I Was Scammed By A Snow Leopard cub - Chapter 20

Chapter 20 – An Unplayed Chess Game

On the other side, Xie Yingcheng answered a call from Wen Yan and drove the hover car on the street.

“A’Cheng, how are you doing?”

“I got the surveillance footage from the past week. I’ll be at your house right away.”

Wen Yan was shocked: “Surveillance?! How did you get the surveillance? Aren’t we just going to investigate?!”

Xie Yingcheng: “The timing is right, so I’ll deal with it. I’ve temporarily invoked your authority, so remember to get rid of the record.”

Wen Yan was speechless for a while: “You didn’t use my identity to do anything illegal, right?”

Xie Yingcheng took out two empty reagent tubes from his pocket and threw them into the storage box in the car: “No, I took two tubes of M73X.”

Wen Yan was immediately dumbfounded: “What are you doing with that? It’s a banned hallucinogen! It’s very troublesome to record and process.”

“When I went there, I happened to see someone in the monitoring room neglecting his duty, and I added fuel to the fire.”

It was expected that the two staff members would not dare to report the matter, so Xie Yingcheng took advantage of the opportunity. However, this matter sounds simple, but in fact it is full of dangers. No one would do this.

Wen Yan complained to him: “Haven’t you been conservative since you returned to the main planet? This kind of blood-thirsty behavior made me think I had returned to three years ago.”

Recalling the time when Wen Yan first became a partner with Xie Yingcheng, he almost caused him to have high blood pressure. Whenever there was an option of high risk and high return, Xie Yingcheng would take the risk. Although the cost of gambling was not small, his military rank rose rapidly, and he climbed to the position of commander in just a few years.

“Did the process go smoothly? If there is anything else, I can solve it for you.” Wen Yan, who was used to cleaning up messes, asked casually.

Xie Yingcheng did not reply.

His eyes dimmed slightly and his fingertips twirled slightly.

The softness of the hair seems to still linger on the fingertips.

The human was different today than yesterday.

His face was red, he was dazed and at a loss, and Xie Yingcheng couldn’t help himself and wanted to reach out and touch his face.

Fortunately, he reacted and stopped when he was still some distance away. It was not easy to retract it directly, so he picked up a few strands of hair and pretended to be calm and said, “Remember to blow dry your hair when you get home.”

Looking back now, even he himself finds it baffling.

At that moment, it was as if he was injected with M73X, and his body and mind were completely out of control.

Was it because of the pheromones that matched perfectly? Xie Yingcheng couldn’t be sure.

All in all, this is a very dangerous signal.

Xie Yingcheng expressionlessly took out a tube of powerful inhibitor and pushed it all the way in.

•|•

It was not until the next day that Luo Yu dealt with his emotions. Today’s chess game was not updated because the owner of the white chess piece was temporarily absent.

[Xie Yingcheng: Please take care of Xie Anxing for the next two days. I have something urgent to do and will not be home tonight.]

After receiving the news, Luo Yu inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to seriously prepare teething biscuits for the little cub. In the evening, Wen Qiu sent the little cub back.

The little cub who hadn’t seen Luo Yu for a day rushed over to cling to him as soon as they met:

“Luo Luo! I miss you so much~”

The cub, who was in his animal form when he left, had turned into human form when he was sent back. According to Wen Qiu, he has maintained this form since last night and has been surprisingly stable until now.

“Luo Lu, look, this is the book that Grandma Yi gave to Tuantuan!” While his hands and feet were still nimble, the little boy quickly held up the book to show off to Luo Yu.

Grandma Yi is Wen Qiu’s partner, who was an archaeologist before retirement. In addition to the book, she also gave him two beautiful shells and a blue gem.

Luo Yu nodded: “Okay. Did Tuantuan say thank you to Grandma Yi?”

Tuantuan immediately puffed out his chest proudly: “Tuantuan said it! Tuantuan also wants to give Grandma Yi a gift!”

Tuantuan in his boyish form was much heavier to hold, but Luo Yu was happy to bear this sweet burden. He rubbed his little curly hair and asked, “What is Tuantuan going to give to Grandma Yi?”

The little boy tilted his head and thought for a while: “Grandma Yi likes flowers! How about Luo Luo take Tuantuan to buy flowers tomorrow?”

Luo Yu naturally agreed to the little boy’s request.

Surprisingly, Tuantuan still maintained his human form until going to bed, but he still liked to stick to Luo Yu and wanted to listen to him read the history book.

Luo Yu flipped through the book and found that there were only a dozen pages left in the thick book. He could finish reading it today. The clever kid seemed to realize this and put the new book he received today neatly next to the original one.

The little guy is waiting obediently to read the new book with Luo Yu tomorrow.

And tomorrow will be the sixth day that Luo Yu has been taking care of the little cub.

Luo Yu looked at Tuantuan’s sleeping face with a sense of loss. After sighing silently, he covered the little kid with a blanket, turned off the light and left.

•|•

On a new morning, the chess game that had been stagnant all night finally changed, symbolizing the return of another protagonist. However, this time, Luo Yu did not continue to play chess.

Tuantuan had been maintaining his human form since yesterday and had not changed back until this morning.

This meant that Luo Yu’s mission was almost complete. In twenty-four hours it would be the last day of this temporary job, and since he was leaving soon, it didn’t matter whether he played chess or not.

He thought about whether he should make a bold request and finish the rest of the game with Xie Yingcheng, but when he thought about his level, he would probably be defeated by Xie Yingcheng without a single piece of chess left, so he simply didn’t want to humiliate himself and just let the game stop here.

At least now it seems that the two sides are barely evenly matched.

