A person feels refreshed when good things happen; Fang Ming was naturally joking when he asked the Divine Doctor for two pounds of Calming Powder.
However... the Beijing Circle's crown prince had been arrested, Ye Nuannuan had been rescued, the Lu Family scandal was exposed, and the mission was successfully completed. On the surface, the outcome was perfect, but Fang Ming knew this matter was far from over.
Who exactly were the Lu Family? After suffering such a massive loss for no apparent reason, how could they possibly let it go?
They would talk to Ye Nuannuan, using threats and bribes to make her change her testimony. They wouldn't let the person who filmed the video off the hook, nor would they spare the hacker who distributed it.
But the hacker was abroad; they couldn't find them, and even if they did, they couldn't do anything about it.
And while Fang Ming was the one who filmed the video, when he went out late at night, he specifically chose high-traffic areas like bars to change his clothes, shoes, baseball cap, and mask.
This equipment was all sent over by the Soldier King and would be sent back once used. No matter how powerful the Lu Family was, it was impossible for them to trace it back to him.
So... the only person they could deal with now was Ye Nuannuan.
Ask the police to provide protection for Ye Nuannuan? Perhaps the police could provide protection in the early stages, but they couldn't protect her for a lifetime.
"My strength is still too weak..." Fang Ming leaned back in his chair and murmured in his heart.
If his strength were great enough, why would he need to worry like this? He could just pull them up by the roots and be done with it!
But for now? He could rest for two days first... Ye Nuannuan had been successfully rescued, so Fang Ming wasn't in a hurry. He decided to follow his plan and rest in Yanjing for two days to see how things developed.
While Fang Ming was taking Wang Meng and accompanying the girls on a company-funded tour of Yanjing,
In Rong City, at the CEO's office of the Qin Group.
Qin Xiao wore a sophisticated, deep blue ice-silk shirt, and the Patek Philippe on his wrist reflected a cold light.
He wasn't processing documents as usual but was instead staring at the tablet in front of him, his brows tightly furrowed.
On the screen was nothing other than the news of Lu Chenzhou's arrest.
Although the Lu Family had quickly removed the trending searches, in this age of information explosion, that photo of Lu Chenzhou in handcuffs being shoved into a police car had already spread through the private circles of the wealthy elite.
"Something is not right!!"
Qin Xiao murmured to himself, his eyes filled with deep self-doubt and disbelief.
In his memory, although the Yanjing Lu Family acted arrogantly and their foundations weren't clean, they had never faced any major trouble.
But now? Lu Chenzhou had actually crashed and burned over a woman? And it was a scandal explosive enough to shake the very foundations of the entire family!
"Could it be the butterfly effect from my rebirth again?"
Qin Xiao stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window with some irritation.
Impossible. In the month since he had returned, his main energy had been focused on Rong City, busy plotting against Chu Feng, the so-called 'son of fortune.' He hadn't extended his hand to Yanjing at all.
How could a butterfly flapping its wings in Rong City blow down a towering tree in Yanjing two thousand kilometers away?
Unless... a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed Qin Xiao's mind, and a name that seemed utterly absurd but eerily coincided with the timeline surfaced.
Fang Ming!
"Fang Ming just landed in Yanjing yesterday, and Lu Chenzhou's nest was raided last night???"
Qin Xiao narrowed his eyes, his gaze sharp!!
It was too coincidental, so coincidental that one couldn't help but be suspicious. But in the next second, he shook his head self-deprecatingly.
"What am I thinking? A little lackey who depends on my Qin Family for food, a henchman who only knows how to act tough and play a few clever tricks—how could he move against Lu Chenzhou?"
"Forget about Fang Ming not having the ability; even if I personally went to Yanjing, wanting to bring down Lu Chenzhou in a single night would be nothing more than a pipe dream."
Games at that level were battles between gods. With Fang Ming's rank, he wouldn't even have the qualifications to be cannon fodder.
Although logic told him it was impossible, the suspicious instinct of a transmigrator made him pick up his phone, open WeChat, and find the contact with the Ragdoll cat avatar—Chen Qian.
His fingers quickly typed: "Where was Fang Ming last night? What was he doing?"
Chen Qian was currently chatting with everyone in the chartered car. When she saw this message, her heart skipped a beat.
She glanced at Fang Ming in the passenger seat with some guilt, her finger hovering over the screen, hesitant about how to reply.
Tell the truth? Say that she slept like the dead last night and didn't even know when Fang Ming went to sleep or when he woke up?
No! Absolutely not!
If Young Master Qin knew she was this useless, her value in his eyes would drop to zero.
"Brother Fang and I were in the hotel room the whole time last night. What's wrong, Young Master Qin?"
"It's nothing. What about Chu Yao? Where was she last night?"
"Chu Yao stayed in a room with that Zhang Yue, right next door to us. We had breakfast together this morning..."
Seeing this, Qin Xiao completely let go of the suspicion in his heart. It seemed it really was just a coincidence.
Fang Ming was still the same Fang Ming, and Chu Yao was still that naive girl kept in the dark.
As for Lu Chenzhou's trouble... perhaps it was because the power plays of some big figures had changed in this life.
Qin Xiao turned off his phone and looked out the window again, his eyes deep... On the other side, everyone had gotten out of the car. Chen Qian put away her phone and familiarly took Fang Ming's arm.
The two looked like a perfect match. Wang Meng was taking photos of the three girls at a roadside attraction. Everything looked so harmonious and normal.
But something suddenly occurred to Chen Qian.
"Why did Young Master Qin want me to follow Fang Ming? Fang Ming is just a little lackey; is it worth wasting so much time and energy on him?"
She subconsciously touched her cheek, thinking about the excellent quality of her sleep last night.
How long had it been since high school since she'd had a sleep as comfortable as last night's??
If the first night she slept well with Fang Ming was because they over-exercised and were physically tired, then what about last night??
"Could it be that Young Master Qin had me get close to him not just for surveillance, but because there's some secret about Fang Ming that even Young Master Qin wants to figure out? Fang Ming isn't an ordinary person at all?"
Once this thought arose, the way she looked at Fang Ming changed slightly.
Fang Ming didn't know what she was thinking. As per his routine, after sharing a daily video to the group, the Soldier King sent him a message.
[Soldier King Lone Wolf]: "@Nameless Guide Brother, I understand you taking my sister out to relax, but why does she look a bit unhappy?"
[Nameless Guide]: "Unhappy?? Is she?"
Fang Ming was somewhat puzzled.
Over the past two days, his attention had been on Chen Qian and Ye Nuannuan, and he hadn't noticed Chu Yao's mood.
Now hearing the Soldier King say so, he really did notice that Chu Yao seemed to be forcing a smile.
[Soldier King Lone Wolf]: "Absolutely. Trust my intuition. Go ask her quickly, don't let anything happen."
[Nameless Guide]: "Alright, alright, alright, I'm going now."