I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 54
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 54: This Is My Fiancée
Chu Yuan had an innocent baby face, but his methods were ruthless. Almost no one in the entire base dared to offend him –– except Si Xu, the most hated guy in this base.
Yet, those who hated Chu Yuan were no match for him and could only watch him continue to be arrogant in the base.
However, those in the superhuman team respected him very much, because this captain of the first superhuman team was very protective of the people around him.
Just like now, after he finished yelling at the superhumans on duty, he looked directly at the group of people who were arguing just now. The man popped the lollipop in his mouth, without any expression on his baby face.
"I’m asking you. Why were you making such a fuss?" He put one hand in his pocket and stood lazily, like a big cat dozing off. "Didn’t anyone teach you the rules of the base? Don't you know that you aren’t allowed to make any noise after the curfew?"
"Sir, we just arrived at the base today, and we aren’t very clear about the situation in the base." Knowing that there was no lack of capable superhumans in such a large base, the man with yellowish teeth smiled and apologized, "I'm sorry for disturbing you. We won’t argue anymore. Rest assured."
It wasn’t sure whether Chu Yuan heard what the man with yellowish teeth said. He strolled toward the office. "Since everything’s fine, what are you doing here?"
"They haven't come to pick them up yet." The superhuman reported the situation in a low voice.
Just as he finished speaking, a patrol car approached –– the staff who came to pick up the newcomers arrived.
Glancing at the patrol car, Chu Yuan walked toward the office.
……
With the appearance of a seemingly powerful person, Qi Yuan was worried that the other party would kick her out of the base because she instigated a "crime." While the night was moonless and windy, she cautiously kicked the glass bottle still at her feet into the snow.
She was so serious about destroying the evidence that she didn't notice that the staff who came to pick them up had arrived. It wasn't until someone shouted, "Qi Yuan! Let's go!" that she remembered that she couldn't be left behind.
……
Qi Yuan! Let’s go!
A moderate shout came from the crowd, causing Chu Yuan to stop walking as he reached the door of the office.
Did he mishear it? Or was he hearing things because he kept thinking about that matter?
The man bit into the lollipop and turned to look at the group of newcomers who were about to leave.
"Wait a minute."
He called out to the group of people. Seeing that they all turned around like startled birds, he expressionlessly licked his back teeth and looked at the crowd.
"Which of you is Qi Yuan?"
……
They could finally leave.
Qi Yuan yawned and was happy that she could go to bed when she heard the arrogant man speak again.
She was forced to stop and lowered her head along with her companions to wait for the lecture –– the leaders were all arrogant and troublesome, yet she couldn’t express her dissatisfaction with them. Otherwise, they would give you a hard time in the blink of an eye.
She felt so sleepy and wanted to sleep.
She yawned again and raised her hand to wipe away the tears secreted from the corners of her eyes. She felt that she was so sleepy that she could automatically block the leader's lecture from her mind.
She wanted to block his words from her mind, but the people around her suddenly stared at her with tacit understanding. Her sleepiness was scared away by their strange expressions.
Qi Yuan, "..."
Blinking her eyes in confusion, her mind automatically recalled what the leader said to make everyone look at her like that.
"Which of you... is Qi Yuan?"
He seemed to have asked that question.
Qi Yuan became even more confused. Was this person asking about her? Did he know her? Did she finally get a chance to play up to the leader?
……
After he asked the question, the group of people’s reactions already told him the answer.
Chu Yuan's eyes were fixed on the girl who lowered her head and said nothing. Overwhelmed by his emotions, he was speechless for a moment.
Was she Qi Yuan? Was a wealthy family like the Qi family also so vulnerable in the face of disaster? Did the fact that she was here alone among the fleeing people mean that all the rest of the Qi family were killed?
That was really...
The man licked his back teeth again and gave a sinister smile.
That was really satisfying.
However... was this girl really the Qi Yuan he knew? Qi Yuan, the second young lady of the Qi family in Fengyang?
Chu Yuan said nothing. The girl raised her skinny arm tremblingly in the snowy night, and answered his question in a voice that was lighter than the wind.
"I’m Qi Yuan."
Chu Yuan, "..."
The voice was soft and delicate, which was very different from the loud and cheerful voice in his memory.
Chu Yuan crooked his finger and said like a gangster, "Are you Qi Yuan? Come forward and let me take a look."
The skinny girl stepped out slowly –– just one step forward than the other people –– she still lowered her head and looked well-behaved.
"Look up." Chu Yuan said impatiently, "How do I look at you with your head down? Or do you think your head is prettier than your face?"
The girl raised her head, her cheeks puffing, looking a little annoyed.
When Chu Yuan saw her thin face with sunken cheeks, he suddenly relaxed.
It was her.
