When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 23

Three days passed quickly, and Yi Heng was indeed released from the detention center in District 9, looking as if not a single hair on her head had been harmed.

Yi Jing had sent a car early to pick her up. From a distance, he saw Yi Heng emerge from the detention center with a sullen face, walking towards the driver with obvious displeasure.

Yi Jing hadn’t planned on telling her he was there too, so he just sat quietly until Yi Heng climbed into the car herself and discovered Yi Jing also sitting in the back seat. Her gloomy expression suddenly changed to one of shock, as if she’d seen a ghost. She asked, “What are you doing here?!”

“?” Yi Jing raised his eyes to look at her, still holding documents from the Supervisory Office that urgently needed to be processed. “Are you now in charge of our Supervisory Office too?”

Yi Heng was rebuffed again and rolled her eyes in anger, retreating to a corner. “Shouldn’t an official of your rank be staying put in your office in the core district? Why are you always running around everywhere?”

“Naturally, I have something to ask you.”

Yi Jing finished reading the document that required his signature, casually scrawled his name on it and tossed it aside. He then opened the terminal’s monitoring mode and began approving processes submitted by his subordinates.

Sitting next to him, Yi Heng wore an expression of speechlessness. She glanced at the document Yi Jing had tossed aside and said, “Is this how all you elites work?”

Feels like I could do that too.

“The documents that currently reach my hands are already inconsequential. Do you think my signing or not signing would make any difference?” Yi Jing spoke directly without beating around the bush. “Let’s not waste words. I specifically made time to see you because I wanted to ask you something.”

“?” Yi Heng huddled in the corner, looking unhappy. “What is it? About those people in the inner circle?”

Yi Jing’s hand, which had been tapping and poking at the terminal, paused. He turned his head to look at Yi Heng. “You guessed so accurately?”

“Tch,” Yi Heng said disdainfully, “Don’t treat me like an idiot, okay? I was locked up in there for three days, not three hours. Isn’t that enough time for me to figure out what you need me for?”

“Hmm, fair point,” Yi Jing nodded and looked away. “So tell me. Among those who are eligible to inherit the Yi family in the future, who particularly likes to form cliques and has a bunch of followers?”

“—I don’t mind talking about her,” Yi Heng scanned Yi Jing up and down distrustfully. “But why are you suddenly focusing on those people? Are you really going to oppose them? That won’t do you any good.”

“Since I asked, it’s obviously related to a case,” Yi Jing casually deflected.

“Oh—” Yi Heng felt relieved after hearing this.

If it was just about a case, then it wasn’t a big deal. If those people had committed a crime, no matter what it was, Old Master Yi would help cover it up. Even if Yi Jing knew something, at most he would just leverage it to gain favors, like he was doing with her now. Nothing major would come of it.

Feeling reassured, Yi Heng leaned back in her seat. She even had the leisure to criticize, “Your department’s car isn’t as comfortable as the aircraft I privately own.”

Then she answered, “If you’re asking who has the most people under them, that would definitely be Yi Xuan. She’s the daughter of Deputy General Yi, and that branch of the family specializes in this.”

Deputy General Yi?

Yi Jing frowned slightly and turned his head towards Yi Heng. Who was this person? Which branch? What did they do?

“?” Yi Heng’s face once again showed an expression of speechlessness. “Did studying make you stupid? It’s the Old Master’s three biological children, the ones who are your mother’s first cousins – Yi Sheng, Yi Mian, Yi Ze.”

At this point, Yi Heng secretly glanced at the driver’s seat in the front and muttered softly, “I’m not directly calling out those people’s names, I’m just reminding you.”

Mother?

Yi Jing was stunned. The last time he heard someone mention his mother was in Old Master Yi’s study. At that time, he was making a fuss about marrying Yu Miao, and the Old Master said he was being as ridiculous as his mother…

Could it be…

In all the time since he had arrived here, no one had ever mentioned his parents. No matter what happened, the first person he thought of was always his aunt. Could his mother’s “disappearance” also be related to marriage?

