Chapter 22: Poisoned

At Cheng Kexiang's strong insistence, the three of them came to a KFC.

The three entered a private room, and no sooner had they sat down than Cheng Kexiang held up three fingers and shouted.

"Three deluxe combo meals!"

Ma Menghan looked helpless: "I let you pick the place, and this is all the ambition you have? Eating KFC late at night, aren't you afraid of getting fat?"

"Happiness is what matters most," Cheng Kexiang said. "Besides, it's fine to eat it once in a while."

Ma Menghan shook her head helplessly, but her gaze shifted to Chen Che's face opposite her.

His face had distinct features as if carved, and his angular face was exceptionally handsome. His appearance seemed unrestrained, but the sharp glint inadvertently revealed in his eyes made one dare not underestimate him.

Ma Menghan recalled the events of this evening again; Chen Che's handsome appearance and that mysterious, powerful temperament made her heart flutter uncontrollably.

It really was the first time she had seen a man like this!

"Ahem..."

Cheng Kexiang stared at Ma Menghan with an unkind expression and reminded her: "You're about to drool!"

Ma Menghan was startled, put away her infatuated look, and gave an awkward smile.

"Your bodyguard is so good-looking, can't I even look at him?" Ma Menghan said.

Cheng Kexiang looked smug: "No matter how good-looking he is, he's still my bodyguard, and you can only look."

"He's a bodyguard, not a boyfriend; anything is possible, you know!" Ma Menghan raised her eyebrows provocatively.

"Don't even think about it!"

Cheng Kexiang retorted tit-for-tat: "It was enough to lend him to you as a shield once; don't get addicted to it."

Ma Menghan giggled, took a sticky note and a pen from her pocket, wrote her phone number on the note, and handed it to Chen Che.

"Handsome bodyguard, my phone number, remember to call me."

Ma Menghan looked at Chen Che with anticipation as she spoke.

"Hey, that's enough, if you do this again I'll really get angry!"

Cheng Kexiang snatched the note away and tore it to shreds.

"Alright, alright, I won't fight you for him, okay?"

Seeing that Cheng Kexiang was truly angry, Ma Menghan immediately comforted her: "Besides, how could I compete with our beautiful, well-figured, and wealthy eldest lady of the Cheng Family!"

Cheng Kexiang said poutingly: "At least you have some self-awareness!"

"I'm going to the restroom, and you two are not allowed to flirt!"

Cheng Kexiang pointed two fingers at her own eyes, then pointed at Ma Menghan and Chen Che.

She got up and went to the restroom.

After Cheng Kexiang left, Ma Menghan stuffed another note to Chen Che.

This time, the note even had her home address written on it.

Chen Che glanced at the note and laughed in spite of himself: "Aren't you afraid I'm a bad person and have ulterior motives toward you?"

"You aren't."

Ma Menghan said with a serious face: "If your character were problematic, the Cheng Family wouldn't let you protect Cheng Kexiang."

Chen Che shrugged and stuffed the note into his pocket.

Seeing this, the corners of Ma Menghan's lips curled into a beautiful arc.

At the same time, by the side of the road opposite the KFC, inside the red Porsche that should have been given to Ma Menghan, Feng Yuan and Zhao Kai, the second-in-command of the Qibao Association, were sitting inside.

"It's right here. My people have been following them. They haven't come out since they went in."

Feng Yuan looked at the KFC, his eyes full of anger.

Zhao Kai laughed: "These few people really know how to pick a place; this shop happens to be an asset of the Qibao Association."

"That's just perfect, then we can make a move inside the shop."

Feng Yuan clutched his lower abdomen and reminded him: "Master Kai, bring more people, especially more Martial Artists. That bodyguard kid from the Cheng Family should be a Martial Artist."

Whether Chen Che was a Martial Artist or not, Feng Yuan had deep personal experience.

After all, what ordinary person could kick someone several meters away and cause internal injuries?

"Simple."

Zhao Kai said full of confidence: "Lao K is a Fifth Grade Martial Artist. Among the Martial Artists of the Qibao Association, he is one of the best. With him here, we don't need that many people; he alone is enough to deal with that kid."

Feng Yuan was still worried: "Master Kai, I don't doubt the strength of the Qibao Association's experts. But that kid is, after all, the bodyguard of the Cheng Family's most favored young lady, so his strength probably isn't low either."

