"Gu Xichen!" All of X4’s composure disintegrated, "Let’s make a deal, I’ll tell you who sent me to kill you, would you let me go?"
"Who wants to kill me, I don’t need you to tell me," his lips tightened, "I already have an idea."
"Anything else, as long as I can do it, I am willing to make a deal with you."
Gu Xichen bent down close to her face, "Anything else? Do you think I don’t know, if you had the chance to escape, you would spare no effort to kill me, codenamed X4, is that correct?" ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel~fire~net
"I... I am willing to become your woman, just don’t cut off my..." She really couldn’t utter those two words, "Isn’t that enough?"
"Become my woman?" Gu Xichen showed no interest, "I am not interested."
Seeing him unmoved, X4 then said, "You set the terms."
"From a young age, you were indoctrinated, I guess your thoughts have been completely confined and brainwashed by your leaders; someone like you, I truly don’t feel like changing you, so, I don’t plan to leave you alive."
"Not at all," she countered, "You might think I never lived a day as a normal person, right? Actually, I couldn’t achieve that, so I said it’s unnecessary. People like us were sold by our biological parents from a young age, taken abroad for training. I am a citizen of Country S, walking around like a zombie for all these years, do you think I want to kill? I don’t want to, but I have no choice, Gu Xichen, we were originally strangers, it was the higher-ups who took the buyer’s money and sent me here, please spare me this once."
"Being kind to an enemy is being cruel to oneself." Gu Xichen had just finished speaking when the call from Gu Lili came.
He went out to answer it, and X4 watched him leave, her heart slightly relieved, feeling on the verge of collapse.
She rarely failed in her missions, but now she had failed twice in his hands.
Now fallen into his hands, she no longer had any authority over her own fate.
About twenty minutes after Gu Lili finished the call with Gu Xichen, she personally visited his residence.
As she entered the secret room, Gu Lili saw a woman lying on the bed with no clothes, turned her head and lightly slapped him on the head, "Why did you strip her clothes off?"
"Should I treat her as a distinguished guest otherwise?"
Gu Lili walked forward, picked up the blanket, and covered X4, "You recognize me, don’t you?"
"You are Long Yubei’s wife, Gu Lili."
"Correct, you were sent on a mission to kill Gu Xichen, but you failed and fell into his hands; even if he kills you now, it would be well-deserved, as I believe if you hadn’t failed, he would already be dead by your hand." Gu Lili was expressionless, "Therefore, you don’t need to feel regret for your current situation. Desiring someone’s life means placing your own life in the other’s hands."
"I told him earlier, I am willing to make a deal, as long as you let me go, I will do whatever you want."
"Are there any hard conditions in your organization for leaving?"
"There are no hard conditions, even if disabled or severely ill, one cannot leave the organization."
Gu Lili asked, "Tell me the truth, have you ever thought about a life no longer being manipulated to kill everywhere?"
"I have thought about it, but I am powerless."
Gu Lili nodded, "What if I help you?"
X4 shook her head, "Even though you are the Young Madam of the Long Family, you can’t manage it."
"Will you give me plastic surgery to change my face?"