My Wife, The Ice Queen President

Chapter 338: Chapter 0337: Persuasion (Part 1)_1
 

After knocking Duanmu Linglong unconscious, Ye Xiong carried her to the sofa to lie down.

This was the first time Ye Xiong had physical contact with Duanmu Linglong. He involuntarily lingered upon the unique feminine scent emanating from her.

“What time is it, and you’re still in the mood to think about this.”

Mocking himself, Ye Xiong quickly reined in his emotions, took the keys from her, and locked the door from the inside before leaving.

“Chen Yang, what did the vice-president want with you?”

As soon as Ye Xiong stepped out, the gossip-loving Xia Xiaoyou rushed over to ask.

“She asked if I was willing to be her boyfriend, but you know me, I absolutely won’t sell my body, so I firmly refused,” Ye Xiong said with a smile.

“I originally thought you were quite serious, but now I’ve realized that you also like to boast a lot.” Since Xia Xiaoyou couldn’t pry any gossip, she had no choice but to leave.

In the blink of an eye, it was two o’clock in the morning, the most exhausting time for humans.

“Xia Xiaoyou, I’m going out for a bit,” Ye Xiong said.

“Are you going to sleep again?” Xia Xiaoyou asked with disdain.

“Heading to the toilet.”

Leaving the inpatient building, Ye Xiong made his way to the VIP inpatient building and, with ease, climbed up the drainpipe to the fifth floor, where he retrieved the hidden camera.

As he was leaving, Ghost Shadow came out to patrol the neighboring room. Ye Xiong, hanging in midair, avoided detection by a narrow margin. After waiting for the patrol to finish, he swiftly departed, managing to return to the inpatient building without further incident.

“Always sneaking off to sleep, you’ll be discovered sooner or later and fried like squid,” Xia Xiaoyou said upon seeing Ye Xiong return.

“Xia Xiaoyou, why do you love to meddle in my affairs so much?” Ye Xiong laid his entire body on the desk, his eyes tenderly and silently gazing at her while he teased, “Say, you couldn’t have fallen for me, could you?”

“Ghost would fall for you.”

Seeing his seemingly amused gaze, Xia Xiaoyou’s face flushed red with embarassment as she snapped, “The more I interact with you, the more faults I discover. Not only do you love to boast, but you’re also incredibly narcissistic.”

“I do have many faults, unlike you ladies, who have two ‘good points.’ But I have one strong suit, and you have one shortcoming. If my strength were to compensate for your flaw, wouldn’t that be a perfect complement for each other?” Ye Xiong recalled a risqué joke from the internet and used it directly.

“Shameless, indecent! I’m telling the head nurse after work, saying you harassed me,” Xia Xiaoyou said, her face red as she ran off.

Crap, did this little nurse hear that dirty joke before?

That was just as well; she wouldn’t continue pestering him, and probably wouldn’t bother him again unless it was something serious.

Ye Xiong entered Duanmu Linglong’s office; she was still lying unconscious on the sofa.

He dismantled the hidden camera, removed the memory stick inside, turned on the computer, and opened the stored data.

The recording showed the iron door’s activity for an entire day.

Through fast-forwarding, Ye Xiong discovered the iron door was opened four times throughout the day, with Ghost Shadow entering three times, carrying a lunch box, presumably delivering food inside; fitting the schedule of three meals a day, and one key was in his possession.

Another individual, a middle-aged man wearing a doctor’s coat, entered once, around one in the afternoon.

Even though the face wasn’t clear, it was evident that this middle-aged man had to be the chief of Duanmu First Hospital, the father of Duanmu Linglong, and the person Ye Xiong most suspected to be Mr. Ghost—Duanmu Kuang.

Duanmu Kuang stayed in the room for less than five minutes before leaving.

Wasn’t he supposed to be giving Ghost injections? Why did he come out so quickly?

Ye Xiong pondered in front of the computer.

At this point, there were two known keys: one with Ghost Shadow and the other with Duanmu Kuang.

