The King of Urban Mercenaries
Chapter 54 - 54 54 Applauding Women

54: Chapter 54 Applauding Women 54: Chapter 54 Applauding Women “Momo, what do you think?”

Listening as Lili relayed Qiao Hui’s words in their entirety once again, a flash of unusual color passed through Xue Mei’s phoenix eyes.

However, she didn’t say much, nor did she stop fiddling with the Purple Sand Pot tea set.

Instead, she turned and asked Momo, who stood behind her in silence, a question.

“Chairman, I trust Group Leader Qiao’s judgment.

If you agree, I’m willing to have an honest talk with this Lin Fei.”

Momo’s voice, when compared with Lili’s, didn’t seem much different at first listen.

But as the elder sister, Momo spoke with more brevity.

Seeing that Xue Mei didn’t take a stance, Lili couldn’t help but speak up, “Chairman, in my opinion, there is absolutely no need.

Even if he killed someone from the Azure Dragon Gang and caused them to lose face, based on the Azure Dragon Gang’s modus operandi, if Han Zhenhai can’t deal with Lin Fei, they will surely take action themselves.

After all, Lin Fei is just one person, I don’t think he can survive the wrath of the Azure Dragon Gang.

A man on his deathbed is not worthy of our great efforts to recruit.”

Whether it was Momo speaking up or Lili expressing her view, Xue Mei’s slender, rippling phoenix eyes never once left the Purple Sand Pot tea set.

Xue Mei’s delicate hands gracefully covered the pot handle and filled each of the six teacups with tea, before finally saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

If he can deal with Han Zhenhai, then Momo, find time to meet with him.

If he can’t even handle a Han Zhenhai…”

At this point, Xue Mei’s meaning was clear.

If Lin Fei couldn’t deal with someone like Han Zhenhai, then even if he had terrifying strength, he was not worth Thorny Rose’s effort to recruit heavily.

If Lin Fei could handle Han Zhenhai’s reprisals, then it wouldn’t be too late to put in the effort to recruit him.

Momo and Lili, being Xue Mei’s close aides as Chairman of Thorny Rose, naturally understood the meaning she wanted to convey.

Both bowed their heads respectfully to Xue Mei before leaving the villa.

“Lin Fei, I hope you can bring me some surprises…”

Her lips parting slightly, Xue Mei murmured softly before turning to head upstairs.

It was for this reason that Xue Mei could swim boldly in the pool without worrying about prying eyes.

Because this place was Rose Manor!

At a glance, the ordinary-looking, tree-shaded Rose Manor, surrounded by roses, was in fact full of hidden dangers.

Of course, the so-called dangers were only meant for outsiders.

For the members of Thorny Rose living within Rose Manor, it was the safest place in the entire Zhonghai.

Xue Mei swam through the rippling pool, looking like a beautiful mermaid weaving through the waves, her fair skin gleaming like jade under the reflection of the water.

Anyone seeing Xue Mei swimming in the water at first glance would scarcely imagine that this woman, with her voluptuous, snow-white, alluring figure, was the Chairman of Thorny Rose, considered the most mysterious of the three major gangs in Zhonghai.

Had Lin Fei not overheard the conversation of the twin sisters, Moli and Lili, with Xue Mei in the living room, he wouldn’t have believed that this woman was the one who sent people like Qiao Hui to test him at the hospital.

Draining his cup of tea from the Purple Sand Pot, Lin Fei smacked his lips, finding the flavor quite good.

Thereupon, he turned around, went back into the living room, and took the Purple Sand Pot for himself.

Because she was no ordinary woman.

The fact that Lin Fei could show up at the edge of her swimming pool conveyed to Xue Mei a message even more significant than the shock in the woman’s heart.

As the Chairman of Thorny Rose and the owner of Rose Manor, no one was more aware of the security forces within Rose Manor than Xue Mei.

It could be said that the entire area within a five-mile radius of Rose Manor had long been under the surveillance of Thorny Rose.

It wasn’t as tight as having sentries posted every three steps and a watch every five, but there were definitely no fewer than fifty covert guards in place.

Moreover, these sentries were on duty twenty-four hours a day.

These were merely the outer defenses of Rose Manor.

Inside the Manor, the installed surveillance cameras and both overt and covert sentries were enough to drive anyone attempting to infiltrate Rose Manor to despair.

Xue Mei vividly remembered her father, on his deathbed, entrusting Rose Manor to her while personally telling her that even an outsider fly would need his permission to enter Rose Manor.

And indeed, since Xue Mei took over Rose Manor, there had not been any incidents of outsiders breaching the perimeter.

Even the spies of the Azure Dragon Gang had never broken through the outer defenses, let alone penetrated the interior of Rose Manor.

Up until today, Xue Mei had always considered Rose Manor to be absolutely secure.

Yet now and in the future, she no longer held that belief.

The defenses that claimed not even a fly could enter had been breached by an outsider, who stood by the swimming pool watching her swim.

It was also fortunate that she hadn’t whimsically decided to swim naked today, or she would have been exposed much earlier.

Lin Fei’s appearance did not only prompt Xue Mei to reflect on the defensive capabilities of Rose Manor.

More importantly, it provoked speculation about Lin Fei’s intentions, as the visible and hidden outposts and surveillance equipment of Rose Manor were certainly not for decoration.

All Xue Mei had to do was shout, or run away from the swimming pool, and within at most three minutes, people would have arrived to help.

However, Xue Mei did not do so.

Though she was not yet clear on Lin Fei’s intentions, Xue Mei had reason to believe that if Lin Fei had come to kill her, she would already be a corpse by now.

“You, very impressive,” Lin Fei said, gazing unabashedly at Xue Mei as she walked from the pool, expressing his sincere admiration.

Lin Fei’s compliment had a dual meaning.

Originally, Lin Fei had expected Xue Mei to either call out for help or coldly demand his identity after spotting him, an outsider.

However, upon noticing him, only a flash of shock flitted through Xue Mei’s beautiful eyes before she quickly regained her composure.

Even as she stepped out of the pool, Xue Mei even smiled at Lin Fei.

Although it was merely a slight curl of her cherry lips, it was a genuine smile.

When a strange man intrudes into a woman’s home during her swim, most normal women would not grace this stranger with a smile, but Xue Mei did exactly that.

Smiles, especially those from a beautiful woman, are often an effective medicine for dissolving male hostility.

That Xue Mei could suppress her inner shock and smile at Lin Fei demonstrated the woman’s outstanding psychological qualities and adaptability.

On this count, Lin Fei also had to give the woman his approval.

The insiders knew their own affairs, and Xue Mei’s smile indeed lessened Lin Fei’s hostility toward her to some extent.

In fact, Lin Fei found himself developing a faint sense of affinity for Xue Mei the woman.

In this regard, Xue Mei had been very successful, which was why Lin Fei thought highly of her.

Of course, Lin Fei’s praise was not solely for Xue Mei’s psychological qualities and adaptability.

Lin Fei’s double entendre in praising Xue Mei was well-deserved for such a woman.

Lin Fei felt his visit to Rose Manor was not in vain.