When Yuan Yuanyuan was wiping the dagger in her hand, the man behind her turned his head.
There was a long scar on his face, and his features remained the same, but his hair had turned completely white at some point.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't turn her head, but for some reason, she knew that his hair had turned white.
The fog in the room was almost condensed into water. Yuan Yuanyuan felt that in this hazy red mist, she could know everything.
It was as if... even the people melted into the mist.
"You... are you being honest with your sister by doing this?" Yuan Yuanyuan heard the man behind her say, "My daughter... isn't very smart, so she can't see through you, but you're using the same tricks you used as a spy to deceive her? You're using all your years of experience as a spy to deceive a little girl?"
"Your daughter?" Yuan Yuanyuan sneered, "What does your daughter have to do with me?"
"You are her uncle!"
"Uncle? Your daughter? I don't remember any new relatives." Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the monster whose hair had turned completely white, and the sneer on his face became bigger and bigger. "I only have one sister. We depended on each other for survival. She is dead."
Her voice was inexplicably trembling, so she forced herself to take a breath and continued, "This kind of thing... doesn't everyone already know about it?"
Yuan Yuanyuan felt that her voice seemed to have broken when she said the last sentence.
"Then you too..." The man with white hair was obviously very angry. He suppressed his anger and said, "You are a traitor!"
"Treason?" Yuan Yuanyuan laughed again.
"How did I lie to your daughter? Why don't you tell me?" Yuan Yuanyuan walked towards the man with a curious smile. She seemed to want to listen to what the man said. "I want to hear your opinion."
As she spoke, she walked towards the man with the knife in her hand, and the knife in her hand made a light movement.
The man took a step back silently.
Yuan Yuanyuan acted as if she didn't see anything and continued walking.
For some reason, ever since the fog started to form in the house, Yuan Yuanyuan no longer felt frightened.
She didn't know why, but she felt that at this moment, in this room... she could do whatever she wanted.
Even if she leaves this room, she is still nothing, but at this moment, this place is her territory.
"If you still have a bit of sense of shame," the man said, "you'd better let my daughter go. I know you are very good at seducing girls, but would it be good to have such a reputation spread out? To avenge your sister, a younger brother seduces the child of his brother-in-law?"
After he said this, there was silence in the room for a long time.
Yuan Yuanyuan kept her head down and said nothing.
Just as the smile on the man's face gradually returned, he suddenly saw Yuan Yuanyuan in front of him raised her head and asked a question.
"Are we... related by blood?"
The smile on the man's face disappeared instantly.
He also looked at her coldly, but he didn't say anything.
"Since there is no blood relationship..." Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly walked in front of the man again, her face very close to him, "Then why are you so excited? Brother-in-law?"
"I'm warning you for the last time." The man looked at Yuan Yuanyuan, who was only a few centimeters away from him, and said, "If something happens to me here... you may not be able to get out alive."
"No matter what, my Li family is one of the oldest families in City C."
The knife in Yuan Yuanyuan's hand suddenly stopped.
"Do you think I'm really afraid of you?" Yuan Yuanyuan used the knife to gesture symmetrically on the side of his face without scars. "Can't get out alive? At worst, I'll die. I've died once, so why would I be afraid of a second time? If you have the guts, kill me now, and then hold me by my hair and show it to those people outside."
The man smiled and said, "Now you can hope that this situation will happen again."
"You're going to kill me again?"
"I will think about killing you all the time."
When he said this, he smiled very strangely.
… Just like he just said himself.
The smile on his face was very nice, but the look in his eyes made Yuan Yuanyuan feel particularly disgusted.
Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know if she was like him, with that cold light flashing in her eyes.
"So it was you who sent the box during the Chinese New Year?" Yuan Yuanyuan looked at him for a few seconds, then suddenly turned around and sat on the chair next to him. She didn't ask any more questions, "The one who sent the box..."
"Were you surprised to see him?" the man asked.
“… No, I’m not surprised.” Yuan Yuanyuan picked up the pipe that she had just knocked on the table.
"No, you will be surprised. I thought you would ask why Li Siqun became like this." The man finally laughed again, and the more he laughed, the bigger it got. "He is stupid. Do you know why? Because he has a bad fate."
"Destiny has always been a mysterious thing. Some people have a smooth journey, while others have to go through untold hardships and still cannot escape fate."
His laughter sounded very cheerful, as if he had seen something very happy. Yuan Yuanyuan listened to his laughter, but a chill slowly crept up from her fingertips.
"Am I right?" The man laughed for a while, wiped away the tears from his eyes, and said to Yuan Yuanyuan, "You have always been the one who resigns yourself to fate. I think you will agree with what I say."
Yuan Yuanyuan was silent.
She looked down and suddenly smiled softly.
"Perhaps you have been following the right path all along, getting City C to recognize the Blood Jade Demon Army, and then protecting the brooding area, cultivating the goodwill of other families, and winning over the people." The man walked to Yuan Yuanyuan's side, stroked the armrest of the chair with his hand, and said, "But it's all in vain."
"The families in City C, do you think they are all stupid?" He lowered his body and stared into Yuan Yuanyuan's eyes seriously. "Besides the Ma family, who else would support you? Why did you come back? You have always pretended to be the most indifferent, but in fact, you are obviously the darkest, most calculating, and most terrifying one among us."
