Dirty Dancing

She puffed out smoke in his face as she leaned in close before saying, "You truly have nine lives. I genuinely thought that Muchen would have killed you the moment he found out what you did?"

Qie Xieling smiled slyly showing his tiger teeth. "He doesn't know. He still thinks I only stole from him. He doesn't know that I sold his secrets."

Lee Ya laughed as she took another drag from her cherry-flavoured smoke vape. Qie Xieling needed to buy as much time for Jolie to hack into her cell phone so he went along with it.

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Ding! Ding ding ding! Ding!

Luo Muchen's piercing gaze scanned the dimly lit restaurant, his attention torn between the captivating view of the city below and the incessant dinging sounds emanating from his cell phone. With a flicker of annoyance, he finally yielded and retrieved the device from the table, his fingers deftly unlocking it before shifting it to silent mode.