When Su Mingyu carried Qin Chu out of the room again, the battle - hardened members of the assassin organization couldn't help gasping at Qin Chu's miserable state. Some with weak willpower even vomited on the spot.
Su Mingyu didn't say much. She just threw Qin Chu on the ground, looked at these people, and said in a cold voice, "If you follow me obediently, I will surely treat you well. But if you keep disobeying my orders like this, I guarantee you'll wish you were dead."
Hearing Su Mingyu's words, some who could see the situation clearly went limp in the legs and knelt on the ground. "We swear to be loyal to the master unto death!"
Once someone took the lead, the others also knelt down one after another. "We swear to be loyal to the master unto death!"
After all, wasn't the reason they chose this life of risking their lives just to earn a bit more silver?
Now it was obvious that Qin Chu could no longer protect them. Finding a new master was the wise choice.
Satisfied with these people, Su Mingyu randomly pointed at a man. "From now on, I'll hand this organization over to you. On the surface, you'll be the leader of this assassin organization. But in secret, you just need to complete the tasks I assign to you. Can you do it?"
The man knelt on the ground and nodded. "I'll follow the master's orders."
Su Mingyu nodded. "Prioritize dealing with the matter of that shop. If you're short of silver, just send someone to tell me."
After saying that, Su Mingyu turned around and left. In the sunlight, although her figure looked petite, it cast an extremely tall shadow.
After finishing everything, as soon as Su Mingyu returned to the city, from afar she saw Gu Ruobai wearing a mask, waiting for her.
Looking at Gu Ruobai in his white clothes, Su Mingyu suddenly felt a sense of inferiority and unease. She stood there still and didn't take the initiative to go over.
Seeing that she didn't move, Gu Ruobai took the initiative to walk up.
When he got closer, he noticed that there were dots of blood on Su Mingyu's sleeves and the hem of her skirt.
Gu Ruobai took her hand and looked her up and down. Finding that Su Mingyu didn't seem to be injured, he finally felt relieved.
Noticing his gaze, Su Mingyu nervously withdrew her hand. "Um... I still have something to do. I'll go back first."
Saying that, she was about to leave, but before she could take a step, her wrist was tightly grasped by a big hand.
She heard a deep voice from behind. "Are you going back like this? If Zhizhu knew, she'd be worried, right?"
Su Mingyu froze. In the 21st century, she was a cold - blooded killer who never blinked an eye when killing and used ruthless means in missions.
But now, in front of Gu Ruobai, for some reason, she just didn't want Gu Ruobai to see her covered in blood.
Gu Ruobai's big hand was very warm. He gently stroked the back of Su Mingyu's hand, his voice low and magnetic. "Let's go back to the prince's mansion first."
Feeling the scorching warmth from that big hand, Su Mingyu nodded and said "um".
Along the way, there were bustling crowds and hawking sounds on both sides of the street, but Su Mingyu couldn't hear anything. Her mind and eyes were full of the person beside her.
The uneasiness that she had just now seemed to dissipate completely under the warmth of that big hand.
After the two entered the prince's mansion through the back door, Gu Ruobai asked someone to bring a basin of hot water for her. "Go wash up and take a rest first. I'll wait for you in the tea garden."
Su Mingyu nodded. When she let go of Gu Ruobai's hand, she glanced at him from the corner of her eye.
Gu Ruobai gave her a reassuring look. "Go ahead. I'll be in the tea garden. I won't go anywhere."
Only then did Su Mingyu follow the maid into the room.
Watching Su Mingyu's back, Gu Ruobai tightly clenched his fist. "Mu Yi, I need to know where Su Mingyu went and what she did today. Report everything to me in detail."
Mu Yi nodded and disappeared into the yard.
When Su Mingyu came into the tea garden again, wearing a new set of white clothes, she saw Gu Ruobai drinking tea at a glance.
Su Mingyu walked up and softly said, "How did you know I'd be back at that time?"
Gu Ruobai poured her a cup of hot tea and motioned for her to sit down first. "I just heard from Mu Yi that you went out of the city alone. I thought you might be going to deal with Qin Chu's matter, so I waited for you there."
Su Mingyu held the warm cup of tea. Just like when Gu Ruobai held her hand before, the heat spread from her palm and instantly warmed her whole body.
She pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "I did go to deal with this matter, but I didn't expect to see you as soon as I returned to the city, so..."
Su Mingyu lowered her eyes and pursed her lips, not saying anything more.
Gu Ruobai squinted his deep eyes and then said, "So you're embarrassed to see me. You think I'll be afraid of you, or you think I'll dislike you like this, right?"
Su Mingyu folded her hands, and her thumb gently stroked the rim of the cup. "I suddenly feel that I, with my hands stained with blood for my own self - interest, am a bit out of place with you, who fights bravely on the battlefield to defend the country."
Gu Ruobai gently raised his eyebrows, his tone with a hint of almost imperceptible doting. "Although I don't know how you suddenly had such a thought, do you really think my hands are clean?"
"I'm a person who has survived the battles on the battlefield. If I thought like you, I should be worried that you'd stay away from me."
Su Mingyu pursed her lips. "No... our positions are different."
Gu Ruobai gently stroked her hand, his tone gentler than ever. "Mingyu, I'm not a saint, and neither are you. We're all just trying to survive, aren't we?"
Such a simple sentence was better than a thousand words of comfort.
For a moment, the stuffy feeling that had been clogging her chest seemed to dissipate instantly.
Su Mingyu hooked the corners of her lips and smiled gently. "I've complicated things."
Su Mingyu admitted that she was a bit afraid. She was afraid that after Gu Ruobai knew that she was a cold - blooded killer, it would have a bad impact on her or that he would stay away from her.
But then she thought, if a man couldn't even accept her true nature, why should she worry about him?
Actually, when she was washing up before, Su Mingyu had thought of countless possibilities in her mind. Maybe Gu Ruobai would accept it calmly, or maybe he would think she was too cruel.
But she didn't expect that this person simply didn't care about what she had done.
Just the simple words "just trying to survive" completely settled her uneasy heart.
This suddenly made Su Mingyu remember that in the 21st century, after she completed a mission and came back, that scumbag didn't even want to touch her.