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Xue Qing was observing Chen Yu from his behind while he installed the A.I for the virtual 3D behind the huge mirror. She was trying to be quiet but Chen Yu could feel her warm breath on his neck, and it gave him goosebumps.
"Don't you have anywhere else to go?" He was partly annoyed, partly aroused, since the girl smelled so good. And as usual, she replied to him in her trademark sharp retort.
"I'm playing bodyguard here, although I don't understand why, since that girl is so much better than me at fighting. And since she's busy, I'm here to bother you. So yeah, I don't really have anywhere else to go." Xue Qing sat beside him.
Chen Yu sighed, but he didn't say anything.
"Say, you wanna go out with me sometimes? Like lunch, or coffee… of course if you want." Xue Qing suddenly asked the startling question to Chen Yu, who dropped his tab in shock and looked at the girl to see if she was joking or not. But she was actually blushing to her ears.
"How old are you again?" Chen Yu made sure that she was of age before he began to have inappropriate thoughts.
"Don't worry, I'm already legal. Eighteen. In case you're going to ask me for a drink."
"..... fine. I'll give you a call sometime after this, or maybe you should just give me a call." Chen Yu grinned as he picked up his tab.
"I might do that." Xue Qing smiled, then she picked up her phone and dialed a number. Coincidentally Chen Yu's phone rang at the same time. He picked it up to see a new number.
"Yes?"
"So, are you free tonight for a drink?" Xue Qing grinned. It was her who called Chen Yu, and he rolled his eyes.
"Well, I may be free tonight, depending on the boss." He also grinned from amusement. This girl was… interesting.
"Okay then, I'll pick you up at seven." She ended the call and then after thinking for a bit, she kissed Chen Yu's cheek, then left.
Chen Yu was so baffled he could not concentrate for the rest of the day, until Liu Qingge kicked his ass, literally.
"Dude, get your head out of the cloud or I swear I'll install an A.I inside your brain."
That threat sounded serious coming from Liu Qingge, so Chen Yu hurriedly focused his mind and quickly finished his job. The A.I hologram device was not as complicated as it looked. It was basically a smart hologram that could interact with customers, and adjust themselves to better suit every person's preference. And they looked very real. They could dance, or chat, but when a lewd act was initiated, the person who did that would be zapped with low frequency electricity. Three violations would ban the customer forever. That was Wei Wuxian's idea, since he did not want to use real dancers and escorts. And the idea was so ingenious, Hua Cheng wanted one for every club they owned too. They could also project singers, bands, etcetera, depending on the program. But Wei Wuxian did not want to sell it. He had the patent, but it was only for their own use. It was too advanced for the other people anyway, just like Suibian. And the maintenance was a pain, it took an expert at least at Chen Yu's degree to be able to maintain the A.I and checked for errors periodically.
"Have you interviewed the bartenders, waitress and waiter candidates?" Hua Cheng asked Luo Binghe who was deep in resumes.
"I got most of them from my people, as per Xianxian's request since he doesn't trust new people, the security should be from your side, I just need a couple more civilian bartenders, and I find these two are good." He showed the resumes to Hua Cheng, who took and read them.
"Jun Ruoxi, twenty two, hmm, she used to work at Crimson Butterfly before she had to leave to take care of her sick father." Hua Cheng looked at one of the resumes. "Should be good if she used to work at Crimson Butterfly." Then he looked at the other one. "Yan Qing, twenty one, also from Crimson Butterfly? What's with my people run away to work here?" Hua Cheng chuckled, but he knew that the turnover for a bartender job was very high, so he approved both of them since it would be easier to teach them.
Purgatory would be ready to open soon.
Wei Wuxian was busy arranging the liquor bottles downstairs, when Hua Cheng approached him with two attractive strangers. He already put the rarer collection upstairs at his quarter, and the rest would be put inside the special climate controlled room back at the level two of the ex seminary building. It was converted to become a wine cellar, and the barrels were put there. They were still not mature enough judging from the label outside. Wei Wuxian hoped that all the moving would not affect those precious liquors inside since it had been years since the last time they were opened.
"Wei Ying, these are the two bartenders from Crimson Butterfly, Jun Ruoxi and Yan Qing. They will start to work here as soon as we're open, so I take them to familiarize themselves." Hua Cheng introduced them to Wei Wuxian. The girl was sweet looking with short hair and a petite body, the boy was handsome, tall, fully tattooed and had a flirty grin on his face.
"She is the boss?" The boy, Yan Qing, gave Wei Wuxian a blatant once over, which earned him a slap from Jun Ruoxi.
