Chapter 226 - 226 225 Secrecy

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226: Chapter 225: Secrecy 226: Chapter 225: Secrecy Chen Qiuya straightened her clothes and finally regained her composure, looking prim and proper, except for the slight chill she felt below. Every inch of her felt relaxed and comfortable! “Right! What are we doing here?” asked Chen Qiuya, her face still flushed with the remnants of her afterglow, to Liu Hun. Liu Hun took out his cellphone and said to Chen Qiuya, “Now that we’ve confirmed the source of the photos to be Yan Xiaojun, there’s no need to look for anyone else! My plan today, coming here, is to deal with Shi Bi’s issue as well!” Chen Qiuya became serious right away, asking Liu Hun gravely, “Are you saying you’re going to find the leverage Yan Xiaojun has over Shi Bi to threaten him?” “Not to find it! But to take it back or destroy it!” Liu Hun corrected Chen Qiuya. Chen Qiuya had no doubts about Liu Hun now, just asked, “What’s your plan?” Liu Hun responded with a slight smile, “If someone sent you a text message telling you that your hidden secret is at risk of being discovered, what would you do?” “Of course I’d go check it out right away! Oh! I get it now! You’re planning to send Yan Xiaojun a text message, and then have him go check it? Then you’ll know where the thing is!” Chen Qiuya said, her face lighting up with realization, before pausing and asking, “But if he has it hidden inside his house, and he goes to look for it, you won’t be able to see it!” If it were anyone else, that would be true! But this is Liu Hun! The Liu Hun with the miraculous ability to see through objects! “Let’s take a gamble,” Liu Hun replied vaguely to Chen Qiuya. After speaking, he sent the carefully crafted text message to Yan Xiaojun. Watching the message show “Delivered” on the cellphone screen, Liu Hun waited a minute, estimating the time, and then channeled his Qi Force into his eyes, his vision blazing, the miraculous X-ray vision—activated! In the vast villa, every single sight unfolded before Liu Hun as if it had been sliced open, and at this very moment, Yan Xiaojun was fumbling above the fireplace, digging for something. Without a doubt, that must be where the item was! Five seconds of X-ray vision were enough for Liu Hun to learn everything he wanted to know. In a few minutes, the phone in his hand began to ring. Chen Qiuya peered over and saw Yan Xiaojun’s number displayed on the screen, then asked Liu Hun, “Do you answer it?” “Of course not!” After speaking, Liu Hun shut off his phone, removed the second-hand SIM card he had bought, and threw it out the window. Soon after, Yan Xiaojun’s garage door slowly opened. He drove off in his Mercedes, not even glancing in Liu Hun’s direction as he left his home. “Follow him! Why aren’t you stepping on the gas? He’s likely going to look for his hidden item!” Chen Qiuya urged Liu Hun, surmising from Yan Xiaojun’s hasty departure that he must be going to find those critical leverage points. Liu Hun not only didn’t step on the gas but also opened the car door and said to Chen Qiuya, “I already know where the item is, let’s go!” “Really?” Chen Qiuya got out of the car with some disbelief and followed Liu Hun toward Yan Xiaojun’s villa. Naturally, the villa was equipped with a comprehensive security system, but for someone like Liu Hun, who had breached the Hu Group’s research center’s top-notch security systems, such trivial tricks posed no threat. With Chen Qiuya looking on with an expression of astonishment as if she were seeing an alien, Liu Hun casually opened the door and walked into the villa calmly. “You weren’t a lockpicker before, were you?” asked Chen Qiuya, trailing behind Liu Hun into the villa with caution. It was a daunting task to search for something in such an enormous villa. She asked Liu Hun a bit disheartened, “Do you really know where it is?” Liu Hun waved his hand and said, “Upstairs!” After going upstairs, Liu Hun brought Chen Qiuya straight to the bedroom’s fireplace. After rummaging for a while, he sure enough pulled out an oiled paper package. Watching Liu Hun’s series of actions, even Chen Qiuya began to wonder if Yan Xiaojun had intentionally left the item there for Liu Hun to find. The two squatting on the carpet opened the oiled paper parcel with caution, and the contents inside were laid bare before them. It was all about Shi Bi’s past—her broken family, the disappearance of her mother, the death of her criminal father in prison, being adopted, a brief romance with a man before she became famous, and even more shocking, this man was now serving time in prison! If Chen Qiuya had been curious before about how Liu Hun got in and found these things, her curiosity had already moved past that now. The fact that the red-hot entertainment triple-threat Shi Bi had such a dark background was astonishing. “I... I remember the stories in the media weren’t like this! They said she voluntarily dropped out of the University of California to pursue performing arts and that her parents were American citizens of Chinese descent. And they didn’t mention any romantic history at all. If... if these things got out, I reckon she’d be completely ruined.” Chen Qiuya’s heart pounded furiously. Liu Hun might not understand the importance of these matters