When Jiang Youli arrived at the private VIP room with the young waiter, the door was already open, as if it had been left that way deliberately to await her.
The voices of several men discussing her shamelessly drifted from inside.
“Why do I get the feeling Jiang Youli isn’t here to cause trouble for Young Master Yu? Maybe she’s here to beg for mercy and ask him to spare Starlight Entertainment.”
“Come on. Even if that slut Jiang Youli really is here to beg, she wouldn’t be begging me. She’d be begging our Young Master Long to show mercy, wouldn’t she?”
Jiang Youli stood at the entrance and glanced back toward the route she had taken from the elevator.
Only one waiter had escorted her upstairs, but at some point, the corridor had filled with a group of tall, burly men in black suits.
After leading her to the door, the waiter gave her a look before turning around and walking back.
In that single glance, Jiang Youli saw deep sympathy.
Sympathy for her?
Ha. Entirely unnecessary.
Jiang Youli let out a disdainful laugh, then stepped into the private room. The bodyguards in the corridor immediately hurried over and blocked the entrance.
Jiang Youli turned her head slightly to look at them, but her face showed no trace of panic.
At that moment, a man whistled and shouted excitedly, “Well, look who’s here! That little slut Jiang Youli actually came!”
The speaker was Li Zixuan. He patted Jiang Yonghe, who was nestled in his arms.
“Sweetheart, Jiang Youli is here. Haven’t you always wanted revenge? Tonight, I’ll let you have your fun and show you just how badly Jiang Youli is going to suffer.”
Jiang Yonghe let out a coquettish hum. “Brother Li, you’re so good to me.”
Then she raised her eyes toward Jiang Youli standing in the doorway. Her gaze was filled with hatred, along with malicious delight that she could barely suppress.
Finally. She had finally come face-to-face with that little bitch Jiang Youli again!
If it weren’t for that little bitch, she would never have fallen into her current state.
Tonight, she was going to see exactly how Jiang Youli would humiliate herself by coming to Evernight City to look for Yu Hongtu.
After all, this was not the Jiang family’s home, nor the Qi family’s.
There was no one here to protect her. Instead, everyone present was her enemy!
Long Yuan sat in the center of the sofa with both arms resting along its back. He stared silently at Jiang Youli.
This woman had really come alone. Just how much did she look down on him, Long Yuan?
Yu Linglong, sitting beside Long Yuan, felt her eyelid twitch. She watched Jiang Youli with faint nervousness.
Fortunately, she was a professional actress and did not reveal too much. She quickly composed herself, though she continued to worry about Jiang Youli’s safety.
Yu Hongtu turned his head toward her and gave a crooked smile. “Jiang Youli, I heard you were looking for me. What for? Are you here to beg for mercy and ask Great Wind Entertainment to spare your Starlight Entertainment?”
Jiang Youli sneered. “Dream on.”
She then swept her gaze around the private room.
On the way up, she had already surveyed the surroundings. There were surveillance cameras in the corridor and at the entrance to the private room, but none inside.
So if she beat someone up here, as long as no one present recorded it, there would be no problem.
Even if they called the police, there would be no way to prove that she had been the one who attacked them.
Besides, she had a drug that could make people fall into hallucinations. When the time came, she could simply say they had gotten carried away playing around.
The corners of Jiang Youli’s lips lifted. With an enigmatic smile, she looked at Yu Hongtu and said unhurriedly, “I’m here to see just how hard your skull really is.”
Yu Hongtu frowned when he heard this. Clearly, he had not understood what she meant. “What does that mean?”
The smile on Jiang Youli’s lips grew more pronounced. She replied casually, “You’ll find out soon enough.”
With that, she flexed her fingers, producing a series of sharp cracks as she prepared for what came next.
Seeing this, Li Zixuan reminded her with some amusement, “Seriously, Jiang Youli? You want to start a fight here? Don’t tell me you think all those bodyguards outside are just for show.”
Jiang Youli paid no attention to his warning. She did not even spare him a glance, keeping her eyes fixed on Yu Hongtu.
At that moment, Long Yuan, who had remained silent until then, finally spoke. His voice was low and authoritative.
“Jiang Youli, I know you have some uncanny tricks up your sleeve, but this is my territory. No matter how capable you are or how strange your methods may be, there is absolutely no way you’ll cause trouble here and still leave Evernight City in one piece.”
In the face of Long Yuan’s threat, Jiang Youli showed no fear. Instead, her smile grew even brighter as she replied provocatively, “Is that so? Then let’s find out.”
The instant her voice fell, the entire private room seemed to be swallowed by an invisible force and plunged into darkness.
“What’s going on?” Li Zixuan cried out in the darkness, his voice revealing unmistakable panic and confusion. “Why did the power suddenly go out?”
The private room, which had been brightly lit moments before, became so dark that they could not see their own hands.
The sudden darkness caught everyone off guard, as if the entire world had been devoured in an instant.
But it was not just the private room. The entire Evernight City had suffered a power outage.
The largest entertainment complex in the country was now shrouded in darkness, stripped of its usual noise and splendor.
In the endless darkness, Long Yuan’s eyes were especially cold and forbidding. He stared straight ahead. Though he could not see anything, his gaze seemed capable of piercing through the darkness and seeing everything.
Ever since Evernight City had been established, it had never experienced such a sudden outage. A strong sense of unease and suspicion rose in Long Yuan’s heart.
Could all of this have been Jiang Youli’s doing?
But how had she managed it?
Every employee at Evernight City had been carefully vetted by the Long family. They would never allow such a serious oversight or vulnerability to exist.
Otherwise, how could Evernight City have become the largest entertainment venue in the country?
Yet tonight’s inexplicable power outage would undoubtedly cause enormous negative repercussions.
All the VIPs would begin questioning Evernight City’s security, dealing a heavy blow to its reputation.
In the darkness, one of the lackeys tried to take out his phone and use its flashlight. But the moment he pulled it out, a sharp pain shot across the back of his hand. His hand instantly went numb and weak, and the phone slipped from his grasp.
The bodyguards at the entrance began groaning in pain one after another, then collapsed to the ground in succession.
“What’s going on?”
“That’s right, Young Master Long. What exactly is happening?”
Long Yuan ordered his assistant in a deep voice, “A-Wei!”
“I understand. I’ll contact the manager right away.” As he spoke, A-Wei reached for his phone.
But, just like the other lackeys who had tried to use their phones, the moment the screen lit up, he felt a sharp sting in the back of his hand. His hand went numb and powerless, and the phone fell directly to the floor with a smack.
Hearing the sound, Long Yuan asked, “What happened?”
The assistant’s voice was tinged with panic. “Young Master, I don’t know what’s happening either. My hand suddenly went weak.”
The same thing had happened to Yu Hongtu. After his phone slipped to the ground by his feet, his arrogant bravado vanished in an instant, replaced by a growing fear of the unknown.
What on earth was happening?
“Are you scared?”
Suddenly, Jiang Youli’s voice drifted beside his ear.
It was soft—so soft.
Yet at that moment, Yu Hongtu felt as though the voice had come straight from hell, sending a chill down his spine.