"Actually, he is the boss." Wei Wuxian pointed to Hua Cheng. I'm only here to learn. Right, Hua Cheng gege?" Wei Wuxian winked at Hua Cheng. They all agreed that Wei Wuxian would remain behind the scene, since it would give him more freedom, and the club would be taken care of by Hua Cheng and Luo Binghe, as it was back then. Besides, Wei Wuxian did not have much patience nor time to deal with the day-to-day itinerary.
"Yes, Hua Cheng is the boss. This woman here, is the future Mrs. Lan." Lan Wangji suddenly appeared and grabbed Wei Wuxian from behind and gave him a kiss. "Hi."
"Hi…" Wei Wuxian smiled. "Back so soon?" He kissed Lan Wangji back.
"Mm, I want to check the progress here." When he first entered, he walked to where Chen Yu and Liu Qingge were tinkering with the A.I program. It was such an interesting invention that Lan Wangji even thought of using the program for customer services, since he knew how much of a headache those people had every day with the complaints from all over the world, valid or not. But he was not in a hurry. He then walked back to where Wei Wuxian was chatting with the new bartenders, who looked at him with wide eyes, especially the boy, and he felt the sudden flare of jealousy. So he grabbed Wei Wuxian's waist and dragged him out of there.
"We have to go to the police station to watch the interview with Jin Guangshan." He tried to explain his behaviour, but Wei Wuxian knew about his intention and chuckled then pinched his waist softly.
"I'm all yours, Lan Zhan."
"I did not kill my wife!" Jin Guangshan yelled at Detective Jiang, while Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian watched from behind the one way mirror. "I found her dead when I was back from my business trip." He looked desperate. He knew he could not get away with the other murders since his DNA was found inside the womb of three women, and the small skeletons of their fetuses too. The men were in various states of decaying, and also had traces of Jin Guangshan's DNA inside them. Although in reality it was actually Madam Jin who killed them. Those were the reigns that she held over Jin Guangshan to make him submit. And now, even in death, she still took her revenge on him.
"You should ask that crazy bitch, Jin Su, I found my wife dead in her room!" He still yelled and wiped his perspiration with his cuffed hand.
"We will. Can you tell me the whereabouts of your daughter?" Detective Jiang was starting to get a headache from all the yelling. At least he nailed Jin Guangshan down for the other murders, and all that was left was Madam Jin's murder. According to Lan Wangji's girlfriend, which was confirmed by the autopsy, the killer was much shorter and weaker than Jin Guangshan, and the person that fit the description in the whole Jin's household was Jin Su. Or Jin Guangshan's secretary. But judging from the amount of the stab wounds, it was more likely the daughter, because it showed anger and resentment. It was not easy to stab a person that many times with a small knife.
"I have no idea! She left after she killed her mother and I never saw her again ever since that day!"
"And you didn't even think of reporting your daughter's disappearance to the police?" Detective Jiang looked at Jin Guangshan in disdain. This was the lowest of the lowest. Even animals protected their young, but this? Unbelievable. The same thought ran through both Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian's mind when they watched the interview.
"At least we got him for eight murders." Wen Zhuliu, who stood beside him, put down his cigarette in satisfaction. "By the way, did you know that all of his assets disappeared overnight? And also someone raided his precious liquor collection the day he was arrested, and nobody saw a thing." Wen Zhuliu observed Lan Wangji, but it was in vain since Lan Wangji was a master in poker face. Wei Wuxian only snorted and coughed before he excused himself to the bathroom.
"Mn." Lan Wangji did not say anything, but the corner of his lips lifted up a bit. Wen Zhuliu noticed that, but he chose to ignore it, since Jin Guangshan deserved what he got now.
"Anyway, we will find Jin Su and Jin Zixun for questioning about Madam Jin's murder, and the rape cases you dumped on my subordinate." Wen Zhuliu sighed. It was easier to talk, since those two chaebols had money, and they could disappear out of the country to one without extradition.
"Don't worry, we will find them."
Somehow, Wen Zhuliu felt that the we Lan Wangji mentioned, was not the police at all. But as long as he got them, he would turn a blind eye. They had been such a nuisance for the police and for the people anyway. No one would miss the Jins.
"I'm hungry, can we eat now?" Wei Wuxian came in and whined. Lan Wangji pulled the girl closer and nodded.
Wen Zhuliu looked at the beautiful young woman with a mixed feeling inside his mind. She was devastatingly beautiful, but so was Mo Xuanyu, and the latter had not been dead for a whole month when Lan Wangji brought this young woman over. And strangely, she looked a little bit like Mo Xuanyu. Was she just a rebound girl? But from the soft look in Lan Wangji's eyes, he doubted that. That was the same look when he was with Mo Xuanyu.
Ah, well, not his business anyway, as long as Hanguang Jun kept helping them with cases, he could change girlfriends every other day.
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