Chapter 349: Chapter 347: You Will Become a Puppet

Sister Ying’s hair was much shorter than in the portrait.

The two stared at each other. Su Miaoyi, holding her phone, surreptitiously pressed the power button five times to notify Zhuang Yanzheng of her location.

’Sister Ying is good. I’m not sure if I can beat her.’

’If possible, I need to stall for time until Zhuang Yanzheng can get the nearest police officers here.’

"Hey! Over here! Couldn’t find me?" The taxi driver, seeing Su Miaoyi standing frozen in place, rolled down his window and waved at her.

Sister Ying was standing just behind the taxi. Hearing his voice, she glanced at him.

Su Miaoyi’s heart leaped. She instinctively walked forward, saying, "I ran into someone I know. You can head back first."

Sister Ying was too close to the driver. He had seen her face, and Su Miaoyi was worried Sister Ying would kill him to silence him.

But after glancing at the driver, Sister Ying ignored him and turned her gaze back to Su Miaoyi, staring intently.

Her phoenix eyes, with their upward-tilting corners, glinted with a cold light.

"Well, I’ve been waiting for a while now. No refunds," the driver said.

Su Miaoyi walked up to the car window, keeping her eyes on Sister Ying, and said to the driver, "No need for a refund. Just go."

"Alright then." The driver was happy to hear he didn’t have to give the money back. Then he added, "I’ll just wait here for someone else. I can make another fare on the way back."

Su Miaoyi: "..."

’Who are you even going to pick up here?!’ Su Miaoyi roared internally. ’This place is so remote! People either drive their own car or have a driver wait for them! Besides, it’s not a holiday, and no one is coming. Who are you going to find? A ghost?!’

"Police business." Su Miaoyi flashed her police ID. "Go!"

The driver looked at her ID, then at her expression, and suddenly understood. He sped off immediately.

Watching the driver get away safely, Su Miaoyi breathed a sigh of relief.

Sister Ying was still watching her. "Who are you?"

"You chased me all the way here, and now you’re asking who I am?" Su Miaoyi scoffed. "Don’t you find that ridiculous?"

"When I saw you last year, you looked a little different than you do now," Sister Ying said.

Su Miaoyi smiled. "Well, that’s because I’ve spent the whole past year praying to the heavens, wishing to become younger and more beautiful. The heavens must have been moved by my sincerity, and that’s why I’ve gotten prettier."

Sister Ying sized her up, then looked at her face again. It didn’t look like she’d had plastic surgery.

The person in front of her looked too much like Qin Leyan. They were practically identical.

’But... the Qin Leyan I knew... the one who pretended to be Su Miaoyi at first, and the one who later became an assassin... neither of them would talk like this.’

’Besides, Qin Leyan is dead.’

’But how could two people look exactly the same? I never heard she had a twin sister.’

’And she’s also named Su Miaoyi, the same name Qin Leyan used as her cover.’

Sister Ying didn’t move, and neither did Su Miaoyi.

’When you’re not absolutely certain, you stall for as long as you can.’

Looking at that face, Sister Ying hesitated.

But she quickly cast the hesitation from her mind.

’Qin Leyan is dead.’

’This person... is a trap set by the police.’

’They still want to place someone close to the boss.’

’Qin Leyan was an exception. But this woman isn’t Qin Leyan, so she has to die.’

Sister Ying suddenly struck, her dagger aimed straight for Su Miaoyi’s heart.

Su Miaoyi immediately dodged backward. "What’s wrong with you? Don’t you give a warning before you attack?"

Sister Ying said nothing, lunging at her with the dagger again.

Su Miaoyi grabbed her forearm and twisted it back.

Sister Ying released the dagger. As it fell, she caught it with her left hand and stabbed at Su Miaoyi once more.

Su Miaoyi kicked her.

Instead of dodging, she took the kick, grabbed Su Miaoyi’s ankle, and yanked hard.

The dagger plunged toward her leg.

Su Miaoyi reacted instantly, planting her foot on Sister Ying’s body for leverage and sweeping her other leg toward her opponent’s temple.

Sister Ying raised an arm to block, forced to let go of Su Miaoyi.

After putting some distance between them, Su Miaoyi closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them, her gaze had changed.

She drew the dagger from her back and charged straight at Sister Ying.

The daggers clashed with a piercing screech.

The road to the cemetery was paved with asphalt, flanked by wildflowers, wild grass, and loose gravel at the base of the mountain.

They fought from the asphalt road to the eastern shoulder, then from the eastern shoulder to the western one.

The cemetery groundskeeper initially saw them fighting and tried to run over to break it up, but halfway there, he realized this was no ordinary fight and quickly retreated to call the police.

From the western side, they fought their way back to the middle of the road.

Su Miaoyi shattered the window of Sister Ying’s car with a single punch.

Sister Ying dodged the punch and, as she counterattacked, reached through the broken window, yanked out the seatbelt, and wrapped it around Su Miaoyi’s neck to strangle her.

Su Miaoyi sliced through the seatbelt with her dagger, but Sister Ying’s own blade stabbed into her shoulder.

The dagger had been aimed at her heart. Unable to dodge completely, Su Miaoyi could only drop lower, letting the blade hit her shoulder. As she dropped, she kicked Sister Ying’s leg.

Sister Ying pitched forward, and Su Miaoyi’s dagger stabbed into her abdomen, aimed for her liver—a fatal blow.

But Sister Ying caught the blade with her bare hand. The dagger only pierced her abdomen slightly, a mere flesh wound.

Su Miaoyi pulled the dagger free and stabbed at her neck.

Sister Ying’s blood-soaked hand clamped down on her wrist as she stared into her eyes.

The Su Miaoyi of this moment was a completely different person from the one who had been talking just now.

The talkative Su Miaoyi was a stranger, but this Su Miaoyi, her eyes filled with bloodlust and killing intent, felt very familiar.

The face was familiar, and so were the eyes and the aura.

"Who are you, really?"

"The one who’s going to take your life." With her right wrist caught, Su Miaoyi balled her left hand into a fist and smashed it toward Sister Ying’s head.

It was incredibly fast, whistling through the air. Sister Ying dodged, and the punch slammed into the car, blood welling up from the back of Su Miaoyi’s hand.

Sister Ying pulled back, retreating a few steps, and looked at her. "Do you know Qin Leyan?"

Su Miaoyi didn’t speak, just gripped her dagger and stared, her only thought to kill her.

"You look so much like her. I investigated you. The cast-off daughter of the Ji Family, raised by poor relatives. For the first twenty-five years, you lived an ordinary life. Besides being abandoned by your family, your life was utterly uneventful."

Su Miaoyi walked forward.

Sister Ying backed away. "But starting last year, your life changed. You followed them into one dangerous situation after another. Why did they choose you? Only because you look so much like someone named Qin Leyan. They want to use that to get you close to us again."

"You talk too much."

Su Miaoyi surged forward, every move a killing blow.

Sister Ying no longer attacked, dodging backward instead. "Do you know what will happen to you if they succeed? If I take you away right now? You’ll be just like Qin Leyan—your memories erased with electroshock hypnosis. If once isn’t enough, they’ll do it twice. If twice isn’t enough, they’ll do it countless times, until you become a numb puppet, a killing machine, an assassin who would even kill her own friends and family."

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