Li Qiqi took a long vacation for herself, hiding in her rented house in the eastern suburbs for a full ten days.
There was ready-made alcohol gauze in the spare medicine box. Every household in Kenaqin had to prepare such items, so there was no need to go out to buy them. Even the meals were not purchased from the market.
When hungry, she drank water and gnawed on dry bread, along with a few buckets of instant noodles and eggs, which served as her food source.
In ten days, Li Qiqi lost a whole circle of weight.
She didn’t know Master Qi’s power, but wanting to find someone in Kenaqin didn’t require power. As long as you had money, it was the easiest thing in the world.
Fortunately, her scarf and clothes were all common styles, and the small electric scooter was bought in the black market to save money, leaving no information behind.
At that time, the scarf covered half of her face, so the other party shouldn’t know her appearance. As long as she survived this period and the heat passed, she would be safe.
Li Qiqi threw the scarf and coat into the brazier and burned them clean. Her phone rang. She took it out and saw that it was Sasha, the foreman of the Yinpu Advanced Clubhouse.
Yinpu Advanced Clubhouse is the most prosperous nightclub in Kenaqin, where Li Qiqi works. She sells alcohol there, with no base salary, only commission. She earns money based on how much alcohol she sells.
As soon as the phone was connected, Sasha started scolding Li Qiqi without waiting for her to speak.
“Qiqi, if you don’t plan to do it anymore, just say so. I’ll leave the opportunity to others. Don’t always occupy the toilet without pooping.”
Making money was the top priority for Li Qiqi, but she had narrowly escaped death and was still hiding from the pursuit. She was scared out of her wits, so how could she dare to show her face and go to work?
Li Qiqi sighed softly.
“Sister Sasha, let’s wait a few more days. You know my performance isn’t good and I can’t sell alcohol. It’s the same whether I go or not.”
Sasha gritted her teeth, and when she spoke again, she had a sense of hating iron for not becoming steel.
“A big shot came to the club today. You can get money without opening your mouth. If you’re not dead, hurry up and get over here. You have to fill up this month’s commission for me!”
Li Qiqi hesitated and wanted to refuse, but Sasha added in a deep voice.
“Qiqi, Boss Xu is back.”
Li Qiqi was stunned.
The “Boss Xu” in Sasha’s mouth was Xu Nantian, the founder of Yinpu Advanced Clubhouse, who was fourteen years older than her.
Li Qiqi was taken to Myanmar by her adoptive father when she was six years old and handed over to a group of human traffickers. She was almost beaten to death when she ran away, but Xu Nantian saved her.
She didn’t remember her biological parents, had no home to return to, and had nowhere to go, so Xu Nantian raised her by his side.
From the time she was six years old until she was eighteen…
This man was the redemption in her dark years, and also the shackles she couldn’t break free from.
Sasha on the other side continued to persuade, interrupting Li Qiqi’s thoughts.
“I don’t know what happened between you and Boss Xu, but he just came to the clubhouse to look for you. When he couldn’t find you, he got very angry and dragged all the sisters who didn’t meet the performance standards into the card prison for punishment. You should come back quickly.”
Card prison!!
Li Qiqi’s hand holding the phone trembled, and her heart ached terribly.
She lowered her eyes and looked at the ashes left after burning in the brazier, dancing and jumping in the dim light of dusk…
After a long while, she endured her emotions and nodded in response.
“I’ll come over tonight.”
The small electric scooter was broken, and Li Qiqi had no means of transportation. She took a motorcycle taxi downstairs. After much persuasion, the other party reluctantly agreed to take her into the city for 3,000 Myanmar Kyats.
She didn’t rush back to the clubhouse, but detoured to a tattoo shop at the intersection of West Wood Street.
She wandered around the dim shop and selected a delicate, bright, and colorful light blue butterfly pattern from the many photo styles on the wall.
Then she took off her coat, pinched the inner lining inside, and pulled it down, revealing her left shoulder.
The gunshot wound on it had already scabbed over and fallen off, turning into a light pink scar.
At that time, the bullet grazed her shoulder, and with the clothes as a buffer, there was a lot of bleeding but it wasn’t serious, and it healed quickly.
But this scar was ultimately a hidden danger and couldn’t be left behind.
Li Qiqi turned her face and smiled at the tattoo shop owner lying on the rattan chair at the end, listening to music with her eyes closed.
“Boss, I want this butterfly. Can you tattoo it on my left shoulder, spreading to the collarbone, covering this scar without leaving a trace?”
The boss raised his eyes and glanced at her, lazily pointing to the short stool in front of him.
“60,000 for a single picture, sit here.”
It was past eight o’clock when she returned to Yinpu Advanced Clubhouse.
The entire clubhouse had lost its usual hustle and bustle. From the first floor to the second floor, whether it was the dance floor, booths, or private rooms, everything was quiet to an unbelievable extent. There wasn’t a single customer.
This situation meant that someone had booked the entire place. It seemed that Sasha was right, and a big shot had indeed come tonight.
Li Qiqi went to the liquor room to get a tray of drinks and took the elevator to the largest private room on the third floor. A whole row of liquor salespersons was already standing outside.
She quickly stepped forward, stood at the end, and waited with the other salespersons for the door of the private room to open.
When foreman Sasha saw that everyone was there, she cleared her throat and explained to them in a serious tone.
“Hold the liquor steady, raise your hands high, eh~ yes, the tray must be higher than your head. Everyone remember, you have to kneel to enter the door later.”
“Kneel?” Li Qiqi frowned, “We’re here to sell alcohol, not livestock.”
Sasha looked over with a light smile.
“You don’t have to if you don’t want to, but I have to remind you that the person who booked the place tonight is Brother Xiao. Just a little tip is enough for you to work for several months.”
