Perfect Fiancé - Chapter 19

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Chapter 19: Hacker Lets relax with some tea, everyone~

What is the next phrase after a hero saves a beauty in distress? To pledge oneself to marry their beloved?

Not too long ago, his daughter/little sister had previously mentioned that she did not understand this person. Yet, now she could put down her guard to shower in his home with nary a worry?

Still, when all was said and done, his family’s young lady had already entered the bathroom. Since this was the case, while she was still occupied, they could clear up matters first. It would not be good to cause a misunderstanding with the two of them just because of their habitual paranoia.

As they glanced at each other, Su Chenghai and Su Yue immediately understood what the other was thinking as they sat down on the long sofa.

Standing by the table, Lu Xi poured tea for the two men. As that upright body bent slightly, they noticed the sleeves on his white dress shirt were properly folded to his elbows. The black crystal buttons were buttoned up to the second to last one at his sternum. With the shirt collar opened, a view of his alabaster skin was revealed. As the flawlessly white, slender hands held onto the clay teapot and the light green colour of the steeped tea entered the cup, the combination with the white gossamer-thin porcelain reflected a hazy lustre and shine(1).

(1) z sh h () This refers to Yixing clay teapots or also called Purple Sand teapots. They are made from clay that is mined from the region near the city of Yixing. These wares have a variety of designs and types of clay to make them resulting in a variety of colours that are produced from the minerals in the clay. They are prized for creating a more complex flavour to the teas and the value of a pot can vary from a few dollars to a few million.

“Uncle Su, Brother Su,” Lu Xi sat at the opposite end of the sofa and gestured towards the cups, “please have a taste of the tea I brewed.”

The man that sat before them had a slight curl to his thin lips and yet, his peach blossom eyes remained tranquil and calm. Although he had the appearance of an idle descendant from an influential family, he could still be regarded as a modest gentleman that was as gentle as jade.

Su Chenghai and Su Yue looked him over once more. Their young girl did not mention hating him and was at ease enough to shower at his home, thus, she must have some affection for him. So, the probability of the two of them becoming a couple was high. Since there was already preparations for them to become a family, they should just clearly air out all of their suspicions and prevent causing an estrangement between them.

Deciding upon this, Su Yue spoke up first.

“Lu Xi, since we are likely becoming a family in the future, then there are some things that I have to ask you clearly.”

Although he had said this, they had only some baseless conjectures and no evidence. With these kinds of statements, it was not too appropriate for one’s elder such as Su Chenghai to touch upon this topic and could only have a similarly-aged peer, such as Su Yue, make inquiries.

As he placed the teacup in his hand down, Lu Xi sat upright with puzzlement on his face.

“From your first call to me until the second time you called and found Xiao Jin, you took only two hours”

There was no need to say more, how could Lu Xi not understand what was implied in that sentence?

“Therefore, you have some suspicions that I was the mastermind?” Despite his heartfelt surprise, he expressed his immediate understanding of the situation with a slight arch of his eyebrow. It was true, with his strangely fast speed, it would cause one to suspect him. If it wasn’t

“Was it you?” As Su Yue’s inky eyes stared directly at his peach blossom eyes, he asked with a heavy tone.

“Hiring someone to kidnap Jin’er, then, becoming a hero to save a beauty in distress to deceivingly steal her heart? Fu-” Without answering his question, Lu Xi simply chuckled.

Su Chenghai and Su Yue furrowed their eyebrows.

Without heeding their expressions, Lu Xi restrained himself and continued.

“When I found Jin’er, she was locked up in a steel room in the outskirts of the city. The area was not bigger than 10 square meters (3.86 square yards) and the surroundings are full of abandoned factories. The room had no windows and no light source, even the cracks in the door were sealed up. She had sat in a corner, hugging her knees as her side was facing the door. Her white dress was stained grey with dust and due to perspiration, the loose locks by her temples had bunched together around her face. When she raised her head to look at me as I walked in, her eyes were filled with fear and panic on her ashen face.

