Secret & Lies (the forsaken #1) [WangXian FF]

10

Wei Wuxian spent the rest of his probation in peace, and when the end date came, he didn't bother saying goodbye to anyone. Instead, he came to his main headquarter and looked for the boss.

"Yo, my man, finished your probation already? Man, time flew so fast, we're kinda missing you here." A bulked up man gave Wei Wuxian a side hug and a fist bump.

"Piss off, Wen Chao, is the boss in?" He returned the fist bump and pointed to the boss' office.

"She's in, and she's been waiting for you."

Wei Wuxian nodded and knocked on the door before entering.

"Come in." Jiang Yanli, Wei Wuxian's boss and sister, was sitting behind the desk with a smile on her face. 

"So, have you cleared your head?" 

There was no preamble, no greeting, but Wei Wuxian knew that she really cared for him although she often didn't show it.

"You spy on me?" He sat on the chair in front of her desk.

"Hell, A-Xian, this was your only black mark in your whole existence, so how did I not know about it? Besides, Lan Wangji was a looker too." She winked at him. 

"Is."

"Pardon?"

"Nothing. This a new mission?" Wei Wuxian took the folder marked confidential on Jiang Yanli's desk and opened it.

"Yeah, suspicious artifact's sighting in Monaco, it's a possibility that another artifact has resurfaced. Level eight danger level. Thirteen people had perished in… compromising situations."

"Thirteen? What an odd number."

"One of them was a… ménage à trois."

"Ah, I see."

"So, there will be an auction for the high and mighty and you'll be attending with A-Cheng this time."

"What? Am I still on probation? I always work alone and you know that, Jie."

"Cheng needs the experience and you need… backup."

"Bullshit, Cheng is already capable by himself, and…"

"A-Xian, it's not a request." Jiang Yanli slid another folder to him. "There were reports of the Lóng Qíshì making their move, and their leader, Bai Shenlong, was spotted in Monaco. Intel said that he will attend the auction too."

Wei Wuxian leaned back on his chair.

"I thought he was already retired."

"We all thought so, but take a look." Jiang Yanli clicked on the remote and the huge monitor on their left opened to show a photograph of a tall man with long silver hair from behind. In another photo, Wei Wuxian could see his side profile, and he wore dark aviator sunglasses. In those photographs, he was alone and casually strolling on the street.

"How do you know that he is Bai Shenlong? Not some impostor or look alike?

"That's why you're gonna find out." She handed him a plastic pouch. "This is your ID, passport, money and all the necessities, as usual. I already gave Cheng his. Get ready, you're going in three hours."

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They got into the private auction that was held only for the rich and powerful, and Wei Wuxian had an opinion of which items were suspected of being the artifact that they were looking for. There were a few suspicious items, one of them was an ancient incense burner, the other one was the ice snow orchid that only grows every one hundred years and rumored to be a great aphrodisiac other than its other properties including healing.

Wei Wuxian's opinion was heavy on the incense burner, but as the night went on, he found out that the buyer for the incense burner and the orchid was the same person. 

The tall man with white hair. Bai Shenlong.

Unfortunately he wore a mask. So he quickly found out where the man was staying and he planned to check his room for artifact confirmation later that night.

Wei Wuxian got ready to sneak into the room that according to his intelligence was the location of the artifact that he was supposed to retrieve and it happened to be one of the royal suite rooms on top of the building. But since Wei Wuxian was a master of breaking and entering, it didn't bother him at all.

He landed with a soft thud on the balcony of the suite and took a peek inside to find out that it was dark. He quietly opened the french door and slipped inside, and took a few seconds to adjust his sight to the darkness.

First thing he noticed was the strange smell.

It was heavy and sickeningly sweet and got him dizzy after he inhaled it for a few times. 

Wei Wuxian staggered and accidentally tripped on something that landed him on the bed.

He was cursing because although it's too late, he recognized the smell as one of the most lethal poison that would kill him in a few hours if he did not find someone to sleep with. 

The infamous lovesick poison.

The thing was, Wei Wuxian had a very rare one in a billion people poison body constitution, which supposedly made him immune to all of the poisons. And he did. Until now.

First he was gradually feeling hot all over, and suffocated thinking that he wore too many layers of clothes. He started to take his clothes off one by one, until he was naked, and even after that he still felt hot.

"Fuck fuck fuck." Wei Wuxian cursed out loud. Was this the artifact doing? He didn't even know which one of the artifact it was and it already consumed him in a not very good way.

"I was wondering what the cat dragged in with such noise."

Wei Wuxian was very surprised hearing the voice beside him that sounded so intimate. He tried to look at the direction of the voice but his body felt heavy and his sight was blurry; he could only make out the outline of a tall man with… white hair.

Fuck.

"Get out of here… danger… lovesick…" Wei Wuxian was panting hard, trying to hold on to the last shred of his self control and dignity.

But the man walked closer to the bed, and as Wei Wuxian lost the last of his control, he grabbed the man's hand and pulled him hard until he fell down on him and kissed him.

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