Chapter 4

Two years later.

As Qing Li ran around the hill to the town at the foot of the mountain, the watch on her wrist prompted her to have completed twenty kilometers for the day, and she took a breather, lifting up the hem of her shirt to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

Here the air humidity is big, after strenuous exercise instead easy to cause the body to lack of water, so she walked into the supermarket she often go, took a bottle of room temperature mineral water.

Said supermarket, in fact, is only the largest store in the town, after all, the town is not large, the population is not much.

The owner’s daughter and her are considered old acquaintances, and greeted her with a smile, “Miss Pear, is today’s run on the mountain road, I haven’t seen you come to the town in a few days.”

Qing Li nodded, opened the freezer next to the counter and took a hold of bags of colorful popsicles out, “Masha, fill the ice bucket.”

Martha skillfully took a cleaned plastic paint bucket with a carrying handle and loaded all those popsicles that Qing Li bought into it, and then sealed it with a slow layer of ice before handing it over to Qing Li, “Ms. Pear, you said before that you have an assessment, and you can’t come here after you haven’t passed it, so is it over?”

Qing Li unwrapped a popsicle and bit off a piece, “It starts tomorrow.”

Martha walked her out of the store, “Then you should do well, I still want to see you often in the future.”

Aonashi looked up.

The town’s only main road stretched all the way up into the mountains, this hundred kilometers around was Yue Zhi’s territory, the manor that symbolized his power and status was in the middle of the tallest hill, hidden in the dense and deep rainforest, because it was too lush and green, coupled with the angle of the sunlight, the hill looked dark green and almost black, overriding the town’s top, with an overwhelming sense of oppression.

“I heard that Mr. Yue’s manor has a white castle, it’s beautiful, really?” Martha looked at the hill with a longing face.

“Hmm.”

“It’s so nice, it would be nice when I can go work in the manor too, I want to see it with my own eyes.” Masha said, “Even though it’s just odd jobs and I don’t get to see Mr. Yue, the pay is good, I want to make a lot of money.”

Qing Li turned back, “You didn’t go to school?”

Martha shook her head, “Not last week, I’m fifteen, why go to school, help out around the house, find a way to work and earn money is what matters, I want to go around Kuala Lumpur, I won’t have a chance to do that when I’m married later.”

Qingli didn’t say anything.

This town is almost for Yue Zhi service, because of his influence development is not bad, the residents life is also stable and peaceful, not rich but sufficient, even so, in the Malay environment, the conditions of the average girl junior high school graduation no longer study is also a normal thing, fifteen years of age adult, they can get married married and have children.

A six or seven year old girl came over and hugged Martha’s leg, looking timidly at Qing Li.

Qing Li said to Masha, “Take care of your sister.” Then trotted up the hill carrying a plastic bucket full of popsicles.

Even after seeing her every day for two years, the guards at the gate inspected her, especially the small bucket she was holding.

Because Qing Li couldn’t really be counted as Yue Zhi’s person yet, she hadn’t passed the examination, so she also lived in the main building, but there was no way for her to compare her authority and freedom with Yue Zhi’s right-hand men, Liang Jin and Xiji.

Pushing open the white door decorated with Tiffany’s art glass, the sound of tiny broken air rang out, Qing Li raised her hand and caught the metal dart that shot towards her face, “It’s not tomorrow yet.”

After saying that she threw the dart back, accurate and hard, and it stuck in the donut as big as his face in Saiji’s hand that the kitchen had made especially for him.

“I’m not going to let up tomorrow, if you fail and get swept away, this dart is a little souvenir I’m saving for you.” Saiji took the dart off the donut and continued to munch on it, the chocolate on it smudged all over his hands and he didn’t care at all.

Aonashi walked into the kitchen and put his own popsicles in the fridge, taking one out and stuffing it in his mouth, “I don’t need you to put water on it.”

Xiji leaned against the door frame, his expression disgusted, “Eating this junk food again.”

Yue Zhi walked in, poured himself a cup of coffee and said with a smile, “Ah Li likes to let her eat, don’t restrain her.”

Qing Li glanced at Xiji, biting off half of the Ice Soul in one bite, provoking a headache, and rigidly enduring it. Xiji was already quite accustomed to this silent provocation of hers, and grunted without saying anything.

Yue Zhi stretched his head towards her, “You eat it everyday, I’ll try what flavor it is.”

Qing Li naturally raised her hand, and he naturally took a bite of the half-eaten popsicle in her hand, then frowned, “It’s all flavored flavor.”

“I told you, there is only coloring flavoring and water in that, one a day will shorten your life.” Xiji gains momentum and immediately says, “You can’t blame me if you eat a bad stomach tomorrow and are in bad shape.”

Qing Li slanted a glance at him and quickly ate the rest, “I eat several a day.”

Yue Zhi touched Qing Li’s head, “If tomorrow goes well, I’ll take you to Star Island, if you like to eat, buy some good and expensive ones to eat.” He was used to calling Singapore Star Island.

Qing Li nodded, she didn’t care about the price, it was just because she could never eat in the Qing family in the past, so now she had a kind of vicarious mentality towards these snacks, but the expensive ones were surely tasty, she wouldn’t refuse.

She also understood Yue Zhi’s words, if she passed the test tomorrow, she would be a member of Yue Zhi’s big family, with absolute freedom and extremely high authority, able to continue to stay here and basically do everything she wanted to do.

