Overconfidence Is Never a Good Thing

Watching Loren lead a woman away, claiming they were going to relieve themselves, Harry could only marvel inwardly. This was no ordinary "relief"!

Ignoring Harry's stunned gaze, Loren soon led the green-haired woman into the VIP room.

The moment she entered, the woman locked the door behind her. Then, before Loren could react, she spun around and pinned him against the wall.

Her sexy red lips came at him directly, with an eagerness that made it seem as though she had not touched a man in several lifetimes.

Faced with the woman's fierce assault, Loren did not back down and responded just as forcefully.

Before long, he turned the tables, going from passive to active and pinning the female reporter against the wall instead.

And it was not just the wall pinning—his hands began to wander as well.

But just when the woman should have gone along with the flow, she suddenly resisted. She struggled hard, trying to shove Loren away.

But what kind of physique did Loren possess? How could the strength of a mere woman possibly contend with his?

The woman had not expected Loren to be so rough and brutish, leaving her both ashamed and furious.

She hooked one leg, reached back with her right hand, and actually swung a high heel at Loren's temple.

Her movements were smooth and seamless, clearly the work of someone trained. She had definitely done this more than once before.

Yet Loren merely smiled calmly at her sudden attack, as though he had anticipated it all along.

He raised a hand and shoved hard against the woman's chest, sending her flying backward.

She crashed onto the sofa in the VIP room.

The immense impact shoved the entire sofa several meters backward before it finally struck the wall and stopped.

"Couldn't hold back any longer? I thought you'd keep acting for a while yet!"

Loren gave a wicked smile and tossed the scraps of fabric in his hand aside.

Then he looked at the woman before him with open mockery, as if she were some monkey putting on a show.

"How did you see through me?" Hearing Loren's words, the woman stopped pretending.

Her once-seductive face instantly twisted into a cold, bloodthirsty expression, her eyes blazing with fury.

"Your scent. From the moment you appeared, I smelled something familiar on you."

"A scent?"

"More accurately, the smell of poison. The poison my foolish aunt used—it was made by you, wasn't it?"

"I really didn't expect you to figure even that out."

"Heh, was it that hard? I can guess even more!

Let me see. Green hair, and an expert poison user.

If I'm not mistaken, you must be Madame Hydra—Viper!"

"!!!!"

When Loren called out her name outright, shock appeared in the green-haired woman's eyes.

Clearly, she had never expected Loren to recognize her true identity.

"Good kid. I really underestimated you. You even knew that!"

"Can't be helped. Your lot keep chasing after me like hyenas trying to bite me. If I didn't learn more about you, I probably wouldn't even know how I died."

"So, my loyal subordinate Maeve already died by your hand?"

"Of course. She delivered herself right to my door. If I still didn't kill her, that would have been rather rude.

Just like you now. You threw yourself into my arms. If I didn't take you up on it, could I still call myself a man?

All right, time for the nonsense is over. It's time for us to have a more in-depth exchange."

Loren wore a teasing grin, then lunged at Viper in a single stride like a starving tiger pouncing on prey.

Viper's expression changed. She rolled across the floor and narrowly avoided Loren's grasp.

She was both ashamed and enraged, because what was happening was completely different from what she had planned.

In her original plan, she would use her poisonous tongue to easily paralyze Loren's entire body.

Then she could trample and judge the young man before her as she pleased, like a queen.

But now, the opposite had happened. Not only had she lost all semblance of a queen, even her underwear had been torn off.

Now she was being chased all over the room by Loren, that tyrant, like some helpless little woman, terrified of being violated by him.

She was Madame Hydra. When had she ever suffered such treatment?!

What utter humiliation! This was simply unbearable humiliation!

"You damned perverted brat, you're courting death." The woman snorted coldly.

Then she pulled a thumb-sized glass vial from her waist and smashed it directly onto the floor.

At once, green gas spread throughout the entire room.

Only then did a smile appear on the woman's face, smug and cruel.

But Loren remained utterly calm in the face of this, his eyes full of disdain as he looked at her.

"Poison gas again? Can't you Hydra people come up with something new?

You swished poison all around my mouth with your tongue just now, and I was fine. Do you really think this little bit of gas can hurt me?"

"Whether it works or not, you'll find out soon enough. Kid, don't get too full of yourself. This is no ordinary poison."

"Is that so? Then why don't I believe you?!"

Loren shrugged fearlessly, but at that moment, his body suddenly trembled. A difficult expression appeared on his face.

Seeing him like this, Viper was overjoyed, unable to hide her smug expression.

"Heh, do you suddenly feel as though your whole body has been electrocuted? And whenever you move, it feels like needles are stabbing you?"

Loren said nothing. He merely kept a pained expression on his face and stood motionless.

Viper's smile grew brighter, and all of her previous unease vanished.

Not only that, she strolled up to Loren as though taking a leisurely walk, then teasingly raised her hand and patted his cheek.

"Kid, overconfidence is never a good thing. Now let big sister here take good care of you!"

Viper's face was dark, and clearly, the "care" she spoke of was no good thing.

But what she never expected was that Loren suddenly wrapped his arms tightly around her.

Then a sly grin, like one whose scheme had succeeded, appeared on his face.

"You're right. Overconfidence really isn't a good thing, because one mistake can cost you your virtue!"

"!!!!!"