259 A Kind and Understanding Friend (2/2)

When Su Zheng was working under Agent Zheng, she had once had this post as a career goal that she was working toward, but after a period of time, she had realized that this was something that was almost impossible for someone like her. She was a professional and did not have the all-roundedness that was required of a middle-tier agent to handle everything.

Furthermore, a woman had a bigger difficulty of becoming a middle-tier agent. When they interacted with a male client, there would be many inconveniences, and they had a natural disadvantage that people had the tendency to look down on them. The body also could not support working under a high-stress job for a long time. The most difficult part was one might experience suspicious gazes from others when one gained a certain level of achievement.

Why would Han Chu believe in 'Ye Shuang'? Su Zheng initially thought that this was an agent group where the male was the leader and the female was the support. However, several days of interaction made her change her mind. When the problems arose, it felt like the Ye Shuang who came out to solve the problem was completely random. There was no leaning toward a particular Ye Shuang.

Ye Shuang could feel the gaze on her even if she did not turn her head around. Since they were waiting for the red light, she asked casually to pass the time, ”What are you thinking about?”

Su Zheng chuckled happily and answered, ”Sister Shuang, I just remembered we haven't prepared a present, have we?”

Even though they were attending the birthday party to get to know the person from Huan Chen, it was quite rude for them to show up empty-handed.

”Who said we haven't prepared anything?” Ye Shuang was confused. ”Didn't you see the paper bag on the backseat?”

Su Zheng turned her head to look, and there was indeed a paper bag. ”What is it?”

”When I was working with The Si Hai Organization, Zuo Yuanhang invited me to his cruise party. He gifted me a bottle of Boerl & Kroff Brut champagne,” Ye Shuang answered. ”It's around 15,000 RMB. That should be enough, right?”

Ye Shuang initially wanted to give this valuable bottle of alcohol to Father Ye, but Father Ye could not bring himself to drink it. Just the thought of gulping down several hundred dollars with just one mouth made Father Ye's heart shake.

Since they were attending a birthday party, and Ye Shuang temporarily could not come up with any birthday present idea, she replaced the untouched bottle back into the box and placed it inside a paper bag. It was a nice present.

The most important point was that this was not something that one could buy just because one wanted to. Even though the price was not that high, it was something that would give the host great face. Even Ye Shuang wanted to give herself a thumb up for her ability to recycle and think on her feet!

Su Zheng's eyes glowed instantly, and she raised her hand excitedly. ”Me, me, me! I've drunk this before. It was at an oversea party that Brother Zhang brought us to. At the time, four of us went, and we shared a whole bottle.”

”Oh, then you guys sure were lucky.” Seeing the light turned green, Ye Shuang pulled on the hand brake and stepped on the pedal.

”It's still okay.” Su Zheng pouted. ”It is expensive, but I still think fruit juice is more delicious.”

…

Considering Shanghai's traffic situation, when Ye Shuang managed to reach the party location in under one hour, she considered herself very lucky. However, perhaps they had arrived too early. Outside the villa of a certain young lady, there were only a few cars. It looked like most of the guests had not arrived yet.

With the invitation card that had been given to her by Sister Yu, Ye Shuang showed it to the maid, and soon, someone arrived to show her to the parking spot. Then Ye Shuang and Su Zheng got out from the car. Naturally, it was the latter who grabbed the champagne and the suitcase. Ye Shuang held the purse that could only contain coins.

Sister Yu had already arrived at the door. Then she waved at them and nodded before walking in on her own. Ye Shuang and Su Zheng walked a different way from her. After all, Sister Yu's identity could arouse many misunderstandings. If they walked too close, people might see them as some new artist who had just joined the entertainment business.

What if they attracted the attention of a rich young master who offered to 'invest' in them and invited Ye Shuang to go have a deeper conversation with them. Sister Yu was afraid that she would not be able to survive the consequences. Before entering the party, Ye Shuang felt that one of the cars that was parked at the door was rather familiar looking. After she walked around the party, she laughed. At the end of the day, the schedule that she wanted to avoid was actually at this place. No wonder the car earlier felt so familiar.

”Celebrity Luo.” Ye Shuang walked to Luo Mingxin, who had not noticed her, and she greeted him with a smile.

Luo Mingxin was spooked by the familiar voice. He turned around in such a hurry that he almost spilled the wine in the glass he was holding. ”Ye… Ye Shuang?”

Ye Shuang sighed. ”I heard that your sponsor wanted to bring you and Brother Shuang to a function. How small is the world that the function is this party?”

Luo Mingxin also felt his emotions were particularly conflicted. ”I also did not expect this to be the work that you mentioned… Cough, Su Zheng is here as well?”

Su Zheng waved her paws happily. ”Hi, today, I'm coming as Miss Ye's assistant.”

From the looks of it, they were indeed up to no good.

Ye Shuang ignored the awkward expression on Luo Mingxin's face. She looked left and right and asked, ”Where's Xia Cheng? Shouldn't he have come with you?”

”Mr. Xia ran into a client and went to have a private conservation at the breakroom.” Luo Mingxin had a bad feeling. ”Wait, don't tell me your work tonight has something to do with Mr. Xia?”

”Of course not!” Ye Shuang claimed easily. This time, Xia Cheng was nothing more than a prop, so technically, her mission that night did not have anything to do with Xia Cheng. Luo Mingxin had a feeling that something was not right, but with his ability, he was unable to tell what Ye Shuang was planning. Thus, for the time being, he chose to believe her. At least, if he believed her, he could fool himself into believing something. He was afraid that this girl was about to open up a side project and started defrauding people.

Now that he thought about it, sometimes, taking one wrong step could ruin the rest of one's life. Back then, at the library, why did he have to talk to the girl about the greatest fraud of the twentieth century?

If he had known sooner, he would have talked about philosophy, nature, art history, and what not. He would have appeared to be cultured, and most importantly, he would not have lived in fear in the future.

Before the party started, the guests were allowed to mingle freely. Sister Yu's sugar daddy or Ye Shuang's potential client had not arrived, and since Luo Mingxin was free and bored, the two sat down on the sofa at the corner of the room and started to chat.

Su Zheng was free as well. Initially, she joined the conversation, but after some time, she could not stop herself from wanting to do something. However, the main reason was because she was not interested in their conversation.

For ten minutes, they talked about micro-expressions and acting. Fifteen minutes later, they talked about frauds and crime. Twenty minutes later, they talked about criminal psychology. Thirty minutes later…

Su Zheng finally lost it. She waved goodbye to the due and went off to play. Ye Shuang and Luo Mingxin did not think much of it.

However, several minutes later, Su Zheng ran back with an excited glow in her eyes. The urgency in her whispered voice was obvious as she shared her discovery with them. ”The study at this villa has been broken into. I saw signs of the alarm next to the safe being broken and hacked…”

Ye Shuang's eyes glowed up as well. ”For real?”

They had triggered a random event; the day sure was exciting.

However, to the side, Luo Mingxin was more concerned about something else. Wait a minute, why would you be able to tell something like that?