I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 125
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 125: She Is My Wife
After getting Jiang Ran's promise, Qi Yao thanked her gratefully, "Ranran, thank you. If you need my help in the future, I’ll be obliged to do my best."
The girl acted so righteous that Jiang Ran couldn't help laughing. "Well, I won't be polite with you."
She didn't have many friends in the base. It was rare to have a considerate girl like Qi Yao who had the same values as her as a friend. Jiang Ran didn't think of herself as a capable person, but she still hoped to do her best to help where possible.
……
The decision to move out wasn’t made on impulse. Qi Yao knew Chu Yuan's current thoughts, and she also knew that she had made up her mind.
She was Qi Yuan's sister, and Qi Yuan was the girl Chu Yuan once liked and loved the most. Even for the sake of the deceased Qi Yuan, he wouldn’t ask her to leave.
His silence didn’t mean that she could continue to shamelessly rely on him for shelter.
She was such a proud person. When faced with the ill intentions of superhumans, she could resolutely cut her face and seek safety on the road at the cost of disfigurement. Now, she couldn't bring herself to stay by his side and freeload off him.
Moreover, it would be even more impossible for him to calm down and listen to her explanation after living under the same roof day and night.
Since living under the same roof was torture, she would rather end the misery instead of prolonging it.
However, the girl did not move out of Chu Yuan's house in the end.
She thought Chu Yuan deliberately didn't go home to avoid her, but when she brought Jiang Ran back to the apartment to pack up, she found that the door of the master bedroom was ajar and the young man was packing his luggage.
Jiang Ran knocked on the door and looked inside. "Captain Chu, are you going on a mission?"
"Yeah."
After simply packing two pieces of clothes, Chu Yuan closed the suitcase, stood up and carried the suitcase, looking at the familiar face of the girl behind Jiang Ran.
There was a bit of caution in her eyes, but more of it was the determination and pride that would never appear in Qi Yuan’s eyes.
After regaining her memory, she got rid of the shadow of "Qi Yuan" overnight and became the original "Qi Yao".
Chu Yuan stared at her for a moment and said calmly, "I've been busy lately, and this mission came suddenly –– wait for me to come back. We'll have a good talk."
Qi Yao was about to say that she was going to move out, but Jiang Ran grabbed her wrist. She moved her lips but didn't make a sound. She turned her head to look at Jiang Ran, and saw Jiang Ran respond obediently, "Okay, leave her to me. Captain Chu, don't worry. Be careful during the mission."
Chu Yuan nodded. "Same to you in the base. If you encounter any trouble, go to Seventh Brother for help."
"Got it, Captain."
Chu Yuan's gaze shifted to Qi Yao, as if waiting for something.
Suddenly remembering that she seemed to have encountered this situation when she was at the blockade zone not long ago, Qi Yao hesitated, and replied in Jiang Ran's tone, "Got it, Captain."
Chu Yuan nodded and left with his suitcase.
After he left, Qi Yao sighed, looking very depressed.
Knowing what she was worried about, Jiang Ran patted her on the shoulder and comforted her, "It seems that Captain Chu isn’t deliberately avoiding you. He’s really busy –– let's wait until he comes back and talk about it."
Since he had left, Qi Yao couldn’t move out while he wasn’t at home. That would make her feel like a deserter. Furthermore, he had already said that he would talk to her when he came back...
The girl's eyes turned firm. "I'll wait for him here."
When he came back, she would pay him back for what she owed him.
……
When Si Xu received news of the mission, he just kept silent and didn't speak immediately.
When he was silent, no one in the conference room dared to say a word.
The man's eyes were fixed on the meeting materials. He read one page carefully and then turned to the next.
With half-closed eyes, Shen Lang leaned back in his chair, waiting with a leisurely expression. Luo Rui and Xie Chengzhi sat on both sides of him, pursing their lips and keeping silent.
As the captain of a superhuman team, Wei Yage sat next to Su Qin. She sat straight, and her eyes never left Si Xu.
Finally, Si Xu finished reading the materials.
The man resumed his usual lazy expression, and pushed the materials forward on the table.
"Professor Si, what do you think?" Shen Lang opened his eyes. He fixed his intense gaze on Si Xu.
Si Xu placed one hand on the conference table, his fingers tapping the table intentionally or unintentionally. His attractive eyes were filled with undisguised coldness, like ridicule and sarcasm, at Shen Lang’s words.
"I don’t think much of it."
The man spoke lightly, and his answer sounded like a provocation. However, those who knew him knew that he was just expressing his disagreement in a more concise way.
By saying he didn’t think much of it, it meant that he wasn’t optimistic about it. He disapproved of it but didn’t suggest an alternative.
Shen Lang thought he had experienced many ups and downs and had seen all kinds of people, but he was still furious at Si Xu’s indifferent tone.
The old man glanced at the guy next to him. Xie Chengzhi understood his intention and said, "Professor Si, I think..."
"Who are you?" At the thought of this man's former identity, Si Xu interrupted him coldly, his tone impatient, "Now, anyone can attend the conference meeting at will?"
Except for Shen Lang, this was the first time that Professor Si expressed his dislike for someone. Everyone looked at Xie Chengzhi with varying expressions, many of which were sarcastic.
Xie Chengzhi's face flushed because of Si Xu’s contemptuous tone, and for a moment, he didn't know how to reply to Si Xi.
Seeing Xie Chengzhi's embarrassment, Shen Lang coughed softly and said lightly, "They are the people I brought here, Professor Si."
He had thought that young people were too ambitious, and that they would restrain their temper after suffering setbacks, but Si Xu's sarcasm was also a slap in his face, so the old man naturally wouldn’t ignore it.
"Professor Si, you said that not anybody is allowed to attend the conference meeting. But I remember that last time, you brought Ranran with you..." The old man paused, but the meaning of his words was clear.
"Ranran isn’t an outsider." Si Xu's mouth curled up faintly, and he said leisurely, "Ranran is my family. She’s my wife."
What kind of shameless answer was that?! Coughs came one after another in the conference room, and the onlookers tried to reduce their presence as much as possible.
Shen Lang was also rendered speechless by the man's straightforward answer. The veins on his forehead protruded, and his fingers holding the cane curled up tightly to restrain his surging anger.
Wife? If he really regarded Jiang Ranran as his wife, why didn’t he take him, her elder, seriously?
"Marshal Shen, there isn’t much time left. Let's get down to business." Every word of the young man pierced Wei Yage’s heart like a thorn. Not wanting to stay in the conference room any longer, Wei Yage said directly, "Although Professor Si thinks it’s inappropriate, even if there’s only a little hope about the virus vaccine, we shouldn’t give up –– I volunteer to go to the No. 1 laboratory in Zhoushan City and retrieve the data."
Besides the laboratory in Xiling, laboratories in Zhoushan City and Beihe City also carried out this virus experiment back then.
After the disaster, the experimental bases in Zhoushan and Beihe were forced to be abandoned, and most of the staff died in the disaster. Naturally, no one sorted out the relevant data.
The resources problem of Xiling base had been temporarily solved. Various crop test fields and related experiments were also proceeding in an orderly manner. They could devote most of their manpower and material resources to solve virus-related problems now.
They had thought that this was a decision that everyone would support, but who knew that Si Xu would once again be the first to oppose it?
Why use "once again"? It was because ever since Si Xu took over the laboratory, he hadn’t agreed with Shen Lang's decision even once.