Sasha stared into Li Qiqi’s eyes when she said the last sentence, deliberately saying it for her to hear.
Brother Xiao’s full name was Qiao Xiao, the Blackwater Party’s crown prince, known for being a playboy who loved to have fun, living a luxurious and unrestrained life.
When he was happy, he would reward you with food at any time, but when he was unhappy, he could take someone’s life in minutes.
In Kenaqin, no one dared to offend him.
The crowd quieted down.
All the salespersons consciously lowered their heads and raised the trays in their hands, only Li Qiqi remained unmoved and quietly turned around to leave.
As soon as she took a step, Sasha’s ghostly voice floated from her ear.
“Qiqi, Boss Xu is in the private office on the top floor, and he wants you to go find him as soon as you’re done here.”
Li Qiqi’s palm trembled.
She stared blankly at the end of the brightly lit corridor, and a faint mist of tears shimmered in her eyes.
Sensing Li Qiqi’s hesitation, Sasha quickly stepped forward.
“Qiqi, it’s the end of the month, and I kindly gave you a vacation for these ten days. You can’t harm me! What kind of place is that card prison? If I get locked up too…”
Before Sasha could finish speaking, Li Qiqi had obediently stood back, raised the tray in her hand high, and lowered her head obediently.
“Sister Sasha, don’t worry, I will definitely fill up this month’s commission for you. I won’t leave.”
“Um…”
Sasha breathed a sigh of relief, staring at Li Qiqi’s porcelain-white skin at her neck with a complicated look, and then at her heavily made-up face—
Exaggerated eye shadow, bright red lips, and foundation as thick as a layer of paint.
She had never seen Li Qiqi’s bare face.
Here, every woman pursues beauty, and wants to be naturally beautiful.
Only this girl, who was clearly only eighteen years old, exuded a cold and indifferent aura, and always painted herself garishly and vulgarly.
She didn’t know how to act coquettishly or show weakness, and she didn’t know how to flatter or please. All the bones in her body were full of integrity.
She wasn’t cut out for this line of work!
“Click—”
The door of the private room opened, and the noisy music mixed with a strong smell of perfume rushed in.
Sasha had no time to pay attention to Li Qiqi. She switched her state in a second, holding the tray in both hands and smiling charmingly as she went inside.
“Brother Xiao~ I’m here to bring you wine.”
Her sexy and charming waist twisted violently as she walked, and she quickly disappeared under the wine-red lights in the private room.
“Come in.”
Sasha gave an order.
The salesperson at the front “plop” knelt on the ground, holding the tray over her head, and moved forward with alternating knees, bringing the wine in.
Li Qiqi couldn’t see the situation inside and didn’t stretch her neck to look curiously like the others.
Like a lonely soul wandering outside the world, she lowered her head and waited quietly.
The first salesperson who went in came out in less than five minutes, holding a thick stack of money in her hand. Judging from the color of the banknotes, it should be US dollars.
She kissed the banknotes over and over again with excitement.
The second salesperson glanced at her with envy and knelt down without hesitation…
The gap between the rich and poor in Kenaqin was huge. Wealth was only in the hands of the superiors, and ordinary civilians had problems even surviving, which led to the servility engraved in the bones of the inferiors.
Here, money and power were the only way.
Dignity was worth less than fart!
More and more people entered, and fewer and fewer people were in front. In the end, only Li Qiqi was left.
She stood outside the door of the private room and glanced inside with a numb expression—
On the small stage in the center of the private room, the club’s most famous pole dance was being performed.
Qiao Xiao was sitting on the leather sofa opposite the dancer with his legs crossed, surrounded by a group of women, hugging from left to right, passing wine mouth-to-mouth with the beauty on the right.
He was wearing a black jacket with a short knitted hoodie inside, the zipper wide open, revealing the still-solid thin muscles inside, as well as several thick gold chains on his neck.
He wore three big rings on his right hand fingers, golden and dazzling, making people’s eyes hurt.
A row of eight bodyguards wearing sunglasses stood behind him.
To the left front was Sasha, who was respectfully bending over to pour him wine, with a flattering face, and her squinting fox eyes glanced at the box full of cash on the glass table from time to time.
The whole private room was noisy and lively.
Whoever served well, Qiao Xiao would smile and stuff a stack of US dollars into their clothes, and then take the opportunity to touch them, causing a group of women to laugh like crowing chickens.
When Li Qiqi looked over, the liquor salesperson in front of her had already knelt down to Qiao Xiao.
Qiao Xiao was obsessed with beauty and ignored her.
However, the woman beside him who was massaging Qiao Xiao’s legs thoughtfully reached out, picked up the wine bottles from the tray, and placed them one by one on the table.
“The wine is delivered, Brother Xiao, may you be auspicious and safe.”
The salesperson cleared her throat and raised the tray in her hand even higher.
Only then did Qiao Xiao leave the beauty’s red lips and turn to look at the salesperson. He hooked the salesperson’s chin with the tip of his shoe, forcing her to look up, and his eyes wandered over her features.
Probably not very satisfied, Qiao Xiao unceremoniously withdrew his gaze, threw a stack of US dollars on the tray, and waved his hand to the salesperson,
“Get down.”
“Thank you, Brother Xiao.”
Having achieved her goal, the salesperson knelt back happily, retreating all the way to the outside of the private room before standing up, carefully putting the stack of US dollars into her pocket, and leaving without looking back.
It was her turn…
Li Qiqi took a deep breath, but her knees felt like they were filled with lead, and she couldn’t kneel down no matter what.
She didn’t understand why, with her current identity and situation, she was still stubbornly guarding that pitiful and ridiculous bit of self-esteem.
While hesitating, a thick and respectful voice suddenly sounded behind her.
“Master Qi, please!”