Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Chapter 1004  Just one slip

"You seem awfully invested in your ex-girlfriend's life and choices despite waiting an answer to your confession. Shouldn't you be focusing on Shui more?"

"Shall we go? We have so many things to discuss," she nodded. "I will introduce you to my makeup staff too."

"You want to crash into a wall or something?"

"Alix and I are at the hotel now where the fashion show will be held. It's in the same area you just said."

"Me?"

"No time!"

Without giving him a chance to answer, he left and picked his pace with Alix.

Jin turned and looked at Alix, who was discussing the details with Wang Xia. Opposite her was Yuze, who rested on the chair and observing and listening to their conversation.

He took a small phone from his back pocket and typed a message.

His eyes narrowed.

Jin frowned.

"Have I ever been wrong?" Chyou asked with a hint of grievance. "This is the area where the message came from."

Her light trance broke a second later and she looked back at her.

Yuze said, "I think I should ask you that. You seem to be having a problem with me, isn't it?"

"Any problem?"

"My responsibilities, not anybody's whims. If I have committed to the sponsorship, then I will get through it. I have my own sense of work ethics if you don't mind. The question, however is, why do you care?"

Chyou flipped away her script and ran towards her laptop.

"Ah!" Chyou gasped.

"We are not too far away from that. We just have to wait for Kang Yuze to make a slip. Just one slip and it will be over for him," he coldly said.

"Gently. Say it gently," she scolded. "You scared me."

"Swallow the food first Chyou," Yating's brow twitched.

"That means the mystery person is close to you!" Chyou couldn't believe the coincidence.

"I knew it! Mui got a meshage…"

She threw that question in a corner for the timebeing and continued with her work. It was a similar burner number like the rest of them and she quickly got into triangulating the location.

"I need a reacharge."

Silence.

She went back to zapping across the thousands of lines of code and pressed Enter after what it seemed like an eternity to Yating. The lines beeped and flickered on the screen for a while. The red dot stopped moving after highlighting a green expanse on the screen.

"It's nice to meet you, Miss. Ren. I am so excited to work with you."

She turned, finding Yating peeking at her laptop from her back with interest.

"I talked to you in the most whispering voice possible," he tapped on her head.

She grinned. "I am all energetic now~"

After a moment of awkwardness, Wang Xia offered her greeting to Alix first.

"Don't get offended. I have a problem with the general population itself. You are nobody special."

"Somebody is flying too much…" he whispered.

"Oh yes of course. Yes, yes, my bad."

"...Are you serious?"

Jin raised his brow. "You think assistants are not important?"

She blinked in confusion. "I don't follow you."

"And Alix? I feel the rules are different for her."

She gulped down the bread and said, "Mui got a message. Time to get to work."

Alix slowly extended her hand while keeping her gaze fixed at Jin with an unreadable expression.

"Hey, hey, calm down," Yating's eyes widened as he looked up from his own laptop screen where he was busy editing a novel.

"He made his move?"

Her eyes scanned the message and she tilted her head.

Wang Tianhui took a look and his expression took a one-eighty degree turn. His daughter's countenance didn't look too well either. He smiled at Jin and was about to speak when Wang Xia said,

"Our mystery caller's rough location," she smiled. "Burners cannot be exactly traced but they can give a rough estimate. Let's see what Jini-boy has to say."

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"What's that?"

"Which is good news for you…right?" Jin smiled.

Different how?

Alix followed the father-daughter duo while Jin followed a step behind her. He felt a piercing gaze and looked at Yuze.

"Oh she is just my assistant. It's fine."

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'We would have to take care of somebody else too. Somebody's wings are flapping a little too much.'

"Same here."

"Considering how she has barged into my office space and my privacy, it's reasonable to believe that I have the most problem with her."

Yating bent and dropped a peck on her lips. "Is this enough?"

She half-turned when Jin pointed at a woman standing at some distance from them.

"What are you doing?"

"Yet you keep following her whims."

Chyou pushed the piece of bread into her mouth and cracked her knuckles. Her fingers flew on the keyboard, checking Mui's messages.

"I am so excited for this show. I cannot wait to get on the stage…" she said, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.

He smiled. "Nothing. It's fine."

"It seems you have completely stopped focusing on her."

On the other side, Chyou heard a ding and almost spit out the coke she was drinking.

"And then you will be showered with agency invitations and attention," Wang Tianhui laughed merrily. "You will shine the brightest."

"But this is still not the evidence. We have only triangulated the area, which is very easy to counter. We need hard, unquestionable facts."

"Won't you introduce her to us?"

Yuze remained still in the silence while pressing the back of his neck.

"It cannot be anybody other than him. First it highlighted the area where his office was and now this place. Once yes, the coincidence cannot be twice. I don't know what problem he has with Alix but he is working with Ren Mui against her. He dropped her a message right after our conversation. It means I triggered him somehow."

Jin closed his eyes for a long moment.

Somebody else? Who is this somebody else?

"He is not a mystery person anymore. Kang Yuze is right here with us too."