When the Possessive Omega Fell for Me - Chapter 34

During the preparation period for the general election, the Binyue Hotel, located in the center of the 13th district of Jingan City and occupying one side of a bustling street, was still operating normally.

On the surface, the entire 13th district hadn’t changed much, but as the Yi family banquet began, some people who didn’t often enter the 13th district started pouring into the city center. The presidential suite on the top floor, which was reserved year-round but rarely occupied, also unusually welcomed guests.

The sunlight outside was just right. Xu Zaixi sat in the center of the sectional sofa in the suite’s living room, her long legs crossed, a slender cigarette held between her index and middle fingers. Several thick account books were placed on the low table in front of her.

“Has the person who died in the shop a few days ago been cleaned up?” Xu Zaixi asked casually as she flipped through the account books in front of her, lightly exhaling pale smoke.

Behind her stood five or six burly men in a row, heads bowed and eyes lowered, as if waiting for a scolding. Only two or three young people had the privilege to sit in front of Xu Zaixi, but even they sat far away with stiff postures, completely unlike Xu Zaixi’s carefree and nonchalant attitude.

“It’s been taken care of,” one of the subordinates standing behind Xu Zaixi immediately replied, as if fearing punishment if he delayed even a second. “All evidence has been retrieved, the surveillance footage has been dealt with, and all the temporary workers at the shop have been warned. We have their family information, so no one will dare to cause trouble. The traces in the back kitchen were cleaned up as soon as the body was disposed of. We guarantee that even if the silver-collared judicial system brings the police for a joint investigation, they won’t find any problems.”

“Hmm,” Xu Zaixi responded lightly, “What about the account books that were taken?”

The row of burly men standing behind the sofa collectively shuddered, as if remembering something terrifying. The leader spoke without hesitation: “They’ve been completely recovered, absolutely no backups! We turned that guy’s residence, frequent hangouts, and personal terminal upside down. There’s definitely not a single trace left! Even if he came back to life now, he couldn’t possibly leak any information!”

“Hmm.” Xu Zaixi “hmm”-ed again, her expression still cold and indifferent. While flipping through the account books, she asked, “What about the remaining accounts? It’s already a capital offense for outsiders to take the account books. Haven’t the remaining loopholes been plugged yet?”

A young woman sitting on the sofa, upon hearing this, leaned forward slightly without shifting her gaze and spoke softly: “It’s all been sorted out, Ms. Xu. The real accounts have all been hidden. Any discrepancies in the accounts from the past two years can be balanced through the project completed in the first half of the year. Even if audited, only the reasonable and legal portion would be detectable.”

“Hmm, that’s acceptable.” Xu Zaixi leaned back, finally showing some signs of relaxation. Her slender, slightly upturned eyes revealed a hint of impatience with the citywide lockdown. Biting on the slender cigarette, she lectured her subordinates, “With the general election approaching, all of you better behave yourselves. This is the time for those bigwigs up there to show their faces. The police officers are all like mad dogs, itching to cause trouble. Notify the bars and nightclubs under our management not to stir up any issues that would give me a headache at a time like this.”

The row of burly men behind her immediately stood straight and shouted in unison: “Yes!”

“You may leave now.”

Xu Zaixi raised her hand slightly towards her subordinates behind her, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, scurrying out of the room as if granted a great pardon.

After those people left, Xu Zaixi’s expression didn’t relax at all. On the contrary, her brow furrowed even deeper, and even the rate at which her cigarette burned increased.

“Looks like you still have something to worry about.” A woman who appeared to be about the same age as Xu Zaixi walked out from the depths of the suite. She seemed completely unconcerned with Xu Zaixi’s mood and naturally sat down on the sofa in front of her.

“It’s because of this recent purge,” Xu Zaixi furrowed her brow and took a drag on her cigarette, saying very unhappily, “Things have been quite unsettled outside our territory lately. Too many people are involved, and a lot of things that weren’t discovered before have now come to light. Even those old geezers have been disturbed. Now the bosses insist on temporarily reducing the scale of business and conducting internal investigations. It’s been driving me crazy lately.”

“What, will a lot of people die?” The unfamiliar woman reached out to take one of Xu Zaixi’s cigarettes, her words chillingly cruel. “Are you afraid of people dying?”

Xu Zaixi was equally unperturbed, casually replying: “Death isn’t the issue, it’s figuring out who should die.

Many people have already been found to have problems recently, we can’t kill them all. Too many deaths are difficult to clean up, not to mention I’d have no one left to work for me.”

The unfamiliar woman curved her eyes in a smile: “Sounds like there will be some excitement.”

