Three days passed in a blur.
Chen Feng spent a reunion New Year with his family at his old home.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year.
Early in the morning, Chen Feng received a call.
It was Jiang Pingting.
She asked Chen Feng to meet her.
Originally, Chen Feng didn't want to bother with her, even though he now had the ink jade orchid in hand, and Orchid Gate was already within his grasp.
But Jiang Pingting had been a 'madam' for too long; as soon as they met, she wanted to play matchmaker for him, always trying to get him to try those long-famous 'queens.'
Isn't that ridiculous?
Honestly, Chen Feng really wasn't interested in married women; he had no Cao Thief attributes whatsoever.
What's there to play?
Just as he was about to hang up, Jiang Pingting quickly stated the purpose of their meeting.
It turned out there was an opportunity for a role.
She had arranged it.
Chen Feng inquired carefully and learned it was a role from Boss Yang's side.
A modern urban drama.
A cliché domineering CEO type.
However, Jiang Pingting said Boss Yang had agreed that Chen Feng could choose any male role.
So, Chen Feng decided to go and see.
If there was a good minor role he could experience, that would be fine too.
After they agreed on a meeting place, Chen Feng bid farewell to his parents and took a car back to the city.
…
On the way.
Chen Feng's thoughts became somewhat uncontrollable.
Jiang Pingting held a high position in secret, being the manager of the Phoenix Building in Hengdian, but openly she was just an unknown minor actress.
Why did Boss Yang give her face?
And even agree to let him pick any male role?
One must know that when they were in Jiangnan City, because Chen Feng took A Yi's first blood, Boss Yang seemed very angry at the time.
Did she change her tune so quickly?
Chen Feng secretly grumbled.
Could it be… among those queen-level figures Jiang Pingting mentioned, Boss Yang was one of them?
Jiang Pingting could even arrange her?
To serve him?
To do whatever he wanted?
Forget it!
It's better not to think about it.
If he kept thinking about it, it would too much affect his idol image from his student days.
This was also the reason Chen Feng was unwilling to take over Orchid Gate.
Once he took over and understood all the inside stories of Orchid Gate, the real world would definitely be a huge eye-opener.
How many high-and-mighty 'goddesses' would fall from their pedestals?
No!
It affects his mood.
So, he would just pretend not to know.
Chen Feng took out his phone and casually browsed for a while.
The number of followers on his personal social media account was growing exponentially every day.
Watching his follower count and his increasing popularity, even though some internet trolls had started slandering him again in the past few days, it still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of his true fans.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Feng suddenly made a decision.
He changed his profile picture.
He changed it to a photo.
And in the photo, there were only two tokens.
One was the Qing Gang's azure dragon token, and the other was the Hongmen's Hongmen token.
According to the system's explanation, these two items should have an invisible binding force on the modern underworld gangs derived from the Qing Gang and Hongmen factions.
But ordinary people simply didn't know.
Those who could recognize these two tokens must be the kind of people who had been living according to the rules of the Qing Gang and Hongmen for nearly a hundred years.
Chen Feng was too lazy to look for such people.
By changing his profile picture to an image of the two tokens, he believed it wouldn't be long before someone would actively seek him out.
Chen Feng also wanted to see if anyone in modern society would still be bound by them.
…
More than an hour later.
Chen Feng arrived at the agreed location.
Below an office building in the CBD business district.
After getting out of the car.
He immediately saw Jiang Pingting waiting at the entrance of the building.
She had changed her outfit again today.
Her long hair was draped over her shoulders, she wore glasses, and her refined and intellectual face looked exactly like an office worker.
She was wearing a long white down jacket.
On her legs, she was surprisingly only wearing stockings.
On her feet, a pair of long leather boots.
Inside the down jacket was the professional OL attire of office workers.
Chen Feng also found it strange.
Did meeting downstairs at an office building mean she had to dress as an office worker?
"Mr. Chen, you've worked hard."
Jiang Pingting smiled charmingly, as if a company secretary was welcoming her CEO back.
"Happy New Year."
Chen Feng strode over: "Miss Jiang doesn't look like a 'madam' today."
"You're annoying."
Jiang Pingting shot him a coquettish glance, not taking it seriously, and still said with a smile: "Mr. Chen seems to be in a good mood."
"Of course, I'm in a good mood during the New Year."
"Alright."
Jiang Pingting blinked, then suddenly whispered: "Mr. Chen, according to a rumor, the Wallenberg Consortium lost the ink jade orchid."
"You know that too?"
Chen Feng was surprised.
"I told you, my intelligence network is very extensive."
"Alright. So, what does that have to do with me?"
"Aren't you curious?"
Jiang Pingting looked at him puzzled: "As the mysterious Shen Mi Ren who possesses the dao ling (thief's token) and the blood cloth, I thought you would definitely be interested in the ink jade orchid."
"You're overthinking it."
Chen Feng smiled: "Don't always try to guess my thoughts. I'm here to talk about Boss Yang's new drama, not to…"
Before he finished speaking, suddenly, someone on a small plaza in the distance behind them screamed in terror: "Someone jumped, someone jumped!"
Both of them froze at the same time.
Just as they turned to look outside, they saw a dark object plummeting from above.
Bang!
A huge sound.
Blood splattered at the scene instantly.
All the surrounding witnesses screamed in fright.
Jiang Pingting was also startled and subconsciously hid behind Chen Feng.
Someone really jumped.
A man.
His body was already disfigured from the fall.
It was a shocking sight.
Soon, the surrounding people slowly gathered closer.
Chen Feng and the pale Jiang Pingting also slowly moved closer.
When she clearly saw the victim's twisted and deformed face, Jiang Pingting trembled violently and blurted out: "Ding Yang?"
"Who is Ding Yang?"
Chen Feng immediately looked at her.
Jiang Pingting's face was devoid of color, and she stared blankly at the corpse on the ground, murmuring: "It's… it's the Dao Sect expert I found…"
Upon hearing this, Chen Feng immediately adopted the role of a police officer, leaping onto the small plaza, then looking up at the rooftop.
There was a dark figure on the rooftop of the building.
His face was unclear.
However, under Chen Feng's 'Fire Eyes' gaze, two striking labels still appeared around that small black dot.
【Murderer】 【Assassin's Gate Killer】
In an instant, the small black dot disappeared.
Chen Feng was secretly alarmed.
There's an Assassin's Gate killer here?
At this moment, someone around the corpse had already called the police.
Jiang Pingting hurried to Chen Feng's side and whispered: "Let's go, the police will be here soon. I don't want to get involved. Boss Yang hasn't arrived yet, we still have to wait about half an hour."
Chen Feng blinked, looked at the entrance of the building, and said calmly: "No, just stand here and wait."
"Wait? Wait for what?"
Jiang Pingting looked puzzled.
"Wait for the murderer."
"The murderer? Are you saying…"
"Yes, that person didn't commit suicide by jumping; he was thrown down."
"…"
Jiang Pingting was stunned.
If he was murdered, then it was a big deal.
Would the murderer come after her?
