[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 69 ♦ SIDE STORY 1


last edited on ZLT: 19.05.19

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Due to the peculiarity and confidentiality of her job, the marriage they agreed on immediately after graduation didn’t happen. However, there were always countermeasures and policies–something Zhuo Xiao Xuan was beyond familiar with–one can put into place. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢ 

Also because of her unique job, Zhuo Xiao Xuan appeared to be a normal citizen on the surface. Hence, the Marriage Registration Office at the Ministry of Civil Affairs did not know she was the country’s secret agent. After bringing her passport with Yin Xu Dong’s to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they spent nine bucks getting their cert.

By the time Zhuo lao ye’zi discovered that Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s documents he had crafted kept in the save disappeared into thin air, Zhuo Xiao Xuan was already on the way home with Yin Xu Dong to meet his parents.

His parents were completely flabbergasted with regards to the Yin family’s new daughter-in-law. In the end, Papa Yin settled first and had his wife bring their brand new daughter-in-law back into the house, while he hooked an arm around his son, “Son, let’s talk.”

“Dad, you don’t need to say anything; the rice’s cooked*.” It was impossible for him to leave Xuan Xuan, they’ve already gotten married after all, he’s not going to divorce her! ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

* 生米煮成熟饭 = the rice’s been cooked; what’s been done cannot be undone; (often) used to hint that they the birds and the bees had happened and there might even be a bun in the oven.

Papa Yin faltered, this… there’s already a bun in the oven?! He was going to be a grandpa! Papa Yin was so shocked from the news his head spun for a moment. Though it’s good news he was going to be a grandpa–he was definitely glad–but the bomb his son just dropped was a little too unexpected!

Papa Yin later went to talk with Mama Yin in the room. By the time they returned to the living room, the gazes they gave Zhuo Xiao Xuan, and especially at her stomach, was entirely different; it made Zhuo Xiao Xuan extremely ill at ease.

“Wife, go out and get some nourishing food to make a soup or something.” Papa Yin happily instructed Mama Yin.

“A’ight! Son… daughter, wait for me hah!” Mama Yin immediately rushed to the market with her grocery bag.

Yin Xu Dong and Zhuo Xiao Xuan sat staring at each other. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢ 

Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s phone suddenly rang. The moment she picked it up, Zhuo lao ye’zi’s thunderous voice almost burst her eardrums, “Zhuo Xiao Xuan! Get your ass back here immediately!”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan moved the phone away from her ear, before saying slowly: “I’m not returning to the Zhuo Mansion in the future; you can do whatever you want with the things in my room. Oh, and, I’ll send you (polite) the wedding invite in two days. You can come if you want. That’s it, I’m hanging up.” After that, she hung up, rejecting Zhuo lao ye’zi’s high-decibel bellows from shattering her ears.

Papa Yin and Mama Yin felt that they had to get the wedding over with before her stomach showed, so they quickly started the wedding preparations at the couple’s silent agreement.

The newly-weds wholly entrusted their wedding prep to Papa and Mama Yin. As for matters regarding their gowns, Zhuo Xiao Xuan insisted for it to be oriental. Though Yin Xu Dong really wanted to see how Zhuo Xiao Xuan would look in a wedding gown, as a twenty-fourth-century husband and a wife-con in the socialist society, he shall of course obey all of his waifu’s demands; his waifu’s words was the law!

When Papa and Mama Yin finally found time off after knocking out all the arrangements, they realised they still had not met their in-laws! Upon asking their son, they found out that their daughter-in-law didn’t have parents. At that, they felt their heart going out for their daughter-in-law.

Yin Xu Dong asked when he found an opportunity: “Waifu, you really don’t plan on telling mom and dad?”

“There’s no need.” If she were to let word out that she was still alive, it’ll be adding oil to fire. The Z organisation would probably send someone to finish her off. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

“Alright then, I’ll invite them to our wedding under my name then. As parents, they should at least attend their daughter’s wedding.” Having understood where Zhuo Xiao Xuan was coming from, Yin Xu Dong suggested.

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And so, he invited them.

The wedding went on as planned. Zhuo lao ye’zi, along with some others, attended with a dark expression. There wasn’t anything he could say seeing how things were at the moment. It’s not like he could force them to divorce could he? On top of that, he was the one who curated Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s identity to begin with. If he were to force them to divorce, and they counter him with desperate measures and stay together even after being divorced, there was still nothing he could do about it.

However, the one thing he did start to consider was whether he should allow the lass to remain in Z organisation. Seeing how sentimental she’s getting, it was possible she might make a misstep due to her emotions.

As Zhuo Xiao Xuan did not have parents, Yin Xu Dong managed to get his neighbours, the Qin family, to escort the bride after much instigation and persuasion. The Qin couple and Zhuo Xiao Xuan were both fine with the arrangement. Qin Peng Cheng on the other hand was largely against it.

The little shota pouted as he waited for the woman who would stay in his jie jie’s room. Pity no matter how much he glared, she would still ignore his existence. At that, he stomped away in anger.

Before day broke the next day, a bunch of ladies rushed into Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s room and buzzed around helping her do her hair and makeup. The girls were Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s dormmates from college, and the few of her “BFF”s. Zhuo Xiao Xuan had casually mentioned that she was getting married previously. After which, the four of them demanded to become Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s bridesmaid, topping their reasoning off with their identity as Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s dormmates for four years. Zhuo Xiao Xuan honestly didn’t mind much, so with a wave of her hand, all four of them became her bridesmaid.

Hence in the “boudoir”, the several girls chirped about happily. Only Zhuo Xiao Xuan wore her gown expressionlessly before sitting before the dresser, allowing them to make her up. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

One of them was unhappy with her expression: “Xiao Xuan, though all of us know that you desperately lack facial muscles, but at least give us a smile today, it’s your big day today!”

“Exactly, exactly, c’mere, learn from this jie jie, chee…se, chee…se, stop, yes, that’s it, maintain that!”

“Oi, are you sure this is a smile? Why’s it uglier than you crying?”

“What do you know, girls are supposed to cry on their big day!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“…”

Zhuo Xia Xuan relaxed her taut facial muscles, beyond helpless as well. Inviting them over was one of the few mistakes she made.

Time flew by. Before long, the groom brought his gang of friends over to escort the bride. Of course they were blocked at the entrance by the bridesmaid, not allowed in.

“Oi, Mr Groom, let’s hear a love song first!” Bridesmaid one was the first to make things difficult for him.

Yin Xu Dong sang the ballad he prepared; come at me with your tricks, he’s prepared everything for today!

Yin Xu Dong was as though a fierce tiger charging down the mountain—he passed the four of five stations with ease. When he reached the last one, the last bridesmaid wiped her perspiration. Her eyes suddenly it when an idea came to her, and so, she asked: “Mr Groom, when did the bride say “I love you” to you?”

Yin Xu dong paused, this phrase… Xuan Xuan’s never said it to him before! What’s he gonna do!?

When the bridesmaid saw his difficulty with the question, they couldn’t help but laugh: “No way? The bride didn’t say I love you to Mr Groom before? Or could it be that Mr Groom has forgotten? That won’t do, you can’t whisk away out bride if you don’t answer this question!”

Yin Xu Dong’s expression fell. He’s passed all the previous questions, how could he possibly get stuck here? Just when he was beside himself with worry, He Yi handed him a phone from behind and whispered into his ears: “The bride’s here to save the day.”

Yin Xu Dong immediately placed the phone by his ear in elation, and heard Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s clear voice from the other side. “Increase the volume of your phone.”

Yin Xu Dong did as she said before he heard Zhuo Xia Xuan saying: “Yin Xu Dong, I love you!” Though her voice was not the least gentle—it didn’t sound like a confession, more of a reprimanding rather—but everyone heard her sincerity.

The bridesmaid muttered, unsatisfied, “What an uncooperative* bride! How can she let the groom pass so blatantly! This is too much!”

*胳膊往里拐 = elbows turning in; covering for insiders

Zhuo Xiao Xuan pulled open the door and walked out, saying blandly: “My elbows are supposed to turn in any way.” At that, she stretched her hand to let Yin Xu Dong hook it. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

The bridesmaid minced their lips, but reverted to clustering around the bride and groom excitedly as they went down.

Just as Yin Xu Dong was about to turn around happily, he saw Qin Peng Cheng hiding in the corner peeking at them. When Qin Peng Cheng’s reddened eyes met Yin Xu Dong’s, he immediately shrunk back in shock.

Yin Xu Dong smiled as he said to everyone, “Everyone, can I have a minute, I have something I need to settle.” At that, he walked over to the corner under everyone’s dubious gazes. Though everyone wanted to ask why he’d dump his bride aside, making her wait for him, they didn’t say anything when they saw the bride’s calm in response to his actions.

“Xiao Cheng.” Z L T

Qin Peng Cheng raised his head to look at him before lowering it back down as he kicked a corner. His voice was aggrieved: “If my jie jie’s still alive, will it be my jie jie that’ll be marrying you today?”

“Does Xiao Cheng really think that? If so, then you can try thinking her as your jie jie.”

“…but, she’s not my jie jie at all.”

“Eh, look carefully and you’ll realise that other than a different face, she’s exactly the same as your jie jie.” Yin Xu Dong winked at the confused Qin Peng Cheng, “This is our secret, don’t tell anyone else, including your mom and dad.”

Qin Peng Cheng was still muddled. Yin Xu Dong patted his head, beaming before he left. “It’s fine, just have fun here, don’t overthink.”

Though the bride maintained her chilly expression throughout the entire wedding ceremony, everyone else’s enthusiasm was not the least doused. The festive uproar lasted an entire day.

At nightfall, the younger ones collectively made a ruckus about their night of the wedding that would follow. They quickly realised though that they were cold-shouldered. However, they were not going to let the couple go so easily. And so they thumped without qualms on the door, shouting that if the couple didn’t come out, they’d slam through the door.

After they thumped and bumped at the room, the door creaked open and out walked a person.

Everyone said in disdain: “Dong’zi that ass, how could he allow his bride to entertain us!”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan didn’t pay mind to that. Instead, he looked at the over-excited mass coldly, asking: “Are you not leaving!”

“No can do! We’re definitely gonna make the bridal chamber ruckus!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“You sure you guys are not going to leave?”

“Yes!”

“Then don’t mind me.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan pulled her weapon out from behind—a gun. 

Everyone stared at the toy water gun in Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s hands, dazed. What’s she gonna do? Everyone’s confusion was quickly resolved by Zhuo Xiao Xuan; she aimed the gun at the frontmost person and shot at them. The person in front touched the sticky liquid on them. When he gave it a sniff, he almost fainted. Fvck it! It’s rotten eggs!

The people in front that were shot by the rotten egg liquids gagged before they dashed off. The people at the back at witnessing the commotion too hurried down the stairs.

You want to escape? As if I’d let you! Zhuo Xiao Xuan snorted coldly before flipping off the staircase railings. Turning around to face the stairs, she slid off the railings, the toy water gun in her hand aiming and shooting at the people dashing down the stairs continuously without missing out anyone. Before long, everyone’s clothes were somewhat stained.

At that, everyone immediately stunk. They gazed at each other, speechless. This was the first them things turned the table so badly for them while trying to embarrass the newlyweds.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan kept her water gun and stood on the railing with a majestic expression as though looking down on the entire world, saying: “There’s some flower sprinklers in the courtyard, you can wash off it off there and head into the guest rooms for a change of clothes. There’s a room each of the males and females, and there’s towels and a set of clothes for everyone. Settle it yourselves if there isn’t enough.” After finishing, she abandoned the frozen masses and strolled up the stairs to the second floor. Before entering her room, she turned around again and gave a rare smile as she reminded everyone, “Oh, there’s still a lot more things I’ve prepared that I haven’t put to use, everyone’s welcome to try again.”

At that, realisation dawned. Damnit she’s all prepped to go up against them, not that they had much courage left to go against her again.

When Zhuo Xiao Xuan returned to their room, Yin Xu Dong just came out of the showers. When he didn’t hear the ruckus from outside, he asked Zhuo Xiao Xuan, wondering: “Wifey, where’s everyone? What happened to the commotion?”

“They said they were tired so they went back to wash up and sleep.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan lied without even blinking. But honestly, she wasn’t really lying per say, they really did went back to wash up. She didn’t care when they did the sleeping part of the “wash up and sleep”.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan went to the bathroom to take off her gown and bathe, before returning to their room in a bathrobe.