Before she could finish speaking, one of the burly men waiting outside suddenly burst in, exclaiming in panic: “Bad news, boss! The cops are downstairs!”

“What?!”

Xu Zaixi whipped her head around, her first reaction being that the internal purge hadn’t been thorough enough, and someone had recklessly leaked her whereabouts. She’d have to slaughter a couple more suspicious brats later.

However, the subordinate’s next words made Xu Zaixi pause: “They say there are officials secretly meeting with financial tycoons in this hotel! Damn it, where are there any high-ranking officials in this hotel? Isn’t this nonsense?! Now those silver-collared supervisory officers from the Supervisory Institute are directly leading the district police to surround all the exits upstairs and downstairs and the aircraft dispatch station. What should we do, boss?”

“The Supervisory Institute?” Xu Zaixi’s movement to stand up halted as she frowned at the rash subordinate. “Are you sure it’s those silver-collared officers?”

“I’m sure,” the subordinate immediately defended himself, as if afraid Xu Zaixi would suspect him. “We usually deal more with the police at the shop, but we’re not completely unfamiliar with the silver-collared officers. They’re always the most pretentious during operations. There’s no mistake!”

Supervisory Institute.

Xu Zaixi’s thoughts unconsciously drifted to that love-struck security officer she had met not long ago. She wondered if that one knew about this operation. In any case, if it was the Supervisory Institute, there was still room for maneuver.

The Supervisory Institute’s investigations had never focused on people like them, and they weren’t as skilled at arresting criminals as the security system. Usually, they wouldn’t primarily target “small fry” like them.

“All of you leave the hotel immediately. If the normal exits downstairs are blocked, use the staff passages. Have the staff in the back cooperate with you. Change clothes if necessary, and be sure to conceal your identities. Hurry, leave now! I’ll go out and stall them, you take this opportunity to escape.”

“Should I leave too?” asked the young woman who had just taken a cigarette from Xu Zaixi.

“Of course,” Xu Zaixi turned back and said without hesitation, “You’re the one who should leave the most. Don’t meet with the law enforcement system under any circumstances, and especially don’t let them capture your facial features!”

“Oh, alright.” The woman shrugged indifferently.

Xu Zaixi stood up and took a coat from one of her subordinates, draping it over her shoulders before leaving the room. She appeared casual, but before exiting, she made a very serious hand gesture to her subordinates, indicating that they must take good care of that woman and ensure she was sent out exactly as she was.

The subordinates immediately tensed up upon seeing Xu Zaixi’s expression, nodding silently to indicate they would definitely accomplish the task.

Everyone who had appeared in the presidential suite left the room door in a very short time. After leaving the presidential suite, each person put on a different demeanor, looking as if they had no connection to each other.

The last to leave was the woman who had been relaxed and at ease even in front of Xu Zaixi. In just those short two or three minutes, she had changed into another set of clothes, with her hairstyle and makeup altered accordingly. As she walked out the door, she was even applying lipstick.

Using her ring finger to wipe away excess color from her lips, the woman looked around the environment with a relaxed expression, finally smiling as she walked towards a waiter waving to her from a hidden passage.

Xu Zaixi had already headed in the completely opposite direction two minutes earlier. No one noticed a girl sitting with her back to everyone in the gradually quieting top-floor VIP lounge area, reading a magazine. She gently pushed up the bucket hat on her head, then pulled down the sunglasses on her face to observe for a moment. Then she took several photos of Xu Zaixi’s departing direction and the young woman’s back, sending them to an unknown group chat:

[Hurry, keep a close eye on them. If this job is done well, the bounty is all yours]

Separated by more than a dozen floors, the supervisory officers who had received the message and arrived at the hotel, along with the district police officers cooperating with the operation, had already blocked all exits. These law enforcement personnel were moving upwards with their equipment, intercepting all suspicious-looking people along the way.

The hotel manager, his face full of tension, was jogging alongside them, nervously handing over the list of permanent staff in the hotel to the leader of the Supervisory Committee’s Fourth Group.

The leader glanced at the list and directly handed it to her deputy: “Seal off all internal passages. Those who refuse to stay in place and wait for screening should be prioritized for comparison.”

The deputy who had originally been walking beside the Fourth Group leader immediately slowed down upon receiving the order, falling two steps behind to grab the arm of the manager beside her and pull him aside, along with several police officers.

“You see these people?” the deputy pointed to the police officers behind her and said to the manager, “Now immediately seal off all staff passages, notify hotel staff through internal channels to stop in place and not move around randomly, otherwise they will all be treated as suspects, understand?”

