I stormed down the mountain, took down all the big shots in the city, and the female CEO dragged me

Xu Yuan rolled down the car window and peered into the car behind, where a dark gun barrel was sticking out.

"Turn quickly."

He loudly reminded Du Aili, who was driving, and at the same time, he flicked his sword finger backward, and his true energy transformed into an arrow that shot out.

Knowing he had been discovered, the assassin in the car behind decisively pulled the trigger.

bang...

A loud bang was followed by a screeching of brakes. The car following behind went out of control instantly, rolled twice on the ground, and burst into flames.

The bullet fired by the gunman hit a tree trunk by the roadside, leaving a noticeable hole.

creak...

Du Aili slammed on the brakes and turned around in alarm, asking, "What happened?"

Xu Yuan looked at her calmly and seriously: "Don't move in the car. I'll go down and check. If I sense anything is wrong, leave immediately."

Before Du Aili could persuade her, Xu Yuan jumped out of the car window.

He cautiously approached the burning car, while two figures in the distance crossed the road and fled.

"They ran away?"

Xu Yuan watched the two figures flee without giving chase, and instead circled the burning car once.

Are they really coming for me?

Why did you kill yourself?

revenge?

With doubts in mind, Xu Yuan made sure the surroundings were safe, then returned to the car and signaled Du Aili to start the car and continue towards the hotel.

Du Aili carefully held the steering wheel, her eyes occasionally glancing at Xu Yuan.

Are you alright?

"Who are they?"

Xu Yuan shook his head: "I don't know who they are either."

Upon arriving at the hotel and entering the private room, Du Aili greeted everyone, and the waiter brought out the dishes and placed them on the table.

Xu Yuan looked around and then at Du Aili: "Aren't you supposed to be meeting a client?"

Du Aili felt a pang of guilt. There were no clients at all; she had just made up an excuse to ask Xu Yuan to have dinner with her.

He's been out with other women all this time, so what's wrong with him having a meal with me?

She casually made up an excuse: "The client had something come up and can't come, so we'll eat by ourselves."

"It's good that they didn't come; it's a bargain for me."

Without any hesitation, Xu Yuan picked up his chopsticks and devoured the food in a whirlwind.

"Slow down, no one's going to take it from you."

Du Aili looked at him, who seemed like he hadn't eaten in eight lifetimes, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why didn't anyone take you out to eat during the day?"

"Yes, I ate it."

Xu Yuan's mouth was bulging. The food he ate with his master on the mountain was very bland, sometimes just boiled vegetables. It wasn't until he came down the mountain that he realized what real delicacies were.

"The food I eat during the day doesn't taste as good as the food you bring me."

As he spoke, he didn't forget to put some food on Du Aili's plate: "Try this, it's quite delicious."

Du Aili glanced at the food in the bowl in front of her, then looked at Xu Yuan, a slight, almost imperceptible smile playing on her lips.

How come it looks kind of cute?

They are frighteningly calm when faced with problems, yet adorable like children when they want to be.

Watching Xu Yuan eat, Du Aili was overwhelmed with maternal love, as if she were looking at her own child.

"Eat slowly."

She took a tissue and wiped the grease from Xu Yuan's mouth, then picked up a chicken leg and placed it in front of him: "Do you have anything you like to eat? I'll order you some more."

"No need, it would be a waste if we couldn't finish it."

Du Aili stopped talking and watched Xu Yuan eat with a smile, feeling inexplicably relaxed.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Du Aili escorted Xu Yuan back to the manor, reminded him not to forget to go to his driving lesson the next day, and slowly drove away.

Xu Yuan returned to his room, took out the Green Wonder Grass he had obtained from the Medicine Pavilion during the day, and took out the pill cauldron he had won at auction.

The curtains were drawn, the lights were turned off, and Xu Yuan sat cross-legged on the floor, his eyes slightly closed, chanting incantations. The cauldron floated up and slowly rotated in front of Xu Yuan.

The energy within the green herb gradually refined, and a vibrant green aura enveloped Xu Yuan.

He casually picked up the jade tablets he had bought on the way back and gently placed them into the cauldron filled with green liquid. Nine minutes later, the green ripples gradually disappeared, and the three jade tablets lay steadily on the ground.

The ordinary jade pendant now appears even greener, with a faint coolness on its surface.

He put away the alchemy cauldron, and a green pill the size of a soybean landed in Xu Yuan's palm.

"It's missing two ingredients, so the effect will be slightly less, but it's still enough."

Carefully pick up the three jade pendants from the ground and place them on the table.

He planned to give one to each of his sister, Zhang Ruonan, and Du Aili, so that they could ward off evil spirits.

Lying in bed, Xu Yuan's mind kept flashing back to the gunman from earlier that day, and the coffin on the way back.

"Why would there be a coffin on the road all of a sudden?"

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly sat up as someone entered the protective array he had set up around the manor.

"They're really persistent; they won't give up until they achieve their goal."

An ordinary assassin, after two failures during the day, would definitely lay low and rest for a while before making a move again.

The other party clearly didn't think that way, or perhaps they felt that since Xu Yuan had already been assassinated twice, they wouldn't think they wouldn't come a third time. Their intention was to catch him off guard and kill him when he relaxed.

Another possibility is that the other person doesn't want to live to see tomorrow.

How much hatred must one have for themselves?

Xu Yuan didn't open the door. Instead, he jumped onto the window and followed the wall down to the ground floor.

On the hillside outside the manor, a figure stood on a tree with binoculars, looking through them at the situation inside Manor No. 7.

A man in a black leather jacket, with a sniper rifle set up under a tree, was searching for the best shooting spot.

"The manor was quiet and nothing seemed out of the ordinary."

The man in black on the tree spoke in a low voice to the man in leather below.

"What do we do? Should we just barge in?"

"No, face to face, we are no match."

They had already witnessed Xu Yuan's methods in their previous two encounters.

If they hadn't been fast and experienced, they would have perished in the fire long ago.

"We must leverage our strengths and surprise everyone."

"I always felt that this task was not simple."

The man in the tree with binoculars glanced at his companion lying below.

"Give me three million, and I'll take your life."

Under normal circumstances, it would be a matter of one bullet.

"This guy has clearly exceeded the price of three million."

I think it's necessary to talk to him about the extra money.

"What are you thinking about?"

The man with the sniper rifle found the other man somewhat ridiculous.

"It's good enough that you can give us this much."

Don't forget, we were in it for the money before, but this time it's not about the money.

"Killing a Chinese piglet was just a side effect."

"What's more important to us is something else."

"Once we finish this, we can go down with them."

When the time comes, we can just get our hands on something and retire from the underworld.

Rather than calling murder a business, it's more like an admission ticket.

"Where are your tickets for?"

"Of course..."

The man holding the sniper rifle felt a chill run down his spine and abruptly looked in the direction from which the sound came.

The one who just answered was clearly not the companion in the tree.

"Who?"

"Me? Aren't you all here for me?"

Xu Yuan walked out from behind the tree with one hand behind his back.

"People from the Chrysanthemum Country, were you sent by Moriji?"