There was a time when her frozen heart was opened by a boy only eighteen years old. After forgetting him, upon meeting again, her heart slowly melted once more.

Here, she tried to accept him, not because of love, but because she was genuinely happy today. In her happiness, enjoying a mundane life, an assassination attempt made her heart tremble intensely.

She was afraid, afraid that people from Red Butterfly would find her again. If she had to face such a dark life again, she feared her world would collapse.

Could this boy in front of her really calm her heart? His composure, his calmness, and that superior intellect, each fact spoke of his reliability.

People of the martial world do not think too much. Twenty-two-year-old Shen Zuimo would be lying if she said she never fantasized about romance. However, it takes just a moment of thought; she is an assassin who betrayed her master. Such a person's survival in this world is already difficult, let alone love.

Speaking of this, Shen Zuimo made Xiaofan lie down, always with a feeling of giving up and letting go.

Nightmares came as scheduled, as if they were bound to occur at a certain time. Shen Zuimo did not know if these nightmares would haunt her for a lifetime, until the day she died. But tonight was really different. Before the vengeful ghosts, a guy with a lascivious smile stood in front of her, and such a familiarity surprisingly brought a great sense of peace, as if leaving everything for him to handle was enough.

At ten in the morning, the sunlight outside the window was exceptionally bright. The temperature changes of this season were really unpredictable, with nighttime temperatures dropping below ten degrees and daytime temperatures rising to around twenty degrees.

Shen Zuimo slowly opened her eyes in the warm environment. Usually, she wouldn't wake up so late, but she slept very soundly last night. Especially...

Especially in his embrace... Clearly, she had agreed not to let him touch her, yet somehow she found herself voluntarily snuggling into his embrace, as if this place gave her a sense of belonging.

Slowly getting up, she had to leave the bed before this guy woke up because she really didn't want to admit the truths he spoke of.

"Don't move."

That strong hand pressed Shen Zuimo back to her original position, making the cold-hearted assassin feel like a little woman controlled by an overbearing man. He didn't care whether she got up or not, just held her waist tightly, feeling her softness next to him, and that body scent he hadn't smelled in a long time.

"Lie down longer, don't get up; once you're up, there's a lot to do."

Yes, this guy must have woken up when she did, yet he still lazily refused to move.

Indeed, if they got up now, they'd have to rush for breakfast, then hurry back to Yanhuang Soul. After all, the assassination order was there, and assassins were bound to keep coming to the Capital City, perhaps already seeking traces of Xiaofan there.

Taking Shen Zuimo outside was really quite dangerous, so Xiaofan's plan was for just one day, just a single day. That's why he was unwilling to get up from bed, hoping to stay one more second as long as the person beside him was still there.

"I can't sleep anymore."

"Then just lie here and accompany me." Xiaofan moved slightly, his big hand seemingly holding tighter, as if saying that he couldn't let her escape.

Unexpectedly, Shen Zuimo was not angry at his impudence. She only gently pulled his hand away, lying a bit further from him. She wasn't annoyed, but it didn't mean the awake Shen Zuimo would accept such intimate actions.

She took her phone from the drawer beside the table. Upon turning it on, a bunch of messages suddenly appeared.

"All the messages were sent between six thirty and eight in the morning. Some were from her brother Shen Junjie, asking what she was doing now and saying Fan Lingtian was looking for Xiaofan. The following messages were direct quotes from Fan Lingtian, asking Xiaofan to hurry back to help with something."

Sure enough, once getting up from bed, there indeed was something to do.

Shen Zuimo gently redialed her brother's number.

"Hello, Zuimo?"

"What's up?"

"Where's Xiaofan? Why is that guy not answering his phone? Are you with him? Tell him to call back."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zuimo kicked Xiaofan, who opened his eyes slightly in a sleepy daze.

"Phone..."

"Um... Oh. Hello? Who is it?"

"Um? Ah? Ah..."

"Ah, what? Who is it?"

"Did you just wake up? Then why is Zuimo next to you? You... You guys slept together last night?"

Well then, this was a beautiful misunderstanding. Although Shen Junjie didn't believe that his cold sister would obediently go shopping with Xiaofan, the current evidence seemed like a very good fact.

"Yeah, we slept together."

"You bastard, what did you do to my sister? Beast, come back, come back immediately, or I'll beat you senseless."

"What could I do? Zuimo is so fierce! If I dared to touch her even a finger, she'd chop my hand off!"

Saying such lies with eyes wide open. Shen Zuimo glared at Xiaofan. He had clearly embraced her last night and now was telling such boring lies.

Anyway, she was already awake; staying in bed any longer was pointless, so Shen Zuimo also got ready to get up and wash. But as soon as Xiaofan said the thing about chopping hands, that claw of his quickly reached out to grab Shen Zuimo's hand and shook his head at her, indicating she shouldn't get up.

"I just finished a mission and you already ran away with my sister. What are you trying to do?"

"What do you want? Hurry up, I'm very tired." Xiaofan's voice was still very lazy, as if he hadn't had enough sleep despite it being past ten o'clock.

"Oh, Elder Fan is asking you to come back to handle something with your team."

"What's the matter?"

"The intelligence network received the latest news that Red Butterfly has set up a base in Qinghai. Originally, we wanted to keep monitoring that base to find Red Butterfly's main nest, but now things have gotten a bit big there. They want you to lead a team to take it down."

"What kind of team? How many people? What level of assassins are there?"

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