The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

"I have to follow this person." Lanni stuck a post-it on a board, along with a picture of a man whose face she circled. This was the person Qiao Linyou was dealing with, and she was suspicious of him in many ways. She then sat on her study desk to note down details like where to find him and what day and time she should go to look for him.

When she realized that the only place she could find him was at a casino, she cursed. But what was she to expect? The idiot was a weapon dealer, of course he would go to such places as casinos.

However, she knew that the worst thing she could do was go to such places on her own, without telling anyone else about it. What if the man discovered her and tried to hurt her?

Hence, she planned it out and went along with a few journalists from the team that had accompanied her to stalk Qiao Linyou previously.

"Let’s just go in like friends who have decided to spend the night out. I’m certain that guy will notice us, especially with you looking like this." The long-haired woman, Lin, suggested as they planned to go to the night club-cum-casino where Lanni had noted the place where the man would be tonight.

Lanni was dressed up seductively in her voluptuous disguise, which was in line with the kind of women that had been seen next to the man in all the pictures they had gathered.

"Let’s not do anything that might make it difficult for us to escape. It would be troublesome if the man tries to hold onto us and does not allow us to leave on our own." Lanni frowned when she thought of the possibility of that happening. She knew that it was not impossible for such a lecherous man to cling onto them, and the mere thought of it made her stomach turn. She did not want to imagine it actually happening.

"Let’s just go in and try not to attract much attention to ourselves. You can help me out for a bit and I will disguise myself as a waitress." Lanni suggested, to which Lin nodded.

Soon after they walked in, they pretended to have lost their way and went into a VIP room, following a waitress in.

Lin grabbed the waitress before she could be noticed by the patron she was going to serve drinks and pulled her to the restroom next to the VIP room, where she took off her work coat and apron to give to Lanni.

"Switch clothes with me." Lin demanded. "Willingly, or I will have no choice but to force you."

"No." The waitress shook her head stubbornly, not because she found it humiliating but because she knew what this meant. The woman before her was going to enter the VIP room in her stead, and she would get to serve the billionaire inside, hence snatching her hard-earned chance to get the man’s attention.

Lin sighed and simply knocked her out, and took off her clothes which she took to give to Lanni.

"Thank you." Lanni got out of a cubicle where she was hiding and hurriedly changed into the clothes then made her way out. Because this was a large place, she could easily sneak around without being noticed by the manager as someone who was not part of the staff. Not to mention, there were new waitresses fired almost every other day and new ones to replace them, the manager couldn’t keep track of all of them. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

However, Lanni didn’t want to take too much risk so she grabbed some drinks at the pantry and hurriedly went to the VIP room where she should be.

The man was sitting comfortably on the couch with two beauties at his sides while another danced on the table in front of him. She only slid off the table and joined the other two when Lanni arrived with the drinks, which she placed on the table.

"Did you get what I asked for?" The man roared.

Lanni recoiled to the side apologetically. "I’m sorry. What did you ask for? I forgot the order and brought a drink that is most popular among powerful men."

Her words stroked his ego, hearing that she had referred to him as a wealthy man. His tone softened and he couldn’t help noticing that she was quite beautiful. She was even more beautiful than the three women accompanying him. Noticing that the skimpily-dressed trio was glaring at Lanni, he knew that his judgement was right. She was so beautiful that his companions were afraid that the waitress would snatch his attention from them.

"Never mind. You can open the drinks." He instructed patiently, seeing as she was a beauty and she knew what to say to get herself out of a sticky situation.

While she bent over to open the bottle, Lanni felt him place his hand on her butt. She was so repulsed that she wanted to slap the hell out of him and puke all over his face. Even though she was wearing padded underwear to make her butt look bigger and he wasn’t actually touching what was naturally hers, it still disgusted her.

Contrary to how she felt, she opened the bottles and smiled as she poured some of it into a glass.

"Enjoy your drinks." She smiled as she patted him on the chest, leaving behind a bug as she straightened up to leave.

"Wait." He ordered, and she turned around nervously.

"Is there something else?" Her face was full of indifference contrary to the nervousness she was feeling. Would the stupid pervert as her to stay and drink with him, or do other things that she was not willing to do? She hoped not, but the seconds felt torturous as she waited for him to continue speaking whatever he had in mind.

"Pour yourself some drink too." Came the dreaded order.

"I... I don’t dare." She acted embarrassed about it.

"Don’t worry. Your boss will have nothing to say about it. I can drink with whichever waitress I want over here. I can even fuck them if I want to, and no one would have a say about it."

Lanni tried to hold back the bile in her stomach. No wonder the girls working in this place did not last long. She had always wondered whether the work description was too difficult, but now she understood it.

The waitresses were regarded almost like prostitutes, and they probably didn’t have the chance to decide whether or not they wanted to engage in sexual activity with patrons. If many of the patrons were like this idiot, they probably ended up molesting the poor girls, and they were fired or decided to leave this god forsaken place. Heaven knew how they ended up. It was surprising that no one knew of the happenings inside this place.

Lanni remained indifferent to the man’s perverted language, and she poured a drink but didn’t bring it to her mouth.

"I have taken an order for another VIP room already. I heard the patron is CEO Jiang. I should probably serve him first, then I will be back to drink with you." She conveniently dropped Xingyu’s name, knowing that not many people would want to cross paths with him.

"Jiang Xingyu?" The man confirmed as he pushed one of the beauties aside in shock.

Lanni nodded as though she was just telling one of the things she had heard. "I heard he is here drinking with his friends."

As expected, the man’s face was full of shock. Everyone knew that Jiang Xingyu’s close friends were Lin Jian, Xiehan and Han Xichen. If all four of them were here, then he might be able to make some connections. Though for some reason, he looked bummed.

"Go and confirm it then return to me." He sent her. He would never have trusted her, but he knew that no waitress had the audacity to try and offend him.

Lanni nodded and made her way out. As soon as she was out, she rolled her eyes. Damned man. Did he really think that she would return? Xingyu was not even here and neither were Xiehan, Lin Jian and Han Xichen.

Looking around to ensure no one was watching, she slipped into the washroom that had an ’under maintenance’ sign outside it and switched her clothes back on, then rushed back to her car after taking away the maintenance sign.

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"Did you manage to do it?" Lin asked when Lanni returned to the car. She had been sitting on edge the entire time.

"Yes, I did." Lanni let out a sigh of relief, then set her laptop to record footage of whatever the bug captured, hoping the man did not notice it or change his clothes before it recorded something helpful.

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