No matter what, Yang Jinxia had never expected to be greeted by a gunshot.
Her mind went blank, and she stumbled, falling to the ground in an utterly embarrassing heap.
A few seconds later, she realized she had not been shot. Anger surged up inside her. She had nearly been shot to death? The man seemed a little shaken as well and asked, "Are you all right? I thought you were a monster, so I fired. Sorry, I didn't scare you, did I?" As he spoke, he held out a hand to her.
She suppressed the anger in her heart, but the entrance she had planned had been shattered by that gunshot. Naturally, none of the lines she had prepared could be used.
As she got to her feet, brushing the dirt from her skirt as an excuse to think, she asked, "Where is this place?"
"I don't know."
She asked again, "Who are you?"
"What about you?" he asked instead of answering.
A chill ran through her heart. From that one sentence, she could clearly sense dissatisfaction, as well as a faintly confrontational attitude.
Yang Jinxia, had your long, comfortable life made you forget how to deal with a crisis?
She immediately calmed down and said, "My name is Xia Jinse."
She had instinctively given a false name. Even though she had never accepted interviews and usually kept an extremely low profile, so that the public did not know her name, she still chose to conceal her identity in this environment.
Soon after, she learned the man's name. Like his appearance, it was utterly ordinary: Chen Xu.
She pretended it was their first meeting and chatted with him for a while to lower his guard.
Then, Chen Xu suggested that they form a team. She did not agree right