Chapter 299 - Lin Mushengs Agenda (1/2)

“Oh, so I was out for a day!” Ah Sha pecked him on the lips. “I want to have a barbecue for dinner!” She remembered the inadequately seasoned (salt only) rabbit meat that she had eaten back in the forest and decided that some real barbecue was in order. Time to compensate herself for all the suffering she went through!

“Deal!” Wan Qingsi buried his head underneath her jaw. For a while, he stayed in that position, listening to the sounds of her heartbeat, and said with a sense of contentment. “You know, when you were lost inside the mountain, I wanted to chop An Ru into pieces. You had no tools, no food, no communication devices, nothing. You have nothing. But you were stranded in the wilderness! How were you to survive in that kind of environment!”

Wan Qingsi went on, “There was nothing else on my mind back then other than to find you as quickly as possible. I was so scared. I was scared that you’d run into danger, that you’d be left hungry with nothing to eat. I was worried that you couldn’t find a good shelter to spend the night in, that you’d fall sick.”

Ah Sha nodded along as Wan Qingsi spoke in his tender voice.

“Besides, Depp was with you. I knew for sure that the idiot would become burden to you.”

Ah Sha laughed at that comment. “You really do know him well,” she said.

Then, Ah Sha remembered that there were still a lot of essential things that she had yet to tell him. She spent the next few minutes telling him about Lin Musheng’s discovery of her identity as the poison queen.

A deep crease formed on Wan Qingsi’s brows. “What the hell is he up to?”

“Why? What’s wrong?” Ah Sha sounded worried. “What did he do?”

Wan Qingsi patted her shoulders comfortingly. “Bai Qi called me this morning,” Wan Qingsi said. “He told me that Lin Musheng had rescinded the bounty on you. Bai Qi pretended to disagree. In the end, Lin Musheng settled it by paying him a sum of money.”

In Bai Qi’s own words: “This is my first time ever dealing with such a weird employer.”

“Back in the mountain, did he attack you?”

Ah Sha shook her head first, and then nodded. “I wouldn’t say attack,” Ah Sha said. “He was trying to take off my mask.”

“He saw your face?” Wan Qingsi’s eyes dimmed. “Damn, this is going to be difficult.”

“You’re worried that he might start spreading the news, right?” Ah Sha sighed. “I’m worried about the same thing.”

Wan Qingsi planted a kiss on her hairline. “Everything else could be handled,” Wan Qingsi said. “The problem is Aunt Qing finding out about your status as a bounty hunter. She’d be crushed.”

Xin Qing had developed a kind of phobia towards high-risk professions ever since what happened to Ying Qingcang last time. Xin Qing didn’t want any of her loved ones to be involved in such professions.

“By the way, how did you handle the situation back at the movie set?” The reporters must have begun coming up with a bunch of wild theories regarding their sudden disappearance.

“It’s fine. Zhou Na and the others are handling it.” Wan Qingsi’s palm slid under Ah Sha’s shirt, stroking the tender skin of her waist. The smoothness he felt there was so addicting that he didn’t want to let go, ever.

Ah Sha shifted closer towards him. “I’ll go back to the movie set tomorrow and continue with the filming.”

Wan Qingsi frowned. “No, take a few more days off.”

“There’s no need for that!” Ah Sha glared at him. “You know my body and how much it can handle. It’ll be fine.”

That night, Ah Sha came up with an excuse so that she and Wan Qingsi could go back to their place. That way, Xin Qing wouldn’t be able to stop Ah Sha from going back to the movie set tomorrow. Depp winked at her when she arrived on set the next day. She figured Wan Qingsi must have talked some sense into Depp since he never mentioned anything about female warriors after that.

Deep down, Ah Sha felt extremely lucky that Depp had been sleeping like a log that night. Or else there was no way she could explain the incident about the wolves’ attack.

From the corner of her eyes, Ah Sha noticed Tang Yue’s wheelchair approaching her. “I heard about the prank that Senior Wan’s friend played on you,” Tang Yue remarked. “Took you guys straight overseas for a vacation, I see? A little sudden, don’t you think?”

Ah Sha gave Tang Yue a sidelong glance. “Too bad you weren’t there with us,” Ah Sha said. “It was a memorable trip for us.”

“There’s nothing else going on?” Tang Yue asked, unwilling to let it go. “An Ru had suddenly become so quiet during the past two days. You don’t know anything about that?”

An Ru would usually make Weibo posts everyday. But for the past two days, she had been suspiciously quiet. Tang Yue had a feeling that it was somehow related to Ah Sha’s being brought away by the helicopter.

Ah Sha smiled. “You sound pretty worried about her,” Ah Sha said. “Why don’t you just ask her yourself, then?”

Tang Yue merely chuckled and said nothing. It wasn’t like she could tell Ah Sha that she was waiting for An Ru and Ah Sha tear each other apart, while she gloated on the sidelines.

“Must be fun watching us destroy each other, huh?” Ah Sha looked at Tang Yue with a smirk.

“How could you say that?” Tang Yue feigned a look of surprise. “I was just worried that she’d harass Senior Wan again.”

Ah Sha nodded in amusement. “At least she has the guts to harass him. Some people don’t even have the guts to do that.”

Tang Yue’s face paled instantly. She turned her wheelchair around and left without another word.

“I already told you a long time ago not to bother with those petty schemes of yours,” Ah Sha said. “I know you better than you think.”

Tang Yue’s body went taught and her wheelchair stopped. When her assistance ran up to push her wheelchair, her demeanor had already returned to normal. After a while, Ah Sha saw Tang Yue chatting happily with the movie set’s makeup artist. Ah Sha looked away from Tang Yue.

“I wonder when Young Master Wen would show up,” Ah Sha thought. “Until then, you don’t even have the right to go toe to toe with me…”

“Young miss! Phone.” Xiao Hua handed the phone to Ah Sha.

Ah Sha took the phone and answered. “Hello.”

The voice on the phone was both familiar and foreign. “So, you’re alright now?”

Lin Musheng…

Ah Sha recovered from her daze and frowned. “What do you want?”

“Why, to celebrate the fact that you and I have both survived the assault from a pack of wolves, of course! So, Ah Sha! Let’s have lunch together! My treat, of course!”

Ah Sha chuckled humorlessly. “Is that a joke? So not funny.”

“Well, what can I say? I’m an impatient and quick-tempered type of guy. Say, how do you think Ying Qingcang would feel if he finds out that his only daughter is a bounty hunter?” Lin Musheng said lazily. Ah Sha could even imagine the smug look on his face, which she felt like punching over and over again.

“Where?” she growled.

Lin Musheng chuckled. “My people will pick you up,” he said. “Oh, another thing! Keep Wan Qingsi out of this. I might just lose my patience if I see him.”

“Go to hell!” Ah Sha hung up. Xiao Hua approached Ah Sha nervously. “Young… Young miss, isn’t that your friend? I heard him calling you ‘Ah Sha’.”