93 Scars (2/2)

”You can take your clothes away,” he said.

Terrified by the strong killing intent, the man did not dare to move.

”You b*stard, what the hell are you doing?” Xu Yanwei shouted at the killer apprentice. She had never experienced a killing intent and was thusly not afraid of the teenager who had once killed two people in front of her.

Gu Shenwei ignored her again. This house was wide enough for a killer to launch an attack on his opponent from behind. Gu Shenwei believed that when the man realized this point, he would immediately leave this place as quickly as possible with only his clothes.

As he had expected, when the man sobered up, he took small quick steps to the chair to get his clothes. During the process, he accidentally touched the machete shaft, but immediately withdrew his hand from it. He hurriedly left the room, sweating. When he got to the first floor, he finally stopped to put on his clothes.

”B*tch, you attempt to fool me? Wait here if you dare. I'll bring my people here shortly,” the man shouted out the typical words gang members would use when admitting defeat, and then fled as fast as he could.

Now, Gu Shenwei found himself in an awkward situation. Xu Yanwei was still fastened on the bed, there was no woman servant here, and he could not ask Xu Xiaoyi to help.

”Untie the rope,” said Xu Yanwei, grumpily.

Gu Shenwei threw his sword away and picked up a quilt, before swiftly turning around and putting it on Xu Yanwei. During that moment, he got a glimpse of the countless welts on her white skin. He quickly untied her and then ran downstairs.

When he left, he heard Xu Yanwei shout, ”Get out of here.”

Xu Xiaoyi turned pale. He sat by the fire and said to the killer apprentice, ”Do you know who he is? He's Elderly Dragon's son.”

”That's good.”

Gu Shenwei did not want to explain since Xu Xiaoyi did not know much about the assassination mission.

After a while, Xu Yanwei stormed downstairs and stood before the boys.

She looked furious and aggressive, completely different from the shy, delicate girl Gu Shenwei remembered.

Thinking back to his first encounter with the siblings, he concluded that both of them were amazingly good at acting.

”Why? Why did you drive my client away?” Xu Yanwei growled like a tigress.

Gu Shenwei was not sure why he did this, so he just looked at Xu Yanwei quietly.

”He saved our lives,” Xu Xiaoyi murmured.

”Aha,” Xu Yanwei laughed as if she had just heard a joke. ”You saved my life, so you think you have the right to judge me and to interfere in my private affairs? What do you want me to do now? To feel embarrassed and ashamed? And then I'll beg for your mercy and ask you to forgive me and help me? You believe that I'm deeply grateful for what you've done and can't thank you enough for that, don't you?”

”No, I never meant to point fingers at you.”

”So you must want me to repay you by sleeping with you. Come on. Let's go upstairs right now. You can have whatever you want. I can play a bashful girl or a slut, and you can beat me with your blade and treat me as roughly and abusively as you want. No matter what you do, I'll treat you like a king.”

Xu Yanwei glared at the killer apprentice, her breast heaving.

”I just want you to be a good sister,” Gu Shenwei pointed at Xu Xiaoyi and said.

When he uttered the word ”sister”, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. Having buried his feelings deeply for a long time, he had never expected to have such an emotional outburst. After a while, he managed to calm himself down and buried his feelings once again.

After an awkward silence, Xu Xiaoyi lowered his head and whispered, ”She's a good sister...”

Xu Yanwei stood agape for a while and then went upstairs.

”Wow, I've never seen her so angry,” Xu Xiaoyi said smilingly, trying to resolve the uncomfortable, embarrassing situation

Gu Shenwei kept his mouth shut; he realized that he had made a mistake. The act of successively involving himself in the siblings' lives clearly violated a killer's principles. Fortunately, he would soon say goodbye to them, since his mission was about to come to an end.

Xu Yanwei walked downstairs again, with scissors and gauze in hand. She arrived before the killer apprentice and coldly said, ”Take off your shirt.”

Gu Shenwei looked down and saw the wound on his shoulder. The blood was congealed and he did not mind the pain; however, he still took off his shirt due to Xu Yanwei's assertion.

The siblings gasped at what they saw on the teenage killer's body.

There were countless scars of different lengths between his neck and waist. In the firelight, these overlapping and interlacing scars looked like ferocious tattoos. Compared to his scars, Xu Yanwei's welts looked like mere dabs of rouge.

Some of these scars were left by Tie Hanfeng and some, by his opponents. There were so many scars that even Gu Shenwei himself had already forgotten how he had received them.

As Xu Yanwei had no other client on that night, they all went to bed early. Xu Xiaoyi had worried for more than two hours that the Ten-Dragon Gang might come back to seek revenge, before finally slipping unawares into sleep.

The next morning, Gu Shenwei woke up early. He needed to go somewhere else to report to the killer leader, the commander of the mission. A killer leader was just a temporary title. The leader would automatically be dismissed from the position when the mission ended. Taking the machete left by the guest last night, Gu Shenwei set off.

He still could not understand why the plan makers thought the apprentices might have failed in this mission. Elderly Dragon and the gang were so weak, that he believed he could destroy them by himself.

Hoping that he could find someone to discuss his concerns with, he continued on to the scheduled site. When he arrived, however, he discovered that the killer leader of this mission was the last person he wanted to meet in the whole world.