The manager looked at the silver badge on this supervisory officer’s uniform, then at the row of police officers standing behind her, gave a dry laugh and nodded.

“Move out.” The deputy turned and handed the terminal containing all employee information to a police officer, then followed those police officers through a hidden door into the staff passage.

On the other side, the Fourth Group leader was still leading people forward, showing her credentials to every hotel guest they encountered, asking them to stay put and cooperate with the investigation. Among them were some from powerful families who didn’t want to pay much attention to them, openly ignoring the Supervisory Committee’s words.

The Fourth Group leader was already annoyed about having to carry out such a seemingly false task of chasing shadows, and now seeing people obstructing law enforcement made her even more irritated. She went up and directly handcuffed a string of them.

“Oh my, what’s going on here?” Xu Zaixi arrived late, smiling ambiguously as she stood at the edge of the noisy crowd, watching the judicial and security system people in action.

“The Supervisory Institute is conducting an investigation. Bystanders step aside and wait for screening.” The Fourth Group leader turned and flashed the credentials in her hand.

“Ms. Xu!” The young man who had just been handcuffed by the supervisory officer looked towards Xu Zaixi, “Xu Zaixi, look at these bastards, quickly tell them to let me go!”

Fourth Group leader: “?”

Xu Zaixi looked at the man with an ambiguous smile, and actually unfolded her arms that were crossed over her chest. She unhurriedly walked in front of the Fourth Group leader and added fuel to the fire: “Hey, leader, this person really isn’t a suspicious character. Why don’t you just let him go? He doesn’t have the brains to do anything bad anyway.”

The man who had been boldly shouting earlier widened his eyes when he heard Xu Zaixi’s words: “Xu Zaixi! What are you saying?”

The Fourth Group leader coldly grabbed the man’s collar: “I’m warning you, I can demand punishment for groundlessly insulting public officials!”

Xu Zaixi went to persuade the Fourth Group leader, the Fourth Group leader grabbed the man’s collar, and the man with the bad attitude glared at Xu Zaixi. The scene became chaotic for a moment.

Fortunately, the Fourth Group leader quickly remembered her duties and, without much hesitation, pushed the troublesome man back and pointed at Xu Zaixi without thinking: “Handcuff this one too, same obstruction of law enforcement.”

The police officers who came to assist were almost numb: “This one too.”

“Hey hey, I didn’t obstruct law enforcement.” Xu Zaixi, intending to delay time, took two steps back, smilingly refusing the Fourth Group leader’s silver bracelet invitation.

“Then who are you? A staff member of this hotel? Or a guest staying here?” The Fourth Group leader’s gaze was sharp as it swept over Xu Zaixi.

“I’m a guest staying here. I have some business to attend a banquet recently, so I came over from another district and am staying here now.” Xu Zaixi answered the Fourth Group leader’s question calmly, without a hint of guilt.

The Fourth Group leader looked at her very suspiciously, raising her hand to take a work terminal from the manager beside her, and asked with a cold expression: “Is that so? Then which room are you staying in, what day did you check in? When do you plan to check out?”

“S-003, checked in on the 7th, it was 10 days ago. As for checking out… I haven’t made arrangements yet…”

“S-003?” The Fourth Group leader interrupted Xu Zaixi before she could finish speaking, “Isn’t that the presidential suite on the top floor?”

Xu Zaixi, whose words had been cut off, smiled good-naturedly and didn’t speak.

The Fourth Group leader turned to look at the manager beside her, her eyes full of the sharpness unique to law enforcement officers: “Room numbers starting with S are all presidential suites, only SVIP level guests can book them, right? Didn’t you say earlier that only one presidential suite was occupied today?”

The manager nervously smiled and said: “That’s right, but…”

“So you’re the only one staying in the presidential suite today?” The Fourth Group leader looked at Xu Zaixi again.

Xu Zaixi: “Um, I suppose so?”

The Fourth Group leader’s gaze instantly became even sharper. She scanned Xu Zaixi up and down, then stared at her as she raised her hand to press the internal communicator hanging on her ear:

“Everyone pay attention. First squad. Second squad, guard all exits well, watch for anyone moving through the passages who doesn’t listen to notifications. Once encountered, control them immediately. Third squad stay in place and guard the aircraft dispatch station well, keep an eye on these people. The rest follow me, we’ll start searching from the top floor.”

Xu Zaixi frowned slightly and stepped forward to block the Fourth Group leader, saying: “Leader, I just came down to see what was going on. There’s no need to target me like this, right?”

