Jin Mingge sat behind the office desk drinking while checking the bar’s operating situation.
Business these past few days had not been good.
The rain fell without stopping, and few people had the interest to go out drinking in such heavy rain—except those with especially strong alcohol addiction.
Just as he was looking at the account books with a worried frown, the office door was suddenly pushed open.
He lifted his head, set down his wine glass, and sat a little straighter.
“Lord Li Jue, what brings you to this humble place?”
“I heard your information network in Shenchuan is very well-informed?” Li Jue asked.
“Just a few friends with relatively wide connections.”
“There’s a cat demon in the city who had a daughter with a human. The daughter is called Su Yueyue. Do you know about this?”
“I know.”
Jin Mingge thought Li Jue wanted to ask about human-demon romantic unions and explained, “This kind of situation is very common. It doesn’t violate any prohibitions. The CEO of Tianmai Company alone has no idea how many affairs and illegitimate children he has, and the Secret Society hasn’t interfered with that either.”
Yet what Li Jue cared about was whether it would pose a threat to Ying An’s safety. “Does that cat demon have any dangerous qualities?”
“From the current situation, no. The Secret Society’s danger rating of her is only Level 1. She has always acted in a rather low-key and well-behaved manner.”
“Is that so… then what about Zhu Yao, a Chinese teacher at Xiheng?”
“No impression. Let me take a look.”
Jin Mingge opened a hidden private folder on the computer and flipped through the records of all the demons in Shenchuan City.
“He should just be an ordinary human. We have no record of him here.”
“An ordinary person…”
Li Jue furrowed her brows and thought for a moment.
“Has Xiheng ever had any demon-related problems in the past?”
“This school has a rather long history. I don’t know the situation from too early on. At least in the past few decades nothing has happened. It’s just that every year two or three children go missing, all of them disappearing outside the school.”
“No clues found from investigation?”
“None. The matter is quite strange. Apart from the fact that they were all students of Xiheng, no other clues were found. It’s also unknown whether demons were responsible.”
Li Jue lowered her head and thought for a moment, feeling that the matter was not that simple and that she still needed to respond carefully.
If the situation ever happened to Ying An it would be troublesome.
This school… perhaps hid some unspeakable secrets.
At the same time, at the school gate of Xiheng.
Today was Friday, a school dismissal day.
The school gate was somewhat crowded, with students from each class surging outward.
Outside, private cars of various styles were parked.
After all, Xiheng was a first-rate school within the city, and among the students’ parents there was no shortage of various wealthy merchants and political figures.
Among them the most eye-catching was that Koenigsegg CCXR, a top-tier sports car with a starting price of twenty million.
However, most people could not recognize it.
Only a few parents who really knew cars sighed inwardly—fine car matching a beauty.
Chu Jiuer was wearing a deep purple skirt suit, with a plain white silk blouse underneath.
Her temperament was much more mature than usual, transforming from a lazy female university student into a female CEO of high society.
She was dressed especially outstandingly and was also extremely young—something those older wealthy ladies could not compare with.
“Xiao An, over here, over here!”
She waved toward Ying An who had just exited the school gate.
The boy squeezed his way over through the crowd of people.
Quite a few could not help following her gaze to see which family’s young master had such grand presence and was attracting so much attention.
“Sister Jiuer!”
Ying An hurriedly ran out.
After returning to the car, Chu Jiuer spent quite a bit of effort before she managed to squeeze the Koenigsegg out from the school gate.
Li Jue had told Ying An in advance that today Chu Jiuer would be picking him up from school because she had matters to handle.
Originally Li Jue had not wanted to go herself.
At first she had wanted Chu Jiuer to go to the other place.
“Help me go to Hongyang Bar and ask about the school’s matters. You know what kind of place that is, right?”
“Big Sister, I’m not your maidservant, being ordered around by you every day. Why don’t you go yourself?”
“I have to pick Xiao An up from school.”
“I’ll go, I’ll go, I’ll go. I’ll help you pick him up. You go ask. Leave Xiao An to me.”
After the previous two incidents, Li Jue was already very uneasy about Chu Jiuer.
Yet she still handed him over to her, leaving only one instruction. “Directly take Xiao An home. Don’t take him to any messy places.”
This time she still obeyed.
After all, things should not go beyond three times.
If Li Jue returned home and did not see Ying An, it was truly possible she might turn her into grilled fish.
But buying an ice cream for the little one along the way should not be a big problem.
Ying An sat in the passenger seat.
His gaze passed through the car window.
He saw on the sidewalk by the roadside a slender middle-aged woman holding Su Yueyue’s hand as they walked home.
The girl was happily saying something to her.
Looking at them, they were just an ordinary mother and daughter pair.
“Sister Jiuer, how do you distinguish between humans and demons?”
“Demons can all have their demon power sensed. Some demons will hide their demon power—for example your sister. She can hide her demon power so thoroughly that not a single bit can be sensed.”
“Then Sister… is she very powerful?”
Chu Jiuer felt this question was a bit silly, like asking whether Einstein’s achievements ranked very high in the field of physics.
She could not help letting out a laugh.
“A thousand-year great demon, nine-tailed fox. That is a title that makes countless demons feel fear at the mere mention.”
“Then between you and her, Sister Jiuer, who is stronger?”
“Sister is richer than her.” She smiled and reached out to stroke Ying An’s head.
“Does Xiao An want to go with Sister? Whatever you want, Sister will buy for you.”
Ying An hurriedly shook his head. “No, no. Sister Jiuer is also a very good demon, but I still like Sister more.”
Was this issuing her a good person… good demon card?
In these several thousand years, who knew how many humans or demons had pursued her.
Her invitation was an honor that countless humans and demons sought but could not obtain.
This little guy, however, had quite the airs.
Yet when one thought about the comparison being with Li Jue, then it was normal.
Money to Li Jue was truly an external object.
Whatever she wanted, she had plenty of methods to obtain.
Chu Jiuer delivered Ying An home.
The little guy dropped his schoolbag and immediately ran into Li Jue’s room to play on the computer.
Chu Jiuer opened the refrigerator and glanced inside, then went to the room to ask Ying An, “Is Xiao An hungry? Want to try Sister’s cooking?”
“Okay, okay.”
Ying An lifted his head.
“I want to eat stir-fried pork with green peppers.”
“No problem. Leave it to Sister.”
She dug a bag of ingredients out of the refrigerator, carried them into the kitchen, and began busying herself.
The sky grew darker and darker.
Li Jue still managed to rush back before nightfall.
Walking into the house, the moment she smelled the oily scent coming from the kitchen she felt something bad was about to happen.
As a result, Chu Jiuer was just carrying dishes out from inside, wearing an apron and looking rather like the real thing.
Li Jue weakly sighed. “If only that unyielding perseverance of yours wasn’t placed on cooking.”
“You haven’t even tasted it yet and you’re already rejecting it. And here I was kindly cooking for you two. This is what Xiao An himself said he wanted to eat.”
Li Jue helplessly shook her head and looked at the dishes on the table.
Just from the appearance they still looked decent.
The actual situation she understood all too well.
What a pity for that refrigerator full of ingredients of hers.
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