Sitting on the sofa were none other than Moon Shadow and Flowing Shadow.
In that battle at the Dark Shadow headquarters, Xiao Yi had died, Flowing Shadow had nearly lost a leg, and Moon Shadow had barely escaped with his life. Sack couldn't accept that the nameless one had been cloned and Jiao Ying had become a vegetable, so despite his wounds not healing, he had escaped back to M Continent and now no one knew how he was doing.
Jiao Ying looked at Flowing Shadow's two legs propped up on the table case with slight displeasure in her eyes, and said coldly, "Feet, take them down."
Flowing Shadow fiddled with the darts in his hand and didn't move.
Before Jiao Ying could speak again or take action, Moon Shadow reached out and patted Flowing Shadow's legs, then stood up himself.
Only then did Flowing Shadow reluctantly take his legs down.
Jiao Ying: "Have you found Diamond J yet?"
Of the five top-ranking members of Dark Shadow, Diamond J had never shown up from beginning to end, not even seen when the leader of Dark Shadow had died.
She had lain in bed as a vegetable for over half a year, but still hadn't seen the other party take the opportunity to come for her life. Even though she had completely withdrawn from Dark Shadow, it was impossible not to hear any news about him at all.
Jiao Ying had once suspected that Diamond J was already dead.
But Moon Shadow and the others were very certain that the man wasn't dead.
Moon Shadow: "In C Country, we've only found out so far that he has some connection with the Royal Family, nothing else is known."
They had spent half a year just to uncover this little trace of him.
C Country? Royal family?
What a coincidence, damn it.
Jiao Ying cursed under her breath.
Moon Shadow: "Is there a problem?"
Jiao Ying: "No."
Moon Shadow: "When are you planning to set off?"
Jiao Ying: "You guys go first."
No matter whether Diamond J was hiding in fear of death or had truly withdrawn completely from Dark Shadow, she was going to kill this man herself, with her own hands.
Flowing Shadow: "What about you?"
Jiao Ying poured herself a glass of water and sat down on the single sofa to the left, "I have classes, no time. There's still half a month left of winter vacation."
Flowing Shadow: "Classes? What are you studying? Your ability is on par with Blood Shadow already, do you still need to study? Who can still teach you?"
With her skills, even the top-ranked assassin organization couldn't teach her anymore, let alone those inferior ones.
Jiao Ying responded ambiguously with two words: "Knowledge."
Flowing Shadow was stunned, "You mean going to school? Studying?"
Jiao Ying: "What else?"
Flowing Shadow sat up straighter and asked further to confirm: "The Capital University next door?"
Jiao Ying: "Want to go take a look?"
Flowing Shadow: "......"
She was actually still a student?!
Moon Shadow couldn't help but size Jiao Ying up and down. Although she was at the age where she should be attending school, still......
With arms crossed, Flowing Shadow didn't know whether he was praising or what: "Do your teachers and classmates at school know that you can kill without batting an eye?"
No one at the school would probably dare provoke her.
Jiao Ying neither affirmed nor denied: "I'm a good student."
Flowing Shadow: "......" She did look a little like one.
Jiao Ying then spoke to Flowing Shadow in the tone of a model student advising a juvenile delinquent: "You should be studying and attending school at your age too."
Flowing Shadow raised his mechanical arm and scoffed, "You mean use this to read and write?" He clenched his fist. That expensive iron fist looked lethal just from the sight of it.
Flowing Shadow immediately smashed the fist on the table case in front that was made of some unknown material, and several cracks spread out under the iron fist.
Flowing Shadow retracted his hand and wiped his knuckles.
Jiao Ying: "Quite cool. This table costs 7.3 million. Let's collaborate on this, I'll wipe off a zero for you, I'll send you the card number later."
Flowing Shadow looked at her: "???"
After a long pause, he finally squeezed out: "Are you kidding me, why don't you just go rob it if it's 7.3 million."