She was still alive and had come to him alive.
However, why was she looking at him with those confused eyes? Chu Yuan frowned hard. He looked at the girl and gritted his teeth. "Qi Yuan, you’ve finally met me, your fiancé. Why aren't you saying hello?"
……
Fi-fiancé?
Everyone present gasped. Shu Yue was even more worked up than Qi Yuan and blurted out, "Are you Qi Yuan's fiancé?!"
This woman's voice was really unpleasant, and yet she shouted so loudly. How noisy! Chu Yuan gave her a cold look. "It’s none of your business." He looked at the dazed staff. "Take them away. Are you waiting for me to see you off?!"
"Yes, Captain Chu!" The staff watching the show silently immediately rushed the group of people like sheep, shouting "Don't fall behind," and took the newcomers to the administrative hall to report.
"You." Chu Yuan saw the girl trying to sneak away in the crowd, but Chu Yuan refused to let her get her way. "Wait."
The girl's pace quickened, and she was about to climb into the vehicle that picked them up.
"I’ve told you to wait." In a flash, Chu Yuan reached the girl's side. He held her by the collar of her back like a chicken and pulled her out of the crowd. "Why are you running away, Qi Yuan?"
The girl kicked her legs as hard as she could. Seeing that she couldn't break free, she looked back at him with tears in her eyes. "Captain Chu." She heard the person on duty call him that. "I just handed over a glass bottle. I didn't do anything. It’s true!"
"What glass bottle?"
"That guy touched the girl, so I handed over the glass bottle so that she could hit him with it." Qi Yuan said aggrievedly, "Please let me off. I really didn't mean it!"
"Oh, I see," Chu Yuan responded with a smile. He said to the driver, "You may start the vehicle. This girl shall stay with me."
"Sure, Captain Chu, you can do whatever you want~" After everyone was seated, the driver stepped on the accelerator and fled.
"Hey!" Qi Yuan stretched out her hand and said, "Don't go!"
When the vehicle disappeared in sight, Chu Yuan let go of Qi Yuan and clapped his hands. "Stop shouting. People in the vehicle can't hear you."
Qi Yuan retracted her hand immediately, and stood obediently. "Captain Chu, what else do you want?"
"What do I want?" Chu Yuan squinted and smiled with evil intentions. "Look, we’ve finally met. The time is right now. Let's have a good time together. What do you think?"
What did I think? I didn't think it was a good idea! Qi Yuan wanted to rebuke. "Captain Chu, you’ve gotten the wrong person. I’m not your fiancée."
"No?" The man raised an eyebrow. "Qi Yuan, are you refusing to admit it after we slept together?"
"I didn’t sleep with you! I don’t even know you!” Qi Yuan got furious at his teasing. “You big pervert! I don’t have a fiancé at all!”
"Huh?" The girl's eyes were red with anger. It didn't look like she was lying. Chu Yuan stopped joking. "You don't remember me?"
He didn’t ask if she knew him, but whether she remembered him.
Qi Yuan was momentarily speechless. This person acted so justified. Did she really know him?
Chu Yuan asked again, "You really don't remember me?"
Qi Yuan, "..." After hesitating for a moment, she reluctantly admitted, "Four years ago, I had a car accident. I don’t remember anything before the car accident. But!"
"Huh?" Four years ago? Car accident? Was it before or after he left Fengyang? Was it a coincidence? Or was it a deliberate human action? Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and he asked absently, "But what?"
"If you’re really my fiancé, why have my parents never mentioned you in front of me?" Qi Yuan glared at him. "In my four years of memories, you’ve never appeared in front of me in those years!"
"Oh, it was because we broke off our engagement four years ago," Chu Yuan answered matter-of-factly.
Looking at that innocent baby face, Qi Yuan wanted to take off her shoe and slap him in the face with it.
"Then you just..."
"Qi Yuan, we really love each other." Putting one hand on the top of the girl's hair, Chu Yuan leaned close to the girl, and his warm breath fell on her ear. "We really love each other, but after my family fell into decline, your father forced you to break off the engagement with me. For some reasons, I was forced to leave Fengyang City. You know, after the disaster happened, I was really worried about you..."
The man said seriously. His eyes that were darker than the night were filled with her reflection, which gave her the feeling that he was seeing her in his eyes and in his heart.
The temperature of Qi Yuan’s cheeks rose uncontrollably, and she stammered, "If that's really the case, I... why don't I remember you at all?"
"You really don't remember me at all?" After confirming that the girl was not lying, Chu Yuan stood up straight and chuckled softly. "I lied to you."
The blushing Qi Yuan said, "Huh?"
"What I said just now is a lie." Chu Yuan smiled roguishly. "You didn't really believe it, did you?"
Qi Yuan, "..."