“Wifey?”

“Enh?”

“Are you thirsty? Drink some water.” Yin Xu Dong poured some water for Zhuo Xiao Xuan eagerly.

“Oh.”

“Are you tired? Want me to give you a massage?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 69 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Enh.” Honestly, she wasn’t very tired, but when she saw Yin Xu Dong’s eyes dazzling with anticipation, she nodded her head.

Yin Xu Dong had Zhuo Xiao Xuan lie on the bed in excitement while he rubbed her elbow and massaged her shoulder, stealing a few kisses while he was at it.

“Wifey, this bathrobe’s too thick, it’s not very comfortable wearing it, want me to help you take it off?” Yin Xu Dong suggested naughtily.

“Enh.” Z L T

At hearing that, Yin Xu Dong happily took off Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s bathrobe and dumped it on the floor. When he looked at her again after that, his lips would help but spasm. She was actually wearing another layer of clothes under the bathrobes! A feeling of defeat immediately awashed him.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan: “Switch off the lights.”

When he saw crimson flushing her bare cheeks under the dim light, it felt as though something was clawing at his heart. And so, he pounced at her, hugging her as he rained kisses.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan grabbed his hand that was sneaking under her shirt, saying firmly: “Switch it off.” 

And so, Yin Xu Dong unwillingly got up to switch off the lights before pouncing on her again, before resuming his sprinkle of love…

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 68 ♦ (SPOILER TITLE)


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Yin Xu Dong choked. He coughed violently for a while before his flushed, “Cough cough, Xuan Xuan… are you joking?”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan frowned, “Do I look that bored?”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 68 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

It’s because you’re not that’s why the things you say are freaking scary! Yin Xu Dong wailed mentally before saying to Zhuo Xiao Xuan: “We haven’t even reached the legal age to get married yet, we’re still children who aren’t completely grown up, it’s a little too early to get married now.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan continued frowning, “At where I’m from, people our ages already have two to three kids.”

“Where you’re from? I’m from B City as well, I didn’t see it though?” Yin Xu Dong scratched his head as he asked dubiously.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan firmed her expression, “So you’re trying to skip out on marrying me and trying to change the conversation?!”

“No, no, I don’t mean that. Look even if I agreed, our parents won’t agree no?” When he saw Zhuo Xiao Xuan showing early symptoms of her anger boiling, Yin Xu Dong immediately explained.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan contemplated for a bit. It made sense; marriage is something their parents and the matchmaker had to agree to. Though her parents were long dead, Yin Xu Dong’s parents were still alive and healthy. She was able to make her own decisions but he did not have such liberty.

“Fine, I’ll persuade your parents then.” IAAK IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN

Yin Xu Dong fell off his bed. Was she not going to be satisfied if she didn’t give him a heart attack with her words today? She didn’t look like she was that desperate of a person either, what’s up with her today? Zhuo Xiao Xuan was apparently turning to leave and going to look for his parents. He climbed up with difficulty and grabbed hold of her. Just look at her, how the heck did she look like she was asking for his hand in marriage? She looked like a killer who was going to head out for a massacre! If she shocked his parents into a daze, she might accidentally mistake their astonishment as disapproval. If something like that happened, then his parents’ necks were at risk!

“It’s all about freedom of rights nowadays no, liberty to love and marry; let’s sit down and think over our future first. It’s hard for my parents to understand what we youngsters are thinking nowadays, so let’s not trouble them about our matters.” Yin Xu Dong dragged Zhuo Xiao Xuan back and sat her down beside him on the mat, “did you get injured this time?”

“No.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan leant against Yin Xu Dong’s shoulders, closing her eyes. Z L T

Yin Xu Dong buried his head in the crook of her neck, rubbing against her, saying glumly: “When are you going to stop doing all these dangerous stuff?”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 68 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“I don’t know.” Placing aside what’s been preoccupying her for the longest of times, Z organisation’s not someplace she was able quit just because she wanted to; she had no choice.

“Oh…” he really didn’t want her taking on such dangerous jobs in the future.

“When are we getting married.”

Yin Xu Dong was rendered speechless. Was that the only thing she’s concerned about? “You, want to get married immediately?”

“…no.” She’d thought that there would be a fifty percent chance that she would not be able to make it alive since she bumped into You Ming on her mission this time. Their re-encounter this time had unraveled her grudge. Since she was able to remain here peacefully, she should get married. Girls coming of age, reaching fifteen, were able to get married. She was already considered an old lass with her current age. In her previous life, she was still killing to survive in the organisation; the environment she was in wasn’t one where she could pay heed to marriage matters. She transmigrated into this world when she was twenty two, and she lived four five years more in this world, so her mental age was technically that of an old, old women aged twenty six to seven. Now that she’s thought of it, wasn’t Yin Xu Dong a little too young for her? Was this considering a old flower chomping on a young cattle*?

* the usual proverb is 老牛啃能草 = old cattle chomping on young grass=  an old man dating a young girl; Zhuo Xiao Xuan uses 老花啃嫩牛 = old flower (referring to a female i.e. herself) chomping on young cattle to express how opposite her situation was.

As Zhuo Xiao Xuan thought about that, she suddenly felt all weird. “If only you were eight or ten years older.”

Yin Xu Dong was extremely speechless when he heard that. So it turns out Xuan Xuan was an uncle-con?! Was every loli dreaming of an old uncle as their partner?! He minced his lips: “What’s so great about uncles, they’re old and lifeless! You won’t share the same interests! Nor the same language! Young people should stay with young people!”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan curled her lips in disdain. Her instinctive reaction immediately had Yin Xu Dong feeling that his status as her fiance was very threatened. He decided that he shall grow a moustache from today onwards!!! Even if he wasn’t as old as an uncle, he could at least look like an uncle right!!!♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 68 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Yin Xu Dong clenched his teeth and made a decision. “Xuan Xuan, let’s get engaged!”

“Engaged?” Zhuo Xiao Xuan contemplated, it probably meant the same thing as being betrothed to someone right.

“Yes! Let’s get engaged first. Look, we’re all still military school students, so we can’t get married according to the rules, so let’s get engaged first. It’s not too late to get our marriage license after we graduate right? All that matters is that we see our engagement as a marriage instead, what do you think?” Yin Xu Dong carefully observed Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s change in expression. He must knock things out first to cut off all possibility of her getting lured away by some old uncle.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan nodded her head. “That’s fine too.” She was thinking of just settling their marriage matters first even if Yin Xu Dong’s parents were against the idea. If possible, she was quite for the idea of instigating Yin Xu Dong to elope with her, but he definitely wouldn’t agree to such a suggestion, so forget it.

During her winter break, Zhuo Xiao Xuan went out for a few more missions. It was only nearing the start of the term did Z organisation stop sending her out on missions. Every time she went over to Yin Xu Dong’s place when she had time, she’d be forced to drink his blood-nourishing soup; he said that he had to help her patch up the blood she’d lost every time she got hurt, so she had to drink more of this. Unbeknownst to Yin Xu Dong was his poor mother’s glum, conflicted thoughts about the entire situation. Even if she had a daughter, her daughter wouldn’t need to drink so much soup! And what’s with him cooping up in his room drinking the soup anyway? What kind of weird habit was this?

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When school started again, they returned to school and resumed attending the mundane cycle of lessons and training. Zhuo Xiao Xuan would head over to Yin Xu Dong’s school occasionally to meet him. After which, they would bump into the relentless Liu Ting. Her ability to discover them was almost akin to that of a scouting soldier; no matter where Zhuo Xiao Xuan and Yin Xu Dong hid, they would always be found by her. However, the target of her relentlessness was no longer the same now—she was hooking on to Zhuo Xiao Xuan rather in an attempt to find out more about Xie Sheng Ya. Though Zhuo Xiao Xuan dumped her in Xie Sheng Ya’s direction in an attempt finish off her love rival, Zhuo Xiao Xuan ultimately still ended up being bugged by Liu Ting. In the end when she got annoyed by Liu Ting, she threatened Xie Sheng Ya murderously when she returned to her school and had him to settle his troublesome woman himself.

Other than Zhuo Xiao Xuan needing to head out occasionally for missions—something Yin Xu Dong was unable to keep a peace of mind about—the two of their lives were relatively calm. Zhuo Xiao Xuan would occasionally bother herself with the lovestruck Yin Xu Dong by her side. As for all of Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s pursuers around her, Yin Xu Dong had his hands tied. Though W Military College wasn’t much larger than Military Meds College, their rules were a lot stricter, so it was very hard for him to enter her school. Hence, it’s Zhuo Xiao Xuan who head over to his Military Meds College to look for him usually.

If we’re talking about unforeseen events happening, then there was that once Yin Xu Dong was called out by someone to meet up outside. Yin Xu Dong hadn’t been particularly keen about meeting someone so sneakily, but that person told him: “I know Zhuo Xiao Xuan. Let’s meet.”

He froze. Was this his love rival trying to scare him off?! Argh! This bastard’s lookin’ down on him huh! He’s gonna show him what he’s got so that bastard’ll know he ain’t someone he can provoke. Yin Xu Dong sharpened his surgery knives, the scalpels flashing.

When he finally met the person, his first reaction was: Fvck! So the legendary uncle makes his appearance!

In the face of this unprecedented uncle of a love rival, Yin Xu Dong stared him up and down. This uncle love rival—as expected—was pretty legit; he was completely unruffled even under Yin Xu Dong’s beaming x-ray gazes.

Yin Xu Dong clenched his teeth. Calm his ass! You think you can look down on people just cuz you’re an uncle? He plopped down in the seat across the uncle, “What is it you’re looking for me for?!”

“Frankly, you’re not really a good fit for her.” The uncle’s imposing gaze swept in Yin Xu Dong’s direction as he said slowly.

Not really a good fit my foot! Yin Xu Dong was so enraged he almost spat blood. Just as he was about to fork out his surgery scalpels and KO this strange uncle, “Fvck! Who the hell are you even? It’s none of your business if we match or not! Ohhh, I know, you’re here because you’re jealous huh? Didn’t manage to get what you wanted so you’re here to talk shit and be salty, do you think we’ll break up just because of the things you say? Uncle! You should just retire and enjoy the rest of your years while you can!”

The uncle shook his head. “Really don’t get why she’d chose to stay with you.”

His pitiful expression had Yin Xu Dong even madder. He wasn’t someone to take things as they were; he was after all a doctor-to-be who’d dictate life and death by wielding his surgical knives. Squinting, he smiled falsely: “That’s because she’s got good taste while you’re blinded by your eye crusts!” This blasted uncle, was he here to criticise him? He shouldn’t have came. If he were to make his exit now, he’d be seen as weak and useless, and he’d be throwing Xuan Xuan’s face, so he must go all-out, and shoo this uncle back to where he came from! And see if he’s got the guts again to come provoking him! ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 68 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Forget it, it’s her choice anyway. Lad, you get it stamped in your head to treat her good. The day you hurt her feelings will be the day of your doom.” The uncle stared at Yin Xu Dong sharply, his gaze brewing murderously.

Pity his murderous aura didn’t take much effect on Yin Xu Dong. Rather, Yin Xu Dong was completely pissed about this uncle words instead, the fvck! Who the hell did he think he was?! What’s with the righteousness tone in his words, it made things seem as though he was Xuan Xuan… guy?! He can go fvck himself!

“Uncle, I believe you (polite) might have gotten something wrong? I don’t think you (polite) are in the position to say that! Moreover, you can chop off that thought off yours, Xuan Xuan and I are going to be together till were old and grey, we’ll be coming to visit you again when we’re an old grandpa and an old grandma couple with out grandson, and great-grandson. Do you (polite) have another more to say? If not, I’ll be heading back, I still have to meet Xuan Xuan after this!” Yin Xu Dong sprouted the honorific “you”* one after another. Humph, yes he’s out to piss this uncle off.

* the term used is 您老 = you (polite, old); basically referring to you (but politely) and making it known that the other party you’re speaking to is old (this is somewhat common when (grand)sons and (grand)daughters are talking to their elder (grand)parents)

“Nothing else, you can go.” Z L T

Yin Xu Dong left, a smile of victory adorning his lips. You Ming sat quietly where he was, watching Yin Xu Dong’s diminishing silhouette as he whispered: “Xiao Ye, I hope he’ll make you happy.”