"Is there anything wrong with the voices outside about you?" The man finally stood up straight and sighed deeply, as if he had won a victory. "You are a sinister and despicable person. You have been deceiving people with your seemingly harmless expression. Look at your face now, with hatred, falsehood and other negative expressions. I think you are much more suitable than me."
For a moment, the room was completely silent.
Yuan Yuanyuan just lowered her head quietly, with a faint, barely noticeable smile on her lips.
"Now, leave City C and stop bothering my daughter. I can promise you that I will not cause you any more trouble. Otherwise, I will make sure you die without a burial place."
After the man said this, he sat back on his stool.
He put on the kind smile he had when he first entered the room, put his hands on his knees, and curled up gently.
His current posture was the same as when he first came in.
Yuan Yuanyuan, on the other hand, sat in front of him without saying a word.
Her head was still lowered and she didn't raise it for a long time.
"Hey, look up and speak." After a while, the man suddenly said, "Or are you as stupid as Li Siqun and can't understand what I say at all?"
Yuan Yuanyuan in front of him lowered her head and spoke softly after a long while.
“… No… I understand… and I think you’re right.”
"This seems to be the first time you've praised me." The man gently hugged one of his knees, crossed his slender fingers together, and smiled, "I feel honored."
"Yes, that's right. I totally agree with your point of view... Especially after meeting your daughter, I understand it even better."
Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly raised her head.
The smile on her face gradually widened.
"Do you think this makes sense? Ever since I met your daughter, I suddenly understand you."
"Ah... So that's how it is. Many things are not as complicated as I thought."
"You...what are you going to do?" The man's hands suddenly dropped from his knees, and his expression suddenly became tense.
"No one can escape death." Yuan Yuanyuan took a puff of cigarette, half squinting her eyes, "My sister can't escape death, Siqun can't escape death, and I can't escape death either."
"So... adding another daughter of yours, what does it matter?"
"Do you... have to go to this extent?" the man asked in an unstable tone, "Let's talk it over. I'll let you go. Don't bother our Yumei anymore. If you're seeking revenge for your sister, there's no need to do this..."
"Who said this is entanglement?" Yuan Yuanyuan stared into his eyes and said word by word:
"I did all this out of loyalty."
"I have been dependent on my sister since I was a child." Yuan Yuanyuan didn't wait for the man to say anything, and silently exhaled a puff of cigarette, "Then I was lucky enough to join the Blood Jade Demon Army, and then joined the Spy Camp. I didn't know anything, and accidentally offended a local immortal, which cost me my life, and also caused the Spy Camp to be destroyed along with me."
"Yuan is a man with a bad heart, sinister and vicious, so he uses all means possible. This is something everyone knows. Just go to the street and find a monster... oh, you can even find a human being and ask him, am I such a person?"
"The Blood Jade Demon Army has been destroyed. I no longer have anyone to whom I owe my loyalty. So, in order to express my anger, what means can I not use?"
The man had frozen.
Yuan Yuanyuan was talking, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Hey, isn't that right? Loyalty is really a good word."
"It allows a person to kill another person without any psychological burden."
"It can also allow a person to easily kill their loved ones and then shout out their loyalty as if they are the most righteous person."
"Betrayal, seize someone's weakness and kill him with one blow. You came to me on purpose, it seems that your daughter holds a high position in your heart."
"You taught me a lot." Yuan Yuanyuan gently smoothed her hair and said to the man who was speechless, "I think I should thank you."
She finally said, "Have you told your daughter that I am Yuan? Actually, you can tell your daughter, but you should understand that my methods are not low either."
The man was about to say something else when he suddenly heard a very intense knock on the window from outside.
"Sir Li, are you in there?" A young man's voice came from outside. "The city lord has ordered you to come out quickly. Is there something wrong with you? If there is something wrong, we will immediately organize people to break in. Can you hear me?"
Lin Gutou looked at the woman in white next to him and kept making faces. The woman in white sighed and shouted at the window, "Sir? Are you in there? It's me. Is there something wrong between you and Sir Li?"
The door was suddenly pushed open slowly, a thick fog came out from inside, and a white-haired old man appeared.
"Ahem." The old man said, "It's nothing... I'm sorry to have made you worry."
"It's okay, it's okay." Lin Gutou and the woman in white quickly shook their heads. They stepped forward to help the old man and helped him out.
There was a man in black sitting in the room. He was lazily lying on a chair, smoking a cigarette, with his back to the door. Only his profile could be seen.
"Then, sir, we'll be leaving." Lin Gutou took a quick glance and only saw the back of the head and the side of the face, so he quickly lowered his head.
"Take away those messy people at your door. I'll give you ten minutes." A very lazy voice suddenly came from the room.
Lin Gutou paused.
In fact, the city lord did not say this request, but within three seconds, he quickly made a gesture behind him.
The people outside the window left like flowing water, silently.
The open space outside the house was quiet for a long time, until Lin Gutou and the woman in white left. Suddenly, another person sneaked in from outside.
"Boss, what's wrong? I heard them say that you robbed a rich lady?" Liu An asked.
The boss across from him glanced at him.
"Oh my god... Boss, what's wrong with your eyes? Why are they red?" Liu An was startled. Just as he was about to ask again, he suddenly saw the boss on the chair collapse and slide off the chair like a salted fish.
"Hey, Boss!" Liu An rushed forward to help him, "Boss, are you okay?"