Ark, after I died, the operators started to love me.

"The logic is sound, the boundaries of the numbers are clear, am I overthinking it?"

The man looked at the paper a few more times, then crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the wastebasket.

He's a doctor from Rhodes Island, after all. Even though he's wandering alone far from home, he can't help but have some concerns.

"I just want true love, is that so hard? It's one thing for someone to reject me, but why does everyone reject me?"

……

"He's an idiot! Confessing to everyone, did he even consider the feelings of the male operators?! Confessing to girls, several a day, even a fool could see it was a prank!"

"Our doctor is a tactical genius but an emotional dwarf. Isn't anyone going to consider agreeing to his request?"

When Hoshiguma asked this question, the girl Zalak sitting on the far right muttered, "He must have confessed to you too, right? Hoshiguma, did you say yes to him?"

Hoshiguma shook his head.

"That's settled then. Even you would have thought it was just a silly prank, so how could anyone possibly agree? Who knew he would take his own life..."

Lin Yuxia, to be precise, is now the outstanding youth representative of Longmen, the president of the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, and the executive director.

She snatched the bottle from Swire's hand, stopping the silly cat from drinking any more.

"Stop drinking. If you drink any more, we'll have to carry you home tonight."

"None of your business. Anyway, I'm back in Longmen. Longmen is my home. Nobody will do anything to me."

That's what they said, but it looked awful.

Taking advantage of the moment when Lin Yuxia snatched the bottle away, Xingxiong quickly grabbed a water bottle from the side, picked up an empty bottle, poured half of it into it, and then stuffed it into Swire's hand.

"Come, come, Miss Lin won't let you drink, but I'll let you drink."

"Hoshiguma, you're still the best. You're much better than that stinky rat."

Swire picked up the bottle, took a swig, and smacked his lips, as if savoring something.

Hoshiguma and Lin Yuxia exchanged a glance over Swire's body. It was a silent collaboration, very successful, but not very fulfilling.

"Why does this wine taste bland?" Swire exclaimed.

Hoshiguma, standing nearby, advised, "You've been drinking too much. We told you not to drink, but you still did."

"Oh, Hoshiguma, I was just praising you, why are you acting like a mother hen?"

Swire picked up the bottle again and took a swig; the liquid trickled down her neck and into her clothes.

"If we were given another chance, if he confessed his feelings to us again, would we say yes?"

Hoshiguma remained silent and did not answer.

Lin Yuxia, seemingly to appease her companion, went along with her and said, "I will consider it, at least to give him hope so that he won't take his own life."

"That's boring. I thought you would agree right away," Swire muttered.

"Isn't Chen Huijie ahead of us? That stinky dragon has gone further than us, and the doctor favors her. It won't be easy to surpass her."

Lin Yuxia's tone sounded wicked: "I don't care. Chen Huijie is too oblivious. Even if the few of us team up to keep her in the dark, she'll still say we're really nice people."

Hoshiguma coughed violently twice beside her, as if trying to signal something, but Swire was too drunk to notice anything amiss.

"What are you afraid of? Chen Huijie isn't in Longmen right now. Nobody knows where she is, and she won't know what we said."

Lin Yuxia squinted her eyes, picked up her wine glass, and took a sip.

Since just now, Zalak has been drinking one sip after another, but she didn't drink as hard or as much as Swire. She was only half drunk, still quite conscious, but her movements were a bit sluggish.

Of the three people present, Swire drank the most, followed by Lin Yuxia, and then Hoshiguma.

Actually, Hoshiguma didn't drink much; she was thinking about it the whole time Swire asked her the question.

When the doctor confessed his feelings, he was indeed warned that it was a prank, but in the end no one came forward to admit it.

It seems that while they were playing a game, everyone rejected the doctor.

What is that guy thinking? He's been through so many life-or-death battles and reaped the rewards of victory, yet he insists on leaving alone.

Let's go back to the same question: what if we gave her another chance?

Hoshiguma hesitated.

7. Just say you're in my bed.

The first person she thought of was Chen Huijie, and her hesitation made her feel very guilty.

"I only did this to prevent the doctor from going to extremes; I didn't actually like him."

Hoshiguma silently told herself this, but then she felt a deep sense of despair.

The ghost picked up the wine glass and took a sip. As the spicy wine rolled in his mouth, he realized a cruel problem.

All their assumptions were just assumptions; the fact is, it has already happened, and no one can travel back in time to stop it from happening.

Actually, there's nothing wrong with agreeing to his request first, it's just that neither of us is willing to back down.

"Alright, let's not talk about this sad topic. Some unusual things have happened in Lungmen recently. We need to gather the existing intelligence and resolve the problem as soon as possible. Suppressing the news won't last long."

Lin Yuxia put down her wine glass, and her reminder was affirmed by Xingxiong.

