Chapter 29: The White Deer Appears

“You… why did you stand me up on our blind date?”

That one line left Lin Xun utterly dumbfounded.

“Stand you up? I… I don’t even remember going on a blind date with you!”

The girl studied his face carefully again, as if reconfirming.

“My name is Lu Caiyi. August 12th, 1:30 p.m., at the Teahouse. I waited an hour for you…”

Lin Xun suddenly recalled—that was the day his mother arranged a blind date, and he skipped out on it.

And now, here stood the very woman he was supposed to meet… in the Intelligence Division.

So this Lu Caiyi—was she also an Apostle? An official Apostle? And a colleague in the same division?

“What are the odds…” He forced a smile, rubbing his temple before finally saying, “That whole situation… it’s a long story, really.”

It took quite a while for Lin Xun to fully explain the misunderstanding and his absence that day.

When Lu Caiyi finished listening, she looked surprised.

“I really am sorry about the blind date…” Lin Xun added sincerely.

Seeing how earnest he looked, the displeasure in her heart melted away.

But her thoughts drifted back to earlier that morning…

—

Special Office of the Public Security Bureau, Wen City.

Top floor of a three-story building, Team Leader’s office.

A burly middle-aged man with a full beard looked across the table at the girl in white, speaking with heartfelt gravity.

“Yiyi, I’ve treated you pretty well, haven’t I?”

Lu Caiyi nodded obediently. Not just Team Leader Wang—the entire Armed Division treated her very kindly.

As one of the few women in the Armed Division, she was undeniably beautiful, had an incredible figure, and was soft-spoken and sweet. To call her the team’s little darling would be no exaggeration.

“You know, our Armed Division is the largest aside from the Surveillance Division, but even we can’t handle the Intelligence Division poaching from us like this!”

Lu Caiyi nodded quickly.

“They’ve been stealing our core Apostles one after another—I haven’t slept a wink for days. And those women have the nerve to call it ‘routine personnel transfers’…”

More nodding, chicken-pecking-style.

“Yiyi, your mission this time is simple. Being backup muscle is secondary—your main job is to go over to the Intelligence Division… and poach someone for us!”

He clenched his fist and grinned. “This is what we call ‘using the enemy’s own tactics against them!’”

???

Lu Caiyi had been nodding along, but the more she heard, the more wrong it sounded.

“Team Leader Wang, you want me to… poach someone? From the Intelligence Division?” She pointed at herself, wide-eyed.

“That’s right! They showed us no mercy, so don’t blame me for being ruthless,” Wang said, grinning wide. “At first, I thought of sending one of our handsome guys to infiltrate. But then I thought—hell, that’s like tossing meat buns at a dog, never to return!”

“So I went the other way and sent you instead. Makes perfect sense, right?”

“Become besties with them, let them know how good the Armed Division is—benefits, culture, perks, you name it. Subtly brainwash them. And when the time’s ripe… I’ll reel them in!”

Dear lord… Lu Caiyi was stunned by Team Leader Wang’s bizarre logic.

So this was why other departments called the Armed Division “strength-stat dumpers.” It wasn’t a compliment—it meant the division dumped all its stat points into brute force.

Team Leader Wang really had a Strength-only build—zero points in Intelligence.

“Haha! Isn’t this a great plan…”

—

Back in the present, Lu Caiyi recalled Team Leader Wang’s passionate speech. Her heart was in turmoil.

Yiyi, maybe he was just angry. Don’t take it seriously, she told herself.

Maybe he was just venting about the Intelligence Division poaching talent, not actually asking me to go steal someone in return…

But his serious expression didn’t feel like a joke.

And asking her to steal one of those cunning female veterans? That was just asking for failure.

Between two evils, choose the lesser.

Compared to approaching those clever and sly ladies, maybe it was better to go for this rookie guy.

After all… he had originally been her blind date. That made him, by extension, “half a member of the Armed Division,” right?

That was totally fair.

After thinking it through, she clenched her fists and summoned her courage.

“L-Lin Xun… could I get your contact info?”

As soon as the words left her lips, her face burned with embarrassment.

Lin Xun, seeing her shy and bashful expression, took out his phone and exchanged contact info with her.

Just normal coworker networking… this girl in white sure was timid.

Lu Caiyi exhaled deeply, her eyes curving into a bright smile.

Ding~ The elevator doors opened.

Ye Xiaoqi poked her head out from the third floor—and the sight before her immediately made her eyes narrow.

That was the Armed Division’s enforcer with the codename “White Deer”… standing before Lin Xun with a bashful expression?

Ye Xiaoqi narrowed her gaze. Her womanly intuition screamed—something’s up between these two!

“Lin Xun, Team Leader Li wants to see you.”

She walked straight to the couch and sat down beside White Deer, locking eyes on Lu Caiyi with sharp scrutiny.

Lu Caiyi immediately lowered her head like a guilty cat, pretending to be engrossed in her book.

Lin Xun nodded, stepped into the elevator, and headed up to the team leader’s office.

There, Li Xingyue sat on the sofa, her black pencil skirt perfectly outlining her elegant, curvaceous figure.

The superior officer said nothing. She simply picked up her phone and sent a text.

Moments later, Lin Xun’s phone vibrated—an SMS notification from the bank. 50,000 yuan deposited.

He blinked. Payment? But today was just his first day—far from payday.

Li Xingyue’s gaze was heavy with unspoken meaning.

Lin Xun was momentarily lost, thoughts racing.

Then she rested her chin on one hand, her long legs crossed beneath the taut stretch of black stockings, and said coolly:

“This is your reward for killing the ‘Jester’… and saving Agent Zero.”