When Yin Xu Dong saw Zhuo Xiao Xuan, he went up gleefully to give her a hug before giving her a kiss. Hehe, Xuan Xuan was his, and only his, that uncle, don’t you ever think of getting her from me.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan pushed away Yin Xu Dong’s head that was inching her way. Looking at that dumb smile on his face, she asked cooly: “What happened?”

“Nothing. Xuan Xuan, we’re graduating in a year.” 

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“Let’s get married immediately after we graduate.”

“Enh.”

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CHAPTER 68 ♦ LET'S GET MARRIED


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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 67 ♦ UNTITLED (2)


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After a while, You Ming gradually opened his eyes and looked at Zhuo Xiao Xuan happily, “Xiao Ye…”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 67 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Shut up! Don’t think I don’t dare to kill you!” Zhuo Xiao Xuan pressed the muzzle of the gun against his forehead as she growled.

“Xiao Ye, I’ve never wanted to kill you…”

“Shut up!” Zhuo Xiao Xuan raised her hand, irascible, as she sent him a slap. She grabbed You Ming’s collar, her eyes glaringly red, “Shut up! Shut up!”

You Ming licked the drop of blood sliding down by the end of his mouth. His lips slanting into a bitter smile, he continued: “You were poisoned badly and we were in no position to retaliate. Du Bu’s dozens of guards were in our pursuit; if you were captured, they’d sever your tendons and send you to Aunt Hong’s, that’s why I stabbed you. If you died, you wouldn’t need to endure being taken advantage of by them. If you didn’t die, you would be able to find a chance to escape… even if you hate me for the rest of your life, I would do the same if I was given another chance.” After saying that, he gently hugged Zhuo Xiao Xuan, “Xiao Ye, sorry, I’m too useless; I wasn’t able to protect you.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan was rigid. At hearing him apologise over and over, her eyes reddened. From the moment she was caught and thrown into the training arena, to slowly becoming the top assassin, she didn’t cry when her jie jie died, nor did she cry when taking the heavy blow just before she died; crying would only make someone weak. What she needed to do was to become strong, you can only survive by becoming strong.

You Ming felt the chilliness by his neck. Releasing his grip around Zhuo Xiao Xuan, he gently pushed her away. He looked at her. She was still cold and indifferent, yet two streams of tears flowed from her eyes. Very quickly, they froze into ice in the low temperature.

You Ming raised his hand to wipe away her tear, “Xiao Ye…”

“You’re right, you did the best you could, I have no reason to hate you, nor to blame you…” Zhuo Xiao Xuan muttered. How would she not know that all this was just an excuse she found for herself to explain the fact that she wanted to stay alive. She hated the organisation Realm, hated that it ruined everything for her, and she hated You Ming, hated that she trusted him so much but ended up being stabbed to death by him… Other than hate, she could not find another reason to live. She fell off that cliff for no rhyme nor reason and came into this world. If she didn’t use “hate” as a reason, what’s there for her to hold out till now for? After being a killer for so many years, she had never thought of giving up her own live. She wanted to live, but she couldn’t find a reason for herself to live, and so her “hate” was the loaned reconciliation to this dilemma.

Things were different now however; she had promised Yin Xu Dong that she had to return, alive. The burning rage was vented along with the fire of her gun previously, vanishing into thin air. She couldn’t help but laugh at herself. Was this what you call, being crazy?♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 67 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

You Ming opened and closed his mouth for a while before asking glumly: “You managed to get rid of the poison in your body?” 

Zhuo Xiao Xuan told him that the body wasn’t actually hers. She reincarnated into someone else’s body, so she did not have the poison that ailed her from her previous life. After which, she briefly told him about her experiences after coming to this world, and that made You Ming exclaim in wonder.

After which, Zhuo Xiao Xuan asked: “What about you? How did you transmigrate? Did your entire body travel over with you? How are you alive without the antidote from the organisation?”

“Me? After I returned to the organisation, they reported me. I was tortured and thrown into the mass graves. After I woke up, I found myself here, and I met Gao Zheng Ye by coincidence, so he brought me with him, healed him and even removed my poison, even though it’s a little strange for there to be a way to remove my poison here. After that, I became his bodyguard. I didn’t expect that it’d be your mission to finish him off.”

“You won’t make it in time even if you save him now.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan slanted him a gaze.

“Heh, the moment I ran over here with you, I didn’t give any damn about whether he lived or died.” You Ming shrugged his shoulders, learning from how the people from this world did it.

“Humph, what a competent bodyguard.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan said sarcastically.

After which, the two of them delved into awkward silence; the two of them weren’t talkative people to begin with. Back in the days, they would only converse where there was a need for them to do so. The place they were in didn’t allow them to sit down to drink tea and chat. They were able to figure out each other’s thoughts with just one exchanged look, so there wasn’t much need for them to talk either.

After a while, Zhuo Xiao Xuan heard someone heading over in the snow. She stood and dusted the snow off of her, saying blandly: “You should leave. Let’s not meet again in the future.” She would not allow someone who would stab her expressionlessly and without any warning beside her. She was no longer able to place her wholehearted trust in him anymore.

You Ming looked at her for a moment before sighing silently, nodded, “Alright, I promise you.” After which, he leapt up, and after a few leaps, he disappeared into the forest thickly laden in snow.

The man from Z organisation ran over as he lugged his sniper rifle. On guard as he surveyed the surroundings, he asked: “I’ve finished off Gao Zheng Ye on my side, what happened to the bodyguard you lured over?”

“He escaped?! Oh, it’s fine, we’ve completed our mission anyway.”

After which, the two of them returned to B City.

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After He Yi silently opened the door to Yin Xu Dong’s room and tiptoed over to his bed, he heard Yin Xu Dong muttering “Xuan Xuan, Xuan Xuan”. Just as he wanted to just kick him awake to chop off his wet dream in the broad daylight!

“Ahh!” Yin Xu Dong suddenly shouted and shot up, giving He Yi the largest of scare. From that day onward, He Yi swore that he shall never harbour the malicious thought of cutting off his wet dream, and firmly decided to learn from his brother, and added the line “it is bad to disturb other people while they are having a wet dream” to his eight establishments.

Yin Xu Dong wiped his perspiration with the back of his hand and breathed deeply for a moment, before discovering there was a living being lying underneath his bed. After identifying this specimen as number-one, he asked in shock: “What are you doing under my bed?”

He Yi patted his butt as he climbed out, “Shouldn’t I be the one asking why you’re giving people such scares?! Don’t you know you can shock people dead like that?!”

“Serve you right! You’re the one who came into my room without knocking!” Yin Xu Dong shot him a glance before getting up slowly to wash up.

Number-one was all buddy with him for the last few years, so whenever he came over, his mother would let him be, and He Yi he really did as he wished.

“Who said, who said I didn’t knock the door?! You’re the one having your wet dream to the point you didn’t hear my knocks. I thought something happened to you that’s why I came in!” As He Yi spoke, he faked Yin Xu Dong’s shouts, exclaiming ambiguously: “Xuan Xuan… Xuan Xuan…”

Yin Xu Dong’s face flushed before darkening, before flushing again, alternating between these two colours.

“Tell your brother me, exactly who is this Xuan Xuan you’re calling?” He Yi felt that he had to ask him about this. 

“What do you mean who? There is only one Xuan Xuan to begin with!” It was only after he said that did Yin Xu Dong realise he slipped up. At that, he couldn’t help but want to give himself a slap.

“Hah? I don’t understand, you mean there’s only one Xuan Xuan and that is Qin Ke Xuan? Or do you mean the Xuan Xuan as in Zhuo Xiao Xuan?” He Yi didn’t catch the slip-up in Yin Xu Dong’s words.

“Uh, as of right now, Zhuo Xiao Xuan is the Xuan Xuan. Oh right, what are you here for so early in the morning?” Yin Xu Dong smoked his way through and swerved the topic of the conversation as he did so.

He Yi punched him, “Says you! The winter break’s so long, are you planning on holing up at home throughout the entire duration?”

“I need to read a lot of books, there’s too much for me to learn. I’m not free to go out to play.” Yin Xu Dong tided the medicine textbooks strewn across his room.

He Yi looked at Yin Xu Dong as though he was looking at a monster. He turned to look at the brick-like medicine textbooks instead, and couldn’t help but exclaim: “Woah! I’mma beat whoever who says you’re still that gangster from before! Tsk tsk, I mean just look at you, you’re nerdier than a nerd!” He walked over to Yin Xu Dong, flipped open a few books in pretense before howling: “Watch this!” At that, his fist found its way towards Yin Xu Dong’s abdomen as he suddenly attacked him.

Yin Xu Dong sent a fist at He Yi on reflex. Stepping half a step forward, he grasped He Yi’s arms and turned as he slammed him onto the ground over his shoulders. When he realised that He Yi wasn’t as skilled as Xuan Xuan, He Yi was already on the floor groaning in pain.

Yin Xu Dong pulled He Yi up in apology, “Sorry sorry, I’m not awake yet.”

“Uh… I… you… freak you! You actually secretly hate me right? And you finally got the chance today to beat me up?!” He Yi pressed his waist that almost broke, howling in rage.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 67 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

After Yin Xu Dong placated He Yi for a while, he firmly decided that he was not going out to play. He had to finish reading all his medicine textbooks before going out to play. And so, he swept He Yi out the door.

Mother Yin looked at her son in concern. If this was in the past, she’d definitely be over the moon if she saw her son so hardworking. But seeing him so desperately studying, she decided she had to say something: “Son, you can never finish reading your book, you need to understand work and play balance. It’s better you go out to play, you’ll study yourself sick this way.”

“I know, mom.” Yin Xu Dong agreed with Mother Yin, but he still disappeared back into his room to read his books. He’d read too much last night, that’s why he was dead like a log this morning, to the extent he didn’t even realise when He Yi entered his room. If Xuan Xuan knew that, she’d definitely give him a beating over this.

Speaking of Xuan Xuan, he recalled his nightmare from this morning; Xuan Xuan had been in his embrace, he was kissing and kissing her but things suddenly felt off. When he looked at Xuan Xuan again, he saw that she was filled with injuries, and blood flowed all over the ground. He want to staunch her blood for her anxiously, but he wasn’t able to no matter what, and after that, he was shocked awake.

He lied on his bed lazily, not in the mood to read any books at all. He rolled around on his bed in annoyance, and as he rolled and rolled, he realised he couldn’t roll anymore. Propping himself up, he saw Zhuo Xiao Xuan standing at the end of the bed. One of her foot was on his back, that’s why he wasn’t able to roll anymore.

“Xuan Xuan!” Yin Xu Dong jumped forward to hug Zhuo Xiao Xuan in excitement before releasing her quickly. After which, he checked her up and down, making sure she wasn’t injured anywhere.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 67 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Zhuo Xiao Xuan was expressionless, “I’m back. Let’s get married.” 

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 66 ♦ UNTITLED (1)


last edited on ZLT: 09.07.18

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An Ye changed into the same black clothes she wore all year round and donned on the azure dress the maidservant had placed beside. The usual hairdo she pulled her hair into was also let down and done up into a complicated one instead. 

As the maidservant dressed her up, she exclaimed: “I didn’t expect our number one killer to be such a beauty, lass you ought to dress up more, look at how beautiful you are now, how wasteful it would be otherwise.”

An Ye sat silently, snorting mentally. Was she supposed to dress up and have her victim admire her when she killed them? She’d always dressed like a male for convenience’s sake. If it weren’t for the fact that she was being framed, she’d probably never get the chance to dress up in proper female clothes till she died.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 66 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

After she was properly dressed up, the maidservant brought An Ye—who was attempting to drag the time all these while—out of Cloud Pavilion. As she did so, An Ye finally saw the maidservant who went to deliver her hairpin returning. The maidservant smiled at her from afar, indicating that she’d already delivered the hairpin into his hands.

An Ye followed the two maidservants out. When they were rounding a corner into another pavilion, she suddenly struck out at the maidservants and they fainted. She dragged them into a false cavern, exchanged her attire with one of the maidservants and surveyed the hidden guards in the courtyard carefully.

After confirming their location, she lowered her head and walked out from the cavern, heading out quickly. She passed several courtyards, and just as she was exiting the perimeters of the inner courtyard, she was suddenly shouted at to stop. She gave a pause before proceeding on as though she didn’t hear the shout.

