The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 484 Internet Outage (Part 12) If There Was an Extra Ticket

"Damn it, Zhang Xiaowei actually missed?!"

Inside the headquarters, Mr. Yi learned that his good friend Guan Gu Qi Ji had been assassinated and shot, and he immediately realized that it was Zhang Xiaowei who did it.

He originally intended for the other party to kill his aunt, but ended up hitting Guan Gu instead.

After unleashing a furious outburst, Mr. Yi demanded, "Where is Zhang Xiaowei? Bring him to me right now!"

"Boss, Zhang Xiaowei has disappeared," the secretary reported.

"Gone?" Mr. Yi immediately realized something. "Looks like that shot didn't miss. Zhang Xiaowei has been following me for years; he's actually an undercover agent! Search him!"

"Yes, boss!" The secretary nodded in acceptance, then added, "I just received news that Director Wen has also been assassinated."

"Hmm?" Mr. Yi frowned. "Did it succeed?"

"No, Director Wen escaped just as the assassin was about to make his move."

"They didn't even kill them? What a waste!"

After receiving another piece of bad news, Mr. Yi's mood worsened, but soon he smiled again.

"Perfect timing. The guy surnamed Wen was almost assassinated, so he definitely won't let this go so easily. Let them fight like dogs."

……

The attack on the director of the 76th Intelligence Division should have been a major event that would have caused a great stir in Shanghai, but apart from a few people, the outside world heard almost nothing about it.

However, the jewelry store was soon deserted, and then many spies appeared in the concession.

They were not Mr. Yi's agents, but agents from the intelligence department.

It was at this time that Director Wen learned about the attack on Guan Gu Miracle, which truly surprised him.

Unexpectedly, two assassination attempts occurred on the same day, but unfortunately, the assassination he planned has yet to materialize.

What's the situation with that guy in jail? Are the Kuomintang agents really just sitting around doing nothing?
Soon, he learned about the assassination attempt on Guan Gu.

……

The night was dark, and the air in Shanghai was unusually fresh after the rain, with all the dust that had been kicked up on the road settling on the ground.

"Dengdengdeng..."

The leather shoes made a dull sound on the stairs. The person who came did not seem to be in a hurry. The footsteps would sometimes start and sometimes stop.

However, it was this sound of footsteps that made Zhang Xiaowei, who was drinking coffee there, tense up immediately, and his hand involuntarily went to his waist.

Who would come here for coffee so late at night?

At this time, he was the only person left on the second floor of the coffee shop.

The footsteps grew closer, and Zhang Xiaowei held his breath, his eyes fixed on the stairwell.

The next second, a man in a suit wearing a top hat walked in.

When the other person raised his head, revealing the face hidden under the brim of his hat, Zhang Xiaowei immediately drew his gun and pointed it at him.

"Director Wen, what a refined taste to come here for coffee so late at night."

Looking at the director of the 76th Intelligence Division in front of him, Zhang Xiaowei forced himself to calm down and said, "The other party is the head of intelligence, so it's not surprising that he was able to find me."

Although he was pointing his gun at the other person, most of his attention was on his surroundings.

Since the other party dared to come over, it means that a tight net has been laid around them.

Moon Ri-sung looked at the dark gun barrel in front of him, smiled and walked forward, saying, "Don't look, there are no spies around, I came here alone."

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaowei frowned. Seeing that the other person was still walking towards him, he immediately shouted, "Stop! If you take another step, I'll shoot!"

Seeing this, Director Wen stopped three meters away from him. He wasn't angry at what he said, but his expression was somewhat helpless.

After taking off his hat, Moon Il-sung looked at him and said, "Excuse me, do you have any cigarettes with you?"

"..."

As soon as Moon Il-sung finished speaking, Zhang Xiaowei, who was pointing a gun at him, was stunned for a moment, then his expression turned horrified, as if he had heard something unbelievable.

He instinctively opened his mouth and replied, "Sorry, I just quit smoking."

Upon hearing this answer, Wen Richeng nodded, ignoring the gun in front of him, and walked over to sit down in front of Zhang Xiaowei.

After a moment of stunned silence, Zhang Xiaowei put away his gun and stared blankly at the head of the intelligence department of the 76th Division.

"Director Wen, are you... a member of the underground Communist Party?"

"I am speaking to you now on behalf of the leadership of the underground intelligence group of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai."

With a serious expression, Wen Richeng looked at Zhang Xiaowei and spoke earnestly.

Zhang Xiaowei nodded, as if he had thought of something, his expression a mixture of crying and laughing.

Seeing his appearance, Wen Richeng sighed and said, "After the 'Dean' was arrested, he mentioned you to me before he died, but you were still in the probationary period at that time. The 'Dean' also told me not to rush to wake you up, so you have remained silent ever since."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaowei suddenly realized that he had become Mr. Yi's subordinate when he was just starting out, but as a righteous person, he could not tolerate being a traitor, so he planned to leave.