His voice had gradually lowered as he said this. However, Su Chenghai and Su Yue’s expression had completely darkened and there was a trace of eerie coldness emanating from their eyes.

She was the girl that was the apple of their eyes, their beloved and nurtured flower for twenty-two years! For her to have suffered so much in a place they did not know

“At that time, there was only one thought in my mind.” Lu Xi’s head lowered, “to find every person that had a part in this incident.”

“To cut. And shred them. Into ten. Thousand pieces.”

His tone was gentle and deep and they could not see the expression on his face with his head lowered. However, they could feel the thick and vicious intentions that emanated all over his body.

With a cold shiver, Su Chenghai and Su Yue suddenly had a strange and similar thought.

If the mastermind who had kidnapped Xiao Jin appeared here right now, then Lu Xi might really shred that person into a thousand pieces.

However, as they recovered their thoughts, they shook their heads. What were they thinking? This was a society with legal systems and institutions, it was not as if this was the barbarous Jianghu where lives were as insignificant as a drop in the ocean. How could he possibly shred them into a thousand pieces.

After a long while of silence, Su Yue suddenly spoke, “sorry.”

Slightly startled, Lu Xi recomposed himself and shot his future brother-in-law a light smile as he nodded.

“Alright, since that is the case, we will talk about the mastermind behind this incident.” Su Chenghai added, “on the phone just now, Lu Xi, didn’t you mention showing us some of the evidence?”

“Ah, yes”

“Dad, Ge!” All of a sudden, a voice interrupted Lu Xi and the three men raised their head to see a girl dressed in a white dress with damp hair draped over her shoulders as she walked down the curve on the stairs to them.

“Xiao Jin.”

“Xiao Jin.”

The two of them stood and called out to her at the same time.

“Are you alright?” Su Chenghai asked as he reached out to hug his daughter.

“I’m alright, Dad.” With a slight smile, she revealed a row of pearly white teeth and then gave her brother a hug.

Seeing the girl before him with an appearance as if nothing untoward had happened to her, they thought back once more to what Lu Xi had just said. The two men actually had tears welled up in their eyes.

Seeing this, Su Jin asked in a panic, “didn’t Lu Xi just say that he would show us the evidence? Who was the person who kidnapped me? Did they mention any conditions to you?”

Su Chenghai shook his head and Su Jin was startled.

Su Yue then explained, “the kidnapper did not contact us at all.”

No contact? What was going on? Could it be that they had not kidnapped her for something they wanted from Dad?

The three people then looked directly at Lu Xi.

With their attention on him, the man spread out his hands in a helpless gesture as he spoke, “I too, do not know who the mastermind is. Earlier, once I found out where Jin’er was, I quickly left to find her.”

“Found?” Su Yue’s eyes gleamed.

“Yep.” Lu Xi gestured for them to have a seat and took out a silver coloured notebook computer from the coffee table.

Su Jin blinked and could not help but question, “wasn’t your notebook broken?”

“It was.” Lu Xi opened the computer up and replied without looking back at her, “however, who said I had only one.”

Su Jin restraint her huff of indignation and then went on to complain in a polite manner, “then why do you still have the nerve to ask me to compensate you!”

As he looked up from the computer, Lu Xi saw the appearance of the girl complaining before him and innocently blinked, “didn’t I renege on that and simply asked you to compensate me for my dress shirt instead? Besides” He sighed, “what I feel regret about isn’t my computer but the outline for my screenplay that I had just gotten a burst of inspiration to complete!”

Screenplay?

With a flutter of her long eyelashes, Su Jin then lowered her head. Hearing this, she really felt sorry about that screenplay.

For people like them who came from such illustrious families, breaking a laptop was merely a bat of an eyelash. However, an outline was different.

As an amateur contemporary romance novel writer, she more than anyone else understood the importance of inspiration; not to mention that this was for the screenplay for his next movie.

