◎She is his sunk cost.◎
When the system prompt sounded, An Jiu was stunned for a moment, but it was only a moment, and she quickly returned to normal, without being noticed by the man she was hugging.
However, An Jiu also discovered that the effect of improving favorability was still very obvious.
For example, when she picked up Pei Ji, she suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
It was as if he had become lighter in an instant. In short, she no longer had to use all her strength to drag him.
An Jiu knew that he was cooperating with her secretly and quietly exerted some strength.
But he had a good grasp of the scale. If An Jiu hadn't paid extra attention and reminded her of his favorability, she probably wouldn't have noticed it herself.
While carrying the man towards the wheelchair, An Jiu felt emotional.
Sure enough, there is a difference between a favorability level of 30 and 50. Her salary increased when her favorability level went up, so it was worth her hard work in acting.
Finally reaching the wheelchair, An Jiu was about to put Pei Ji into it when he suddenly heard a burst of quick footsteps coming from behind him.
Her whole body stiffened, and she immediately realized that the pursuers were following her.
Before An Jiu could react, a gust of warm wind suddenly blew past her ears. It was the air exhaled from the mouth of the person leaning on her shoulder.
"Don't look back, keep going."
The young man in white whom she was holding had a gentle voice and a casual tone, as if he was just chatting.
As soon as he finished speaking, a deep muffled sound was heard, as if something had fallen to the ground with a thud.
An Jiu subconsciously followed Pei Ji's instructions. Only after the man sat down in the wheelchair with one hand did she have time to see what was happening behind him.
When I turned around, the shadow of a man in black suddenly came into view. The man was lying face down on the ground silently, looking as if he was not alive or dead, and no one knew what had happened to him.
An Jiu looked at the man in black, then turned around and glanced at the gentle and elegant young man in white in the wheelchair, and swallowed secretly.
Is this the ability of the poison master?
You can't get close to anyone within a few meters. If you get close, you will die.
She suddenly became a little worried about her own safety. She felt that she was extremely lucky to be alive even though she had relied on her personality to bully Pei Ji for so many days.
An Jiu was panicked for a second, but she quickly comforted herself that the villain couldn't kill her anyway, and he had to wait for her to detoxify and save his life.
As for turning her into a living dead, An Jiu is not so worried now.
There is a modern term called sunk cost, which means that when a person invests too much in something, he cannot give it up easily.
Take stock trading for example. Don’t those stock investors who have lost everything in stock trading know that they should cut their losses and survive when the stock market plummets? They actually know it, but because they have invested too much and suffered too much loss, they cannot make up for their loss without getting their money back, so they are stuck and keep investing, eventually ending up with the rooftop.
The same principle actually applies to love. Many times, girls who meet scumbags are unwilling to break up. Maybe it’s not that they don’t want to, but because they have invested too much time, emotion, energy and money. So even if one day they see the true face of the other person, they will fall into a painful struggle because of the huge sunk costs.
An Jiu felt that Pei Ji had invested a lot in her, and the sunk cost was not low, and looking at the 55% favorability, she guessed that Pei Ji's "strategy game" with her would continue.
Simply put, we can't afford the compensation.
Thinking of this, An Jiu's mentality immediately calmed down.
She can continue to be the spoiled and brainless beauty with peace of mind.
An Jiu pressed down the corners of his mouth, quickly got into the state, turned around carefully, and asked the man in the wheelchair: "Um, Pei Ji, what happened to him?"
The young man in white narrowed his eyelashes slightly. His face was pale and weak, but his thin lips were slightly raised with a gentle smile. He asked her, "What do you think?"
An Jiu opened his mouth and stammered, "Dead, dead?"
Pei Ji's black eyes were deep as he looked at the pale-faced girl.
There was still a hint of fear between her delicate eyebrows and her curled eyelashes trembled like a frightened rabbit.
Come to think of it, she had been living in the Shangshu Mansion for the past ten years and had been a pampered young lady since childhood. Perhaps she had never even seen blood.
After seeing that scene today, with dead bodies everywhere, it is normal to be scared.
However, Pei Ji thought of the day when she said "Fei Yi is not a good person" and the conflict in her expression.
It was then that he realized that An Jiu only liked gentlemen.
She is a simple young lady who is ignorant of the ways of the world. She only reads stories about righteous heroes. In her mind, the person she likes cannot have any stain.
That's why she felt conflicted and distressed when she discovered that "Fei Yi" had stolen the magic skills.
Now that he has killed someone, will she also think he is a bad person and be afraid of him?
As this thought came to his mind, Pei Ji's eyes became darker.
He clearly didn't care about her opinion of "Pei Ji" before, but now, whenever he thought of the fear in her eyes when she looked at him, he couldn't bear the irritation that arose in his heart.
My fingertips rubbed the white jade fan bone, but the slightly cool touch of the jade could not calm the waves in my heart.
Faced with the girl's trembling question, the man remained silent and did not answer.
His gaze was fixed on the girl's face, his eyes fixed on her, without saying a word.