Jiao Ying: "I am robbing it now."
Flowing Shadow was rendered speechless: "You!"
Robot: "It's made of Brazilian imported high-end gold sandstone marble. This table has a market price of 9 million."
Jiao Ying followed up: "It's less now."
Moon Shadow patted Flowing Shadow on the shoulder and said to Jiao Ying: "I'll transfer it to you later. We'll be on our way first. Contact us when you get there."
Flowing Shadow: "Transfer what, I won't pay her randomly shouted price!"
Moon Shadow didn't say anything, just signaled with his eyes for him to leave.
Still fuming, Flowing Shadow reluctantly left.
Jiao Ying: "Close the door."
Moon Shadow closed the door.
Jiao Ying took a sip of water and lightly opened her red lips, uttering two faint words to the robot that had come up to her: "Profiteer."
Not just profiteering, even spuriously talking nonsense to scam people with a straight face.
The robot replied to her in Qin Hanyue's voice, "Thank you darling for the praise."
Jiao Ying hooked the corner of her lips upwards and placed her hand on its head, lightly patting like patting a child's head.
Half a month later,
winter vacation arrived as scheduled.
A private plane flying from Capital City to C Country took off.
On the plane, Jiao Ying was lying on the luxurious sofa, resting her head on Qin Hanyue's legs, with a soft blanket covering her head too.
The laptop was placed on the sofa armrest while Qin Hanyue acted as a pillow and handled company affairs at the same time.
She was a light sleeper, and he tried his best not to type on the keyboard or make any noise, let alone move around.
Fourth Master was crouching on the side, secretly glancing at Qin Hanyue, and once again wanted to get up and come over to Jiao Ying when Qin Hanyue wasn't paying attention. But Qin Hanyue seemed to have an extra eye on his forehead and discovered it before it had even fully stood up.
Qin Hanyue gave it a look and it obediently crouched back down again.
The person lying on his legs suddenly moved a little, but soon stilled again. Not long after, her head turned again. She wasn't sleeping well.
Qin Hanyue realized something. He gently lifted the blanket covering her head to take a look. Sure enough, her brows were tightly knitted, caught in a nightmare.
"Little Ying?"
"Little Ying?"
Qin Hanyue placed a hand on her face to forcibly wake her up.
Jiao Ying woke up from the nightmare with eyes wide open.
"Little Ying." Qin Hanyue brushed aside the hair on her forehead, and felt her cold sweaty forehead, lightly caressing it in a soothing manner.
She slowly exhaled the breath she had been holding in her trachea, and only then did she return to reality. Then she sat straight up, her entire being somewhat weary, shoulders slumped as she sat for a few seconds.
Fourth Master immediately ran over to her, whining worriedly.
Jiao Ying turned around and leaned her head against the back of the sofa. All the strength in her body seemed to have left her and she looked even thinner.
Her long hair cascaded down, covering her face. She just sat there like that, adjusting and calming her mood.
Qin Hanyue went over and sat closer to her, placing his big hand on her head and gently asked, "Had a nightmare?"
"I'm here." Qin Hanyue said softly to comfort her.
After quietly staying still for a moment, she suddenly moved and threw herself into Qin Hanyue's embrace, her small face buried in his shoulder.
Qin Hanyue hugged her securely, bowed his head to kiss her, then patiently stroked her back again and again with his big palm.
After a good while, Qin Hanyue asked, "Feeling better?"
She didn't respond. Then after a moment came the muffled words, "You smell so nice." Her voice was stifled in his shoulder.
Qin Hanyue thought he had misheard. "I smell nice?"
Her head moved. She nuzzled into his neck again.
He had this inexplicable cool scent on him that wasn't artificial perfume. It smelled very comfortable and went perfectly with that mature masculine aura of his, making one feel at ease.
Seeing her actions, Qin Hanyue smilingly asked, "Can smell what scent it is now?"