After Lu Xi graduated from Beijing’s film school and went to the School of Cinematic Arts, a private media school within the University of Southern California, to further his studies, he was then chosen as a disciple of Hollywood’s world-class director, Charles. Other than some short films he did in the past and his graduation work, ‘Heart-pounding Excitement’ was his maiden work that was screened worldwide. Achieving such good reviews, even if it was a success- this was also a challenge.

For his next film: it could either raise even more fame, status and prestige for him or could plummet his reputation down to mediocrity.

The pressure he felt, it must be immense.

Thinking about this, she raised her head and looked towards the man that sat before the computer.

Lu Xi’s fingers flew across the keyboard then finally, tapped on the enter button. He raised his head as he was about to speak, however, he happened to catch the sympathy that flashed through the girl’s eyes.

Sympathy?

Lu Xi blinked sluggishly and suspected that he was seeing things. He had only mentioned about the outline to have the girl feel a little guilt and not be so merciless towards him. But who knew what kind of strange things this girl of his had thought of instead?

“Lu Xi.” Seeing him dazed and that his hands had stopped their movement, Su Yue anxiously asked, “what’s wrong?”

“Um.” Recovering his senses, Lu Xi let out a vague sound and pushed the notebook in his hands forward.

On the computer screen was a very normal webpage, but they did not know which website’s backend chat logs they were.

Xue Fengfei: This is her photo and information about her. Bring her to the abandoned factory district in the northern outskirts, the seventh row, unit 29. Intact. Once this matter is completed, contact this number and the other half of the money will be transferred to you.

Fox: Deal.

“This” Raising his head, Su Chenghai had a look of puzzlement on his face.

Su Jin and Su Yue too looked at Lu Xi.

“This is a certain international mercenary transaction website. This is only a small part of a log.” Lu Xi loosened his fingers and replied without a beat.

“International mercenaries?” Su Yue could not help but reiterate, “that woman?”

“Yep,” Lu Xi nodded, “I found monitoring logs related to this incident. This woman’s counter-investigative capabilities are very strong. She is definitely not a normal person so by chance, I looked through some backend mission logs of the transaction website for various big mercenary groups and dark organisations. Finally, I found this here.”
The man’s reply was very casual, yet, the three people simply stared at him with wide eyes.

Monitor? Without commenting on Lu Xi being unfamiliar here, or even if he was familiar with Shenhai, with so much data transmitted from monitoring records, surely that took time to go through right? As for going directly to the police bureau to have a look, don’t even joke about it, two hours was still not enough for him to drive to the city bureau either.

Also, backend mission logs of the transaction website for various big mercenary groups and black organisations? How the hell did he get in?!

“You” Su Jin swallowed and cleared her rather dry throat, “how did you manage to do all this?”

“Oh.” Lu Xi finished stretching his fingers and took a few sips of tea, “it was nothing, I just hacked into their server.”

Nothing? Only hacked into their server?

Was this the rumoured world-class hacker?

The trio wordlessly and unanimously agreed as they blinked.

Great, very formidable.

Su Chenghai threw the idea of contacting someone to search and find the source of the mobile number from the chat logs away and pushed the computer back.

“Since it’s like this, then this must be a piece of cake for you to find out the identity of this Xue Fengfei.”

His eyes were slightly narrowed as he spoke with an eerily cold tone. Who could it be, to touch his darling daughter?

Wordlessly, Lu Xi retrieved his notebook and began tapping on the keyboard.

“IP address Specifics” After a long while, he continued, “Jingtian Garden, Unit 1001 of the eleventh block.

Jingtian Garden

Su Jin frowned, it was very familiar.

“Jingtian Garden, Unit 1001 of the eleventh building.” Su Chenghai abruptly stood and cried out, “Han family’s second son?”

The second son of the Han family? Han Lei?

Su Jin instantly understood.

Han Xuelan!

Translated by Irisu

Edited by Ely, Thornyan