Stuck in a Chinese novel

"She's busy. Don't disturb her for a while," Wei Jun instructed the secretary before he left the building. He still had many things to deal with, and Yue Peng needed to come to terms with what had happened.

He was walking to his car when his cell phone rang. He picked up the call and heard Li Wei's voice on the other end, "Boss, someone's here for you."

"Who?" Wei Jun asked.

"I don't know. He says his name is Li Guo." Li Wei replied. Wei Jun stopped in his tracks. A name he was well familiar with. Well, he'd read so many times about that name that he was sick of it. Li Wei wouldn't know because he had given her the name Li Fan Sho to dig into.

Li Guo was the alias he had assumed in the novel to romantically get involved with a girl, but then it stuck with him when the girl turned out to be a big shot businessman's daughter and helped Li Fan Sho build up his empire.

It had already happened, so Wei Jun didn't interfere with that aspect of Li Fan Sho's life. Besides, she wasn't the main heroine anyway. Wei Jun still had some plans for her, but those were for later. Later, she'd become the backbone of Li Fan Sho's company.

For now, Wei Jun was more curious about why Li Fan Sho was looking for him.

"Tell him I'll be there soon," Wei Jun replied before he ended the call. He looked at his hand where the red mark of Morial was still present. He had been rather quiet since Wei Jun absorbed Guardian. Still, he was stronger than the current him, and he might not be able to win against Li Fan Sho, but he might still be able to hold him off with Wei Jun's help if it ever came to that.

Wei Jun arrived at the office after about half an hour of driving and made his way to his office.

As he entered the building, he could feel the immense pressure coming from it. All of that was from one person, and that person was currently sitting outside his office.

Wei Jun arrived in front of the stranger who stood up to greet him, "Hello, I'm Li Guo. Pleasure to meet you, Mister Ruan."

"I'm Wei Jun Ruan," Wei Jun introduced himself as he extended his hand to meet Li Guo's. "Nice to meet you."

"You must be wondering why a total stranger is asking for you, right?" Li Guo asked with a smile before he added, "Would you be kind enough to grant me five minutes of your time? I promise I won't bore you."

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"Shall we go in then?" Wei Jun pointed towards his office before he turned to Li Wei and said, "Have someone send some refreshments."

Li Wei nodded and immediately picked up the landline receiver to call someone.

Wei Jun, on the other hand, led Li Guo inside and closed the door behind him.

"Please," Wei Jun pointed toward the couch while he sat on the one across from it. Once they were both seated, Li Guo began with a smile, "I'm Li Guo. A representative of Sho enterprises from Long Bao city."

"I'm aware," Wei Jun replied.

"Oh? I'm surprised. I thought a big company like yours wouldn't know of a small time company like ours." Li Guo said.

"Haha," Wei Jun chuckled before he replied, "You can be quite modest, I see. Your company has made a billion yuan in revenue in the last six months. That's impressive for a company that didn't exist six months ago."

"I see you know your stuff," Li Guo replied. "I can see why my boss sent you here."

[I'm a little confused]

[It's not him, right?]

'No,' Wei Jun replied. The man sitting before him didn't meet Li Fan Sho's description, but the name he used was the same alias as Li Fan Sho used in the novel. Now Wei Jun had another problem to deal with: figuring out who the strong man in front of him was.

"Your boss, you say?" Wei Jun asked, "Do you mind me asking how your boss knows of me?"

"Of course," Li Guo replied before he added, "He says you stole his bride."

"Haha," Wei Jun couldn't help but emit a chuckle. He was aware of it. He was aware of Xing Xiaomei.

"Well, I hope you can be a little bit more specific," Wei Jun said.

"No problem," Li Guo replied before he added, "The terms are simple. Return Xing Xiaomei to my boss, and he will leave you and your family alone." Li Guo replied.

"And I assume you know who my family is?" Wei Jun asked.

"Of course, we do. That is why he is so generous. Otherwise, he would have stormed this city, and no one, not even your grandfather, would have been able to stop him." Li Guo replied like it was a fact.

Wei Jun chuckled yet again. He simply looked at Li Guo and said, "But he won't do it, will he?"

"..." Li Guo remained quiet. He knew what Wei Jun was talking about.

"Where are they?" Li Guo asked, intense Qi emitting from him that the room, no, the entire building, began to shake.

"Hahahahaha." Wei Jun laughed out loud, seeing him angry. Once he stopped laughing, Wei Jun let out his own Qi, lesser in quality, but the quantity didn't lose to an average Qi grandmaster as he negated Li Guo's Qi.

"For a moment, I thought you were someone else," Wei Jun said. "Why don't you take off that mask so that we can talk? You and me."

"..." Again, no reply came from Li Guo before he brought his hand to his face, and his face began to change. Like thousands of worms were squirming on his face, his skin changed shape until he looked like someone Wei Jun knew.

The man whose description Wei Jun had read almost a hundred times when he read the novel again and again to find any hidden plots.

"I'll ask again," Li Fan Sho, the man before Wei Jun, the protagonist of the world, asked, "Where are they?"

"You know, at first I thought it was the boy," Wei Jun said, unconcerned of the pressure emitting from Li Fan Sho that was increasing with each passing moment.

"Where are they?" Li Fan Sho remained consistent, but his anger was increasing.

Bit by bit.

"But he bore too much resemblance to the gangster, so it wasn't him. But then I saw the mother…" Wei Jun paused to gauge the situation, and it wasn't looking good. Cracks were appearing in the Qi shield he had created around them, and the pressure coming out of Li Fan Sho was too much for him to bear.

"But…" Still, he continued regardless, "Then I saw the mother. A beautiful sight to behold."

The couch and floor underneath their feet began to burn in Li Fan Sho's immense Qi.

A testament that his anger was far too much and if Wei Jun didn't stop, he risked losing at least an arm.

But, as if he had balls of steel, Wei Jun continued, "And, pardon me if you find this hard to believe, but you and her bear a striking resemblance to each other. Almost as if you're from the same… womb."

"..." Everything suddenly ended. The pressure coming from Li Fan Sho ended in an instant, and everything turned back to normal.

"Now we can talk," Wei Jun said, inwardly releasing a sigh of relief.

"What makes you think I won't torture you to get the information out of you?" Li Fan Sho asked.

"Because you care too much for your sister to take that chance. And also because I don't know where they are. They could be anywhere in the empire or outside of it. Their location changes every twenty-four hours, and I don't keep track of any of it. What I do keep is the pager to page them automatically if my heart were to stop. Or if I were to press it on will." Wei Jun showed Li Fan Sho a black strip watch on his left wrist.

There was a chance that Wei Jun was lying, but there was also a chance he wasn't, which would mean Li Fan Sho would be risking his sister's life if he were to do anything impulsive, so he reined himself in and asked, "What do you want?"

"What I want is obvious. But I can't have it just yet." Wei Jun replied before he added, "But I do need you to do one thing for me."

"And that is?" Li Fan Sho asked.

"The time for that hasn't come yet either," Wei Jun replied. "Just go about your life and let me go about mine. We're bound to clash, but not yet. Just know that your sister is in good hands and that she will remain unharmed as long as you remain out of my city."

"..." Li Fan Sho remained silent for a while before he leaned in and said, "I'll make your death most painful."

"Mhm." Wei Jun wasn't worried in the least and simply hummed in response. Li Fan Sho stood up and left, his steps carrying anger in his stride.

Wei Jun simply closed his eyes with a smile.