Chapter 115: Which One of Us Is the Animal?

Mia pushed open the door and walked in.

Inside the office sat a potbellied middle-aged man, watching suggestive videos on TikTok with the sound turned up far too loud.

“Seriously, Fatty Wang.” Mia gave him a look of disgust. “Most people have two ears growing on either side of their heads. Did you grow a chunk of succulents on top of your neck instead?”

“Could you keep it down? You’re hurting my ears!” Fatty Wang looked up helplessly. “Good heavens, I’m a bureau director, you know. Can’t you show me a little respect?”

Fatty Wang’s real name was Wang Sui, and he was the director of the Dragon City branch of the Martial Prohibition Bureau.

Mia was merely one of the captains under him.

Yet judging from the way they spoke to each other, their positions were clearly reversed.

It was hard to blame Fatty Wang for being so meek. The young lady’s background was simply too formidable—she was a well-connected insider, and he didn’t dare offend her.

Besides, the Dragon City branch was considered the weakest and most indolent of all the branches.

So the way they got along could basically be summed up as: Mia and her useless director.

“What director spends all day in his office secretly watching suggestive videos?” Mia sneered.

“I have spent my entire life doing good deeds and accumulating virtue. Coming across videos like these is only natural!” Fatty Wang chuckled, then put away his phone and grew serious.

“How did the questioning go? Is that heiress of the Martial Alliance cooperating? If she isn’t, I’ll give Old Nie a call!”

“Give it a rest.” Mia rolled her eyes. “Nie Renwang probably doesn’t even know who you are. Could you stop pretending to be impressive? Watching you show off makes my whole body uncomfortable.”

After mocking him, Mia tossed the statement onto Fatty Wang’s desk.

Then she loosened her collar with one hand, crossed her legs—legs that seemed longer than Fatty Wang’s entire life—and lit a cigarette, blowing smoke into the air.

Fatty Wang picked up the statement and glanced at it. His expression soon turned bewildered.

“Something about this doesn’t add up…”

“You noticed it too, didn’t you?” Mia tapped the ash from her cigarette. “Nie Ke’er is only a seventh-grade Martial Grandmaster, yet she killed two Martial Venerables by fighting above her level. That story might fool a child.”

“I think there’s definitely more to it. She hasn’t told us everything.”

Fatty Wang frowned. “Then what are you suggesting?”

“Someone saved her.”

Mia analyzed the situation. “But that’s exactly what’s strange. If someone did save her, why would she lie about it?”

In theory, they had acted in legitimate self-defense.

Even though people had died, they were still the ones in the right. There was no reason for Nie Ke’er to lie.

Mia was not particularly interested in digging to the bottom of the matter. She was simply curious.

She had even checked the surveillance footage near the scene, but the cameras had either been destroyed or were malfunctioning.

That meant the other party had prepared in advance to avoid exposing their identity.

Anyone would be curious when someone had gone to such lengths to remain mysterious—especially someone as obsessive as Mia.

“Forget why she lied for now.”

Fatty Wang dismissed the matter. “Report this to headquarters. Cooperate however they instruct you to. Whatever fighting goes on up there is their business.”

Mia nodded, but she did not leave.

Instead, she looked at Fatty Wang with a bright smile and addressed him warmly.

“Director.”

Based on his experience with her, Fatty Wang knew there were only two situations in which he might hear that girl call him “Director.”

One was when a blind cat happened to catch a dead mouse and he had accidentally made the young lady happy.

The other was when a blind cat stepped on a dog’s tail and he had accidentally made her furious.

Either way, whenever the word “Director” left her mouth, Fatty Wang felt that his fate had become uncertain.

“Is… is there something else?”

With a growing sense of foreboding, Fatty Wang forced himself to ask.

“I heard someone from headquarters came to investigate the destruction of the Du family. I’m quite interested in the matter. Do you think you could let me…”

Mia had not even finished speaking when Fatty Wang waved his hand.

