Melody Strikes Back by Myra Walker (Chapters 431, 432, 433, 434, and 435) 

Chapter 431

Ulric was clearly saying that Melody was ugly.

Melody sneered in her heart. The scar had existed on her for too long. Even if it was mentioned by Ulric, she was already used to it. However, she vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Melody was about to speak when she heard Ken chuckle softly. Then, he said to Ulric in the tone of an elder, “Ulric, you can only grow up when you find bickering meaningless.” Ulric’s face darkened. He clenched his fists tightly on the wheelchair, and a vicious expression instantly appeared on his gentle face.

However, Ken did not care about Ulric’s expression at all. He directly pulled Melody out.

“Ken! Let’s see how mature you are!” Ulric’s exasperated voice came from behind.

Melody could not help but glance at Ken in admiration. For a moment, she automatically ignored the fact that Ken had interlocked fingers with her.

After getting into the car, Melody could not help but praise,” You’re really good. You’re the first person I’ve seen who can anger him and make him reveal his true form.”

Ken looked at her deeply. “You know him well.”

Melody choked. She knew that she had unintentionally revealed something.

“I

This was because according to the development of this life, she shouldn’t know Ulric so well, let alone what his original form” was.

Melody coughed dryly and changed the topic. “Ulric is a little strange today. Previously, every time he saw me, his tone was normal, but today, he doesn’t seem to care about my thoughts at all.”

“What do you mean?”

Melody thought for a moment and said, “I have a feeling that he’s going to deal with us… Only a hypocrite would tear off his disguise when facing a dead person, right?”

Ken tightened his grip on the steering wheel. “Don’t worry. When I’m not around, James will be watching you 24/7.”

Melody nodded. “I’m not worried about myself. I just have a bad feeling.”

Ken was silent for a while. He held the steering wheel tightly with one hand and dialed James with the other.

After the call went through, he went straight to the point. Get the people lurking around Ulric to keep a close eye on him. If he does anything abnormal, let me know immediately.”

“Yes.” After the call ended, Melody’s tense heart relaxed slightly.

She handed the check in her hand to Ken. “I’ll return this to you.”

Ken did not take it. Without even looking up, he said, “Your father-in-law gave you a meeting gift. Why are you giving it to me?”

Melody choked and said, “If you say that, I’ll cash the check immediately.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the car stopped in front of a bank. “Get out.”

A question mark slowly appeared in Melody’s mind.

Ken tilted his head and looked at the entrance of the bank. He reminded her, “Hurry up and cash it in before Ramon cancels the check.”

Melody’s lips twitched. “Are you serious?”

“Do I look like I’m joking? Hurry up and go. I’ll take 30% and you take 70%.”

Melody thought, ‘As expected of you, you evil capitalist.’ Melody gritted her teeth and quickly got out of the car to cash the check. Then, she gave 6 million dollars to him.

Melody buckled her seatbelt and said, “Ken, I’ve realized that you’re a decent person. You actually gave me the money.”

Ken looked at the smiling Melody and could not help but ask, “Can you be so happy just because you have money?”

“Of course!”

“Then I’ll give you the 6 million dollars too.”

Melody looked at Ken in shock. However, Ken said with a half-smile, “Forget it. 6 million dollars is not a small sum.” Melody suddenly found Ken so annoying.

At this moment, Ken’s phone rang. It was Janet.

After listening to what Janet said, he responded, “Got it.” Then, he hung up.

Melody tactfully said, “Go do what you have to do. There’s no need to send me back. I’ll go to the nearby supermarket to buy some daily necessities.”

“There’s no need to buy daily necessities,” Ken said with a natural expression, “Move to my place.”

Before Melody could refuse, Ken added, “You have to act in full. This 14 million is your performance fee.”

Melody immediately felt that the 14 million was a little hot to keep.

Ken did not give her a chance to refuse and drove straight to Serenity Villa. “I’ll get James to send your things over later. Didn’t you think that Ulric would take action? It’s safer to stay here for the next few days.”

Melody clenched his fists. She could not find a reason to refuse.

She did have a bad feeling about Ulric.

After hesitating for two seconds, Melody took a step back and said, “Then I’ll stay on the first floor.”

“Up to you. There’s a problem with a product at Ximber Tech. I need to go take a look. I’ll try my best to rush over for the chess game.”

“It’s fine. I can handle it myself. Go ahead.”