Ghost Shadow was hiding in his room all day long, attending to all his needs inside and, with two unidentified experts inside, stealing the key would be harder than reaching the sky.

The only possibility now was to steal the key from Duanmu Kuang.

Duanmu Kuang is likely to be Mr. Ghost. This person has exceptional skills and is highly alert. It’s not much easier to steal a key from him than it is from Ghost Shadow.

Ye Xiong was feeling a headache when suddenly a crisis struck from behind.

There were only two people in the room, so it was evident that Duanmu Linglong had woken up and was mounting a sneak attack.

Ye Xiong didn’t move; when the cold sensation behind him was about to reach his neck, he suddenly turned around and his movement was as fast as lightning.

When Duanmu Linglong realized what was happening, the scalpel in her hand was not at Ye Xiong’s neck but her own, and a black dagger was held against it, its coldness chilling her to the core.

Duanmu Linglong was incomparably shocked.

The young man in front of her was only two years older than she was. Why was his strength so incredible?

It was supposed to be her launching a sneak attack, so why did it end up as if she was the one being ambushed?

She felt utterly vulnerable.

Ye Xiong was starting to feel a headache, not knowing how to deal with Duanmu Linglong.

Everything had been going smoothly; as long as he got the keys and confirmed that the person living in the room was Long Tianya, he could take action. But at this moment, he ran into this woman, Duanmu Linglong.

If he let her go, the secret would certainly be out. But if he didn’t, what then?

Should he kidnap her?

She’s the deputy head of Duanmu First Hospital. If she disappeared, it would be strange if Duanmu Kuang didn’t suspect anything.

“If you dare, kill me,” Duanmu Linglong said indifferently.

“We are not like those in the Beast Organization who do all kinds of evil. We wouldn’t just kill an innocent person,” Ye Xiong said as he lowered the dagger.

“The Beast Organization you’re talking about, is it the one that kidnaps people for human experimentation?” Duanmu Linglong suddenly asked.

“You’ve heard of it?”

“In the Lingnan area, quite a few people have disappeared, and the police have notified the public about this organization.”

“Congratulations, your father is a member of that organization.”

“Impossible, my father is definitely not that kind of person!” Duanmu Linglong insisted.

Ye Xiong turned the computer around, pointed at the screen showing an iron door, and said, “If you don’t believe it, then can you tell me who exactly lives inside here?”

Duanmu Linglong watched the video and after a long moment of recognition, she finally said, “This is the special room on the VIP fifth floor.”

“Special room?”

“I asked my father, and he said there’s a patient with a mental disorder living inside who sometimes becomes violent, potentially harming others, so he’s been confined,” Duanmu Linglong explained.

“That’s just his way of deceiving others. Let me tell you, the person living inside is very likely the first leader of the Beast Organization in Huaxia Country, known as The Man of a Thousand Faces, Ghost. Because of an incident, Ghost was wounded by the National Security Agency, so he’s staying here to recover. The National Security Agency has been looking for him for a long time.”

Ye Xiong’s gaze fell upon Duanmu Linglong’s face, suddenly remembering the night she had saved the old man, and an idea struck him.

“Duanmu Linglong, since you’ve heard of the Beast Organization, you must know the kind of heinous person who lives here. I hope you can cooperate with our National Security Agency to catch him. If the person living inside isn’t the head of the Beast Organization, that would also clear your father’s name,” Ye Xiong persuaded her earnestly and logically.

Duanmu Kuang could not possibly be innocent. Ever since Ye Xiong discovered Ghost Shadow hiding inside, Duanmu Kuang was destined to be connected with the Beast Organization.

The reason he said that was because Ye Xiong hoped Duanmu Linglong would help him.

Which daughter wouldn’t want to prove her father’s innocence?

“How do you want me to help you?”

“It’s simple. Take a mold of your father’s key with this modeling clay and make a duplicate for me, so I can enter and confirm the true identity of the person inside the room,” Ye Xiong handed her a piece of modeling clay.