A mission unexpectedly brought him into contact with the underground Communist Party. The underground party member, codenamed "Dean," instructed him to remain under Mr. Yi's command and play a role in the future.

His code name, Zhang Xiaowei, was "Orphan".

After all, the situation was sensitive at that time. As Mr. Yi's subordinate, he wanted to join the underground party, so the other party had to consider it carefully and let him continue to lie low, both as an undercover agent and as a test of him.

The "dean" never told him anything about the other people, and he, who was lurking beside Mr. Yi, was like an orphan.

Until later, when the "dean" was arrested and committed suicide, the only person who knew that Zhang Xiaowei was an underground party member was gone, and he, the "orphan," truly became an orphan.

The way the "dean" and the "orphan" met was by asking each other in a coffee shop, "Do you have any cigarettes with you?" and the orphan had to answer, "Sorry, I just quit smoking."

Unexpectedly, after so long, this secret code was used again, and this "orphan" finally found his organization.

Recalling what had happened in the past, Zhang Xiaowei's expression darkened for a moment, but he quickly composed himself and looked at Wen Richeng in front of him.

"I never expected that you, Director Wen, were actually a member of the underground Communist Party."

"There are many things you haven't considered. Just like I didn't expect that besides being an assassin and a gangster, you, Zhang Xiaowei, are also a womanizer!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaowei's expression changed, and he hurriedly said, "That wasn't me! It was Mr. Yi who impersonated me! I'm a good person! I'm really a good man!"

"I believe you, I believe you. Don't be nervous, it was just a joke," Wen Richeng said with a smile. "Just by looking at you, I know you're capable of anything except doing bad things."

"Yes!"

"You only need one more chance?"

"Yes!"

"That's why I'm here today."

"I'll go through fire and water for you, Brother Cheng!"

Moon Il-sung smiled and then said, "Tell me about your situation first?"

Zhang Xiaowei nodded, and then recounted in detail how Mr. Yi had asked him to assassinate Tang Xiaoyou, but he had fired the bullet at the Japanese man Guan Gu Qi Ji instead because he didn't want to hurt his comrade.

He also revealed that his current identity had been exposed and that he was being hunted down by Mr. Yi.

Moon Il-sung already had a general understanding of these situations; now he just needed to verify them.

“Comrade Zhang Xiaowei, given that you have now been exposed, I, on behalf of the organization, will give you two choices.” Wen Richeng said seriously, “First, withdraw from Shanghai Beach immediately. After things calm down, the organization will make other arrangements for you. Second, cooperate with me to carry out the new plan.”

"I choose two!"

Without a second thought, Zhang Xiaowei chose the second option. Now that he's withdrawing from Shanghai, he's really unwilling to give up.

"what's the plan?"

"Kill Mr. Yi."

……

As night deepened, Moon Il-sung drove home, but just as he was about to reach his own villa, he noticed something and stopped the car in front of a hotel not far from his home.

The hotel owner, seeing him enter, quickly asked, "Sir, would you like to check in?"

Wen Richeng didn't speak, but simply took out ID number 76 and waved it in front of him: "Looking for someone." When the other party tactfully took out the check-in list, Director Wen nodded, took the list, and began to look at it.

After seeing the information he wanted, he gestured for the other person to be quiet and then went upstairs alone.

He went straight to the door of the room facing the street. After a slight hesitation, Moon Il-sung knocked on the door.

"Boom boom boom!"

A crisp knocking sound rang out in the hallway, and also in the room behind the door.

The door to the room remained closed for a long time. Wen Richeng wasn't in a hurry. He leaned against the opposite wall, lit a cigarette, and waited. He didn't believe that the person in the room hadn't seen him, or that the other party had deliberately let him see them.

When the cigarette had burned down to almost half its original length, there was finally movement from the door in front of him. After a sound, the door slowly opened, revealing Qin Xiaomo behind it with a complicated expression.

Moon Il-sung smiled, not in a hurry to say anything, and just quietly watched her while smoking.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qin Xiaomo moved her lips, but it seemed that a thousand words were gathered on the tip of her tongue, yet she couldn't say them for a long time.

After a long while, Qin Xiaomo lowered her eyes and stepped aside to gesture for the other person to come in.

Only then did Moon Il-sung stub out his nearly burnt-out cigarette and walk past her.

"boom!"

After Qin Xiaomo closed the door, she turned around and saw the other person looking around the room, so she hugged him immediately.

"sorry."

"What do you have to apologize for? Didn't you remind me to leave quickly?" Wen Richeng patted her arms that were wrapped around him and laughed. "Speaking of which, you're the one who saved my life."

"..."

