Miss Beautiful C.E.O and her system

Chapter 752: I'm not terrible, Ling Qingyu protested

Please, fixing and refining Athena's plan? Give a better excuse next time, Ling Qingyu complained inwardly. Athena had matured a lot after surfing through uncountable sites; of course, those adults' contents were restricted from her daily learning materials.

Should Athena need to watch in case the situation dictated, Ling Qingyu always accompanied her daughter for educational purposes.

Nonetheless, with so much access to information around the world, Athena must have seen through humanity's greatest virtues and despicableness.

Fortunately, Ling Qingyu watched over Athena closely and taught her many things. Even she herself learned matters inaccessible to her in her past life.

So, to Xiao Yue's quibbling about guiding Athena in the latter's meticulousness, Ling Qingyu could only roll her eyes speechlessly.

If not for their location on foreign soil, Ling Qingyu would've outright declared a duel and bullied Xiao Yue thoroughly to prove who was the boss.

Worrying about Master Tang's retaliation wouldn't deter her at all. She cared less about those frightening 'devilish trainings'.

No, if she were to reside here for a few months to settle and spread her presence, she must own real estate with some influence and power.

"Hehe, it's settled," Ling Qingyu muttered and slammed her fist against her other palm. "I'll buy this hotel. First, let's see if the hotel and its service are qualified enough to catch my eye."

Anyway, Athena wasn't stupid enough to stoop low and make mistakes in her choices. Perhaps people might, but omniscience never would.

Then, Ling Qingyu looked around to see her girls. To her suffocating helplessness, as soon as her eyes landed on the Spirit Fox girls, each bolted away.

Even a pair about to walk close to her immediately rotated 180 degrees and disappeared.

Too much! Ling Qingyu sighed.

These girls weren't stupid after all. Her harem dream was quenched before manifesting.

Besides, she wondered how many rumors had been spread throughout her manor to scare away her precious girls.

Naturally, Ling Qingyu forgot that the extreme upgrades to her physique had heightened everyone's senses, and her guards had captured all her words. With Xiao Yue's blatant laughter, though Ling Qingyu wasn't the type to bully her subordinates, if they didn't escape, wouldn't they be delivering themselves to her door?

They weren't stupid!

"Alas, when have my subordinates become so clever?" Ling Qingyu rubbed her forehead and grabbed the confused hotel staff. "You, please guide me to the King Suite."

The frightened, confused woman regained her composure and stuttered, "Guest, please follow me."

"Thank you very much."

"No, it's my honor."

Ling Qingyu's lips twitched as the staff shivered while speaking. Don't let your body betray your words. She wasn't that scary.

"Emm, aren't we walking?" Seeing the staff unmoved, Ling Qingyu asked.

"Of course, Ma'am. Please! Sorry."

Ling Qingyu almost jumped from fright when the staff exclaimed. She soothed the poor girl. "Miss, I'm not a terrible demon. You don't need to fear me."

"Ah—Ma'am. Please don't misunderstand. It's just my first time interacting," the staff replied.

As for Ling Qingyu's reassurance, the girl didn't believe it in the slightest. Which demon ever admitted they were terrible?

You scare away your own group by your presence. How frightening must you be to strangers. Lord, give me strength and cleanse me of any demonic aura.

Not knowing that the religious woman, praying silently in her mind, had labeled her as evil, Ling Qingyu followed.

Once arrived, Ling Qingyu didn't have time to ask as the staff flicked all the switches and closed the door while exiting the room.

Silence.

The room was bright with grandeur and luxury, yet she was alone. Ling Qingyu whimpered, "Alas, why would I even choose this room when I have to sleep alone?"

No one answered. While Ling Qingyu was immersed in her playwright moment, Athena consoled her.

"Mother, you are not alone. Wherever you are, I'll always be there."

"Oh, how sweet, Athena," Ling Qingyu replied, cured by her daughter's outspokenness. At the same time, she complained that she couldn't even act once like a main protagonist.

Hopping onto the spacious sofa, she flicked the remote control and turned on the television to listen to the news.

Immediately, political turmoil appeared on the screen. Protests! And multi-polar individuals clashing against each other.

As always, welcome to Country A.

"Tell me more about the appointment tomorrow," Ling Qingyu said.

Athena briefed the mayor's information in detail, gathered from all open sources and some rumors—both those proven false and those with questionable scrutiny. Some had been concluded to have a higher chance of truthfulness as Athena's computations worked.

All of this was delivered in an orderly manner before Ling Qingyu's eyes. Know yourself and your enemy, and in a hundred battles, you'll never be in peril. The art of intelligence meant battles must be won before they were fought.

The mayor couldn't hide the slightest weakness he had buried in the past. In front of Athena, everything within ten meters was dug out ruthlessly.

His chains of connections and patrons appeared. All of these helped prepare Ling Qingyu for tomorrow's conversation.

She didn't care about white or black so long as the person she was dealing with possessed the minimum morals of a human being.

The truly evil were blatant murderers, aides to human trafficking, and those who saw others as lesser beings to be toyed with in their hands—particularly religious ones who deemed themselves saviors and saints.

The mayor was far from stooping that low in Ling Qingyu's eyes.

In fact, Ling Qingyu resisted meeting with politicians, but sooner or later, she had to step out of her comfort zone. Putting all eggs in one basket was a big no-no. Her path was destined to be staged and spread across the world.

Besides, it didn't hurt Ling Qingyu to setup her roots in Country A and laid out her networks before her businesses arrived here. As one of the holy land for capitals with most of the world's wealthy hands, ventures and treaties were connected and exchanged here.

Furthermore, since she brought along her entourage with weapons, more secretly hidden inside her storage bracelet, Ling Qingyu had to nip any threats in the bud.

The threat was that Athena hadn't solved everything. As godlike as her daughter was—able to swoop in, create identities, and falsify truths—Athena lacked genuine human networks. This was unsolvable.

Like firearm licenses for her girls, Ling Qingyu could fool some airport authorities with her identity and flawless paperwork.

These, however, couldn't withstand deeper scrutiny. She dared not underestimate any state machinery, especially in Country A.

FBI, NSA and CIA.

Dealing with low-level and mid-tier officials posed no problem, but higher levels would unravel all pretenses. Just one phone call to the department head responsible for signing the licenses could deliver a blow to Athena's work, even though her daughter didn't so much as break a sweat creating false identities.

Therefore, having a local authority patronage Ling Qingyu's activities would lay spotless foundations.

Even if the agencies were suspicious, there would be nothing they could do with someone higher than them suppressing their actions.

For the lousy ATF, let's hope troubles didn't appear when she adventured in Country A that her girls needed to resort to firearm exchanges.

However, would the world revolve as Ling Qingyu hoped. Anyway, Miss System disagreed.