Not far from the street, the stall owner exclaimed, "How come there's a fire over there?"
The woman in a kimono who was eating supper saw the entire bathhouse on fire and stood up in shock. She was hesitant to go over and take a look, but she was also a bit scared.
At this time, more and more people were already running over. Just as the woman was about to go over to take a look, Xu Cheng appeared across the street wearing a suit. He walked towards her and said, "Let's go to the next stop."
The woman nodded blankly, and then looked back at the burning compound every few steps. She wanted to say something but stopped herself, not knowing if she should ask or not.
The woman took Xu Cheng to Hokkaido on a bus that very night.
It was a quiet night, and when they arrived at Hokkaido, it was already the next day when the sun was high up in the sky. After she and Xu Cheng arrived at the bus stop, the woman went to the grocery store to buy a map of Hokkaido. At this time, she accidentally saw today's news.
The map in the woman's hand immediately slipped out of her hand, and her brain went blank.
"Miss, the map is 1,000 yen, and two bottles of mineral water are a total of 4,000 yen," the store owner saw her spacing out and reminded her.
"Here." The woman immediately handed over four thousand yen to the store owner, and then she took the map and walked back.
She walked to Xu Cheng's side and carefully handed him a bottle of water.
Xu Cheng drank the water and felt the woman looking at him with a bit of vigilance. He said, "Am I that scary?"
The woman immediately avoided Xu Cheng's gaze and pretended to drink the water. But after a while, perhaps because she was too nervous, she started to choke on the water.
While wiping the water, she immediately asked, "Did you start the fire last night?"
Xu Cheng nodded.
Seeing him nod and admit it so casually, as if he didn't care about the death of someone, the woman was even more nervous and shocked.
"Where are we going next?"
Xu Cheng took the map from her hand, pointed at a location, and said, "Here, do you know the headquarters of the Shan Ling Conglomerate?"
The woman was shocked. "Shan Ling Conglomerate? What are you going to do? "
Xu Cheng took a sip of water and said indifferently, "Kill someone."
The woman almost coughed again. She shouldn't have asked such a stupid question.
"But … that's the Shan Ling Conglomerate! You don't know what it means to Nihon. "
"I know, it's the third largest conglomerate in Nihon. The entire conglomerate is worth more than 300 billion dollars." As Xu Cheng said that, he didn't seem to mind at all and continued, "But let alone the fact that it's over 300 billion USD, even if it's over 300 billion USD, I still want to catch someone."
The woman couldn't help but ask, "Who?"
Xu Cheng said word by word, "Shan Ling Kubo!"
The woman's pupils slowly widened.
"He's one of the potential successors of the next CEO of the Chaebol. He's one of the most outstanding successors of the head of the Chaebol. His personal economic assets alone are more than 30 billion dollars. He's a celebrity in the financial and political circles of Nihon."
"Since you know so much about finance and economics, I can tell that your education background is pretty good." Xu Cheng caught onto this detail and laughed.
The woman lowered her head in embarrassment and stammered, "My name is Matsushima Leiko. You can call me Leiko. Your Excellency … how should I address you?"
Xu Cheng didn't say anything. He covered the water bottle and walked forward to stop a taxi.
Behind him, Matsushima Leiko bitterly smiled in disappointment. She was more curious about Xu Cheng than she was afraid of him. Women in Nihon had a very low status. Sometimes, they worshiped powerful men, so depending on a powerful man or being their woman was their fortune and happiness. However, Matsushima Leiko had been very domineering since she was young and had a very high education background. She always thought that she could change her fate, but she simply couldn't change the culture of this society. The more domineering she was, the more she would be suppressed by the powerful families like the trio. In the end, the entire family would have to rely on her, and that was to lower her head to be a woman who followed a man and lowered her head to fate.
Matsushima Leiko always felt that she would never lower her head to a man in her life, but now, after she met Xu Cheng, she felt like she was just a weak woman! Like other women, she unknowingly had a tendency to attach herself to Xu Cheng. However, Xu Cheng didn't even look at her beauty and didn't want to talk to her.
In the past few days, Leiko's mood had never been so negative. Thinking that Xu Cheng only treated her as a tour guide and driver, she felt very frustrated!
Xu Cheng interrupted the conversation because he didn't want to tell Leiko his name. In Leiko's heart, this was a contemptuous rejection. It was the type of strong men who sneered at the weak, but the more it was like this, the more women would feel that such men were worth relying on.
The two rented a private car and drove to the place Xu Cheng pointed out.
Outside a huge villa complex, Xu Cheng stopped the car and said to Leiko, "This card is for you."
Xu Cheng took out an anonymous card and gave it to her.
"You can go now," Xu Cheng said to Matsushima Leiko after getting off the car.
Leiko took the card and looked at him. "Then, don't you need someone to pick you up after you're done?"
"No need, your mission is complete, so you can go now. I might not come out after I go in, and I might come out. If you want to wait, I won't force you, but I won't give you any extra fees. "
Then, Xu Cheng turned around and left.
He walked towards the private villa complex with its back facing the sea.
Matsushima Leiko looked at Xu Cheng's back and was a bit dazed for a moment. There was no sadness or joy on this man's face, and there wasn't the slightest emotion to be seen. However, everything he did along the way was strange yet powerful! This kind of man was really charming. That charm of disdain for everything simply made Leiko's heart fluctuate up and down.
His silhouette was like that of a hero from a mythical painting. Even though there was a massive corporation in front of him, his tiny body continued forward without looking back. It was as if the gigantic beast in front of him couldn't devour his powerful heart at all.
Matsushima Leiko's hands tightly gripped the steering wheel as she looked at Xu Cheng from the window, hesitating whether or not to wait. Maybe she should just treat this journey as a dream and let it end, but in her heart, she was very much looking forward to Xu Cheng coming out alive and proving his legend.
She really liked a poem that described male dominance: He came from a nameless place, nameless, and everywhere he went, all creatures bowed down to him!
This was why Leiko was especially curious about Xu Cheng. In her heart, she subconsciously felt that Xu Cheng was the legendary Amaterasu god, mysterious, powerful, and disdainful!
She just wanted to serve this kind of man!
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