Chapter 95: A Beauty Hidden in a Golden House?

Contented enough, though I still have matters to attend to later. When you go live, I will watch your performance of your talents in earnest.

With that, Lin Fan called Shi Jie in.

Shi Jie asked him the same question: whether he was satisfied.

Lin Fan did not answer directly.

Instead, he told Shi Jie to go sign the contract with the twins, and specifically instructed him to buy them a duplex villa in the suburbs. Although the villa district was on the outskirts of the city, it was very close to the Seaside Villa District.

After giving his instructions, Lin Fan left the company.

Shi Jie did exactly as he was told. After signing the contract, he took the two women to look at the house.

That evening, Shi Jie reported the outcome to Lin Fan. The twins had been settled into the villa, and the purchase had cost thirty million!

Ding. The host spent thirty million on the twin sisters; the reward from the simp fund has been credited.

Wealth value: one hundred and four million and ninety thousand, plus three million.

Although the twins harbored ulterior motives toward him, because they were nine-out-of-ten goddesses, Lin Fan still received a rebate for spending money on them.

Soon after, Lin Fan received a message from the twins asking whether he was free to visit the villa. They could perform their talents for him in private.

But Lin Fan only sent back a brief reply: he was very busy lately, and would go when he had time.

Nine o'clock at night.

At the same place, in the top-floor villa of Blue Sky Tower.

After Shi Jie and the twins reported Lin Fan's reaction to Su Qianlong, Bai Jiahua frowned in confusion. "If that bastard has hidden women away in a golden house, why isn't he going to see them? Just how busy can he be? I had people check the villa in Seaside District. He lives there alone."

"Could he have hidden women away there too?" Su Qianlong asked while enjoying a beauty's massage.

"No. The two of them watched the villa for two days and only saw him by himself. They didn't find a trace of anyone else."

Bai Jiahua was growing impatient.

By rights, given Lin Fan's lustful nature, he should have rushed straight to the twins for a night of indulgence. How could he have had no reaction at all?

It was truly baffling.

"Don't worry. That guy is pretty good at putting on airs. Maybe in a couple of days he'll sneak over. In any case, I've already had Teacher Yan use mental control on them, and I've had listening devices and cameras installed in that villa. Every move he makes is under my control. All we have to do is wait for him to bite."

Su Qianlong sneered darkly, unconcerned.

Elsewhere, Lin Fan was also reporting the day's events to Su Xianmo.

His villa was safe now. The security department had already installed various hidden cameras around it the day before, and anti-eavesdropping devices had been set up inside as well.

At that moment, he was video-calling Su Xianmo.

After hearing Lin Fan's account, Su Xianmo was impressed that he had not been tempted.

"I just saw those twins. To be honest, even I would have been tempted. And yet you could sit there unmoved. How did you do it?"

Of course Lin Fan could not tell him that he remained clear-headed because of the system at his side.

One of the system's useful functions was detecting malice. Anyone who harbored ill will toward him would be identified.

"The perfume on those sisters was specially blended. I could tell something was off at once. Besides, Shi Jie hadn't told me about this beforehand. Today he showed up out of nowhere with the two of them. That was a classic honey trap. Su Qianlong probably thought I was easy to fool because I'm lustful. When one scheme failed, he tried this one."

Lin Fan offered a fairly reasonable explanation.

"Aren't you lustful? Always chasing after women."

Su Xianmo rolled her eyes with open disdain.

Their relationship had already reached the level of close confidants, and they could joke with each other privately now.

Even so, her affection for Lin Fan had never risen, remaining fixed at thirty points.

That left Lin Fan deeply frustrated.

He had done everything he should have done, spent far more than enough money, and yet what else was required to raise her affection to fifty?

"Which man isn't lustful? I admit I'm lustful too, but I'm definitely not the type to fall in love with every woman I see. My standards are very high. I only fall for goddesses with looks of nine out of ten or better, and they have to have a good personality too."

Lin Fan made no attempt to hide that.

Women are lustful too, let alone men.

After that, he returned to the main point.

"My idea is that we should also send people to keep tabs on Su Qianlong, Bai Jiahua, and Shi Jie. Just in case. If they ever get desperate and try to lash out, we'll have evidence ready and can turn the tables on them."

Su Xianmo agreed, then asked, "Since you can hypnotize the twins, maybe you should try hypnotizing Shi Jie and extracting information from him. He's the intermediary, so he must speak face-to-face with Su Qianlong. If you can get more from him, it'll be better for us."

"No need. Since Su Qianlong can mentally control the twins, that means he must have a professional around him, probably a psychologist. If Shi Jie is his informant, he'll surely be wary of him turning traitor. If I really did that, and the professional spotted anything off, it could expose us instead."

"Besides, Shi Jie is nothing more than a greedy fool driven by money and profit. He isn't worth much. As long as we gather enough evidence from him, that's enough..."

Lin Fan analyzed it carefully, saying there was no need to overthink it; everything was under control.

After hearing his analysis, Su Xianmo looked at him with a very suggestive gaze.

"I find you more and more mysterious. Even that drama king Shi Jie could see he had been bought over. You're not simple. I had underestimated you. If it were anyone else, they might already have fallen into the pit Su Qianlong dug."

"There's an old saying: man's greed can swallow an elephant. Sometimes the more abnormal something seems, the more likely it means there's a trap nearby. At our level, there are so many people with ulterior motives, scheming at every turn, trying to curry favor. Isn't it all for money and power?"

Lin Fan chuckled softly.

After dealing with people like Su Xianmo more often, he had realized that the wealthy world was just as full of treacherous villains.

Not to mention the infighting within the Su family, he himself had been set up by Su Qianlong, and even the company's management had been bought off... It showed how money could corrode the human heart. These cases all reminded him that he must stay on guard against those with hidden intentions.

For that, he had to thank Su Xianmo.

Su Xianmo liked reading, and during their conversations she would often recommend books to Lin Fan about business warfare and psychology.

On top of that, he himself liked reading the news and was quite sensitive to terms like scam operations and rich second-generation heirs being hunted by predators. And since he had more money than he could ever spend, sooner or later he would become a target, so now he no longer dared to act recklessly.

Of course, the more important reason was that he had an invincible system.

After chatting for a while, Lin Fan ended the video call.

Although Su Xianmo repeatedly advised him that, since he could hypnotize, he should at least try to reverse-control Shi Jie and, if possible in the future, even Su Qianlong.

Lin Fan said he did not have that ability.

In truth, there really were psychic control item cards in the system shop.