Inside the nightclub.
A man strode quickly into the private room at the very end. As the door opened, the scene inside revealed pools of wine and forests of meat.
Huo Yao held a cigar between his fingers, squinting through the haze of smoke as he exhaled.
The man stopped before him, leaned close to his ear, and spoke respectfully, “Second Master Huo, it’s confirmed—the private hospital over there was indeed smashed by Huo Jin Ge.”
Huo Yao flicked the ash from his cigar, his expression unchanged, as if it were all within his expectations.
His words dripped with undisguised disdain: “How many madmen are there in the Imperial Capital? Who else but him?”
Huo Wen Sheng leaned back against the sofa, pushing the disheveled woman in his arms away.
Only when the room held just the three of them did he ask the man, “Was the previous matter handled?”
Without delay, the man replied, “It’s done.”
Huo Wen Sheng and Huo Yao exchanged a smile, raising their glasses in a light toast. “Let’s send him a big gift.”
Early in the morning, Jiang Luxi came downstairs with panda eyes.
Huo Jin Ge sat lazily on the living room sofa, a trace of menace in his brow as he spoke with Jiang Feng and Yu Yi about something.
Sensing her gaze, the man turned his head toward her.
The moment their eyes met, Jiang Luxi felt her hair stand on end.
She quickly raised her hands to pat her cheeks, trying to snap herself awake.
Dreams were dreams; reality was reality.
The more unrealistic the dream, the harsher the reality.
Huo Jin Ge waved a hand at the two men. “Go ahead.”
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
As Jiang Luxi turned to leave, his voice, low and husky, stopped her: “Wait.”
Jiang Luxi halted in place and sighed helplessly.
Why was this man so focused on her instead of pursuing his ambitions?
Stiffly, she turned around, forcing a sweet smile for her benefactor.
“Master Ho, good morning.”
Master Ho?
Huo Jin Ge narrowed his eyes. “What did you call me?”
Jiang Luxi couldn’t guess his thoughts, but “Daddy” was just too awkward to say.
Opening her mouth, she finally mimicked the hosts from short videos, cooing in a sugary tone, “Ge Ge.”
The gloom on Huo Jin Ge’s face lifted, seemingly delighted by the way she called him “Ge Ge.”
Jiang Luxi scoffed inwardly.
Sure enough, men loved this kind of treatment.
Well, flattery was flattery, no matter how you spun it.
Might as well humor him and keep him happy.
Jiang Luxi followed him to breakfast.
Throughout the meal, her constant “Ge Ge this, Ge Ge that” made Jiang Feng and Yu Yi break out in goosebumps.
Standing at the foot of the stairs, Huo Jin Ge watched the little creature whose eyes darted around restlessly.
Clearly, she wanted to go out and roam.
He tilted his chin toward the door. “Go ahead, but don’t get lost.”
With his permission, Jiang Luxi cheerfully left the villa.
The morning sun was bright and warm, making one feel lazy.
Bored, Jiang Luxi wandered to the artificial pond and fed the koi inside, watching them compete for food.
After a while, she followed a shaded path deeper into the woods, eventually arriving at the spot where she often dug holes.
Jiang Luxi looked at the scattered tools on the ground—clearly, the bodyguards had slacked off, digging only shallow layers in the planned pits.
It was enough to trigger her OCD.
So she bent down, picked up a shovel, and walked over to one of the pits.
Honestly, after a few days without digging, she actually felt an itch to start again.After just two digs, she found her rhythm and dug with even more vigor.
When the pit was about one-third deep,
Jiang Luxi’s shovel suddenly hit something hard, as if there was an obstruction beneath.
She simply tossed the shovel aside, bent down, and brushed away some loose stones.
The next second, a pale finger broke through the soil, exposed right before her eyes.
Jiang Luxi’s mind went blank, her blood feeling as if it had frozen solid. She stumbled backward several steps.
Her teeth chattered uncontrollably.
Didn’t Huo Jin Ge say he had never killed anyone?
Then what was this in the pit!
Jiang Luxi took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.
She carefully recalled the plot from the book.
She remembered that in “The Tycoon’s Palm Darling,” Huo Jin Ge didn’t appear until around chapter twenty.
His appearance…