Yi Jing was lost in thought for a moment. Fortunately, his original cold face rarely showed any expression when facing others, so Yi Heng didn’t notice his distraction for the time being and continued speaking:

“Ah, you know, our Yi family’s business is so big that the Old Master can’t handle everything by himself anymore. The main person in charge of the family business now is the most capable one from the previous generation, Yi Ming Yue’s biological mother, Yi Sheng.

In the Yi family, no one should offend her. She and her daughter are cut from the same cloth. They may seem quiet and unassuming, but when they take action, it’s a whole different story. As for Yi Xuan, she has the same personality as her mother Yi Mian. You know, with the kind of business our family does, we definitely have to handle some unsavory things. The mother-daughter pair is responsible for these matters.

But actually, they’re easier to get along with. Deputy General Yi and Yi Xuan don’t really bother with outsiders, but if you have a good relationship with the Second Madam. Ah, that is, Deputy General Yi’s lover, or Yi Xuan’s fiancée, the mother-daughter pair basically won’t give you much trouble. Even if you fall into their hands, they’ll turn a blind eye.”

“…” Hearing this familiar description, Yi Jing fell into an eerie silence.

First, there was his mother who caused headaches for Old Master Yi when she acted up. Then there was him, who insisted on marrying Yu Miao. In between were the mother-daughter pair of Yi Mian who didn’t care about others but mindlessly doted on their partners.

He seemed to understand now.

The Yi family produces love-struck fools.

“You just said only Yi Xuan has the most people under her?” Yi Jing asked again.

“Of course, that’s what she does,” Yi Heng huddled in the corner of the back seat, casually pulling out a bottle of water from the car’s refrigerator. She complained, “Why do you only have soda water here? Not even a bottle of champagne?”

Yi Jing: “Wasn’t crashing into the commercial building enough?”

Yi Heng fell silent.

“Since Yi Xuan has many people under her. Is there someone called Xie Zhong Ming?” Yi Jing asked nonchalantly.

“Yes, absolutely,” Yi Heng seemed to recall something unpleasant. “The Xie Zhong Ming and Xie Zhong Hui sisters, those two bastards who love following Yi Xuan around causing trouble, the two most rabid dogs under Yi Xuan. Damn, every time I see those two I can’t get away fast enough. They’re full of nasty tricks!”

So that’s it.

It’s them.

Sitting to the side, Yi Jing narrowed his eyes slightly. His white-gloved hand clenched imperceptibly, accidentally squeezing with enough force to make the glove creak audibly in his moment of emotional turmoil.

The reason he personally came to pick up Yi Heng today was to verify this matter – on the second day after he went to District 9 to bail out Yi Heng, he had found some clues in those hidden files he had seen in Phantom City.

After he left Phantom City that time, no one ever mentioned this matter again, as if that period of time had simply evaporated. Chen Feng, Delinke, and the Deputy Mayor tacitly pretended to have amnesia, but Yi Jing hadn’t forgotten.

He never intended to let it go just like that. Those names marked in red characters always lingered in his mind, popping up from time to time to remind him.

But he had only intended to follow the trail and investigate a bit, thinking it would be good to gain more inside information about Jing’an City. He didn’t expect to uncover something before he even had a chance to dig deep.

He wasn’t familiar with the names of those directly responsible and suspects recorded in the files at first, but when he started investigating their kinship relationships in depth, familiar names began to emerge one after another…

They were all the villainous NPC characters that had appeared in the original story.

Every single one of them was Yu Miao’s future enemy.

In the original work, these bastards were all related to the Yi family, but in Yi Jing’s investigation, these people’s backgrounds and experiences were all different, with seemingly no connection at all. So it could only mean that someone had connected them to the Yi family.

Now that he asked Yi Heng, it was indeed the case.

He had wondered why, when reading the original text, even when the main story was halfway through, the so-called “mastermind” behind the Yi family still hadn’t appeared. The story was full of marginal scum using the Yi family name, constantly doing despicable things. It turns out the real BOSS was hidden so deep…

Yi Xuan…

And Yi Mian.

No, it should be the entire Yi family. Whether they’re love-struck fools or not, since they’ve done things to harm Yu Miao, they can all go to hell.

None of them can be spared.

“Hey! hey hey.” Yi Heng, sitting beside Yi Jing, belatedly began to feel a bit scared. She cautiously poked Yi Jing and said, “Are you okay?”

