Chapter 30 Let Me Play the victim for you
A few days later, Li Nai's legs returned to normal, and the body's repair progress increased to 78%. Ji Fenglan then moved her to a new room, changing her from being unable to move while lying in bed to being unable to move while tightly wrapped in a vacuum-sealed bag.
Moreover, it's very shameful.
While lying in bed, even without a blanket, at least I had clothes to wear, the room temperature was comfortable, and my posture was upright. But in the new place, I was literally going braless with transparent bags, completely exposing myself and having no privacy whatsoever.
What a strange way to observe one's physical condition.
During this time, Qi Shuihan did not contact her, and she did not ask Ji Fenglan either.
I don't want to see her, not at all.
The room suddenly went dark, and wheels rolled in.
Then, several beams of light were turned on, shining haphazardly around her, one of which hit her forehead, the edge of which was just blinding.
My eyes were already sore from a drowsy sleep, and the sudden light felt like two needle pricks.
She squinted her eyes, quite annoyed.
Who turned on the light?
No one answered, and the lights began to sway.
The light on her forehead moved away, and she craned her neck and blinked hard, trying to make out a dark figure standing vaguely behind the light.
He is not tall, only 1 meter.
"A small stool? What are you up to?!"
The little robot remained silent, simply moving around and adjusting the lights.
Seven or eight beams of light converged on her, casting a dark halo around her, making her appear like an antique on a museum display stand.
She felt inexplicably being stared at, and her body wanted to curl up in shame, but the bag that was tightly gripping her body was even tighter than a bag of chicken legs.
After the little robot finished its work, it rolled away in front of her.
"What's this little stool for?"
The little robot stopped, slid around, raised its small square head, and said seriously, "I'm not a little stool. I'm a robot that patrols the rooms, my number is BZ687436, and my duties are..."
"Okay, okay, ward robot, you can go now." She closed her eyes, feeling a headache coming on.
The sound of rollerblading gradually faded away, finally disappearing into the stage display room—yes, that was the name she had just thought of.
The room was quiet, the corners were dark, and the dazzling light gradually heated up. She wondered if the light was making her dizzy and causing her to hallucinate, but she felt a burning sensation on her skin.
Does the light have a disinfecting function?
Isn't this taking too long?
Just as I was about to fall asleep with my eyes closed, a familiar female voice appeared.
"You're sleeping soundly, have you forgotten something?"
He suddenly opened his eyes.
A woman's figure emerged from the darkness, stepping into the circle of light. Her long, silky black hair, radiating a golden glow, cascaded down her chest.
Qi Shuihan was holding a black and white plush bear.
Li Nai recognized that it was the host she had just bound to.
"Look at you, so irresponsible. I've been the one to bring it to you both times."
With her long, slender hands, she stroked the panda cub's fur, even tugging at its tail as she combed it.
The panda cub let out a reluctant whimper.
"What, you don't want to anymore? You're so hard to please." Qi Shuihan looked down at it and pretended to be annoyed.
The panda cub raised its round head high, touched Qi Shuihan's chin with its short snout, and then licked it twice with its pink tongue.
Qi Shuihan smiled slightly: "Alright, alright, go and please your... master."
With a slight lift of his alluring fox-like eyes, he captured Li Nai's gaze.
Li Nai pretended that she was blinded by the light and didn't see it.
Someone approached and stopped in front of her.
"Why aren't you saying anything? You're usually quite arrogant around me, aren't you? Sometimes I'm even afraid of you," Qi Shuihan teased.
Nonsense! You're the arrogant one, I'm the one who's afraid of you.
Li Nai kept her eyes tightly closed, her mind screaming in protest, but she wouldn't utter a word.
Qi Shuihan remained calm and unperturbed, casually stroking the panda cub's head and neck fur. His fox-like eyes curiously scanned Li Naibai's shiny body, and he deliberately walked around her as if admiring a work of art.
finally--
"Hey! Haven't you seen enough?!" Li Nai roared, his eyes wide open.
Qi Shuihan tilted his head and smiled smugly.
"Don't be shy, we're all women. You have a great figure, with curves in all the right places."
"Nonsense!" Li Nai glared fiercely. "If she's so ordinary, is she even a woman?"
Then she fell silent again.
Qi Shuihan moved closer to her, and the scent of shampoo and soap after a shower filled her nostrils. Taking a deep breath, she detected a faint medicinal ointment mixed in. She glanced down and caught sight of the beautiful head on her chest.
The other person's long eyelashes cast a shadow, and the eyes hiding in the shadows seemed to pause for a moment before lifting their chin and looking up at her face.
Her watery, fox-like eyes widened, turning into peach blossom eyes: "You're angry." Her tone was certain.
"She's angry with me. Angry that I kept secrets from you."