"The Guard Bureau doesn't have many leads. Penguin Logistics is investigating, and Texas even injured several people in the process."

"I heard about this. She was really ruthless. She probably has some resentment in her heart." Lin Yuxia nodded in agreement.

Hoshiguma sighed, "It was precisely because I knew Texas's character that I deliberately led her in the wrong direction. Now no one will suspect her."

"Could it be Lappland?" Lin Yuxia suddenly thought of another wolf.

“It wasn’t her. My men would have reported it to me the moment she entered Lungmen.”

Lin Yuxia narrowed her eyes: "So, you've planted quite a few people in the slums."

Hoshiguma smiled wryly and said, "Please, Miss Lin, I come from a gang and have a background in the underworld. It's normal for me to have two former colleagues. Aren't we just cooperating with the police now?"

"hehe."

Lin Yuxia picked up a skewer of grilled meat and stuffed it all into her mouth in one bite. She mumbled, "You're much better than Chen Huijie. All Chen Huijie does is say, 'Don't let me have any leverage over you, or I'll personally send you to prison.' She's really boring."

Zalak imitated the character so perfectly that even Swire, who was standing next to her, briefly snapped out of her daze and thought it was Chen Huijie who had arrived.

"You stinky rat, don't scare me. We just said so many bad things about her, what if that stinky dragon heard us?!"

"It's you who are talking badly about her, not me. I don't care about that."

Before Lin Yuxia could put down the iron skewer in her hand after she finished speaking, she heard an SUV whiz by on the street at high speed, followed by two more cars, which seemed to be a chase.

Lin Yuxia turned her head and asked, "Is it Penguin Logistics?"

"No, it's not Penguin Logistics. Something seems wrong."

Before Hoshiguma could finish speaking, a huge explosion suddenly came from the direction where the three cars had disappeared, and the flames that shot into the sky illuminated the night sky over Lungmen City.

Oh no, there must be casualties.

"You all rest here, I'll go check on the situation."

Hoshiguma stood up and quickly ran towards the scene of the explosion.

"You wait for me."

Swire was about to stand up, but the surge of alcohol made her legs go weak and she sat back down.

Lin Yuxia advised, "Stop struggling, just watch Xing Sir's performance. She's a hot candidate to become the next director."

"Nonsense, I am the director of the Lungmen Guard Bureau."

“But you’ve been running around for two months now, and Hoshiguma has been handling most of the work. I see that she’s doing a great job. Why don’t you just give up your position to her? That way you can have a good reputation.”

Swire persisted: "You stinking rat, don't try to sway me. I'm not stupid. I won't hand over the Dragon Gate to someone like you who does evil."

"Fine, fine, I did evil, I'm a bad person, okay?"

Lin Yuxia continued eating her meat, too lazy to pay attention to her.

But Swire leaned closer: "You still haven't told me what's been happening in Lungmen lately. I asked Ah Xing, but she wouldn't tell me."

"You know nothing at all?" Lin Yuxia probed.

“I just came back from Colombia and I know nothing about many things. How can I start a job when I know nothing?”

Faced with Swire's complaints, Lin Yuxia expressed the same view as Hoshiguma: "Since you don't know, then you shouldn't know. The fewer people who know about this, the better."

"What? You're all clearly conspiring against me. What have I ever done to offend you?"

"No, this matter is a bit special. Once you're sober, I'll discuss it with Hoshiguma and try to let you know some details that won't significantly affect how things turn out."

"Whatever, I'm just an outsider anyway."

Swire sighed and finally put down the bottle in his hand: "You're lying to me. This isn't wine at all; it's just plain water."

"Didn't Hoshiguma just tell you? This is alcohol. You drank too much and now your tongue is numb, so you can't taste it."

"Come on, you're trying to fool me like a child."

Swire could still tell the difference between water and wine.

However, I was very unhappy inside.

"You stinky rat, I'm telling you, if I really had a chance, I would definitely compete with that stinky dragon without hesitation."

Lin Yuxia said nonchalantly, "What are we competing for? The director of the Lungmen Guard Bureau?"

"Do not."

"What did you say?"

"I won't give in to her."

"What do you mean you won't give in to her?"

Swire didn't respond. After a long while, Lin Yuxia, whose mind was sluggish, finally turned her head and saw the little tiger lying on the table, fast asleep, clearly already drunk.

"He's the head of the Lungmen Guard Bureau? How pathetic."

Lin Yuxia put down her wine glass and muttered to herself, "What's the use of saying 'if' now? What about back then? If everyone hadn't agreed to let Chen Huijie have his way, I would have made my move long ago. That PhD is such an emotional idiot, it would have been so easy to win him over. It's such a pity."

This night is destined to be a sleepless one for many.