Chapter 105: I Want To Do As I Please (7)
Yu Qici watched Jiang Zhiyan leave, wanting to follow and see what she was doing. However, when she reached the door, she found she was confined to the villa, unable to take a single step outside.
She touched the collar around her neck, frowned, and suddenly understood its purpose.
Jiang Zhiyan leisurely arrived at the estate gate in her personal aircraft. She didn’t bother opening the gate, flying directly over it and looking down at the five people below, all of whom enjoyed making trouble for her.
“Zhiyan, when are you coming back? You’re not young anymore, stop messing around, the family is very angry,” the leader said.
The speaker was the eldest son of the Jiang Family Head. He always felt that, being the oldest, he should take the lead among his siblings, and he should inherit the family business, just like his father, the current head, who was also the eldest. However, due to his lack of ability, he was constantly being suppressed, most severely by Jiang Zhiyan, the most capable among them. He had always seen Jiang Zhiyan as a thorn in his side.
After Jiang Zhiyan’s differentiation defect, although he didn’t show it, he was secretly delighted and enjoyed ordering her around. Jiang Zhiyan’s work stoppage had a huge impact on the businesses under his control, and he had been barely managing to keep things under control.
If Jiang Zhiyan didn’t return, he wouldn’t be able to hold on much longer.
“I’m not going back, please leave. You coming here uninvited is very offensive,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Heh, they guessed you must have found a new backer, Jiang Zhiyan, in a place like this, to whom have you sold yourself?” another person mocked. “That backer might abandon you one day, you should be more self-aware, who else besides the Jiang family would tolerate your terrible temper… If you know what’s good for you, go back now, maybe you can still negotiate some terms.”
“That’s right, come to your senses, what good will it do you to fall out with the Jiang family? You’re capable, yes, but what’s the use of being capable now?”
They all spoke at once, not giving Jiang Zhiyan a chance to speak, they didn’t care about her opinion at all.
Jiang Zhiyan raised her energy gun, randomly pointed it at one of them, tilted her head, and a blue beam pierced through the person’s forehead, silencing him. He fell to his knees.
All the noise abruptly ceased, even the screams were silent. They looked at Jiang Zhiyan in terror and retreated a few steps. Some tried to run, some released their pheromones, trying to suppress Jiang Zhiyan, but it was useless, some tried to call for help, but their communicators couldn’t send out any messages.
Clearly, they were trapped.
“You…”
“I said, I find this very offensive, is the word ‘offensive’ that difficult to understand?” Jiang Zhiyan touched her earlobe, and security robots emerged from the shadows, surrounding them.
Jiang Zhiyan spun in the air and flew back.
The cold, mechanical voice of the security robots echoed behind her: “Illegal intruders detected.”
Screams and curses followed, but no one would hear them. Soon, the night returned to its usual silence.
“Host, you’re too daring,” the System said, glancing at the situation over there.
“It’s fine, she probably does this kind of thing often, the AI assistant is already handling it,” Jiang Zhiyan said.
The System paused for two seconds: “So you don’t need me?”
“Mm, no need, you sound very reluctant, so I won’t trouble you.”
System: !!!
The System was very annoyed: “But I’m a responsible System, I’ll keep an eye on it, just in case there are any mistakes.”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
When Jiang Zhiyan returned, Yu Qici was still standing at the door, she was stunned for two seconds seeing her back: “So fast? I thought you would chat for a while longer.”
“Nothing to talk about.”
Yu Qici glanced at the energy gun in Jiang Zhiyan’s hand, noticing its state: “You fired?”
“Mm,” Jiang Zhiyan locked the gun back in the cabinet. “Do you think I did something wrong?”
Yu Qici shook her head: “They have nothing to do with me… Won’t the Jiang family come looking for you?”
“No, the Jiang family doesn’t know they came here on their own, and even if they did, it wouldn’t matter, there’s no evidence it was me,” Jiang Zhiyan said, as if recalling something amusing. “They haven’t realized how useless their offspring are.”
“I heard you’re the one handling most of the Jiang family’s affairs.”
“Mm, and then they take credit for my achievements,” Jiang Zhiyan said, leaning against the sofa and pushing a glass towards Yu Qici. “I want red wine too.”
Yu Qici looked at Jiang Zhiyan’s face, she noticed that Jiang Zhiyan sometimes spoke with a subtly coquettish tone, she didn’t know if Jiang Zhiyan was aware of it herself.
However, since Jiang Zhiyan had asked, Yu Qici poured her a glass of wine.
“Why did you call them here?” Yu Qici asked.
“To send them back,” Jiang Zhiyan said casually, resting her chin on her hand, looking at a flowerpot in the distance, her gaze gradually becoming unfocused.
Yu Qici had seen this expression on Jiang Zhiyan’s face before. At times like this, she could sense a profound loneliness in her, and she instinctively felt it was related to her.
Yu Qici felt like she should know the answer, but she couldn’t figure it out.
“I’m curious, how far are you willing to go?” Yu Qici touched Jiang Zhiyan’s wine glass.
“It depends on who provokes me,” Jiang Zhiyan said, raising her glass and clinking it against Yu Qici’s. “So don’t provoke me.”
