After Rebirth, Married to a Deadly Enemy - Chapter 58

After dinner, Xiangrong found an opportunity to call Bai Xiangxing out alone.

Bai Xiangxing was a bit curious because, due to the reincarnation, their relationship lacked the mutual reliance they had in the sixty-fourth district year, so his relationship with Xiangrong had become much more distant compared to the previous life. Although Xiangrong was still his little brother in his eyes, Xiangrong was only slightly less unfamiliar to him than a stranger.

“Do you need something?” Bai Xiangxing hugged his arms, feeling a bit cold since he hadn’t worn a coat coming out.

“I found something,” Xiangrong said, his eyes flickering.

“About me?” Both brothers from the Xiang family were geniuses, with Xiangyan being a pharmaceutical genius and Xiangrong a mechanical genius. Back in the sixty-fourth district, Xiangrong would assemble optical brains himself. Perhaps because he had assembled so many optical brains, Xiangrong had also self-taught some hacking skills. While not top-notch, he could bypass most ordinary websites.

“About Bai Cang and his son,” Xiangrong replied.

Bai Xiangxing was momentarily stunned, then smiled at Xiangrong.

“I didn’t specifically investigate, I just happened to come across it,” the proud teenager said somewhat irritably at being scrutinized.

“Okay, what did you happen to find?” Bai Xiangxing didn’t reveal anything, but inside, he was quite pleased. He had just lamented how his relationship with his little brother was only slightly better than that of strangers, and now he was being contradicted. But he was happy to have his face slapped like this.

“They’re transferring assets and bought tickets to the Capricorn system a week from now,” Xiangrong replied.

“They’re planning to run away, afraid I’ll deal with them,” Bai Xiangxing immediately understood Bai Cang and his son’s intentions. They knew he wouldn’t let them off the hook and were preparing an escape route in advance. “How much did they transfer?”

“23 million star coins,” Xiangrong said.

“Such a small amount?” Bai Xiangxing sneered. “Wouldn’t it be better to let me take over Bai Corporation? With me around, the annual dividends would be more than that.”

People could be greedy, but they shouldn’t be foolish. Snatching something that clearly couldn’t be held onto only harmed oneself as well as others. Honestly, if Bai Cang and his son had ruined him but managed to build up Bai Corporation, Bai Xiangxing might have felt a bit better. At least he wouldn’t feel so stifled.

After waiting for a while and not hearing Bai Xiangxing speak, Xiangrong saw him looking a bit downcast and said, “Their method of asset transfer isn’t secure. I can hack it.”

When Bai Xiangxing heard that Xiangrong wanted to hack Bai Cang and his son’s accounts, he looked at him with a complex gaze, and at the same time, a doubt was dispelled: I thought about why Bai Cang and his family didn’t have a single coin after Bai Corporation went bankrupt last life. Was it because of this little guy’s hacking?

“Do you want to do it?” Xiangrong asked.

“Kids should obey the law,” Bai Xiangxing said, smiling as he ruffled Xiangrong’s hair.

Xiangrong had come out of the sixty-fourth district, and kids from there lacked a sense of awe for Alliance laws. Bai Xiangxing knew it was because of the environment, and he had been trying to change Xiangrong. Last life, he almost thought he had succeeded, but now it seemed that Xiangrong was just acting well-behaved in front of him.

“Alliance police are very powerful. If you’re caught, you’ll go to jail,” Bai Xiangxing warned.

“They won’t catch me.” The teenager seemed confident in his own field of expertise.

“Xiangrong, what you’re doing is illegal.”

Xiangrong showed a little impatience.

“I’m not trying to lecture you on moral principles, but you’ve already left the sixty-fourth district,” Bai Xiangxing said with emphasis, “From the moment you left, whatever you want, whatever you want to do, can be obtained through normal means. You don’t need those so-called methods anymore. You’re indeed talented, but what you’ve done will always leave traces. Don’t add unnecessary risks to your life.”