She was really panicking. Just now, for some reason, when this person heard that Xie Zhong Ming was really related to Yi Xuan, his whole aura suddenly changed. His expression became terrifyingly cold, as if he had just walked out of an ice cellar. His gaze was so fierce it seemed like he might pull out a gun at any moment.

Damn, he wouldn’t assassinate her here, would he?

Lure her out to kill her?

But she didn’t seem to have offended Yi Jing, did she? Was it worth going to such lengths?

Just as Yi Heng was wildly speculating and almost couldn’t resist the urge to jump out of the car and run away, Yi Jing finally came back to his senses.

The cold and fierce expression from earlier seemed to have never existed. Yi Jing resumed his usual indifferent demeanor, though his gaze was still clearly unhappy when he looked over:

“Alright, we’re done talking. You can get out now?”

Yi Heng was stunned. “Huh?”

This was absurd. Even if he was going to dispose of her after using her, there was no need to be so abrupt, right? Kicking her out right after finishing the conversation?

“The car is behind, you can switch cars to go back. Or do you want people to find out you returned in my department’s official vehicle?” Yi Jing’s voice remained cold and indifferent.

Yi Heng: “Oh.”

If he put it that way, she had no objections, but…

“Hey.” Just before getting out of the car, Yi Heng held the door open at the last second.

“What is it?” Yi Jing turned his head to look at her.

“I just want to remind you of something,” Yi Heng leaned into the car to look at Yi Jing, her expression unusually serious. “Do you remember the person who died at that banquet on your first day back at the Yi family?”

…That person?

He had indeed somewhat overlooked that lately.

…So that person was already dead…

Yi Jing frowned slightly, glancing at the driver in the front before continuing, “I remember.”

“That person definitely didn’t accidentally intrude.”

As she said this, Yi Heng’s expression no longer resembled that of a prodigal who couldn’t keep three things in her head. Her eyes were so bright they were almost captivating:

“Something happened in the family. Based on my experience, after the turmoil settles down, there will be an exceptionally grand banquet at home. Many people who don’t usually appear at home will attend. I don’t know what you want to do, but whatever you do, don’t act rashly at that banquet.”

No matter what she wanted to do…

Did that mean Xie Zhong Ming and those people would also appear?

Heh, how could she not do anything?

Given the opportunity, she would kill all those people.

Yi Jing withdrew his hand and responded, “Understood.”

Yi Heng: “…”

Not very convincing.

But whatever, knowing is knowing. Anyway, her connection with Yi Jing wasn’t deep yet. If this person wanted to go get himself killed, she would definitely be the first to run.

Thinking this, Yi Heng left Yi Jing’s car.

Afterwards, Yi Jing and Yi Heng returned to the Supervisory Office and the Yi family’s old mansion respectively. When Yi Jing returned to his own room in the Yi family estate that night, he quietly told Yu Miao about this matter.

Yi Jing: [That’s how it is. Those who don’t usually appear at the Yi family might all show up soon. That Xu Zaixi might come too.]

Yu Miao’s reply was simple: [Mm, okay. We’ll be in touch then.]

Lying on his back in bed, Yi Jing bit his lip and struggled for a moment before sending: [Be careful yourself. At that time, there will be a mix of people at the Yi family, and someone might cause trouble for you.]

After a while, Yu Miao answered: [Okay]

Yi Jing: “…”

Yi Jing: “.”

Ahhh really!! Is that all??

Couldn’t he say a few more words to her?!

He even said he’d give her, um.

If he could give that kind of reward, what’s wrong with saying a few more words to her! Damn it!

Yi Jing clutched the terminal in his hand and tossed and turned on the bed a couple times. Finally, like a salted fish with no will to live, he lay flat on the bed, burying his head in the pillow and not moving.

Really…

After quietly feeling upset and longing for quite a while but having no solution, Yi Jing raised the terminal again. He looked at the sparse conversation on the communication interface for a while and sighed helplessly.

…He really had no way to deal with Yu Miao…

Couldn’t they meet in person?

Would he always be this cold if they didn’t meet?

In that case, he still needed to strive for opportunities to meet Yu Miao more often.

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