Lin Xiao enjoyed the blissful feeling from his lips while wanting to reverse time and was stupefied.

Because their lips were stuck to each other, her scorching breath swept across his face, along with her faint scent and her unblinking eyes that were locked onto him, it gave him the chills…

They couldn't be any close and he was caught in the act, he wouldn't be able to get himself out of this no matter what he says… what should he do?

Finally, Lin Xiao snapped out of it and quickly moved away.

“Um…”

While Lin Xiao was faltering, Shen DaiYing asked an unforeseen question…

“Did it feel good?” Shen DaiYing asked expressionlessly.

“Yeah, it did.” Lin Xiao instinctively answered, then quickly recovered, and shook his hands, “No, no! It didn't… uh, that's not right, I was just, uh…”

“Did it feel good or not?”

“It did.” Lin Xiao spoke honestly.

“Then if it felt good, why aren't you continuing? Even if you continue doing something else, I wont resist.” Shen DaiYIng quickly blinked, and seriously said.

“Uh…”

Was she mocking him? Or was she speaking from the heart? Lin Xiao didn't know.

Even though he sneaked a kiss, she was still lying in his embrace. She didn't resist or rebuke him and instead asked why he didn't keep going. It was like she was saying that she was free for his picking.

“Um… w-why did you suddenly wake up?” Lin Xiao awkwardly changed the topic.

“I woke up a while ago, and was squinting my eyes, you just never noticed.”

“Ah, a while ago? That means…”

“Yeah, from when you were wiping my legs, to sneaking a kiss, I know everything.”

“Ah!? Haha… um…”

Hearing her response, Lin Xiao cold only scratch his head.

He had a slight smile, but inside he already had a clear picture of his situation.

It's over, he's f.u.c.ked.

“Sister Ying, I was wrong! … But, I'll definitely take responsibility!”

Other than fessing up to his mistake, Lin Xiao couldn't think of a second way out, his only hope was that she didn't kill him out of anger.

Of course, the best outcome was the indignant Shen DaiYing would believe herself to be tarnished and wants him to take responsibility by forcing him to marry her. Then bring him home to be the emperor's son-in-law, then a wedding, then…

Peh! What the h.e.l.l is he thinking about?

“You're wrong? No, you're not.” Unexpectedly, she wasn't angry, she was even consoling him, “You saved my life, so this amount of intimacy is expected.”

“…” Lin Xiao just wanted to say something, but as it was about to come out, he had nothing to say.

He didn't know if he should be happy or sad after carefully considering what she meant by her words.

Was it only because he saved her life?

“Are you not continuing? Okay then, can you please answer some of my questions?”

Should he say she was cold? No, her expression and tone wasn't cold, it was indifferent.

It was like she already lost any interest to that kind of physical contact, so what if it's a kiss? That was the minimum she could do for her savior, she wouldn't reject much less resist it.

If Lin Xiao wanted, she was willing to satisfy any of his desires.

But since he didn't want to, then she wanted to get some clarification.

“Okay, go ahead.” Lin Xiao nodded and got prepared.

“When I left, weren't you going to sleep with your maid? How did you come here and save me?”

She DaiYing didn't understand, that night, she silently left after watching Lin Xiao go to sleep, how was he here?

“Oh, I was faking. I started following you right after you turned around.”

“Followed me?” Shen DaiYing tilted her head in confusion, “But how did you know where I was going? Or what I was going to do?”

Forgetting about the reason, just with her speed alone, she was confident that Lin Xiao wouldn't be able to catch up to her. But he did, and he even saved her when she was in peril, how?

“Sister Ying, of course, I knew where you were going, you wanted to a.s.sa.s.sinate Charles, I was able to figure that out a while ago.”

“You figured that out? What are you saying? How is that possible!? You…”

Shen DaiYing was taken by surprise and tried getting up, but her sudden movements affected her wounds, her mouth twitched and she fell back down into Lin Xiao.

“Ah, Sister Ying, stop moving! Even if you want to leave, wait until after I finish applying the medicine!”

