Looking at that face was going to do that to him until he had that infuriating runaway woman with him. He didn't want the Lu's girl, Yu Youahn could have her for as long as he liked. She was too domestic and deary for his taste.
His type was a custom-made one-shot wild Lei girl with chocolate black hairs and unique cat-like eyes, with pale icing, packed in red with her usual provocative smirk on top.
The woman would pay for doing this to him!
He shook his head, Yu Youhan was taking the Lu girl in there and a long family drama was going to unfold.
Yu Youhan shouldn't have done that. He should simply return the girl to the Lu's and move on to some other hot a.s.s. The girl was trouble and now there was going to be further drama a.s.sociated with her.
He turned down the guard who offered to get his car. He would rather go himself. Jiang Cheng was probably there, smoking his life away in the parking lot. He needed the mysterious guy to do him a favour.
He entered the Li's almost empty visitor's parking lot and there he saw Jiang Cheng leaning against the front car door with a cigar between his lips and eyes cast downward like he was deep in thought.
He seriously needed to stop smoking or he was going to combust soon too!
Li Yuan walked to him and when he was close Jiang Cheng lifted his eyes that widened looking at him before nonchalance took over his bored features.
Li Yuan who had now worn his coat on his shoulders leaned against his car and was facing Jiang Cheng. Realizing that he wasn't leaving in his car, Jiang Cheng offered him a cigarette and lit it up for him.
They smoked in silence for a while that was loud in their heads.
Jiang Cheng shook his head and released smoke to the sky, he couldn't stale it any longer. This talk was inevitable but he just wanted to delay it a little for his sanity. Looks like it wasn't going to happen.
"I am sorry about what she did and I am sure... she would be too." He spoke in his husky, gruff voice from excessive smoking.
Li Yuan looked at him blankly. Would she be sorry? No, she wouldn't be. Even on her last night with him, she ridiculed him with fake promises that even sounded real to his own ears.
He didn't want consolation, he wanted answers, "Why was Yu Youhan providing her with shelter when he was hunting Lei's like a rabid dog?"
Jiang Cheng ignored the insult and took a puff of his smoke, spoke gruffly, looking at a distance, "She used to live..."
He shook his head, living means staying but Lei Xinyi was always on a run but would pop-up out of nowhere, climbing walls and crawling through wirings, "...Visit. Visit our house from time to time. Yu w.a.n.g had a... thing for her. Yu Youhan got to know about a Lei living in the city with an illegal ident.i.ty. He wanted to kill her or trade for her but Lei Xinyi told him she was a runaway."
He took a pause and frowned at the distant memory, "He asked her why and she told him a brief reason that only he knows. n.o.body discussed it later. In exchange of a safe-heaven Lei Xinyi offered her services."
At the word 'services' Li Yuan head sharply turned to him with murderous aura. There was only one service women offered and did with secrecy. That was...
Jiang Cheng looked at his expression and shook his head quickly, "Hey, not like that. Lei Xinyi is a peerless surgeon, doctor and an expert in Chinese medicine. She promised to be available in anytime or any day if they paid her the right price and Lei Xinyi skills are known otherworldly in the underworld. They say she can redeem a man from death's front steps. In return, she just asked for secrecy and no wolves chasing her."
He frowned, "Lei Xinyi?" he had never heard her name in such aspects and no news in the kingdom escapes from the king and he ruled the underworld.
Jiang Cheng flickered his cigar between his index and middle finger, "Well, she doesn't go by her real name. They call her 'Siren' there."
Li Yuan eyes widened, nose flared and his hand fisted in extreme agitation and rage. He had been looking for the infamous 'Siren' for years now and she was living under the same roof as him! He had a bone to pick with her and now hearing that she lived with him for months was an enraging thought.
The first time they met, she branded his body and now she branded his mind and thoughts! d.a.m.ned woman!
His thoughts drifted to the anonymous letter he received with Lei Xinyi video in his office. It said something about a wild goose chase being over. He should have investigated and given further thoughts into it!
Another crime to add to her endless piles of crimes!
He gritted his teeth and clenched his sharp jaw, "Why? Why was Yu Youhan chasing her then?"
Jiang Cheng noticed the sudden shift in mood that had intensified Li Yuan's rage but didn't comment, "Because she had the Yu's heirloom."
Li Yuan eyes darkened in anger and exasperation and every muscle in his body tensed, she...she had the Yu's heirloom? Did that mean...
He swallowed the bitterness it had evoked in his heart, thinking of her being promised to someone, that too his brother, constricted his heart "Why would she have that?"
Jiang Cheng licked his lip and stuttered, "She stol...borrowed it." He wasn't supposed to tell this to anyone but it had slipped out of his tongue and now it was ridiculous to fabricated stories.
Li Yuan looked at the cigar he had given him. Was he smoking something funny? weed? Since when did people start borrowing heirlooms.
"What?"
