Chapter 1

Qing Li stood at the door of the room she had secretly inquired about, pinching her fingers and hesitating for only three seconds, she pushed open the door and rushed into the room, then stood dumbfounded.

There was no high-powered, deep-faced old man as she had imagined, only a man wearing an all-black suit that was expensive as soon as she looked at it, with a long and straight figure, handsome eyebrows and starry eyes, calm and collected, looking young and good-looking.

She scanned around the room and asked in English with a Southeast Asian accent, “Where is Yue Zhi?”

The man asked back in a pure and elegant British accent, “Do you want something from him?”

Of course she did, but she couldn’t say.

Qing Li was so anxious that she was about to burst into flames and turned around, ready to leave.

The man looked at her slightly trembling hand gripping the door handle, “Don’t be afraid.”

Qing Li half of her body went out, heard these words, turned back again, gritted her teeth and rushed into the room with big strides, pulled up the man who was on all fours, “Don’t want to die follow me!”

The man’s complexion did not move, let her dragged away, “Going to look for Yue Zhi?”

“Not looking, I don’t know where he is, you know?” Qing Li pulled the man along the winding corridor and ran away.

Not even a minute later, an explosion came from the direction of the room they had just come out of, and then the entire manor was in chaos, the sounds of gunfire and shouting were mixed together, like a transparent and cruel net that enveloped this lush and Southeast Asian-inspired manor, slowly tightening.

Suddenly came a burst of chaotic footsteps in front, Qing Li’s quick eyes and hands, a pull open the door of the side of the cloth grass room, and took the man to hide in.

This cloth and grass room is a mopping room, inside is very small, a row of hooks on the wall, hanging several mopping cloths, underneath two buckets of dirty water, full of odor.

The man was behind her, glancing at the bucket of mop water behind her, moving forward, his body pressed up against Qingli’s back.

But Qingli couldn’t care about that at all, she pressed herself against the doorframe to listen to the movement outside, thin sweat seeping from her forehead, and her breathing was a little short.

She heard so many people passing through the doorway, and in no time they ran back, exchanging words in Indonesian, and Yue Zhi’s name appeared inside, she immediately tensed her nerves, quietly pulling open a crack in the doorway so that she could hear more clearly.

“The room is completely ruined, Yue Zhi isn’t even in there!”

“Quickly go and look for it! If we don’t get rid of him, we’ll all be finished, hurry up and go look for him, if you find him, beat him to death!”

The group of people scattered again to look for someone, Qing Li was still thinking about where Yue Zhi might have gone and how she could find him before this group of people, when a person noticed the slightly open doorway on this side and walked back.

Holding the gun in his hand, he pointed it at the door of the fabric room and shouted in Indonesian, “Who’s in there, if you don’t come out I’ll shoot!”

Qing Li’s breathing stopped for a moment, she couldn’t help but lean back, oblivious to the fact that the man behind her she was pressing against was already nestled into the other man’s arms, it just seemed like it would be safer to stay away from the door, the man behind her glanced at her slightly trembling hands, and was about to push the door open to get out, when Qing Li spoke.

“Wait, I’ll be right out.” She said giving the man behind her a ‘don’t move’ look and squeezed through the doorway.

The Indonesian man outside the door had wanted to ask what she was holding in her hand behind her back, saw her face freeze for a moment, staring at the little beauty in front of him unable to take his eyes off, “Are you the maid of …… Mrs. Vidor’s house?”

Qing Li nodded, wooden face, “Yes.”

The Indonesian man laughed a little, his expression became lewd, his eyes glowed, “Really pretty ah, hiding here, scared? Follow me.”

The man she’d pulled over was behind her looking out through the doorway, he couldn’t see the girl’s expression, but he could see her muscles tense up all over her body, and her shoulder blades almost broke out of her skin like two pieces of a bird of prey’s wings in her cheap halter back.

“Is there no danger in following you?” Green Pear asked, looking at the Indonesian man, who also looked familiar.

The Indonesian man lowered his hand holding the gun and slowly walked towards Qingli, before the man arrived, his hand was already impatiently reaching towards her face with delicate skin.

