I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 123
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 123: I Will Never Like That Kind of Guy
Shen Yao didn’t know how Si Xu came to the conclusion that she liked Qin Huai. Shen Yao felt aggrieved.
The girl put down her chopsticks and stared at Si Xu seriously. "Seventh Brother, you can't wrongly accuse me."
Si Xu said innocently, "If you don't like Qin Huai, why do you always ask me if Qin Huai is pretty, and to show you Qin Huai's photos?"
"Uh..." Shen Yao retorted, "Everyone loves beautiful things. I'm just curious. How does that count as liking him?"
"Why are you curious about Qin Huai?" Si Xu said calmly, "Gu Yunqing said that the first step to developing a liking for someone is to be curious about them."
Why must you remember the words of that idiot Gu Yunqing so clearly? Shen Yao rolled her eyes. "You said he’s pretty. I'm curious about how pretty he is to be able to make the girl in the laboratory fall in love with him."
"Huh?" As if she had heard some incredible news, Jiang Ran thought of Qin Huai's escape from the base, and asked in a low voice, "Had Qin Huai been able to escape from the base smoothly because of that girl’s help?"
It wasn’t a secret, so Shen Yao nodded. "I hadn't joined the laboratory at that time, and I heard that this was the case –– Seventh Brother and Gu Yunqing knew the specific situation, but I'm not very clear."
Jiang Ran turned to look at Si Xu.
Girls were indeed interested in this kind of gossip. Si Xu patiently told her what he knew. "The person in charge of Qin Huai had been replaced several times, and they were all staff arranged by the Shen family. I remember that after the second last one had his ear bitten off by Qin Huai, the laboratory staff installed a micro bomb on his chest to prevent him from rebelling. After that, Qin Huai became much more obedient."
"Micro bomb?" Jiang Ran shuddered for no reason. "Weren’t they worried that he might be accidentally killed by the bomb?"
"What was there to worry about? If he died, so be it –– those guys experimented on living people. Do you still expect them to have sympathy for an experimental subject?" Shen Yao said, "Not only Qin Huai, but Seventh Brother also..."
Jiang Ran frowned when she heard this and uttered a single sound, "Huh?" Also? What did that mean? Did those people also place a micro bomb in his chest?
Those guys…
The girl’s face darkened, and the hostility in her eyes rose, which made Shen Yao, who was originally talking about the past, shut up subconsciously.
For some reason, facing her cousin's anger, she actually felt guilty for a moment –– perhaps it was because of her own nonchalance, or perhaps it was because the Shen family had a lot to do with those experiments back then.
Shen Yao shut up and looked at Si Xu with a look of help, wanting him to continue the story to divert Jiang Ran's attention.
The man who didn't care much about what happened back then saw his assistant's gaze, thought for a moment, and decided to give her a way out.
He propped his face up with one hand and asked Jiang Ran, "Do you still want to listen to the story?"
Suppressing her depression, Jiang Ran nodded, her eyes still cold.
Si Xu continued with the story he knew.
"Qin Huai was well-behaved. The Shen family arranged the last person in charge for him. He was someone whom Shen Lang valued very much at that time. The assistant to that person in charge was his daughter. It was said that she had just graduated from college and was learning from her father."
"Oh, the heroine of the story? Is she pretty?"
"Just so-so."
Si Xu had no impression of the appearance of the heroine of the story at all, so he briefly mentioned it.
Shen Yao curled her lips, leaned closer to Pei Xiao who was eating quietly, and whispered, "I heard that the girl was very beautiful, and a lot of people in the laboratory pursued her at that time."
"Really?" Jiang Ran also heard Shen Yao. "Then this girl probably doesn’t lack love. Why was she deceived by Qin Huai?"
"He didn’t deceive her." Si Xu said in a cold voice with a hint of sarcasm, "Qin Huai and that girl were really together at that time."
"Really together?" Shen Yao laughed, with a strong suspicion in her tone. "Seventh Brother, you don't even know what it means to like someone. How can you be sure that Qin Huai likes that girl?"
"Gu Yunqing said so." Without feeling flustered at being questioned, Si Xu glared at Shen Yao and said, "Also, I know what liking someone means."
He deliberately emphasized the latter. Shen Yao tactfully did not dwell on it, and only focused on the first question. "How does Gu Yunqing know?"
"You should ask Gu Yunqing this question."
Shen Yao was speechless –– what a fool she was. Why did she ask Si Xu such an idiotic question?
"And then what happened?" Assuming that the two of them were truly in love, then what happened? Jiang Ran tried to guess, "Qin Huai used that girl to remove the bomb from his chest, and then escaped?"
"Yes." The story was that simple.
"Sigh, where’s the girl now?"
A man like Qin Huai, who was devilish handsome but did not show any murderous intent, could easily beguile girls.
It was just a pity for the girl who liked him. Even though she had been used, the Shen family would definitely not let her off easily.
According to the Shen family's method of punishing people, they might have exiled her and left her to fend for herself...
"She’s dead."
Those cold words stopped all of Jiang Ran's assumptions.
The girl was a little surprised. "She’s dead?"
Wasn't it said that the girl's father was Shen Lang's right-hand man?
"Is the Shen family that ruthless?"
"It's not the Shen family." Si Xu said, "It's Qin Huai."
Jiang Ran said, "Huh?"
Qin Huai? Did the man kill the girl without hesitation after achieving his goal?
"Why did he kill that girl?" Jiang Ran was puzzled. "Even if he left her be, the girl wouldn’t end well. Why did he..."
"I don't know."
In the ending of the story known to outsiders, when the staff arrived at the scene, the girl was stabbed in the chest. Her breathing was weak, and she wasn’t dead yet, but Qin Huai was nowhere to be found.
The disaster had just broken out back then and the base's medical facilities were incomplete. After a night of rescue, the girl still couldn’t be saved.
"I think that guy simply wanted to silence her." Shen Yao snorted with full contempt. "He was worried that the girl would expose his whereabouts, or..."
Shen Yao was still guessing. Jiang Ran gently held her hand while she was speaking indignantly, and said earnestly, "Sister Shen Yao, you mustn’t like Qin Huai. Although that guy is really good-looking, he’s too vile. Girls who like him will definitely be unlucky."
"Huh?" The girl's tone was so serious that Shen Yao was stunned for a moment. After snapping out of her daze, she held her forehead and said, "Little cousin, believe me, I’ll never like that kind of guy. Although looks are important to me, I’m someone with upright moral values."
Jiang Ran heaved a sigh of relief and changed the subject. "But Sister Shen Yao, Qin Huai is really good-looking. He’s probably the most handsome man I’ve ever seen in my life. If you meet him, maybe you won't be as decisive as you are now, hehe."
As soon as she said this, the faces of the two people at the table darkened at the same time.
Si Xu pursed his lips and said nothing.
Shen Yao was a little exasperated. "Little cousin, can we end this topic?!"