Seeing her dazed expression, Chu Yuan laughed even louder.
As he laughed, a glass bottle flew toward him and hit him on the shoulder with a thud.
It didn’t hurt him one bit.
He didn’t know where the girl grabbed the beer bottle. So as not to scare her away, Chu Yuan did not continue teasing her.
He stopped laughing and walked toward the girl with one hand in his pocket. "Let's go."
As he approached, Qi Yuan raised another glass bottle –– this was what she had prepared just now to hit the guy with yellowish teeth. She had thought it had no use, but now she could use it to hit this pervert.
"What are you doing?" Chu Yuan passed by her casually. "Let’s go. Are you going to stand here and turn into an ice sculpture?"
Qi Yuan said angrily, "Where are we going?"
Chu Yuan said matter-of-factly, "To my house." He looked at her sideways. "Do you want to spend the night here?"
Chu Yuan said, glancing at the two people who were leaning at the door. The two people retracted and slammed the door shut.
Qi Yuan, "..."
The vehicle had left and they had closed the door. If she stayed here for the night, where could she stay? In the snow?!
"Are you leaving?" Satisfied with his subordinates’ astuteness, Chu Yuan walked lazily toward Qi Yuan without paying any heed to her threatening eyes. "Seeing that you’re homeless, I can take you in for one night –– Oh, remember to throw away the bottle in your hand."
Qi Yuan could adapt to circumstances. "Captain Chu, thank you for taking me in." But she didn't throw the bottle away obediently.
"If I really want to do anything to you, do you think this glass bottle can protect you?"
Chu Yuan snorted mockingly, but he did not force her to throw the bottle away.
He took two steps forward, looked back at her, and said impatiently, "Qi Yuan, are you leaving?"
"..." The girl reluctantly put the bottle back in the corner, and trotted a few steps behind the young man.
……
Gu Yunqing and Su Qin's convoy brought back more than a dozen cars of supplies, including three cars of crop seeds and two cars of scarce medical supplies for the base, which temporarily solved the base's problem of a shortage of supplies.
As Si Xu had returned, Shen Lang issued a meeting notice to the leaders and senior management of each superhuman team. The meeting time was set at ten o'clock in the morning.
Shen Lang was the person in charge of the base, and the two young masters of the Shen family also held important positions in the superhuman teams. The Shen family was now in the limelight, and no one dared to snub them.
Oh, except for Professor Si in charge of the laboratory.
The minute hand of the clock on the wall of the conference room pointed to six. Half an hour had passed since the start of the meeting, and Professor Si arrived belatedly.
The young man had put on a laboratory coat, and even the silver work badge with the number "0007" engraved on it was fastened to his chest meticulously. But after he came in, his every move gave people a sense of perfunctory absent-mindedness.
Si Xu sat down in his usual seat, and Shen Lang announced the start of the meeting with a cold face.
First, the people from the military command building and the infrastructure department reported on their recent work in detail, and then the captains of the five superhuman teams reported on the execution of their recent missions...
During the lengthy process, Gu Yunqing noticed that Si Xu yawned a total of thirteen times.
The man turned the pen in his hand boredly, and his eyes fell on the tea cup on his right. He thought of something, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.
"Qin." Gu Yunqing poked Su Qin's arm with a pen and whispered to her, "Si Xu is in a good mood today."
Su Qin agreed. "I think so too."
Gu Yunqing made a reasonable guess. "Didn't Sister Ranran climb onto his balcony last night? And he was late today. It must have been too intense last night..."
"You’re absurd!" Su Qin pinched his arm. "What are you thinking? Do you think Seventh Brother is the same as you?"
"What's wrong with me?!" Gu Yunqing was unconvinced. "How is Seventh Brother different from me? Isn't he also a normal man?" He educated his little girlfriend earnestly. "Qin, listen, don't think of Seventh Brother as an abstinent person. It’s obvious that guy is hedonistic~"
He might seem to be abstinent because of his character. He didn't reveal his true colors before because he hadn't met a girl he liked.
"Let's make a bet." Gu Yunqing said with a smile, "Si Xu definitely slept with Sister Ranran last night."
Su Qin rolled her eyes. "I won’t make such a bet with you. I’m not out of my mind."
"..."
Finally, when Wei Yage, the captain of the sixth superhuman team, finished her report, Shen Lang closed the file in his hand. He looked at Si Xu, and asked symbolically, "Professor Si, do you have anything to say?"
Si Xu abruptly stopped spinning the pen on his fingertips, and said, "Yeah." Then, he gently placed the pen on the table.
He clasped his hands and placed them on top of the file. He looked at Shen Lang with his mesmerizing eyes. With inscrutable emotions flashing across his face, he asked his question slowly, "How did Jiang Yize die back then?"
