novelraw Chapter 331 - 305: The Villain Is Here
Chapter 331 - 305: The Villain Is Here
A group of young men shouted the slogan with great momentum, echoing inside the car, transforming the previously tense and serious atmosphere into a sea of joy.
Qian waved to everyone, "It’s mainly because your little boss educated me well. My level of awareness continuously improved under his guidance."
Qiao Zhen joked, "Sis-in-law, stop with the pleasantries, say something we can understand."
"Something you can understand?"
Everyone nodded.
"Everyone’s awesome, truly awesome! Whenever I’m with him, we often end up creating negative results from positive intentions. Today was exceptional, this is the first time we coordinated so well together, so I’m also very happy."
Qian’s down-to-earth response elicited loud laughter from everyone. Yu Minglang awkwardly scratched his head, "When we’re together, do we make a lot of blunders?"
"Take a guess?" Qian shot him a sidelong glance, recalling dates in muddy fields, shooting windows with slingshots at midnight, failing four times at a proposal... don’t we have enough of our dim-witted tales?
"There you go again, picking on the singles. Sis-in-law, if you keep this up, when you’re not around, little boss might end up getting beaten! Last time he was showing off your photos, he already got beaten once."
Qiao Zhen joked.
"Don’t tease me, you guys were all brought up by me, want to beat me? Last time, I singlehandedly took you all down!" Yu Minglang said proudly.
What is a sense of superiority, what is happiness?
It’s when you’re the only one in the friends’ group to succeed in a proposal, capturing the heart of a beauty — that’s pure happiness.
"Hey, here, the Salamander wasn’t brought up by you, does that mean he can beat you? Salamander, what do you say?"
One of the young men jokingly said, drawing everyone’s gaze to the silent man sitting in the corner.
Qian noticed him too.
He hadn’t said a word since getting in the car and didn’t interact with everyone else. Yu Minglang’s attitude towards him was also quite subtle. While he was playful with the other brothers, there seemed to be no connection in his eyes.
When he looked at the man codenamed Salamander, his gaze seemed to skip over him, as if, in Yu Minglang’s eyes, this person had already turned into a wisp of air.
For brothers who have faced life and death and built a career together, the greatest contempt is not verbal insult but mental indifference.
Especially for Minglang, when he likes a brother, he’ll hold them to a high standard, like with Qiao Zhen — they’re genuinely good brothers. His attitude reveals who he admires more.
In Yu Minglang’s team, Qiao Zhen gets picked the most. If Yu Minglang comes up with some mischievous idea, Qiao Zhen is the first experimental subject, yet their relationship is the closest.
If he starts to ignore someone, it’s worrisome as it means he can no longer regard them as a brother, not even as one of his people.
That’s exactly the attitude Yu Minglang has towards this Salamander now.
Salamander looked up, and Qian glanced at him. He was a man with very tough features, not particularly handsome, but his righteous, unyielding aura exuded pure masculine virility.
Salamander, Qian pondered the meaning of this codename.
Everyone who left the old unit with Yu Minglang has a codename. Yu Minglang’s is One, representing his absolute excellence. Qian guessed it might also be a rebellion against being called the youngest at home for too long, now taking the helm at work.
Qiao Zhen’s is Hawkeye, because of his sharp eyesight and skill in spotting disguises.
Ad is called Daniu, because of his blunt way of speaking.
Salamander, one of the top ten doctors in the animal kingdom, capable of limb regeneration, but why is Yu Minglang at odds with him?
Qian pondered this as Salamander, who had just looked up, evaluated her.
Yu Minglang’s attitude drew everyone’s attention, as the little boss had never treated anyone like that before.
The atmosphere became awkward in an instant.
"You, you’re not what I expected," Salamander said to Qian.
Qian looked back at him, "Then what kind of person do you think I am?"
Their voices were ordinary, neither high nor low.
"Your attitude towards the little boss is different from what you come across as."
"People ought to have various traits, aren’t you all masters of disguise, pretending to be different kinds of people." Qian’s words seemed to change the way Salamander looked at her.
This woman seemed unfathomable, able to discern everything with just a few words.
He hadn’t seen how she subdued the bad guys down there.
But those brothers who came down had already spoken of her so highly, even so, Salamander still held a skeptical view of Qian.
"Enough!" Yu Minglang pulled Qian to his side, preventing her from engaging in a stare-down with Salamander.
His unfriendly tone made the young men exchange awkward glances, sensing something must have happened between the little boss and Salamander.
Qiao Zhen immediately stepped in to lighten the mood.
"Sis-in-law, how come you were so amazing upstairs just now?"
"Because I’m a psychologist with abundant practical experience and I meet many people; ultimately, it’s all about clinical experience."
In her previous life, Qian had seen countless patients. Reborn in this life, she wasted no time self-educating in unfamiliar fields, having been one of those kidnapped herself and thus possessing more information than those who went up there to negotiate first.
"Why do the bad guys want revenge on you, instead of the traffickers?"
"Actually, it’s a normal reaction. Think about it, when you were rescuing at the old unit, if natural disasters were busy saving people, but not gods, without enough ability to save everyone, the families of those unrescued would only see their deceased relatives, not noticing our injuries or sacrifices; it’s a similar psychological reaction."
"Absolutely right! When I was at the old unit and participated in flood relief, something similar happened; our squad leader’s face got scratched."
Someone nodded in vigorous agreement.
Qian nodded, "When faced with unsolvable problems, it’s natural for people to harbor resentment towards those they perceive as able but unwilling to help, without considering why it is so. For example, if your family is wealthy and a poor relative causes trouble requiring compensation to avoid jail, if you don’t lend money, they would hate you for it, instead of realizing the trouble wouldn’t exist if no trouble was caused."
People are such complex creatures.
Yu Minglang said proudly, "I’ll apply to the top later on, to have your sis-in-law give us a lecture on criminal psychology analysis, how about that?"