An Ye suddenly felt people dashing at her from her two sides; they weren’t normal maidservants—she was discovered! She reached for the two daggers hidden in her gown and flung them at her pursuers. At the same time, her feet tapped the ground consecutively before she leapt onto the surrounding walls with her qinggong and jumped off, flying across the rooftops, dashing off.

She ran to the organisation’s northern forest, by then, she’d already shaken off her pursuers. Just when she wanted to continue escaping, she suddenly felt her chest freezing in pain. She paused, leaning against a tree, panting. At her evident symptoms of being poisoned, her heart sank. She didn’t even realise when she was poisoned. At that, she recalled the fragrance from the azure gown; she’d thought that it was because of the incense it smelt so, it seemed like someone had added something to her attire.

When throbbing in her chest ceased, she headed further into the woods. After running for a distance, her pursuers behind gradually caught up. At that, she immediately quickened her footsteps and faked escaping off into another direction before retreating back and lurking into the bushes, hiding her existence.

The wave of people quickly neared where she was. The group of people in black paused for a moment before heading forward quickly. When An Ye saw that, her heart settled. However, she stared hard at the last person who paused before starting again; he was separated from the group.

“Xiao Ye?” The man in black revealed a beyond familiar face when he suddenly reached to remove the shielding veil.

An Ye exhaled and crawled out from the bushes, “It’s you.”

“I received your hairpin. I went to ask around and found out that you’ve landed yourself in big trouble, so I altered my appearance into one akin to your pursuers.”

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“They wouldn’t make a huge fuss if you were just a normal servant, but the people that were unhappy with you said that you are going to betray the organisation; they won’t believe you even if you were to deny otherwise. You will die if they catch you.” The command to pursue An Ye was to kill her by severing the tendons to her limbs and tossing her over to Aunt Hong’s brothel to serve the dirtiest of patrons; this was even crueler than being punished severely.

“Let’s hurry leave!” You Ming jumped in a direction with his qinggong. When he did not hear An Ye’s tracks behind him after travelling a certain distance, he turned in suspicion.

An Ye’s speed of travel was not slow but it ultimately could not be compared to the speed of his qinggong. When she saw You Ming looking at her, dubious, she said blandly: “I’m poisoned; I can’t cycle my qi.”

You Ming grabbed her hand and pressed a finger on her pulse before frowning: “You didn’t take the antidote this month?” All killers take a type of poison which could only be relieved if they were to take a monthly dosage of antidote, else they would meet with death. The poison could immobilise one’s entire body. Once they failed to cosume their antidote, the poison would be activated and the person would die; every inch of their skin would crack and start seeping blood till the body rots and the person dies.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 66 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

An Ye nodded. She’d been saving up the antidote secretly so that she would be able to escape the organisation’s control the moment she figured out the recipe. She’d never succeeded before though. The moment the poison worked, she must take her antidote. Though she would not die immediately, her skin would start cracking and other people would know she’s not consuming her antidote and start suspecting her intention for not doing so. Hence, she could only research during the short period of time between receiving her antidote and the poison’s effect acting up. As such, she wasn’t able to reap much result.

Despite so, she did learn something—if she were to take some of the herbs she’d discovered that was essential to the making of antidote on their own for a long period of time, she would be able to have her body adapt to the poison in her body, thereby delaying her need to take the antidote for two days.

Her current month’s worth of antidote was hidden in the bronze bangle she wore on her wrist; she could take it out and consume it any time. However she was already escaping the organisation, so keeping the antidote was vital to researching the components to the antidote. The poison acting up wouldn’t be immediately life-threatening anyway. It wouldn’t affect the cycling of her qi either. The reason why she could not do the latter was because she was poisoned by something else, and it was equally dangerous.

“You’re poisoned by another type of poison…” You Ming’s expression darkened. Wrapping an arm around An Ye, he half carried her, then lifted off with his qinggong, leaving. Being poisoned and whatnot wasn’t important, what’s important was to escape their skilled pursuers.

After hurrying on for a distance, the people donned in black quickly realised that they were tricked. And so, they immediately turned back and scoured for their tracks. After confirming the direction An Ye left in, they continued their pursuit in that direction.

An Ye and You Ming were quickly caught up. An Ye took the knife You Ming handed her and rushed up at the bunch of people without a word more, swinging at them. An Ye and You Ming were the top two killers in the organisation. Even if An Ye was poisoned and was unable to use her inner force, they coordinated well enough to finish them on while only taking some minor injuries.

After finishing the bunch of them off, An Ye had You Ming alter his appearance. If the others knew You Ming was helping her, she was afraid they wouldn’t let You Ming go so easily. He was unlike her—he must survive and remain in the organisation.

These people were only a small team out of the horde that was pursuing them. There were more skilled people advancing toward them in waves.

They were the top two ranked killers in the organisation yes, but they weren’t invincible. Their injuries gradually increased in amount and severity. After finishing off another team of them, the two of them leant against each others’ backs panting in exhaustion.

You Ming looked at the dozen dark figures rising and falling, nearing them. At that, he suddenly a good twenty feet away from her, raising his sword to point at her, “Make your move!”

An Ye was shocked by his sudden change, “What do you mean?” Z L T

“Don’t ask anything. You should know only one of us can live today; I want to live!” You Ming’s voice was loud.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 66 is hosted at ZHAN LAN TRANSLATIONS♢

An Ye’s face already pale from blood-loss fell at his words. “What a move you pulled*.” She reminded herself continuously in her head that You Ming’s choice was correct; he should draw the line before their pursuers find out he’s helping her escape. There was no reason for him to accompany her down this route. That’s one alive if one of them managed to live. Despite so, coldness still surged at her in waves, and along with the sword that pierced through her body, it swallowed the remnants of her warmth.

* original raws is “好！很好！” which translates into “Good! Very good!”; the “good” here is said in suppressed anger but doesn’t quite fit in English so I changed the phrase. 

The moment the dark figures appeared before him, You Ming pierced You Ming’s abdomen. An Ye held the sword that cut into her stomach with both her hands, retreating with the force of the thrusting sword. Her steps went off the cliff, and she fell backwards, falling down the cliff.

She thought countless times about how she would die it’d not once, ever, came across her mind that she would die in You Ming’s hands. She wondered if You Ming had thought about killing her after killing countless others.

The scenes from her previous life played in her head. The memory of her abdomen being pierced by his sword was fresh as ever, she could almost even her heart throbbed in pain from the memory. An Ye, Zhuo Xiao Xuan now, could only feel the billowing hate surging from herself.

She raised her head once again to knock against the head of You Ming who was pressing down on her. You Ming dodged as usual, but he didn’t expect that she would chomp down hard on his neck. While he loosened his grip from the pain, Zhuo Xiao Xuan gripped his wrist instead, gave it a tug and twisted with force with the side of her body, flipping over to press down on him instead, her other hand reaching to choke his throat.

You Ming’s reaction was very quick as well. He immediately flipped her over to press down on her instead, and the two of them rolled in the snow fighting to suppress each other. In their moment of carelessness, the two of them rolled down the snowy hill. As they rolled and rolled, they rolled into a snowball, and the two of them became even more helpless as they rolled uncontrollably off the hill.

The ball of snow only stopped when it smashed into a tree truck by the base of the hill. Very unfortunately, Zhuo Xiao Xuan was the one who slammed into the tree trunk. The agony was as though she had broken a bone; she struggled on the snow but was unable to get up.

“Xiao Ye, are you okay?!” You Ming anxiously kneeled in front of Zhuo Xiao Xuan, checking on her injuries carefully.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan slapped his hand away and got up on her own with difficulty, saying coldly: “You will regret not taking the chance to kill me.”

“I’ve long started regretting it, but what can I do though. I’d thought that I was saving you then, but when I went to search for you below the cliff, I couldn’t find you. I only found out what happened after seeing you here again. I should have jumped off the cliff with you then, you won’t hate me so if I’d done that…” They were no longer able to hold off the skilled people with their situation. If they were to wait till they reached, they’d either be killed in battle or caught alive. The moment they get caught alive, it’ll be an eternal damnation of living hell An Ye would go through! It’d be great if she didn’t die from his stab; if she did, then let it be a form of extrication for her.

“How lovely put your words are.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan laughed coldly; the gun in her hand had already found its way against his forehead while he was unaware.♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 66 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

You Ming looked into Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s dark eyes. Taking a deep breath, “Make your move. I saved you once, you saved me once; I killed you once, you kill me once.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan minced her lips and she pulled the trigger with her index finger, bang!

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 65 ♦ TRUST


last edited on ZLT: 02.07.18

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Zhuo Xiao Xuan knew the codewords she yelled worked the moment she looked at You Ming because it came from the killer organisation the both of them were from in their previous life—Realm*; the founder of the organisation was called Du Bu**, and was an extremely arrogant person, else they wouldn’t have a code phrase asc onceited as “I am unparalleled—supreme”. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 65 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

* 天下 = tian xia; all of Earth under the sky—the entire mortal realm

** 独步 = du bu; walks alone, as the person is unrivalled/unparalleled

You Ming stared at Zhuo Xiao Xuan donned in white cap with only her eyes and mouth revealed. Pausing in suspicion, he chose to stand still by Gao Zheng Ye, unmoving. When he saw her mouthing two words silently, he leapt over to her, ignoring Gao Zheng Ye’s bellows behind him.

“You Ming.” He read her lips. That was his code name from the organisation before he came to this world, one which he neither used, nor spoke of after coming to this world. However, this person knew their code phrase from Realm, and knew his code name from Realm; she was definitely someone from the Lille organisation as well!

When Zhuo Xiao Xuan saw him dashing at her, she immediately jumped backwards. There were too many people around here, as especially so as she was being watched by the Z organisation; she didn’t want to reveal the fact that she knew martial arts, so she had to bring him to a secluded location.

The man lying on his belly on the slope didn’t think that Zhuo Xiao Xuan would be able to lure out the skilled bodyguard beside Gao Zheng Ye with such a shocking code phrase. He knew that it was much more dangerous luring the skilled bodyguard away as compared to sniping Gao Zheng Ye, so he mentally saluted in the direction Zhuo Xiao Xuan left before speedily searching for Gao Zheng Ye’s location. Gao Zheng Ye’s shouts from previously had revealed his location, so all he had to do now was to finish him off in the shortest amount of time possible and give his comrade a hand in defeating that bodyguard.

After removing themselves from the masses’ field of sight, Zhuo Xiao Xuan used her qinggong and shot off of the snow as though a meteor. The moment You Ming behind her saw the faint, almost non-existent footprint she left in her wake on the snow, his expression fell and his steps quickened.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan only stopped after the two of them was a long distance away from the masses, then she turned to look at You Ming.

You Ming asked lowly: “Who are you exactly?! What do you seek luring me all the way out?” When he was being chased by the other underworld organisation a few days before, the person that had fought him till he received internal injuries was also dressed as such, revealing only the eyes, and was as skilled. Even the figure of both person were very similar. When he gave more thought into get similar moves, he figured that both person were the same person. If it hadn’t been the difference in figure, he’d have thought this person was her when he saw this person’s similar moves.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan stretched to take off her hat, revealing her icy expression, “It’s me.”

When You Ming saw Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s face, he was shocked beyond words. He stuttered: “Xiao… Xiao Ye… you…” How was this possible?! Though her face was the same, her figure was different! He’d never seen anything that could change a person’s height or size. Was this perhaps the legendary art of rejuvenating one’s youth?! How did she learn it?!

“Didn’t think I was still alive?” Zhuo Xiao Xuan sighed in melancholy. Following that, her gaze hardened as she sent a cold gaze in the direction of You Ming, who was still wound flabbergasted upon seeing the revived An Ye. “Since I didn’t die don’t you think I living either!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 65 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Xiao Ye, I didn’t…” You Ming looked at Zhuo Xiao Xuan with a crestfallen expression.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan bent and drew the two handguns tucked by the sides of her legs, aimed it at You Ming and fired continuously, not giving him any chance to continue. As she fired, she dashed forward with light footsteps in the direction where the bullets zipped out towards him. Too occupied trying to block the bullets zipping his way, You Ming naturally was unable to block Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s attacks.

You Ming swiftly retreated, dodged to evade a bullet before clashing head on with Zhuo Xiao Xuan who was dealing damage at him. His arm waved and he blocked the claw Zhuo Xiao Xuan had sent at him; he spoke urgently: “Xiao Ye, listen to me…”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan minced her lips. Her hand-claw gripping You Ming’s arms instead before twisting it outwards. At that, You Ming flipped outwards, pivoting with his arms to prevent his arm from being broken by Zhuo Xiao Xuan.