“Headquarters has given explicit instructions. You are not allowed to interfere in this matter!”

“Why not? It happened here in Dragon City, and the people died here in Dragon City. Why am I not allowed to investigate?” Mia argued fiercely.

Fatty Wang sighed. “Mizi, this matter is too big for you to handle.”

“Don’t give me that stale joke.”

Seeing that Fatty Wang refused to agree, Mia immediately turned hostile.

“If you won’t let me investigate, I’ll investigate it myself!”

With that, Mia slammed the door behind her and left.

Fatty Wang hesitated for a moment before dialing a number…

“…”

The next morning.

Jiang Yunqi woke from her sleep.

She had waited too long for Chu Fei the night before. She had been so exhausted that she eventually fell asleep.

But she never expected that the moment she opened her eyes, she would find Chu Fei’s handsome face right in front of her.

At that moment, broad rays of sunlight filtered through the curtains and spilled across his completely unguarded, unusually docile face.

Chu Fei usually wore an arrogant expression that seemed to say he was the greatest man alive. Seeing this entirely different side of him caused Jiang Yunqi’s heart to begin pounding uncontrollably.

Was this what it meant to fall in love?

Oh no, she couldn’t look away…

Wait!

Why was her brain automatically playing background music?

Jiang Yunqi shook her head, putting an end to the strange song in her mind.

That movement woke Chu Fei beside her.

His reaction was enormous. The moment he came fully awake, he hurriedly pulled the blanket over himself, his face filled with grievance.

“You beast!”

Hold on. Brother, did you get the wrong script?

“What… happened between us?”

The corner of Jiang Yunqi’s mouth twitched, but she still could not resist asking.

“You’re asking me that? We slept in the same bed. What else could have happened?”

Chu Fei looked utterly wronged. “Don’t tell me you’re not planning to take responsibility?”

“No, I genuinely don’t remember anything happening.” Jiang Yunqi began to panic.

“Oh, so now you’re pretending to have amnesia?”

Chu Fei said indignantly, “Miss Jiang, if you don’t want to take responsibility, just say so. Is pretending to have amnesia really necessary?”

“I knew it. Not one of you women is any good. The moment you put on a skirt, you forget everyone you know!”

Good grief. Those were supposed to be my lines!

Seeing how aggrieved Chu Fei looked, Jiang Yunqi nearly fell into his trap.

But then she thought about it and realized something was wrong. She clearly remembered that he had abandoned her alone the previous night. How dare he turn around and accuse her?

“Chu Fei, don’t try that act on me!”

Jiang Yunqi pointed an accusing finger at him. “You abandoned me last night and ran off somewhere without telling me. Then you came back and slept beside me without my permission. And now you have the nerve to turn the blame on me!”

“Between the two of us, who’s the real beast?”

Chu Fei raised an eyebrow.

In an instant, the aggrieved little wife vanished, replaced by his usual infuriating expression.

He looked at Jiang Yunqi. “Did you know you have a habit of talking in your sleep?”

“Huh?”

Jiang Yunqi froze.

Then Chu Fei took out his phone and played a ten-minute audio recording.

A familiar, arrogant, utterly lawless laugh rang out from the recording.

“Tent Hero, you’re tied up! Go on, scream! Even if you scream your throat raw, no one’s coming to save you!”

“?!”

“Heh heh heh. Aren’t you usually so arrogant? Why are you crying like a little baby now? Isn’t it wonderful that I’ve gotten you all dirty?”

“??!!”

“Come on, you useless thing. Don’t you know how to please me? Do I have to teach you everything? Let me show you how to love properly!”

“???!”

By the time the recording ended, Jiang Yunqi’s brain had completely crashed.

At that moment, she only wanted to go back to the previous night and stab herself to death.

Chu Fei wore a teasing smile.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk… Tell me, which one of us is the real beast?”