Bai Xiangxing wasn’t a paragon of virtue, and if Xiangrong were still in the sixty-fourth district, of course he would hope for Xiangrong to be as powerful as possible, not just in hacking, but even joining those underground organizations wouldn’t be a problem. But things were different now, and Xiangrong didn’t need to do that.

“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have bothered to investigate them,” Xiangrong muttered uncomfortably after spending the whole night investigating and not receiving gratitude but instead getting a lecture from Bai Xiangxing.

“What did you say?” Bai Xiangxing didn’t hear Xiangrong’s voice clearly.

“I said I won’t hack anymore,” Xiangrong said loudly.

“Good boy,” Bai Xiangxing said satisfactorily. “I’ll take care of their business. They won’t have it easy.”

He had plenty of ways to deal with Bai Cang and his son; it would just take a bit more time.

Xiangrong wanted to say “who cares,” but he held back.

As a gust of wind blew by, Bai Xiangxing felt even colder. He wanted to go back inside. “Let’s go in, it’s windy out here.”

“I still have something to say,” Xiangrong insisted.

“What is it?”

“That drug that turned you into an Omega… it might have been developed by my brother,” Xiangrong said hesitantly, then hurriedly explained, “My brother didn’t intend to harm anyone. Initially, he wanted to help people. Omegas lived better lives than Alphas and Betas in the sixty-fourth district, and my brother initially wanted to research an auxiliary drug that could increase the probability of differentiation into an Omega if injected during the differentiation period, not forcibly reverse someone’s gender.”

“So that’s how it is.” Bai Xiangxing knew that the gender transformation drug was developed by Xiangyan; he had checked Xiangyan’s information before going to prison to pick him up. However, he always thought that Xiangyan was forced to develop this gender transformation drug by the drug dealers, but he didn’t expect there to be such an original intention.

After observing Bai Xiangxing for a moment and seeing that he didn’t seem angry, Xiangrong continued, “Do you need it? If you do, I can ask my brother to make another one for you.”

Bai Xiangxing’s breath caught. “Xiangyan can make a drug to turn me back into an Alpha?”

Xiangrong shook his head. “No, I’m talking about a drug to turn an A into an O. And it’s impossible to develop a drug to turn an O into an A. My brother said that when the gender transformation drug takes effect, the damage to the body is immense. A can turn into O because A’s physical qualities are naturally strong, but even so, the success rate is not high. If an O were to turn into an A, they wouldn’t pass the physical qualities test alone.”

Bai Xiangxing felt extremely complex emotions after hearing this, a bit disappointed but also somewhat relieved.

Well, if he could turn back, he and Xiangrong wouldn’t have been together for ten years in the last life without Xiangrong telling him.

“Since I can’t turn back, what’s the point of giving me the drug again?” Bai Xiangxing asked.

“Tit for tat,” Xiangrong said fiercely. “Give one to each of Bai Cang and his son, and let them experience what it’s like for an A to turn into an O.”

Bai Xiangxing’s eyes suddenly lit up. He had thought about it in the last life, but since the drug dealers were taken down, there hadn’t been any gender transformation drugs on the market. He regretted it at the time, thinking about how such drugs couldn’t be found even on the black market. Now he understood, because the producer was still sitting in jail at the time.

Bai Xiangxing glanced at Xiangrong’s eager eyes, cleared his throat, and said seriously, “I just told you to obey the law, why do you have such dangerous ideas in your head again?”

He could handle this matter privately with Xiangyan. Agreeing now would be a slap in the face.

Xiangrong pouted, “Why are you so timid!”

“You little brat, what do you know.”

Xiangrong was genuinely angry, with an expression that seemed to say “I misjudged you,” and he turned and walked away in front of Bai Xiangxing.

“You little brat!” Bai Xiangxing chuckled helplessly. Just as he was about to turn back inside, he saw Shi Zhen coming out from behind a nearby tree with a jacket.

Bai Xiangxing looked at Shi Zhen suspiciously when he emerged from there.

