Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu
Chapter 1004 - 1004: Just one slip

"Oh yes of course. Yes, yes, my bad."

After a moment of awkwardness, Wang Xia offered her greeting to Alix first.

"It's nice to meet you, Miss. Ren. I am so excited to work with you."

Alix slowly extended her hand while keeping her gaze fixed at Jin with an unreadable expression.

"Same here."

Her light trance broke a second later and she looked back at her.

"I am so excited for this show. I cannot wait to get on the stage…" she said, her eyes sparkling with anticipation.

"And then you will be showered with agency invitations and attention," Wang Tianhui laughed merrily. "You will shine the brightest."

"Shall we go? We have so many things to discuss," she nodded. "I will introduce you to my makeup staff too."

She half-turned when Jin pointed at a woman standing at some distance from them.

"Won't you introduce her to us?"

Wang Tianhui took a look and his expression took a one-eighty degree turn. His daughter's countenance didn't look too well either. He smiled at Jin and was about to speak when Wang Xia said,

"Oh she is just my assistant. It's fine."

Jin raised his brow. "You think assistants are not important?"

She blinked in confusion. "I don't follow you."

He smiled. "Nothing. It's fine."

Alix followed the father-daughter duo while Jin followed a step behind her. He felt a piercing gaze and looked at Yuze.

"Any problem?"

Yuze said, "I think I should ask you that. You seem to be having a problem with me, isn't it?"

"Don't get offended. I have a problem with the general population itself. You are nobody special."

"And Alix? I feel the rules are different for her."

Jin frowned.

Different how?

"Considering how she has barged into my office space and my privacy, it's reasonable to believe that I have the most problem with her."

"Yet you keep following her whims."

"My responsibilities, not anybody's whims. If I have committed to the sponsorship, then I will get through it. I have my own sense of work ethics if you don't mind. The question, however is, why do you care?"

"Me?"

"You seem awfully invested in your ex-girlfriend's life and choices despite waiting an answer to your confession. Shouldn't you be focusing on Shui more?"

His eyes narrowed.

"It seems you have completely stopped focusing on her."

"Which is good news for you…right?" Jin smiled.

Without giving him a chance to answer, he left and picked his pace with Alix.

Yuze remained still in the silence while pressing the back of his neck.

"Somebody is flying too much…" he whispered.

He took a small phone from his back pocket and typed a message.

'We would have to take care of somebody else too. Somebody's wings are flapping a little too much.'

—

On the other side, Chyou heard a ding and almost spit out the coke she was drinking.

"He made his move?"

Chyou flipped away her script and ran towards her laptop.

"Hey, hey, calm down," Yating's eyes widened as he looked up from his own laptop screen where he was busy editing a novel.

"You want to crash into a wall or something?"

"No time!"

Chyou pushed the piece of bread into her mouth and cracked her knuckles. Her fingers flew on the keyboard, checking Mui's messages.

"I knew it! Mui got a meshage…"

"Swallow the food first Chyou," Yating's brow twitched.

She gulped down the bread and said, "Mui got a message. Time to get to work."

Her eyes scanned the message and she tilted her head.

Somebody else? Who is this somebody else?

She threw that question in a corner for the timebeing and continued with her work. It was a similar burner number like the rest of them and she quickly got into triangulating the location.

"What are you doing?"

"Ah!" Chyou gasped.

She turned, finding Yating peeking at her laptop from her back with interest.

"Gently. Say it gently," she scolded. "You scared me."

"I talked to you in the most whispering voice possible," he tapped on her head.

"I need a reacharge."

Yating bent and dropped a peck on her lips. "Is this enough?"

She grinned. "I am all energetic now~"

She went back to zapping across the thousands of lines of code and pressed Enter after what it seemed like an eternity to Yating. The lines beeped and flickered on the screen for a while. The red dot stopped moving after highlighting a green expanse on the screen.

"What's that?"

"Our mystery caller's rough location," she smiled. "Burners cannot be exactly traced but they can give a rough estimate. Let's see what Jini-boy has to say."

—

"...Are you serious?"

"Have I ever been wrong?" Chyou asked with a hint of grievance. "This is the area where the message came from."

Jin closed his eyes for a long moment.

"Alix and I are at the hotel now where the fashion show will be held. It's in the same area you just said."

"That means the mystery person is close to you!" Chyou couldn't believe the coincidence.

"He is not a mystery person anymore. Kang Yuze is right here with us too."

Silence.

"It cannot be anybody other than him. First it highlighted the area where his office was and now this place. Once yes, the coincidence cannot be twice. I don't know what problem he has with Alix but he is working with Ren Mui against her. He dropped her a message right after our conversation. It means I triggered him somehow."

"But this is still not the evidence. We have only triangulated the area, which is very easy to counter. We need hard, unquestionable facts."

Jin turned and looked at Alix, who was discussing the details with Wang Xia. Opposite her was Yuze, who rested on the chair and observing and listening to their conversation.

"We are not too far away from that. We just have to wait for Kang Yuze to make a slip. Just one slip and it will be over for him," he coldly said.

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