Qin Xiaomo pressed her face tightly against his back and whispered, "They gave me a ticket to America."

"That's it."

Wen Richeng showed no reaction on his face, but simply turned around in the arms that were tightly holding him, and then looked down at her and said, "Then why did you let me go?"

Qin Xiaomo looked up into his eyes and said softly, "Because whether you were a good person or a bad person, you were my man back then."

The room was quiet as the two stared at each other silently. Perhaps because she had finally spoken her mind, Qin Xiaomo could no longer suppress her emotions and took the initiative to kiss her.

The temperature in the air gradually rose until Qin Xiaomo was almost out of breath, at which point the two ended their deep kiss.

"You've got some nerve. You should be hiding and waiting to board the ship, instead of daring to come back."

Looking at her flushed face, Wen Richeng sighed softly and said, "If I hadn't arranged for people to keep an eye on you, you would have been taken away by the Green Gang long ago."

"You...you know?" Qin Xiaomo was shocked. Did the other party know that it was the Green Gang who did it?

Moon Il-sung smiled but did not answer her question. If he didn't even have this much ability, what kind of intelligence work would he be doing?
This matter left him speechless. The Axe Gang also did things like eliminating traitors, but he never expected that one day they would eliminate traitors on their own heads!

This left him unsure whether to laugh or cry.

But it's not that simple to get him to let it go.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Qin Xiaomo didn't ask any more questions. Considering the other person's identity, she felt it wasn't surprising that he knew.

"I... I just wanted to make things clear to you."

"Now that everything is clear," Wen Richeng said, touching her face. "Let's leave Shanghai Beach; it's not safe here."

"..."

Qin Xiaomo's eyes trembled slightly, and the conflicted feeling she had when she went to the jewelry store during the day resurfaced. She wanted to say that she would not leave Shanghai, but she forcefully nipped the idea in the bud.

As the saying goes, life is precious, love is more precious, but freedom is the most precious of all.

That ticket would take her to a place of freedom.

"Put this on."

"what?"

Qin Xiaomo looked puzzled. At this moment, Wen Richeng raised her right hand, and she then saw that she was wearing a ring on the middle finger of her right hand.

It was the same pigeon egg from during the day.

"You...you...how did you buy it?"

"Didn't we already pick one out? Although there were some minor hiccups, I promised to buy you a diamond ring today, so I have to buy it."

Um... Mr. Du will be footing the bill for this entire event.

To assassinate you and then pretend nothing happened? How can you expect to get away with it without paying a price?
"..."

Qin Xiaomo was completely speechless. She raised her hand, letting the room lights illuminate the ring, making it sparkle. Suddenly, she hooked her arms around the man's neck and kissed him again.

This time, their clothes also began to fall off.

……

The following afternoon, in Mr. Yi's office at Headquarters No. 76.

"It's really strange. Nothing that's happened these past two days has gone smoothly," Mr. Yi said, rubbing his temples. "Have you found the person?"

"Not yet, Zhang Xiaowei seems to have vanished into thin air."

"Did the one in prison say anything?"

"not yet."

"Hand him over to the military police tomorrow."

"Yes!"

These few words he spoke to his secretary made Mr. Yi feel even worse, so he lay down on the chair and prepared to close his eyes and rest.

Seeing this, the secretary wisely left, but just as he was about to open the door to leave, Mr. Yi spoke again.

"What's the situation with Moon Il-sung?"

"Aside from increasing security personnel on his way to work today, Director Wen didn't react much."

After a pause, the secretary added, "By the way, um... it seems Miss Qin has disappeared."

"..."

Mr. Yi opened his eyes, remained silent for a long time, and then waved his hand to signal the other person to leave.

"Ugh!"

Losing both wife and army is a classic case of the opposite.

"Jingle Bell--"

Just as Mr. Yi had taken a short break, the phone on his desk rang. As soon as he picked it up, he heard the voice of the person he had been looking for all day.

"Boss, you don't want the Japanese to know about what happened at Mr. Guan Gu's villa, do you?"

……

Late at night, at the Wen family home.

Wearing a coat, Wen Richeng stood in the courtyard, looking up at the night sky. After the rain, the sky was less cloudy, and some stars could be seen faintly.

"The weather should be pretty good tomorrow."

After muttering this sentence, his expression became somewhat worried, after all, tomorrow was the day the plan would be implemented.

"Tomorrow is also the day she leaves Shanghai."

It's a pity I can't see her off; I have more important things to do tomorrow.

Checking the time, Moon Il-sung went inside to rest, but it was at this moment—

Jingle Bell--

The phone rang, and he paused, frowning slightly. Who would be calling so late?

With these questions in mind, Moon Il-sung answered the phone.

"If it were me, and there was an extra ticket, would you come with me?"

(End of this chapter)