Once Zhao LiYi was reached her room, she immediately dialled that man's number.
"My oh my, the princess is up so early. I thought you wanted to catch up on your beauty sleep after a gruelling project."
"Wu XieYu, quit the condescending remark. I want you to find something for me."
"You really treat me as your slave...Zhao LiYi you have to know that even though we've been secretly affiliated for this long, a man can also lose interest."
"What are you saying..."
"Exactly what you hear... although you gave me your body as payment, I'm telling you that I'm losing interest." Wu XieYu replied condescendingly.
"Am I possessive toward you? Wu XieYu, you know that you're the only man I've ever been with and still I let you go fuck other people."
"Maybe you should start becoming possessive, maybe that way my willingness to continue our affiliation will be given a new light."
"Shut up! I did that with you ten times last time. And yet, after paying you so thoroughly, you still failed to get the footage of Chu YingZi being defiled," Zhao LiYi growled.
"Tsk...How would I know she would suddenly meet a smart person that broke every wire and got rid of the CCTV..." he mumbled to himself.
"Whatever...anyway, this is not what I want to speak about right now. I have a new request. The new CEO of Jiang Group Corporation, Jiang XinYan. I want you to find everything about her, all her dirty secrets. She messed with father's people in the company."
"My oh my...princess, you're finally revealing your interest toward the Jiang Group corporation?"
"Shut up...you know I won't touch grandmother's plaything." She frowned.
"The fact that your family still doesn't know about us, say, if I suddenly tell them that their beloved daughter has been sleeping with me ever since she was 17 years old, how will they react?"
"Are you threatening me?"
He chortled. "Would I ever dare?"
"Will you do it or not?" Zhao LiYi bit her lip frustratingly.
She was annoyed that even after giving this man everything she could possibly offer, she still could not fully control him.
"I will...just that the compensation this time will be triple of that night."
"Name the price..."
"This time, I want a whole week princess..."
Zhao LiYi instantly found herself shivering in fright. On the other side of the line. Wu XieYu dabbed his cigarette, his eyes gleamed mischievously, patiently wating for her response.
"Fine...I'll make arrangements," She spoke. "...But you must stop immediately when I say the safe word... and don't leave too much deep wounds this time. I'm an actress you know, my body has to be perfect...
Wu XieYu's smirk increased as he lied and said, "Don't worry, I won't."
As soon as she cut the call, he called his subordinate and employed him with the task of collecting information on Jiang XinYan, leaving no stone unturned. After that he began to purchase the items on the dark web. The thought of having that woman to himself for a whole week to do as he pleased, made him so excited, his lower member was instantly tightening in response.
Zhao LiYi, oh Zhao LiYi... He chanted to himself. She was the epitome of tempest. Although he belonged in the underworld, the sweet and young Zhao LiYi had him bewitched as soon as he laid his eyes on her.
It had been the wild unrestrained look in her eyes that had him craving to bind her so hard she would have no choice but submit herself wholeheartedly to him.
Getting her under his spell had not been very hard. Although outside that space, she acted headstrong, almost as if she were above him. As soon as he got her into his dark room, she would be crawling on all floors under him, begging him for more pain.
Their relationship could not be defined in words. He cared for her body enough to help her with anything she asked him to do. However, he had long killed his heart when he killed his family to take over the mafia. He had done many despicable things that made him truly insane.
Although, Zhao LiYi has satisfied him physically for six years, he was still yet to be moved by her. The only person that had ever moved him and truly made him withhold his beastly side was that woman from four years ago.
The woman with whom he had personally freed after letting his men open up her stomach while still conscious to get a baby out of her.
It had been, the horrified look in her eyes, the fierce pain with a hint of resolve as she experienced one's flesh being sliced through while unable to do anything.
If it were anyone in that situation, they would have fainted from it or even died. Yet she had held on fiercely, only fainting after hearing her baby cry.
Later when she came too, her luminous eyes had held his. Although he had covered his face with a mask. Those eyes seemed to have seen through him, all of him.
A feeling of discomfort and yet pleasure at the same time plagued his heart while staring at those eyes. In that brief moment he had felt that if he would surrender to anyone or anything, it would be her.
After that, he didn't not know how he became soft hearted as to not completely finish her off.
In his mind, he was his own god. And so, as a god, he played with his own fate. He had released her on that mountain range with the intention of wanting to see how fate will work.
If she survived and they met one day, then he will not let her go this time. If she did not survive then it was not meant to be.
After four years, he still occasionally dreamt of her eyes. And yet, he had long deemed her dead. To not have heard nor seen her for this long. It could only mean she had not survived that day.
Yet he would never find out until days later when his subordinate gave him the complied information on Jiang XinYan that fate truly did him a number. It was upon recognising those eyes at first, that made him tremble.
"Boss, should I send a copy to Zhao LiYi."
Wu XieYu shook his head and he laughed. "Hold off for now...Laozi just discovered an old plaything..."
Who was Wu XieYu? The man prided himself on having killed his own father and brothers to take over the business. Although there were much more renowned bosses than him in other territories, he felt he was untouchable.
He had single-handedly removed his biggest threat, a man named 'Zero' whom he had been losing territories to for so long.
After gaining Zero's territory and some of his elite men, Wu XieYu began to feel confident and corky. For so many years after getting rid of Zero, everyone feared and chose not to mess with him. Even other handful of bosses from different countries began to respect him and chose alliance instead of becoming his enemy.
Wu XieYu would never imagine that the person he thought had destroy was in fact alive and had joined an even formidable force that had been watching all his movements for so long. He did not know that the day that this formidable force would find out exactly how deep rooted their blood feud was, would be the day he will breathe his last.