Downstairs at VIP Building No. 2, Wang Anguo was arranging security duties.
Suddenly, he saw Mr. Huang’s bodyguard come down and walk straight toward him.
“Sir, our boss wants to see you!”
Hearing the bodyguard’s broken Mandarin, Wang Anguo was instantly baffled.
What on earth was going on with this Mr. Huang? He’d turned down a welcome banquet hosted by city officials, so why was he suddenly asking to see Wang?
Could he have some kind of request?
Adhering to the principle of providing thorough service, Wang Anguo quickly exchanged a few words with Li Yuanqing, who was standing nearby, then followed the bodyguard up to the third floor.
Upon entering the room, Huang Lixing pointed to a sofa across from him and said, “Officer, please have a seat!”
Wang Anguo nodded and said, “Mr. Huang, my surname is Wang—Wang Anguo. I’m the head of the Ning City Criminal Investigation Division. You can call me by my first name or my title, Captain Wang!”
“Alright then, I’ll just call you Captain Wang!”
“Mr. Huang, is there a reason you asked me to come up?” Wang Anguo asked.
He wasn’t close with this Mr. Huang, so if there wasn’t a reason, the other party clearly wouldn’t have asked him to come up.
Huang Lixing waved his hand, signaling the bodyguards to step out.
Once the room was empty except for him and Wang Guo’an, he finally said, “Captain Wang, I’d like to ask you about something. I hope that’s okay!”
Although Huang Lixing’s accent sounded a bit odd, Wang Guo’an understood him and immediately asked, “What is it? Please go ahead!”
“Who is that young man next door? He gives me a really strange vibe!”
Hearing Huang Lixing ask about Li Yi, Wang Guo’an’s brows furrowed instantly.
This stumped him—he truly hadn’t expected Huang Lixing to have noticed Li Yi.
Thinking that Li Yi didn’t seem to want to get involved in this mess, Wang Guoan was about to make up some excuse to brush it off. After all, he’d already had Li Yi moved to a different room, so the two of them probably wouldn’t have any further interactions.
However, to his surprise, Huang Lixing saw right through his thoughts.
“Captain Wang, I want the truth. If it’s not the truth, don’t bother telling me!”
Wang Anguo was taken aback by Huang Lixing’s keen insight, but then he reminded himself that the man standing before him was a renowned billionaire in Hong Kong—how could he have built such a massive empire without some real talent?
With that in mind, Wang Anguo paused for a moment before saying, “To be honest, that young man is a friend of mine!”
“A friend?”
“Yes, the kind of friendship where we’d lay down our lives for each other!”
“Oh, well, the way your friend was looking at me seemed a bit off. Do I know him?” Huang Lixing said in a low voice.
Wang Anguo didn’t answer his question but asked in return, “Mr. Huang, do you believe in physiognomy?”
“Face-reading?”
“You know, fortune-telling—what we call superstition on the mainland!” Wang Anguo said.
“Heh, feng shui is quite popular over on Hong Kong Island. What’s the matter?”
Wang Anguo let out a long breath and said, “To be honest, my friend is a physiognomist. He just told me you’re in danger of bloodshed—the kind that’s a matter of life and death!”
Upon hearing this, Huang Lixing suddenly sat bolt upright on the sofa.
Wang Anguo had expected him to fly into a rage, but to his surprise, Huang Lixing grabbed his hand and said, “Captain Wang, could you please introduce me to your friend? I’d like to have a chat with him. Would that be okay?”
“Well…”
“Is that not okay? I can pay for it. How about 10,000 yuan as a goodwill gesture?”
The moment those words left his mouth, Wang Anguo was completely dumbfounded.
Ten thousand yuan—that was completely beyond his wildest imagination.
After all, even though he was now considered a leading cadre of sorts, his monthly salary amounted to only 45 yuan, which came to just over 500 yuan a year.
Ten thousand yuan was equivalent to his entire income for 20 years—if he didn’t eat or drink a single thing!
And that was just the meeting fee!
“If that’s not enough, I can always add more…”
Wang Anguo immediately replied, “Mr. Huang, this isn’t about the money. It’s just that my friend doesn’t want to… Never mind, I’ll see what I can do for you!”
“I really can’t thank you enough!”
“No need to thank me—my friend might not even want to see you!”
With that, Wang Anguo sighed, then stood up and left Huang Lixing’s room.
After Wang Anguo left, a flicker of excitement crossed Huang Lixing’s eyes.
The reason he had brought his pregnant wife to North Sai Province this time was, ostensibly, to conduct a business inspection at someone’s invitation, but in reality, it was to escape a disaster.
Like the vast majority of wealthy individuals in Hong Kong, Huang Lixing placed great importance on feng shui and knew several highly skilled feng shui masters.
Just a month ago, feeling restless, he had invited the renowned Master Wu from Hong Kong to assess his feng shui.
At the time, Master Wu had bluntly told him that he was facing a life-threatening disaster in the near future—one misstep could cost him his life.
Huang Lixing immediately asked him to help avert the crisis, but Master Wu said his spiritual power was still too shallow to resolve such a life-or-death calamity.
Therefore, he advised Huang to go into hiding, as there might still be a sliver of hope, and suggested he head north.
Coincidentally, just then he received an invitation from Director Feng. Huang Lixing acted decisively, accepted Director Feng’s offer, and traveled to North Sai Province with his wife and bodyguards.
While in the provincial capital, he visited temples such as the Great Zhaowuliang Temple and Xilitu Monastery, but found nothing of value.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived here, someone pointed out that he was facing a blood-soaked calamity—truly an unexpected stroke of luck.
Moreover, he finally understood why the young man’s demeanor had seemed so familiar—it was exactly the same look Master Wu had given him!
Huang Lixing realized that the benefactor Master Wu had spoken of might very well be that young man.
As a result, he was truly eager to meet the young man.
As for Wang Guo’an, after leaving Huang Lixing’s room, he headed straight for Building 3, which was not far away.
He had specifically asked the staff to move Li Yi’s room to this building, with the sole purpose of keeping him away from Huang Lixing.
Little did he expect that despite all his efforts to avoid them, the two would end up meeting anyway—and through his own arrangement, no less.
He didn’t even know what to say!
On the way, Wang Guoan felt a bit anxious; he truly had no idea how Li Yi would react.
He could tell just now that Li Yi really didn’t want to get involved in this matter.
Yet he had gone ahead and told Huang Lixing about it without Li Yi’s consent, even revealing his identity. Li Yi might very well be angry with him.
But Wang Anguo had no choice. Huang Lixing had seen right through his lie at a glance, catching him completely off guard.
More importantly, as a police officer with a strong sense of justice, he simply couldn’t stand by and do nothing.
He also acknowledged that the consequences Li Yi had mentioned might indeed be true and were certainly worth considering.
But those were matters of the future, fraught with uncertainty.
So, because of these uncertainties, he simply couldn’t stand by and watch Huang Lixing—a living, breathing person right in front of him—come to harm.
He acted this way because he remembered how Li Yi had always told him to follow his heart.
As for whether Li Yi would meet Huang Lixing, that was none of his business; this was all he could do.