Stuck in a Chinese novel

"Look," Wei Jun continued, "I know it isn't fair to you. You worked so hard, hurt, wronged, and killed so many people just to reach this spot, and now that you had everything in your grasp, everything gets taken away."

Wei Jun stood up and picked up the empty whisky glass that Zhen Lu had used and stored it in his inventory. He did the same to the whisky bottle he had laced and said, "I know it isn't fair but is life fair anyway? No, it isn't."

Wei Jun then came to sit in front of him once again as he stored both of the things in his inventory and said, "I will be honest with you. You and I, we have no enmity. I don't care what you do but the problem begins when someone working for me is affected by you. It still isn't anything personal, you know. This isn't personal.

Just like you had to do everything to get to this position, I unfortunately, have to do this to you to achieve an even greater height so when I say this is nothing personal, please believe me."

Wei Jun stood up and said, "Now, you will spend the rest of your life like that. You won't be able to talk, you won't be able to express, nothing. Just like in a coma like your sister but the only difference is that she might wake up someday. You won't. Not even the miracle doctor can save you now."

With these words, Wei Jun turned to the window and opened it up. Outside, was a cleaner lift which he boarded but before doing so, he said, "Don't worry. This is not us seeing each other last. I will visit you with Xia Lu to offer my condolences. That is if he wanted to come."

Saying so, Wei Jun closed the window and the lift began to go downwards where he exited it and disappeared into the night after boarding his bike.

[Curse of hopelessness]

[Tier: B]

[Effect: Severs all systems in the body inducing reaction of a human body]

[The effects are irreversible unless the sole antidote for this is used]

[Cost: 10,000 coins]

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"Ahh…. F*ck. I'm never drinking again." Xia Lu said in the lowest voice she could mutter and entered the gym to be greeted by familiar faces who were looking at her weirdly.

She noticed their expressions and asked, "What? Is there something on my face?" The others didn't know how to reply so they made awkward noises and said different things about training.

"Oi, Quan Kui, what's going on? Why are you all acting so strange?" Xia Lu asked with her face a little dangerous. Quan Kui felt suffocated under such pressure and replied, "No…Nothing senior. It's just…. are you all right?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Xia Lu asked as she couldn't understand the meaning.

"I mean, after what happened last night, are you feeling all right?" Quan Kui once again asked.

"What do you mean after last night? What happened last night?" Xia Lu asked before she remembered how drunk she had gotten and she had no memories of the night after several champagnes. "Did I… Did I puke in front of everyone? Or did I…" She couldn't find the right words to say something but had no choice but to say it so she said it in a low voice, "…strip?"

Everyone in the room was stunned by her words. Quan Kui couldn't help but ask, "Senior, have you stripped before when you were drunk?"

"Shh!… Not so loudly!" Xia Lu admonished her before she glared at the boys. They hurriedly turned their heads away but her piercing gaze didn't leave them which they could feel well enough so they had no choice but to move away. Xia Lu turned back to the girls and said, "Once when I was eighteen. I began to strip in front of everyone. It was a good thing it was winter so I had many layers of clothes.

My servants had to knock me out and take me away. I never drank in public after that night."

Xia Lu recounted her story before she worriedly asked, "Did I…" She was afraid to complete the sentence. Unlike last time, this time all she was wearing was a one-piece strapless dress. It was very easy to take off from the top.

"No senior. You didn't strip." Quan Kui said and quelled her worries. Xia Lu sighed in relief and just as she thought she was safe, Quan Kui dropped an abrupt bomb on her, "You did curse the boss a lot."

As Xia Lu froze, Quan Li, who had been quiet since earlier, chimed in and said, "And I think probably everyone knows you have feelings for the boss."

Xia Lu's entire being froze. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She wanted to believe it was all a lie but the one to deliver the last statement was Quan Li. The last person she thought would lie to her or make fun of her using such a major thing.

"Ha…" She let out a sound that resembled laughter and confused the other girls. But they weren't confused for long as Xia Lu began to laugh fully. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

Her laughter rang throughout the gym but it wasn't the laughter of a happy person. It was the laughter of the person who was ready to leave the world. And that was what she had decided to do, "Quan Kui, Quan Li, goodbye. It was good working with you all. Send my regard to the other two as well."

"Eh? Sister, where are you going?" Quan Li worriedly asked.

"Haha… To die." Xia said with lifeless eyes before she turned around only to bump into what she felt was a wall of concrete. "If you're in such a hurry to die, I will make sure to increase your regimen."

Xia Lu heard a familiar voice and raised her head to look at what she thought was the most handsome man in the world smiling at her. It wasn't just a handsome smile today, it was practically glowing, and that struck her even more badly.

"Ehh… What… no… Armageddon…" She forgot for a few seconds what was going on. For a few seconds, she had gone to another world. However, soon she snapped out of it and jumped back like a cat and stuttered, "Youu…yu…you… What…. a..are you..ddoo..doing?"

Wei Jun chuckled at her behavior and said, "You're the one who bumped into me." Xia Lu, along with the other two girls were stunned frozen by that sweet chuckle. The boys a little far away saw their girls stunned by Wei Jun and hurriedly ran over to them to snap them out of it.

As for Xia Lu, she snapped out of it herself and shook her head vigorously. She exhaled and inhaled a few times before she said, "I'm… I'm not exercising today."

She began to leave by circling around Wei Jun cautiously. Wei Jun didn't stop her and addressed the other four individuals who were also on guard from him and said, "We will be doing couple's yoga today. Since I don't have a partner, I will call someone for company."

"What?! Why are you joining them today?!" Xia Lu, who was a little far away yelled at the unexpected announcement.

"Oh, actually I had planned to do it with you but since you are leaving, I can call for someone else. No worries." Wei Jun nonchalantly said and turned to the rest of the group.

"WHAT!? NO! WHO SAID THAT I'M LEAVING?" Xia Lu paraded back to the group and yelled along the way. Wei Jun chuckled once again that charmed Quan Li and Quan Kui and their boyfriends had to step in front of them to shield them from that enchanting smile, taking its burnt themselves.

"Ahh… I see." Wei Jun replied and said, "Then get into groups. Everyone, do it like I taught you to." Wei Jun said and then turned to Xia Lu and said, "I guess we will be doing it together then."

Wei Jun started with a few simple steps and poses. Beginning with warrior friends, he then shifted to the sailboat. He then switched to double dancer and finally, he came to the pose, twin dragons. All of the moves were done with professionalism and Xia Lu's personal space wasn't invaded. He kept his body as far away as he could.

Not because he wanted to show her how gentle of a guy he was, he was just not trying anything.

Teasing her was another thing but he wasn't going to make things awkward between them. He was still her boss and she was her employee. Anything could happen and if that anything was bad, everything would be destroyed.

However, when it came to the final pose, the twin dragons. Their faces came in front of each other. Although they kept their distance, Xia Lu's memory jogged from last night when she remembered those lips. She wasn't surrounded by people but she figured the place to be her room. She remembered getting closer to those lips. She didn't know what happened after that but she didn't need to.

"Ah!!!" She screamed and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand that was resting against Wei Jun's hand due to the pose. She stood up, and frantically turned her left and right before she turned around and ran out of the room with her hand still on her mouth, leaving everyone else stunned.

The others stared at Wei Jun judgmentally as if he had done something wrong. Wei Jun didn't bother correcting them and simply said, "Since Xia Lu won't be joining us today, you all will be exercising her share as well."

Wei Jun left to do his own training leaving four frozen people behind for an entirely different reason.