Stuck in a Chinese novel

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Shannau City, a therapist's office. A couple therapist to be more accurate. That day, Doctor Liang Yu had received a pair of patients very unusual than the norm. Since it was a very strange situation, even she was having trouble trying to understand the cusp of the situation.

"So you're both adult stars?" Liang Yu asked. The couple sitting opposite her nodded, or at least the man nodded while the woman clenched her fists as if she was facing the most humiliating moment of her life. And as far as Liang Yu was concerned; she was.

"And she cheated on you?" Liang Yu asked.

"Yes." The man replied, his tone cold as ice and so was his expression. It could be clearly seen he was the victim in the entire scenario but Liang Yu still couldn't understand. If they were both adult stars then…

"Has she never performed with any of the other male stars?" Liang Yu asked.

"She has." The man once again coldly replied.

"Then I fail to see how that is alright and this is not." Liang Yu finally mentioned the fact she found strange. If the man was okay with his wife performing with other adult stars, then how was it cheating if she slept with them as well? Unless there was something she wasn't aware of but…

"She did that outside of work. I have never done such a sin." The man replied.

At that moment, Liang Yu was having a terrible time trying to ignore the irony in the sentence. Hadn't he also slept with a lot of women? On camera at that?

But he still raised a valid point. As long as it was a job, he didn't really mind but since what the wife had done was outside of the job, it could be considered a case of infidelity, and the woman was at fault in such a scenario.

So, Liang Yu looked at the wife and asked, "Qingling, what do you have to say to your husband's claims?"

"I… I…" Wei Qingling, the wife, stuttered. She couldn't form the words even in her mind let alone let them out of her mouth. She clenched her fists trying to suppress the current humiliation she faced. Her red face clearly displayed how embarrassed she was but…

"I… did it… cause'… I enjoyed it." Wei Qingling finally uttered a full sentence if it could be called that after a full minute. However, she managed to relay the full sentence in the end. As for the husband, well, Liang Yu wasn't watching but he was on the verge of breaking out of the laughter of the century.

But he hurriedly contained himself. It was his time to act. He hurriedly stood up and yelled, "I enjoy doing it too but that doesn't mean I sleep with any woman I see!!!"

"Please calm down. Why don't you take a seat and say whatever you want to say to Qingling calmly." Liang Yu hurriedly intervened. The husband went silent but traces of anger could still be spotted on his face. Thankfully, he wasn't the rash kind and sat back down. Once he was properly seated, he looked at Wei Qingling and said, "You ruined our marriage just for the pleasure of one night? Couldn't you have waited one night? I returned the next morning."

"Now, what is your response, Qingling?" Liang Yu asked.

"What… What is my response? What is my response you say?! What could be my response?! That I'm ashamed of what I did. I regret what I did! I regret nothing! It's all your fault!" Wei Qingling suddenly came into character. Her earlier embarrassment was nowhere to be seen.

Before Liang Yu could ask her to calm down, Wei Qingling picked up the glass at the table and smashed it on her husband's head. The scenario got out of control so fast that Liang Yu couldn't even react. Before she could even understand what had happened, the husband was unconscious on the sofa and bleeding from his forehead.

"Oh my god! What have you done?!" Liang Yu yelled, pulling Wei Qingling back to her senses. As she came to, Wei Qingling realized what she had done. She started to break down.

"No. No. It was an accident. I didn't know… I didn't know what I did." Wei Qingling was on the verge of breaking down when Liang Yu collected herself. She sighed and stood up from her seat. She knelt down before the husband to check his pulse but there was none. Whatever it was, that was a clean shot and had killed the husband before any help could have been delivered.

She shook her head and fell into contemplation. After a while, she smiled and said, "Don't panic, Qingling. I will help you."

"You---You will?" Wei Qingling asked with a hopeful expression.

"Yes. I know of just the man who can help make all of this… disappear." Liang Yu said with a benevolent smile.

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"Doctor Yu, you haven't met your monthly quota yet." A heavy voice said from the other side of the phone on Liang Yu's phone. Liang Yu remained calm and said, "Don't worry. I've found the last candidate for registration. She's desperate so she'll do whatever I say. I've suggested her to come with me tomorrow. I will bring her with me to the base tomorrow. Also, I require cleanup service in my office."

"Very well. I'll see you tomorrow." The heavy voice from the other end replied. Liang Yu turned to the still-shaken Wei Qingling and said, "Don't worry about anything. Come. I will drop you home. You need to refresh your mind. Don't worry about the mess as well, it'll be taken care of."

Constantly reassured, Wei Qingling nodded and followed after Liang Yu. After they were gone, about an hour later, a van stopped outside Liang Yu's office. Two men in black clothes, their faces covered, came out of it and entered Liang Yu's office.

As the two men came inside, they turned their attention to the couch where the supposed dead body was supposed to be. However, they were puzzled when they found no such thing.

"Well, I gotta say. She's a terrible actor." Both of the men heard a cold voice but before they could respond, one of them was neutralized with a blow at the back of his head and the other one had his neck snapped at an odd angle.

It was a bloodless scene so clean that Wei Jun didn't have to do much. He woke up the other one after removing his mask. Before the other one could say anything, Wei Jun held a card in front of his face and said, "Read it out loud if you don't want to see your friend."

The hostage, afraid for his life, did as Wei Jun asked. Once he had read it out loud, Wei Jun smiled again and snapped his neck as well. Then, he wrapped one body in the cloth they had brought while he swapped his clothes with the other one.

Once he was done, he took the body outside to the van in the sack they had brought but was surprised to find another person in the van, the driver.

Wei Jun didn't panic and stored the body at the back of the van and sat in the passenger seat out front.

"Where's the other one?" The driver asked.

"How the hell should I know?" Wei Jun spoke, but the voice he spoke in wasn't his but the deceased poor man whose body was in the back of the van. He had stored the other body in his inventory.

"He said he was going to tell you to get ready and left all the work to me. I had to pick the heavy sh*t all the way here alone. Where is that fu*ker so I can give him a piece of my mind?" Wei Jun spoke in the other man's voice, and since his face was covered, he wasn't at risk of being spotted.

"Well, that's strange. He didn't come out. Should we wait for him?" The driver asked.

"We can't risk loitering here. He can take care of himself. We should go and take care of this before we attract the attention of some cop." Wei Jun said in an annoyed tone.

The driver nodded and they left the scene. They shortly arrived at the river where they emptied the contents of the back of the van. Once they were done, they left the scene once again and arrived outside of a dilapidated building. The driver bid Wei Jun goodbye in strange words, "May the sect master have mercy on our souls."

"May the sect master have mercy on our souls." Wei Jun replied in the same sentence, having enough knowledge about fanatic cults.

He shortly entered the building but he wasn't stupid enough to use the front entrance. He took off his clothes and revealed his face. Then, in normal clothes, he knocked on the back entrance of the security room at the back of the building.

He wasn't just going along with the flow. When he arrived in Shannau City, he had been properly informed of all the ins and outs of the cult so he knew how to enter it as well.

"Password?" The man behind the door asked.

"The sect master will lead us to one scared heaven." Wei Jun replied.

The man behind the door opened the door after hearing the password, "Welcome, brother."