Huo Jin Ge was extremely satisfied with Jiang Luxi’s shocked expression, her large eyes now filled with fear.
He observed with interest for a moment.
Then he shifted his gaze back to Jiang Feng kneeling on the floor.
His index finger slowly rotated the jade thumb ring on his thumb.
“You really like the number 250, don’t you?”
Huo Jin Ge’s large palm remained pressed against Jiang Luxi’s back, clearly feeling her stiffen.
He turned his head, a faint smile unexpectedly appearing on his face, his eyebrows slightly raised as he said meaningfully: “Good girl, not talking about you.”
Jiang Luxi: “…….” Like I’d believe that
Why did she feel this statement had an air of protesting too much?
The moment he turned his head back, the smile at the corner of his mouth completely vanished.
As if what just happened was merely an illusion.
If Jiang Luxi weren’t held in his embrace, she would have dropped to her knees right then and there.
Jiang Feng kept his head lowered, not even daring to breathe heavily, dutifully playing the role of the scapegoat.
Knowing when to yield shows wisdom, his attitude of admitting fault was quite sincere: “Sir, I was wrong.”
Jiang Luxi was terrified inside – if he treated his own trusted assistant this harshly, wouldn’t someone like her who was picked up along the way be buried without a second thought?
Huo Jin Ge watched her reaction with interest, seeing her trembling appearance.
He felt this warning should be sufficient.
He said impassively: “Starting this month, for the next year, your salary will only be this amount. Since you like it so much, you can hear it to your heart’s content.”
Jiang Luxi’s facial expression was quite spectacular – she felt like she was sitting on pins and needles.
The moment she shifted slightly, the arm around her waist tightened by two degrees.
Jiang Luxi pouted in grievance, feeling like her waist was being pinched painfully.
Huo Jin Ge slowly took his phone out of his pocket, too lazy to even lift his eyelids: “Ran out of money?”
Before Jiang Luxi could process that this question was directed at her.
Her pocket phone vibrated twice, the notification sound ringing clearly.
It was literally the most beautiful sound in the world.
The announcement of 500,000 yuan transferring into her account made Jiang Feng press his forehead to the floor.
Jiang Luxi looked completely incredulous, her frightened eyes meeting Huo Jin Ge’s gaze as she struggled to find words for a while.
“You… you’re giving this to me?”
Huo Jin Ge’s gaze darkened when it landed on her scabbed red lips. For a moment, he felt that keeping a little thing like her might actually be quite interesting.
He didn’t answer her question, his voice as calm as ever: “No more giving rewards to those people.”
Confused by his actions, Jiang Luxi bewilderedly took her package and returned to her room.
She hung all the items she bought to ward off evil in various corners of the room.
Seeing them made her feel considerably more at ease.
After finishing this, she deposited the 480,000 yuan Huo Jin Ge transferred into her petty cash fund.
Suddenly she seemed to have discovered a little method to get rich quick.
Wouldn’t she become quite wealthy by the time Huo Jin Ge kicked the bucket?
For two consecutive days, Huo Jin Ge basically never left the villa, spending entire days in the laboratory.
That day, she went downstairs wearing a peter pan collar dress and stopped Jiang Feng the moment she saw him.
“Jiang Feng!”
The moment Jiang Feng saw Jiang Luxi, he thought of his 250 yuan salary and forced out a smile uglier than crying.
“Can I help you, Miss Jiang?”Jiang Luxi furrowed her brow, looking toward the upstairs direction. “I wanted to ask you why my phone has had no signal for several nights in a row.”
Forget about internet access—she couldn’t even make calls.
Not a single bar of signal.
Jiang Feng instantly recalled Huo Jin Ge’s instruction to turn on the signal jammer at night and tried his best to appear utterly sincere. “Ah, well, the villa is quite remote. Sometimes the signal really is poor at night.”
Jiang Luxi responded with an “Oh,” still somewhat skeptical.
Is that really it? It was fine a few days ago.
Anyone would think someone had taken away her signal tower.
Feeling disgruntled, Jiang Luxi couldn’t even muster any energy during lunch.
Her phone was her only source of entertainment, and now it had no signal at night.
It was practically robbing her of her nightlife.
Huo Jin Ge placed a piece of sweet and sour pork rib on her plate. “After you finish eating, come with me to the back hill.”
At the mention of the back hill, the rib she had picked up with her chopsticks fell back onto the plate.
The memories from that night kept haunting her.
Pursing her lips, she said with great reluctance, “Can I not go?”
Huo Jin Ge didn’t even look up. “No.”
After the meal, Jiang Luxi found an excuse to return to her room and slipped the yellow paper she had bought into her pocket.
Only then did she follow Huo Jin Ge to the back hill.
It had rained a couple of days earlier, and the dense forest now felt particularly chilly.
Although the temperature inside the villa was comfortable, she had rushed out without grabbing a jacket.
A gust of wind swept by, and her floral dress with a peter pan collar felt too thin. She couldn’t help but wrap her arms around herself, shivering.
Noticing that the woman who had been walking beside him had disappeared again, Huo Jin Ge stopped in confusion and turned to look.
Instantly, he felt a heaviness in his chest.
Jiang Luxi stood in front of Jiang Feng, wearing a pleading smile. “Can I borrow your suit jacket again?”
Jiang Feng looked at her thin clothing and genuinely felt sorry for her.
He began unbuttoning his suit jacket.
Huo Jin Ge reached out, grabbed her by the collar, and pulled her back to his side.
His voice was devoid of warmth. “Cold?”
Jiang Luxi felt uneasy under his gaze and nodded obediently.
If it weren’t for his impatience with waiting, she wouldn’t have dared to delay.
Huo Jin Ge let out a scoff. “You dressed so lightly. Freezing is your own fault.”
Jiang Luxi: “……..”
The day he kicks the bucket, she was definitely setting off extra fireworks to celebrate.
What kind of clueless straight man says something like that?
Huo Jin Ge watched her shivering from the cold, satisfied, and continued walking another few hundred meters.
Casually, he unbuttoned his own suit jacket.
Jiang Luxi, who had been too cold to speak, suddenly bounced over to his side, now clad in an oversized black suit.
Huo Jin Ge frowned, turning his head to glare at Jiang Feng, who was now only wearing a white shirt.
His gaze was so cold it sent chills down one’s spine.
Jiang Feng forced a stiff smile and silently slipped his phone—which had just received a 1000-yuan transfer—back into his pants pocket.
“Shall we go?” Jiang Luxi asked leisurely, buttoning up the suit jacket.
A faint warmth still lingered inside the fabric, soothing her so much that her brow relaxed.
She felt alive again.
Money really is wonderful!
Huo Jin Ge, his face dark, strode ahead.
Yu Yi had been waiting there for quite some time. The moment he spotted Huo Jin Ge, he hurried over with quick steps.Pointing at the bodyguard planting trees over there, she said, “Sir, they’ve already been planted.”
On the scene, thick, sturdy trees were being methodically planted into the pits.
Jiang Luxi couldn’t identify the species of these trees, but just by looking at them, she knew they were expensive.
Yet the thought that corpses were buried in those pits made her nauseous again and again.
Huo Jin Ge’s gaze kept drifting intentionally or unintentionally to the clothes Jiang Luxi was wearing.
It was truly irritating to see.