“Xiao Ye! Listen to my explanation! I didn’t have a choice then!”

Zhuo Xiao Uan snorted coldly. “No choice? I no longer am interested in the reason for your betrayal, and you killing me. All I want, s for you to die!” She leant forward, her hands grasping at Uou Ming’s throat.

You Ming turned his head, his hand raising to sweep aside her nearing claw. He however broke two of his fingers as he did so; she was really going all out. At that, he frowned. She did not give him any chance to explain himself; she really did seem to want him to die. He sighed mentally before both his hands reached out to catch both of Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s arms.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan was unable to shake free from his grip no matter how she tried; she was still weaker than You Ming in the end. Gritting her teeth, she raised her leg to sweep at You Ming. Who knew You Ming would welcome her move instead of evading, and caught both her legs as well.

As such, Zhuo Xiao Xuan was caught. Unable to keep her balance, she fell backwards. She’d never pulled such a dirty move before, but both her hands and legs were tied. She slammed her forehead against You Ming who was lying on her in anger. You Ming however was as though he’d long anticipated she would make such a move, hence he immediately dodged when he saw her moving. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 65 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

When she was not hitting him after slamming several times, she clenched her teeth: “Let me go!”

“If I let you go, will you not make a move at me?”

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“Then I won’t release you. I’ll release when you’ve thought things through.” You Ming smiled slightly as he said gently.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan had never loathed her body as she did now. Her thin limbs were in no way comparable to her strong body from previously. She tried to twist around trying to fling You Ming off her and catch him with her moves instead, but You Ming came from a killer organisation as well, so he could read her moves like the back of his hand. And so, his grip on her revealed no flaws for her to break free.

“Xiao Ye, will you listen to me?” Z L T

“Are you going to tell me the person who killed me then wasn’t you but someone who’d changed his face to yours, lied his way to get near me before stabbing me while I was in my weakest state?”

“No…” You Ming’s gaze lowered. That’s right, he was the one who’d done all that then.

Their killer organisation, similar to other organisations, have its own ongoing politics—both open and in the dark. Though An Ye was ranked as the number one killer in their organisation then, there were many who were extremely unhappy with her and wanted her gone. However An Ye’s title as Realm’s number one killer wasn’t just for show; all those who had wanted to exterminate her would silently disappear. And so, no matter how they loathed her, they were unable to do anything to her for they lacked the abilities to do so.

Ultimately however, she was a female, and it was hard to guard against secret conspiracies. There were countless skilled persons, but at the same time, there were innumerable vile ones.

She was summoned into the inner courtyard by the custodian who said the leader wanted to see her. She’d never entered this part of the inner courtyard, as this was where their leader stayed in; killers with lowly status as themselves were not allowed to enter as they wished.

As she puzzled over in suspicion as to why the leader suddenly wanted to see her today, she silently surveyed the surroundings. Though the scenery was beautiful, there were lots of skilled individuals, as expected, hidden from sight—it was where the leader dwelled, so naturally the place would be well guarded. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 65 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

After waiting for a long time, when she started to suspect if she was sent in wrongly, a few people walked over from the other side of the pond. Amidst them stood a middle-aged man; he was the master of Realm—Du Bu.

She quickly dropped into a half-kneel, “Master.”

Her head was lowered. She only heard his voice a moment later. “Raise your head.” 

She looked up obediently, her calm gaze meeting Du Bu’s.  This was the man that dictated their life and death! The imposing aura that wafted off of him enveloped An Ye. An Ye circulated her qi with difficulty so as to defend herself from collapsing from the heavy pressure.

Du Bu bent down, raising her chin with a finger to have her raise her head a little higher. He turned her head left and right before saying: “Enh, not too bad. Serve me at my chambers tonight.” Afterwhich, he disregarded An Ye who was still kneeling and left, flanked by maidservants.

An Ye was too floored she didn’t dare believe her ears. She asked the maidservant beside her woodenly: “What… what did master mean just now?”

The maidservant burst out laughing before teasing her coquettishly: “Maiden you must be too ecstatic, your performance is tonight! If you don’t satisfy master well, you may lose your life!”

An Ye stood. She shook uncontrollably. This wasn’t real! Why would master suddenly do this?! She suddenly recalled the multiple gazes of disdain by those whom she’d never seen eye to eye with along the way when the custodian was sending her in. It definitely must be the blasted works of theirs!

It was already very hard for her to maintain her status quo, yet they still want to drag her down into another hell! She won’t forgive them! Even if she became a ghost, she’d drag them down to hell and make their lives a living hell!

What she needed to do at the moment was to escape such a predicament. She produced a hair clasp and a few pearls before stuffing them into the maid servant’s hand. “Mei mei, can you help me send the hair clasp over to You Ming?”

The maidservant was reluctant. “But I need to bring you to freshen up before sending you over to master’s place. If I’m found out slacking, I’d be beaten to death alive.”

“I can bathe on my own, and the master said to go over tonight, no? That’s still a long time away. It won’t take long for you to help me send my things over to You Ming.” An Ye slipped a gold leaf into the maidservant’s hand. The maidservant’s eyes lit up before nodding her head: “Alright then. When you reach the Cloud Pavilion, simply shout for anyone and tell them you are serving the master tonight, there will definitely be someone who can take things from there. Do you have any words you’d like me to bring to You Ming?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 65 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“No, thank you mei mei.” Z L T

An Ye sat in the wooden bucket bathing, contemplating how she should escape from this heavily guarded location. You Ming would definitely follow up from the outside after he received her hair clasp. He was the one that gave it to her. He’d told her that if she were to meet with any danger, send it back to him and he would find a way to help her out.

Ever since they’d clawed their way out of the training arena together, they had been going for missions together. The two of them were just children then; both of them had no one to depend on in the killer organisation as they tried to eke out a living. During one of their missions when An Ye’s pursuers dealt a critical hit to one of her vital parts and she was rendered unable to continue on, it was You Ming who gave her a hand and pulled her to jump into the river to escape. Her life would have ended if it hadn’t been him. After that, An Ye saved him once in one of their subsequent missions after that to requite the favour. After which, the two of them helped each other out in their following missions, and with time, their feelings for each other grew with time as they fought for their survival together.

And so, the one and only person An Ye trusted in Realm, was You Ming. 

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 64 ♦ EMBARRASSING CODEPHRASE


last edited on ZLT: 24.06.18

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“You mean you’re going to leave him be?” The man’s face darkened.

“Of course not. I would prefer that you collate all of that person’s information before selecting the slip-up to make your move.”

“Slipup? That’s easier said than done. He is very vigilant; he will never allow himself to lag behind and become vulnerable.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 64 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

“That’s why you need to be very prepared and be more patient than him. Even though there was another underworld organisation that covered for us this time, they don’t know that we do not belong in their organisation. But we have already made ourselves known and alerted the enemies; I’m afraid the enemies will only up their defence in the future to come. The fact that you guys didn’t even manage to find out who the bodyguards around him was told me that your intel isn’t perfect. Therefore, I hope the intel department can collate all the necessary information before sending the action department down for mission.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan analysed blandly. As long as Z organisation had no intentions of making moves at Gao Zheng Ye, she would be able to make use of this period of time to tend to her wounds properly before clashing once again in a battle that would determine their life and death with You Mind.

The man lowered his head, contemplating for a moment before he rose his head and told Zhuo Xiao Xuan: “You should return. I will notify you again when there’s news.”

After exiting from the intel department, Zhuo Xiao Xuan returned to the Zhuo Mansion, wrote the words “left the house, don’t look for me” on a paper to stick it on her door before locking it behind her and sitting down crossed-legged to cultivate to tend to her injuries. She cultivated an entire night; she went to the kitchen to look for anything suitable to fill her stomach once she was hungry.

She only received the notice to move out on the fifth day. After preparing her things, she switched on her computer and sent out the email she’d written in the past few days before carrying her bag and leaving the mansion.

After pulling five consecutive all-nighters continuously scavenging for information, the intel department confirmed that Gao Zheng Ye would reach the northwest frontier zone to meet up with the arms dealer. Other than Z organisation’s Sniper team, the SF was also mobilised. Z organisation however was an private organisation, other than the few state leaders in charge, none other knew of their existence. Hence the SF didn’t know that there were people from the Z organisation getting involved. Z organisation adopted a we-each-settle-our-own-shit perspective; they also found that having the SF on their side made the situation more favourable. Not only was it misleading, it also made it possible to hide their own existence. On top of that, there was someone who’d settle clearing out their target’s lackeys and recovering the stolen firearms; the only role Z organisation needed to play in this was to finish off the boss of that organisation.

The action department sent out two members of their party–Zhuo Xiao Xuan and another male she’d never seen before. Even if they had met before, they wouldn’t recognise each for they went on missions either lathered with thick layers of makeup or wear a face mask that covered everything save for the eyes.

The two of them silently boarded the plane, not speaking. Zhuo Xiao Xuan rubbed her handgun in boredom, her mind drifting to Yin Xu Dong over in City B. She wondered how he would react after receiving her email?

Yin Xu Dong opened his email and checked the email he’d just received. The sender was anonymous. At that, he clicked it open in suspicion. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 64 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“If I make it back, let’s get married.” IAAK IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN

The content was short and random. He wondered if it was someone who emailed him wrongly, or if it was some sort of game. Another possibly suddenly appeared in his head; it couldn’t be from Xuan Xuan, could it? He read the message again, marry?  Yin Xu Dong looked at the word, his face flushing slightly. Wasn’t it a little too early? He’d just entered college, they haven’t even hit the legal age to get married. And shouldn’t matters about marriage and the likes be figured out after one graduated from college? He grinned foolishly and reread the email. The sentence was a little strange, make it back, make it back… his face immediately paled. She definitely went on a very dangerous mission, else she wouldn’t phrase it that way! Didn’t he tell her to run if she met with danger? She’d agreed on that with him! Look at this now, she’s sending herself in the direction of a gun nozzle before her wounds even healed properly!

Yin Xu Dong was furious but terribly worried. The layers of emotions had him very uneasy; he gripped his collar and paced up and down his house. His anxiety affected Ke Ke, the golden retriever lying on the floor. It stood and pounced in the direction of Yin Xu Dong. The golden retriever was a grown dog now so the strength of that pounce wasn’t light. Yin Xu Dong was pushed onto the sofa by the golden retriever; the dog stuck out its tongue and licked his face. Yin Xu Dong pushed Ke Ke away, grumbling: “What the heck are you licking for! This mister I’m boiling! Move it and go lick your own fur!”

Ke Ke the golden retriever felt very wronged. It whined as it shifted from him and returned to curling on the ground, before raising its eyes and looking at Yin Xu Dong pacing around nervously.

The helicopter brought Zhuo Xiao Xuan and company to an empty space in a city near the northwest frontier, placed them down before flying off. Zhuo Xiao Xuan switched to boarding a jeep into the woodland in the outskirts. As the two of them walked in the snow, sweeping the snow behind them to cover their footprints, Zhuo Xiao Xuan said to the man when they were about to receive information on the location where Gao Zheng Ye was meeting up with the arms dealer: “I will lure the bodyguard beside Gao Zheng Ye away; you handle Gao Zheng Ye. Remember to only make your move at Gao Zheng Ye after I lure the bodyguard away.”

“Okay.” The man agreed quickly without comments. 

The two of them each selected a location to hide before tugging a white piece of material over themselves as they laid on their bellies on the snow, revealing only a tiny crack to survey the situation outside. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 64 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

The two of them knew that the state’s SF would be coming so they selected their location to conceal themselves with utmost care. After eliminating all the prime locations to ambush someone, they slowly inched forward and picked out the ambush-able locations to prevent clashing into them. It was fine for them as they knew the people were from SF. The SF however wouldn’t know who they were, so they might just finish the two of them off as though they were the enemies the moment they saw them. To prevent unnecessary trouble, they tried their best to evade all the locations where they could bump into the SF. Not long after they laid in ambush, another batch of people came before splitting up to lie in wait. The two of them could tell that they were the SF the state sent from their attire.

After a long period of time, a soft male voice sounded in Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s earpiece. “They’re here.”