“Tss…”

Shen DaiYing frowned, after seeing the small medicine bottle he was holding, he remembered the time when he treated her wounds at Loran Academy, so stopped moving and feebly nodded.

After getting her permission, he could openly take advantage… oh no, apply the medicine.

Lin Xiao didn't have much blood, so he couldn't waste it. He carefully applied a tiny bit then used his hands to evenly spread it and let it slowly diffuse into her skin. Then he would switch a spot and repeat.

He remembered that when he helped her apply medicine last time, she was shy about it, her flushed cheeks and rough breathing made it feel sensual, but this time, it was the complete opposite.

She was silently lying on him and staring at him with her empty eyes without any coyness.

Lin Xiao had some wicked thoughts, but after seeing that, he couldn't continue. So, he just continued applying the medicine while telling her what she wanted to know.

“Charles wouldn't bring too many guards when partic.i.p.ating on Despair Island, so this is a perfect time to try and a.s.sa.s.sinate him. If I was an a.s.sa.s.sin, I would also choose to do it here…”

“But, how did you catch up to me?”

“Sigh, don't even mention it.”

Lin Xiao got depressed just thinking about it.

He originally planned on following her, but she was way too fast and he was ditched not long after they left. Luckily, he already knew her target, so as long as he could find Charles, he could find her.

There were two paths towards Despair forest, he knew that Charles would definitely choose the riskier valley path, so he ran nonstop before he was finally able to catch up.

But he was still too late, Shen DaiYing was already riddled in wounds and already at the point of trying to exchange her life for Charles's.

It was good thing that Lin Xiao was able to react quickly and instant cast a powerful seventh level magic to blast Devoru away and save her during the confusion, otherwise…

After listening to him, Shen DaiYing fell silent for a moment and realized a crucial problem.

“So… how did you know I was going to a.s.sa.s.sinate Charles?”

“Did you forget? This is your fourth mission after coming to Lombard Kingdom, your previous three mission already gave me enough information.”

“Previous three? You knew that it was me?”

“I knew.”

All of her previous targets, were without exception, related to human trafficking and slave trade. Based on that reasoning, Charles was unrelated , and Lin Xiao was stuck.

But if he thought at it from a different angle, he saw a bigger picture.

The real relations.h.i.+p wasn't the trade itself, but the chain!

“Smuggling.”

Shen DaiYing's eyes became dark after hearing that.

Elena and Rosie only saw human trafficking itself but ignored the trafficking itself.

“I asked Caesar later on, and he said that those three were not only related to human trafficking but also held a monopoly on a vast smuggling network. They were engaged with weapon trafficking within the kingdom and also had relations with Gotham and Lin Heyan Kingdom. My guess was that the Great Qin Empire also had relations with them, but had a dispute so you wanted to eliminate them.”

Based on that logic, only Heino Kingdom's Prince Charles would have any relations with that smuggling.

Charles was young but already held a considerable amount of power, he heard from Rosie that he was hardworking and cared for his citizens and cracked down on smuggling.

If Great Qin wanted to smuggle anything out of Lombard Kingdom, they would have to pa.s.s through Heino Kingdom, but because of Charles's strict crackdown, they wouldn't be able to easily pa.s.s through, so he became an eyesore.

“Also, that a.s.sa.s.sination on Charles a couple of years ago was also related to you guys, right? a.s.sa.s.sinating a future king… it's probably not just simply smuggling, there's probably something else.”

After finally treating her legs, he used cloth to wrap her feet and then tied a b.u.t.terfly knot, and smiled with self-satisfaction.

“… So, you already knew I was an a.s.sa.s.sin?”

“That's right.”

“How? I didn't leave any traces behind. I know that Rosie has been investigating me, but she didn't find any proof, how could you know? Do you have proof? Or are you merely suspecting me?”

“… That day was also the same as today, do you remember me help you apply medicine?” Lin Xiao didn't directly answer her question and instead mentioned something unrelated.

“Eh?”

Medicine?

Shen DaiYing lowered her head and saw the crooked b.u.t.terfly knot on her leg.

Exactly the same as last time's.