Melody got out of the car.

By the time she walked into the villa, Susan was already making lunch.

The table was filled with dishes as if she had known that Melody would come.”

Melody thought, ‘However, I have been with Ken today. He had no time to inform Susan about this:

“Mrs. Swanson, you’re back!” Susan changed the way she addressed her very naturally. She smiled and said, “Mr. Swanson said that you’ll be staying here in the future. I specially made some meat for you. You’re so thin. You have to nourish yourself more so that you can have a fair and chubby child.”

Melody automatically ignored the second half of Susan’s sentence. She frowned and asked, “When did he tell you?” Susan did not sense that something was wrong. She said directly, “Around eight in the morning. what’s wrong?”

Melody’s expression froze. It was past eight o’clock when she was woken up by James.

She thought, ‘Ken has actually guessed that I was going to move in at that time? Why do I feel like… I have fallen into Ken’s trap? But he doesn’t seem to have the reason to set a trap for me just to let me live here…’

The more Melody thought about it, the more her head hurt. Her thoughts were like a ball of yarn. The more she thought about it, the more confused she became.

On the other side, at Ximber Tech’s conference room, Janet pointed at the product report and said, “The test users are very dissatisfied with the remote control and surveillance function of our product. They are worried that their personal data will be transmitted to our company and leak privacy. So I think… it’s better for us to cancel this function.” Sid disagreed. “This function was a technical hurdle that we spent more than a year to break through. We spent more than a year developing this function. Are you going to cancel it just like that?”

The two argued for a long time before looking at Ken at the same time. However, Ken was looking out of the window without any focus. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly as if he were in a good mood.

Janet instantly frowned. As far as she could remember, Ken had never been distracted in a meeting before.

She thought, ‘Something is off. It wasn’t just during meetings. No matter what he did, he never got distracted. Could it be that he is thinking about Melody?”

Anger surged in her chest. Janet could not take it anymore and knocked her fingers on the table. “Ken?”

Only then did Ken look away. Janet took a deep breath and tried her best to remain calm as she asked, “Did you hear what we just said?”

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Ken felt the gazes from Janet and Sid. His expression did not change as he naturally continued Sid’s words. “Sid is right. This function is a technical hurdle that we’ve finally broken through with great difficulty. We’ve already applied for a patent. It’s one of our important selling points.

“If we remove this function, many of our products are no different from the smart products on the market now.

“However, since the users have doubts, we need to resolve them. Our cloud disk must be upgraded to the highest and safest level before it officially goes on the market, and we have to ensure that the user information received by the system will never be leaked.

“That’s what you’re gonna do next, Janet.”

Ken arranged the work in an orderly manner. This made Janet even suspect whether Ken had gone offline just now. Janet lowered her eyes and said, “But our S-grade product will soon enter the final development process. I might not have that much time to deal with it…”

She brought this up today so that she would have less work to do and more time to deal with Melody and win Ken’s heart.

If work piled up on her again, not to mention Ken’s heart, she might not even have time to eat and sleep.

Ken looked at Janet in confusion. “There’s still a lot of time before this series of products goes on the market, didn’t ask you to complete everything in a day. Compared to when the company first started, you still have plenty of time.”

Janet gritted her teeth and took out her trump card. “But I still have to find time to treat my illness.”

As soon as she said this, she saw Ken slowly frown.

After two seconds of silence, Ken said, “No matter what, your health is more important. Focus on recuperating first. As for work… Zack will be working in our company soon. At

that time, he can help you share a lot of work.”

“Zack?” Janet’s eyes flashed with surprise.

If Ken had not been mentioned, she would have forgotten about Zack.

There had been no news from Zack. She thought that Melody had failed to poach him. She did not expect that it was still in progress.

She thought, ‘In order to win Ken’s favor, that bitch has surely been persevering.’

Janet pursed her lips and said with a faint smile, “Rather than waiting for Melody to poach Zack, it’s better to transfer more people from overseas headquarters. Otherwise, I really don’t know how long we’ll have to wait…”

“Don’t worry,” Ken said confidently, “She’ll be able to poach Zack soon.

Janet shrugged noncommittally. She thought, ‘We’ll see about that.’

Sid, who had been silent all this while, suddenly said, “Ken, will Zack really come to our company? Ever since I went to the hospital for a checkup, I’ve been recuperating. I’m afraid I can’t work overtime as often as before.”

