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Sending someone to pick him up meant that no one was lying in ambush nearby. Zhou Min didn't believe it.
She didn't take it lightly, turned around and hailed a taxi, heading to the city center.
There were no vehicles following him and no phone calls asking about his whereabouts, and Zhou Min arrived at his destination safely.
The reason they went to the city center instead of the suburbs was because there were fewer people in the suburbs. Wouldn't Zhou Min be more vulnerable to being surrounded and attacked if he ran there? The city center was crowded with people, and she figured the young lady wouldn't send anyone to kidnap someone in public.
The city center also has the most famous landmark of G City, and there are always crowds of tourists nearby. Zhou Min can shake off possible stalkers by walking through the crowd.
The work phone in his bag seemed to have received a few more messages, but Zhou Min didn't have time to check it yet. He just walked among the crowd, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, always paying attention to whether there was anything unusual around him.
After she finally felt relieved and boarded a bus to the small rental room where she had lived before, Zhou Min first opened a chat box on her work phone. There were two messages from the middleman.
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"Pervert" is curious: "What do you think after watching it?"
Zhou Min clicked on the screenshot and looked at the words "failed pursuit", "poured gasoline" and "severe burns". He frowned, took a deep breath, and sent a reply to "Pervert".
Zhou Min had acquired the bad habit of using questions: "How do you think I would feel?"
The pervert replied to himself: "Oh, I just think this person is too bad and I want to teach him a lesson."
The "pervert" asked again: "What means do you think can achieve the effect of tit-for-tat?"
Zhou Min saw through it: "Don't try to steal my ideas for nothing. ^_^"
Zhou Min reminded: "I'm a bit busy recently and don't have time to chat with you. If you have any orders, just send them to me and I'll take them as appropriate."
People who are not short of money are so tough.
When it comes to money, Zhou Min is a person who is easily satisfied, so he directly defines "although I don't have much money, I don't spend much money" as not being short of money.
As long as Chen Shu gets the funds and hands them over to a charity to support the welfare home, and then Zhou Min completes the task at hand and repays Chen Shu, the rest of his life will only involve dying together with Zhou Qiting.
If nothing unexpected happens, she is confident that she can complete the task at hand within a month.
If she could receive other orders during this period and return the money she had earned from the previous transaction with Zhou Qiting, she wouldn't even have to wait until the agreed three months.
During this period of time spent with Zhou Qiting, Zhou Min felt that he was becoming very unfamiliar. He went from being a person who was satisfied with food and drink to someone who was greedy.
I am afraid that as time goes by, desires will become deeper.
But people like her shouldn't be greedy. Thinking of this, Zhou Min stared at the street scene outside the car window, his left hand holding the inside of his right wrist, feeling the pulse beating under the thorn-wrapped, blood-soaked heart tattoo.
How can she deserve it?
It was like giving up all of my life force to beg a false heart to beat for her. It was like draining all of my blood to water a false flower to make it bloom for her.
She was only worthy of false things in the past, and she will not be able to escape this curse in the future.
Zhou Min suddenly found it very funny and actually laughed out loud, ignoring the strange looks from the occasional passers-by on the bus, and laughed so hard that he fell backwards.
It's really ridiculous to give up everything for a falsehood.
This can't go on any longer.
Finally arriving at the station, she wiped away the tears of laughter from her eyes as she headed towards the familiar alleyway. Unlike the new house she'd rented for the mission, where the narrow distance between buildings meant direct sunlight was a constant threat year-round, this was where she belonged.
The long-lost damp and dark weather.
Zhou Min took out gloves from his bag, put them on, unlocked the door with his key, and carefully pushed it open.
The room was cleaned carefully before I left last time. Not long after, as the door opened and closed, fine dust floated in the air. For a moment, the room was filled with a stale smell.
There is also a faint musty smell.
Zhou Min's eyes first swept across the mold spots at the base of the wall and then spread upwards for several inches. Then he scanned the various furnishings in the room, comparing them one by one with his memory.
After confirming that no uninvited guests had visited during this period, Zhou Min stepped into the room and came to the iron single bed next to the window. He reached under the bed and took out the spare gun hidden there.
It was indeed more reassuring to carry a weapon with you. Zhou Min thought of the other two guns in Zhou Qiting's house and his face suddenly turned bitter.
I spent a lot of money to buy them. Now that I'm running away temporarily, the young lady shouldn't be so petty as to confiscate them all, right?
Thinking of the people who might come to his door at any time, Zhou Min was a little troubled. He couldn't stay here for long, and he couldn't go back to his new home. Where should he go next to play the cat and mouse game with the eldest lady?
Suddenly, Zhou Min had an idea.
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Zhou Min sat on a bench, his back to the bustling city with lights just coming on, feeling the cool breeze blowing across the river.
She changed into her usual clothes, long sleeves and long pants, all in black, like a drop of ink blending into the night, hidden in the dim environment by the river.
Beside him was Chen Shu, who seemed to be hesitant to speak.
After much hesitation, she decided to start by complaining about the reason why Zhou Min asked her out.
