That cut didn't feel like the blade slicing through skin and muscle at all; it felt like... cutting through cotton.
Lan Jun's other hand had already touched the soft cotton ball.
It's a fake!
It’s over!
Lan Jun gasped.
Just then, Shen Guoliang's voice rang out in the corridor outside the door: "Wake up, everyone! Stop sleeping! Are you on guard duty or are you taking a nap?!"
As Shen Guoliang drew closer, Lan Jun no longer hesitated. With a swift turn, she leaped out of the window.
He immediately climbed down the crack in the wall.
A few seconds later, her feet touched the ground.
Then she ran lightly all the way back to the house she shared with Su Ruyi.
Su Ruyi didn't return for several minutes.
As soon as she entered the door, Lan Jun sat up: "Ruyi, where have you been?"
Su Ruyi yawned, "I have a bit of an upset stomach, so I went to the bathroom. I'm sorry, did I wake you up?"
There was no trace of apology in his voice.
After saying that, she ignored Lan Jun's expression, lay down, turned her back to her, and remained motionless.
Soon, her breathing became even.
Lan Jun felt relieved and carefully recalled the reasons for his failure.
Could it be that I have been exposed?
Her superiors gave her two tasks: to assassinate Qi Yuan and to take Su Ruyi away.
As for killing Cheng Weiguo, it was purely a matter of her personal grudge.
She was the champion in the martial arts competition that year, but the second place winner was favored by Cheng Weiguo simply because he was a man.
Now that person is a regimental commander, while she is still just a lowly company commander.
She certainly didn't expect that in Cheng Weiguo's eyes, girls always had to get married.
He made this decision because he was afraid of delaying her marriage.
Lan Jun publicly expressed resentment several times, which attracted some malicious people to his presence.
Those people first devised a plan to gain leverage over Lan Jun, and then she had no choice but to obey them.
Fortunately, her rank was low, so she didn't have access to core secrets.
As Lan Jun pondered these things, he realized that he had already embarked on a path of no return.
She blamed everything on Cheng Weiguo, believing that none of this would have happened if he hadn't treated her with prejudice.
When Cheng Weiguo assigned Lan Jun to protect Su Ruyi, it was right when she had just started making contact with that group of people.
Her resolve had begun to waver, and the person she was supposed to protect was a teenage village doctor, which further unbalanced her mind.
Lan Jun lay quietly on the bed, waiting.
However, no one came to arrest her that night.
The next morning, when sunlight streamed through the gaps in the curtains and shone on her face, she finally smiled—she hadn't been exposed!
...
Cheng Weiguo has been in a coma for three days.
The news is no longer a secret; even the staff at the retirement home are whispering about it.
For the past three days, Lan Jun would quietly slip out of his room late at night.
She crawled like a gecko on the exterior wall of the small building where Cheng Weiguo lived, carefully examining each window that wasn't fully closed.
Su Ruyi followed a dozen meters behind her, monitoring her every move.
Lan Jun believed that although Cheng Weiguo had moved to a different room, he definitely had not left the building.
She was certain that the sycophants around Cheng Weiguo would never do something like having their superior carried out unconscious.
So, for three days, Lan Jun was searching for which room Cheng Weiguo had moved to.
Little did she know that Cheng Weiguo had already left the small building overnight from the very first night Lan Jun wanted to kill him.
He wasn't actually unconscious, so as soon as Lan Jun escaped, he put on his hat, took a few steps, and went outside!
Of course, she moved in with Qi Yuan and took advantage of his indoor hot spring.
Seeing Lan Jun covered in sweat, her fingers gripping the cracks in the wall until her nails started to bleed, Su Ruyi really wanted to tell her that Cheng Weiguo wasn't there and that she shouldn't waste her time.
Every time Lan Jun returned empty-handed, Su Ruyi would take advantage of her fast asleep to steal all her equipment—daggers, scabbards, sleeping pills, poisons, and other strange hidden weapons.
However, the next day, Lan Jun went out for a few rounds and came back with a full load of equipment again.
There's also money; every time Lan Jun replenishes his equipment, he also gives him fifty yuan.
Su Ruyi and Cheng Weiguo both believed that Lan Jun must have a contact person at the retirement home, and that person's rank must be higher than Lan Jun's, because that person controlled the supplies.
On the third day, Su Ruyi finally discovered how Lan Jun met with that person—there was a row of cabinets in the women's hot spring bath, and Su Ruyi's divine sense tracked Lan Jun to the back of the cabinets, where he was secretly hiding something.
After Lan Jun left, Su Ruyi stood at a distance and released her divine sense, taking out a roll of paper from a small hole behind the cabinet.
Upon opening the document in the space, one could see Lan Jun's handwriting: "Cousin, I accidentally lost the swimsuit I borrowed last time. I'd like to borrow another one from you."
The person who made the contact was a woman!
Su Ruyi thought for a moment, rolled up the note, and put it back into the small hole behind the cabinet intact.
Sure enough, when Lan Jun went out that afternoon and came back, he had new sleeping pills, poison, and weapons, as well as 50 yuan!
Su Ruyi pretended to accidentally break Lan Jun's glass water glass, and while Lan Jun was cleaning up the mess, she confiscated all of Lan Jun's equipment again!
That night, Lan Jun completely lost his temper.
She locked the door, panting heavily, rolled up her sleeves, and walked to Su Ruyi's bedside: "Did you steal my things?!"
Su Ruyi pretended to be sleepy: "Sister Lanjun, has another thief broken in? It's okay, the thief only steals from you, not me!"
Lan Jun was furious. He rushed forward, grabbed Su Ruyi by the neck, and was about to start cursing.
Su Ruyi was prepared; the moment she made her move, the silver needle in her palm had already pierced the back of Lan Jun's head.
Lan Jun fainted instantly.
Su Ruyi reached out and pulled Lan Jun into her space.
Lan Jun was exceptionally skilled, so Su Ruyi dared not be negligent and immediately took out two pairs of handcuffs to cuff her hands and feet.
Then, with a flick of his wrist, he removed the silver needle from the back of her head.
Lan Jun slowly woke up, only to find the sunlight extremely dazzling.
Looking around again, I finally realized that I was lying in an unfamiliar courtyard.
A chill ran through her—how long had she been unconscious?
It's already daytime now, and she's been moved to another location.
Lan Jun struggled to sit up and then saw that Su Ruyi was sitting in a rocking chair not far away, drinking tea.
Su Ruyi didn't look at her, but instead looked at the scenery outside the courtyard.
—This rocking chair is the same one that Jin Dachun had in his yard. At Su Qiushi's insistence, it was moved into the small courtyard.
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