Mercenary Queen Issues a Warning

The car returned to the villa.

A little after nine that evening, the whole family rushed to the entrance as soon as they heard their precious Huohuo was back.

Her mother, Jian Yan, and her father, Ye Chuan, stood at the entrance, gazing into the distance as they waited for the siblings, Momo and Huohuo, to get out of Li Zeyuan's luxury car.

The moment they saw their precious daughter,

The couple's eyes lit up. They rushed right past their eldest son and over to Huohuo, grasped her hands, and said with concern, "Sweetheart, you're finally home... Mommy missed you so much."

The light at the villa entrance shone on Ye Huo's delicate, lovely face, which was rosy as an apple.

Her mother couldn't resist kissing her precious daughter on the forehead. "Sweetheart, you must be tired after such a long day. Mommy ran a hot bath for you in your bedroom and got a change of clothes ready. Come back with Mommy and go night-night!"

Ye Huo nodded and followed her mother upstairs.

Her father trotted eagerly after them, trying to please her. "Sweetheart, Daddy prepared a surprise for you too. It's in your room. See if you like it."

The couple's doting behavior left Li Zeyuan looking astonished.

After all, Jian Yan was Capital Medical University's most gifted woman, the incomparably cool and glamorous Director Jian.

She was a nationally renowned surgical expert, famous in her field for her steady, precise, and ruthless hand with a scalpel.

Her surgical success rate was 99.9 percent; she had almost never performed an unsuccessful operation.

Ye Chuan was a professor at B University and one of the founders of nuclear physics missile research theory, a serious, solemn academic ace in science and engineering who rarely smiled.

Yet these two highly respected big shots, who stirred up storms wherever they went, were so doting in front of this twenty-year-old girl that the contrast was endearing.

Li Zeyuan watched the girl go upstairs surrounded by her parents. Something stirred deep inside him, and an unprecedented desire to protect her welled up.

He joked, "Your parents really spoil her."

"My sister deserves it."

Ye Mo's lips curved into a faint smile, his voice rich and magnetic. "We lost her for seventeen years.

"Every day of those seventeen years, our whole family was heartbroken and full of regret.

"We swore that as long as we could find my sister, no matter what price we had to pay, we'd spoil her for the rest of her life... and make up for all the hardships she suffered out there."

"Mm."

After saying that, Li Zeyuan got into the car and had the driver start it and slowly drive away.

Ye Huo's parents covered her eyes and led her upstairs to her bedroom.

"Sweetheart, open your eyes and look at the surprise Mommy and Daddy got you."

Her parents took their hands away at the same time, and Ye Huo's obscured vision cleared.

A sea of pink lay before her: wind chimes, cartoon posters, and lights that sparkled like scattered stars. It was as though someone had poked open a pink nest.

It was pretty, but it was far too flashy. It was as if they had brought every pink decoration from a cartoon into her bedroom.

Ye Huo gave a wry smile. "Mom, Dad, thank you. Thanks for all the effort."

"It was no trouble at all. As long as our Huohuo likes it, Mommy and Daddy are happy to do anything."

Having received their precious daughter's praise and approval, Jian Yan and Ye Chuan were so happy they nearly jumped for joy.

After a busy day, Ye Huo yawned.

She ushered her parents out of the room, then took her pajamas into the bathroom to wash up.

When she came out, she lifted the quilt and found a pile of wrapped gift boxes on the bed.

She opened one and found the latest Huawei tablet. It was especially thin, pink, and came with a mouse. It was compact and light in her hands.

Ye Huo glanced at the model. It was the latest, with a 2TB SSD-the most hardcore computer currently available on the market.

As a straight woman, she liked it very much.

The boxes beside it were surprises prepared for her by her mother and her eldest, second, and third brothers.

She opened them one by one until her hands grew tired.

Lipstick, dresses, dolls, roses, perfume, hair clips, candy, and wishing lanterns.

Her brothers had thought of everything girls liked.

Warmth filled Ye Huo's heart, and her lips curved into a smile. She had never received so many gifts before.

Wearing slippers, she deftly put each gift in order, switched on the bedside lamp, and lay back against the headboard with the computer in her arms, ready to work.

The computer screen lit up.

Ye Huo's slender fingers flew across the keyboard as she clicked into a dark web page. When the program finished loading, a line of eerie characters gradually appeared on the pitch-black system page.

The World Mercenary Official Website was a site where jobs were secretly posted and accepted.

She clicked on the all-English overseas version and entered the browsing page.

The killers who prowled the gray zone on the edge of life and death conducted their dealings here: murder, machinery, and arms deals.

Legend had it that on the official mercenary website, as long as you could pay a high enough commission, you could buy anyone's life.

But Ye Huo was different from ordinary killers.

When she was abroad, she had her own principles: she didn't kill the elderly, children, or women.

Whenever she struck, she killed only evil people who deserved it.

For example, the international drug lord Lan Louis, a criminal who burned, killed, whored, gambled, and committed every evil imaginable.

He had once led his men in a bloody purge of a slum, burning, killing, and looting civilians, raping and setting fires. To eliminate future trouble for good, he killed ten members of one family, not even sparing a three-year-old child.

For that job, Ye Huo charged only 200 yuan in labor fees and finished the pervert off with a single slash.

That was also what made her famous internationally.

Her name-Sister Huo-was a name that made every villain in the world of killers tremble at the mere mention of it, and was also the supreme faith of the entire mercenary world.

Ye Huo smiled and logged into her account. Sister Huo's great name stood at the top of the mercenary rankings.

It hung high above all others, beyond anyone's reach.

A notification showed 999999+ messages in her account, all of them job offers.

Ye Huo browsed the page and suddenly spotted a familiar name among the top three new jobs.

[Job name] Assassination

[Target] Li Zeyuan

[Job details] Kill Li Zeyuan, president of the Li Group

[Time limit] One week

[Reward] 100 million

Li Zeyuan was the uncle who had brought her home that evening.

He was cold-blooded, held great power and influence, and treated her quite well. Besides, he was her brother's childhood friend.

Ye Huo thought it over. She had to protect him.

She clicked the mouse lightly, and information about the person who had accepted the job soon popped up.

Black Caesar-the killer ranked tenth on the list.

He had few principles; as long as the money was right, he could even kill his closest brother.

A playful smile touched Ye Huo's lips as she entered a string of complex code to crack the system.

Three minutes later, the system was cracked.

She logged into the website founder's account and took over the entire site's backend, then tapped the keyboard and sent a message to everyone.

Black Caesar was a killer ranked among the top ten internationally.

He had just accepted a job.

Suddenly, red code flashed across his backend.

Startled, he quickly clicked it open and found a line of Sherlock Holmes code.

Deciphered, it read: [Li Zeyuan is under my protection. Anyone who touches him is going against me, Sister Huo. Anyone who refuses to heed this warning will die!]

At that moment, the entire website erupted.

Almost simultaneously, all the killers and mercenaries received a warning in their backend from Sister Huo, the top-ranked big shot on the mercenary website.

She was going to protect Li Zeyuan.

Sister Huo was an SSSSSSSSSS-rank killer, the famously renowned mercenary queen.

Her great name hung high in first place on the rankings, and she was also the highest-priced mercenary queen in the entire history of mercenaries.

Black Caesar narrowed his eyes, a sharp, murderous light flashing in them.

He hated being threatened more than anything, even by the number one! He was determined to kill Li Zeyuan, as well as this opponent, Sister Huo!