"Xiaolin, there's something I want to tell you."
Looking at Xie Linlin sitting beside him, humming a song, legs crossed, and eagerly anticipating her milk tea, Xia Che thought for a moment. In the end, he couldn't just let the assassin stay by his side while he did nothing.
"Huh? What is it?"
Xie Linlin looked over curiously, blinking her big eyes.
"That's how it is, I..."
Xia Che's words were on the tip of his tongue when his mind raced again. He only needed to meet with Han Xinyue to find out who the assassin was and where he was. Then he could take Xie Linlin somewhere else to have fun. It seemed like that was all...
It won't take too long, will it?
Then there's no need to tell the truth.
It wouldn't be good if I caused my junior sister to worry again.
"I need to use the restroom."
Xia Che told a lie without batting an eye.
"ah?"
Xie Linlin was stunned.
She waited for ages...
So it was just this little thing?
If you need to go to the toilet, just go... Why make it sound like something serious is going on?
It made me subconsciously tense up...
"Then...then you go?"
Xie Linlin really couldn't understand Xia Che's thought process, so she tentatively pointed to the bathroom next to her and said, "It's okay, you can go now."
"Okay, thank you."
Xia Che breathed a heavy sigh of relief, then quickly stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
I was so clever!
As he walked away, Xia Che gave himself a thumbs-up from the bottom of his heart.
So witty and eloquent, no wonder Xie Linlin fell for him.
She has such a charismatic personality.
For a moment, Xia Che even forgot about the assassin following him, and his mood improved considerably.
"...Senior is really something else."
Seeing that even Xia Che's back was no longer in sight, Xie Linlin silently withdrew her gaze, her lips twitching uncontrollably.
Xia Che had no idea that Xie Linlin was completely stunned by his explanation...
...
Qianda Plaza, first floor restroom.
In the leftmost compartment.
"Why haven't they arrived yet?"
Han Xinyue sat on the toilet, humming a song and scrolling through her phone. However, it was easy to tell from her muttering and the occasional swipe down to check the time that she wasn't really paying attention to her phone.
If Xia Che had an omniscient perspective right now and saw Han Xinyue's actions, he would immediately recognize that this was just her being arrogant and tsundere...
They say they don't care, but in reality they care more than anyone else.
Bang bang bang—
Just as Han Xinyue was getting restless and was about to call Xia Che again, there was a gentle knock on the door in front of her.
Then came a series of urgent urgings: "Open the door! I know you're here."
Upon hearing this, Han Xinyue raised an eyebrow, feeling a huge weight lifted from her heart. She opened the cubicle door with a grin and looked at the person standing in front of her with a black plastic bag over their head. Her smile almost stretched to the back of their head.
"Pfft..."
Han Xinyue finally couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at! Honestly... Is it so hard to find a place to chat? Why do you have to do it here?"
Xia Che hurriedly walked in, locked the door, took off the plastic bag and threw it into the trash can, saying somewhat exasperatedly, "Meeting in such a stinky toilet, how could you even think of that! And... why did it have to be the women's restroom?"
"Of course! I'm a girl, where else would we meet if not in the women's restroom?"
Han Xinyue pouted, somewhat disdainfully: "It doesn't smell bad at all, okay? There's incense here, and I didn't even go to the toilet, so where would the smell come from? I can't smell anything."
Xia Che's criticism was indeed a bit of a stretch, but he was really annoyed and felt like he would choke if he didn't get a chance to vent.
"Forget about that for now. Who is the assassin?"
Xia Che let out a long sigh. Since he was already here, he would settle accounts after this matter was over.
"There he is."
Han Xinyue didn't keep them in suspense. She opened the photo she had prepared on her phone and handed it over, then leaned her head closer and said, "It's this man with the goatee. He's been following you ever since you arrived at Qianda Plaza."
"During this time, I also observed that you and your girlfriend didn't seem to be in a specific location. You were just wandering around. Logically speaking, if he were really just a passerby, or not coming for you, he would have broken up with you. But the fact is, he didn't. He followed you the whole time, always keeping a distance that you could easily make a move at any time."
"Those who can be assassins are all experts. How far away to strike, whether the target can react in time, whether to strike successfully in one blow... all these are matters of skill."
"And this goatee, if he wanted to make a move, it would only take him five seconds."
Han Xinyue held her chin in her hands and looked Xia Che up and down with her beautiful eyes: "You're just lucky, kid. You went to places with a lot of people and a lot of eyes and ears, which made the assassin hesitate to act directly. Otherwise, you would have been dead long ago."
To be honest, Han Xinyue was also very curious.
This isn't the first person to want Xia Che dead.
From the previous meeting and this one, Han Xinyue could easily tell that the person who wanted Xia Che's life was definitely not an ordinary person.
For an ordinary person, having even one enemy in their lifetime is already a rare occurrence, yet Xia Che manages to repeatedly provoke these formidable individuals...
From a certain perspective, he's quite impressive.
"You're clearly not a master, so why are there always people who want to kill you?"
Han Xinyue blinked her big eyes and noticed that Xia Che's gaze was somewhat evasive. She then said with a slightly serious expression, "Don't play dumb. Don't use excuses like 'you don't know.' This level of assassin can't hide. Ordinary people can't see the killing intent on his body, but it can't fool me."
How do I know who I've offended?
Xia Che rolled his eyes in annoyance, his gaze falling on the photo on his phone screen.
This photo was clearly taken from a great distance without permission.
A man with a goatee, who was about 1.7 meters tall and looked quite young based on his skin tone.
However, the other person was wearing sunglasses, which covered half of their face, so Xia Che couldn't recognize anything about them.
"Wow, they even hired an assassin, but they don't even know who they messed with. Brother, you're so cool."
Even a blind person could see through Han Xinyue's sarcastic tone.
"Don't talk nonsense, I really don't know who he is, but there's something you didn't expect."
Xia Che handed the phone back, then suddenly raised his eyes and stared intently at the door in front of him, or rather... he wanted to see through the door and see something outside.
"What?"
Han Xinyue was puzzled.
"If this assassin is waiting for the right opportunity to strike... don't you think this place is quite suitable?"
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