Sometimes silence is actually an answer. The girl seemed to understand something. Her red lips trembled. There were teeth marks on her lips from the previous force. Her lips were bright red like a blooming rose.
After a moment of silence, An Jiu suddenly blinked and asked irrelevantly: "Pei Ji, why are you looking at me like that?"
Pei Ji's eyes flashed, and he didn't follow her wishes to change the subject. He asked calmly: "Don't you have anything to say?"
An Jiu pursed her lips and said nothing for a while.
She walked over, went behind the wheelchair, and pushed it forward by the handle.
At this time, the girl's low voice was heard by the wind: "I'm not a fool. You people in the martial arts world are all like this. You fight and kill when you disagree with each other... And this person is here to kill us. If he doesn't die, we must die too, right?"
The girl paused and lowered her voice, as if she was a little embarrassed: "Don't mind it, I'm really not afraid of you. I just haven't seen you before. Anyway, I don't mind you killing people. How can I be afraid of a good person like you!"
At the end of her speech, the girl's tone became increasingly impatient.
Perhaps she was also upset. That's how young ladies are. They always care about some weird things. For example, they can never admit that they are not good enough and they always want to be the first in everything.
Pei Ji had already experienced this. He still remembered that one time when he was on the street, An Jiu took a fancy to a hairpin, but that hairpin was also coveted by another person. The two of them competed to pay for it. In the end, Miss An directly used her money ability and paid ten times the amount, which made the boss very happy.
What did she say when faced with Pei Ji's confusion?
"What I bought was not a hairpin, but a breath, understand? How could I lose to others?"
Later on, she was rarely seen wearing the hairpin.
Another time, An Jiu hurried to find him just because a mouse got into the room.
Even though he was frightened to the point of turning pale, he still insisted that he was not afraid.
This time, he understood the hidden meaning in her words.
She was frightened by the dead bodies, but didn't want to admit it directly, so she avoided the question.
Instead of being afraid of a man who killed someone, they think he is a goody-goody. Instead, they are afraid of those dead people.
Pei Ji didn't understand her strange psychology, but unknowingly, the unknown restlessness in his heart quietly dissipated.
The girl muttered to herself in the back, as if she was afraid that he would misunderstand her, and tried her best to explain.
Pei Ji himself didn't even notice that the corners of his lips had unconsciously curled up.
"I understand." He said gently.
"Ah? You believe me?"
The girl's voice suddenly became high-pitched and full of energy again. She probably didn't want to continue the previous topic. She changed the subject and asked, "Pei Ji, we'll be in town soon. Where are we going next?"
Pei Ji said: "I have a villa in Jinshe Town, we can go there to rest first."
An Jiu asked hesitantly: "But your injury... doesn't it need to be treated? Otherwise, shall we go to the clinic first?"
The young man in white said calmly: "I am the doctor, no need to go to the clinic."
In fact, Pei Ji has a special physique, so it is useless to go to the clinic. He has to treat this injury by himself.
An Jiu nodded and said, "Okay."
Nothing happened along the way afterwards, and An Jiu successfully pushed Pei Ji to Jinshe Town.
The Jinshe Town, which was originally crowded with people, was now empty. Many doors of the houses on the street were still open, and there were tea bowls on the tables, but there were few people to be seen.
Pei Ji said: "They must have heard the news and went up the mountain."
An Jiu also thought so. Well, now even if he wanted to go to the clinic, there might be no one there.
Following Pei Ji's instructions, An Jiu quickly found the other courtyard he mentioned. This was a small courtyard located in an alley. There was a garden at the entrance. There was a white magnolia planted in the garden, and many snow-white buds were dotted on the branches. The courtyard was not big, and there were only four houses.
An Jiu sent Pei Ji to the main house. At this time, his face was as pale as paper, and the white robe on his back was almost stained red with blood.
An Jiu was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. The man leaned back in the wheelchair. In the past, his back was always straight, as slender and straight as a green bamboo that would never bend.
At this moment, his body had slumped, his long crow-feather eyelashes drooped, his thick black eyebrows were slightly closed, and his face was almost pale.
An Jiu leaned over and reached out his hand cautiously, wanting to touch him.
"Pei Ji..."
Before she touched the man's face, her thick eyelashes lifted slightly, and her narrow, deep black eyes slowly opened.
The white-clothed gentleman's lips were so pale that the color was almost invisible. He slightly opened his lips, met the panicked and helpless gaze of the girl, and softened his tone almost unconsciously: "Don't be afraid... Carry me to the bed, and then take out the medicine box."
An Jiu quickly held his waist and dragged him to the bed.
This time, she still didn't feel much effort.
After helping the man sit on the edge of the bed, she squatted down, took out his small medicine box from behind the wheelchair, and opened it in front of him.
An Jiu looked at him nervously: "Is this enough?"
Pei Ji glanced at the medicine box, then looked up at her, curved his eyes, and said softly: "Next, I'll have to trouble Miss An to help me with something."
"What's the matter?"
The face of the young man in white was pale, but he seemed calm and said in a gentle voice, "Help me pull out the sword."
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