“I didn’t intentionally eavesdrop. It’s cold outside, so I came to bring you a jacket,” Shi Zhen said, helping Bai Xiangxing put on the jacket.

“Why didn’t you just come out directly? Why hide behind the tree?” Bai Xiangxing wasn’t easy to fool, and Shi Zhen’s behavior was clearly deliberate.

“When I walked over, I happened to hear you asking Xiangrong…” Shi Zhen glanced at Bai Xiangxing, his gaze heavy, “… about the forbidden drug.”

“I asked Xiangyan if he could develop a drug to turn me back into an Alpha?” Bai Xiangxing said. Besides that sentence, there was nothing else that would make Shi Zhen conflicted.

“Yeah,” Shi Zhen nodded.

“Why did you hide when you heard that?” Bai Xiangxing asked.

“I didn’t want to influence your decision,” Shi Zhen said.

“Are you afraid of influencing me, or afraid that I want to turn back into an Alpha?” Bai Xiangxing asked.

Shi Zhen pondered for a moment, then nodded honestly. “A bit of both. I’m afraid you’ll mention divorce again.”

Bai Xiangxing had just accepted him, and if he turned back into an Alpha, would he divorce him again? There was a moment when Shi Zhen thought of this, but it was only a moment.

Bai Xiangxing smirked at him. “Your words are sweet. Consider yourself forgiven.”

Shi Zhen smiled. “Let’s go back inside.”

Shi Zhen half-embraced Bai Xiangxing as they walked back into the house together.

“What do you think of Xiangrong’s suggestion?” Bai Xiangxing asked Shi Zhen.

“It’s good,” Shi Zhen said.

“Who is your partner? You actually agree with him?” Bai Xiangxing glared at him.

“When Xiangyan makes the drug, give it to me, and I’ll personally administer it to them.”

“You, a promising senior officer, why are you getting involved in this?” 

“Back then, I asked Grandpa Bai why Bai Cang and his son treated you like that, and he helped cover it up. Grandpa Bai said it was a family matter,” Shi Zhen paused and said, “We are a family, so of course I’ll get involved in family matters.”

“You asked him too?” Bai Xiangxing was somewhat surprised. At that time, they shouldn’t have been married yet.

Before Shi Zhen could answer, he saw Shi Ning coming out of the living room with a school bag.

“Shi Ning, where are you going so late?” Shi Zhen frowned.

“Xiangrong forgot to take his school bag, so I’m going to deliver it,” Shi Ning said. Xiangrong lived not far from here, just a few minutes’ walk away.

“Why didn’t he come back to get it himself?” Bai Xiangxing frowned. What’s wrong with this kid? He even lets an Omega deliver things to him.

“It’s not far; he’s just at the intersection ahead,” Shi Ning said.

“Why didn’t he walk back himself?” Shi Zhen frowned.

“I don’t know, but he seems pretty angry,” Shi Ning looked puzzledly at Bai Xiangxing, “Xingxing, what did you guys talk about just now?”

Bai Xiangxing paused for a moment, then smiled awkwardly. This little brat had quite a temper.

“Nothing much, just take it to him,” he scolded himself for being too cowardly.

“Yeah, I’ll be back in a moment,” Shi Ning nodded and ran out with the school bag.

Outside the courtyard, about fifty meters from the gate of the Shi family, Xiangrong stood under a street lamp, his fingers swiftly typing on a virtual keyboard: “Being bullied like this, and not even resisting, serves you right. Since I can’t hack, I’ll have someone else do it.”

“Xiangrong,” Shi Ning called out as he saw him coming over.

Seeing Shi Ning running towards him, Xiangrong quickly typed a few more words and posted them before closing his light brain. He hurried forward a few steps. “Why did you run? I wasn’t going anywhere.”

“I was afraid you’d get impatient,” Shi Ning smiled.

“Thanks,” Xiangrong dodged his gaze, not daring to look at the smile on Shi Ning’s face.