"When you say come out and have a drink, do you mean I drink it by myself?" Chen Shu was holding a plastic bag of alcoholic beverages in his hand. Looking at the can of peach soda in Zhou Min's hand, he felt deeply speechless.
Chen Shu quickly completed what Zhou Min had asked him to do. During the day, he told her that she could come to his place to retrieve her bank card and ID card. In the evening, she asked him out for a drink.
Zhou Min released the straw he was biting, looked at Chen Shu with sparkling eyes, and said seriously: "Drink a little... I don't just mean drinking. And don't you know I hate drinking? I haven't settled the score with you yet."
Zhou Min always remembered the high-alcohol peach "sparkling water" called "Perfect Mask" that Chen Shu made for her when she first went to Chen Shu's bar.
Chen Shu felt guilty and didn't say anything more. He sat down to Zhou Min's right, took out a brand new bank card and her old ID card, and when he handed them back to her, he asked, "How are you going to give this money to the welfare home?"
There was a huge difference between donating in one's own name and through a charity. If it was the latter, as Chen Shu vaguely suspected, combined with Zhou Min's mission objectives, then he would have to persuade her not to risk her life.
After Zhou Min took it, he smiled slightly and lied without changing his expression: "Donate it directly."
After receiving the unexpected answer, Chen Shu did not ask for more details. He took out a can of beer, opened the pull ring of the can, and asked the question that had been in his mind for a long time.
"Why do you like peach flavored things so much?"
"Because of nostalgia, what else could it be?" Zhou Min said with a smile. While speaking, his eyes wandered towards the river, as if he was recalling something.
"You're trying to put me off again." Chen Shu didn't believe Zhou Min's unchanging and universal excuse. When he asked her why she returned to her old job before, she had said the same thing.
After all, the two of them had known each other for many years, and Chen Shu had mastered some tricks to get Zhou Min to start talking, so he just stared at Zhou Min silently, waiting for her further explanation.
That's the downside of being thin-skinned. Zhou Min felt embarrassed by the stares and slowly said, "When I was little, I didn't have much chance to eat candy. Then someone gave me a big box of peach candies, and I was happy for a long time."
"So every time I taste this, I can recall that feeling." Zhou Min said, holding out his palm and gesturing at the two-thirds mark of his palm. "Actually, it's not a big box. It's just that my hands were small when I was a child, so I thought the box was big."
But it is big enough, big enough to hold so much happiness, and I still can’t finish tasting it.
Perhaps because he felt that the topic involving the past was a bit heavy, Chen Shu took a sip of the bitter wine, and the next sentence he said completely broke the delicate atmosphere.
"Zhou Min, you play a big game in private."
Hey! Zhou Min almost choked on the soda, coughed twice, and looked at Chen Shu with a red face.
Zhou Min knew that after taking off the high-necked shirt, the marks on his neck would no longer be concealed, and even the ambiguous kiss marks on his collarbone and the collar that could not be taken off were revealed.
She just didn't expect that Chen Shu would say it so bluntly and not give her any face at all.
Zhou Min gritted his teeth and uttered a harsh explanation that had escalated over the course of half a day: "I got hurt fighting with someone."
Chen Shu mercilessly exposed the truth: "Are they fighting on the bed?"
Zhou Min endured it again and again, and just when he was about to squeeze the soda can into a zip file, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
It was the call from the man she had fought with all night.
"Have you had enough fun? It's about time to go home." The person on the other end of the phone said calmly.
Is it really coming? Zhou Min was suspicious for a long time during the day, but later she realized that she had been fighting wits and courage with the air, and the eldest lady had not sent anyone to arrest her.
It's like being fooled every day, but each one is different.
Until now, Zhou Qiting finally took the initiative to call Zhou Min. The subtext was that her patience was almost exhausted, and she asked Zhou Min to be sensible and go home obediently.
No way.
Zhou Min confidently said to the person on the other end of the phone: "I have something else to do. I have to go out of town for a few days."
"But you are still in the city." Zhou Yiting smiled softly. "Go home by yourself, or wait here for ten minutes, it's your choice." After that, he hung up the phone.
Zhou Min chose to wait for nine minutes before running.
Although time was tight, she slowly finished drinking the soda in the almost crushed can, and very civic-mindedly put the can into the plastic bag that Chen Shu had placed aside.
Zhou Min squinted her eyes. In the dim light, she vaguely saw the bodyguards surrounding them from a distance. She patted the shoulder of Chen Shu, who looked confused, and said shamelessly: "It's almost time. I have to rush out to take a job. Do you see those people? Help me stop them later and don't let them get hurt."
Chen Shu estimated the number of bodyguards and was shocked: "Ah? Me?"
"Yeah." Zhou Min tightened the laces of his canvas shoes, slung his shoulder bag over his shoulder, and stood up. "Let's be honest. This time, you really owe me."
Chen Shu's face was full of confusion.
"Why, when you shot that man, weren't you prepared for me to find out?"
Hearing this, Chen Shu's expression suddenly changed, and he stammered: "How do you know..."
It was too late. Zhou Min turned and ran, leaving a message in the distance:
"I didn't know that."
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