They were able to hear the sounds of vehicles in the distance in the quiet woodland. Zhuo Xiao Xuan looked in the direction of the sound from the crack, catching sight of a few jeeps travelling in this direction.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan carefully exercised her limbs frozen from the prolonged lying in the snow; she stretched her fingers one by one, fisting them again before repeating the process. A few jeeps drove over from the other side of the mountain road as she did so. There were people standing on both sides of the jeep; both of them were holding a machine rifle each as they surveyed the surroundings, alert. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 64 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Their ambush point was a little far. It was hard for them to see on top of the reflection by the snow. However, they weren’t able to retrieve their telescope to look as the reflection by the lens would reveal their position.

Fortunately, Zhuo Xiao Xuan was someone who cultivated; she had sharp hearing and sight, so she was able to make out the person who appeared first was the firearms dealer who was supplying Gao Zheng Ye foreign firearms. The batch that arrived later was Gao Zheng Ye and company.

Their vehicle was parked on an empty ground. Both of them alighted from their vehicles. Gao Zheng Ye, flanked by his bodyguards, greeted the other person and shook his hand. Both of them signalled for their bodyguards to raise their alertness before they started discussing their terms.

Naturally, Zhuo Xiao Xuan spotted You Ming who was standing beside Gao Zheng Ye. She inhaled deeply to smother the burning rage in her chest that ignited when she saw him. She must remain calm! She buried her entire face into the snow, trying to suppress the surging anger with the burning chill of the snow.

She and her Sniper Team member was waiting, waiting for the SF team to break the silence before the storm. Once the SF moved, they would be able to move.

When Gao Zheng Ye and the firearms dealer boss was getting into a dispute, the SF soldiers buried in their ambush just a little ahead of Zhuo Xiao Xuan aimed their sniper rifle at the two of them and shot.

The load of people froze before immediately reacting. They rushed to cover their heads and scattered to look for places to hide at. Some picked up their guns and retaliated. Pity the majority of the arms they had were machine rifles; the shooting distance wasn’t as far as that of a sniper rifle. The SF soldier were also well hidden in the snow so it was hard to locate them as well. They only discovered this issue after shooting for a while. At that, they stopped and resorted to hiding. As long as they don’t appear, they wouldn’t be discovered, so you can’t do anything ‘bout it even if you’ve got a sniper rifle.

The SF soldiers too realised their sniping wasn’t very useful, and so, both sides ended up in a deadlock; I won’t move if my enemies didn’t move. And so, the battle of patience drew open between two parties.

After dragging the time, Gao Zheng Ye and the firearms arms dealer—as though having agreed on something—started rushing for their vehicles madly as though they’d given up on their deal this time and decided to make it out alive before anything else.

When the bunch of them were dashing for their vehicles, the SF soldiers, owing to their small numbers, weren’t able to shoot them all. And so, they gave up on the sniper attacks, pulled off the camouflage material on them and dashed in their direction armed with their machine rifles.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan and her comrade shouted lowly: “Move out!” At that, they pulled the camouflage material off. If the SF soldier rushing ahead turned behind them to look, they’d get a scare themselves as there were actually more people behind him. If the people behind them had been their enemies, and had a little more number of people, the batch of SF support would be sacrificed here today.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan rounded the SF soldiers ahead of them and quietly circled over to behind Gao Zheng Ye. The man found an appropriate location and set up his sniper stand, laid on the ground and looked through his scope in search for Gao Zheng Ye’s figure.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan following tightly behind him however speedily covered him in the camouflage material from previously. To prevent him from being discovered, she leapt off the snowy hill, sliding down lightly on the snow.

When her feet touched the ground, she shouted at You Ming among the bunch of people not far off: “I am unparalleled—supreme!” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 64 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

The bunch of people, including the frozen You Ming, with their backs to her immediately turned around in shock to look at her.

Upon hearing her shout, the man on the hill, before he could even begin reprimanding her of her location-revealing action, was struck crispy by her embarrassing words, the heck! D’you think you’re some beautiful warrior? You even have a code phrase when you go to battle—I shall exterminate you in the name of the moon*? And the poop was “I am unparalleled”? The heck was “supreme”? Don’t you think you’re too impudent and overestimating yourself a little too much?

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 63 ♦ AGENDA


last edited on ZLT: 18.06.18

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Yin Xu Dong half laid by the bed, caressing Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s forehead once in a while to check if she had any symptoms of a fever. After which, he checked his thick medical textbook; he should study harder. He didn’t want to be unable to do anything when she’s injured—like now—save for staring helplessly at her.

When Zhuo Xiao Xuan opened her eyes after feeling her phone placed by her pillow vibrating, she saw Yin Xu Dong leaning against the bed, his head nodding away once in a while. She extracted a hand from under her bed to take the phone and looked at the notification. After she finished reading the secret message that was encoded with all sorts of languages, she sighed silently. Z organisation was not very not dissatisfied with her failure this time.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan didn’t expect that she would meet that person—You Ming*. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 63 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

* 幽冥 = dark/hell/netherworld 

She had been searching for a time machine desperately. The more she found out about the time machines, the lower the possibility, she realised, for her to return to her previous world—it was just an impossible dream. Though You Ming’s appearance had caused her to fail her mission, their unexpected encounter was worth it for her from another perspective.

She checked the time, it was already two in the morning. She kicked Yin Xu Dong who was asleep with her feet.

Yin Xu Dong woke up with a startle. Rubbing his eyes, he climbed over to ask, still in a daze: “You want water?”

Warmth surged at Zhuo Xiao Xuan. She said, her voice tinged with a rare warmth and gentleness instead of the chilly tone she frequented: “Come up the bed of you want to sleep.”

Yin Xu Dong pinched his slightly stuffed nose, glancing at Zhuo Xiao Xuan, a little embarrassed. “We, we aren’t married yet, won’t it be too early to sleep together?”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan pulled the covers off. “You sleep, I’m leaving.”

“What?! You’re leaving? Where are you going? Your injuries aren’t healed yet!”

“Enh, I have to go back.” Z L T

Yin Xu Dong’s head drooped. He only raised it after a long while. He asked, very hurt: “I’m very useless aren’t I? I wasn’t able to help you at all.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 63 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s gaze swept past the several thick medical textbooks, her gaze softening. “You’re very hardworking. I’ll let you dress my wounds in the future very soon.”

“Bah! Idiot! You won’t get hurt in the future!” Yin Xu Dong grabbed both her wrists and brought it to his mouth, giving them a light kiss. “You need to be careful, careful and more careful… can I ask you a favour?”

“What?”

Yin Xu Dong’s eyes flashed. “I know the job you’re doing at the moment is very dangerous, but if you meet with an extremely dangerous or difficult situation, can you save yourself first, mindless of everything else, and come back safely to me? I know I’m being selfish, but…” He would never let Zhuo Xiao Xuan go on such dangerous missions no matter what, and what’s more was that the organisation, , even if it’s a state-affiliated, wasn’t that clean either.

“Alright, I promise you.” To her, this wasn’t a very demanding request, for she wasn’t a magnanimous person to begin with. She was only working for Z organisation, not selling her soul for them. She’d never thought of sacrificing her life to complete a mission in the first place; she would chose to flight over fight should the situation become difficult. The jobs Z organisation were doing weren’t the cleanest anyway. As a pawn utilised by the organisation, she really had no need to put her life on the line when she’s using them to achieve her goal at the same time.

“Watch you health. Come over to drink some soup, I’ll cook a pot and wait for you anytime.”

“Enh, I’ll call you when I’m free. I’m going.” Z L T

Under the dark of the night, Zhuo Xiao Xuan evaded the guards and returned to the Zhuo Mansion. She wasn’t tired at all as she had slept for a very long time at Yin Xu Dong’s place, so she sat on the mat to cultivate to tend her wounds. She must quickly recover so she could look for You Ming.

The next morning when Zhuo Xiao Xuan went down to the living room, she saw the members of the Zhuo family sitting on sofa the chatting away.

Zhuo Hong Yi noticed Zhuo Xiao Xuan with the corner of his eyes. At that, he immediately called Zhuo Xiao Xuan who had originally been meaning to pass them and head for the door: “Xiao Xuan, have you had dinner? There’s still some bread in the kitchen, make sure to eat your breakfast on time!” His distant biao mei sured moved about like a shadow. Though he wasn’t home all the time, he somehow didn’t catch sight of her at all for the past few days; he didn’t see her during breakfast, lunch or dinner. Ye ye had told him that her family was gone, that’s why she came to seek out ye ye; it wasn’t easy for a little girl like her. As he looked at his biao mei, he suddenly felt the responsibility of a biao ge dawning on him even more. He should be more caring to her.

“Enh.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan replied expressionlessly.

“Hong Yi ge, is this the distant biao mei you mentioned?” A lady sitting beside ZHuo Hong Yi looked at Zhuo Xiao Xuan curiously with her almond eyes. “Zhuo ye ye’s grandchildren are all very good looking, Zhuo ye ye, your family’s genes must be very good!”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan recognised her; she was the white swan from the SF. She was in an intimate relationship with Zhuo Hong Yi so it was only normal to see her around in the Zhuo Mansion.

The white swan had her way of talking. Her words had Zhuo lao ye’zi bursting out in laughter. As he laughed and laughed, he noticed Zhuo Xiao Xuan standing there silently. At that, he immediately got angry: “You lass where are your manners? Don’t you know how to greet people when we have guests? This is Wu Commissar’s youngest daughter Wu Dong Ya. She a few years older than you so you should call her jie jie.”

“Hello. If there’s nothing else, I’m leaving.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan nodded blandly at Wu Dong Ya before leaving quickly.

“That blasted girl! Infuriating!” In her wake was Zhuo lao ye’zi’s roars.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, Zhuo ye ye don’t spoil your health with your anger now.”

“…”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan wasn’t very concerned about Zhuo lao ye’zi fainting from anger; he was the clearest out of them on how busy she was with her missions, so all he’d been doing was just enacting his role. She heard that he’s recently become engrossed in impersonating…

As per usual, Zhuo Xiao Xuan went to the little bookshop. She threw a coin over and the other person caught it. After making sure there wasn’t anyone around, she asked: “D’you have  ‘The Troubles of Working’?”

“No.” The old man didn’t even look at her.

“‘The Most Vexing Job’?”

“No.”

“‘Work’s Beyond Terrible!’?”

“No.”

“You don’t even have these books? You better close your shop soon for the better!”

“I vaguely remember we may have these books inside, you come in and select for yourself.”

Their secret code matching, Zhuo Xiao Xuan walked into the room and turned a corner. There was a bookshelf; a few books were placed on the shelf, one of which being ‘The Troubles of Working’. She walked over, pulled the book out and reached in to feel the protruding object. Gripping the item, she gave it a turn and the bookshelf started rotating before revealing a door. After she walked in, and closed the half-opened door to the bookshelf behind her.

The outside in the torn-down bookshop and inside the door were two different worlds. When Zhuo Xiao Xuan walked in, she saw rows of computers with large screens, and before every screen sat a person; they were all looking at the computers, engrossed, their hands tapping away on the keyboard. When they heard someone entering, they only spared the person who entered a glance before returning to their work, unconcerned. It wasn’t that they were not vigilant enough; they were responsible for collecting and handling intelligence, they can pack up and leave if they didn’t even get the intel on their new member Zhuo Xiao Xuan.

That’s right, the little bookshop was the intel branch of Z organisation. It was Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s first time entering. Though her expression remained calm, she could not help but marvel mentally when she saw everything.

“Newcomer, yes, you, come here.” The door to a small room opened and a woman shouted at Zhuo Xiao Xuan.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan entered the room. A man in his thirties sat behind a desk. He raised his head and said to Zhuo Xiao Xuan: “You failed your mission this time.”

“I know.”

“Reason.” The man lightly tapped the tabletop. Z L T

Though she was unwilling to admit it, Zhuo Xiao Xuan could not deny it: “I am not skilled enough.” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 63 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“In the report you submitted, you mentioned he had a very strong bodyguard? So strong even you can’t defeat him?” The man said. Z organisation had Intelligence, Logistic and Operations departments. For some reason, all the departments had enough talents save for Operations, especially the Sniper Tea,. The members the team recruited were all specially selected and exceptionally talented. The reason Zhuo Xiao Xuan could enter was because she finished off an entire branch of separatists; her abilities was self-explanatory.

