The Rebirth of the Socialite's Glory (GL) - Chapter 24

Guahua: What does ‘Fallen Angel’ do?

Xiao Liu: Murder. They kill enemies. When an enemy of one of the members dies, that member can choose to leave the organization or stay. They also punish scumbags who violate women’s human rights, though the specific range of targets for this is unknown. Their methods are extremely brutal, and they never leave survivors.

Guahua: Did An Ye do something to attract the attention of these people?

Xiao Liu: I quickly checked on An Ye. On the surface, An Ye is a simple person. Although he has dated many girlfriends, they were all normal dating relationships, and haven’t even progressed to physical relationships. An Ye believes in separating amicably, and he didn’t fall out with his ex-girlfriends when breaking up. Judging by this, although An Ye seems a bit promiscuous in relationships, he does not meet the criteria for being targeted by Fallen Angel.

Guahua: Besides that reason, is there any other reason Fallen Angel would make a move?

Xiao Liu: Currently, there doesn’t seem to be… However, they have a leader who has the authority to order subordinates to take action against targets outside the normal criteria. If An Ye is truly as clean as he appears, then he must have provoked their leader.

Guahua: Is the leader of Fallen Angel near An Ye?

Xiao Liu: I can’t find out.

Guahua: Check if An Ye has offended any woman recently.

Xiao Liu: Only you.

Guahua: What?

Xiao Liu: The only person he has offended recently is you.

Feng Hua’s hand stopped on the keyboard. The evening wind blew in through the window gaps. The whistling sound seemed particularly eerie on the dark night. The shadows of tree branches reflected on the window looked like long hands and abstract faces, appearing very sinister and terrifying.

Guahua: It’s not me.

Guahua: Do you know how the leader of Fallen Angel is selected?

Xiao Liu: That belongs to their highest internal secret. We can’t even find out who their leader is, let alone how they are selected.

Guahua: I see. Thank you for your hard work. I’ll transfer the money to your card now. Further costs will be calculated separately.

Xiao Liu: Okay, muah muah da (kissing sound), good night.

Feng Hua’s hand trembled, and she also sent a ‘muah muah da, good night’ back.

Xiao Liu is knowledgeable, has a lot of information, and many channels. People who go to him for information are never disappointed. Of course, the price for buying information is also high, making it unacceptable for ordinary people.

The information Xiao Liu revealed just now was relatively cheap because Feng Hua was an old customer and friend, and the information had been investigated already. Nevertheless, Feng Hua transferred a full two hundred thousand to Xiao Liu’s account.

Feng Hua didn’t plan to cover this two hundred thousand for nothing. This matter was provoked by An Ye; there was no reason for her to foot the bill.

The next day, Feng Hua used An Ye’s phone number, which she got from Xiao Liu, to make a call.

“I’m Feng Hua.”

“…How did you get my phone number?”

“I asked Ye Qiu for it.” Feng Hua didn’t bat an eye while lying; she said very naturally, “I’m making a deal with you. You give me three hundred thousand, and I’ll tell you a piece of information concerning your life and safety.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“No. I’m giving you three minutes to think. If you haven’t transferred the money to my card after three minutes, then what I just said is void.”

After speaking, Feng Hua hung up and sent her card number to An Ye via text message.

Perhaps it was Feng Hua’s unusually serious voice, and the matter concerning his life and safety that made him take it seriously, so An Ye eventually decided to agree to this unsecured demand and quickly transferred three hundred thousand to Feng Hua’s card.

“I’ve transferred it.”

“Good.” Feng Hua had Xiao Liu check and found that a transfer was indeed incoming. Glancing at the screen, Feng Hua whispered into the microphone, “You need to be careful of the women around you. To be safe, don’t let any woman get close to you during this period. Go out less, and if you do go out, it’s best to bring bodyguards. Also, remember to check your vehicle for any tampering.”

“That’s all I have to say. Don’t underestimate any word I’ve said. If you want to live, seriously remember every word and comply.”

Feng Hua ended the call and immediately turned off her phone, so An Ye couldn’t call Feng Hua again.

An Ye muttered in his heart, Was I fooled again?

Meanwhile, Feng Hua was happily telling Xiao Liu how she earned a hundred thousand dollars.

Guahua: Selling information is indeed profitable.

Xiao Liu: …

At the agreed time, Feng Hua and Shi Kexuan arrived at the designated coffee shop ten minutes early.

The two found a spot to sit down, and as soon as they sat, Shi Kexuan impatiently asked Feng Hua, “Did you know about An Ye’s accident yesterday?”

“What happened to him?”

“He was incredibly unlucky yesterday, haha. Apparently, he went to The Blue Note but got trapped in the elevator. Luckily, he was rescued in time. Otherwise, it’s said that the elevator had a malfunction, and the inside was completely sealed, providing no oxygen. If he had stayed a bit longer, it might have caused suffocation or even shock.”

“After he was rescued, he firmly refused to take the elevator, but unexpectedly slipped on the stairs and fell down. The stairs weren’t high, so An Ye wouldn’t have been seriously hurt even if he rolled down, but guess what? A janitor was mopping the floor right there, and the floor was wet. When An Ye tried to get up, he slipped again, causing secondary injuries. That’s not all. In a terrible stroke of bad luck, when he fell, the direction he fell was towards the janitor. The janitor instinctively dodged, and An Ye fell headfirst into the bucket of dirty water, nearly drowning in it.”

