The prison, Li Qiqi had been there once. It was five mid-rise residential buildings rented by Xu Nantian in the old district, managed by a black-skinned man named Ba Tuo.
Several buildings were enclosed together like a normal residential area, with electrified fences on the outside and security guards stationed at each building entrance, each equipped with a gun.
Inside were not only sales staff from the Yinpu Clubhouse who failed to meet their performance targets, but also more often smugglers or gamblers who owed money from Kenakin’s underground casinos, betting shops, and black markets… sent to be imprisoned.
As long as the people sent in didn’t speak up, Xu Nantian wouldn’t release them.
Li Qiqi had seen the people inside being threatened and beaten. Once they entered the prison, they were like being imprisoned in a dirty and lowly dog cage, living a life worse than death every day like animals.
Following Xu Nantian, the education she received was that debts must be repaid, mistakes must be punished, and the fittest survive.
In Li Qiqi’s eyes, none of the people who were forcibly sent to the prison were innocent.
But even after being brainwashed by Xu Nantian again and again, Li Qiqi was still afraid to step into that hell.
She returned to the clubhouse and handed the key to Sasha, asking her to go to the prison to release the people herself.
“Sister Sasha, Boss Xu has already instructed that the key should be handed over to Ba Tuo, the person in charge, and they can be brought back.”
Sasha held the key and nodded with a smile.
“Qiqi, I knew you could do it. Although I haven’t been at the clubhouse for long, I don’t know the relationship between you and Boss Xu, but the way he looks at you…”
“Go quickly, Sister Sasha, it’s getting dark, and we have to go to work later.”
Li Qiqi pushed Sasha.
Sasha closed her mouth knowingly and pointed to the locker next to the front desk before leaving.
“There’s something in the locker for you, saying you left it in a boss’s car last night, go take a look.”
Last night… Li Qiqi didn’t lose anything. The only person she could think of was Qi Xiaoye. She quickly stepped forward and opened the locker.
“So cute…”
Before Li Qiqi could do anything, Coco at the front desk took out the little white rabbit hand warmer from the locker.
Next to it was a large bouquet of bright red roses, and crystal clear water droplets slowly slid down the petals.
Coco smiled brightly at the roses and completed the words she hadn’t finished saying just now.
“Qiqi, the boss who sent the flowers is pursuing you. Klein blue roses represent pure love, yearning for freedom, and the stars you dream of. How romantic.”
“Hehe.”
Li Qiqi had unspeakable suffering. She squeezed out an extremely ugly smile at Coco, being confessed and pursued by a murderer, it was really “romantic”!
Probably because the powder on her face was too thick, Coco obviously didn’t notice the unease and panic in Li Qiqi’s eyes, and asked curiously.
“Which boss is it? I didn’t come yesterday because I had something to do. I seem to have missed your big news.”
Coco was a new front desk staff member, gossipy and nosy. In less than two months of work, she had found out all the big and small gossip in the clubhouse, offending many people.
But she was forthright and spoke her mind, never being two-faced, let alone being sarcastic.
She was also very good to Li Qiqi. In the past two months, relying on her keen amount of information, as long as she was at the front desk, she would share with Li Qiqi which guests were easy to get along with and which guests could not be offended, protecting Li Qiqi overtly and covertly.
She was Li Qiqi’s only friend.
Li Qiqi didn’t intend to hide it from Coco. After taking a deep breath, she asked in a low voice.
“Coco, do you know… Qi Xiaoye?”
“Qi Xiaoye?” Coco’s face suddenly fell, and her eyes widened, “The person pursuing you is Master Qi?”
Seeing Li Qiqi smiling bitterly and not speaking, Coco knew the answer. After looking around, she continued:
“Master Qi is not from Kenakin. Not many people know him, but his status… let me put it this way, even Fourth Master Qiao of the Black Water Party has to give him some face and call him ‘Master’.”
“Ah?”