Ken said, “Let’s wait. I believe in Melody’s ability.”

Janet could not help but say, “I trust Melody’s medical skills, but poaching people has little to do with medical skills, right? If you really want Zack to come over, we’d better find a professional headhunting company. We can’t place all our bets on her alone.”

Sid was silent for a while before saying, “Janet is right. Melody is very smart, but we really need to poach Zack…” Ken rubbed his temples in frustration and said, “Give her two more days. If she still can’t poach Zack in two days, I’ll personally look for a headhunting company.”

When Janet heard this, she secretly smiled.

She thought, ‘Two days? Unless Melody was immortal, she couldn’t poach Zack Nelson in such a short period of time.’ “Let’s continue the meeting.” Ken flipped through the documents in his hand. “Regarding product X-series…”

*****

At Serenity Villa.

The chess match was at two in the afternoon. James packed up all of Melody’s things and sent them over at almost one o’clock.

Melody looked at the pile of things and could not help but smile. “Why did you even pack the napkins?”

James shrugged. “This is all Mr. Swanson’s orders. In case you leave something behind and need to retrieve it again, I might as well take everything.”

However, James was also very puzzled. He thought, ‘Didn’t Miss Fox come over to stay temporarily for “acting”? Why did Mr. Swanson insist on not leaving anything behind?’

Melody was speechless, but the competition time was coming up soon. She did not have time to pack her luggage, so she could only leave this job to Susan.

Susan happily said, “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely arrange everything neatly for you before you come back.”

Melody nodded. She changed into navy blue clothes and asked James to drive her.

James introduced the competition to her as he drove, There are two different types of chess games going on today. Zack is very interested in both of them. I’m not sure which one he will participate in, so I signed you up for both. However, our focus is not on the game to begin with. You just have to find a chance to talk to him.”

Melody hummed softly and looked out of the window.

She thought, ‘Is it really the right decision to cooperate with Ken and act as a loving couple? Why do I feel a little anxious? Why do I like that I have jumped from one fire pit to another? Am I thinking too much?”

Melody pinched the space between her eyebrows and forced herself to focus on Zack. As for the rest, she would think about it after she poached Zack.

At the same time, over at the Swanson villa.

After Melody and Ken left, Ulric was extremely frustrated. However, he quickly calmed down and called his

subordinate to the room to give orders, “This operation is only allowed to succeed. Failure is not allowed. If it fails, none of you can come back.”

“Yes!” Everyone lowered their heads and their bodies were extremely tense.

One of the subordinates hesitated for a moment and boldly confirmed, “Mr. Swanson, are we really going to do this? The number of people at the competition venue is probably more than we expected… If we really do that, many innocent people will lose their lives. One more thing… I’ve investigated and found that the business genius you want to rope in, Zack Nelson, will also be at the competition venue.”

“Zack?” Ulric frowned. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier that he would be at the scene?”

The subordinate lowered his head nervously and said, “He was still in a meeting outside the city a few days ago. We thought that he wouldn’t be able to make it back in time. Even if he did, he probably wouldn’t have the time to go to such an occasion. But who would have thought that… when I was confirming the list of participants just now, his name appeared on it.”

The subordinate paused for a moment and continued, “Our people are in contact with Zack. He has the intention to leave his current company… In that case, if he dies there, it will be a huge loss for us.”

There seemed to be a deeper meaning in Ulric’s eyes.

He thought, ‘No wonder Melody suddenly wanted to participate in the chess competition. It turns out that she is aiming for Zack. Once Melody poaches Zack for Ken, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to me. This Melody… She has to die.’

Ulric said solemnly, “Try your best to stop Zack. Don’t let him go to the competition venue. As for the others, whether they live or die will depend on their luck.”

The viciousness in his eyes made his subordinates tremble in fear. They said, YES!

Chapter 433

As Ulric’s men quietly left the manor, Astrid entered Ramon’s study with a cup of coffee. As soon as she entered, she smelled strong smoke.

Astrid could not help but frown. She walked in a few steps and took the cigarette between Ulric’s fingers.

She asked knowingly, “Why are you smoking again? You’ve quit smoking for a long time… Don’t tell me Ken doesn’t agree to the divorce?”

As soon as Astrid said this, Ramon’s expression darkened. She pretended to be surprised and asked, “Ken really didn’t agree? When our mother asked him to marry Melody, I saw he was quite resistant to it. Could it be that Melody really attracted him in some way?”