Li Nai took a breath and glanced disdainfully at the beautiful face so close to hers: "Hmph, you've already confessed, haven't you?"
Qi Shuihan remained calm and composed, but her clear eyes, seemingly submerged in a babbling brook, made her heart race as she stared at her.
"Would you like to hear my explanation?"
Li Nai turned her eyes away angrily: "I don't want to, you never tell the truth."
He secretly rejoiced: What a close call! He almost fell for her beautiful eyes.
A warm, itchy sensation, accompanied by an itch that makes me want to laugh, is happening to my chest...?
lick? !
Looking down, she saw, lo and behold! It was her young, innocent little host, curiously sticking its head out to sniff and lick the packaging.
Hey! Keep an eye on it!
Qi Shuihan hugged the panda tightly again, took two steps back, and looked at her reproachfully with disdain: "You're really good at being a hands-off manager, letting a kind-hearted passerby take care of things instead of the person who should be in charge."
"Do you think I can manage things like this?! And you're the one with the kind heart."
The panda cub in her arms was restless, its furry hands and feet sliding down. Qi Shuihan took the opportunity to squat down, propping herself up on one leg, and sat on the ground with a carefree air. She playfully nudged the panda cub that was trying to crawl away.
"You really don't want to hear my explanation?" Qi Shuihan asked again, raising her eyes.
"I don't want to." The voice was much weaker than the previous answer.
Qi Shuihan lowered her eyes and smiled, it was unclear whether she was laughing at her or at the spoiled brat who was throwing a tantrum.
"Then, would you like to hear my life story?"
Um? !
Li Nai immediately perked up.
This is a great opportunity to get to know your target. It's best to ask them all at once so you don't have to go through the trouble of testing them later, hehe.
Her eyes gleamed, but she still stubbornly insisted on keeping quiet.
"I don't really want to hear this. Who knows if you're making it up? Besides, shouldn't an assassin like you keep your mouth shut and not answer questions?"
"After twelve years as an assassin, I'm getting lonely. Tonight, I want to find someone to talk to about life."
"Fine," she said, giving off a "I'll listen if I have to" look.
Qi Shuihan smiled and looked her over again, his eyes subtle.
"How does it feel to be naked? It must be very uncomfortable."
"Who would get used to this! I'm not a pervert, what are you talking about? Come on, let's switch places."
"No need, I have more experience than you."
ah?
Li Nai almost bit her tongue.
What experience? Which experience?
Just as she was lost in thought, she heard Qi Shuihan's troubled voice: "My life story is quite interesting. Which part would you like to hear?"
She rolled her eyes and blinked again: "How did you get into this industry?"
Start by asking about their profession; don't rush into it.
"I came to them myself."
"Huh? Shouldn't it be that you were kidnapped into the organization when you were a child, and the ruthless leader forced you to be an assassin, and if you didn't obey, he would beat you every day and not give you food or water?"
She went through all the cold-blooded killer movies she had watched before, and found that the main characters in them generally had tragic childhoods.
Qi Shuihan smiled, her fox-like eyes sparkling: "You must really love watching movies and reading novels about assassins."
"It's...it's alright," she said, a little embarrassed. "Go on."
“I was never beaten or abused. Looking back now, they treated me quite well, and the benefits were generous. When I was eighteen, I was awarded the title of outstanding model worker because I completed all 256 tasks assigned by the group efficiently. Over the years, I've owned about ten properties and cars…”
Li Nai's eyes widened, revealing an extreme resentment towards the rich. She was no longer listening to anything else.
Damn it, how can a lousy hitman be so rich?
“...I don’t want any of those custom-made luxury items. I simply don’t have the space to put them, and the gold and jewelry are too heavy.”
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Li Nai's forehead veins throbbed, unable to tolerate it any longer: "Are you here to show off your wealth? Or are you lonely and looking for someone to talk to about life? Get lost! I don't want to hear it."
Qi Shuihan smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't consider your situation."
Li Nai was furious, but thinking about the system task calmed her down a bit.
She barely suppressed her impatience: "So you volunteered to become an assassin to get rich quick and, incidentally, to experience a thrilling life that ordinary people can't."
"No, it's to escape, it's for revenge."
Qi Shuihan's smile was chilling, his eyes were cold and revealed a hint of pleasure.
Li Nai couldn't help but tremble, and forced himself to ask, "Avenge whom? Our enemies?"
Qi Shuihan suddenly lowered her eyelashes to hide her gaze, and grabbed the panda cub's ears with both hands to ruffle them.
"Li Nai, do you remember your parents?"
Why ask this? Then I realized it might be a chance to learn about Qi Shuihan's family, so I quickly put aside my doubts.
"I have no recollection of it. Most of my childhood memories are of life in the orphanage, and the rest are of the villagers giving me a few bites of food to keep me from starving or freezing to death. What about you?"
