Chapter 18

Chapter 18: There wasn’t any coverage at all

Zhao Lan Lan seemed to come back to her senses. After a long moment, she finally spoke. She was talking to Scar-Faced Man, but her eyes were filled with hatred as she stared at Jiang Shi Yue. “In a bit, you go turn yourselves in. Say it was just inappropriate talk and attempted harassment. Don’t worry about the rest.”

“Right. At most, it’s a few days in detention.” Jiang Shi Yue said earnestly, then looked at Jiang Mei Ling with a gentle voice. “Sister Mei Ling, let’s go home now.”

Jiang Mei Ling felt as if she was being controlled. She almost couldn’t stop herself from following behind Jiang Shi Yue.

She even felt that if she didn’t listen, she might be finished.

…

All the way home, Jiang Mei Ling was on edge. When they finally entered the house, she thought Jiang Shi Yue would at least threaten her – tell her she wasn’t allowed to say anything about what happened today.

But after Jiang Shi Yue walked through the front door, she didn’t even glance at Jiang Mei Ling again. She went straight upstairs and returned to her room.

She didn’t even leave Jiang Mei Ling a chance to speak.

Jiang Mei Ling stood there, staring blankly at the slender figure on the stairs until it disappeared. Then she froze. Her pupils tightened in sudden, hopeless panic as she realized something.

No. Jiang Shi Yue didn’t need to threaten her at all. Having the recording was enough. Why would she use some low-level trick like threats?

If the evidence was exposed, the one who would be ruined wouldn’t just be Zhao Lan Lan!

Now Jiang Shi Yue had to be thinking about how to scheme against her.

It had to be.

Yes. It had to be!

…

However, Jiang Shi Yue didn’t have time to scheme against Jiang Mei Ling. She couldn’t even be bothered to think of her.

Because she was thinking about something else that mattered.

She had already confirmed it. In the Parallel Time-Space, C City also had ability user.

But among those known, there was only her.

As the only ability user who had shown her true face so far, if others learned her secret, it would be extremely dangerous.

If things went wrong, she might be treated like a monster and captured.

Of course, capture her? They were thinking peach.

But even though her ability was special, Jiang Shi Yue still didn’t feel at ease, because someone had truly seen her pick up a beam of light with her own fingers.

In this ordinary person kind of space-time, that was absolutely impossible.

Who was that man?

She only vaguely remembered someone outside the door calling him Second Young Master.

Other than that, Jiang Shi Yue knew nothing.

Yet she had even told him her name on her own. Thinking of that, Jiang Shi Yue frowned at once.

But… that man still hadn’t come looking for her, and no one else had come to bother her either. That meant he hadn’t told anyone about it yet.

Still, it was no different from a time bomb, like some beast watching you from the shadows, waiting to strike a fatal blow when you weren’t on guard.

If that man revealed her secret someday, nothing good would be waiting for her.

Sigh. If she’d known, she wouldn’t have saved him. A handsome face really led people astray.

Otherwise, how would she have ended up with so much trouble?

Jiang Shi Yue narrowed her almond eyes slightly. Hidden beneath her long lashes was an unreadable look.

In this world, only dead people truly kept secrets.

Maybe making someone die without anyone noticing wasn’t that hard.

But any crime left traces. That was the real problem.

Of course, that wasn’t her concern.

Resting her chin on one hand, Jiang Shi Yue casually opened a webpage. What happened last night at Fleeting Years Hotel had no reports at all.

An unexpected assassination.

It ended silently, without even a ripple.