The Sniper Team’s job scope wasn’t the easiest; they had to obey the commands of the organisatio and finish off the target. These targets however were no ordinary people. For example, Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s target this time Gao Zheng Ye, who seemed to be an estate dealer, was in fact a drug lord, and was an arms dealer. He did a very good job in hiding his identity. If the organisation he led was to rebel, they would deal quite a bit of damage. Hence, the hidden organisation Z would not let him be, have him to die of an “accident” and have them believe it was their enemies that had assassinated him. Part of the reason for his death could also be a crime of passion, of revenge… as long as they were able to get rid of these society-wrecking individuals and not be in the know that it was the state that pulled the strings, they would come up with pretty any kind of cause of death.

It was said that the previous target of the leader in the Sniper Team was known to have died of shock over a fake snake. This tale became vast and varied in Z organisation; what a beautiful method to kill someone! This was what you called a skilled killer, to be able to kill even virtually!

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The man rubbed his forehead. “If we send two more over, what do you think will be the chances of winning?” He received intel that Gao Zheng Ye will meet up with an arms dealer from Central Asia a week after this. If they were to successfully secure their deal, there would be countless weapons that would enter the country… it was time to put an end to Gao Zheng Ye!

“No.” Zhuo Xiao Xuan replied calmly. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 63 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

Actually, she had her agenda in replying like that. She didn’t want to kill Gao Zheng Ye while she was still unable to defeat You Ming. If she did, then You Ming, his bodyguard, will leave, and it would be no easy task for her to locate him again. What she needed to do now was to avoid startling their target and create a plan. First, they had to lure him away from Gao Zheng Ye, after which, she, under no disturbance from anyone else, will kill him!

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 62 ♦ PALM AGAINST PALM


last edited on ZLT: 11.06.18

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She literally spared no effort to search for it!

If they passed each other on the streets, she’d have thought he only had a similar appearance. After seeing his moves just now however, she didn’t believe that there would be someone like him in this world. How could someone without inner force be able to do what he’d just done?

Zhuo Xiao Xuan suddenly recalled the cliche plots her dormmate had concluded for her. Weren’t their encounter an exact replica of a cliche plot, and spelt out in caps and bold?

When she saw his gun pointed at her, she immediately collected her thoughts and dodged sideways to evade the bullet shooting her way. Her lips beneath her cap mincing, she contemplated exactly how she should complete her mission seeing how they were interfering, or how she should finish off her target first in such an environment.

Both methods were hard. They were evenly matched; if she were to go against him, she had to give it her all in order to secure victory. And if she were to do that, she wouldn’t be able to attend to the other opponents around. In such an event, it’d be hard to say if she would be able to dodge their bullets if they were to raise their guns to shoot at her. What’s the most annoying part to everything was the fact that they had a lot of people, and everyone was armed with a handgun, while she was only her own without even a single accomplice.

The only workable plan was for her to join the enemy’s enemy’s faction, after all, one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend. She had to borrow their strength to extinguish her enemy. She would finish off her enemy’s subordinates before concentrating her firepower to target the leader—this was the battle tactic “encircling cities with the rural areas” ole Mao* had mentioned. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 62 is hosted at ZHAN LANN♢

* referring to Mao Tsedong 

Zhuo Xiao Xuan weighed the number of bullets she had brought and roughly counted the number of people there was at present; just barely enough. She then started firing at the enemy’s lil lackeys in concentration, finishing them off—very resource-savingly—with a single bullet each, every one of her shots busting the heads they had been craning around

The pursuers upon realising that there was a sharpshooter—who was  a lot better than themselves who were sweeping a majority of their bullets onto the vehicles—among them killing off their pursuees was immediately were encouraged. Their motivation burning, they were so excited they increased their firepower.

The ole man encased safely within the encirclement of protection realised what was off. At that, he said to one of the bodyguards by his side: “Finish that person off.”

“What about this side?” 

“I still have people with me. If that person kills off all our people, we will only have one path left and that is death. Hurry go!”

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If Zhuo Xiao Xuan was still a little suspicious about his identity previously, then his following actions—leaping across the firewall of raining bullets with qinggong over to where she was—completely cleared her of any misgivings.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan pushed off the ground and retreated several steps, sending a shot at him quickly. He turned his head to dodge her shot, returning a shot very speedily at her as well.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan grunted coldly, and waved her arm, the handle of her gun sending the bullet flying in another direction as well. You’re not the only one who can accomplish such a move.

As expected, when he saw her pulling a move like that, his expression was no longer as settled as before. The person in front of him whose only uncovered part was the pair of eyes was skilled as well! His expression becoming serious, he readied his stance. “Come.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan kept her gun; it was too boring if they were to bang at each other with their guns no? In that case, why not do it the way they were good at and draw things to a close quickly?

As they fought, the two inched towards the road, furthering from the bunch of people engaged in the crossfire.

“Brother where are you from? Why are you still wrapped up? Cowering and hiding yourself away is not very upright nor noble.” They clashed again. After the both of them backed away again, he asked.

Upright and noble? What a joke! What’s there to be upright or noble about when countless people’s blood had already stained your pair of hands? Zhuo Xiao Xuan didn’t reply him. Her leg kicking, she swept up a sleet of snow, curving it at him, and seized the moment he closed his eyes to attack.

He immediately blocked, and the two of them crossed blows again. The two however were evenly matched. The group with her target tonight was turning their defeat into an almost victory, and was chasing their previous pursuers. If they really were to win, the bunch of them would definitely come over to help exterminate her.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan gritted her teeth, attacking him as though completely mindless of her own life. She didn’t dodge his palm sending her way, rather, she went forward to meet it, churning a powerful force in her hand as she sent them at his chest at the same time.

He did not expect she would make such a life-forsaking move at all. It not that he was conceited, but ever since he came to this world, he had yet to meet anyone who could stand against him as his rival. This person dared to hurt him with but pure force?

The two of them ate a palm from each other just like that. The force they both met with were so large both of them were sent flying out. Not only so, his chest was in agony. The warm blood in his chest surged up into mouth, and the twang of metal overwhelming his mouth and nose. He spat out a mouthful of blood. Raising his hand, he wiped the blood by his mouth, his gaze raising to look at Zhuo Xiao Xuan.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan slowly swallowed the blood in her mouth, eyes coldly sweeping past the bunch of people chasing her way. At that, she turned and leapt into the drain on the side, dashing away. Even the gunshots that sounded behind were unable to stop her in her tracks.

“Do we need to pursue him?” Someone asked him. 

“No need, you wouldn’t be able to catch up to her*.” His palm had met Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s chest, so he naturally knew that he wasn’t a he, but a she.

* the written form of he (他) and she (她) is different, however, both words are pronounced as “tā”, so even if the guy said the person is a “she”, the other lackies wouldn’t know that person who got away was a “she” instead of “he”.

When Zhuo Xiao Xuan saw that he didn’t chase her, she ran for a while more before stopping. A hand against her chest, she laid on the snowy ground; her exercise had her suppressed blood rising again. Raising her hand to pull off the mask that was getting stained by the seeping blood, she panted loudly. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 62 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

She only slowly sat up to cultivate to heal herself after a while. After which, she returned to where she had laid at in the beginning to retrieve her sniper rifle, dismantled it into small pieces before placing them in her bag and leaving.

When Zhuo Xiao Zuan returned to the city, she immediately donned on the clothes she’d left the house with. It was dim, still early in the morning. There were only a few cars and pedestrians on the road. She went to the bookshop she got her mission from. Someone else sat watching the store; the old man on shift previously was no longer around.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan threw out a coin as she’d done previously and pulled up her collar. “Give me a copy of ‘Off Of Work!’ magazine.”

“Here.” 

Zhuo Xiao Xuan took the magazine and flipped through it. The same moment she closed the the magazine, she tucked a slip of paper into the pages. After that, she threw the magazine back. “What the, this magazine’s terrible.” After which, pulled up her collar up even more, burying half her face into it before turning to leave.

She was cold and hungry after such a busy night. On top of that, she’d gotten some internal injuries. Therefore, all she wanted to do now was to find a place to catch some sleep.

After waking up in the morning, Yin Xu Dong opened the glass window to his balcony. Just as he was about to inhale some of the fresh air, he saw a person sprawled on his balcony. If it weren’t the fact that he hung around Xuan Xuan so much that his muscles as well as his guts grew, he’d have gotten the largest of scares.

And so, a certain courageous someone squatted down, flipping the person lying on the ground around. “Xuan Xuan?! What happened to you?”

“I’m fine.” IAAK IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN

“Fine my ass? Would you be lying here if you were fine? Would your face be paler than the snow on the ground if you were fine? Would your lips be blood-stained if you were fine?” Yin Xu Dong wiped the fresh trickle of blood seeping from her mouth, and princess-carried her over to his bed, his heart going out for her. Yin Xu Dong took off her jacket and covered her tightly in blankets; he’d touched her face and hand previously—they were cold as ice.

“Are you okay? Let’s go to the hospital?” Yin Xu Dong touched Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s face, extremely worried.

“I’m really fine. Oh yeah, didn’t you say you became a military doctor to heal my injuries? Here’s an opportunity.”

“But, but I just started learning, and I haven’t learnt much either, how can I help you out?”

“It’s fine. I just have a little internal injury. I’ll be fine after resting a few days.” 

“Internal injury?! How did you get an internal injury?! Does it hurt?!” Yin Xu Dong exclaimed and pounced over at Qin Ke Xuan, checking her all over for her injury.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan raised her hand to push away his head. “Didn’t I say it’s an internal injury? How will you be able to see it? Stop shouting, and don’t let anyone know that I’m here.”

Just as she finished talking, a knocking sounded outside the door. “Son? Did something happened?”

Yin Xu Dong immediately covered his mouth and coughed. “Oh, no, nothing. I was just on the phone with He Yi. He said he met with some relationship problems.” Goodness, the unlucky innocent level-number-one’s getting dragged down even when he’s completely uninvolved.

“Oh, then don’t make such noises so early in the morning, how noisy.”

“Alright, oh and, mom, can you cook me a pot of soup, I think I need some blood-nourishing, I’m feeling really dizzy recently. I think I might be getting anemia.”

“What? Anemia? Did your period come or something? What’s a strong lad like you getting anemia for, let me see what’s wrong!”

At hearing that, Yin Xu Dong almost wanted to slam himself against the wall. His mother sounded as though she’d slam through his door if he didn’t open the door. At that, he immediately zipped over, opened the door and flashed out his room. After which, he locked the door behind him.

Mama Yin felt even more confused. “Aye? Say are you hiding a lady in the room or something? What’s with your secretive behaviour? Is there something you’re afraid of me seeing?”

Mother, you guessed that right! Your son’s hiding a lady in his room! ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 62 is hosted at ZHAN LAN TRANSLATIONS♢

Yin Xu Dong hugged his mother’s shoulders and brought her down the stairs. “Goodness mom, stop being so gossipy! Like I said, that soup…”

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“Xuan Xuan? Wake up, are you hungry? Eat something before you sleep again…”

Amidst her daze, Zhuo Xiao Xuan was patted awake lightly. The moment she opened her eyes, she met Yin Xu Dong’s worried gaze.

At seeing Zhuo Xiao Xuan awake, Yin Xu Dong was relieved of his anxiety that had lasted at least half a day. He brought her up and rested her against the bedpost before holding the bowl of soup close to the bed. He sat down on the bed beside her, scooped a spoonful of soup, blew at it before sending it at Xiao Xuan’s mouth.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan reached to take the bowl and spoon, glaring at him. “I didn’t break any limbs. I can drink on my own.”

“Oh, drink more, there’s still more in the pot.” Z L T

Yin Xu Dong sat down by the table, switched on his computer and started searching up how to heal internal injuries. After looking for half a day online, he turned to say to Zhuo Xiao Xuan: “I read all the information I found; I think it’s better we go see a Chinese medicine practitioner. It won’t do holding it out like how you’re doing it now, what if it wrecks your health.”

“Enh, I’ll go a few days later. I’ll stay at your place for these few days to exercise and recuperate. You watch out for me and make sure no one disturbs me during my cultivation.”♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 62 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Alright, rest assured! I won’t even let a fly enter!”

After Zhuo Xiao Xuan drank two bowls of soup, she recovered some of her strength. And so, she sat on the bed and started cultivating. Before long, she was perspiring and was thoroughly drenched. Yin Xu Dong upon seeing that from the side wanted to help wipe the perspiration on her face. However, he was worried he’d disturb her cultivation. Didn’t the wuxia movies always said that if the external world were to come into contact with the cultivator, there was a possibility that the cultivator could be distracted and get possessed by the evils?

