Just as the girl had lightly placed her slender hand on Su Xuan’s shoulder, the wail of police sirens pierced through the window and drifted into the room. Unsure of what to do, Su Xuan deliberately shivered, taking the opportunity to speak. "Miss, it seems there’s a major crackdown going on recently..." Su Xuan said. The girl replied, "Hmm, but they shouldn’t be coming to a super five-star hotel like Lycar. They’ll just make a show of it at the smaller hotels." Su Xuan pressed, "Does a crackdown care if it’s a large or small hotel? Once we get caught, we’ll both be ruined!" "Then what should we do?" the girl asked. Dıscover more novels at 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝕟𝕖𝕥 "Shall we find a different place?" Su Xuan suggested. "How about we go climbing together?" The girl’s eyes suddenly brightened. "You provide services in the wild, too?" "I’m a professional!" Su Xuan declared. Then, the girl shut down her computer, picked up her phone, and followed Su Xuan out the door. "I don’t have a car," Su Xuan lied once they were outside the hotel. The girl led Su Xuan to an outdoor parking lot nearby and got into a Maserati. Before getting into the car, Su Xuan secretly snapped a picture of the Maserati’s license plate and sent it to Guo Yuxiang, along with a message. "Old Guo, help me check the owner of this car." "No problem, Brother Su. Wait for my reply!" Guo Yuxiang immediately got to work. He was quite pleased. Brother Su finally needed him! The feeling of being needed by Brother Su was awesome! WAHAHA! "If we’re going climbing, there’s a forest park to the west," the girl said as she started the Maserati, turning to Su Xuan. "There shouldn’t be many people there now. How about we go there?" Her gaze was filled with intense anticipation. "That’s fine," Su Xuan nodded. Going to a place she chose herself would make it easier for her to let her guard down. The girl stomped on the gas, and the Maserati sped off toward the forest park to the west. In an office at the Chang Mei Hotel, a secret meeting was in progress. "Excellent!" Gao Zhitong, the owner of Chang Mei Hotel, stared at his computer screen, his face beaming. "Lan Lan has done a great job! She’s sent over so many valuable photos!" Yes, the girl was following his orders to go undercover at Lycar. The girl, his secretary, was named Qu Meilan. His Chang Mei Hotel was a four-star establishment located just three kilometers away, right within Lycar’s business radius. "Everyone, check these photos carefully!" he commanded. "If you find anything that isn’t up to standard, report it immediately! If we can get Lycar to shut its doors for just one day, our battle will be won!" Gao Zhitong then shared the photos with his attending confidants and waited quietly for his secretary, Qu Meilan, to send more valuable pictures and, most importantly, obtain confidential information about an important business event at Lycar the next day. Once he had that information, he could easily devise a counter-strategy to snatch a large share of Lycar’s clientele right from under their nose. "A two-pronged attack!" he declared. "Lycar is bound to suffer a crushing defeat and disastrous losses!" Gao Zhitong lit a cigar and began to smoke it with relish. However, for some reason, more than an hour passed without any further valuable messages from her, let alone the business intel. When he called his secretary, Qu Meilan, her phone was out of the service area. "Boss, could Meilan have been discovered by Lycar?" one of his trusted aides guessed worriedly. "Impossible!" Gao Zhitong waved his hand confidently. "Don’t be fooled by her youth. I trained Lan Lan myself. She’s bold, brave, and meticulous. She would never make a mistake!" "Then let’s wait a little longer." Qu Meilan had already arrived at the forest park with Su Xuan. After climbing for a short while, Qu Meilan began to pant and stopped walking. "Brother Xiao Xuan, let’s rest for a while!" she said, sitting on a flat boulder and wiping the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. "Alright," replied Su Xuan, using his alias Xiao Xuan, as he sat next to her and considerately handed her a tissue. "Brother Xiao Xuan, you’re so thoughtful!" Qu Meilan said, taking the tissue. But instead of wiping her own sweat, she raised her hand and dabbed at Su Xuan’s brow, even though there wasn’t a trace of sweat on his face. Having completed eight super-express deliveries, Su Xuan’s physique had been enhanced eight times. Unless he ran wildly up the mountain, he would hardly break a sweat. "You have a great body!" she exclaimed. "You must go to the gym regularly, right?" Qu Meilan’s hand slipped down to rest on Su Xuan’s chest, her face unable to hide her look of infatuation. It was true she was Gao Zhitong’s secretary, but she was also secretly his lover. And how old was Gao Zhitong? Almost sixty. Compared to Su Xuan, Gao Zhitong’s physique was like a dried-up mummy. The feel was terrible; the experience was awful. Su Xuan replied, "It’s part of the job. You have to stay in shape." Qu Meilan giggled. "Hee hee, from now on, I’m your only client!" Though she said this with a laugh, she was serious. She had already squeezed a lot of money out of Gao Zhitong; supporting a handsome young man until he became a handsome old man would be no problem at all. Su Xuan smiled and glanced at her. "A good thing should be shared. It would be too selfish for you to monopolize it." Qu Meilan retorted, "Well, I like to be selfish! I love hogging things for myself and making others watch with envy!" Su Xuan chuckled, "You’re so naughty." "Oh, stop it!" Qu Meilan said, lightly punching him with her small fist. Oh, my! Qu Meilan suddenly covered her flushed face with her hands. She couldn’t explain why, but just being with Su Xuan, even just chatting without any of his ’services,’ made her feel incredibly happy and blissful. It was just as people say—as sweet as a first love. The thought of a first love made Qu Meilan’s expression suddenly turn melancholic. She’d never had one. As soon as she left school and stepped into the real world, she was blinded by materialism and became Gao Zhitong’s lover. Qu Meilan looked up at the sky, where a heart-shaped cloud floated overhead. A flock of wild geese flew right through it. "Brother Xiao Xuan..." Qu Meilan closed her eyes. "I want to ask you a question." "Ask away," Su Xuan said. "Do you think you’re clean?" Su Xuan answered, "People aren’t inherently clean or dirty. Everyone has secrets they can’t let see the light of day. As long as your heart is clean, you are truly clean." Qu Meilan listened and remained silent for a long while. Then, she took Su Xuan’s hand and placed it over her own soft heart. "Help me wipe my heart clean," she whispered. "My heart is unclean, too!"