Luo Yu and Tuantuan prepared breakfast together. Luo Yu taught Tuantuan how to make beautiful folds in the dumpling skin, and the little boy also worked hard. Although the final result was not very good-looking, it tasted very good. Thanks to Tuantuan, Xie Yingcheng also had a portion. When it was almost time for dinner, Xie Yingcheng came.

The alpha, who has been commanding operations for many years, has excellent eyesight and can see the unmoved chessboard at a glance.

Xie Yingcheng raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

At the dining table, Tuantuan raised his children’s fork and was about to start eating, but he sensitively noticed that something was wrong between Luoluo and his father.

In the past, Luo Luo would greet his father and his father would respond, but today there was zero communication between the two.

The little cub tilted his head: “Luo Luo…?”

“Hmm? What’s wrong?”

Luo Yu replied as usual, nothing seemed different?

He called out again: “Father, Father?”

“Um.”

The little cub’s legs, which were originally dangling, immediately retracted obediently. Well, his father was the same as usual.

But the little guy just felt that something was wrong.

This question did not puzzle him for too long. When Tuantuan went to Luo Yu’s room to get the lamb doll that had fallen yesterday, he found Luo Yu’s half-packed luggage.

The cub, who was originally happy, suddenly became quiet, staring at the suitcase without blinking, and hugged the lamb in his arms tightly.

So when Luo Yu came over, he received a question that caught the little guy off guard.

“Luo Luo, where are you going?”

Luo Yu was stunned.

‘Xie Yingcheng…didn’t you tell Tuantuan?’

After much hesitation, he still chose not to tell the cub directly about the seven-day employment period, but said tactfully: “Tuantuan has been maintaining his human form these days. Do you think it is much more convenient than before? In this way, Tuantuan will be able to take care of himself soon.”

Tuantuan looked up at him with a blank look in his eyes.

Tuantuan couldn’t figure it out.

“Tuantuan will go find father!” The little boy left this sentence and turned around and ran to the second floor.

Something must have happened between Luo Luo and his father that Tuantuan didn’t know about.

Tuantuan needs to ask his father for clarification!

•|•

Inside the study, Xie Yingcheng was concentrating on watching the screen in front of him, slowing down the footage frame by frame so as not to miss any details.

Cecilia.

The name was not unfamiliar to him.

This is a banned drug that has been circulating in the black market for a long time. It caused a storm when it first appeared two years ago and became the Fruit of Eden that the nobles of the main star fought hard for. Two years later, it became a weapon that caused the alpha soldiers to riot out of control and was used to manipulate the battlefield and clear obstacles.

The person behind the scenes has a huge appetite. Not only does he want wealth and glory, but he also wants supreme power. He doesn’t take the empire’s leader seriously at all and acts recklessly.

The Xie family has been loyal to the emperor for generations. Xie Yingcheng’s sister Xie Si’an married the former marshal, and later had Xie Anxing. Two years ago, it was to help her husband track down Cecilia that Xie Si’an put herself in danger.

Xie Yingcheng looked at the photo on the table with a serious look.

Two years ago, in a car accident, he lost his sister and Tuantuan lost his mother. Tuantuan’s father, who was on the front line, was also killed in a sudden attack by the enemy. The army was leaderless, and the Xie family collapsed in an instant. At that time, he was still on the frontier star, running around desperately to catch a few star pirates.

He hated himself for acting on impulse and not choosing the path that Xie Si’an had carefully arranged for him. He hated his slow promotion in military rank, and after four years he was only the deputy commander of a frontier star. He even hated himself for not protecting his sister and the Xie family.

And now, he heard the name Cecilia again.

He knew who was behind the plot, but he couldn’t chase them. The emperor’s health was not as good as before, and his attitude towards the Jie and Wen families was ambiguous. The second prince, who was most likely to succeed to the throne, had a close relationship with the Bradley family, and wanted to use them to secretly deal with all the obstacles and sing all the way.

The Xie family, with only Xie Yingcheng left to hold on, is the last stumbling block.

A few months ago, the pirates on the Border Star suddenly became active. He led his troops to investigate, but found a transport ship belonging to the Bradley family among the pirates. He found something wrong and decisively commanded the fleet to raid and forcibly seize the transport ship. Before he could investigate, the ship suddenly exploded, burning the cargo on board. The star port was engulfed in flames, and soldiers and innocent civilians were killed or injured.

The Duke of Bradley claimed that the family’s merchant ship was hijacked by space pirates, and then turned around and accused Xie Yingcheng of sending troops rashly and harming innocent people, and demanded that the military take back his command.

It is clear whose cake has been touched.

But Xie Yingcheng is no longer the powerless commander. Years of keeping a low profile have allowed him to gain a firm foothold on the main star and develop his own network of relationships. During the investigation, he was involved in the death of Xie Si’an.

That was not an accident at all. Someone in the military colluded with the enemy and provided intelligence to the enemy, killing the former marshal, causing the power and protection devices of the hovercraft that Xie Si’an was riding to fail, and collided with the oncoming car.

It was obvious that they hated her family very much, and now they hated him very much.

Bradley was just a chess piece that was pushed out, and the real person behind the scenes might not even be the second prince. The situation on the main star was disturbed, making Xie Yingcheng the target of public criticism.

He had to find a way to divert everyone’s attention so that he could concentrate on the secret investigation, otherwise someone would take advantage of the chaotic situation to fish in troubled waters.

The accident that happened when he was returning with Tuantuan not long ago is proof of this.

“Cecelia…” He repeated the name silently, but his eyes gradually became firm and cold.

He is no longer the little commander who was at the mercy of others.

Anyone who dares to hurt his family again should be prepared to pay a heavy price.

While he was deep in thought, there were suddenly two soft knocks on the door.