Building The Perfect Harem With My Heavenly Desire System-Chapter 18: The Mysterious Woman’s Identity

Chapter 18

"Come in."

The baby-faced girl gestured for him to move forward, then turned and walked away. Alex took a deep breath to steel himself and pushed the door open.

Inside an extremely beautiful woman, who was dressed in a red elegant dress that hugged her lovely curves, paired with black high heels that made her already long beautiful legs even longer, was sitting lazily on the comfy couch while holding a cigarette close to her soft lips.

The woman lifted her eyes and pointed at the seat opposite her, signalling for him to take a seat. Alex nodded and walked over to take his seat.

As he sat down, Alex couldn’t help but notice that even the couch felt extremely soft. So much so that he felt like never standing up from that chair ever in his life. Shaking his head to clear away the distracting thought, he finally asked the question that had been bugging him.

"So why did you summon me? You should know I had classes today and they were really important."

The woman flashed a faint amused smirk and crossed one leg over the other.

"I think you’re forgetting something, I don’t need a reason to call what is mine. But alas, in this case I do need you for something important."

"Ok so what is it?"

"Later today, there is going to be a gathering of various influential and powerful people in the city, basically the big shots and elites. During the gathering, I am to compete with my rival, Marcus Gordon, the second largest underworld kingpin in this city— in a gambling game for something very important. We are both going to choose someone who is going to represent us. Now that’s where you come in. I need you to help me win the game."

Alex heart skipped a beat.

’Wait... Did she just say rival with Marcus Gordon? The second largest underground kingpin in the city. That must mean.... She’s Nyx! The third largest underworld ruler.’

His body shivered with unease. He had heard tales about this powerful woman from his friends in his past life.

From what he knew, in the city there were currently three underworld rulers, the first was a mysterious man who went by the name Tiger lord. He commanded a great deal of power, so much so, that even the top big shots in the city were slightly wary of him. Followed by Marcus Gordon, who was known as a cruel and calculating tyrant, who had used his wits and ingenious method to arrive at where he was currently.

The last but not the least of them all was Nyx, the only female queenpin who had managed to carve a name for herself through blood. Even though she was third on the list, Nyx was by no means weaker than the previous two, rumors had it that she had the backing of a mysterious behemoth from the capital. And now... he was actually working for that Nyx.

Alex quickly cursed his luck for getting involved with such a powerful person. But what was done was already done. There was no backing out now. His only hope was to grow stronger, but a faint sense of doubt crept in, telling him how impossible it was for him to think of growing stronger than an underworld ruler, who even bigshots feared.

Alex shook his head, no! He could do this, he literally had a system and various cheats that no one else had. If even he couldn’t surpass them with what he had, then who else could.

Nyx’s sudden voice brought him out of his thoughts.

"Did you hear what I just said?" She questioned, while staring intently at him.

"Oh Uhmm yeah... You said that you needed me to help represent you in the bet later today, right?"

She nodded, slightly satisfied that he had been paying attention.

"Yes, I need you to help me win. But know I do not tolerate failures, so for your sake I hope you can perform like how you did the previous night. If not..."

Nyx took a slow drag from her cigarette before continuing.

"If not, I will assume that you are no longer useful to me. And I don’t need to explain what happens to things that aren’t useful to me."

Even though what she said was a threat, Alex remained calm, after all He basically knew that winning any betting game was going to be a piece of cake, since he had his amazing cheat— profit instinct. But the only thing to be careful of, was to avoid overusing it, since that was what caused him to get an extremely painful headache, last time.

"Sure. But what about my five million dollars? You know, the one I won from the casino. Aren’t you supposed to send it? Afterall you literally assured me yesterday that you would send it."

Nyx’s fingers paused slightly with the cigarette resting between them as a thin trail of smoke drifted up. She narrowed her eyes a bit and repeated in a neutral voice.

"Your five million?"

Alex nodded.

"Yes. I hope you’re not planning on going back on your word."

"I am a woman of my word, I will make sure you receive your money"

She tapped her cigarette lightly against the ashtray.

"Though that will be after you’ve helped me to win."

Alex was flabbergasted and at the same time furious. How dare she go back on her word? This wasn’t the agreement. He wanted to protest, to shout that this wasn’t right, but then he quickly calmed down after remembering the vast difference in social status and power between the two of them. So he had no choice but to grit his teeth and accept it.

"Good then, I’m glad you’re okay with that... Now I had my people buy you a tux, go change out of that cheap clothes, I don’t like my people looking... Unkempt around me."

Alex’s mouth twitched a bit. Unkempt?! His clothes literally looked really good... ok maybe slightly good, but hey! It wasn’t his fault, okay. Being a struggling student was really hard.

Knock! Knock!

Suddenly a soft knock came from the door.

"Enter."

A pretty female attendant with brunette hair stepped in, she was dressed in a fitted suit and had a calm straight face. In her hands was a large matte-black box.

She walked toward Alex and stopped at a respectful distance. For a brief second, a faint blush crossed her cheeks as she looked at him, but she quickly composed herself and opened the box.

Inside it, lay a perfectly tailored black tuxedo, that looked really smooth and expensive under the dim lighting.

After placing the box down, the attendant bowed respectfully and quickly scurried off.

Nyx finally stood up and walked away, not before leaving a parting remark.

"I’ll give you some space to change. Hurry up, we will soon be leaving."

After she was gone. Alex looked at the tux in front of him. He didn’t really feel like wearing it even though it looked nice, he preferred something casual, but he guessed he just had to wear it, so that the wicked woman would be satisfied.

He began changing, after he was done, Alex walked over to the mirror at the side of the room to check himself out. What he saw made him click his tongue with satisfaction. He looked extremely dashing.

Suddenly...

Knock! Knock!

"Are you done?" Nyx’s impatient voice drifted from outside the door.