Chapter 81: The Big-Tailed Wolf with Its Tail Between Its Legs

“Kill you? You’ve committed every evil under heaven, and you still want an easy death?” Yao Yao sneered, drawing a silver needle from her shoe. “This is only the beginning.”

With a grin, she strode toward the man.

Fear seized him. He kept shrinking back, but each movement tugged at his wounds, and the pain drove him nearly mad.

Yet he did not dare stop fleeing.

This little girl looked harmless, but she was a demon in human skin.

Terrifying. Too terrifying.

Yao Yao reached out and, with startling ease, hauled him back. Then, swift and merciless, she drove the needle into his head.

In the next instant, the man felt as though his mind were being devoured by countless ants, and he let out a miserable scream.

Feng Yuqi maintained a cool expression and rubbed his nose, utterly unmoved.

Yao Yao pulled out the needle, leaving him to endure the lingering agony.

“I was wrong. I know I was wrong. I won’t do it again...” The man could not even spare the saliva running from his mouth as he begged repeatedly, “Please give me one more chance.”

One more chance?

What exactly were people thinking when they said such things?

Yao Yao watched him with a face of ice, then waved Feng Yuqi over. “You do it.”

Feng Yuqi froze and took the silver needle. “Boss, no way. I’m only good at brute force. What if I accidentally prick the wrong point and kill him?”

At that, Yao Yao gave him a disappointed pat, as though lamenting that he was beyond saving.

“What are you saying? The thing people fear most is looking down on themselves.”

She lifted her chin toward the man on the ground. “Look at him—how can he be so confident, thinking he has what it takes to lead? You should believe in yourself too. It’s only a tiny silver needle; it won’t beat you.”

Feng Yuqi scratched his head, his simple, hearty reaction proving that brute strength was indeed his only virtue. He gave a goofy laugh, and his foolish expression only made the man more afraid.

“You’re right. Everything has a first time. At worst, I’ll fail. It’s only killing a man.”

“Only killing a man?” the man blurted, unable to stop himself. “My life is a life too...”

But Feng Yuqi swept him with a cold glance.

Yao Yao seized the man’s chin like a pair of tongs and pointed to the acupuncture point. “Here... Insert it from here, and you must control your force. Even a slight deviation changes the effect completely.”

“Got it.”

“What are you doing? This isn’t a joke! Have you lost your minds?” the man howled, twisting faintly in an attempt to struggle, yet he could not move at all.

Feng Yuqi had too much strength in his hand, but using a silver needle required a deft touch. The needle did not go in too deep, and still the man felt that same sensation of being gnawed by countless ants.

“Boss, does this count as a success?”

Yao Yao looked coldly at the man rolling on the ground. “Yes. You did well.”

Praise from the boss made Feng Yuqi clap happily.

After that, Yao Yao used the man’s body to teach Feng Yuqi a great deal about the human body.

By the time they were done, the man was more dead than alive.

Having learned from this experience, Yao Yao immediately changed out of her entire outfit and threw it away.

Though she had been warned, the Gu family still kept a close eye on Yao Yao.

Gu Shicheng was astonished to hear that she had been secretly doing such things.

A frail little girl doing this?

This girl was far from simple.

When she left, Yao Yao smiled at Feng Yuqi. “You’re together with Wanqing?”

“Huh? Yes.”

At the mention of it, Feng Yuqi could not help but blush. Perhaps it was a matter of genes; unlike those rough, dark-skinned men, he had smooth, delicate features. Without his lean, muscular frame, people would have mistaken him for a pretty boy.

“Is it because you truly like her? Or because of my connection with her?”

Yao Yao had to ask clearly, because the outcome would be very different.

When two people are together, anything other than love is hollow.

“Boss, I do like her. But before, the gap between us was too great. She came from a wealthy family, while I was just a poor kid. If it hadn’t been for you, I never would have reached where I am today.”

Feng Yuqi was reserved and rarely spoke his heart. Before, Yao Yao had been the only one; now there was one more, Yu Wanqing.

To others, his work as an assistant seemed like servility, like spending every day running around for people with neither dignity nor pride. In truth, it was the first high-paying, respectable job within his reach.

There were plenty of jobs harder than an assistant’s, and far less dignified.

“I didn’t know you were still so hung up on the past,” Yao Yao teased. “From now on, I’m your sister, and I’m your backing. If anyone looks down on you, tell me.”

She could not tell him simply to ignore where he came from.

Even her own false identity as an orphan from an orphanage had brought her plenty of trouble, let alone a real one.

Society was so ruthless. There was no changing it, and no truly not caring about it either. One could only adapt.

“No one looks down on me.”

“All right, then go back to work. Everything’s settled.” Yao Yao waved him off.

...

Ye Group.

Ye Shen had heard about Ye Qian’s injury and was preparing to send people to handle it, only to find that the matter had already been cleaned up.

Who did this?

At that moment, the door opened, and Ye Qian walked in properly dressed.

Ye Shen studied him with a deep gaze, and seeing that he had not lost an arm or a leg, he finally relaxed. Yet his words were teasing. “Why weren’t you hacked off a limb or two?”

“Were you looking forward to my new style?”

Ye Qian walked over, braced a hand on the desk, and stared at him closely. “Did you take care of the black boss and his confidant for me?”

Though they appeared estranged, their hearts were close.

Ye Shen shook his head. “No.”

“Really?”

“Why would I deny something I did?”

Ye Qian straightened. Then who had it been?

Within this circle, he had very few friends, and even the one confidant he trusted had betrayed him.

If it had not been Ye Shen, Ye Qian could not think of anyone else.

“What’s wrong?” Ye Shen sensed something off.

“Brother, I suspect Yao Yao handled it for me. I went to find her last night after I was injured.”

“What?”

At that, Ye Shen sprang to his feet in agitation and grabbed Ye Qian by the shoulders. Only after noticing the other man frown did he let go. “How could you go to Yao Yao? Haven’t we kept everything secret all these years precisely to protect her?”

“I know. I was just impulsive last night.” Ye Qian sounded guilty.

Ye Shen calmed down, then thought over what he had just heard and belatedly asked, “Wait, what did you say? You suspect Yao Yao handled it for you? How could she? She...”

“She went out in the middle of the night last night. When she came back, she had blood on her clothes, but she wasn’t injured.”

Ye Qian had been in this world long enough to be perceptive. “But she said she only got it from going out for a late-night meal with a friend. I had people check, and she really did go out for supper.”

Something was wrong.

He kept feeling that things were not nearly so simple.

“Yao Yao didn’t come to the company this afternoon. By the time the traitor was found, he was already a corpse in the wilderness,” Ye Qian said truthfully.

Perhaps it was a coincidence.

But it could not be such a coincidence.

Hearing this, Ye Shen began to doubt it as well.

Their harmless little sister was actually a wolf in sheep’s clothing, hiding her fangs with her tail tucked low.