The man inside the door quietly watched, this kind of drama is too common, in this kind of dark and light mixed, rich and poor have different places, the girl can have a skin used to trade, although there is misfortune is also considered fortunate.

The Indonesian man’s hand was already on Qingli’s face, and he inhaled greedily, almost smelling the sweet, fruit-like scent of the little beauty in front of him.

Qing Li stood obediently and calmly, but in an instant he grabbed the Indonesian man’s hand on his face and pulled it downward, and the moment the other man lost his balance, the thing he had been holding in his right hand hidden behind his back smashed the other man’s head hard.

One after another, without any chapter and technique, and without any concern for whether or not she hurt herself by mistake, until blood splattered everywhere and the man fell limp and unconscious on the ground, she stopped and fell to her knees as her knees gave way.

Trembling hand threw away the blood-stained weapon in her hand, she stomped her legs to put herself dead against the wall, gritted her teeth and looked at the man who did not know whether he was alive or dead, not even dare to blink his eyes.

The door to the fabric room was gently pushed open, and the man inside took a step out with his long legs.

His line of sight swept over the vacuum cleaner head on the floor with crumbs scattered everywhere, completely scrapped and the Indonesian man who still had a breath left in his mouth, looking towards the little girl, his eyes somewhat playful, “What are you looking for Yue Zhi for?”

Qing Li had calmed down quite a bit and raised her eyes to the man, “Save him.”

The man didn’t ask why, reaching out his hand towards her, “Let’s go, someone is coming over.”

Qing Li wiped her blood-stained right hand twice on the carpet and grabbed his hand with her clean left hand to stand up, “Where to?”

“You’re not going to save Yue Zhi, why are you asking me?”

The conversation just now made Qing Li think that this man knew something, she gave the man a look and decided to continue on the same path.

This was the direction away from the exploding room, if Yue Zhi was going to leave, he should also be running this way, so he might just run into him.

“You know Yue Zhi?” She asked.

“Sort of.” The man said.

Qing Li walked in front of her, hiding along the way with the person she saved on a whim, completely not noticing the man behind her idly walking around as if he were strolling down the street.

This was a mountain estate outside of the city of Bandung, Indonesia, and the layers of wood-framed style buildings made walking to and from the place complicated, Qing Li looked around and decided to take a chance and cross through the atrium.

She stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window facing the atrium and knocked on the glass, looking from side to side, thinking about finding something handy to smash through and flipping right out the window.

“It’s tempered glass, you can’t break it, get out of the way.”

Qing Li looked back at the man behind her, “I didn’t even see an exit on the way here, if we don’t go through here, who knows how much longer we’ll have to go around here.”

The man took a few steps back toward Temperance, pulling something out of his suit while repeating, “Get out of the way.”

Qing Li took a step backward, but her afterglow suddenly saw something, she had lived in Indonesia for years and was incredibly familiar with the rainforest here, she knew exactly where every branch on the trees dynamically went in different weather.

So in a flash of lightning, she leapt forward and pinned the man to the ground, while at the same time, the floor-to-ceiling window behind her was hit by a bullet, bursting apart with a loud crash and a shower of debris, one of which cut across the side of Green Pear’s neck and landed on the ground along with the blood.

The first thing she felt before the pain hit her was the man beneath her with one hand around her waist.

She figured her back was probably cut by the glass as well, or else why was it on fire.

There was a gunshot in her ear and a scream from the courtyard behind her.

She heard a rush of footsteps, then the wound on the side of her neck was pressed with a handkerchief and she was helped to her feet.

“Sir.” One of the visitors said to the man Aonashi had saved, “The situation is all under control.”

With one hand still holding down Qing Li’s wound, the man instructed the other, “Liang Jin, bandage her up.”

Liang Jin took over the handkerchief, tearing it from it without tearing it off, turning it into a long strip and wrapping it around Qing Li’s neck twice, “Sir, what’s next?”

“Have them all brought to the room where the explosion took place so I can meet.” The man said and walked back.

“Wait.” Greenleaf called out to him.

The man turned around and asked her with a look what else was going on.

“You and Yue Zhi are friends, right?” Qing Li asked, not noticing the expressions of Liang Jin and a few others.