“I’m weak and helpless, how could I possibly provoke you?” Yu Qici raised her hand, showing her slender wrist.
“But I feel like you’re constantly provoking me,” Jiang Zhiyan said, taking a sip of wine and glancing at her. Her wrist was indeed slender, but Yu Qici’s arm was muscular, quite firm.
Yu Qici moved closer to Jiang Zhiyan and stared at her: “You’re very different from the previous one.”
“Such as?” Jiang Zhiyan asked.
“Before, your perversions were hidden, now they’re on full display.”
Jiang Zhiyan looked at Yu Qici expressionlessly.
“Is it a second personality?” Yu Qici stared into Jiang Zhiyan’s eyes. “I also heard there’s an illegal technology that can transfer consciousness, which one are you?”
“Neither,” Jiang Zhiyan twirled a strand of Yu Qici’s hair around her finger. “Stop testing me.”
“I’m just curious,” Yu Qici looked at her. “Being curious and interested in someone is a prerequisite for liking them, don’t you want me to be curious about you?”
“No.” I just want you to remember quickly.
Yu Qici raised an eyebrow. Jiang Zhiyan’s gaze told her that she was analyzing her, she was probably already writing an investigation report in her mind.
Jiang Zhiyan covered her eyes and kissed her lips. Yu Qici, caught off guard, was startled, she reached for Jiang Zhiyan’s neck, but fell onto the carpet, thankfully it was soft.
“You can’t be against me,” Jiang Zhiyan whispered in her ear.
Yu Qici wanted to say something, but Jiang Zhiyan didn’t give her a chance to respond, she found Yu Qici’s hand, interlaced their fingers, and held it tightly.
However, she didn’t do anything more, just a kiss, then she quickly released Yu Qici.
The two lay on the carpet. Yu Qici stared at the ceiling, panting, blinking rapidly, her heart racing, she clutched her chest: “Why do you always like sneak attacks?”
“Do I? No, I don’t,” Jiang Zhiyan yawned.
Yu Qici turned to look at Jiang Zhiyan: “I feel like you’re being unreasonable, and I admit, I’m being a bit unreasonable too.”
“You are being unreasonable,” Jiang Zhiyan said, closing her eyes and turning her back to Yu Qici, not letting her see her face. “You’re the one who started it and then abandoned me.”
Yu Qici: ?
“I think you’re slandering me.”
“Heh,” Jiang Zhiyan sneered.
Yu Qici sat up, trying to turn Jiang Zhiyan around: “Explain yourself.”
“You don’t remember anything, what’s there to explain? There’s nothing to explain,” Jiang Zhiyan’s voice was cold. “You’re still observing and testing me for others, even if I told you, you wouldn’t believe me, you would just write in your observation report that I’m delusional.”
It was better not to speak, the more she spoke, the more aggrieved Jiang Zhiyan felt.
“You used to beg me to touch you, and now I’m a pervert, even though subconsciously, you also like it,” Jiang Zhiyan shrugged off Yu Qici’s hand on her shoulder, sat on the sofa, and put some distance between them.
Yu Qici looked at Jiang Zhiyan, whose gaze was so genuine that she almost believed her. She felt her heart clench, it was so painful, watching eight hundred tragic, dog-blood dramas wasn’t this painful.
“Aren’t you sleepy? Go upstairs and sleep,” Jiang Zhiyan said, taking a deep breath and looking at Yu Qici.
Yu Qici got up from the floor: “Okay.”
Jiang Zhiyan: ???
“Did you hear what she said?” Jiang Zhiyan looked at Yu Qici in disbelief, she had said so much, and it was all for nothing, she had expressed her grievance so clearly, and Yu Qici just left!
“I heard it,” the System said, lighting a candle for Jiang Zhiyan, it lit candles for others every day, but this was the first time it did so for Jiang Zhiyan.
“She didn’t even try to coax me, such a heartless woman.”
“It’s fine, when she remembers, we’ll lock her in the little dark room for a month!” the System said.
“That’s not very good, a month without sunlight is unhealthy,” Jiang Zhiyan shook her head.
System: ???
The System decided to shut up.
Yu Qici lay in bed, her mind clear, unable to sleep. Regarding Jiang Zhiyan’s words, she strangely felt like such things had happened before, she felt like she had found a thread, but only a tiny bit of it was visible, she couldn’t grasp it with her fingernails, nor could she pull it out.
She took a deep breath.
She hoped she would have a dream tonight, she felt that if she could enter the dream world, everything would be explained.
Yu Qici closed her eyes.
She did dream tonight, but not the kind she had hoped for. She dreamed of a chibi version of Jiang Zhiyan circling her, looking at her with a resentful gaze.
When she woke up with a start, she subconsciously looked at the space beside her.
It was empty, and judging by the state of the pillow and blanket, Jiang Zhiyan hadn’t come up to sleep at all. Yu Qici looked at the time, it was already the next morning.
She sat up, touched the collar on her neck, but no one came.
After washing up, she hurried downstairs, but didn’t see anyone, only a plate of breakfast on the table.
Jiang Zhiyan had gone out.
“Did she say where she was going?” Yu Qici looked at the housekeeping robot standing nearby.
“No.”
Yu Qici frowned, thinking about what happened last night, she was a bit worried.
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