How did she offend the boss?

"Hiss, I say, Chip Girl, I think I've discovered something incredible."

Jiu De Mayi, returning from a mission, immediately dropped a bombshell on Su Enxi. "Can you believe it? That Chen Motong from the Chen Family is actually a clone!"

"Oh."

"Hey, Chip Girl, why are you so calm? When did you find out?"

Su Enxi didn't even look up, just clicked her tongue. She was furiously typing on her keyboard. She was dealing with billions every minute, her accounting work was incredibly busy. It was Jiu De Mayi who had finished her mission and insisted on bothering her during work hours when her brain was like paste.

"It's just cloning technology, what's so new about that! Aren't the Chen Family's other children all artificial insemination babies? I've estimated it. With the amount of medical resources the Chen Family controls, I don't believe they wouldn't dare to clone."

"Look, they even used electroshock, making the little girl scream so loudly. After interrogating her and not getting results, they just wiped her memory and sent her back. And yet, they still treat her as the Chen Family's eldest young lady. How ironic!"

Jiu De Mayi shook her head. Actually, during her training with her ninja master, she had gone through pain tolerance training even more twisted than Nono's. But how could you expect an inexperienced, delicate young lady to be tough and resilient?

"What's so new about that! I guess the Chen Family thinks clones don't have human rights!"

"Speaking of this, it was probably the boss who specifically arranged and guided that girl there, which led to her being tortured, right? Hey, Chip Girl, do you think this Chen Motong might have offended the boss somewhere? ...Wait, can you please not say 'What's so new about that' again?"

Jiu De Mayi, the Eastern Ocean Ninja Master, said she couldn't quite get the humor of the classic crosstalk bits.

"..." Su Enxi moved her gaze away from the screen, her lips moving twice. "How about you ask the boss yourself next time what's going on between him and that Chen Motong?"

"Do I look like someone who likes to court death? Geez, we're not the boss's little darlings... Just like you, I've always been very aware of being a tool."

"Just like me? Well, thank heavens, thank earth, thank fate for bringing us together..."

Su Enxi nodded, humming a couple of lines casually, then said, "Oh right, the 'evidence' of the Chen Family researching Death Servants, I've already investigated the 'Boar Neo' you mentioned..."

"You're that fast? Aren't you busy with business?"

Su Enxi half-reclined in her office chair, spreading her arms and leaning back in a tactical recline. Her eyes, which were sore from staring at the screen for a long time, slowly closed as she began to rest. She concluded in a relaxed manner:

"It didn't take much effort to check! That Boar Neo is a 'Secret Society scum' student who was expelled from Cassell College in 1999. My people went to Rio de Janeiro and just asked around a bit locally, and they found out this kid is thriving in drug trafficking and human smuggling, and has already become a big boss of several gangs in Rio!"

"Oh~, he's already made it big in just a few years? A bit arrogant, aren't they? The Secret Society is that tolerant? Doesn't the Executive Department send some people to deal with it?"

"Heh heh, what's the use of sending people? This kid can climb the ladder so fast, he must be an underling for some big shot. There's a big tree above him acting as a protective umbrella! Only when the tree falls will the monkeys scatter. If the people above haven't been brought down, who has the time to bother with a small fry like him?"

The two chatted about everything under the sun, but neither of them bothered to investigate further who Boar Neo's protective umbrella was. Anyway, they were working for the boss, not the Secret Society. How many parasites the Secret Society had, and whether the dragon-slaying endeavor would ultimately succeed, had absolutely nothing to do with them.

Now the boss wanted them to help his big client go east to deal with the Chen Family, so they would absolutely not go west.

The big clients were still in a meeting at this time.

Zhou Yuxuan stood silently in the corner of the main hall. Faint sounds of argument came from afar. That was the Wa Lord in a meeting with the invited Bai Family head.

Zhou Yuxuan's position here was originally for a guard, and in the past, he would usually wait next to the Wa Lord in the center of the hall. However, that position had now been taken by Emiya.

Zhou Yuxuan had nothing to complain about. The capable rise, the mediocre fall. This was the unspoken rule the Wa Lord had set after the family reform.

Zhou Yuxuan wasn't chosen to follow the Wa Lord because he was capable before. On the contrary, when he was chosen, he had only one advantage: he strictly followed the rules. This met the Family Elders' highest priority review standard.

Zhou Yuxuan still remembered the first time the Wa Lord entered the main hall for a family meeting. She had just inherited the position of family head, and she was surrounded by a group of Family Elders whom he considered unattainable.

At that time, the procedures for the hall meetings were complex. The first hour had to be arranged for attendants to clean and sweep, lay carpets, burn incense to ward off evil. Afterward, the Wa Lord and the Family Elders would enter the hall in eight-bearer sedan chairs amidst the faint scent of incense, accompanied by two orchestras playing string and wind instruments.

After the higher-ups, all other family members lined up and proceeded in an orderly manner according to the guidance of the ritual attendant at the hall entrance. Everyone stood or sat facing the cold wind of the early morning and the golden light streaming down from the sun, each with different appearances and demeanor, too many to count.

Zhou Yuxuan, now a mature young man but then a fifteen-year-old boy, stood among them.

And the Wa Lord was now a delicate porcelain doll, and back then... she was still a porcelain doll.

At that time, the Wa Lord, sitting formally in the magnificent hall for the first time, maintained a solemn expression with the demeanor of someone who had been strictly disciplined. Every action was monitored and corrected by the Family Elders beside her.

And fifteen-year-old Zhou Yuxuan in the main hall also only dared to strictly adhere to the "Zhou Rites" - eyes lowered, not looking around randomly, standing and bowing rigidly... He had been taught from a young age that the Nuwa Clan held a respected position within the Zhou Family, being the mixed-blood suzerains of the Jingchu region and so on.

He saw that when family affairs were reported, the Wa Lord would often look to the side to solicit the Family Elders' attitude. If the Family Elders didn't speak, it was a tacit approval, and then the Wa Lord would nod one by one, as if making decisions about the world with a wave of her hand during her speech. Back then, if Zhou Yuxuan didn't look closely, he would think she truly resembled a porcelain doll in the position of family head, yet not to be underestimated.

Only after confirming that the family head was familiar with affairs would the Family Elders slowly "let go" and return to the deep underground palace to retire. It seemed like the Wa Lord held great power, but for every major event, she still couldn't bypass the Family Elders' attitude.

After working with the Wa Lord, Zhou Yuxuan gradually realized her difficult situation. Under the tight suppression of the elders, she wore a naturally seamless mask of deterrence. This was the result of the clan's closed-door training, allowing the Wa Lord to project a temperament beyond her apparent age.

Perhaps the Wa Lord beneath this mask was just a cute and lively little girl, but she had been in a high position for a long time and her authority was established. This mask, combined with the Wa Lord's天才般 brilliant performance, clung tightly and couldn't be removed, forming an iron-clad personality barrier.

Zhou Yuxuan didn't understand how Emiya did it. Perhaps when the Wa Lord first met Emiya, she realized she could finally use the opportunity to break this invisible barrier?

It was like that day when the Wa Lord explicitly asked to go out for the first time in her life, and Emiya really arranged everything properly. Zhou Yuxuan saw the Wa Lord truly happy and smiling while strolling through the streets, taking off her mask after a long time and returning to her original self, her face overflowing with sunlight.

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