The man nodded a little, “Sort of.”

“Then you’re pretty good too?” Qing Li said, “I just saved you, you have to repay me.”

The man looked at her, “I didn’t ask you to save me.”

“I know, I knew that someone was trying to kill Yue Zhi, I was going to save him, afraid that he wouldn’t be able to run, I even stole a wheelchair.” Qing Li said, “But I saved you by mistake, you must repay me.”

After looking at her for a few seconds, the man nodded, “I accept this favor of yours, Liang Jin, bring her along.”

After saying that he turned around and walked back the way he came, the other five or six people naturally followed behind.

Liang Jin looked at this thin and slender, but calm and beautiful looking little girl, “Come over together.”

Qing Li followed behind, covering the stinging wound on her neck as she walked forward.

This man seemed to be a very powerful person as well, just don’t know how it compares to Yue Zhi, her actions today were indeed still a bit impulsive.

Yue Zhi was so powerful that he must have gotten the news and left first, if she ran to Yue Zhi’s original room, she would surely fall flat on her face.

She ran with that man for so long, and as a result, she was led by the other party to walk back to the original room that exploded not a moment later, and she realized that she was simply going in circles before.

Now she knew why that woman Vito had suddenly come here, this wasn’t a normal vacation manor at all, it was simply a labyrinth, and those who weren’t familiar with it would definitely get lost and not be able to escape.

Passing through the corridor next to the room, Qing Li also saw the wheelchair that was leaning properly against the wall, it was the wheelchair that she had specially gone to the logistics side to sneak in for Yue Zhi.

Walking into the room that had been bombed to the point of being like a ruin, Qing Li immediately saw Vito sitting on a chair that she did not know where she had moved from.

She couldn’t care about the wound on her neck, rushed up and grabbed the man in front of her, questioning in a low voice, “You and Vito are in cahoots …… ” She looked like she suddenly understood something, “You’re her lover? ”

The more she thought about it, the more she thought it was possible, she guessed that Yue Zhi had already been taken out by this man, that’s why she was alone in this room, she had simply thrown herself into a trap.

Vito also discovered Qing Li, she looked complicated but obviously angry, “Why are you here!”

The man said, “Mrs. Vito, this kind of talk will come later.”

Then he looked at Qing Li, “Your questioning is a great insult to me, don’t worry, regardless of your purpose, I will not let you, my savior, suffer is all.”

After saying that he turned around and ordered his men, “Bring her a chair.”

The room filled with traces of black explosions, and even two large holes opened up in the wall fell into silence.

The cooling effect of the air conditioner was reduced by the broken walls, and the hot, humid and sticky scent of the rainforest forced its way in a little, and Qingli gasped slightly, finding it hard to breathe.

The man sat in the center, with his men standing on either side.

Qing Li and Liang Jin sat on his right hand side, across from them were Mrs. Vidor and a middle-aged man, and a young brown-skinned man, all three of them with somewhat tense expressions.

The young brown-skinned man looked at Qing Li, his eyes were fierce in their nervousness, Qing Li raised his eyes to look back, not dodging, very calm.

“What’s your name?”

Aonashi reacted for a moment before realizing she was being asked, slightly opening her whitened lips, “Aonashi, my name is Aonashi.”

The pronunciation of her name caught in English seemed strange, so the man heard it at once, he crossed his legs, his elbows supported on the armrests of the chair propping up his chin, and asked in Chinese, “You’re a member of the Qing family?”

Qing Li froze a little at the familiar Chinese, “Yes.”

“Who is Hansa Qing to you?” The man returned English.

Qing Li pursed her lips and said with downcast eyes, “My father.”

The man was a little surprised, “The Qing family has been in Indonesia for nearly two hundred years, and that little Chinese blood has long been diluted to the point where there is very little left, except for this family name, the color of the skin is no different from that of the locals, and Hansa Tsing was actually able to give birth to ……”

He paused, “A daughter as white as you?”

Qing Li could feel his sight, she looked up at the other’s dark eyes and asked back, “And who are you?”

The man smiles, “The one who has taken on the favor of saving your life.”