Qi Shuihan let out an ambiguous laugh: "Yes, very profound. They brought me into this world, so naturally I must treat them well in the end."
Li Nai felt a chill run down her spine.
Qi Shuihan noticed her fear and waved his hand with a smile: "Don't think too much. I'll kill them."
"Ah!!" Li Nai cried out, "Why..."
Qi Shuihan raised her face and touched her brow bone.
If there was smoke on his fingers, it must have been from smoking, yet she had never seen Qi Shuihan smoke.
A faint sigh escaped.
"I am an illegitimate child, that is, the daughter of a mistress."
Qi Shuihan casually dropped a bombshell, then slowly began to explain.
"They say my mother is a vixen who likes to steal men, but I don't think so. She prefers the money in a man's pocket to the man himself. She would never do anything to ruin her figure and beauty by bearing children for a man. Unless the temptation of money is strong enough, and that's how I was born."
She was vain and lazy, but she had long realized that relying on youth for a living was unreliable. So she planned to find an unlucky guy to make a fortune out of him, preferably one she could keep making money from for a long time. Later, she set her sights on my wealthy and powerful but powerless businessman father. My mother thought she could make money off me, but she underestimated the ruthlessness of men. More accurately, she didn't investigate the man's background properly.
Ten months later, she came to my door with a paternity test result, holding my newborn child, to threaten me, only to be thoroughly betrayed. She got nothing, her face was disfigured, and she was forced into prostitution to support herself and her child. Before I turned twelve, she never let me touch such filth, trying her best to get me an education.
The calm narration suddenly stopped.
Li Nai looked at Qi Shuihan, who was sitting on the ground with her head down opposite her.
"You're probably thinking, this woman is young and reckless, but at least she's a good mother."
Qi Shuihan raised her face, a mocking smile playing on her lips.
Li Nai froze, then awkwardly turned her eyes away.
Qi Shuihan didn't mind and continued talking.
"After suffering a devastating blow, she didn't lose hope and allow herself to continue her downward spiral. She became very patient and wiser, knowing when to stop. She kept waiting, waiting for a chance to rise again, waiting for me, her daughter, to allow her to continue enjoying her former life of wealth. And guess what? She actually got her wish; one day, wealth flew to her doorstep. What's even more interesting is that the person who brought her wealth happened to be the same person who destroyed her. Hiss—"
Li Nai: "What's wrong?"
She saw the panda cub circle around behind Qi Shuihan and climb onto her back using all four limbs. Could it be that the panda's claws scratched her?
Qi Shuihan pulled the panda cub off with a backhand.
Li Nai noticed from afar that the other person's arm was shaking violently, as if it had pulled on some wound, and it looked very painful.
"It's nothing. The little rascal is just too naughty."
Qi Shuihan held the panda firmly with both hands and continued:
“I was only twelve years old then, but I was very beautiful. Was I being harassed? His purpose in coming was to take away a beautiful and rare person who could absorb power. But as a respectable person, he had to say some respectable things. He said he couldn't bear to see his daughter wandering outside and hoped to take her into his home to make up for his responsibilities as a father.”
With that said, naturally someone was willing to act alongside him. My mother accepted the price she wanted and then ignored me. And so, I followed the man into another world. A world that made me mature quickly. There, clothing was optional, beauty was a weapon, and blood and screams filled glasses.
The sound stopped again.
Li Nai blinked her sore eyes. She now understood Qi Shuihan's words: "To escape, to take revenge."
And the question at the very beginning about "what it feels like to be naked" was answered with "experience".
"So you're telling me you want freedom to escape your current identity?"
"Yes. I used this opportunity to escape the tiger's den and vent my hatred, but I never expected to enter another wolf's lair."
Qi Shuihan stood up, holding the panda. She neither moved forward nor backward, standing straight at the boundary between black and white.
"Li Nai, do you still want to hear my explanation?"
"……No."
Darkness obscured the upper half of Qi Shuihan's face, and her pink lips parted slightly: "Thank you..."
"...Thank you for your trust in me."
Then, the person, holding the panda, slowly retreated, blending into the darkness.
The light focused on Li Nai suddenly went out, and the room returned to normal lighting. Qi Shuihan had disappeared without a trace.
She felt sleepy and fell into a deep sleep.
A moment later, the wall opposite her became transparent, revealing a closed private room, in the center of which sat a woman with gold-rimmed glasses.
Ji Fenglan took a sip of the red wine in his hand, his amber eyes gazing with pleasure at the tightly wrapped female body, his fingers gently pulling open the neckline.
"Are you really just friends?" she asked thoughtfully.
Just then, a phone call came through the wall.
"Answer the call," she commanded.
"Manager G, someone is looking for you. It's Miss Lin."
"Did you say what it was about?"
"She said she was asking you for someone, and she seemed very angry."
"knew."
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