Steam Capital, Upper City, inside an unknown villa
"Y-Yes, sorry. I won't dare do it again."
"I was only following someone else's orders. They were very dissatisfied with your operation this time, so they had me spread some negative news about your Group."
"Oh? So that's how it is."
Yu Qianxia crouched on the ground and pinched the bridge of her nose with a slight headache.
Her fluffy black short hair hung over her shoulders. The small, striking lock of white hair at her forehead reflected a snowy whiteness beneath the villa's dim lighting, utterly out of place amid the surrounding black.
She looked at the man before her, beaten black and blue by her, his eyes brimming with fear and cowardice.
Yu Qianxia gave a soft scoff, then suddenly spat out the toothpick between her teeth and grabbed him by the collar.
"So, because of this little crap, do you know what our Qianxia Group's stock has looked like these past few days?!"
"It only went up by two percent! It should have risen by three percent!"
"That missing one percent—what are you and the people behind you planning to use to compensate us for it, huh?"
Amid her rebuke, a translucent phantom of a White Tiger abruptly rose behind Yu Qianxia.
Its eyes radiated coldness, and a pair of wings spread from its back.
Within its gaping, bloodstained maw, one could even vaguely make out dense clouds of Star Energy.
One glance alone made the Steam Capital entrepreneur's legs go weak, nearly making him piss himself.
Seeing how pathetic he was, Yu Qianxia suddenly found it rather boring.
She released his collar, covered the back of her neck with one hand, and rolled her neck. Then, amid a series of cracking sounds, she stretched her bones.
Smack!
Yu