"Do you want revenge?"
Yu Qi's sudden question completely shocked Chui Mei Fung. Revenge? She had not even dared to think about that before. But the moment Yu Qi explicitly mentioned the word revenge, Chui Mei Fung's entire body shivered with deep-seated hatred. She intensely hated the man who had stolen all her hard-earned money.
She hated the woman who had seduced that absolute scum of a man. Yes! She wanted revenge. More than anything, she wanted to see those terrible people kneeling in absolute defeat right in front of her.
"Yes. I want revenge." Chui Mei Fung stated firmly, her voice trembling with emotion.
"Then, I will help you. But first, you have to follow my instructions completely. Can you do that?" Yu Qi smiled softly, a calculating gleam in her eyes.
"Yes. I will follow your every order." Chui Mei Fung nodded.
"You see, I am currently building a hotel. It's a traditional Japanese type called a Ryokan. It is currently in progress. Two years from now, I assume it will be fully completed. To run it successfully, I have to find a reliable employee who can help me manage my Ryokan. So, would you like to become my very first employee?" Yu Qi offered.
"But... I don't know the first thing about how to manage a Japanese hotel." Chui Mei Fung felt hesitant.
"For that, I will personally send you to Japan to learn how to manage a proper Ryokan. You will learn all the ropes from the ground up." Yu Qi said.
Chui Mei Fung fell into deep thought. In order to get her ultimate revenge, she would have to leave this country for a long time. She felt a bit troubled and hesitant about that. However, the moment the faces of that scum man and his seducer flashed through her mind, she realised leaving was a very low price to pay for getting even with them. She made her final decision.
"I am willing to do absolutely anything." Chui Mei Fung stated, her resolve hardening.
"Great. I will draft the contract first. Grandpa, can she..." Yu Qi did not even manage to finish her sentence before Grandpa Tang cut in to speak first.
"So, you heard him. You can stay here comfortably until the day you set off for Japan." Yu Qi said while turning around to Chui Mei Fung.
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Yu Qi drafted the official contract with the expert help of Mr Chu. This contract was legally binding and could easily be used in a court of law. If Chui Mei Fung ever broke the terms of this contract, Yu Qi could legally sue her.
She also reached out to Old Man Feng to help her arrange Chui Mei Fung's travel and legal matters. She wanted to arrange for Chui Mei Fung to go to a highly respected, traditional ryokan in Japan for a full two years.
She estimated that the construction of her own ryokan would take about two years to finish. Not to mention, even after the physical construction was done, there would still be a massive amount of interior and administrative work required to fully complete it and open it up to the public.
She finally arrived back at her home after spending an entire day out managing the complicated matters regarding Chui Mei Fung. Exhausted, she collapsed face-first onto her bed. 'So tired,' she thought. Aoi quickly climbed onto the mattress beside her and affectionately licked her hand.
Yu Qi patted his furry head gently. "Aoi, you are so incredibly cute." She mumbled, her eyelids already half-closed with exhaustion.
Aoi stood perfectly still, letting his master pat his head until she was completely satisfied. After a few quiet minutes, her hand slowly stopped moving. Aoi watched his master, seeing that she had already fallen into a deep, peaceful sleep. He felt genuinely grateful to Yu Qi. She treated him so wonderfully well, unlike the cruel humans back in that awful place. He curled himself up closer to Yu Qi's side and closed his eyes.
That night, right after dinner, Yu Qi called Chui Mei Fung over to see her. She placed the newly drafted legal document right in front of Chui Mei Fung.
"Read over the contract carefully. Do tell me if there is any specific part you want to change, and I will take a look at it. Take your time with it. Just make sure to finish reading it thoroughly within the next two days." Yu Qi stated.
"Okay. Thank you so much." Chui Mei Fung nodded.
"Don't mention it. I already told you I have my own selfish reasons for doing this. I will go ahead and head to bed first." Yu Qi then turned and entered her room.
After locking her bedroom door securely behind her, she entered her secret space along with Aoi. Tonight, she wanted to dedicate her time to studying poisons instead of traditional medicine. Using the rare herbs growing in her space, she wanted to experiment with creating a lethal poison.
She suddenly remembered a specific detail from her previous life. Back when that malicious bitch and her bastard fiancé were torturing her, they had explicitly mentioned poison. They told her that they had been secretly feeding her poison for a long time, but the toxin strangely had no effect on her body at all. She thought it might be because she had accidentally swallowed highly poisonous mushrooms when she was a young child.
At that time, she had been harshly scolded by Madam Wang for failing to finish her endless chores, and she was cruelly punished by not being allowed to eat anything for two whole days. She was absolutely starving when she accidentally stumbled upon a patch of beautiful mushrooms. At the time, she was only five years old and a little foolish. She did not know the golden rule. The more beautiful a thing is in nature, the more poisonous it tends to be.
Desperate for food, she grabbed them and ate them raw. The taste was surprisingly very sweet. Due to her extreme hunger, she quickly shoved about five pieces of them into her mouth. After half an hour, a violent headache and strong waves of nausea hit her.
Then, she watched in horror as her small hands turned a terrifying shade of purple. She was completely petrified. She wanted to run back home for help, but she didn't have a single shred of energy left. She just lay there on the dirt, paralysed.
Fortunately, a passing villager found her limp body and rushed her straight to the hospital. She was put under strict medical observation for about three days. For three long days, she endured agonising, burning pain deep inside her five-year-old body.
She suffered through that immense pain entirely alone, without a single guardian coming to watch over her. At that time, she naively thought her adoptive mother and father were just too busy taking care of her younger siblings, so she never complained about being abandoned.
Perhaps that horrific childhood incident had accidentally made her adult body entirely immune to all forms of poison. She had actually tested the mild poisons she made on herself in the past, and just as she suspected, the toxic substances had absolutely no effect on her health whatsoever.
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This chapter is edited by Tzin99... Thank you for your help...