Hence, Yin Xu Dong watched for a long time nervously. After which, he saw a miraculous sight一smoke was seeping from Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s body. The perspiration from her body started evaporating; before long, her perspiration was completely evaporated.

Just as Yin Xu Dong thought that she was almost done, Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s face contorted in agony. Her throat tightening, she grunted lowly before blood seeped out of her mouth. In the end, she spat out a large mouthful of blood. That had Yin Xu Dong shocked stiff. He immediately pounced over to catch Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s falling body, sobbing: “Xuan Xuan, let’s go to the hospital, you can’t…”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan weakly waved her hand. “There’s… no need. The blood I just spat out was the bad blood. Just let me sleep a bit, I’ll be fine.”

Yin Xu Dong’s eyes reddened. Gritting his teeth, he contemplated, but decided to follow what she said and let her down. “Enh, then rest well. I’ll prepare more soup. If you’re still not any better, I’m going to bring you to the hospital.”

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[ I AM A KILLER ]

CHAPTER 61 ♦ WHY'S HE HERE?


last edited on ZLT: 04.06.18

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“You! Why aren’t you listening?! Infuriating!” Zhuo lao ye’zi said exasperatedly. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 61 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Because your concern is largely unnecessary.”

“How is it unnecessary?! Who knows if that hot-headed lad will spill it someday to someone?!”

“Then let me die.” Z L T

“Enh? Lass do you know what you’re talking about?”

“I’m very clear. If the matter is revealed because of him, I will accept the death penalty dealt.”

“You, aye, why are you so stubborn? Won’t everything be fine if you didn’t look for him?”

“Weren’t you impressed by my abilities a few years back and wanted me to serve the country? I obeyed your commands and joined this organization; I did everything you wanted me to do, isn’t that what you desired? The agreement for me to live was that I must serve this organisation. Are we not just taking what we need for ourselves? In that case, other than the missions I need to complete issued, how I utilize the rest of my time is my own liberty. I know where the draw the line so you needn’t send people to tail me.”

“Fine! Fine! This ole gramps I won’t care, and I don’t have the ability to! Whatever happens in the future, just remember that it’s the consequence of your choice!”

When Zhuo Xiao Xuan left Zhuo lao ye’zi’s study, she met her “biao ge*” Zhuo Hong Yi, and he asked her: “Xiao Xuan, you made ye ye** angry again?”

* 表哥 = biao ge; older male cousin from the mother’s side

** 爷爷 = ye ye; paternal grandfather 

“No.” He’s the one finding things to be angry about; it has nothing to do with her.

“Ye ye’s is a little stubborn, and has a poor temper. He’s old, be a little more patient with him.” Though Zhuo Hong Yi wasn’t very close to this little distant biao mei* who popped out all of a sudden, she didn’t look like someone who would start arguments over trivial matters, so how did she make ye ye so angry?

* 表妹 = biao mei; younger female cousin from the mother’s side

“Enh. I’m going first if there’s nothing else.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan returned to her room. This was the Zhuo Mansion she was to live in after returning from the cosmetic surgery from abroad as Zhuo Xiao Xuan. Zhuo lao ye’zi had arranged a room for her, but the only  times she stayed in the room was to sleep.

She had been beyond busy in the past half month of her holiday upon returning here, so she only managed to drop by the Zhuo Mansion two to three times. She had agreed to join their Z Organisation—an organisation she didn’t even know the full name to—then, and so she’s running around completing her missions every day. On top of that, she had to be extremely careful not to get hurt during her missions, else Yin Xu Dong’s going to look at her with that pitiful and miserable gaze of his when he finds out. Though his concern had her very touched, she didn’t want him to worry.

After being busy for the past half a month, the organisation finally gave her a day off for her to rest properly. Just as she was about to cultivate her inner gong before sleeping, she received the organisation’s message indicating that their target’s moved. In other words, she was mobilised.

And so, she pulled her skin-tight dark clothing and strapped on her weapons. Following that, she pulled on a long coat, put on a short wig, speedily swiped on some of makeup on the table and turned herself into a lady with conspicuous make up, appearing as though having experienced the vicissitudes of life.

She pulled open the window to the Zhuo Mansion and jumped out, evaded all signs of life and surveillance before entering the streets. She then flagged a taxi and headed straight for the city centre.

When she reached the city centre, Zhuo Xiao Xuan walked into a small bookstore. She threw down a coin at the old man tending the store. “The weather today’s terrible. Do you have magazines here?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 61 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

“Pick whichever you want, we have a lot.”

“Do you have the magazine ‘Start Work!’?”

“We do. Which issue do you want?” Z L T

“358.”

“Here.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan took the magazine the old man handed over, gave it a few flips before leaving the shop.

Z Organisation didn’t have an  fixed base, or rather, she didn’t know if there was a fixed base or not. Every time she had a mission, she would head over to this little bookstore to get the mission details. The conversation they had previously was the password to prevent the enemy from faking their identity and seizing their information. The issue number of the magazine changed all the time. If you didn’t give the correct issue number, you won’t be able to collect the mission information.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan walked into an alley, flipped open magazine and started reading the hidden information. After which, she produced a lighter, turning to leave after burning the entire magazine.

*

Zhuo Xiao Xuan lied in the snow by the roads of the suburbs, churning her inner gong to keep herself warm. She looked at her watch; they should be reaching soon. The sudden glare of headlights dashing the darkness of the road deserted—be it from its location or being cordoned off somewhere—suddenly swerved into sight.

They’re here! IAAK IS HOSTED @ ZHANLANN

She quickly raised her assault rifle and aimed it at the driver of the vehicle in the middle that was flanked by the vehicles by the sides. Just as she was waiting for the vehicle to enter the shooting range, a gunshot that wasn’t hers sounded. One of the cars that was shot veered from its original route, swerving into circles on the road that was thinly layered with ice. After which, the uniform arrangement of vehicles delved into chaos. The vehicle she was aiming at skewed off her aim.

Through her scope, she saw another fleet of vehicles following behind this fleet. The fleet tailing behind was evidently pursuing and attacking the fleet in front of them; the people riding the vehicles had their heads popped out of the car windows and guns shooting sweeping bullets at the fleet of vehicles in front.

Looks like her target today had other pursuers. She could utilise the chaos to finish off her mission, then cap the crime on their pursuers.

The fleet of vehicles drove around messily so their pursuers had no way of aiming properly. She leapt onto a tree by the road to wait for the fleet to drive by. When the all the vehicles had passed, she used her qing gong to jump onto the top of the last vehicle. She landed extremely lightly so the people in the vehicle didn’t notice the new addition.

The vehicle drove forward at a high speed. Zhuo Xiao Xuan tightly gripped the edges of the vehicles and slowly shifted herself. She stuck her head down to the windows. Her empty hand pulled out a gun, and she shot the two passengers in the back seat. After which, she retracted her body and gave a roll, several bullet holes littering the location where she’d lied on previously. Aiming her gun at the shotgun seat, she shot at the place several times continuously.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan held the handle of the gun and used it to slam open the windows to the driver’s seat. She lied on the top of the car and leaned her head against the window, her gun aiming straight at the driver’s forehead. She gave him a few hits with the nozzle to tell him not to move, for she could very easily send him to death’s doors as she’d done so for his fellow brothers.

The man raised one of his hands, his other hand gripping the steering wheel, telling her that he won’t move.

A hand gripping the edge of the window, she agilely slipped into the backseat of the car, her inhumane movements smooth as a mudfish.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan slithered in with a single move. When she sat on the corpse on the backseat, her handgun was resting against the driver’s seat, its nozzle pressed against his forehead. She tipped the black cap that shielded her entire face save for her eyes, saying icily: “You’re seeking death huh.”

The man slowly retracted his hand that was stretching towards the gun that belonged to his dead comrade lying in the shotgun seat, laughing to cover his actions: “Hehe, misunderstanding, misunderstanding. You shouldn’t kill me, if you do, you won’t have anyone to drive the car.”

Zhuo Xiao Xuan snorted coldly. Shifting her nozzle, she sent a shot straight at the man’s hand. The shot pierced his hand, leaving in its wake a bloody hole. The man howled from agony. Following that, his other hand slid from the steering wheel, and the vehicle they were in started swerving around terribly.

Zhuo Xio Xuan’s gun was once again against his forehead. “I’ll finish you off now if you don’t drive properly.”

The man inhaled sharply. He held in his anguish and affixed his other intact hand on the steering wheel.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan opened the car door by her side with a hand and pushed out one of the corpse. She closed the door, pushed opened another door to throw out the other corpse; her gun was kept level against his forehead all these while.

“Who are you? And who are you pursuing?” ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 61 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

The man was immediately stunned. Are you kidding me, don’t tell me you had no idea what was going on and only dashed up to join the bustle, and then conveniently finished off a few of us while you’re at it! I’mma vommit blood if that really was the case!

“I’m from a certain underworld organisation. The person being pursued is the head of one of the underworld organisation; an underworld organisation against another, you know.” The man replied vaguely, before asking warily: “You, who are you? You can’t possibly be from another underworld organisation as well, can you?’ If she claimed she didn’t mix with herself with the underworld business, even his dead comrade slanted across the shotgun seat would implode from incredulity seeing how merciless her actions were!

“Oh, I’m just passing by. And cut it with the nonsense, tail him tightly. If you dare lose him, humph!”

The man almost wanted to faceplant the steering wheel. The shit! Passing by, why the world were you passing by such a desolate suburb?! And how did you pass by till you mugged one of the speeding vehicles?! And what’s with the face-shielding head-shielding bandit-like attire and the gun you’re carrying, and the fact that you just killed my comrades?! This matter had him learning a very huge lesson—he really shouldn’t provoke the people that were just passing by.

The vehicle ahead suddenly screeched to a stop. Zhuo Xiao Xuan was perhaps the only person who knew why they stopped. Z Organisation had dumped the entire section of road ahead with nails to forcefully stop the cars. The must ensure that they could finish their target before he escaped.

“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” The man looked at the vehicles that had stopped ahead anxiously.

The sound of tyres bursting upon being pierced by nails told him the answer. The same moment he stomped on the brakes, Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s gun raised and fired straight at his forehead. With that, he blacked out, slanting across the driver’s seat.

The two vehicles fleets stopped. The fleet in front believed that it was the ambush the fleet behind them had planted. The fleet behind on the other hand thought that it was the fleet in front that had poured the road with nails. Both parties didn’t know it was the trap a third party had set up, and so, they took cover with their own vehicles as they opened fire at each other.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan opened the car door quietly, squatted silently by the side of the car and searched for her target as she looked through the piercing headlights of the vehicles.

Found him! That old man however was thickly encircled by his people; the only way for her to be able to kill him was to near him. However, the two parties were firing at each other at the moment; she would definitely be shot if she were to try to evade the bullets.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan popped her head out to survey the surroundings. She turned her head back to check on her target’s situation before weaving through and flipping past a few vehicles, dropping into a half-crouch by the side of a small vehicle. Straightening her hand, she shot and killed a man dressed in black blocking her target’s side. The death of one of her target’s people exposed the weakest joints of their protection.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan’s index finger continued pressing down on the trigger; the bullets zipped out in the route she’d expected. As it did, she waited for these two bullets to hit her target’s head…

The scene that followed however was beyond her expectation. One of the men dressed in black by his side smashed the first flying bullet down with the handle of his gun. Following that, he raised his hand to thwack the second bullet away.

Zhuo Xiao Xuan frowned. Who was he? The first time she was shot when she was on a mission with Wolf, Jackal and Leopard, she almost lost her life after being unable to catch the bullet flying her way. Though her inner gong wasn’t completed recovered then, the fact that this guy was able to accomplish such a feat was no trivial matter. He didn’t catch it with his bare hands, but the fact that he was able to intercept the two powerful bullets within such a short period of time told her he was no simple figure!

She won’t be able to complete her mission tonight easily with such a person protecting the old man. She stared him, her gaze burning. As though feeling her gaze on him, he turned in her direction. ♢ I AM A KILLER, CHAPTER 61 is hosted at ZHAN LANN ♢

When Zhuo Xiao Xuan saw his face illuminated by the lights, her heart skipped a beat. It’s him! Why’s he here?!

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