"You said that kid looks at most twenty-something; no matter how good he is, he won't be a match for Lao K. A Martial Artist's strength and realm increase the longer they practice."

"Of course, there is also a possibility that the kid is a monstrous talent. But in that case, not to mention the Cheng Family, even the top-tier Zhang Family of Shanghai, or even the Administrative Chief of Shanghai, wouldn't be able to afford to recruit him."

Zhao Kai said slowly.

Hearing Zhao Kai say this, Feng Yuan set his mind at ease and said: "Master Kai, rest assured. If you help me accomplish this, I will give you these two Porsches, and in addition, I will give you twenty million. On one hand, it's to thank you for your help, and on the other, I want you to help introduce me to Seventh Master; the reward is negotiable."

Zhao Kai nodded: "Young Master Feng knows how to do business, and even better how to make friends."

"Master Kai, you flatter me!"

Feng Yuan's expression was calm, but his heart was blooming with joy.

If he could get connected with Shen Qi, then the Feng Family would have a powerful backing in Shanghai from now on.

The status of the Feng Family would also rise accordingly, changing from a state of being on par with the Cheng Family to one of complete superiority!

"Master Kai, don't kill that kid directly in a moment. Just make him lose the ability to move; I want to see him kneeling and begging for mercy, and make him lick the soles of my shoes!"

Feng Yuan said viciously.

His eyes flashed with a fierce light; whenever he thought of the humiliation Chen Che had brought him, he was so angry his liver ached.

Zhao Kai said: "Young Master Feng, calm down. I, Zhao Kai, naturally handle things in a way that will satisfy you. You said the two women inside are the eldest lady of the Cheng Family and a woman you have your eye on, right?"

"This is a shop of the Qibao Association; I have already had people add ingredients to the food they ordered, and different ingredients at that."

"The young lady of the Cheng Family cannot be harmed, and his Bodyguard cannot be troubled in front of her either. Therefore, there is a sleeping pill in her food. By the time she wakes up, his Bodyguard will have already disappeared, and she won't be able to pin anything on the Qibao Association."

"As for that chick you've got your eye on..." Zhao Kai deliberately kept him in suspense, "I guarantee she'll take the initiative to kneel down and beg you to sleep with her!"

Hearing Zhao Kai say this, the lecherous light in Feng Yuan's eyes grew increasingly intense.

Having failed to make a move for such a long time, he could no longer help but start imagining the scene of pinning Ma Menghan beneath him.

Although Ma Menghan's status still made him wary, his lust-addled brain could no longer be bothered with such things.

Anyway, once the drug took effect, it would be Ma Menghan taking the initiative, and he would be the one being forced.

"Master Kai, then when do we make a move?" Feng Yuan asked hurriedly; he couldn't wait any longer!

"No rush."

Zhao Kai said with calm composure: "It won't be too late to go in after the drug takes effect."

Inside the KFC.

Cheng Kexiang came out of the restroom and discovered that the people in the shop had left one after another; it was as if only the three of them remained in the private room.

"Are there few people today..."

Cheng Kexiang muttered a sentence, didn't think much of it, and opened the door to return to the private room.

"You two didn't do anything while I was away, did you?" Cheng Kexiang's eyes flashed with a sharp light as she scrutinized the two of them.

Ma Menghan pulled Cheng Kexiang to sit down and said: "Alright, my Miss Cheng, are you looking for a Bodyguard or a boyfriend? Besides, you were only gone for a few minutes; even if I wanted to do something, there wouldn't be enough time."

Cheng Kexiang revealed a satisfied expression: "It's good that you didn't."

At this moment, the three people's deluxe combo meals were brought up.

The waiter distributed the combo meals to the three of them one by one, looking cautious, afraid of giving them out incorrectly.

Chen Che frowned and said: "It's the same stuff, there's no need to be this careful, right?"

The waiter was startled and smiled: "Sorry, it's a professional habit."

After ensuring there were no mistakes, the waiter backed out.

Cheng Kexiang put on gloves, tore off a piece of fried chicken, and put it in her mouth, her face full of enjoyment.

Seeing this, Ma Menghan smiled slightly and took a small sip of cola.

Chen Che unwrapped his burger, and just as he was about to take a bite, his brows furrowed, and he whispered: "Something's wrong, it's poisoned!"