"Tsk, tsk. Good thing I came prepared—and there's a password, too."
Liu Nian clattered away at the keyboard and entered the system.
She located the file and started copying it. Just then, she heard a noise outside. Liu Nian quickly shut off the screen and soundlessly slipped into the ceiling's air-conditioning access hatch.
Click.
The door opened, and the sound of high heels striking the floor rang out.
"Boss Joanna, that old fool Chen Hao still refuses to step down. He's dug in and won't leave. Should we teach him a lesson?"
A woman's voice rang out. Liu Nian thought, Chen Hao had died ages ago. He's still alive now? So Joanna hasn't taken power yet.
"No rush~ Chen Hao still has a few people under his control. The Yama Hall suffered a blow in Jianghai recently, so this isn't the time for any major moves within the organization. Give it a little while, and that old fool will be dead."
The woman's voice was lovely, with a bold edge to it. It seemed she was Joanna.
Liu Nian remembered Joanna. She was the woman Ye Chen could never get, no matter how hard he tried.
She came from a single-parent family. Her father was American. He abandoned his wife and daughter, returned to America, and vanished without a trace.
So ever since she was little, she had hated her father—and men.
Her mother was quite beautiful, and Chen Hao of the Yama Hall took a fancy to her and kept her as his mistress. Joanna was only twelve at the time.
Like Liu Nian, Joanna had been sent to train at the Yama Hall. Nearly two years ago, she was assigned back to Pengdong City to help Chen Hao, becoming the second-in-command at the local base.
After she returned,