi Kexuan smiled and said, “Of course. An Ye has Ye Qiu accompanying him; I can’t let you be alone, can I?”

The corners of Feng Hua’s mouth also curved slightly, and her eyes softened. “Thank you.”

“Thank me for what? Didn’t you say we were friends?” Shi Kexuan smiled frankly and patted Feng Hua’s shoulder.

“Mhm.” Feng Hua’s eyes completely softened, a tenderness that made one’s heart tremble. “We are friends.”

Shi Kexuan’s heart thumped rapidly. She quickly clutched her chest, and a blush uncontrollably rose to her cheeks.

My god, my goddess’s gaze just now was absolutely captivating! She was once again glad she was absolutely heterosexual. If it were a bisexual or an easily swayed heterosexual girl, she might have been turned gay! [Literally: “bent into a mosquito coil”]

“Alright, you’ll stay in my guest room tonight and go back tomorrow.” After what happened today, Feng Hua had an ominous feeling in her heart, so she wasn’t quite at ease letting Shi Kexuan go home alone at this time.

“Mhm, mhm, okay.” Shi Kexuan was quite happy to stay in Feng Hua’s apartment. Housekeeper Chen’s cooking was excellent, no worse than what she ate at high-end hotels, and it had the added flavor of home.

Late at night, Feng Hua was still sitting at her computer desk, discussing the day’s events with a friend she knew who ran a detective agency. Due to the suspicion in An Ye’s eyes, Feng Hua felt it was necessary to look into the matter. If she let An Ye continue to suspect her, it would be troublesome later.

Furthermore, such a dangerous incident happened right under her nose, and it made her heart pound as well.

Little Six: I’ll check for you first. We’ll discuss payment based on the results and difficulty later.

Gui Hua: Mhm. Don’t push yourself. I’ll pay even if you can’t find anything.

Little Six: I know.

Working in this line of business always came with risks. Over the ten years since Little Six’s detective agency was established, over a hundred members had died. When Feng Hua told him not to push himself, she meant for him to retreat if it was too difficult. Feng Hua felt that the people who acted this time were not simple.

Feng Hua thought it would be tomorrow before Little Six found any clues, but unexpectedly, just as she was about to turn off her computer, Little Six had already compiled and sent over a file.

After accepting it, Feng Hua opened the Word document with WPS.

[Based on your description, I am also suspicious of the person who delivered the gun. If I saw the person, I might have clearer information, so I hacked into Bluetone’s firewall and copied a segment of the surveillance video. After watching it, I actually found some clues. Look at the information below first.]

[This world preaches a belief in human equality, and gender equality, but as more and more discrimination appears, this belief is completely shattered in the hearts of some people.

Tragedies caused by gender discrimination frequently occur, such as sexually assaulted little girls being driven out of their homes in shame, married women suffering domestic violence with nowhere to appeal, innocent girls being kidnapped and forced into prostitution yet receiving no help when they reached out, and girls being stripped of their human rights by family members due to a preference for sons. There are even more unsavory things festering. For example, the orphanage incident that shocked the internet but was quickly locked down with all news blocked.]

[An orphanage named Anping enjoyed a great reputation for twenty years, but within those twenty years, what was hidden there was something darker than an abyss. None of the tens of thousands of girls who stayed there ever left that place. They all became tools for prostitution, dolls without souls. Their souls, even after death, were trapped in that filthy place, unable to be reborn.]

[When that orphanage was completely burned down with no survivors, and even implicated the deaths of many high-ranking officials and famous entrepreneurs, and other prominent figures, it was called a heavenly retribution—the vengeance of those tens of thousands of dead souls.]

Little Six hadn’t finished speaking, but instead had her look at some completely irrelevant information first. After reading it, Feng Hua’s brows furrowed tighter. She hadn’t known about the events in the document; it seemed they were very well suppressed.

This society was truly full of hidden filth… Feng Hua suppressed the churning emotions in her heart and continued to read Little Six’s analysis.

[Actually, that incident was not done by so-called dead souls, but by human action. To be precise, it was an organization, an organization that brought together those women who had been harmed. It is likely that many of the orphans from that orphanage joined this organization.]

[This organization is somewhat extreme, and their power has reached a level that even the state is wary of. Their members are usually unknown, living and operating among the general population like ordinary people, yet they are surprisingly united. They will unconditionally execute the directives passed down by their leaders.]

[The strongest aspect of these people is infiltration. There are probably quite a few women of high status among them, and they are everywhere. Everything about them is unknown, and the unknown is the most terrifying.]

[I suspect that girl is an internal member of this organization. I zoomed in on the image and found that she was wearing a bracelet on her left wrist. The inner side of the bracelet, which was accidentally revealed, has a hexagram pattern. There is a niche belief that the hexagram is used to summon demons and is a symbol of leading people to hell. The code name of that organization is “Fallen Angels.” It is inferred that the hexagram pattern is their identifying characteristic.]

[Their hexagram pattern is somewhat unique, but because the image is blurry, I cannot definitively determine if this hexagram is an ordinary pattern or the emblem of the Fallen Angels.]

[It is highly likely that the Fallen Angels made a move in this incident.

If you don’t want An Ye to die, you should remind him. He is currently in a very dangerous situation.]