The original owner's name was Zhao Xiangwan. From the time she could remember, she began to receive training and became familiar with various assassination, firearms, and combat skills. By the age of twelve, she was already considered a master. At the age of fourteen, she began to accept the arrangements of the Zhao family and carry out various missions, never failing.

She was always quiet and preferred to be alone, so she didn't have many friends. The only one who was relatively close to her was Shi Di, her constant rival. He was tall, quick-witted, and agile, but he always lost to the shorter original owner of this body. Shi Di was unconvinced and challenged her repeatedly, only to be defeated time and time again. In the end, he inexplicably became her friend.

The Zhao family spent a great deal of money and resources training the original owner, so the tasks she was given were often of a very high level of danger. Occasionally, when two people needed to work together, Shi Di would seek out the original owner, thus becoming a partner with whom one could trust to turn their back.

For this mission, the Zhao family designated the original owner of this body to lead a team of five to take down a notorious armed gang. The original owner immediately contacted Shi Di, while the other three volunteered to participate.

The place they arrived at was a dense mountain forest. Using the map given to them by the Zhao family, the group easily located the armed gang's hideout, intending to finish the mission quickly. However, upon entering, they discovered many women and children in the warehouse. The original owner planned to eliminate the gang members and then send the children to a nearby village, where someone would come to take them away. But a woman named Feng Yulian, who was with them, couldn't bear to do so and persuaded everyone to release the children first before taking action.

The original owner frowned, pondering, when he saw Feng Yulian comforting the trapped people and quietly opening the warehouse door, allowing them to escape one by one.

In such a large area, so many people had left unharmed, yet not a single armed force had been seen. The original owner sensed something was wrong and ordered his companions to retreat immediately. Little did they know that they would be surrounded in no time.

Shi Di took the lead and broke through the encirclement first. The original owner of this body did not want to hold them back, so she nimbly dealt with the people surrounding her and led the group to escape in another direction. Along the way, two of the five people were killed, Shi Di was wounded and captured, and only she and Feng Yulian escaped, but they were also injured.

After hiding in the mountains for half a month, the original owner and Feng Yulian were barely able to stand when they escaped their pursuers. Upon returning to the Zhao family, their mission was not completed, and they were locked up by their collarbones, handcuffed and shackled, and imprisoned in a cell. Every day they were fed different foods, and people were sticking strange things into their bodies.

After a year of imprisonment, she faced waterboarding. Before dying, she saw a woman named Feng Yulian standing beside Shi Di, looking at her coldly and mockingly. Shi Di, the man she had once entrusted her back to, calmly watched her sink slowly into the water.

The original owner struggled desperately, but still sank little by little. The words she vaguely heard from above before her death left her deeply unsettled.

"Brother Di, how can you be so heartless? He was once your comrade."

"Lian'er, are you jealous? Why would you be reluctant to treat someone who has no use to you?"

"Hehe, Brother Di is so smart. It's a pity that the old geezers still dream of making a comeback."

"She always thought she was just an orphan, and she was a loner, so no one would know if she died."

"Fine, let those two old geezers go to hell and reunite with her."

...

So, she wasn't an orphan! Then what had she been living all these years for? What was Shi Di's purpose in approaching her? Why were they treating her like this? And who was the person they were talking about? She wanted to find out the truth, but she was powerless to do so. Driven by her intense desire, she summoned Xiang Wan.

Whew! Xiang Wan let out a long sigh, gradually easing the discomfort brought on by the memory of falling into the water and suffocating in the plot. The original owner had learned so many skills, and was proficient in every one of them, yet she ended up in such a state. There must be some hidden reason behind this that she didn't know.

The woman beside him was Feng Yulian, the one who stood on the shore laughing when the original owner was subjected to water torture!

Throughout the journey, she was at least a competent companion, if not exceptionally caring towards the original owner. Yet, she ultimately chose betrayal. This suggests that what she desired from the original owner must have been something incredibly tempting. But what exactly did the original owner possess that she coveted?

This mission, with its numerous enemies, was ideal for ambushes and assassinations, yet it turned into an open confrontation—wasn't that suicidal? If Feng Yulian had received proper training, she would never have chosen the most risky method, nor would she have succumbed to her compassion and risked her life to save others, unless…

"Wake up, they're gone."

Xiang Wan roughly woke Feng Yulian, urging her to crawl out of the hole quickly. Now that she knew her true colors, she didn't want to let her off easy without exposing her immediately!

"Captain Zhao, which way do we go after we get out of here?"

"Go to their hideout."

"Are you crazy? Isn't this just blatant suicide?"

You should have learned the principle of "the darkest place is under the lamp".

As Xiang Wan spoke, she struggled to climb out. She had come in after Feng Yulian, and if she didn't climb out first, neither of them would be able to get out.

It was already dark outside, and the lights shining from deep within the dense forest could be faintly seen. Those who had been searching for them had gone back, and the surroundings were very quiet.

"Captain Zhao, now there are only two of us left. We should go back and get reinforcements as soon as possible. Maybe we can still rescue Shi Di."

"You know the way?"

"Keep going in a straight line, you'll definitely get out!"

"It can also circle the earth and return to the starting point."

Xiang Wan retorted, and Feng Yulian stopped talking and silently followed behind her with her bag on her back.

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