Ramon took a deep breath and suppressed his anger. “That’ s impossible! The reason why he refused to get a divorce was to deliberately go against me! It’s impossible for a sane man in this world to like that Melody.”

Astrid looked down and said, “Ken’s words might be a little unpleasant sometimes, but hasn’t his personality always been like this? How can there be a problem between you and him? How about this? I’ll call him over again and have a good chat with you.”

“There’s no need for that!” Ramon said coldly, “Let the media spread the news again. Tell them that Melody forced us to let her in through the threat of a previous agreement between our family and her family. The daughter-in-law that our family really wants is Mabel, not Melody.”

Astrid was overjoyed, but her expression did not reveal

anything. “Alright, I understand.”

She was about to leave when Ramon suddenly stopped her.

“Are you sure Mabel can really join Ander’s scientific research team?”

For some reason, Ken’s last sentence, “Don’t expect too much from Mabel”, made Ramon feel a little uneasy.

Astrid quickly replied, “I’m very sure of that. Ander also went to the Fox family personally to let Mabel complete the question he set as soon as possible. I also checked later. Out of the ten students selected by the school, Ander only went to the Fox family. This is enough to show that Mabel is valued highly by Ander.”

Ramon heaved a sigh of relief. “That’s good. I don’t want to invite another piece of trash into our family after we chase away one. If there’s a mistake, it will affect the Swanson family’s reputation greatly.”

“I understand. I can vouch for Mabel. She can definitely join Ander’s laboratory.”

Ramon nodded. “Then I’m relieved. I’ll leave Melody’s matter to you. I’m a little tired today and want to rest.”

“Okay.” Astrid cared about Ramon and did not stay any longer. Soon, she called the media under Time Entertainment and asked them to spare no effort to continue defaming Melody online.

Astrid thought, ‘In this way, even if Melody died, everyone would only think that she deserved it. People will only suffer retribution for asking for things they shouldn’t have!”

*****

At the same time, Melody was on her way to the competition venue.

There was usually no traffic jam at this time, but when the car crossed the bridge, the road was congested.

James said as he unbuckled his seatbelt, “I’ll go down and see what’s going on.”

“Okay.” Melody didn’t think too much about it and only thought that there was a car accident ahead.

However, not long after, James ran back to report with a worried expression.

“Miss Fox, bad news. Zack’s car was rear-ended. Some people even threatened to beat him up.” James took a deep breath and added, “There are a lot of people on the other side. They look like they have undergone professional training. Moreover, they have tools in their hands. We don’t have enough people. We have to call Mr. Swanson to send someone over immediately.”

“Not enough people?”

“That’s right.” James counted the number of people. “There are only 11 of us, including the 10 bodyguards who are secretly protecting you. However, there are over two dozen people on the other side…”

Melody said as she got out of the car, “There’s no need to call anyone. I’m enough.”

As soon as she finished speaking, James suddenly remembered that Melody had previously displayed her skills in front of him.

James cursed in his heart. He had actually forgotten that Melody was even more skilled in combat than him.

While he was in a daze, Melody had already run towards the scene of the incident.

James was shocked and quickly chased after her with the bodyguards. “Miss Fox, slow down!”

He thought, ‘Even if she is skilled, it is impossible for her to defeat more than 30 people alone, right? She is still too young!’

Melody ignored James who was chasing after her and quickly arrived at the scene of the incident. When they arrived, they saw a group of people surrounding Zack. The man in the lead had a full beard and said arrogantly, “If you compensate us 200 thousand dollars, this matter will be over. Otherwise, don’t even think about leaving this place with your hands and feet intact today!”

Zack said coldly, “In your dreams!”

The man laughed and tightened his grip on the baseball bat. “Kid, do you know who we are? We’re the Death Riders! 200 thousand dollars is not a bad deal for you…”

Zack obviously did not know who the Death Riders were. He clenched his fists and said, “If you have the ability, just attack. Stop talking nonsense here!”

“Alright! Guys, break his legs!” the bearded man gave the order, and the group quickly approached Zack.

Zack was about to counterattack when a familiar voice suddenly sounded, “Stop!”

The moment that person finished speaking, the Death Riders paused and looked in the direction of the voice. Zack also subconsciously looked over.

Astonishment flashed across his eyes when he saw who it was. “Melody?”

