Chapter 99: I Want To Do As I Please (1)
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Yu Qici, her gaze unflinching, but Yu Qici only met her eyes once, no more than a fleeting glance.
“Did she just smile at me?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
“Host, I think you might be hallucinating,” the System said seriously.
Jiang Zhiyan watched the two leave and closed the window: “Let’s go back, you take control.”
“You just came to take a look?” the System asked.
“Mm,” Jiang Zhiyan said, resting her chin on her hand. Although she really wanted to kidnap Yu Qici right then and there, it was clearly not the right time or place. “Let’s go back and watch the Jiang family’s drama unfold, she’ll be there too.”
As Jiang Zhiyan approached the imperial star, she opened her personal terminal, and a flood of messages popped up. Not many were about the company, mostly useless messages, most of them sarcastic and mocking.
The original owner wasn’t very good at socializing when she was at her peak, relying on her intelligence and status, she was arrogant and made many enemies. However, she didn’t have any malicious intentions, and in this class-conscious society, most people of high status acted like her, but those people hadn’t fallen from grace, while she had.
“System, filter the messages for me, and directly block any useless messages in the future,” Jiang Zhiyan said, having scrolled for a long time without finding anything useful, she had seen plenty of insults, many people didn’t even have any real grudge against her, they might have only exchanged a few words, but they still came to kick her while she was down, as if she was a trash can for venting their frustrations.
It had already been five years since her differentiation, no wonder the original owner turned villainous, just glancing at these messages made Jiang Zhiyan want to pull out these people hiding behind their screens and cut off their tongues.
Jiang Zhiyan opened another terminal. There was a long list inside, recording everyone who had insulted her, with timestamps and their current locations, many coordinates changing in real-time, indicating that either these people had something the original owner had planted on them, or there were people working for the original owner near them.
“Is this a death list?” the System commented, scanning the list. “By the end of the plot, 98% of the people on this list are dead.”
“Not bad,” Jiang Zhiyan took a deep breath and rubbed her neck.
The System looked at Jiang Zhiyan’s background data: “Host, I hope you won’t be affected by the plot.”
“I just happen to like the villain persona.”
The spaceship landed in the landing area of the Jiang family’s subsidiary. Jiang Zhiyan disembarked.
“So envious of little sister being so free, able to go out and play during work hours.”
Jiang Zhiyan glanced at the two people who came out of the spaceship next to hers. Information about the two immediately popped up in her mind, Jiang Lei and Jiang Shuo, her half-sister and half-brother, they were twins, they didn’t look very similar, but their personalities were equally unpleasant.
They used to follow her around when she was still in power, and after she fell from grace, they immediately distanced themselves from her and took the lead in bullying her, as if doing so could erase their previous fawning behavior.
“We’ve been waiting for you here for half an hour,” Jiang Shuo said coldly.
“Oh,” Jiang Zhiyan replied indifferently. “Make an appointment next time.”
Jiang Shuo was so angry he laughed: “Jiang Zhiyan, do you still think you’re the Jiang family’s eldest miss? Putting on airs.”
He raised his hand, wanting to strike her, and Jiang Zhiyan raised her leg and kicked him away. He stumbled backward and fell to the ground.
“Didn’t you differentiate as an Alpha? Why are you still so weak?” Jiang Zhiyan elegantly retracted her leg.
Jiang Shuo glared at Jiang Zhiyan.
“Jiang Zhiyan, are you crazy! What’s wrong with you today?”
The System, looking at Jiang Lei berating Jiang Zhiyan, thought that she would probably act like this every day from now on.
“Make an appointment next time,” Jiang Zhiyan said, walking past them, opening her terminal, crossing out their names, and marking a “7” next to them.
Eliminate these two within seven days.
The System silently lit a candle for them.
“Host, isn’t it a bit too obvious to do it now?”
“No, they’re just two useless pieces of trash, once the factory bombing incident happens, who will care about them? The Jiang family has no shortage of trash.”
In this world, Alphas could have multiple partners. For example, the current head of the Jiang family, he was just a B-rank Alpha, and to improve his genes and consolidate the main branch’s position, he had found many A-rank Omegas and fathered a bunch of children. However, all his children were B-rank, not a single A-rank among them, while the side branches had produced two A-ranks.
Jiang Zhiyan returned to her office. The assistant brought the prepared gifts for her to see.
“Just send them,” she said. After all, she wouldn’t be in the mood to look at gifts later.
Jiang Zhiyan leaned against the sofa, browsing the news on her terminal. The top headline was “Wedding bells soon, Yu Qici and Lian Chen on a date.” She sneered and reported it as false news, complete nonsense.
System: …
“It’s not entirely false, although Lian Chen isn’t the male lead, she is indeed engaged to the Lian family,” the System whispered, then regretted it, why was it adding fuel to the fire? Jiang Zhiyan had read the script herself.
Jiang Zhiyan didn’t want to talk to it.
Yu Qici returned on the day of the Jiang family banquet. The two families hadn’t been on good terms since the engagement was broken off, but they still had to maintain appearances, after all, two powerful families couldn’t really sever ties just because of a broken engagement.