But if she didn’t succeed, she would either have to leave this place, or she would only be reduced to an insignificant pawn at the bottom, and she would not be able to do anything about it in the future.

When she first arrived here two years ago, Yue Qi had given her two paths to choose.

The first was to take the ten million dollars in cash he gave her and leave directly, and then she would have nothing to do with him in life and death.

The second was to stay, undergo training and polishing, and become the only female among Yue Zhi’s close friends, apart from work and tasks outside the time, she could do whatever she wanted, all the requirements, as long as they did not hinder Yue Zhi’s own interests, could be satisfied.

Qing Li chose the second one with hardly any hesitation.

Freedom without boundaries and limitations was actually a kind of degradation, she was very conscious of herself, even if she left with a huge sum of money, she could only sit on her hands and eat nothing, without any schooling, without any social experience, and with Gano Zhen as a younger brother, the freedom she thought she had might only be disordered and out of control.

But in Yue Zhi side is different, Yue Zhi is her fence is also her backing, she has enough time to make herself strong, as for the future, now she simply can’t think that far.

Another reason was Xiji’s words at that time.

“Pay her to go? No way, there is no such a cheap thing! A billion dollars of business gone down the drain, we still have to pour money to let her leave, are we being charitable! Stay here and work as a cow!”

She knew that her so-called favor to Yue Zhi might not have existed in the first place, but Yue Zhi’s favor to her was more than just letting her leave the Qing family, there was also that billion dollars that she could not earn in her lifetime.

If she could really be of some use, then it wouldn’t be pointless for her to stay.

“Ah Li.” Yue Zhi called out to the frothing Qing Li.

Qing Li looked up, and Yue Zhi’s hand reached over. He touched Qing Li’s slender neck, the scar on the side was cut out by glass two years ago at the manor in Indonesia when she was trying to save him.

“Sir.” She responded.

“Cheer up, even if you raise a cat or a dog for two years, you have feelings, although your stay or go is decided by me, but I should not let you go straight away, the bottom pawns can be hard to do, I will not show favoritism, and you don’t force me to see you go down there to suffer.” Yue Zhi said.

Qing Li nodded, her cheek unintentionally rubbed against Yue Zhi’s palm, she knew her value and positioning, “I will succeed.”

“Well, not to say success or not ……,” Yue Zhi smiled, “Don’t die.”

Qing Li glanced at Xiji who had a smug look on his face because he had been complimented on his strength by Yue Zhi’s change of direction, and did not say anything.

“When you return successfully, I have a gift for you.” Yue Zhi sold a secret.

Qing Li did not pursue the question either, “Then can I make a request?”

Yue Zhi guessed what she wanted to say, “You want to meet Gano Zhen?”

“Uh-huh.”

Ganojin was sent to Singapore to study, counting that they hadn’t seen each other for three months.

She and Ga Nuo Zhen have known each other for ten years, depending on each other, the other party is three years younger than her, it can be said that she brought up, more than her own brother, to say that tomorrow she will really die, the only thing that can’t let go is only this brother.

“I promise you, whether you succeed or not, I will let him see you once, but the way will have to be decided by your result.”

Qing Li was instantly happy, his calm face instantly took on a glow, his unique dark gray eyes brightened up like two polished stones, “Hmm.”

Yue Zhi didn’t say anything else, took a call and left.

Only Xiji and Qingli were left in the restaurant.

Xiji pushed over a plate and said in a nonchalant manner, “Eat, there are three days starting tomorrow, you won’t be able to eat anything decent.”

Qing Li looked at the donuts on the plate that were bigger than her face, “Why do you have to do good things as if they were bad things, can’t it be that making people hate you will give you a sense of accomplishment?”

Xiji’s face instantly reddened, reaching out to yank over the plate, “Shut up if you don’t want to eat, where’s the nonsense!”

Qing Li quickly picked up the donut and took a bite, “I know your kind, it seems to be called …… arrogance, the right words to say the opposite as a way to maintain their majestic image.”

Xiji took a deep breath and looked at her serious face, resisting the urge to slap her, “Eat yours!”

Qing Li felt that point blank, pissing off the other party would lead to another fight, she had already run around a lot today and she didn’t want to waste any more of her stamina.

“I’m serious with you, tomorrow you must remember not to let any of your guard down, and never stop when you can run.” After a moment, Saiji squared his shoulders, his eyes sharp, not in keeping with his teenage sensibility appearance, but more in keeping with his actual age of twenty-eight.

“Why are you telling me this?” Aonashi asked.

Xiji paused for a long time before speaking, “It always felt like you wouldn’t have stayed in the first place if it wasn’t for those words of mine, and now I don’t know if that’s considered a good thing or a bad thing for you.”

Qing Li was strange, “This doesn’t fit your identity as the number one assassin by Yue Zhi’s side.”

Xiji snorted, “Just fit my identity of still being a person.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.” Qing Li looked at him, “I was taught by you, I won’t let you down tomorrow.”

Xiji let out a “hmm” and got up to leave, “Rest early and get your strength.”

“Are you going to set up the trap now?” Aonashi asked.

Xiji compares a middle finger, “Yeah, catch you early, I can also get off work early, don’t like to suffer that tiredness.”

Qing Li watched him leave, picked up the darts on the table and went back to her room.