Melody took a few steps forward and scanned the group of people fearlessly. She warned coldly, “If you don’t want to die, get lost!”

When the group of people saw that it was an ugly and thin girl, they were stunned for a moment before bursting into laughter.

The bearded man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said with disdain, “Where did this ugly monster come from? Are you blind? Look at how many of us there are! With your small body, I advise you to go back to where you came from! The stick in my hand is quite fierce!”

Zack also frowned and said, “Melody, this has nothing to do with you. Go back quickly.”

Melody ignored Zack’s words and walked up to him in a few steps. She looked at the bearded man and said, “You guys are from the Death Riders?”

The bearded man was surprised. “You know that we are the Death Riders and still dare to come up and join in the fun? You’re ugly, but you’re quite bold! If you continue to be an eyesore here, we’ll beat you up too!”

“Hurry up and leave! I can handle it myself!” Zack reminded her again and reached out to push her away.

However, Melody seemed to have eyes on her back. She accurately grabbed Zack’s wrist and said, “Go back to the car. Leave this to me.”

Zack’s eyes were filled with confusion. “Melody, are you crazy?”

Chapter 434

Zack felt a little vexed. He thought, ‘Why does this girl seem to not understand human language? These guys who call themselves the Death Riders are obviously from the hood. She would be crazy to get involved in such matters.

Thinking back to the last time he almost got into a car accident and Melody ran over and pushed him away as if she didn’t care about her life, he looked at Melody with even more confusion.

He said, “How can you deal with so many people? Don’t be stupid! I know you want to poach me, but don’t forget that life is more important than anything else! These people are capable of anything! Leave quickly!”

Melody frowned and was about to ask Zack to believe her when she heard the bearded man say, “Ugly monster; since you know that we are the Death Riders, you should know that this is not something you can get involved in. Get lost while I still have the last bit of patience!”

“Melody!” Zack anxiously urged Melody to leave.

Melody did not care about Zack anymore. She looked up at the bearded man and said, “I’m returning these words to you. If you don’t want to suffer, get lost!”

The bearded man lost all his patience. “Both of you aren’t fucking afraid of me, are you?”

Melody sneered and said, “I am not even afraid of your boss, let alone you. After your boss was beaten up by me last time, he should be in jail now. Don’t tell me you want to go in and see if the food in prison is delicious?”

The bearded man thought that Melody was just boasting and deliberately scaring them.

He said in amusement, “Idiot, you dare to say that you beat up our boss? Since you insist on getting involved, don’t blame me for hitting a woman! Guys, attack and cripple their legs!”

Following the bearded man’s order, the group quickly approached Melody and Zack.

Zack knew that Melody had completely angered this group of people. He subconsciously wanted to stand in front of her. After all, Melody was helping him.

However, just as Zack took a step forward, Melody leaped with a speed that was invisible to the naked eye and kicked two people away at the same time.

Then, before anyone could react, she quickly arrived behind the bearded man and pressed him to the ground with a grab.

With a bang, the baseball bat in the bearded man’s hand fell to the ground. Half of his face was pressed to the ground by Melody.

The man immediately let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.

One of his guys said, “What the fuck?”

Another said, “Dude!”

Zack was stunned on the spot. He thought, ‘What is going on? Melody’s figure is slender and thin, and her waist is even more slender. Where did she get her explosive power and strength from?’

The bearded man’s subordinates could not care less about Zack now. They turned around and wanted to rush towards Melody.

Melody tightened her grip and looked coldly at the people rushing towards her. “Stop right there! Otherwise, I’ll dislocate his arm immediately!”

Everyone subconsciously stopped in their tracks and looked at each other.

There were also those who hesitated and wanted to go forward. Seeing this, Melody increased her strength again. The piercing pain made the bearded man immediately shout, “Stop! Everyone, freeze! My hand is about to break!” As soon as he said this, the few people who hesitated stopped in their tracks.

Seeing this, the man endured the pain and smiled apologetically. “Little girl, I was foolish. Let go of me and I won’t pursue the rear-end collision. How about that?”

Melody ignored the man’s words. As she restrained him, she questioned coldly, “Speak! Who sent you to cause trouble for Zack!”

The bearded man’s expression froze, and a hint of guilt flashed across his eyes.

However, he immediately regained his composure and said with a smile, “Little girl, I don’t understand what you’re talking about. No one sent us here… We’re just a little tight on money and came out to find a living… What are you talking about? We don’t know Zack at all!”

