Chapter 424 - Checking Out (1/2)
The door closed, leaving the two quiet men alone in the room.
”Urgh...” Guan Gao Huan tried to stand up.
He wiped the blood on his lips but grunted again as his broken fingers were hurt by the fleeting touch.
”How did he find out?” Lu Jin asked on the side.
Guan Gao Huan laboriously stood up from his kneeling position, staggered to a chair, and plopped down.
No matter how used he had become to the pain, his body still responded naturally. Just like now, all he wanted to do was to soak in a hot bath.
”The usual way. Xiong De's case spread far and wide. Even up north, the news had already spread there.”
”So you summoned him.”
Lu Jin fell quiet, looked at his friend who was currently taking care of his wounds, and then spoke again. ”Why even bother to use that useless man?”
The useless man Lu Jin was talking about was Xiong De.
”Well, I thought that internal fight is the most effective method against that kind of family.”
”…It is, unless there is someone smart enough to figure it out.” That was the problem.
”...” Guan Gao Huan halted in wrapping up his bloody body.
He looked at Lu Jin with a raised eyebrow, asking, ”You've met her?”
”En.”
”Oh.”
Guan Gao Huan went back to wrapping the bandage on his broken fingers, appearing to not care that Lu Jin had especially checked out his mission object. However, his golden eyes were deep.
”So… What do you think of her?”
”...Peculiar.”
”Hmm?” Guan Gao Huan distractedly looked up again.
Did he hear it wrong? He expected many descriptions, like 'not worthy to take note of' or 'troublesome', but he did not expect the word peculiar. For Lu Jin to say something that was not an insult to someone, it was already a compliment.
”You've heard me.”
”That's it?”
”And one more thing. Her butler is strong.”
Linfeng's image popped up in Guan Gao Huan's mind.
He frowned. ”I know that already.”
He did not like Lu Jin complimenting Linfeng.
”Well, there's that. And 'that'.”
”Ahh?”
Gao Huan was confused by Lu Jin's meaning of 'that'.
”I mean, he has a strong influence on the Xiong's heiress. You have to take him out.”
”....”
”Do you hear me?” Lu Jin frowned.
That Linfeng was an eyesore.
”He is a variable to your mission. You have to take him out.”
”You're telling me to take Linfeng out of Xiong Zhi's side?”
”Yes.”
Guan Gao Huan's golden eyes narrowed.
'Suspicious'