Chapter Ninety-Five: It Would Be Better Without Clothes

Inside the interrogation room at the Beiyang City Police Headquarters in Huaxia, Xue Tian'ai sat in a chair with the look of a man burdened by all the world’s grievances, staring at Shen Xinyi across from him.

Xue Tian'ai was convinced he must have developed a severe case of not getting along with the local climate after returning to Huaxia. Otherwise, why would he end up in a police station twice in just a few days? Why would even grabbing a bite at KFC land him in trouble?

“Name!” Shen Xinyi fixed him with a stare and asked.

“You already know, so why ask?” Xue Tian'ai replied irritably. “And besides... weren’t I supposed to be here to give a statement? How did this turn into an interrogation again?”

“You...” Shen Xinyi had expected him to be decent this time, only to find he was still wearing that infuriating tone and that thoroughly punchable expression.

She took a breath, steadied herself, and looked at him again. “Xue Tian'ai, I suggest you watch your attitude. You should know you’ve got something in my hands right now.”

“Something in your hands? What something?” Xue Tian'ai decided to play dumb for the moment. “Why do I have no idea what you’re talking about?”

“What do you think would happen if I told Qin Mengxue about you hitting on girls in the bar that night?” Shen Xinyi said with a cold smile.

“Hit on girls? What girls? I don’t remember a thing,” Xue Tian'ai said, widening his eyes in exaggerated confusion as he looked back at her.

“Stop pretending you’re stupid!” Shen Xinyi was growing more and more furious at his utterly innocent expression.

“Oh, I remember now. You mean you’re going to tell my wife that the day we met, you were clinging to my arm in the middle of the street and calling me husband?” Xue Tian'ai slammed his right fist into his left palm, as if struck by sudden enlightenment.

At those words, the stern little mask on Shen Xinyi’s face shattered at once, and a blush slowly crept up her cheeks. She had never expected him to bring up that incident.

Looking at her flushed face, Xue Tian'ai felt the springtime bloom instantly in his chest. The tide had turned in an instant.

“Still, Miss Shen, you can relax. My wife is definitely not the petty sort. Even if you told her about it, I doubt she’d be angry.”

Seeing that his words were having an effect, Xue Tian'ai pressed his advantage and took back the leverage.

“You... shut up!” Shen Xinyi said, both embarrassed and enraged. “This is interrogation time! Answer the questions properly!”

“Interrogation, my foot! I already said I’m here to give a statement about the KFC robbery. And anyway, I’m a good man. I was the heroic citizen who helped the police subdue four robbers. Forget a reward for righteous bravery, I didn’t even get a certificate of commendation. Now you want to interrogate me instead? Officer Shen, are you even awake?”

Having successfully derailed the conversation, Xue Tian'ai grew bolder. His gaze roamed again and again over Shen Xinyi’s slightly reddened face and the proud curves of her chest trembling with anger, the corners of his mouth lifting into a lazy smile.

“Even if this were an interrogation, as a citizen you should maintain proper conduct and answer the police’s questions honestly...” Shen Xinyi tried to argue herself out of the corner he had backed her into. Then she caught the unmistakably roving look in his eyes and flared up even more. “Xue Tian'ai, what are you looking at?!!”

“I’m looking at how beautiful Officer Shen is after she takes off the uniform and changes into casual clothes!” Xue Tian'ai praised her, clicking his tongue in admiration.

“And I have to say, Officer Shen would look even better without clothes! Or maybe just wearing a set of Pleasant Goat lingerie. That half-hidden, half-revealed kind of look would be pretty nice too!” He grinned and went on.

Would she look better without clothes? Pleasant Goat lingerie?

After hearing that, Shen Xinyi’s expression darkened even further. This bastard was that obsessed with her lingerie from last time?

The anger in her chest had reached a boiling point. In all of Beiyang City, no one had ever dared tease her like this. Yet Xue Tian'ai had mocked and taunted her again and again.

Added to that were old grievances: the last time he had made her lose face in front of the bureau chief, the time before that when he had peeked at her underwear, and the time he had taken her gun apart into pieces. New and old resentment alike were now piling up inside her.

“Xue Tian'ai! Say one more filthy word and see if I don’t make you regret it today!” Shen Xinyi glared at him, face dark with fury.

“Make me regret it? Fine, but there isn’t a bed in here. If it comes to that, we can just sleep on the floor!” Xue Tian'ai said with a lewd grin, his eyes burning as they settled on her full chest.

“You believe I won’t really hit you?” Shen Xinyi said through clenched teeth, her eyes practically spitting fire.