Shi Kexuan shook her head, sighing with a bit of a chuckle, “Such bad luck is rare. He’s really pitiful.”

Shi Kexuan thought An Ye was just unlucky, but Feng Hua saw the unusual pattern in the events.

“How is An Ye doing now?” Feng Hua asked.

“I don’t know whether to say he’s unlucky or lucky. Despite all those unfortunate events, he’s actually quite fine, just went to the hospital for some scrapes. But he might be scared and crying to his mom at home now, unable to keep the appointment or something…”

Shi Kexuan was very displeased with An Ye, thinking he was the typical person who gets benefits but still complains. It was a blessing he cultivated in his past life to be Feng Hua’s fiancé, but he was still dissatisfied. And being dissatisfied wasn’t enough; his mouth was also foul. And a foul mouth wasn’t enough; he kept causing trouble. Precisely because of this, seeing An Ye’s bad luck now, she was happily watching An Ye’s misfortune unfold.

“Excuse me, I’m not crying to my mom, and I wasn’t afraid to come.”

Although he looked somewhat wilted like a frosted eggplant due to the series of events, An Ye still did not forget to retort to Shi Kexuan’s sarcasm.

Standing beside An Ye were not only Ye Qiu but also several bodyguards in black.

As soon as he sat down, An Ye stared intently at Feng Hua, “Was what you said yesterday true?”

“Of course. I didn’t take your thirty thousand for nothing.” In reality, I only made ten thousand. Feng Hua looked at An Ye’s tired face with a half-smile, saying, “Except you didn’t take the information you bought for thirty thousand seriously enough. You didn’t follow my instructions at all.”

An Ye’s expression stiffened. “Were those things yesterday really not accidents?”

“One accident is an accident, but a series of accidents is a certainty,” Feng Hua said calmly, taking a sip of coffee.

Shi Kexuan saw the two exchanging obscure words and curiously asked, “Hua, what did you tell An Ye yesterday?”

“Just told him to be careful not to go out,” Feng Hua said casually.

Feng Hua didn’t like overly bitter coffee; she preferred to add some milk and sugar to bitter coffee. She took a sip of the coffee without milk or sugar, and as expected, the taste wasn’t to her liking. Just as she was about to tear open the packet and pour the sugar in, a pair of hands preemptively did the action for her.

Feng Hua looked at Ye Qiu in surprise. Ye Qiu’s lips curved upward, and she gently said, “Seeing you hadn’t put sugar in, I thought your taste had changed.”

Feng Hua looked at Ye Qiu with a troubled expression, wanting to tell Ye Qiu not to make such intimate gestures, as they weren’t close. They shouldn’t be so intimate, even though they had shared a bed, and Ye Qiu had worn her clothes, but the word ‘intimacy’ still shouldn’t exist between them.

An Ye and Shi Kexuan saw the atmosphere between the two when they looked at each other, an atmosphere that allowed no intrusion, and they both thought of the rumors that circulated online during the finance competition.

Ye Qiu and Feng Hua are a lesbian couple, OR Ye Qiu is deeply in love with Feng Hua, but Feng Hua doesn’t like Ye Qiu, OR Ye Qiu and Feng Hua are in love, Ye Qiu boldly shows affection, but Feng Hua is worried about what people will say and is unwilling to come out.

They had initially treated the rumors as a joke, but now, what was this feeling of it being just the two of them, and everyone else being outsiders who couldn’t possibly intervene?

Is there really something between them?

An Ye & Shi Kexuan: …

An Ye was the most resistant to accepting it. How could he possibly accept that the girl he liked actually liked his fiancée? Shi Kexuan, on the other hand, didn’t find it unacceptable, just a little inexplicably excited.

“Alright, let’s start the second round of the competition. Finishing early saves us from further complications,” An Ye quickly interrupted the eye contact between the two who seemed to be having an affair.

Feng Hua nodded and said, “Okay.”

Ye Qiu placed the empty sugar packet on her saucer, glanced at the bruise on An Ye’s forehead, and very naturally took a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from An Ye’s brow. “Are you hot?”

Ye Qiu personally wiping his sweat made An Ye’s face immediately flush, feeling incredibly hot. “Hot…”

How could he not be hot? He feels like he’s about to catch fire. Feng Hua lifted her eyelids and watched the two of them.

Ye Qiu lightly pressed down on the purplish bruise on his forehead. The force was neither too big nor too small, but it made the unprepared An Ye scream out in pain. “Ah…”

This scream attracted the attention of everyone in the coffee shop. An Ye felt their eyes on him, and the throbbing pain in his forehead made him feel completely miserable.

“I’m sorry, did I accidentally press your injury?” Ye Qiu released the handkerchief, looked at An Ye’s injury, and looked apologetic.

Even Shi Kexuan could tell that the apology on Ye Qiu’s face wasn’t very sincere, but An Ye, seeing his lover through rose-tinted glasses, couldn’t bear to blame Ye Qiu. Thus, despite grimacing in pain, he did not utter a word of blame towards Ye Qiu.

Looking at the miserable An Ye, Shi Kexuan suddenly felt that this guy wasn’t that annoying anymore; instead, she felt a little pity for him.