Chapter 114 – The Shadow Under the Ligh (2/2)

“Hehe, so it really is you… I thought I got the wrong person.” Her strange reaction didn’t escape Lin Xiao’s eyes, but he didn’t delve further and laughed to change the subject.

If the Shen DaiYing from before was the princess that bathed under the sunlight, graceful, charming, and immaculate, then the current Shen DaiYing was the reverse of the sunlight, a heartless killer hiding in the shadows.

One passionate, one heartless, which one was the real Shen DaiYing?

Although Lin Xiao didn’t understand what was going on, but he knew that right now he would have no way of getting an answer from Shen DaiYing. The only thing he could do was to pretend like nothing happened and talk to her, then try to find some useful clues from her responses.

“Sister Ying, what are you doing here? Why did you take a leave of absence, are you sick?” Lin Xiao softly asked with the harmless smile that he was known for.

“Me? Oh!” Shen DaiYing didn’t answer his question, she responded with a sound then turned around and ignored him.

What is she going to do?

Under Lin Xiao’s attentive gaze, she turned around and walked next to the beggar sisters, like she was afraid they were going to run away.

Like before, Shen DaiYing stooped down once more, her long legs bending and overlapping, tiptoeing and hugging her knees, she crouched in front of the sisters in a very young lady-like posture, then she used her spiritless eyes to stare fixedly at the two.

The two got goosebumps from her stare.

The younger sister already completely lost any courage she had to resist, only the older sister was still struggling, “W-what do you want? Do you want to kill us? … I, I admit I stole a piece of bread yesterday for my younger sister… sorry, I won’t do it again! Please let us go!”

She thought that Shen DaiYing was a thug hired by the bread store, and quickly pleaded.

Shen DaiYing didn’t continue and just shook her head.

“Do you want to continue living?” She suddenly asked an irrelevant question.

“Continue living? Of course! Big sis, I’m begging you! Please don’t hurt us…” The messy haired girls’ legs were trembling yet she still clenched her teeth and desperately begged for forgiveness.

The younger sister hiding behind the older one finally couldn’t hold back anymore.

“I’m begging you, please don’t harm my sister! If you have to, then come at me! Let my sister go!” Although the younger sister was already scared pale, to the point of kneeling, but she still clenched her teeth and stood up with an unyielding power, and tried to shield her older sister with her frail body.

At this time, Lin Xiao also walked over curiously and silently crouched next to Shen DaiYing, wanting to see what she planned to do to these pitiful beggar sisters.

“Come at you? So you want to sacrifice yourself to protect your sister?” Shen DaiYing questioned expressionlessly, but her slightly trembling voice betrayed her innermost thoughts.

Seeing that younger sister getting ahead of herself, it was like she saw someone’s shadow in her.

“Wu… my sister has already done enough for me, I also want to do something for her!” Her voice carried a sob but her tone was resolute.

“Foolish sister, shut your mouth! I, I…” Hearing her younger sister’s declaration, she was choked with emotions.

It was like the pitiful sisters have come to the end of the road, they couldn’t help but embrace and weep on one another, even the stonehearted Lin Xiao watching from one side was feeling rather sentimental.

Yet, Shen DaiYing’s gaze was as still as before, apathetically looking at the crying sisters, without an ounce of pity, like she was looking at two dead people.

Finally, she moved.

The sisters thought that she was finally going to unsheathe her sword and killed them, so they close their eyes in despair and welcomed death. But after waiting for a while, they noticed that this big sister didn’t draw her sword, but she reached her hands into her pockets.