"I, I..."

Lin Jie stammered.

"Don't give me that crap, hurry up and talk, or I'll really hit you?"

Ye Qiu waved his fist in front of Lin Jie, instantly scaring him so much that the wounds on his face started to hurt again. He waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I'll talk, I'll talk, I just, I just, when I was young, I secretly watched Xu Lei bathe, I..."

Bam.

Before he finished speaking, Ye Qiu's fist landed on his face.

That punch made stars appear before his eyes, and the newly wrapped bandage started to bleed again.

"Damn, didn't you say you wouldn't hit me if I talked? You can't keep your word."

Lin Jie, knocked to the ground by Ye Qiu, moaned in pain.

Ye Qiu sneered coldly, "Hmph, you dared to secretly watch Sister Xu Lei bathe, and it's already good enough that I didn't kill you."

...

Half an hour later, Lin Jie's face had a few more layers of bandage. He then looked at Ye Qiu beside him in disbelief, "Are you saying that you and Little Lei have already, already..."

"That's right, I've already taken Lei's first, and we truly love each other, so don't have any useless hopes." Ye Qiu said.

"I."

Lin Jie felt such bitterness in his heart. He had waited for Xu Lei for over ten years, just to apologize to her personally and then pursue her when he found her.

But just now, he heard Ye Qiu tell him that Xu Lei was already with Ye Qiu and had given her first to him, making Lin Jie want to die.

"How can this happen, how can this happen." Lin Jie muttered to himself in disbelief.

"Do you want to know why?" Ye Qiu asked.

"Tell me." Lin Jie looked at Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu said, "Because I'm better looking than you, haha..."

Lin Jie was filled with black lines, but he then seriously examined Ye Qiu for a moment and nodded, "You do have the talent of being a pretty boy."

Ye Qiu's smile froze, and he looked at Lin Jie fiercely, "Say that again if you dare."

Lin Jie shrank his neck, seeing Ye Qiu's fist as big as a sandbag, and his face still wrapped in bandages. The pain that came with any movement made him clearly aware of how hard Ye Qiu's fist was, so he dared not speak.

After a moment of silence, he sighed and said to Ye Qiu, "Alright, since you've been with Little Lei, I can only wish you well."

Ye Qiu was slightly stunned, not expecting Lin Jie to be so straightforward.

Lin Jie raised a bottle of wine and said, "Don't look at me like that, this is the real me. I won't destroy the happiness that others already have."

Ye Qiu nodded, clinked his bottle with Lin Jie's, and after a sip of beer, Lin Jie said, "But if you dare to treat Xu Lei badly in the future, I won't let you off."

"Hehe."

Ye Qiu laughed, looking at Lin Jie whose face was covered in gauze, "Won't let me off, but it seems like you can't beat me."

Lin Jie said, "Even if I can't beat you, I'll still fight to the death with you. What's giving my life for someone I love?"

Hearing Lin Jie's words, Ye Qiu stood up and looked deeply at him, nodding, and clinked glasses heavily with him, "I toast to you being a true man, come drink..."

The two then drank heavily, and after a few bottles, Ye Qiu asked, "What's the plan next?"

Lin Jie said, "No need to rush, you just arrived, and with Xu Batian's character, he surely won't trust you, so he'll look for opportunities to test you."

"Test me?" Ye Qiu was taken aback and then nodded.

Lin Jie said, "You don't need to worry too much, just act normally. Once you pass Xu Batian's tests a few times, he'll gradually let you get closer to the core. Once you get close to the core, our mission will be nearing its end."

Hearing the weariness in Lin Jie's words, Ye Qiu asked, "How many years have you been undercover?"

Lin Jie pondered for a while, "I don't know, maybe seven or eight years, not sure about the exact time."

"So long?" Ye Qiu looked at Lin Jie with some admiration, "Have you ever thought about quitting halfway when you couldn't take it anymore?"

Though this was Ye Qiu's first time as an undercover agent, from some films and materials, he knew the pressure of being undercover was immense, especially the psychological pressure.

Because you don't know when you'll slip up and be discovered, and then you'll be facing the cold barrel of a gun.

"Quit?"

Lin Jie shook his head, "Once you're in, there's no quitting, and even if I do quit, where would I go?

The state security won't take me back, and staying by Xu Batian's side, I reckon that Xu Batian will find out too, his intelligence network is incredibly strong.

"So you've been living like this for nearly ten years." Ye Qiu asked.

Lin Jie nodded, "It's quite good this way; life is quite fulfilling."

Ye Qiu sighed, then chose to help Xu Long, purely to rescue Xu Lei, which is why he had to go undercover for ten, eight years; otherwise, he'd go mad.

Therefore, at this moment, he truly admired Lin Jie greatly.

"Oh, right, do you know where Sister Xu Lei is being held by Xu Laoda, and why he captured her?"

Hearing Ye Qiu's words, Lin Jie jolted awake and then shook his head, "I only know it's in a villa on the outskirts owned by Xu Laoda. But I don't know the exact location, though I heard that the villa is heavily guarded, and not even a fly can get in without permission.

"As for why Xu Laoda captured Xu Lei, I think it has something to do with the rumors.

"What rumors?" Ye Qiu got interested and looked at Lin Jie.

Frowning, Lin Jie pondered for a long time and then said, "I heard that Xu Laoda originally had three daughters."

"Currently, the eldest daughter is the second, and the eldest is Sister Xu Lei."

"What?" Ye Qiu was shocked, "That's impossible."

Lin Jie nodded, "At first, I thought it was impossible too, but thinking back to when I was young, in the village with Xu Lei, there were indeed times when a large group of men in black would visit. Although I couldn't see who they were at that time.

But I think they were Xu Laoda's men for sure.

Hearing Lin Jie's explanation, Ye Qiu deeply furrowed his brow, then thought of how Xu Jiao acted towards Xu Lei.

Then he remembered Xu Batian's look when he first saw Xu Lei, and suddenly something clicked.

"Could it be that Sister Lei is really Xu Laoda's daughter?"

"But why would Sister Lei say her parents are dead, was it deliberate, or for some other purpose?"

In this instant, Ye Qiu fell into absolute confusion.

Lin Jie, seeing Ye Qiu's painful expression, smiled slightly and said, "Don't think too much now; no matter how much you think, Xu Lei is still in Xu Batian's hands. We should focus more on figuring out how to take down Xu Batian, and then study how to safely get Xu Lei out."

Ye Qiu looked at Lin Jie, seeing the slightly dull gleam in his eyes, was silent for a while, then nodded, "Alright."

Afterward, Ye Qiu and Lin Jie began discussing how to deal with Xu Batian and avoid blowing their cover as undercover agents.

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