Tao Ying saw the faint warning flash in Young Master Liu's eyes, but there was no panic reaction on his face.
He turned his eyes and glanced at the dagger that was embedded in the floor tiles. He looked at Young Master Liu and smiled bitterly, looking like he was ready to kill or hack them all.
“Not only did the little girl fail to take your life, but she fell into your hands.
Nowadays, I am a swordsman and I am a fish. I have already prepared myself mentally that after the assassination fails, I will eventually be captured by you and killed on the spot.
You are the king of a country who holds the power of life and death, and I am just a female prostitute.
I really don't have the qualifications to bargain with you.
But for a person who is ready to die, whether he is qualified to bargain or not is no longer important.
Sooner or later, death is inevitable, so why can't the little girl choose to die with more dignity? "
Liu Mingzhi looked at Tao Ying's calm acceptance of her fate and sighed helplessly.
"You convinced me. Although I really don't want to admit it, I can only say that I really can't do anything to you, little brother, for your attitude of not being afraid of boiling water.
A man who can sacrifice his innocent body to avenge his enemies, and after being captured, is not even afraid of death. I am not the only one, I am afraid that many people will be helpless against this kind of enemy. "
"Don't you just want to know how I knew you wanted to assassinate me?"
Tao Ying nodded thoughtfully, with the same confusion in her eyes as when Liu Mingzhi just took the dagger from her hand and stared at her.
"Yes! In the nearly two years since I have known you, I have never revealed any clues in my every move, word and deed when I was with you.
How did you know I wanted to kill you?
Just because you are a horse-riding emperor who crawled and rolled on the battlefield should not be enough to react immediately at the man's last moment and avoid my sudden fatal blow.
Unless you have never let down your guard against me and are always on guard against me.
But since you have always been on guard against me, why are you still with me...I can't figure it out.
Now that my assassination has failed and I have become your prisoner, I am destined to die.
But I am just as eager to know my identity as you are, and I also want to know it.
I want to know why I failed. "
Liu Mingzhi thought silently for a long time, put on the robe he was wearing, got up and walked towards the stove.
After picking up the kettle and pouring a cup of tea, Liu Mingzhi sat on the stool next to the stove and looked at Tao Ying silently for a while.
"I can tell you how I knew you wanted to kill me, but after I tell you, you must tell me your true origins and the sworn hatred between you and me.
I don’t want you to suddenly commit suicide by biting your tongue or taking poison after I explained it to you, leaving me full of questions!
Can you agree? "
"Of course. As long as you are willing to believe that my enemy will not go back on my word, I will eventually give you the answer."
"It's a deal!"
"It's a deal! Tell me how you found out!"
Liu Mingzhi squinted his eyes and pondered for a while, raised his hand and made a circle from top to bottom with his fingers towards Tao Ying's jade body wrapped in brocade quilt.
"Temperament, your temperament is the first suspect that exposes you."
Tao Ying'e frowned slightly, looking down at herself with doubtful eyes: "Temperament? What kind of temperament?"
"Of course it is the temperament that a person who is not a merchant's concubine should have.
A woman with your temperament must come from a noble family or a wealthy family.
The only thing she shouldn't be born into is the concubine of a merchant.
Even if you are really a concubine.
It would only be an outhouse or a concubine raised by a wealthy businessman after his family fell into decline due to some reasons, and unfortunately he lived in Jiaofangsi or Goulanyuan.
But after you got to know me gradually, you told me that my background was from a commoner's family. Because my hometown was hit by natural disasters and my livelihood was difficult, I was cruelly sold by my biological father to a wealthy businessman's house as a concubine. It was a pitiful life experience for a civilian girl.
The concubines in the homes of ordinary wealthy businessmen and gentry can't cultivate the nobility that you inadvertently reveal, let alone the homes of ordinary people.
So when you told me that you were just a lonely concubine in an ordinary merchant's family, I knew you were lying.
But I didn't suspect anything at that time.
After all, people are separated from each other, so no one has any secrets.
In addition, you and I met by chance, and I am not a very curious person. I did not reveal anything about you, and still treated you as a good friend and continued to get along with you.
That's why I just said that your true identity, even if you are not a spy of the Bourne Shadow, is definitely extraordinary.
The noble temperament you inadvertently reveal shows that your origin must be a person in a superior position.
Even if it is acquired, your background is definitely not that of a woman from an ordinary wealthy family.
Temperament is a thing that seems illusory, but it really does exist.
Otherwise, there would be no one who has been in a high position for a long time, and the saying "Don't be angry and be proud" has become widely circulated.
Am i right? "
Tao Ying looked at Young Master Liu's shrewd eyes, lowered her head and looked at herself, her red lips pursed and she didn't know what to say: "I...I..."
Seeing Tao Ying's reaction, Liu Mingzhi knew that he was right.
Although she didn't admit anything personally, her reaction said it all.
"Haha! Good sister, so, after we got acquainted and you told me that you were just a concubine, I knew that you must have an unknown past and life experience."
"But...but you just said that everyone has secrets. Don't you have any doubts about me?"
"That's right, I didn't doubt you at all at first. After all, you are not taken seriously at home. It's normal for you to want to chat with me, a humorous and idle person, to relieve your boredom.
But for a concubine who is not taken seriously enough to go out and chat with men every now and then, and no one notices her for almost a year, it is a little unusual for her to report it to your family.
After all, even if a concubine is not taken seriously, she might be exchanged for someone else one day just because the man is unhappy.
But when this concubine was still his own woman, no man could bear it. His wife secretly met and talked and laughed with other men all year round.
You underestimated the possessiveness of men.
Even if he doesn't love this woman and has no feelings, he will still regard the woman who belongs to him as a forbidden descendant and will not allow others to get involved.
Of course, not only men, but women too.
It's just that the methods and means are different.
The further we go, the more I suspect that you must have an ulterior motive for getting so close to me, an idler.
Gradually, I began to doubt your identity as a spy.
By the way, do you really not know about The Bourne Shadow? "
Tao Ying nodded silently: "I really don't know. I have never heard of the spy shadow."
"Forget it if you don't know. At that time, I had always suspected that you were a spy of the spy and wanted to get close to me.
Brother, I have been looking for the spy who suddenly disappeared, but to no avail.
Your arrival gives me hope.
However, all of Spy's spies are old foxes who have become spirits.
In order to avoid alerting others, I could only pretend not to know even if the clues I finally found were broken.
I have been accompanying you to make jokes and make excuses, just to see what you really want to do.
He's even planning how to use you to lure out the movie owner and Spy Shadow's people.
As you said, you never showed any signs of wanting to assassinate me.
Although I was extremely anxious, I could only endure it.
Because you are the only breakthrough for me to find the spy. No matter how helpless I am, I can only keep working with you.
I was so consumed that I even had doubts about whether I was being too unfounded. Maybe you really weren’t a spy.
Although you are indeed not a spy of the spy, I did not know the truth about your identity at that time, so I could only retain your suspicion.
If so, it would be the best. If not, it would also be a beautiful thing to have a beautiful woman as a friend who can chat and relieve boredom. "
Tao Ying nodded clearly: "Then what?"