The Fourth Group leader coldly glanced at her: “Cooperating with the investigation is a citizen’s duty. Don’t make me warn you a second time, or I’ll handcuff you too. Move out immediately!”

The last half of the sentence was directed at those supervisory officers and police officers. Xu Zaixi, who was incidentally shouted at, frowned even more tightly, revealing some gloom and unwillingness.

Seeing Xu Zaixi’s expression, the Fourth Group leader became even more certain of her suspicions. She took a few people and was about to drag Xu Zaixi along to investigate the top floor.

As they brushed past each other, Xu Zaixi discreetly gave the hotel manager a look. The latter changed from his difficult and reverent appearance in front of the supervisory officers, imperceptibly nodding slightly—

‘It’s all been taken care of’

So Xu Zaixi relaxed and allowed herself to be taken to the top floor by the supervisory officers.

When the Supervisory Committee really investigates a case, they are very efficient. In the short time from when the Fourth Group leader issued the order to when she led Xu Zaixi to the top floor, the first and second squads had already completely controlled all entrances and exits on the top floor. Not even a fly could escape.

When the Fourth Group leader brought Xu Zaixi to the door of the room, Xu Zaixi was still trying to stop the Fourth Group leader, repeatedly proving that she had no suspicion. The Fourth Group leader was so annoyed that she directly warned:

“If you really haven’t done anything illegal, then open the door immediately and accept the inspection! Don’t waste your time and mine. Whether you’ve done anything you shouldn’t have, the Supervisory Committee will see with their own eyes. We won’t wrongly accuse you.”

As she spoke, the Fourth Group leader gestured to the hotel staff beside her, indicating that they should open the door immediately.

“Wait!” Xu Zaixi directly grabbed the staff member’s hand. This time she looked genuinely angry. “This…”

Xu Zaixi’s gaze swept over the Fourth Group leader’s shoulder badge, and she said not without anger: “Group leader, are you sure you want to open this door? I’ve already said I absolutely haven’t done anything illegal. This is infringing on my basic rights!”

“I’ve also said, stop obstructing the Supervisory Committee’s normal law enforcement!”

The Fourth Group leader shook off Xu Zaixi’s hand and directly snatched the door card from the staff member’s hand, swiping it to open the suite’s door.

Xu Zaixi: “Hey?”

As Xu Zaixi spoke, the suite’s main door opened inward. A warm, almost nose-bleed inducing, strangely sensual fragrance wafted out from the door crack. Along with it came a soft, sweet laugh. It seemed there was more than one person in the room, and the clear sound of clinking wine glasses entered their ears.

Fourth Group leader: “…”

Other supervisory officers: “…”

Assisting police officers: “…”

A beautiful girl wearing bunny ears seemed to have heard the sound at the door. She came out smiling with two wine glasses: “Oh my, sister, why were you gone so long? Didn’t you say you’d just get some air and come back? Oh my goodness, who are all these people? What are they doing? Why are they carrying guns? Sister, save me!”

Fourth Group leader: “…”

Xu Zaixi reached out to catch the girl and spread her hands at the supervisory officers: “See, I told you not to open the door. This really puts me in a difficult position.”

The Fourth Group leader looked at Xu Zaixi’s obviously smug face, realizing she had been tricked. She gritted her teeth and pulled her earpiece to ask: “All units, have any suspicious persons been found at any exits or passages?”

The voices of several squads successively sounded in the earpiece, each area reporting that no suspicious persons had been found.

At the same time, all the real meeting participants who had appeared in Xu Zaixi’s suite successfully left the hotel from different exits and merged into the crowd, successfully escaping one second before the Supervisory Committee and police officers jointly blocked all entrances and exits.

“Continue the inspection,” the Fourth Group leader squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, coldly sweeping a glance at Xu Zaixi, “Don’t miss this room either!”

Xu Zaixi shrugged indifferently.

The inspection in the hotel continued, with the Supervisory Committee and police officers finding nothing. However, the professional paparazzi who had been tailing those secret meeting participants all the way managed to dig up some things.

Yi Heng, who had personally come to join the excitement after receiving the assignment and had quietly run out while Xu Zaixi was stalling for time, casually tossed her hat and sunglasses into a trash can before opening the group chat with 99+ messages and taking a look.

Starting from her message, the real paparazzi and fake passersby she had organized and planted throughout the hotel had relay-style photographed the routes of those people leaving the presidential suite, linking one after another until finally those people left from different exits of the hotel and got into different cars. The action routes of each person were recorded.

Yi Heng carefully flipped through the chat history, whistled softly at her own successful efforts, and then sent the photos to Yi Jing: [Here, the information you wanted. I managed to get it for you]

Yi Jing, waiting by the window in the Supervisory Institute office, heard the message alert sound and raised his wrist to look at the terminal.