“Hey, I only said a few off-topic things. Why are you so petty? Women with big chests shouldn’t be this petty. Isn’t there a saying? The greater the capacity, the greater the greatness! If you don’t have capacity, how did yours get so big?” Xue Tian'ai said with feigned astonishment.

“Xue Tian'ai, if I don’t beat you up properly today, I won’t be surnamed Shen!” Shen Xinyi could feel that if she kept swallowing her anger, she was going to make herself sick, so she sprang to her feet and rushed straight at him.

Thinking of how the so-called number one young master of Beiyang City had once been kicked by her into the men’s hospital for a month, she refused to believe she was helpless against Xue Tian'ai.

In no time she was in front of him, her pink fists already flying at his face, aiming to turn him into a pig’s head and see whether that mouth of his would still dare run wild afterward.

But intentions were one thing; results another. With Xue Tian'ai’s skill, there was no way she was going to land a hit. He flipped backward off the chair in one smooth motion, evading her storm of punches.

“Damn it, why do you always start swinging the moment you say something?” Xue Tian'ai patted his chest and acted as though he had narrowly escaped death.

“Cut the nonsense. Today I’m definitely sealing that mouth of yours shut!” Though her first strike had missed, Shen Xinyi had no intention of giving up. She lunged at him again.

This time she sent out a high kick, aiming straight for his chin.

Seeing that jade foot slicing through the air toward him, Xue Tian'ai’s expression sharpened. He hurriedly leaned back. If that kick had connected, he could guarantee it would have hurt like hell.

Shen Xinyi followed immediately with another punch, hoping to catch him while his body was still tilted backward and rigid.

But Xue Tian'ai straightened up almost at once, then shifted slightly to the side and slipped past it.

Another kick came whistling in moments later, a vicious low blow aimed directly at his most vulnerable place.

Damn it! Why was this woman so ruthless? Was she trying to blow his manhood apart?

A chill wind seemed to sweep beneath Xue Tian'ai’s legs. If that kick truly landed, Qin Mengxue would be left a widow while he was still alive.

This time, Xue Tian'ai put in a full one hundred percent of his effort to dodge. After all, his second-in-command was a matter of grave importance. He could not afford to be careless. This was not only for his own sake, but for the happiness of countless young women everywhere.

In a flash he slipped away, somersaulting backward two or three times before finally stopping at a safe distance from Shen Xinyi.

“Miss Shen, can we please use some civilized moves when we fight? Could you stop trying to kick off a man’s manhood? Do you know that without it, a man has no soul?”

Another kick had been dodged. Shen Xinyi was surprised too. She already knew Xue Tian'ai was no ordinary fighter, but this was stronger than she had imagined.

Though she was only a woman, the national talent registry had rated her combat ability at A-plus. Even some special forces soldiers would not have evaded that sequence of attacks so easily.

Just what kind of person was Xue Tian'ai, anyway?

She had investigated him before, yes, but she had never believed everything in the file. And what had happened today only made her trust it less. According to the records, Xue Tian'ai had once been merely a bar waiter, and now he was Qin Mengxue’s male assistant at the Dreamlight Group.

But could a bar waiter really possess such terrifying skill? Could a bar waiter subdue four armed robbers and emerge without a scratch? And could a mere male assistant, a former waiter, marry Qin Mengxue as his wife?

But today, even if Xue Tian'ai were the Emperor of Heaven himself, Shen Xinyi was determined to give him a good beating. She would make him understand that Shen Xinyi was not someone so easy to tease.

“Xue Tian'ai, if you just stand there and let me hit you once, I absolutely won’t kick that thing of yours again,” Shen Xinyi said, panting as she pointed at him.

“Am I an idiot? Stand here and let you beat me?” Xue Tian'ai asked, pointing to his own nose in mock shock.

“Damn you!” Shen Xinyi stamped her foot in rage, yet for the moment she could not think of any effective way to deal with him, so she charged at him again.

Seeing her coming with those pink fists raised, Xue Tian'ai was just about to dodge when something suddenly occurred to him. He stopped moving and stood quietly in place.

Her fist came straight in and thudded into his chest.

The solid sensation transmitted through her hand made Shen Xinyi freeze. She had actually hit him? That made no sense. She had used no technique at all in that punch. With Xue Tian'ai’s skill, how could he possibly have failed to avoid it? For a moment, she was stunned still.

“Ah!” Xue Tian'ai clutched his chest and staggered backward several steps, lowering his voice weakly. “I can’t go on... Why do I feel dizzy...”

Then his body went soft, his eyes shut, and he collapsed limply to the floor.

Shen Xinyi was completely dumbfounded.