in the entertainment industry, but as a woman who loved gossip, she knew all too well. “Is it really that serious? What does it matter where someone comes from, or what they’ve done in the past as long as they’ve taken responsibility and changed for the better? Why the need to hide it?” Liu Hun shook his head, puzzled. Having come from a rural background, he cared little for matters of status—what mattered to him was how one strived to improve. Chen Qiuya sighed and said, “No wonder Yan Xiaojun has Shi Bi under his control. This kind of explosive material would ruin whoever it’s exposed about! As a public figure, having a clean past is crucial! Even if it’s not clean, one must be honest about it from the start. Shi Bi’s situation isn’t just about having a murky past; it’s also about deceiving the public. Now, what should we do with this stuff?” “Just take it and go... Wait a minute!” Liu Hun had intended to take the package, but suddenly an idea struck him, and he said to Chen Qiuya, “Let’s split up and look!” “Look for what?” Chen Qiuya asked, puzzled. Weren’t all the things right here? “A safe! It must be in this bedroom! Important things are generally not kept anywhere else!” After saying this, Liu Hun immediately started to search. Having already used his X-ray vision once and being limited to one use per day, he couldn’t employ it again. So, the two could only search together. Ten minutes later, Chen Qiuya shouted to Liu Hun with excitement, “I found it!” Behind a Van Gogh Sunflowers painting hanging over Yan Xiaojun’s bed was his safe. Liu Hun took a look. It was a simple safe, far inferior to Wang Dawei’s. He reached out, turned the handle, and Qi Force flashed into the lock. “Click!” It opened at once! Chen Qiuya, now immune to Liu Hun’s special ability, was more curious about what was inside the safe. The two emptied the safe completely. Aside from some money, there were Yan Xiaojun’s personal items, and what caught their attention was a stack of photos and a CD. “Eh! This CD is just like the one inside Shi Bi’s wrapped package. What’s on it?” Chen Qiuya asked Liu Hun with sheer curiosity. With the experience of finding Wang Dawei’s CD at the Hu Group Research and Development Center, Liu Hun instinctively felt the contents wouldn’t be anything positive. Glancing at the photos, he was even more convinced. He casually picked up a few photos that depicted Yan Xiaojun’s explicit escapades! “Absolutely nothing good! Just look at these and you’ll know!” Liu Hun casually handed the photos to Chen Qiuya. Since they were now intimate, he didn’t need to be as discreet with her as he was with Huang Zishan. Chen Qiuya glanced at the explicit photos. Her face flushed and then her eyes widened as she pointed at a photo of a woman with no clothes on, oozing sensuality, and exclaimed, “This... This is He Yichun!” “He Yichun? Who’s that? Do you know her?” Liu Hun asked, puzzled, finding the woman in the photo’s figure and face no match for Shi Bi or Chen Qiuya. Chen Qiuya’s natural gossipy enthusiasm surged as she rattled off to Liu Hun, “She was the runner-up on the hottest variety show ‘Super Woman’! Has a big following! Some said her behavior was questionable back in school! Others said she got her runner-up spot because she agreed to a casting couch arrangement! She doesn’t look so bad on TV! And about her figure, seems like she could only endorse...” Liu Hun truly hadn’t expected gossip-hungry women to be so frightening, nor had he anticipated that right after Chen Qiuya finished talking, she grabbed the CD from his hand and said, “There’s bound to be even more explosive stuff in here! Let’s watch it together!” Before Liu Hun could voice his opinion, Chen Qiuya had already taken the disc to the computer desk, and so he had no choice but follow her. Since the computer in Yan Xiaojun’s bedroom was for his personal use and he was the only one living in the villa, it wasn’t password-protected like Wang Dawei’s. With the CD in the computer, Chen Qiuya swiftly opened it. Familiar moans and gasps immediately filled the room, coupled with the sounds of flesh-on-flesh and unspeakable visuals, which, indeed, were more provocative than ordinary. “This kind of guy can still get his hands on so many talent show starlets! It’s only been thirty seconds! Just look at these women. Guess they really are actors; their performance is over the top! They’re acting so convincingly! Hey, hey, hey! That’s Zheng Jiayun from ‘Heavenly Sound’! I knew her singing was terrible, how could she have gotten third place? She must’ve been compromised too...” Chen Qiuya was muttering non-stop as if she had unearthed some kind of treasure. Liu Hun didn’t recognize any of the stars and didn’t plan to get to know them either. While Chen Qiuya was engrossed, he put all of Yan Xiaojun’s shady personal items into the paper package that had originally contained Shi Bi’s materials, then tucked Shi Bi’s materials into his own pockets. While sorting the items, Liu Hun suddenly noticed that the sounds from the untoward CD had stopped. He knew Chen Qiuya had finished watching. Without turning around, he reached out and said to Chen Qiuya while still organizing the package, “Give me the CD, I’ll put it in this paper package!”

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