“Stop pretending! Which normal person would scam in a place with so much traffic? If you don’t tell the truth, say goodbye to your arm!”

The bearded man’s face turned pale, but he still forced himself to say, “Miss, I really don’t know what you’re talking about! Let me go. I promise I won’t do such immoral things again.”

“So you still won’t tell the truth!” Melody was about to make a move when Zack bypassed the Death Riders and quickly walked behind Melody. He grabbed her hand and said, ” Miss Fox, I saw a guy going to call for help. Don’t waste time. Let’s leave now!”

Melody frowned slightly and reminded in a low voice, “Zack, they’re definitely not here for money. Their target is you.”

Zack was stunned. “I didn’t offend anyone from the underworld…”

“That’s why I need to find out who attacked you.”

Zack hesitated for a moment before confirming, “Are you sure? Could it be that you’re thinking too much and made a mistake?”

“No. Although the Death Riders are disgusting, they wouldn’t do such a thing. They’re an organization that specializes in doing shameful things for the rich and powerful.”

“Well…” Zack wondered if he had offended anyone recently.

At this moment, James finally arrived with his men.

He ran until he was out of breath. He took a few breaths

before he could speak, “Miss Fox, you were running too fast…

Zack looked at James and the others in shock. “These people are…”

Melody explained, “They are with me.”

Zack nodded and secretly estimated the number of people on his side and on the other side.

In terms of numbers, they still did not have the advantage. Fortunately, Melody held the bearded man hostage.

He said in a low voice, “It doesn’t matter if they were instructed to find trouble with me. Let’s leave now.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the bearded man suddenly shouted in ecstasy, “Boss, you’re here! Save me!” The few of them subconsciously followed the bearded man’s line of sight and saw a man wearing a helmet appear not far in front of them. Behind him were more than 20 people armed with weapons.

With more than 20 people and the original 30 people, Melody was at a great disadvantage.

“There are too many of them. Let’s run!” Zack grabbed Melody’s hand and wanted her to run with him.

However, Melody did not move at all. “Don’t worry, they won’t do anything to me.”

Hearing this, the bearded man laughed wildly. “You can’t escape anymore! If you want to suffer less, let go of me quickly and kneel down to apologize to me!”

Melody kicked the man’s butt. “Shut up!”

“You-” The bearded man was furious. However, he was pinned to the ground by Melody. He could not exert any strength at all and could not break free.

He gritted his teeth and shouted at the group of people who were getting closer and closer, “Boss! Save me!”

“Useless trash. Even a woman…” The man in the helmet was halfway through his sentence when his gaze landed on Melody. His voice instantly stopped. “You…”

Chapter 435

The man was wearing a helmet. For a moment, he thought that he had recognized the wrong person.

After a moment of shock, he quickly took off his helmet and looked at Melody again.

This time, he was completely sure that this woman was the woman who had caused him so much pain on the mountain back then. He was shocked to bump into her again.

The man instantly recalled the pain at that time. Fear spread to his limbs and bones like ants.

However, the bearded man was pressed to the ground and could not see the expression on the man’s face. He only shouted, “Boss, I’m useless. Hurry up and save me… She’s going to dislocate my arm!”

“Miss Fox…” James lowered his voice and said, “I didn’t expect them to have more people. We are outnumbered. Let’s retreat first…”

Zack quickly nodded in agreement. “Melody, I know you’ve reached out to help me, but there are too many people on the other side. Let’s not take this loss.”

Melody did not respond to the two of them. She let go of the bearded man who was trapped on the ground by her. The bearded man only thought that Melody was afraid.

He glared at Melody smugly. He got up and ran behind his boss. He pointed at Melody and scolded, “Boss, it’s this woman who ruined our plan. She even attacked me when I wasn’t paying attention! She disrespects the Death Riders. This is contempt for us. Kill her quickly!”

“Melody…” Zack and James urged again.

Melody took two steps forward and looked up at the man who had taken off his helmet to reveal his birthmark. “How have you been?” She greeted him with a faint smile.

The bearded man looked at his boss in surprise, only to see that his boss’s face was pale to the point of turning green, and his entire body seemed to be trembling slightly.

He thought, ‘What is wrong with Boss? Why does he look like he has seen a ghost?’

