QT: Against My Will (Volume 2)

5.70 - Dinner Guest - The Sleepless Elite's Wife

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Edited by Psycho S.

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Li Jie arrived inside an inconspicuous six-story apartment building located within the metropolis's busy streets. He called it inconspicuous because, compared to other buildings on the busy street, it was relatively low-key...

Holding two bottles of wine in his left hand, he pressed the doorbell with Shiffer's nameplate. A tall, half-naked man in a simple pair of sweatpants opened the door for him. It looked like he was still in the process of putting on a T-Shirt, "..."

Lu Kai covered the rest of his well-defined abs with the shirt, so the scratch marks that covered his torso were hidden, "You're early." He opened the door wider and gave Li Jie a pair of slippers for guests, "Come in."

"..." Li Jie handed Lu Kai the bottles of wine as he followed him inside, "The underground garage is filled with cars...but I didn't see any other residents besides you two?"

"Oh, that," Bing Shi walked out of the kitchen with a spatula in her hand, "There were some problems with the neighbors. At first, we bought the units around us. Then, Lu Kai ran out of garage space, so we ended up buying the whole building."

With so much free space left, Xiao Pu could choose whichever apartment he wanted, and with the pocket money he received every month, he could decorate it however he pleased like a grown-up man! Xiao Pu was very pleased with this arrangement. It felt like he was very independent.

"..." Li Jie complained inwardly: 'You two are on another level of extravagance.' Then he helped Lu Kai to set the table, "Why don't you move into a house?"

"Why waste time on moving, when you can pay others to go away?" Lu Kai took the utensils from Li Jie's hand and admonished the man, "You're a guest. Sit."

They could drive in and out of the complex as different people without catching too much attention. Having all his new cars nearby came in handy whenever he needed to change his identity: for example, those times when he went to pick up Bing Shi as a taxi driver or drove to the school as a teacher with concerningly low-income.

"You can lower the price if you make others think that it's haunted or if someone's been killed in the house." Bing Shi laughed from the kitchen. Some apartments were available for short-term tenancy. Currently, some tourists were renting a few apartments and their cars for a couple of weeks. Hubby decided to become a shinobi like her, and Lu Kai seemed to be best suited for this. Without special access to confidential files, one would have a hard time exploring his background; that itself could be incredibly useful.

Li Jie was too speechless to utter a word. He could become a cripple with the flick of one of their fingers... and he would probably end up being grateful for it (See Mo Luwei's case). Did this make him a masochist of some kind? To avoid the ensuing awkward silence, he looked in amazement at the number of dishes, "She cooked all of this?"

"She cooked these," Lu Kai pointed at the rice, mapo tofu, and stir-fried pork, "And bought the rest." He rearranged the food Bing Shi brought closer to him, subtly marking his territory. "I hear you wanted to meet me?"

Li Jie didn't expect that Lu Kai would agree to his request. What surprised Li Jie even more was that this man even invited him for dinner at what seemed to be their home rather than a restaurant. "It's about my cooperation with Silika. If you want to blame someone, blame me. Don't blame her."

Lu Kai met his gaze with a cool, almost standoffish stare. His blue eyes, half-lidded and therefore hidden by a curtain of eyelashes, hid whatever motives he had from Li Jie.