That finally brought someone to a slow awakening.
"Ugh..."
"Awake?"
The half-open eyes of the broker instantly widened as he looked around, until he saw Ye Nai’s feet and then raised his gaze to her face.
"Who are you? Where is this?"
"This is a hotel room, I brought you here because I want to ask you some questions."
The broker moved slightly, realizing that he was completely at the mercy of someone else.
"Let’s talk this over, can you untie me first?"
"I cannot."
"..." The broker fell silent for a moment, "Have I offended you?
"Indeed, you have."
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"But I don’t know you."
"Knowing Ye Yu and Yu Qing is enough."
"Ah..." The broker panicked suddenly, "I owe them money, I’ll pay them back right now!"
"Okay."
Ye Nai picked up his phone, which used face recognition for unlocking. She scanned his face, and the first thing she did after gaining access to the screen was to change the password to a numerical one. Then she opened the banking app, went into card management, and pulled up a total of nine cards from three different banks. Each card had money in it, ranging from a hundred thousand to nearly a million.
"Is all this money yours?"
"Yes, it’s mine."
"Tell me, what are the payment passwords for each card?"
The broker felt a sinking feeling in his heart, fearing he might never get his money back. After humming and hawing, he finally gave out a set of numbers.
Ye Nai wrote them down on paper.
"Only one password?"
"Just one."
"All nine cards share the same payment password? Aren’t you afraid someone might get their hands on your phone and transfer all the money out?"
The broker couldn’t help but complain internally, "Aren’t you describing exactly what you’re doing?"
Complaints aside, he didn’t dare to voice them aloud.
"They’re all the same, the same password for all nine cards."
"Alright, then I’ll order some takeout to eat."
Ye Nai opened the food delivery app to check the linked card and saw it was the one with the least amount of money. She unlinked it and replaced it with the card that had the most money, then ordered a milk tea, successfully making the payment.
"Not bad."
Ye Nai put away the phone under the other’s despairing gaze.
"Now, back to the main point."
"Go ahead."
The broker gave up struggling completely, cursing himself for not running fast enough. Why did it have to be today’s ticket that was slow?
"Knowing that Ye Yu and Yu Qing are conservative investors, why did you recommend them stock funds that would lose money?"
"I merely mentioned that the market has been doing well lately and stock funds make more money."
"They believed that?"
"They did. They operated it all themselves. I didn’t touch their account or password."
"Okay, after they lost money, you recommended Beiling Credit to them. What’s your relationship with this loan company?"
"I have no relation with them."
"Really?"
"Truly. I swear, if there’s a single lie in what I’ve said, may I die right here."
"Dying here is unnecessary. It’s the New Year’s after all, don’t trouble the hotel with that."
"Uhh..."
"I’ll ask you one more time, think carefully before you answer, are you really clean in your dealings with the loan company?"
"I am clean."
"Sigh, why won’t you tell the truth? Haven’t you thought about it, you clearly went home to use the bathroom, so how come in the blink of an eye you ended up in a strange hotel? How does lying to me benefit you?"
"Ah..." The broker broke out in a sweat, but his mouth remained stubborn, struggling futilely, "I’m telling the truth, I’m innocent with them."
"When people lie, there are physiological reactions not controlled by reason. These are controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Why do you think the lie detector tests heart rate and pulse if not for this? So, you’re lying."
Actually, it was Fungus who had been monitoring his physiological reactions all along, which was much more precise than any lie detector.
The next second, the broker’s breathing was choked off.
"...Ah!"
The broker’s face turned crimson in an instant, his eyes bulged out. No one was holding his neck, but he couldn’t breathe in even a single breath of fresh air.
Ye Nai choked him for ten seconds before relaxing control, allowing him to take a deep breath and half-cling back to life.
"Ready to tell the truth now?"
The broker hung his head low and gasped for air but found himself only able to catch half a breath, feeling as if death was near, tears uncontrollably streaming down.
But from Ye Nai’s perspective, looking down from a superior position, it was clear to see the other’s eyelids rapidly moving around, betraying his restlessness.
"You see, eyes darting around—a clear sign you really want to die."
"No, please don’t! I’ll talk! I’ll talk!!!"
The broker, terrified, jumped around like a shrimp, crying hoarsely and begging for his life.
"Speak up, what’s your relationship with the loan company?"
"It’s just a business relationship. I bring them clients, and I get a commission based on how much they loan out."
"No other relationship?"
"No other relationship, really. I was just after the money."
"Why exactly did you want them to switch funds?"
"I just wanted them to lose money, then take out loans, so I could get my commission."
"But what if they don’t borrow from Beiling?"
"No issue there; I already get my commission from the fund side when they switch."
"So, you profit from both ends, but that couple loses at both ends."
"I’m trying to make money."
"Okay, you can rest now."
Having said that, Ye Nai stowed the broker in Space. With Fungus protecting him, he wouldn’t die anytime soon.
Afterwards, she sorted through the captives in her space and pulled out the best-dressed young man, threw him onto the room’s carpet with his hands tied behind his back, and removed everything on him.
The moment she pulled out the phone, it started ringing, showing several missed calls upon closer inspection.
It looked like they had noticed that people were missing upstairs and were making calls to look for them.
Ye Nai ignored it, threw the phone aside, and waited for the ring to stop on its own.
Not being able to get through was exactly right, it indicated that something had happened.
After putting away the phone, Ye Nai looked down at the man on the carpet and began to act, loosened his belt, and pulled his pants down to his knees.
Surprisingly, inside the sturdy trousers was a pair of smooth, snow-white thighs, hairless and tender-skinned. Ye Nai even felt inferior.
The purple, tight boxers highlighted his buttocks and there was a bulge in the front, a very promising sight.
There was an inviting beauty to it.
As the person slowly regained consciousness, Ye Nai controlled his breathing so he could talk but didn’t have the strength to make a loud fuss in the room.
"Hey, wake up, stop playing dead." Ye Nai crouched down and forcefully slapped the man’s face. "If you want to play dead, I’ll let you die for real."
"No, don’t kill me, I’ll tell you anything you want," the young man immediately opened his eyes and pleaded.
"With you dressed so well, what do you do at Beiling Credit?"
"Err..."
"Thinking of fooling me? Fine, take your time to fabricate."
Without giving the man a chance to hesitate, Ye Nai chuckled softly and the man immediately started gasping for air.
After suffocating him for five or six seconds, Ye Nai let him catch two breaths of fresh air.
"Got your story ready?"
The man’s expression was one of sheer panic, his eyes brimming with tears, looking like he was about to cry.