He tugged at his boss’s sleeve in confusion and asked tentatively, “Boss, you…”

As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped hard in the face.

With a crisp slap, not only was the bearded man stunned, but even James and Zack were stunned. They wondered what was going on.

“Boss?” The bearded man’s eyes widened in horror and confusion.

“Stupid pig! How dare you talk nonsense to Miss Fox! Hurry up and kneel down and apologize to Miss Fox!” The man ordered sternly.

The bearded man was even more dumbfounded. “Boss, are you serious? You want me to…”

Before he could finish, the birthmark guy kicked the bearded man in the stomach.

The bearded man felt as if his internal organs were squeezed into a ball.

The bearded man screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood before collapsing to the ground.

Before he could recover from the pain, he saw his boss bend his knees and kneel down in front of Melody. “Miss Fox, please forgive my subordinate’s doing. I’ll definitely teach him a lesson when I get back.”

The bearded man’s pupils shrunk to a point in shock. The entire Death Riders usually didn’t dare to speak too loudly in front of their boss, but now, their boss actually knelt down in front of Melody. He was greatly shocked by it. James and Zack were no less shocked than the bearded man.

Zack stared deeply at Melody. He secretly wondered who she was to be able to make the leaders of this group of people disregard their dignity and kneel down to her.

However, James quickly remembered the birthmark guy.

He thought, ‘This guy has been taught a lesson by Melody on the way down from Sky City. But later on, I clearly sent him to the police station. How could he still appear here?” While the two of them were having their own thoughts, the birthmark guy had already apologized to Melody several times. “Miss Fox, please let me go this time… I really know my mistake this time. I won’t do bad things again!”

Melody said with a disgusted expression, “You’ve said this once before. Do you think I’ll believe you again?”

The birthmark guy immediately raised his finger. “I swear to God, it’s true this time!”

Melody snorted coldly and said, “I can trust you again. Come here.”

She crooked a finger at the birthmark guy.

The birthmark guy was about to walk towards Melody.

When the bearded man saw this, he ignored the pain in his stomach and hugged his leg. “Boss, why are you so obedient to a little girl?”

The birthmark guy’s expression turned cold as he kicked him again. “What little girl? This is Miss Fox! If you dare to say anything bad about Miss Fox again, I’ll cripple you immediately!”

The bearded man grimaced from the kick. He suddenly recalled what Melody had said earlier.

He thought, ‘This ugly monster said that she had beaten up Boss. Could it be true?’

“Get over here!” Melody urged coldly, “I have something to ask you!”

The birthmark guy gritted his teeth and braced himself to walk forward. He smiled apologetically. “Miss Fox…”

Melody lowered her voice and asked expressionlessly,” Shouldn’t you be in jail? Why did you suddenly attack Zack in such a place? Who released you from jail? Did that person instruct you to attack Zack?”

The birthmark guy’s heart was in turmoil. He was hesitating if he should tell the truth.

Melody smiled gently and said, “Looks like the lesson I taught you last time wasn’t enough…”

When the birthmark guy heard this, his back suddenly stiffened.

He did not want to experience that feeling of living a life worse than death ever again in his life. He would rather go back to prison.

At the thought of this, the birthmark guy gritted his teeth and said, “Someone saved me, but the condition is… I have to stop Zack from participating in the competition…”

Zack looked at the birthmark guy in surprise.

He thought, ‘Melody’s guess was actually true!’

He quickly asked, “Who is it?”

The birthmark guy shook his head in confusion. “I don’t know the other party’s identity…”

“Really?” A cold glint flashed past Melody’s eyes.

The birthmark guy quickly replied in horror, “Although I don’t know the other party’s identity, I secretly took a photo of him to prevent them from setting me up later!”

As he spoke, he quickly took out his phone from his pocket and pulled out a photo. It was a man in the photo. There was only a side profile of him, but Melody recognized him in the blink of an eye.

This person was none other than Ulric’s trusted aide.

Melody narrowed her eyes and asked the birthmark guy, Did he say why you need to stop Zack?”

“He didn’t say.” The birthmark guy shook his head. He was afraid that Melody wouldn’t believe him, so he quickly added, “He really didn’t tell me. We usually don’t ask the employer for the reason when we take on jobs…” “Alright, I understand.”

“Then what now…”

Melody looked at the bearded man who was still lying on the ground. She raised her chin slightly and said, “You can leave if you cripple his legs.

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