Li Qiqi also widened her eyes. She couldn’t imagine the underworld boss who dominated Kenakin calling a young man “Master”. How strange!
“Why?”
“Because he has this!”
Coco raised her right hand and made a gesture of a gun, but Li Qiqi still couldn’t understand, after all, having armed forces in Kenakin was not a rare thing.
“Not just this, right?”
“Smart,” Coco leaned close to Li Qiqi’s ear and whispered, “He doesn’t participate in the competition between the major forces in Kenakin. He doesn’t have real power on the surface, but his people control the port and the surrounding forest farms, understand?”
Li Qiqi nodded. If Kenakin was a closed bottle, then Qi Xiaoye was the bottle stopper. No matter how the things inside fermented and deteriorated, it had nothing to do with him, but as long as they entered and exited, they had to look at his face.
“Qiqi,” Coco put down the little white rabbit hand warmer in her hand, and her face became much more serious, “It’s not a good thing to be noticed by him.”
“I know,” Li Qiqi shrugged her nose, “I only met Master Qi yesterday, a chance encounter. It’s just a whim, not pursuit.”
Coco opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but a group of guests came in one after another at the door. The waiters on both sides bowed respectfully, and Coco immediately changed her smiling face, signaling Li Qiqi to go to the liquor room to prepare wine.
There were many people waiting to eat in the venue, and it was not Li Qiqi’s turn since Sasha was not there.
It was another day of not making money, and Li Qiqi planned to go to Xu Nantian’s office to rest for a while.
The elevator opened on the third floor, and several men reeking of alcohol were standing outside. The bald man at the head saw Li Qiqi and gave a lewd smile.
“Hehe, the pretty ones are not my turn, but I can always touch this ugly one, right?”
He licked his thick lips and raised his hand to block Li Qiqi’s way, his eyes falling on the plaid woolen coat that Annette had specially selected for her before she went out.
“She doesn’t look good, but her clothes are pretty. I wonder if she will look better after taking them off!”
As the bald man spoke, he was about to step forward, and the follower behind him stammered.
“Brother Dao, her clothes look like a brand name, and she’s dressed so conservatively. She may not be one of us. Ma Liu had his ears cut off yesterday. We’re here to make peace, so don’t cause trouble.”
Dao Scar ignored him, stretched out his dog paws and was about to touch Li Qiqi’s chest. Li Qiqi seized the opportunity and grabbed his eyes hard. Dao Scar didn’t react in time, covered his eyes and screamed, gasping for breath in pain.
“Damn it, you stinky bitch! I’m giving you face, but you don’t want it. Catch her for me!!”
Li Qiqi quickly ran out of the elevator and all the way down the corridor with flickering lights.
Cutting ears, making peace… If she guessed correctly, the object of this group of people’s peace was Qi Xiaoye, who was in a private room on this floor.
Li Qiqi spotted a private room with no waiters at the door and pushed the door open without hesitation, but the back of her neck suddenly tightened.
“Little bitch, don’t you want to live? Where the hell are you running?”
Dao Scar lifted Li Qiqi’s back collar, preventing her from stepping inside, and threw her hard on the ground.
The conversation in the private room stopped abruptly. Qi Xiaoye, who was sitting in the middle, raised his eyes and swept over. After seeing the little person on the ground, his eyes suddenly sank.
He leaned back without showing any emotion, half of his face plunged into darkness, his expression fierce, and squeezed out a few gloomy words from between his teeth.
“What’s going on?”
Dao Scar spat on the ground, “Master Qi, please forgive me. This little bitch is so bold that she dared to scratch me and disturbed you. I’ll take her outside to deal with her.”
“Heh,” Qi Xiaoye laughed inexplicably and gave Atai and Lin Ke on both sides a look, “No need, come in, I’ll deal with it myself.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Dao Scar wanted to say something, but Atai and Lin Ke stood up at the same time and pulled out their guns with a “swish”, the dark muzzles pointing directly at Dao Scar’s head.
“Come in.”