The messages on the terminal’s light screen automatically loaded and slowly scrolled past his vision. Yi Jing carefully looked at those photos, and the corners of his tightly pressed mouth finally revealed a hint of a smile. He turned and forwarded those messages to another person in his contact list:

[A performance opportunity has come knocking. I’ve forwarded it to you. Whether you can investigate depends on you]

A contact with an avatar of a blurry figure silhouetted against the sun quickly replied: [Received]

[I want to see who dares to break the law during the election period, challenging the police station. They’re really asking for death]

Yi Jing let out a light sigh of relief.

Everything was ready. The Fourth Group of the Supervisory Commission, acting as a probe, had already startled the ‘snake’ that Yi Jing wanted. The next step was to pursue the frightened prey step by step into its den.

Meanwhile, the Supervisory Commission and the local police station had caused quite a commotion at the Binyue Hotel. The presidential suite where Xu Zaixi was staying was almost turned upside down.

The originally ambiguous and dim atmosphere was completely destroyed. Xu Zaixi and those girls all looked very displeased. Even the guests on the floors below couldn’t escape; each one was brought out for inspection.

Unfortunately, there was still no result.

The leader of the Fourth Supervisory Group coldly glanced at Xu Zaixi and said to the staff nearby, “Where’s the surveillance footage? Tell your manager to bring out the surveillance. I want to check it.”

Before the hotel staff could say anything, the deputy director of the local police station couldn’t take it anymore and stepped forward to advise, “Sir, if we continue like this, others might have objections. During the election period, the Supervisory Institute can investigate suspicious activities without a search warrant, but if we keep pestering like this, we might still get into trouble.”

The Fourth Group leader coldly swept a glance at him: “What trouble?”

The deputy director was stumped. Just as he was feeling helpless, the deputy of the Fourth Group leader also came over and whispered, “Leader, some of the people downstairs are indeed children of the powerful. If we can’t find anything and still don’t let them go, it will be hard for us to explain when we get back.”

“…”
The Fourth Group leader took a deep breath, closed his eyes briefly, then turned to glare at Xu Zaixi, “That’s it for today. All members of the Supervisory Commission, pack up.”

The deputy director beside him let out a heavy sigh of relief and quickly instructed the police station personnel to pack up and retreat as well.

Xu Zaixi didn’t provoke them further, standing to the side with a smirk, casually embracing two girls as he watched the Supervisory Institute and police station personnel leave.

As those people walked away, the expression on Xu Zaixi’s face gradually faded. Only after confirming that the investigators had truly left did Xu Zaixi turn back to the suite and slam the door shut.

The young girl standing behind her silently removed the bunny ears from her head and boldly wiped off the lipstick from her mouth:

“Boss, doesn’t something seem off about today? I heard that those silver-collared folks from the Supervisory Institute only take action when they’re certain there’s a problem. They usually don’t bother with unfounded reports. This time they suddenly rushed over – did we run into someone else’s business?”

Xu Zaixi, with her back to the two, took a deep breath and raised her hand to pinch the bridge of her nose: “Go investigate who these people have been meeting recently that they shouldn’t have, and if there’s anything unusual. Find out which idiot was so careless as to bring our own people down on us!”

“Yes.” The two girls behind quickly responded.

Xu Zaixi let out a long sigh, took out her terminal to check the itinerary information of several important subordinates, and then instructed a few financial directors on some necessary details. After spending half a day on this, she felt extremely tired and was about to return to her branch company in the 13th district to continue the ‘self-cleaning’ operation ordered by the Yi family’s old master.

The reason for all this trouble ultimately stemmed from problems with the Yi family’s business.

Due to betrayal by overseas traitors, the Yi family’s largest overseas agent was hunted down, and their entire newly developed commercial territory in Western Europe was completely lost, resulting in losses of up to ten billion. The old master Yi and the board of directors were furious, demanding that those working below conduct internal cleansing to prevent another betrayal from happening.

But self-cleaning was no easy task. Xu Zaixi had been at her wit’s end lately, wanting to shoot everyone she saw just like Yi Jing would.

However, no matter how much she hated work, it had to continue. Xu Zaixi got up and put on her coat, but just as she reached the door, her young subordinate rushed out with a panicked expression, saying, “B-bad news, boss…”

“What’s wrong?” Xu Zaixi furrowed her brow, knowing from her subordinate’s expression that something was seriously wrong.

“We just got news from the shop, several of our test sites have been raided.”

“What?!”

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