Villain Boss Chapter 250

Jul 5

Written By Pure

Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)

Chapter 250 Nowhere to Escape

Not wanting to continue the nonsense with Jiang Ran, Jiang Suxin took a sip of tea and got straight to the point. "I invited you here because of something Si Xu asked me to do."

Si Xu asked her to investigate Si Nian and Qin Huai.

Jiang Ran adopted a listening posture. "Please speak."

She didn't ask why Jiang Suxin wanted to tell her what Si Xu had asked her to do.

Jiang Suxin glanced at her a few times in surprise, then said thoughtfully, "...You’re a smart person indeed."

Jiang Ran smiled slightly but didn’t reply.

Jiang Suxin returned to the main topic and said seriously, "I don't have much information about Qin Huai here. As you probably know, Qin Huai is a superhuman with psychic abilities, so it's a bit difficult to investigate him without him finding out."

"Yeah, I know." Qin Huai came from a laboratory background, so she had quite a bit of information about him.

“I called you here because of Si Xu’s mention of Si Nian.” Jiang Suxin asked her, “You had a connection with this Si Nian back then, when you were still young. I wonder if you remember her.”

"No." In her memory, the only impression she had of Si Nian was that Jiang Yize had mentioned the name.

“Si Nian is the youngest daughter in the Si family. She has an older brother. In college, she was classmates with your father, Jiang Yize. The two were very close. It was said that—” She glanced at Jiang Ran and sighed, “the rumors at school were that they were boyfriend and girlfriend.”

"Oh." Jiang Ran said calmly, "You're not trying to tell me that Si Nian is taking revenge on my father because he let her down, are you?"

"You knew?" Jiang Suxin paused while drinking her tea. "How did you know?"

"What do I know?" Jiang Ran hated this kind of roundabout probing. "That Si Nian took revenge on my father? Or that my father let her down?"

Jiang Suxin said slowly and deliberately, "Both."

Jiang Ran laughed. "From what you're saying, my father and Si Nian were really boyfriend and girlfriend in college?"

Jiang Suxin nodded slightly.

Jiang Ran shrugged. "Okay, you can continue."

"Your father and Si Nian were boyfriend and girlfriend. Later, your father met and fell in love with your mother, and they broke up."

"Oh, so you're saying my father cheated on her?"

Jiang Suxin tacitly agreed.

"Later, your father joined Xiling laboratory, and Si Nian was in Dongchao City. Every month, your father would find an excuse to come to Dongchao City to meet her..."

"Didn't my father come to Dongchao City to attend a seminar?"

"A seminar?" Jiang Suxin chuckled. "What kind of seminar needs to be held every month?"

"Okay, so even after my father started a family and established a career, he still maintained a close relationship with his former lover."

Her tone remained calm, which made Jiang Suxin somewhat uncertain. "Are you disappointed?"

Jiang Ran retorted, "You haven’t finished the story yet, right?"

"What happened next was the tragic ending of the whole story—although your father was still entangled with Si Nian, he had no intention of divorcing his wife to marry her. Si Nian became resentful and reported your father to Shen Lang."

"Then, my father died."

"...My condolences."

"Si Xu asked you to investigate, and all you found out was that woman was my father's ex-lover?"

"..." Wasn't this news important to you?

"Ms. Jiang, besides her identity as an ex-lover, what else have you found out about that woman?"

"...I have no further information at the moment."

"And you call yourself the lamplighter?" Jiang Ran scoffed. "So all you do is investigate this kind of gossip?"

This was the first time someone had dared to comment on her work in such a flippant tone. Jiang Suxin clenched her fist. Fine, she would endure it for the sake of that person's orders!

"...I know you're angry to hear this news. I...I think this is your privacy, and you have the right to decide whether to tell Si Xu."

“I’m not angry,” Jiang Ran interrupted the woman with a sigh. “Have you finished telling your story? Then let me tell you the version I found out, how about that?”

She placed her hands on the table, her previous nonchalance vanished, replaced by a smile that concealed a chilling coldness in her eyes.

"There was a poor woman who met a man she liked in college, but he already had someone else in his heart. So she could only suppress her feelings and stay by his side as a friend. Do you know what this kind of woman is called?"

"A pitiful person tormented by love?"

"Hah." Jiang Ran said, enunciating each word clearly, "She’s a shameless hypocritical bitch."

"..."

"This 'hypocritical bitch' thought that as long as she stayed by the man's side, he’d notice her. In the end, the man married his lover, had a child, and lived a happy life. Meanwhile, she could only hide in a dark corner like a maggot that couldn't see the light of day, relying on her imagination to fantasize about her disgusting love story."

As Jiang Ran finished speaking, a soft sound came from behind the screen.

Jiang Suxin's expression changed slightly.

Jiang Ran shot a glance, seemingly unconcerned. "The man came to the woman's city every month for meetings related to his work. She still approached him as a friend, but no matter how she hinted, the man never responded to her feelings. With the mentality of destroying what she couldn't have, the resentful woman directly caused the man to death by informing on him."

Jiang Ran paused briefly, then leaned forward and asked Jiang Suxin, "Lamplighter, what do you think of my version?"

Jiang Suxin's attention was still behind the screen, and upon hearing this, she blurted out, "What do you mean, what do I think?"

"Isn't my character design and storyline much more interesting than your story about that heartless scumbag who deserved to get what his just desserts?"

"You..."

"Do you want to know how I know this story?"

"..."

"It’s because at Beichen base, besides you, I met another old friend. I've heard a completely different version of your story from that old friend."

"An old friend?" There was still news in the entire Beichen base that she didn't know?

“Lamplighter, your gaze is too far-reaching, your vision too broad, and you often overlook what’s right under your nose.” Jiang Ran shifted her posture and chuckled. “There’s more information about this Beichen base that you don’t know than you can imagine.”

Who was Huo Sichan? Would he be completely unsuspecting if an intelligence broker was in his base?

At least, from the story told by Jiang Suxin today, Jiang Ran knew that this supposedly omniscient lamplighter didn’t know Tu Su's identity.

"I don't understand, Ms. Jiang," Jiang Ran sighed, resting her chin on her hand. "I have no grudge against you, so why are you making up this baseless rumor about my father? What's your purpose?"

Jiang Suxin feigned composure. "I never sell false information. Si Xu knows this better than you do."

“You didn’t sell false information. You only told me and didn’t receive any money from me. This doesn’t count as selling information, Ms. Jiang.”

"..."

"Also, Si Xu probably doesn't know that the information broker he knows and Si Nian, whom he's investigating, are old acquaintances, right?"

Before Jiang Ran finished speaking, she suddenly lunged forward, grabbing Jiang Suxin’s neck and forcefully dragging her backward before Jiang Suxin could react.

Jiang Suxin angrily shouted, "What are you doing? Jiang Ran!"

"Don't move, lamplighter." Jiang Ran dragged Jiang Suxin against the wall, then released her, a silver glint flashing at her fingertips. "If you move even slightly, your head and neck might separate."

Jiang Suxin felt something cold and thin digging into her skin on her neck, and she stopped struggling.

Jiang Ran looked at the screen and raised her voice. "I wonder if the guest behind the screen is that despicable rat that’s too ashamed to show its face, or that shameless hypocritical bitch?"