"How could you guarantee that you wouldn't die?"
"You definitely wouldn't believe me if I simply said so, which is why I planned to let time prove it," Zhou Yi said.
"What about you, Mr. Wick? Why did you want to quit?"
"I..." Wick hesitated for a moment. "Because of someone."
"A man... or a woman?" Zhou Yi said with a smile. "All right, a woman. Love. Not bad. It really was one of the emotions that could make people face life and death head-on. For that, I'll drink to you."
"You really knew psychology?" Wick asked doubtfully.
He had not even answered Zhou Yi's question yet, but Zhou Yi had already confidently given the answer.
Of course, Wick did not know that Zhou Yi had cheats.
"A little," Zhou Yi said. "Just a hobby for idle moments. Looks like I analyzed it correctly again."
"You were right," Wick said. "Because I met her, I came to understand that there were other... more meaningful things in this world."
"Then, for the time being, our goals were aligned to some extent," Zhou Yi concluded. "We both had to go against the Continental Hotel."
"What I needed to do wasn't nearly as difficult as what you planned to do," Wick said, shaking his head. "I only wanted to quit."
"That was enough," Zhou Yi said with a chuckle. "What kind of demand would they make of you, Wick?"
"If it were me, I'd give you a mission that even you believed was impossible to complete, then let you die on that mission. That way, it would be perfectly justified while also preserving the Continental Hotel's dignity."
"...So, what did you want to do?"
Wick had to admit that Zhou Yi's words made perfect sense. Given what he knew of those people, they