Gu Lili laughed, "Not at all, I just want to ask you, if I can do it, what will you give me in return?"
"If you can free me from the control of the organization and give me a way out so that I do not have to live by killing people, I am willing to call you ’Master.’"
Gu Xichen was astonished. At this moment, he seemed to understand Gu Lili’s intention for stopping him from dealing with X4.
Do not immediately throw away the stone thrown by the enemy, but rather use it as a stepping stone to climb over the surrounding wall.
Gu Lili stood there, looking at her on the bed, silent for a moment.
"Do you not believe my words? Do you think I will go back on my word?"
"Of course, I don’t believe your empty promises." Gu Lili instructed Gu Xichen, "Bring a cup of water."
In front of X4, Gu Lili took out five different talisman papers, burning them one by one with a lighter and letting the ashes fall on the water in the cup.
After burning all five, she shook the cup and said to X4, "Drink this water, and I will help you break away from your organization."
Gu Xichen released one of X4’s arms. Without asking what the purpose of the talisman water in the cup was, she held it in her hand and drank it all in one go.
The taste was very strange, but not unpleasant.
"I know that in your organization, selling your life means devoting everything to it, even dying while obeying the orders of your superiors."
"No..." X4 shook her head, "That’s what those who have been successfully brainwashed do, not including myself. They have tried to brainwash me many times, but they never succeeded. I am not like those fools; who likes to mindlessly sell their lives for others, especially when they treat me poorly, at best they don’t let me eat and they abuse me, and at worst I suffer severe punishment. The money I earn from missions is pitifully little in my hands; I am not a masochist. They just treat me as a tool, never as a human. If I had a way to escape from their clutches, I would have run away long ago."
Gu Lili softened her expression slightly, "How did you get the scars on your wrists?"
"They are from my many attempts to commit suicide. I am not afraid of death, I am afraid of suffering." X4 looked up at her, "Miss Gu, my request is not high. If you can free me from that organization and treat me as a human being, I am willing to genuinely serve you."
"I think you definitely know what I do. As an assassin, you are mostly familiar with the situations of wealthy families around the world. Since we have reached an agreement, from now on, you are mine. Your code name is X4, you don’t have to use this name in front of us; do you have a name you would like to use? Or what name were you called before you joined your organization?"
"Because I am a girl, my parents favored boys over girls, and being poor and the fourth child, my parents just called me ’Little Four.’ Hence, my code name became ’Four.’ I don’t want to use my previous name; I want a new name, Jingsheng, a clean rebirth."
"It’s a touching name, then it’s Jingsheng." Gu Lili couldn’t help but ask the hitman, "Who hired you to kill Gu Xichen?"
"Normally, we can’t reveal our client’s identity, but since the Master asks, I naturally answer; it was Mrs. Gu, who spent 50 million, offering such a high price, demanding that Gu Xichen must be dead within a week."
"You stepmother is really generous with her money." Gu Lili instructed Gu Xichen to unlock her anklet and other restraints and let her go.
After instructing Gu Xichen, she turned to Jingsheng and said, "You go back first, tell the people in your organization that you can’t complete this task, they will naturally send someone else. Don’t worry about anything else; within a month, I will definitely free you completely from that organization."
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