When Jiang Zhiyan arrived, Yu Qici also happened to arrive, her companion today was Lian Chen.
The three met at the entrance, and Jiang Zhiyan slowed down. The surrounding people looked at them, their gazes filled with amusement, their conversations becoming quieter. Lian Chen stood in front of Yu Qici, and Jiang Zhiyan glanced at his face.
Lian Chen looked at Jiang Zhiyan expressionlessly, his eyes wary.
Jiang Zhiyan chuckled softly and walked past them, seemingly calm and indifferent, only the System knew that someone had just been added to the death list.
Jiang Zhiyan gave her gift, didn’t greet the previous family head, found a random spot, and waited for the drama to unfold.
Many people gathered around Yu Qici, making it impossible to even see her from the gaps in the crowd, while the area around Jiang Zhiyan was a vacuum, as if she had a contagious disease.
“A swan should be with a swan, you’re just a toad,” Jiang Lei said softly, standing behind her.
“Aren’t you the same?” Jiang Zhiyan raised an eyebrow and retorted.
Jiang Lei’s expression froze, Jiang Zhiyan was right, she was also the same, because the Yu family hadn’t taken a liking to her either. Her expression twisted for a moment, she looked at Yu Qici not far away with cold eyes, and clenched her fists.
Jiang Zhiyan ordered a glass of red wine. The guests were gradually arriving, everyone seemingly harmonious on the surface, but there were undercurrents surging beneath. The two A-rank Alphas from the side branches were clearly much more popular than the members of the main branch. She saw several people trying to join the conversation around Yu Qici and being ignored, their eyes turning cold, as if they were about to lash out.
She tapped her wine glass lightly and started counting down in her heart.
Suddenly, the entire hall went dark, screams echoing, but it quickly quieted down, everyone maintaining their aristocratic composure.
The projection system automatically activated, showing the Jiang family’s factory in District 29.
“What’s going on? Is there a malfunction?”
“Where is this?”
“It seems to be the Jiang family’s factory, isn’t that what it says?”
“Damn, what are they doing over there?”
“Space pirates! Stargazers!”
Mechs bearing the Stargazer insignia appeared in the projection, starting to bombard the factory. No one tried to stop them, and in just two minutes, they breached the factory’s defenses, the factory instantly turning into a sea of fire.
The Jiang family members’ expressions turned grim. The former family head, who was celebrating his birthday, clutched his chest, gasping for air. The finished mechs inside the factory were being loaded onto the Stargazer’s spaceship right before their eyes.
After all this, a masked person walked in front of the camera and held up a single finger.
“What does that mean?”
“Too arrogant! They’re getting more and more arrogant! How could space pirates infiltrate District 29?”
“Where are the guards? They just let them in?” The current Jiang Family Head was furious.
The scene was in an uproar, District 29 was a semi-developed area, many powerful families had factories there, and now with the Jiang family’s factory being bombed, everyone felt threatened.
The old family head finally fainted, and the birthday banquet was forced to end, with such an incident, no one was in the mood to stay.
Jiang Zhiyan finished her wine in one gulp, placed the glass on the table beside her, and looked towards Yu Qici, whose gaze was unfocused, seemingly lost in thought. Lian Chen next to her was talking to her, but she clearly wasn’t listening.
The Jiang Family Head was arranging for people to go to District 29 to investigate. This kind of thing wouldn’t be her responsibility. He quickly chose two people, one of the A-rank Alphas from the side branches and someone from the main branch. Those who weren’t chosen felt both relieved and disappointed.
“Sigh, what a pity, if you weren’t defective, you would definitely be in charge of this,” a few of the rejected candidates walked past Jiang Zhiyan, mocking her solitary figure.
“It wouldn’t fall on you anyway, it’s good to be self-aware,” Jiang Zhiyan stood up, glancing at their twisted expressions.
Yu Qici left, and Jiang Zhiyan walked past them, but when she chased outside, Yu Qici was already gone.
“Check when she’ll return to District 6,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“This world also has AIs, you don’t have to ask me for everything,” the System sighed. “Although I know, Host, you can’t live without me, after all, I’m such an excellent auxiliary AI.”
“Just afraid you’ll be unemployed,” Jiang Zhiyan said, touching the bone behind her left ear, where the original owner’s self-made auxiliary AI was implanted. She hadn’t used it since arriving, and upon activating it, she heard Yu Qici’s voice.
“Master, it’s been a while since you contacted me, do you have any instructions?”
Both Jiang Zhiyan and the System were silent for a second.
“The original owner is truly a pervert,” the System commented.
Jiang Zhiyan, feeling very annoyed, changed the voice to the default mechanical voice, but she was still annoyed. She couldn’t pull the original owner out and beat her up, so she could only comfort herself that the plot had only officially started after she arrived.
“Check when Yu Qici will return to District 6, arrange for people to intercept her spaceship, and send her to the ‘safe house’.”
“Master, the risk level of this operation is S-rank.”
“It’s fine,” Jiang Zhiyan said. If she waited any longer, she was afraid she would do something SSS-rank.
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